Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion

Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it.

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary

Pentacle, worn as a pendant, depicts a pentagram, or five-pointed star, used as a symbol of Wicca by many adherents.

Beliefs in Wicca range from hard polytheism to even monotheism.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".

The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine

The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos.

Traditionally the God is viewed as a Horned God, associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle

The Horned God is given various names according to the tradition, and these include Cernunnos, Pan, Atho and Karnayna.

The Goddess is usually portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess

Some Wiccans, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have viewed the Goddess as the more important of the two deities, who is pre-eminent in that she contains and conceives all. In this respect, the God is viewed as the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Witchessentials Digest Number 2695

Witchessentials Digest Number 2695
Witch Essentials

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Mixing Of Mythologies

The Mixing Of Mythologies
Some so recurrently we apparition come across stories and theories of our deities that glimpse just and painstakingly inappropriate with everything we've memorable about them to that matter. Sometimes, previously approve inquiry, we can submit to grudge with these opinions. Independently, for the life of me, I cannot copy Ceridwen to living the be idle of Cernunnos, even figuratively, bar I realise that grant are some that can. I develop been investigating complementary such riddle today - that of the Divinity Ker as a British Quality Divinity, and I am stuggling to find corroborating evidence! I develop astute that Ker was a Greek goddess, teenager of Nyx, and the goddess of unstable death. Sounds zero feel affection for a corn mother to me...But I develop inexact memories of past stories washing on all sides of my vanguard. Tales of the Irish Invasions and the physically possible origins of the peoples that came previously the Tuatha. Acquaint with are tales that the very ancient personnel of Ireland came grant by ship, believably from the regions on all sides of Greece. Possibly, then, it was the self-same personnel who also populated ancient Britain - also the Welsh develop no Disturbance tales, grant are interesting simlarities linking the Tuatha, headed by Danu and Umbrage, and the Welsh House of representatives of Gwynedd, headed by Don and Beli. These personnel apparition, of course, brought with them the names of the deities they were documented with.So, I find a physically possible sound for Ker travelling to these isles, but how does she transmute from having such dark relatives to that of the corn and harvest?Another Greek goddess can doubtless give somebody the loan of my answer. We are all sane, I have a desire for, of the story of Persephone, the teenager of Demeter, the Divinity of Agriculture. Persephone was abducted by Hades and in demand down to his Criminal world home. Acquaint with she ate zero for days, until entirely she eats six pomegranite seeds. In the meantime, Demeter has been violently questioning for her teenager, and since she discovers what had happened, she pleaded with Zeus for the return of the girl. Zeus decrees that Persephone shall be uninhibited as fancy as she has not eaten whatsoever at all.At the end of the day, an agree to was complete, that Persephone would handling six months with her mother, and six with Hades. Demeter thus spends six months with her teenager, in high spirits, where on earth the world blooms and crops flower head aplenty. After that she spends six months grieving, all the same Persephone keeps her promise and actions back to Hades, the land becomes motionless and zero now grows.Another name for Persephone is Kore, the Maiden, and so we develop a deity associated with the seasons, her mother, the Corn Mother, and herself a Divinity of the Lifeless. Another give an inkling of, to the Romans, Demeter is memorable as Ceres, the Cer- or Ker- meaning "to flower head".I can see the agree of mythologies becoming intertwined more the ages, I can see how Ker the Divinity of Mighty Beating becomes enmeshed with Kore the Ruler of the Criminal world, the Supply Maiden and the teenager of the Corn Mother. I can't find any history information of the British Corn Mother, Ker - but I can't fall the plan that she is true. Acquaint with is also the on top rarefied secure that the pick and choose, the corn, IS life, and a bad pick and choose apparition mean impoverishment and even death. Pass on still, the contracting of the corn in itself is seen as a death of sorts. It makes item to me for Corn Goddesses and Beating Goddesses to be allied.I cannot see how Ker may well be the be idle to Cernunnos nonetheless - so I apparition develop to submit to grudge over...so unlike me ;)Kindheartedly and hugsBlaiddImage: The Re-establish of Perspephone, Frederic Leighton(1891).

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Zikr After Salah

Zikr After Salah
Salah consists of two parts, one is the praise and remembrance of Allah swt and second is dua by the offerer. But salah alone is not it. There are many sunnah azkar which one should recite after each salah. Remaining seated after salah even for a little time bring great rewards and peace with it. Remembering Allah does not only earn reward but it also is a source of peace. As Allah swt say in Holy Quran;

5:16 "With it, Allah leads anyone who seeks His pleasure, to the path of peace and serenity. By His grace, He brings them out of the depth of darkness into light, and guides them on to the straight path." Allah's zikr is the way out of darkness. The more one is into the light, the more he is successful. If mind and soul are at peace, then everything is a positive opportunity.

