Goddess Bast Distance Certification Course with Manual

Goddess Bast: Online Certification Course and Manual

Goddess Bast is an attunement dedicated to Bastet, the ancient Egyptian cat goddess traditionally honored as a protector of cats, women, children, and the home, and as a bringer of joy, music, and light. Prismatic Reiki Academy carries Goddess Bast as a course you take wherever you are and whenever the hour is quiet, at a pace of your own, with no class to sit. Its tone is warm and celebratory, offered to support a felt sense of protection, joy, and gentle strength, and the Academy keeps the whole of it as a spiritual focus rather than care for the body.

The system was channeled and compiled by Elizabeth "Starlightowl" Hibel in 2008, and the written material carries her care for the goddess and her lore. Bast's teaching is Starlightowl's own, and the course keeps her name on it. Rev. Michael Allison, a certified practitioner, teaches Goddess Bast in close keeping with Starlightowl's guide, carrying her tradition onward as its steward and never its author, so a student working alone meets the material in a clear, unhurried order.

Who Bast Is in the Egyptian Tradition

In the guide, Bast is the cat goddess of ancient Egypt, known by many names, among them Bastet, Ubasti, and Pakhet, and honored as a protector of cats, women, children, and the home. The written material describes her as a goddess of the sunrise, and over the ages also as a goddess of love, fertility, birth, music, and dance. She is pictured in art as a cat, or as a woman with a cat's head, often holding a sistrum, the rattle used in her festive rites. The course presents this as the lore of the system, a figure to reflect on, never as a claim about events in your own life.

The guide traces how Bast was once shown with the head of a lioness, a fiercer protectress and the mother of the lion-headed god Mahes, before she came in later ages to be pictured as the gentler house cat, a warm and friendly goddess still able to show her protective strength. The written material connects her name to the heavy perfume jars of Egypt, noting her association with perfume and her son's link to fragrance. These details give the attunement its rich Egyptian setting and its blend of tenderness and quiet power.

Bubastis and the Festival of Bast

The guide tells of Bubastis, the city whose name meant the House of Cats, where Bast's great temple stood within a grove of tall trees and where cats were cherished and cared for. It recounts the famous yearly festival in her honor, a joyful gathering of music, dancing, and celebration that drew crowds from across the land, and the moving moment on the last night when a single light was lit in the temple and carried out through the town. The written material notes that her feast is kept on the last day of October, with merry-making and song.

The guide gathers Bast's traditional correspondences for those who like to work with them: her sacred color green, candle colors of red, green, and white, her link with the sun and with Monday, and herbs such as catnip and cinnamon associated with her. These are offered as the imaginative lore of the tradition, optional focuses rather than required steps, and the course treats them as reflective imagery to sit with. The emphasis throughout is on joy, protection, and honoring a beloved goddess.

Receiving the Bast Attunement at a Distance

The Bast attunement travels on intention, so it comes to you over any distance without a touch or a scheduled meeting. Starlightowl suggests making a quiet space first, perhaps lowering the lights, putting on soft music, and lighting a candle in one of Bast's colors, then settling and opening to the goddess's energies with a simple intention before resting quietly within them. Some practitioners hold the image of the sistrum as a point of focus. What people describe afterward is usually warm, protected, and gently joyful rather than anything dramatic.

Once the connection is yours, working with Goddess Bast is a matter of coming back to her presence in your own quiet moments, perhaps lighting a candle and being kind to a cat, as the guide warmly suggests. None of this concerns the body or any physical matter. The focus is spiritual and reflective, a way to meet the day with a sense of protection, joy, and the quiet strength the goddess represents.

How the Bast Course Reaches You

Goddess Bast is studied entirely online at a speed you choose, with no set hour to keep. As soon as you enroll, Elizabeth Hibel's complete guide is delivered to you and remains yours, holding Bast's lore, the tale of Bubastis and her festival, her correspondences, and the steps for taking and passing the attunement all together. Once you have made your way through it, Prismatic Reiki Academy will prepare a certificate of completion on request, and any question that arises can go to the Academy by email. The guide stays in your keeping for good, so a student anywhere is free to pick Goddess Bast up and come back to it as often as they like.

Who the Course Is For and What Comes Next

Goddess Bast is open to adults who feel drawn to the Egyptian goddesses, to cats, and to themes of protection, joy, and gentle strength, and a newcomer is as welcome as anyone. It is a self-contained attunement and does not sit on the graded Usui Reiki ladder, so you need no Reiki grounding to start. Cat lovers, and students already carrying other Egyptian or goddess attunements, often take it up to enrich that side of their practice, and the self-guided shape serves a first attunement and a hundredth equally well.

With the attunement taken and the guide read, you can sit with Bast's energy in your own reflection, and when the practice feels settled you may pass it to others on Starlightowl's terms, which ask only that her guide be kept whole and unchanged. You come away with a practice of your own and, if it suits you, an honest way to carry the tradition to someone else. Rev. Michael Allison and the Academy stay close at hand for Goddess Bast students who would like guidance. Through every page the course keeps faith with its roots, a warm, reflective spiritual focus for protection, joy, and the honoring of a beloved ancient goddess.