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| Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | | 11:16 pm |
According to CBS, salary.com has calculated a "mother"'s salary at $148,281 a year.
Laeta Dies Matrum! | | Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | | 11:03 am |
More linky goodness, mostly from, you guessed it! ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lupabitch! Holy fuck! This guys needs to be fucking sainted. Especially now that pollution is evidently a sin in the Catholic Church . . . The one good thing about capitalism in my general view (its generation of a massive increase in wealth, defined as that word often is among economists -- or so I'm told -- as an increase in the amount of psychological value you place on your collection of stuff/log of experience as a whole, is a neutral element to me) is that it can be manipulated at many stages of its development by means of this kind of grassroots activism. If you provide the market, the stores and companies will listen. Unfortunately, there is a dehumanization of the consumer that I can see in capitalism (though, bothersomely, I can't seem to suss out why or its connections to the rest of the memetic web represented by capitalism) which can expurgate this benefit from the system as a whole. Of course, my biggest complaint about capitalism is that it not only refuses to reward its supposed benefit to the people as a whole (the "invisible hand of the market"), it actively rewards the violation thereof! In other words, capitalism is sold to us as the religion of competition, driving rices down and increasing the quality and variety if our options, and yet the setters of prices and the providers of options can make more money (the only point system capitalism recognizes) by discouraging and eliminating competition! And don't get me started on our imaginary currency, once based on the "value" created by rarity (thus, the basic unit of currency was the ounce -- of gold), rather than the "currency" I would prefer (the basic unit of which would be the second or the calorie; in other words, on work rather than on stuff). Mmm, many academic papers on "minority religions, new religious movements and the new spirituality". Seriously, I'm drooling like Homer Simpson here. Like, I need a napkin.Global climate change might be activating those natural mechanisms anti-climate change activists so often like to claim are behind the whole thing. This means that we may have to just wait it out.Hey look! Someone is actually trying to UNDERSTAND the sex trade and why johns visit prostitutes. I can hardly believe it!Hey look! An article that isn't from lupabitch. theklute is ALSO really awesome. I love my friends :-) Of course, lupabitch has also posted a story on this before I couold post this :-) My friends rawk! But sometimes I hate the things they find. The article discusses a new custom license plate being considered in Florida featuring a cross and the statement I BELIEVE on it, the sales of which woukd benefit a group called "Faith in Teaching". Now, if this was being considered as a whole pallet of plates representing even just the Big 5 Religions (sounds like I'm talking abou basketball, football, baseball, soccer, and tennis, but they're actually Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, the faiths who can claim the largest populations and social impact upon world culture), then MAYBE. If it was a pallet covering groups like Wicca, Vodou, Taoism, Sikhism, Baha'i, Satanism, and the People's Temple (all but the last of which, I believe, finally have symbols approved for military headstones, though I'm not certain about some of them), then more likely. But, as it is, there is no way this is anything other than an attempt to push the meme that we are a Christian nation, a meme which is not only bullshit but less than a century old. Read the Treaty of Tripoli. You know, I visited [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] http://www.adherents.com/images/rel_pie.gif">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <a href="http://consumerist.com/383010/consumers-use-shopping-spree-to-get-store-to-make-energy-efficient-choices">Holy fuck! This guys needs to be fucking sainted. Especially now that pollution is evidently a sin in the Catholic Church . . .</a> The one good thing about capitalism in my general view (its generation of a massive increase in wealth, defined as that word often is among economists -- or so I'm told -- as an increase in the amount of psychological value you place on your collection of stuff/log of experience as a whole, is a neutral element to me) is that it can be manipulated at many stages of its development by means of this kind of grassroots activism. If you provide the market, the stores and companies will listen. Unfortunately, there is a dehumanization of the consumer that I can see in capitalism (though, bothersomely, I can't seem to suss out why or its connections to the rest of the memetic web represented by capitalism) which can expurgate this benefit from the system as a whole. Of course, my biggest complaint about capitalism is that it not only refuses to reward its supposed benefit to the people as a whole (the "invisible hand of the market"), it actively rewards the violation thereof! In other words, capitalism is sold to us as the religion of competition, driving rices down and increasing the quality and variety if our options, and yet the setters of prices and the providers of options can make more money (the only point system capitalism recognizes) by discouraging and eliminating competition! And don't get me started on our imaginary currency, once based on the "value" created by rarity (thus, the basic unit of currency was the ounce -- of gold), rather than the "currency" I would prefer (the basic unit of which would be the second or the calorie; in other words, on work rather than on stuff). <a href="http://www.cesnur.org/2008/london_cyberpro.htm">Mmm, many academic papers on "minority religions, new religious movements and the new spirituality". Seriously, I'm drooling like Homer Simpson here. Like, I need a napkin.