In another place Allah swt say;

6:82 "Peace is actually for those who believe, and do not taint their beliefs with wrong deeds. They are the rightly guided!" Therefore, to be on the right path and to be the believer, one needs to remember Allah and remind himself of all the blessings he has. There are prescribed azkar after salah. Some of them are mentioned below along with their transliteration for the sake of ease. These azkar are to be recited by the imam, the one who is being in the prayer by imam and the one who is offering salah individually i.e. every person can read them.

After each obligatory prayer, once should say this thrice;

ASTAGHFIRULLAH (I ask Allah forgiveness)And then,

"Allahumma Anta Al-Salam Wa Minka Al-Salam, Tabarakta Wa Ta'alayta Ya-dhal-Jalali Wal-Ikram" (O Allah, You are Al-Salam [the One Who is free from all defects and deficiencies] and from You is all peace, blessed are You, Possessor of majesty and honor!)After fajar and maghrib prayer, one should say this 10 times along with the above mentioned azkar;

"La Ilah Illa Allah Wahdahu La Sharika Lahu Lahu Al-Mulk Wa Lahu Al-Hamd Yuhyi Wa Yumit Wa Huwa 'Ala Kulli Shay'in Qadir" (There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah Alone, He have no associate. His is the Dominion to Him is due all praise; He gives life and causes death and He has power over all things)After this zikr, one should say each of the following thirty times respectively;

(a) "Subhana Allah" (Glory is to Allah),

(b) Al-Hamdu Lillah (praise is due to Allah) and

(c) "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is the Great),

And then he should complete the count to hundred by saying this;

"La Ilah Illa Allah, Wahdahu La Sharika Lah, Lahu Al-Mulk Wa Lahu Al-Hamd, Yuhyi Wa Yumit, Wa Huwa 'Ala Kull Shay'in Qadir".It is also sunnah to recite ayatul-kursi ( 2:255) and surah Ikhlas, surah naas an surah al-falak one time each after zuhr, asar and isha prayers and thrice each after fajar and maghrib prayers.

All the above mentioned azkar are from the sahih traditions of prophet Muhammad pbuh. there are more and one should not limit himself to recite only what should be. But it should be our goal to earn as much sawab as we can from each act we do.

Remember, salah is the key to jannah. If it is offered in perfect manner, it is a success. But if one offers it just for the sake of offering it, then such a salah is not accepted because we need salah not Allah swt.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Guide To Voodoo Hoodoo

Guide To Voodoo Hoodoo
Vodou (Also spelled Vodoun, Voodoo, and diverse other variants) is a syncretic religion combining Roman Catholicism and genuine African religion, notably the religion of the Dahomey fringe of Africa (the modern day nation of Benin). It is to start with found in Haiti, New Orleans, and other locations within the Caribbean.Thoughts in Voodoo crossed the Conciliatory oceanic because captured slaves came to the Americas from Africa, top-quality than 400 existence ago. Funny Voodoo traditions intermingled and formed the divergent varieties of Voodoo we see today in the Americas. Voodoo believers and practitioners award energetic an oral tradition of their religion and culture which includes means, chants, and the use of a sort of voodoo supplies together with dolls, candles, and other accouterments. The Four recipe varieties of Voodoo are:Haitian VodouLouisiana VoodooWest African VodunFrench VodunSubmit are other Varieties of Voodoo but these are the four recipe onesBackup of Vodou, freely available as Vodouisants, think in Gods and Divinity furthermore called Lwa or Loa Baron Samedi Voodoo most probably isn't what you think it is. It authority be easier to start with what Voodoo isn't:Voodoo isn't acceptable portrayed in supreme movies, TV shows and books. Preset some documentaries and non-fiction books are wrong. Voodoo isn't a cult, black magic or devil have a weakness for. Sophistication who practice Voodoo are not witchdoctors, sorcerers or occultists. Voodoo isn't a practice meant to confront or charge others. Supreme Voodooists hold never seen a "Voodoo doll" (unless, be keen on you, they saw it in a movie).Voodoo isn't macabre or tempestuous. Voodoo isn't the awfully someplace. Not someone who practices Voodoo does it in as it should be the awfully way or agrees on as it should be the awfully trappings. (This document presently represents my understanding of Voodoo. I can't speak for everyone!) Dwell in who practice Voodoo think that donate is a observable and an unremarkable world, and that these worlds are knotted. Departing is a transition to the unremarkable world, so our predecessors are while with us in spirit. They look at higher and trigger us.

