Serqet

Goddess of the scorpion, protector from death and poison, Serqet governs the threshold between life and spirit. She dissolves poisons from the body and soul. Invoke her for purification and inner protection.

Serqet is the Scorpion Goddess who protects against venomous creatures, diseases, and harmful spirits.
She is also one of the four guardian goddesses of the canopic jars, entrusted with protecting the body and soul of the deceased on their journey to the afterlife.

The name Serqet (Srqt) derives from the verb srq, meaning “to cause to breathe” or “to blow the vital breath,” referring to her power to liberate the breath — both physical and spiritual — from every poison or obstruction.

Serqet was both feared and revered as the Goddess of the Scorpion, protectress against bites and poisons, yet also Lady of medicine and resurrection.
She is often depicted as a woman with a scorpion upon her head, her arms outstretched in a gesture of protection.

In the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead, Serqet is one of the four protective goddesses of the canopic jars, along with Isis, Nephthys, and Neith.
Her function is to guard the jar containing the viscera of Qebehsenuef, the falcon son of Horus.

She is also the keeper of the gates of heaven and the Duat, and her magic was invoked to neutralize harmful spells or entities.
Ancient healers called upon her during exorcisms and healing rituals, believing she could transform poison into medicine.

Serqet was also invoked in funerary ceremonies, to free the soul from the suffocation of death and restore to it the divine breath.
In this sense, her symbolism is profoundly alchemical: that which destroys becomes that which heals — death becomes rebirth.