</a> <a href="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EC.shtml">Global climate change might be activating those natural mechanisms anti-climate change activists so often like to claim are behind the whole thing. This means that we may have to just wait it out.</a> <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/121558">Hey look! Someone is actually trying to UNDERSTAND the sex trade and why johns visit prostitutes. I can hardly believe it!</a> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9083RK80&show_article=1">Hey look! An article that isn't from <lj user="lupabitch">. <lj user="theklute"> is ALSO really awesome. I love my friends :-) Of course, <lj user="lupabitch"> has also posted a story on this before I couold post this :-) My friends rawk!</a> But sometimes I hate the things they find. The article discusses a new custom license plate being considered in Florida featuring a cross and the statement I BELIEVE on it, the sales of which woukd benefit a group called "Faith in Teaching". Now, if this was being considered as a whole pallet of plates representing even just the Big 5 Religions (sounds like I'm talking abou basketball, football, baseball, soccer, and tennis, but they're actually Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, the faiths who can claim the largest populations and social impact upon world culture), then MAYBE. If it was a pallet covering groups like Wicca, Vodou, Taoism, Sikhism, Baha'i, Satanism, and the People's Temple (all but the last of which, I believe, finally have symbols approved for military headstones, though I'm not certain about some of them), then more likely. But, as it is, there is no way this is anything other than an attempt to push the meme that we are a Christian nation, a meme which is not only bullshit but less than a century old. Read the Treaty of Tripoli. You know, I visited <a href="www.adherents.com>adherents.com</a> to check the sizes of the Big 5. What I find was rather . . . enlightning :-) Christianity: 2.1 billion Islam: 1.5 billion Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion Hinduism: 900 million Chinese traditional religion: 394 million Buddhism: 376 million primal-indigenous: 300 million African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million Sikhism: 23 million Juche: 19 million Spiritism: 15 million Judaism: 14 million Baha'i: 7 million Jainism: 4.2 million Shinto: 4 million Cao Dai: 4 million Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million Tenrikyo: 2 million Neo-Paganism: 1 million Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand Rastafarianism: 600 thousand Scientology: 500 thousand <img src="http://www.adherents.com/images/rel_pie.gif" /> So, among the "official" Big 5 as I was taught them in high school (and, I think, in college) are listed the #1, #2, #4, $6, and #12 religions in terms of population. Just something to consider . . . | | Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | | 7:19 pm |
lupabitch has the bestest friends It seems my genius blogging strategy is to have truly awesome friends who, in turn, have truly awesome friends who have nearly-perfected the esoteric art of scouring the web for challenging, interesting, and powerful articles. Remember the whole "we're headed for a Depression? Further proof in the corporate-led rationing of food! Maybe I'll get to live my dream life as an itinerant hobo teacher-mystic. Woot! What's worse is that the rationed foods are basic staples, such as rice, flour, and cooking oil. This might, just possibly, be seen in some ways as a good thing, as it might cause a move towards a healthier, leaner diet. Frying, after all, definitely requires oil and generally flour as well, and, of course, the starch obssession in our culture as a means of acquiring fat and empty calories, also requires flour. On the other hand, this kind of crisis is exactly the sort of thing big businesses like to turn to their advantage. Of course, the 1930s might not be where we're headed. Try a century previously (1830s), as slavery in the farmer fields is also running rampant. Oddly enough, this time the supermegahypercorporations are on the side with which I agree. When I was in college, there was a boycott of Taco Bell called for by the tomato-pickers of Immokalee, Florida. I remember this. I participated in this. I only started eating Taco Bell again in the last couple of years, maybe even the last year. It ended when Yum! Foods (owners of the Bell) agreed to pay a penny a pound more for tomatoes, resulting in the workers receiving a 75% increase in pay. To quote the article: "As some growers began to implement the Yum/McDonald’s agreement — an