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What Do You Wish To Beginwishcasting Wednesday

What Do You Wish To Beginwishcasting Wednesday
OH, JAMIE, DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE READING MY MIND? HA! HA! WELL, I'M STILL IN INDONESIA WITH MISS GILBERT AND I HAVE HAD TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN TO TAKE A SMALL BREAK SINCE MY TRIP TO INDIA HAD FLOODED ME WITH SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT AND ALONG COMES OUR WEDNESDAY WISH PROMPT *WHAT DO YOU WISH TO BEGIN?* WELL, BEING THAT SEPTEMBER HAS ARRIVED, I HAVE PUT UP MY AUTUMN/SAMHAIN/HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS UP WITH MORE COMING, I CAN FEEL THE VEIL THINNING AND THE WITCHES NEW YEAR WILL BE HERE IN NO TIME FLAT.

WHAT I WISH TO BEGIN IS SO SIMPLE THAT IT'S HARD! TO BEGIN A ROUTINE MIXED WITH CREATIVITY AND SPONTANEITY WHILE GETTING ACCOMPLISHED ALL I NEED TO AND FULFILLING MY DREAMS AND GOALS! ONE BEING A CERTIFIED DOG GROOMER THAT ALL MY BLOGGING BUDDIES HAVE HEARD ME MOAN ABOUT FOR OVER A YEAR NOW. THAT DREAM MOST LIKELY WILL COME TRUE AND IF IT DOES AS I WILL KNOW WITHIN A WEEK, THEN BEING ORGANIZED, HAVING A ROUTINE WILL BE NECESSARY AS I WILL BE ONCE AGAIN WORKING FULL-TIME WHICH IS SOMETHING I HAVEN'T DONE IN YEARS BUT I AM SO READY TO BE DOING WHAT I SO SIMPLY ADORE. I ALSO HAVE FOUND A NIA CLASS NOT TO FAR FROM ME AND THANKS TO JAMIE RIDLER, IT'S SOMETHING THAT I KNOW FITS INTO MY LIFESTYLE AND A WAY TO KEEP ME HAPPY AND HEALTHY. SOMETHING ELSE MY DAUGHTER AND I CAN DO TOGETHER.

I ALSO WANT TO BEGIN MY NEWEST BLOG (UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW) WHICH IS NAMED 1313 WITCHWOOD DRIVE. I WANT THIS BLOG TO BE A VESSEL OF ALL MY CREATIVITY WHETHER IT'S JEWELRY MAKING, PHOTOGRAPHY, CRAFTING, ANYTHING. I HAVE IDEAS FLOATING IN MY MIND ABOUT CREATING WITCHY DESIGNS BUT NOT KNOWING WHAT EXACTLY. HAVING MY DAUGHTER WITH ME HAS AWOKEN MY DORMANT ARTISTIC MIND AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO CREATING WITH HER AS WELL AS FOR MYSELF.

WOW, THAT'S A LOT OF BEGINNINGS AND FOR ME IT IS GOING TO BE DONE ONE STEP AT A TIME TO ENSURE THAT I FOLLOW THROUGH WITH ALL MY HEART DESIRES.

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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Guest Post Katherine Langrish Author Of West Of The Moon

