Embodying Your Name Given by the Earth
When I first received my name it was strange to have people calling me and identifying me by a completely different set of sounds, in a language foreign to what I grew up with. The name fit perfectly like a glove, and yet at that moment, the aspirations to fulfill my destiny were heavily placed upon my shoulders. My name, Tiasta, means “divine emanation of the Goddess Aishat.” Aishat, also known as Isis, Aset, Asseta, or Asta, is one of our Ancestral Mother Goddesses in the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, known for motherhood, protection, magical powers, fertility, and womanhood, among other things. M’TAM names identify a quality or a characteristic your spirit is embodying or identifies your connection to a specific NTR (God) or NTRT (Goddess).
As our recent graduates from the 3rd generation of the NJ Temple can tell you, receiving your name upon graduation is a profound experience. Once you step across the threshold of graduation, and you are revealed from the shroud during this ancient ceremony, you receive a name unique to you and your spiritual evolution. It is a name that matches your personal destiny, retrieved from the Earth by a traditional priest, which involves interrogating the energies of the Earth using an M’TAM Science Earth Energy Reading (otherwise known in indigenous culture as Geomancy).
When you walk away from your graduation ceremony, as an initiate, you begin to orient yourself in a way that connects you to the energies of that name, and will continue to do so throughout your life. The challenges, the uphill journey, the strengths, and the assets are all contained within the name if you look closely, and the name itself can give you the tools you need to navigate your unique personal challenges. For me, being named after a Goddess with such revered qualities, known as a Mother Goddess, leaves me striving for how I can bring those qualities into my daily life. I assess how I can contribute to my home, my family and my spiritual family with nurturing and protective qualities. It forces me to examine where I can continue to grow as a woman and how I can become confident and honest about my own healing abilities and clairvoyance, as they continue to evolve. This spiritual journey is a long one, with many twists and turns but a name matched to my spirit gives me the grounding needed to navigate those peaks and valleys.
As we open up the doors of initiation again, my hope for future initiate generations that are considering or are choosing to commit to their first steps in this initiatic journey is to have the clairvoyance to see where their spirit and Ancestors are directing them. I wish for you to muster the same courage that I needed. I wish for you to garner the same strength that I found. So that if you choose to embark on the journey of initiation, you have what is needed to face the individual and group challenges necessary for your evolution, and so that you too can one day walk through the threshold of graduation, adjoining with and embodying your spiritual name uniquely suited to your personal destiny in this lifetime and beyond.
For more information on M’TAM initiation classes or to join the next generation of initiates at NJ Kebtah (The Earth Center), call us at 973-373-7806 or email us at nj@theearthcenter.org.