extra paycheck cut to the farmworkers by the buyers, not the growers, mind you — the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange (FTGE), representing 90 percent of the state’s growers, said any members who adopted this policy would be fined $100,000 per worker benefiting from the agreement." In personal news, I wrote a paper for my Language and Literacy Development in L2 Learners class yesterday that managed to work in Robert Anton Wilson and Feri/Reclaiming Wicca discourse. Specifically, I was considering the Language Acquisition Device (a.k.a., the black box of language learning) and the perhaps-associated Deep Structure of transformative-generative grammar (both developed originally by Noam Chomsky) in relation to Deep Reality and Deep Self. L2 learners, by the way, are those learners for whom English is not their crib-tongue, but I want to develop this paper beyond that. The Gnostic use of Bythos (how does one get Greek letters to show up in LJ posts?) might also show up as I develop this. I know this seems academic, niche, and probably uninteresting to the vast lot of you, but I would love it if anyone had any recommendations about directions I might go with this, resources upon which I could draw, or similar lines of thought I could read. You all rawk! If this works out, I think I might include it as a chapter in a book I want to write presenting "A utopian pedagogy for the new, sacred revolution rooted in mup", which is, right now, called "Pedagogy of the Strange" in my head, but I think i want to figure out a better title that brings Hoor-paar-kraat/Harpokrates/Heru-pa-kher ed/Heru-pa-khruti into the discussion, since he is a deity of both children (being the Crowned and Conquering Child, as well as his origin as Horus/Heru the Younger in Egyptian mythology) and revolution (as Lord of the New Aeon, which I take to mean the lord of what happens after the eschaton is immanentized, after the constant apocalypse -- a word which merely means "revelation" in the Greek). | | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | | 6:08 pm |
From lupabitch Ever wonder how anti-nation-state anarchism and LGBTQQIA liberation interact? Queerfolk have trouble immigrating because they can't marry!Besides the identity-based outrage, I realize that the United States not recognizing marriages in other countries represents a violation of one of the most basic elements of interaction between truly sovereign groups, which is the mutual recognition of contracts. This has been the most basic acknowledgement of sovereignty and peership for, literally, millennia. Of course, we knew that the United States has a bad history with this (just ask the First Nations folk), but that could at least be quote-unquote "excused" due to the large cultural chasm and internalized ethnocentrism and bigotry. This is between us and the Netherlands (to choose one mentioned in the article), a culture placed rather firmly in the larger cultural current within which we swim, and which is (supposedly) on the same level as we ae, yet we don't recognize their contracts? As for Canada, which was also mentioned in the the article, we love to refer to them as "Our Wonderful Neighbor to the North" and "the 51st State", and we don't recognize their contracts? Remember my thoughts on the need to mention the poverty of nations with "strange" or "harmful" customs? I fear a creeping United States superiority I can hear sneaking into our discourse. The concept that we are somehow inherently "superior" to other cultures -- one which I don't recall experiencing seriously in 26 years of life -- is dangerous. What do ya'll think? | | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | | 10:17 am |
I think I got all these from lupabitch, who got them from other people John Michael Greer, Arhdruid, discusses the problems of a civilization based on specialization.A follow-up, perhaps, to the report of the new continent of trash in the Pacific (remember, it's larger than Australia!); 6,000,000 pounds of garbage were found on beaches in one day, by only 378,000 volunteers worldwide! More than half of that was found in the United States, by the way. Now, I wasn't going to post this story about an eight-year-old getting a divorce, because I don't know enough about the situation to form an intelligent opinion. Of course, I have un-intelligent opinions, but they're not worth spreading. The reason I'm spreading this story is because of this line: "Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, has no law governing the minimum age of marriage." Again with the need to mention a country's economic (and, ergo, social) status! Just like the article about burning witches, I find this comment irrelevant. The only purpose I can see is to demonize, de-humanize, or, at the least, infantilize poor countries (particularly poor countries containing people of color that are neither industrialized nor our friends). This linking of economy to moral development is, itself, morally repugnant to me! Now, I realize that this culture into which I was born has at least a coupole generations in it of explicitly linking the two, but i had always thought of these teachings (commonly found, just by sheer demographics, as a Christian meme; wealth is a gift from God and God oinly gives gifts to those who deserve them, ergo anyone who has wealth deserves it, ergo, anyone who has wealth is virtuous and anyone who