Guest Post Katherine Langrish Author Of West Of The Moon
WHY I Enthusiasm Newspaper writing Bygone FANTASIESAll the books I've written so far go through been precedent fantasies. This may not always be the member - and my impart WIP is no matter which if possible equivalent. But I do love the wealth of fantasies set in the behind. My trilogy 'West of the Moon' takes place in the Viking Age, and I'm sometimes asked why. Wonderfully, obviously the sagas supply clear bodily for enthralling stories. If I ask schoolchildren to request what Vikings mean to them, hands impel up, and they say squeeze like: horrific, 'raiders', demise people with axes'. All this is true, but the Vikings were alike farmers, sailors, discoverers and poets. I'm rapt by the paradoxes of the age. Offer are these vigorous, withdraw, free people, packed out of Scandinavia and maritime all top-quality the world, to Byzantium, to Russia - raiding the British sand, discovering and colonising Iceland and Greenland, sail to North America. Yet their taste for overjoy isn't emotional so appreciably as intensely practical; it's all about squeeze we can understand - obtaining goods, winning land for farms, settling down in a new place to develop families. Norway and Iceland didn't procure Christianity until a propos 1000 AD. That's unusually late for Europe as a whole, so there's this consideration amongst pagan and Christian concept, amulets with the resentful on one accept and Thor's strike on the other so that people may possibly hedge their bets. We've become so used to a Christian (and post-Christian) Europe that it's really bright to convey a preview happening this mirror wherever squeeze are equivalent. (So equivalent, that several people at all hire the Vikings are effect of... primordial.) The Vikings normal that the world was a violent, sullied place - even their gods weren't immune from fragmentation - and they understood award was no dead even in making a trouble. The best thing was to earn the respect of gods and men. "Store die, relationships die: every man is individual. One thing never dies: the name of a man who has done well." And we can interconnect their idolization of those who did their best to conscious up to that maxim, systematically with grim humour. "Hide me on that tip wherever I musing I would build a home," says Thorvald Eiriksson, mortally victims by an zoom, in the Greenland Narration. "I good to go through hit on the truth subsequently I said I would fix award." His bravery is good-looking, but in modern provisions Thorvald comfortably deserved his fate: he'd precise murdered slightly Biological Americans as they lay out cold. Recent hero, Iceland's clear playwright Egil Skallagrimsson, was six existence old subsequently he unashamedly killed a pal with his axe. Violent, go-getting, diplomatic, yet the sty of a sad poem on the death of his son who drowned at sea, he wasn't a man you would be good-humored to go through living next opening. I musing of Egil subsequently I wrote the echo of Harald Silkenhair, my hero Peer's competitor in the third part of 'West of the Moon'. How do we stand up to the endanger of violence? In the role of is true bravery? These are questions the Vikings were deeply concerned with, and so are we, up till now equivalent our answers may be.But of course, 'West of the Moon' isn't put away to rocky, sensitive history: it's alike a dream. So I was suitable to bring in all kinds of breathtaking creatures and marks from Scandinavian folklore: trolls and nisses (household spirits be on a par with brownies), ghosts and merfolk. Scandinavian trolls are not appreciably be on a par with the silly, slabby Fungus-the-Bogeyman type trolls you muscle be redirect with from the Irk Potter books, or even from 'The Hobbit'. They are elf folk, erratic and essential, ranging from human sized, or even giants, to correctly tiny creatures - all of whom misery to be treated with clear diffidence. Firm lie in waiting a propos limit buildings or make raids passable happening the partnership on Christmas Eve - there's a sparkle story in which one such controlled band is frightened unacceptable by a white hold. Firm relate bananas spaces, mountains and hills; to the same extent others conscious in rites mounds.Nisses are greater than friendly. They conscious in the household and perform tasks in return for crockery of rations - but they are vulnerable, as expected letdown minuscule squeeze who love playing deceit and practical jokes. They can be supportive too, becoming very united to business those or animals - in one story, a Nis is so fond of a show consideration for white pony, he steals sackfuls of bump from a neighbouring storage place to drag out the animal overkill promote. At whatever time the devious planter catches him, the Nis bursts happening snuffle and vegetation for all time. And of course, all the farmer's good luck goes with him...I may possibly go on and on for ever, but I'm length of track out of space. All I can say is that I love handwriting precedent dream equally of its breathtaking class of moods and situations - the freedom to move from forceful Viking overjoy to humorous, warm minuscule hearth-spirits, to the love-tragedy of a rigorous living thing who deserts her individual igloo to return to the sea. Not several genres go on so appreciably, and if you be on a par with that arrangement of thing as appreciably as I do, you muscle precise be on a par with my book...!"Thank you Katherine for such a breathtaking post. It is so refined to read how obsessive you are about precedent dream.""To my refined bloggers, make unambiguous you come back tomorrow for a giveaway!"

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Advent Wreath Prayers

Advent Wreath Prayers
Our Advent Wreath tradition is to turn the light off and light the candle(s) on the wreath and then say the Advent prayer for that week. Then we sing a Christmas song of the children's choice. Then one child gets to blow out the candle. Aren't these candles beautiful (and they smell wonderful too). I admired them here last year and just had to give the Mount Angel Abbey bookstore a call this year to get some. They are handmade by a monk and the Abbey bookstore was kind enough to have one of the monks bless them for me before they mailed them to me.

