Khepri is the rising sun, the scarab-faced god who pushes the morning disk up out of the underworld as the beetle rolls its ball of dung. He is one of the three forms of the sun - Khepri at dawn, Ra at noon, Atum at evening - and the name means 'he who comes into being'; in the Amduat he takes the helm of the solar barque in the twelfth hour. The scarab amulet, including the heart scarab buried with the dead, carries his image and his promise of renewal.
Modern Practice
Khepri is worked with at dawn and at the start of a thing that has to be made from nothing. The practice is small and daily: the image set facing east, the light let in, the first act done before the day is claimed.