doesn't, isn't). I feel like this is setting up either ethnocide (a word chosen because it can refer to the destruction of a culture through forceful but technically non-violent social means as well as include genocide) or "the white man's burden" crap all over again, and I don't even know which is worse! Ah, but some of you (ok, a very few) might be wondering how I can justify a conception of kalokagathia (classical Greek veneration of the beauty of the human form) in a worldview such as this. This is because, to me, kalokagathia is a call to include Beauty as a virtue itself, rather than as the result if said virtue. That is, if one is beautiful, then that is good and virtuous, but one's state of beauty in and if itself says nothing of your character as a whole. Similarly, one can be brave but miserly, honest but unmindful, loving but hopeless. | | Monday, April 14th, 2008 | | 3:28 pm |
Signs of the Times to Come: Immanentizing that Eschaton Thanks to lupabitch, who gathered these from elfkat and amberite, respectively. First, a wonderful, informative, and challenging NY Times article discussing the impacts on human societies of global climate change. Though the article is perhaps a little classist ("other poor countries that still commonly attack supposed witches" -- why does the word poor have to be in that sentence? The writer is discussing the cultural trait of attacks against witches, not the socioeconomic status of countries), it does remind me of a Twilight Zone episode we read and acted in 6th grade or so. The aliens turned out the lights and everyone in the neighborhood killed each other, leaving the neighborhood free for alien invasion. The cold, the glaciers, the hurricanes, none of this is what we have to worry about in the case of global climate change; it's our neighbors. Second, this article, in its own way, announces the birth of a new continent in the Pacific. I'm not lying. By my (rough and quick) calculations, this . . . well, read and find out what it is :-) . . . is larger than Australia. (For the curious, I took the area of Australia from here, ran it through the converter at this website -- note that either a period or a comma will be taken as a decimal point -- to get the area in square miles and then used my computer's calculator to divide by 2, then by 3.14159 -- pi, obviously -- and then hit square-root. I received the number 687 -- approximately, of course -- for the radius, resulting in a diameter of about 1374 miles. Since the linked article lists the size of the thing at 1500 miles wide, I deduced it was larger than Australia. I don't have time to do it the other way, unfortunately; I'm late for class). | | 10:32 am |
Thanks to dragonscholar, I now know that even the Right Wing is recruiting for the homosexual agenda. Seriously, though, if that quotation isn't the epitome of not only the fearful nature of right wing homophobic frames ("they're out to recruit us!"; note the quote's intriguing use of the word "evangelical"), but also (and worse) the virulent anti-pleasure meme infecting their ideology, I don't know what is. Now, I'm fairly hardcore on the "opposite" side, perhaps, at least intellectually, but still. Pleasure is good :-) Grr, wanted to be profound there, bjt it ain't working for me at the moment. Oh, well. :-) bilenski believes that a Depression will be declared soon (he originally told me tomorrow). Yes, that's right, a Depression, like in the 30s. This article discusses some of why. The RPGer in me is thinking that the Depression is a great setting and that, as we get closer and closer to some of the cyberpunk-style technology I've seen people on my friendslist link to, we're looking for some awesome. Other parts of me are thinking that this may very well be a necessary reboot for our system, if not the chance for new social, economic, and governmental structures to grow. Widespread hardship is the perfect fertilizer for utopias. Finally, a third part of me mourns even more deeply the loss of hobo culture in this country (hobos having turned into the homeless of the last 40 or 50 years). It used to be that we had an extra-governmental information service (a niche largely now filled by the internet, but that is widely propagandified or propagandificable, by both traditional governments and neo-governments/corporations in a way that direct human contact is not), work, and art/culture exchange. We don't hahat anymore, that I can see, and I worry how this country is going to survive a Depression without it. | | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | | 9:10 am |
Daily (well, I'm trying!) Divinatory Draw
First, Free Will Astrology, my guiding read for the week:
Cancer Horoscope for week of April 3, 2008
In recent years there has been a rash of climbers shedding all their clothes on Mount Everest. A sherpa by the name of Lakpa Tharke claims the world's record for high-altitude nudity, having stood skyclad for three minutes at the 29,035-foot summit. Some Nepali authorities are seeking a ban on such displays, believing that it defiles the revered mountain. "How would Westerners feel about people stripping in church?" they ask. Not meaning any disrespect to them, I urge you, Cancerian, to make "in the buff on the holy mountaintop" your power metaphor of the week. Blend sacredness and nakedness in any way that appeals to your imagination, especially if it's in high places or makes you high.