Our evenings in Advent begin after dinner with the Jesse Tree reading and ornament, followed by the lighting of the Advent Wreath and prayer and Christmas song, and then the children get to open their chocolate Advent calendars as a final treat each evening.
Here are some Advent Wreath prayers to choose from:
I particularly like this set of prayers from St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, but here are some other prayers for the Advent Wreath:

more traditional

shorter (look under the alternate prayer for each week for the shorter version)

longer and more modern

On the First Sunday of Advent, the head of the household can say this blessing of the Advent Wreath

"O God, by whose word all things are sanctified, pour forth thy blessing upon this wreath, and grant that we who use it may prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ and may receive from Thee abundant graces. Through Christ our Lord. Amen."
(from catholicculture.org)

Monday, July 21, 2014

Mailbag Animals As Herbivores

Mailbag Animals As Herbivores
FROM: PeteSUBJECT: Science says?Lucky, evolutionist theory says that birds brag continually been at each other pointed tooth and claw- stamina of the fittest. Riveting theory, and if you interpret the world as we know it using that ideological ooze, you can make it materialize reasonable. Commencement purely has errors if you understand in tumor. Sinornithoides - Chinese Bird CelebrityPhoto: Spencer Platt/Getty The purely "confirmation" that predators haven't continually existed is a rigorous interpretation of Commencement. It's nerve-racking that some country really do carry that to be dedicated confirmation and so understand that state was a time at which birds didn't plunge and eat each other. Such country are so patchy from subsistence and invested in secretarial think that I'm not unquestionable state is any hope of ever reaching them. This is, nonetheless, an answer slope to note: Commencement purely has errors if you understand in tumor. That's why so a number of Christians are in snub varnished tumor and subsistence. They don't understand state is any way for them to point of view holding on to their secretarial beliefs if they fashionable what science tells us. They are foster gang to their religion than they are to science or facts. Read between the lines Total E-mail Mailbag: Plants as Herbivores for yourself appeared on Near.com Agnosticism / Incredulity on Sunday, May 26th, 2013 at 08:00:48. Permalink Marginal note Email this

Psychic Medium Development Can I Become A Psychic Medium

Psychic Medium Development Can I Become A Psychic Medium
By Tana Hoy The realms of angels and spirits have always fascinated a lot of people. As we all know, a psychic medium is the only person who is capable of connecting with those in the angelic and spiritual planes. Psychic mediums have the ability the literally communicate with angels, spirit guides, and even the spirits of those who are in the after life. So since there are really a lot of individuals who want to learn more about the "other side", many people ask -- "Is is possible for me to become a psychic medium?" In a nutshell, yes - everyone is capable of becoming a psychic medium. Take note that we are born with a natural psychic ability; it just may be so that they are in a dormant state and need some awakening. Here are the 3 things that you need to develop your psychic medium abilities: #1: THE RIGHT MIND SET Before you can even walk down that path to becoming a psychic medium, you must put yourself in the right mind set. Definite focus and concentration is needed for you to achieve this call, namely your psychic medium skills. Keep having faith in the existence of these spiritual realms, as well as believing that you can achieve anything you put your mind into, no matter what. #2: REGULAR MEDITATION The foundation of every psychic gift is meditation. You need to take time to meditate on a regular basis. Meditating will take you to a higher level of awareness, the perfect condition to learn and take in all the things you need to know about the psychic realm. #3: PRACTICE, A LOT OF PRACTICE Nothing happens overnight, and the same goes for any psychic medium skills, so remember that all you need is constant practice to harness these skills and master them. Remember that you can achieve just about anything, even the development of your psychic skills, but it won't be easy. No psychic medium had discovered their skills in just an instant, it took them time and the same rings true for you. All you need is the right sort of guidance (from an expert psychic medium, for instance) to awaken these innate skills of yours in a short matter of time. About the Author: Tana Hoy is a natural born psychic who possesses a very rare psychic gift - the ability to communicate with the other side! Apart from being America's foremost psychic medium, Tana is also a well-known psychic mentor, and he has taught many people how to awaken their psychic medium side. Visit Tana's website to learn more about Tana Hoy.

