The Lion-headed ancient Egyptian Goddess defies definition.
At one point or another,
Sekhmet seems to embody ALL aspects --
light and dark, birth and death, healing and destruction...
Sekhmet needs to be viewed from a more universal perspective.
As some of Sekhmet's titles indicate:
"Lady of the Place of the Beginning of Time"and
"The One Who Was Before the Gods Were,"
the Goddess Sekhmet is much older than Egypt and existed well before the time of the Earth

. Sekhmet, also called "Flame," is the fire of enlightenment, the fire that redeems the soul of the dead, liberating it "to become a star of heaven" -- Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians)

The name "Sekhmet" is derived from the Ancient Egyptian word sekhem, meaning "power."
Sekhmet is the great Lion Goddess, the fierce twin of Bast.
She is usually depicted as a woman in red with the head of a lionness, crowned by an uraeus-encircled solar disk. She is often shown holding both the ankh and the lotus scepter.
In the form of the serpent Goddess, Sekhmet took up Her position on the head of Her Father, Ra. In Her form of "the Eye of Ra burning the enemy," Sekhmet is the fire which destroys the serpent Apep.
Throughout Egyptian history, Sekhmet was regarded as a power to be invoked to protect the good and annihilate the wicked.
However, Sekhmet is also a great healer, and has the ability to transform, rather than destroy,
the negative or dark side of any situation.

Khem is the dark chaos that gives birth to light without knowing it... Sekhem is its effective power, the destructive power from which conception arises: the male and female factors would make nothing without this pitiless force that wills the destruction of one form for the conception of another and the appearance of a new life.... The personification of sekhem is Sekhmet. -- I. Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak, Egypptian Initiate

The fabric of TIME is unwinding towards that moment when Regulus,
the brightest star of the constellation Leo, reappears.
With the patience of a cat, the lion-headed Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet has been waiting.
But She has not been idle.
The spirit of the cat moves smoothly along the corridors of our collective unconscious.
Major psychic shifts are happening.
As if in anticipation of the lion's arrival, plays and movies like "Cats" and "The Lion King," and characters such as Cat Woman have been capturing the imagination of our popular culture.
And how many are there who understand what "The Fifth Element" was really about?
Sekhmet has been making Her presence known.
A deep chord has been struck as more people resonate with feline energy...

There is a very specific point to the story of the Destruction of Mankind. which is obvious once it is pointed out. Sekhmet, The Eye of RA was under instructions to destroy the Earth. And She was doing a right fine job of it. What happened? Sekhmet came across a field filled with what looked like blood. She drank the concoction and got ecstatically happy. At a certain moment, She felt compassion for the humans and chose not to destroy anymore. This moment might have occurred when She was plunged into the life-giving water, a metaphor for the tantric flow of the kundalini force. It is important to realise Sekhmet doesn't return to Her destructive behavior after she comes off Her high. Instead, Sekhmet chooses the most compassionate thing She can do. She becomes Hathor, the Great Mother manifest within the Earth's realm. The story is an illustration of how compassion is the strongest power.

REFERENCE FROM LUCY LAMY "THE DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND":
"...Sekhmet is an aspect of Hathor in her form of the Eye of Re. The legend recounts that at the origin of time, men conspired against their Creator. After considering the matter, Re decided to send his Eye in the form of a lioness, Sekhmet ('powerful'), to chastise the insurgents. Sekhmet wrought havoc and would have devoured all humanity had not Re, stricken with regret, then had the ground covered with red-dyed beer in place of blood, so that Sekhmet, deceived by the colour, drank up the liquid, became drunk and fell asleep, thus sparing mankind. This took place, however, very far to the south of Egypt. It fell to Thoth, disguised as a monkey, to bring Sekhmet back into Egypt. Barely had the two arrived in Aswan, however, when Thoth plunged her into the waters of the Abaton in order to "quench her heat." And thus it was that the bloodthirsty lioness was transformed into the gentle cat, Bastet, one of the aspects of Isis-Hathor." (Egyptian Mysteries, Lucy Lamy, London: Thames & Hudson, 1981. p. 81)
"Seek no more for I am Sekhmet!
Walk in gentlessness, for I will reside within you
so that you may feel the power of fearless compassion
and that you may speak with my voice.
Partake of my knowledge and power.
I explain all Visions...
I reveal Great mysteries..."

Sekhmet represents the balanced use of power. People need to recognise Set as the force behind our history of violence and the abuses of power associated with the patriarchy. He is Sekhmet's greatest enemy and will not miss any opportunity to misrepresent Her and undermine Her work or that of Her priestesses. For instance, Sekhmet does not require blood sacrifice or the drinking of blood. Set uses many guises to trick people into believing that. This practice feeds the forces of the lower astral who serve evil. Your vibration will never become fine enough to experience the truly sublime. Remember, there was no blood in the sacred red potion Sekhmet drank. [If you offer Her beer instead, you will notice an immediate lift in your life.] Sekhmet is claiming Her original face. Set fears Sekhmet because he knows Sekhmet has the power to destroy evil. His strategy has been to enslave the minds of men with promises of power. This has resulted in the mindless savagery and violence so prevalent today. It is time for a change.