Healing with Angels:
Healing (reversed)
Runic Tarot:
Peorth (reversed), Rune 14, labelled "Gamble, Fate, Fortune", and ruled by Libra and Scorpio
Medieval Scapini Tarot:
The Empress (reversed)
Goddess Tarot:
Two of Pentacles
Spiral Tarot:
Nine of Pentacles
Spanish Flashcard:
#732 -- la prenda (pledge, article of clothing)
Blank Tarot:
Blank
Feri Deck:
Temperance (reversed)
NOTE TO SELF: YOU NEED AT LEAST 25 MINUTES TO DO THE READING. NOW RUN TO THERAPY! | | Saturday, April 5th, 2008 | | 10:38 am |
Theology of Duality: A mup perspective Seeking Discussion
I just posted this to neos_alexandria@yahoogroups.com and thought ya'll might like to see it.
DISCLAIMER: I wrote this while attending a teaching seminar, so I apologize if it doesn't flow as well as it might or communicate as awesomely as it should.
Sannion ait:
"All gods
are complex and multifaceted - and often contain their seeming
antithesis within them."
I would say necessarily so.
At the center of the hurricane, the web (everything), is the eye, the spider, the not-hurricane (in mup, Azathoth in the hurricane analogy and Deep Reality in the web analogy). We are the farflung raindrops at the edge of the storm, the distant threads of spidersilk at the edge of the web. The gods are the whipping winds at the edge of the eye, the foundational threads that uphold the rest of the web upon which our threads are draped. Duality, here, is one element of the climatological or architectural matrix which interfaces between that center and us.
OR
There is a beautiful woman, larger than galaxies or string theory, more beautiful than sanity, morality, or ignorance, upon whose eyelashes the featherlight tapestried illusion of the world rests. In mup, this is Inanna. Here, we are images in the spread of the world, avatars of maya, and the gods are Inanna's eyelashes, upon which our experience is draped. Duality is one of the threads (or two of them ;-p) in the tapestry.
OR
There are three Souls or Selves: Talking Self, Younger Self, and Deep Self. Talking Self communicates and expresses in language; Younger Self communicates and expresses in image (not visuals, but the poetic sense of image -- though without language!); and Deep Self communicates and expresses either in experience or in a manner so disparate from Talker's language that it is impossible or nearly so to discuss it while inhabiting Talking Self (the spider who weaves the World Wide Web). Deep Self is what I describe as "the part of you that's everything". "Self" lives somewhere between Younger Self and Deep Self. Perhaps it's a gate through which our experience must travel in order to go into and bring something back from Deep Self. Perhaps it's made of horn. Duality is, maybe, an analogous gate between Talking Self and Younger Self. It, maybe, is made of ivory.
OR
Antinomianism is one path to power, freedom, and a conscious, pleasurable (either as defined by Epicurus or by one of the more archetypal hedonists) life. We break our own sacred laws to experience the fullness of existence and transmute habit into choice. The gods are more powerful, more free, more conscious, and more pleasured than we are. Therefore, they must be more antinomian than we are and must therefore have discovered what is behind the thesis-antithesis-synthesis cycle.
AH! THE LISTENER SAYS!
This is what each of these ontologies highlights, with important distinctions between each of course (left to later discussion for the moment). There is something behind seeming duality, something deeper than dialectic, something more radical than dichotomy, and _that_ is to what the gods are tied, _that_ is the substance of their being. Gods necessarily include their antithesis because, if they didn't, they would be people or spirits or servitors or MAYBE egregorai (though with that last, I might argue that their nature as amalgamations of a group's mana, they get closer to the radical existence of the gods). | | 9:13 am |
*An Ecstatic Presence Empowerment for Play: "That I Am."*
by LaSara FireFox, www.lasarafirefox.com
You are intimately connected to everything, everywhere.
When we put something outside of ourselves, we are engaging in the practice
of division. This practice can be a useful veil upon the path to union, but
even the path is a veil that can get in the way of the destination. In
reality, there is no destination.
I am, as I have been, as I will always be.
When you feel separation - whether through love, longing, desire,
rejection, repulsion, hope, definition, clinging, etc. - realize that you
are THAT, too. You are the thing you desire, you hold the thing you long
for, you are one with the thing that repulses you.
All things are held within the Divine. The Divine is in all things. We are
each part of this grand tapestry, and are never separate from the All That
Is.