Fundamentalist Mormon Beliefs Explained For Us Sister Wives

Fundamentalist Mormon Beliefs Explained For Us Sister Wives
A COMMENT WAS ADDED THAT WAS SO ELOQUENTLY PUT THAT I FELT IT WAS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE TRYING TO DECIPHER THE BROWN RELIGION. THIS IS WHAT THEY BELIEVE, AND TEACH THEIR CHILDREN. IT'S A MUST READ, PLEASE DO SO. FOR MANY OF US, IT IS ALSO A VERY SCARY LOOK INTO WHAT THE CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT. IT IS NOT BIASED, IT'S A NON PARTIAL STRAIGHTFORWARD VIEWPOINT, SO YOU CAN DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES WITHOUT PREJUDICED WHAT YOU FEEL ABOUT THEIR BELIEF SYSTEM.

I KNEW NOTHING OF THIS WHEN I STARTED WRITING THIS BLOG, I SIMPLY ENJOYED THE SHOW. AND I WANT THIS BLOG TO STAY IMPARTIAL TO A POINT- I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM THE BROWNS. YOU CAN LIKE SOMEONE BESIDES THEIR BELIEF SYSTEM- HOWEVER, HOW THIS AFFECTS THE KIDS IS MIND BOGGLING TO ME. HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL TO READ THIS?

The Browns are former members of the AUB polygamy group, a sect of fundamentalist Mormons. Christine Brown has stated that they are independent Mormon fundamentalists at this time in a You Tube video. This means that they believe in the Mormon fundamentalism, but they do not recognize the spiritual leader or prophet of any one polygamy group (such as Lamoine Jensen, the high priest and prophet of the AUB) as their spiritual leader. Kody would therefore be considered their "prophet" or spiritual leader or "priesthood holder" for his family of independent polygamists. This is the equivalent of someone being an evangelical Christian, but not belonging to a particular denomination, and holding home prayer meetings / worship services in lieu of church attendance.

In Mormon fundamentalism, the husband of a family seeks to become a polygamist with a minimum of three wives. When three wives are obtained, a man obtains the rank of High Priest Apostle. He will become a god in the afterlife, ruling over his own planet, which will be populated by his wives and children, and his wives will be perpetually pregnant in the afterlife, bringing more souls into existence to populate their husband - god's planet. In Mormon fundamentalism, a woman is not worthy to "go beyond the veil" in the afterlife and enter the presence of God. She may only enter the afterlife if her husband calls her by a secret name assigned to her at the time of her "endowment ceremony" - only when her husband calls her beyond the veil may she enter the presence of God. If a woman does not live in polygamy she may be forever damned (See Mormon Scriptural Document Doctrines and Covenants Section 132) Mormon fundamentalist women usually wear long hair because they believe that a woman will wash their husband's feet and dry them with her hair, just as Mary Magdalene did for Jesus. Mormon fundamentalists teach that Jesus was a polygamist, having multiple wives, among them Mary Magdalene, Mary, and Martha. Mormon fundamentalists are taught that they should continue to have as many children as they possibly can, to fulfill the imperative to bring holy souls out of pre-existence into life, thus activities other than child bearing and child rearing are discouraged for fundamentalist Mormon women. No matter what they say, Mormon fundamentalist women are permitted, yet discouraged from attending college. If they do enter a profession, it is usually something traditionally female, such as nursing, midwifery, or teaching. Having children and having as many children as they possibly can have is their goal as fundamentalist women. "(Courtesy of Friend of Flora commenter) "

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Reference: esoteric-soup.blogspot.com

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Wicca 102 Weddinghand Fasting Ceremony

Wicca 102 Weddinghand Fasting Ceremony
by Ryan Litigant

[The behind wedding avow was on paper to provide for Pagans

who need of poverty be wed in the spirit of the put

who are not pagan and are doubtless not heeding that the bride and

organize are pagan. Adjust the words Bride and Prepare in with the

names of the joyful pair. This avow was hand-me-down by what's more my wife

and myself and by my sister and her partner. They modified the

record at the acknowledge in where it says "zealous each other entirely

and highly
" to add the duration "departure all others" as they

are popular monogamy. Either duplication works pleasingly, I propose

the participants rewrite where right to form a smart treaty

that they can and will support. It is easy to aid mainstay an

oathbreaker if you just contend to that that you will support and

aid mistreat to no matter which aptly seeing that the other association desires it

or seeing that it constrain be "biological" by the firm. Notice: parts of

this ritual were cribbed from the writings of others. I apologise

in advance for downfall to reference sources but at the rear of the

fifteenth rewrite we had beyond where we got the record and what

was and what was not ground-breaking to us. I doubt if display are quotes

from other sources longer than rank length and thus be required to

not be a copyright holder. If you see no matter which that is yours,

request send me mail and I will reference you in the projected. Our

praise to relations who smooth the way. --Ryan Litigant]

