Function: Birthit from danger.

Energies    The energy of AST is to bring conditions to their utmost
realisation or completion.

Myth:

AST possibly pronounced Auset was Sister/wife of Ausar and mother of Heru.  Auset married Ausar they had a son Heru.  If only it was so straight forward. Husband Ausar was murdered by his adversary/ brother Seth who stole his throne (Egypt).  According to mythology Seth tricked ASR, firstly into a coffin which he had made for him, floated him off down the Nile, then by murdering him and chopping his body into fourteen (14) pieces and scattered them around Egypt/Kemet.   

According to the Pyramid texts, in her role as wife, AST finds and reunites the pieces of her murdered husband (ASR); she is the chief mourner at his funeral(s).  Through her magical powers, she brings him back to life and conceives a son (Heru), who she hides from Seth (the murderer of AST) until he is fully grown and able to avenge his father.  Auset outwitted Seth with her magic and the throne was given to her son Heru.
She brought up her son in hiding, protecting him from his enemies.
"I have come so that I can be thine protector"

Auset is symbolically the divine mother of the pharaoh.  She had to use magic to protect her son Heru against dangers when he was a child, so she was invoked by Egyptian women when their own children were sick with fevers or bitten by poisonous animals.  She defended her son against attacks from snakes and scorpions.  Auset governs pregnancy.  She is the embodiment of the instinctive faculties that govern our ability to care for and nurture others - qualities that were most desirable in mothers and wives.   Her virtues are best expressed through family life.

It was through the meditation of the women governed by Auset that the cultiva-tion of wild grasses into cereals was first discovered.  It gave birth to agriculture, and hence to civilization.  She is also associated with Tehuti again, as together they taught man the secrets of magic, medicine and agriculture.

Her chief aspect was that of a great magician.  She was worshipped as 'the great of magic.' She is said to have created the first cobra and used its venomous bite to coerce Ra into giving her his secret name in order to gain his power.  Although portrayed as crafty, she is also shown as merciful and compassionate, never as cruel or selfish.

Auset's earthly environment are large bodies of water and their inhabitants (oceans and seas), hence her connection to fish.

Cured the sick and brought the dead back to life.

Consequently she linked this world and the next, and was both the mother god-dess and goddess of death. With the rise of the cult of Osiris she was wor-shipped throughout the country.  A significant feature making Isis increasingly popular from the New Kingdom onward was her possession of special magic powers in her capacity as a protecting goddess.  She was the most important of the deities in the Greco-Roman period, when she was worshipped throughout the Roman Empire to as far as England.  More popularly known as Isis; she is/was the most popular of all Egyptian goddesses/deities. There is evidence that her cult survived on the island of Philae in the sixth century AD.  Isis followers are still found today.

AST was the purest example of the loving wife and mother.  The images of Ast suckling the infant Heru undoubtedly inspired the multitude of icons depicting the Madonna and Child.

Other titles:
Her name means seat or throne
Personality Traits
A model spouse
The shelter she provided her child gave her the character of goddess of protection.
Amenable
Intuitive
Crafty/cunning
Easily swayed?
Holistic views and ideas
Tactless & speak mind too readily? - Court case with Seth

Body parts:    Feet

Brain [functional/metaphysical = Autonomic/Regeneration]


Other Correspondences
Neter                    AST
Season                Emergence / Proyet
Month                   March / Hathor
Planet                  Sirius
Element              Water
Body part            Feet
Gemstone          Lapis Lazuli, Cowrie shells
Tree                     Sycamore
Food                    Avocadoes
Flower                 Rose
Colours               Blue
Lucky Number   7, 2
Inscence/Perfume     Ambergis, Lotus
Metal                             Aluminium,  Lead
      

Western Sun-sign        Approx. Pisces