Experience the Power of I Am. Notice every time you say, "I am..." today.
If you are creating an "I AM" with the statement that feels less than in
total alignment with your most true self, choose a new statement of truth.
In every moment you are creating. Bring consciousness to your own healing
into wholeness.
Consider yourself empowered!
(peace. passion. presence.) | | Friday, April 4th, 2008 | | 6:39 pm |
Two interesting divinatory notes and some possibly relevant current events
That Imbolc 8 from yesterday has reversed itself into an upright position . . . This is going from the coward's way out, from getting someone else to fight my battles for me to facing them, finding a new strength, confidence, and creating new challemges to break out of a dull and meaningless period of my life. Lots of Mars here; dies anyone know the current astrology on Mars? "So failure or success matters little, but what has to be done must be done".
The Spiral tarot is sticking in Wands (hmm, Fire . . .), transmuting a Four into a reversed Knight . . . Optimism for the future, a change in (mental/spiritual) residence becoming stagnation or useless energy? Wands is Fire, as is Mars . . .
These are the two things that have jumped in my face (well, that and el origen coming up on the first day I have a full set of eight draws . . .)
Now, the intriguing thing about all this is that when I went to take a shower earlier today, I discovered one of me had broken (I knew it was coming) and another broke as I was removing it from my wrist (I was NOT expecting that!)! Not to mention that last Woden's Day, my ileke broke for no apparent reason while I was playing Three Flies Up in the Barefoot Parking Lot with a hackeysack late at night . . .
The ileke, I was told when I showed it to the Heart of the Rose Society, was all wrong, so I thought that that was that, but the other two . . .
The one I was somewhat expecting was my community me, the ice necklace from Mr. Mister on playa wrapped around an old rubber bracelet from my alma mater's Safe Space program. The ice from the necklace is now missing and the black plastic is flapping all around. The one I wasn't expecting was my education is freedom bracelet, which is flat gone (or awaiting creative recycling into a new me) -- Interjection: I feel something in my left hand, whose me broke all the way on playa; it is also the hand I associate with self due to Iron Pentacle symbolism. Interestingly, the bracelet broke on the spine of the D, making it Ducation, rather than Education. I am still leading, but no longer leading out.
I feel as if the genius of Free Will Astrology is forcing me to enact its edict this week. I am called to nakedness and half my me are gone! I also ponder the meaning of my giving of the me during my Antinoan mystery. Shall they be gone from me now?
Note the Answered Prayers reversed and the Hekate reversed . . . | | 4:42 pm |
Daily Divinatory Draw
First, Free Will Astrology, my guiding read for the week:
Cancer Horoscope for week of April 3, 2008
In recent years there has been a rash of climbers shedding all their clothes on Mount Everest. A sherpa by the name of Lakpa Tharke claims the world's record for high-altitude nudity, having stood skyclad for three minutes at the 29,035-foot summit. Some Nepali authorities are seeking a ban on such displays, believing that it defiles the revered mountain. "How would Westerners feel about people stripping in church?" they ask. Not meaning any disrespect to them, I urge you, Cancerian, to make "in the buff on the holy mountaintop" your power metaphor of the week. Blend sacredness and nakedness in any way that appeals to your imagination, especially if it's in high places or makes you high.
Healing with Angels:
Self-Acceptance
Runic Tarot:
Imbolc 8, representing the 4th week of March, labelled Challenge, and ruled by Aries (by time) and Scorpio (by number)
Medieval Scapini Tarot:
Eight of Swords
Goddess Tarot:
Three of Swords (reversed)
Spiral Tarot:
Knight of Wands (reversed)
Spanish Flashcard:
#191 -- el cielo: sky, heaven(s)
Blank Tarot:
Blank
Feri Deck:
Birds on the Wire | | Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | | 9:48 pm |
Found my Feri deck!
Today's Feri card:
Hekate (reversed) | | 11:26 am |
Daily Divinatory Drawing
First, Free Will Astrology, my guiding read for the week:
Cancer Horoscope for week of April 3, 2008
In recent years there has been a rash of climbers shedding all their clothes on Mount Everest. A sherpa by the name of Lakpa Tharke claims the world's record for high-altitude nudity, having stood skyclad for three minutes at the 29,035-foot summit. Some Nepali authorities are seeking a ban on such displays, believing that it defiles the revered mountain. "How would Westerners feel about people stripping in church?" they ask. Not meaning any disrespect to them, I urge you, Cancerian, to make "in the buff on the holy mountaintop" your power metaphor of the week. Blend sacredness and nakedness in any way that appeals to your imagination, especially if it's in high places or makes you high.