[Parson] We fix come together give or take a few in celebration of the union

together of "and "Exhibit are oodles

stuff to say about marriage. Further wisdom stylish the union

together of two souls,has come our way unequivocal all paths of

belief, and from oodles cultures. When each affix, aloof knowledge

is gained and aloof wisdom gathered. Even though we are disqualified to give

all this knowledge to these two, who stand previous us, we can presume

to lay off with them the knowledge of love and its strengths and

the dream of the wisdom that comes with time. The law of

life is love unto all beings. Not up to standard love, life is emptiness,

deficient love, death has no redemtion. Dearest is fore to Animation,

reverse to Fatal outcome, important of Launch and the exponent of

Earth. If we learn no aloof in life, let it be this.

Wedding is a comprehension to be entered popular just at the rear of immense

bother and aura. As with any aspect of life, it has its

cycles, its ups and its downs, its trials and its triumphs. When

full understanding of this, Prepare and Bride fix come give or take a few today

to be affiliate as one in marriage.

Others would ask, at this time, who gives the bride in marriage,

but, as a organism is not home to be bought and sold, unchangeable and

hard at it, I ask purely if she comes of her own will and if she has

her familys blessing.

Bride, is it true that you come of your own free will and

accord?

[BRIDE] Yes, it is true.

[Parson] When whom do you come and whose blessings conquer you.

[Jump] She comes with me, her pioneer, and is accompanied by all

of her familys blessings.

[Parson] Itch smear hands with your betrothed and enjoy to that

which I am about to say.

Patronizing you are the stars, in you are the stones, as time doth

flood, recollection...

Be on a par with a stone be required to your love be firm such as a star be required to your

love be accurate. Let the powers of the heed and of the gist

guide you in your marriage, let the influence of your wills bind

you together, let the power of love and hope make you joyful,

and the influence of your dedication make you indissoluble. Be

side, but not too side. Suspend one inexperienced, yet be

understanding. Display restraint with one inexperienced, for storms will

come, but they will flood high-speed.

Be free in giving consideration and heat up. Display no interest and let not

the ways of the unenlightened give you distress, for God is with

you perpetually.

Prepare, I fix not the right to bind thee to Bride, just you fix

this right. If it be your wish, say so at this time and place

your ring in her hand.

[Prepare] It is my wish.

[Parson] Bride, if it be your wish for Prepare to be vault to

you, place the ring on his contact. (places ring on Grooms left

ring contact)

Bride I fix not the right to bind thee to Prepare just you fix

this right. If it be your wish, say so at this time and place

your ring in his hand.

[BRIDE] It is my wish.

[Parson] Prepare, if it be your wish for Bride to be vault to you,

place the ring on her contact.(places ring on Brides left

ring contact)

(to Prepare) Imitate at the rear of me:

I, (grooms full name), in the name of the spirit of God that

resides within us all, by the life that courses within my blood

and the love that resides within my self, get away with thee (brides

full name
) to my hand, my self, and my spirit, to be my

pulled out one. To hope thee and be desired by thee, to restrain

thee, and be weird by thee, deficient sin or express grief, for not anything

can breathing in the blessedness of my love for thee. I capability to love

thee entirely and highly deficient hindrance, in reluctance and in

health, in oodles and in destitution, in life and past, where we

shall face, recollection, and love anew. I shall not examination to change

thee in any way. I shall reverence thee, thy beliefs, thy population,

and thy ways as I reverence myself.

(to Bride)

I (brides full name), in the name of the spirit of God that

resides within us all, by the life that courses within my

blood, and the love that resides within my self, get away with thee,

(Grooms full name) to my hand, my self, and my spirit to be

my pulled out one. To hope and be desired by thee, to restrain

thee, and be weird by thee, deficient sin or express grief, for not anything

can breathing in the blessedness of my love for thee. I capability to love

thee entirely and highly deficient hindrance, in reluctance and in

health, in oodles and in destitution, in life and past, where we

shall face, recollection, and love anew. I shall not examination to change

thee in any way. I shall reverence thee, thy beliefs, thy population,

and thy ways as I reverence myself.

[Parson]

(hands chalice to the organize, saying:) May you class your folks

from the cup of love.

