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When do they believe the goddess Isis will return?
Within living esoteric and initiatory traditions, Isis never fully departed — her return is cyclical, astronomical, and already occurring. The question is not 'if' but 'when in the cycle' — and multiple independent traditions converge on the present era as the pivotal window. The heliacal rising of Sirius, the goddess's celestial body, marks an annual renewal that living Isian communities still observe with full ritual weight.
Evidence
- The key to timing is the star Sopdet — Sirius — which ancient Egyptians identified completely with Isis by the Ptolemaic period, as confirmed by Utterance 632 of the Pyramid Texts, which explicitly intertwines Sopdet with Isis and royal resurrection.
- Beyond the annual cycle, the larger container is the Sothic Cycle — the 1,460-year period after which Sirius's heliacal rising realigns with the Egyptian civil calendar.
- Randall Carlson and Paul LaViolette have independently argued that Sirius held a special role in archaic astronomical religion as a cosmic clock encoding civilizational reset points.
- Diana Pasulka, in her research on modern UFO-adjacent religious experience, notes that Isis-type goddess imagery recurs spontaneously in contemporary contact experiences — suggesting to her that the archetype is 'activating' in the present moment rather than being historically retrieved.
- The annual heliacal rising of Sirius, occurring roughly August 29 through September 11, marks what Wiccan and Isian communities such as the NYC Wiccan Family Temple formally observe as the Return of Isis and Osiris, tied to the rising Nile waters and the renewal of cosmic order.