Healing with Angels:
Answered Prayer (reversed)
Runic Tarot:
Imbolc 8 (reversed), representing the 4th week of March, labelled Challenge, and ruled by Aries (by time) and Scorpio (by number)
Medieval Scapini Tarot:
Knight of Coins
Goddess Tarot:
VI - Love, ruled by Venus (reversed)
Spiral Tarot:
Four of Wands
Spanish Flashcard:
#651 - el origen (origin)
Interestingly enough, there is a Chruch Father named Origen
Blank Tarot:
Blank
Feri Deck:
Not in my purse where I thought it was! Grr! | | Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | | 6:40 pm |
Been meaning to do this for a while . . . Daily divinatory deck draws! I'll draw one card from each deck and their union, plus the weekly Free Will Astrology reading shall be informative! Maybe! Full list of my divinatory decks off the top of my head: Doreen Virtue's Healing with the Angels Oracle Cards, Runic Tarot, a special handmade pseudo-Tarot from veedub, Scapini Medieval Tarot, Dragon Tarot, Goddess Tarot, a blank make-your-own Tarot deck, and a box of Spanish flash cards my grandfather just told me to take home! First, Free Will Astrology: Cancer Horoscope for week of April 3, 2008 In recent years there has been a rash of climbers shedding all their clothes on Mount Everest. A sherpa by the name of Lakpa Tharke claims the world's record for high-altitude nudity, having stood skyclad for three minutes at the 29,035-foot summit. Some Nepali authorities are seeking a ban on such displays, believing that it defiles the revered mountain. "How would Westerners feel about people stripping in church?" they ask. Not meaning any disrespect to them, I urge you, Cancerian, to make "in the buff on the holy mountaintop" your power metaphor of the week. Blend sacredness and nakedness in any way that appeals to your imagination, especially if it's in high places or makes you high. Runic Tarot: Samhain 11 (reversed), representing the third week of January, labelled Rebellion, and ruled by Capricorn (by time) and Aquarius (by number) Healing with the Angels: Friendship (reversed) Medieval Scapini Tarot: Page of Wands Spanish flash cards: #232: el consuelo/consolar: comfort, consolation/to console Feri, Dragon Tarot, Goddess Tarot, and blank draws -- as well as thoughts and interpretations -- to come later. For now, what are ya'll's thoughts? :-) | | 10:02 am |
Free Will Astrology
Cancer Horoscope for week of April 3, 2008
In recent years there has been a rash of climbers shedding all their clothes on Mount Everest. A sherpa by the name of Lakpa Tharke claims the world's record for high-altitude nudity, having stood skyclad for three minutes at the 29,035-foot summit. Some Nepali authorities are seeking a ban on such displays, believing that it defiles the revered mountain. "How would Westerners feel about people stripping in church?" they ask. Not meaning any disrespect to them, I urge you, Cancerian, to make "in the buff on the holy mountaintop" your power metaphor of the week. Blend sacredness and nakedness in any way that appeals to your imagination, especially if it's in high places or makes you high. | | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | | 5:26 pm |
Found my charger!
I am once more reachable by phone!!!!
Wa-hoo!!!! | | 4:40 pm |
I found my phone!
Now I just need to find my charger . . . .
:-p | | 1:46 pm |
So . . .
I danced with Pombagira on Friday night.
One of the Pombas present danced up to me and kinda just laid on me that Oshun is in my heart, Obatala is on my head, and Kali is my mother.
She also said that Pomba is an exu of Kali, which was quite intriguing. I am now pondering in the back of my mind the differences and similarities between an exu (from Ifa and Yoruba-descended Afro-diasporic traditions) and a sukkal (from Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon). Reading through a pamphlet I happened to own concerning Obatala, I am also pondering the connections between awo (from Ifa, et cetera) and me (from Sumer, et cetera). Much to think about there.
More importantly (perhaps) is that Obatala's initiates are often given taboos against drinking and cussing and for cleanliness and high moral standards. Dammit! I gotta clean? ;-p | | Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | | 10:36 am |
Watch this. Now.
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