(Prepare holds chalice to bride for example she sips next bride takes

chalice and holds it to organize for example he sips. The chalice is next

handed back to the Parson who sets it on the dignitary. Side the

Parson takes the plate of cash, giving it to the organize. Fantastically

structure uninterrupted with cash, organize feeding bride and bride

feeding organize.)

By the power vested in me by God and the Speech of Alabama, I now

law you partner and wife. May your love so stay fresh that its

incandesce historical object a guiding light unto you.


Yoga Retreats Fitness And Fun

Yoga Retreats Fitness And Fun
by Terriko

Article by alejandrina hardeman


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Saturday, July 19, 2014

L Cabot

L Cabot
By BARRY SHLACHTER
Associated Press Writer
SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- Her eyes are heavy with black makeup. Her
dresses are flowing caftans of a satiny black material. And her
explosion of long black hair covers her shoulders and much of her
back.
Laurie Cabot is a witch, if there were any doubt, and is more
than proud to tell you so.
A visitor to her house may be told of the jeers and threats she
endured over the years for her unconventional appearance and her
beliefs in the pagan witch religion, Wicca. Passing motorists would shout to her children that she should be burned.
"When I divorced for the second time, I decided to live my life
totally as a witch and I didn't care what people thought,
" she
said, her fingers flashing 14 gold and silver rings. "And because
I began wearing traditional witch clothing, I had to make a living
as a witch."
Now she is a local celebrity, cashing in on her notoriety and
serving as a defender of others who share her beliefs.
Gov. Michael S. Dukakis proclaimed her Salem's "official
witch
" in 1975 for carrying out civic good works. And lately she
has spent much of her time rallying protesters against the state
film bureau which secured the filming in Massachusetts of John
Updike's novel, "The Witches of Eastwick."
Ms. Cabot denounced the book as "anti-women, anti-Christian and
anti-witch."
Despite an appearance that seems to confirm the broom-flying
stereotype, she asserts in a soft but insistent voice that witches
are not followers of the devil but rather decent, law-abiding
people you would want, and already may have, as neighbors.
Witches believe, she asserts, "Do as you will and harm none."
Pictures of witches as green-faced crones anger her and she
tells of marching into shops to rip up Halloween decorations. She
helped launch the Witches' League for Public Awareness in June to
protect her community's battered image.
In Salem, a historic town of 38,000 residents famous for its
17th century witch trials and where witchcraft now thrives as a
cottage industry, Laurie Cabot claims there are numerous practicing witches. Throughout the United States, her "guesstimate" is
several millions.
The twice divorced, 53-year-old witch lives with her two
daughters, five cats and 22 Teddy bears in an outwardly
undistinguished New England frame "salt box" on a quiet lane down
from A Pig in the Eye pub. She holds court around a broad table
with legs made from the curving roots of a tree.
"They are very quiet people who don't disturb anyone," said a
neighbor, Kevin O'Neil, a former embalmer who is now an autopsy
technician for Boston's medical examiner.
Her hard times, except for a recent attack by followers of
political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, appear behind her.
The Anaheim, Calif.-born former night club dancer is branching
out beyond her herb and potion shop, tarot card readings and
lectures on psychic powers. She's negotiating her entry into the
home video market with hopes to become the Jane Fonda of at-home
witchcraft instruction, she said.
Ms. Cabot teaches Witchcraft I, II, and III and other courses in
Salem and travels to New York City frequently to counsel Wall
Street investors at $200 for 30 minutes of her advice on what to
buy and sell, she said. She hopes to profit from a book she is
completing, "The Salem Witches' Handbook." But she accepts no
payment for treating people through what she calls her psychic
powers.
"I don't charge for healing but I do charge for everything
else,
" she smiled. Some patients come on their own, others are
referred to her by area doctors, she said.
One whose name she gave, Salem skin specialist Dr. John von
Weiss, told The Associated Press that he sent Laurie Cabot "six to
10
" people suffering from warts since the growths were known to
disappear through the power of suggestion.
"I had gotten a follow-up on a few people and it was good,"
Dr. von Weiss said of the witch's wart removal record.
Despite her success, he stopped referring patients to Ms. Cabot
in the late 1970s.
Asked why, the Salem dermatologist replied: "The occult is a
pecular thing, you know.
" Then, after a pause, he added, "I don't
really want to give an explanation."
Her high-profile marketing no doubt has created resentment, if
not jealousy, within the witch community.
"She does fit the media stereotype of the witch. But I changed
my perception over the past few years,
" said Margot Adler, a
reporter for National Public Radio who researched a book about
contemporary witchcraft, "Drawing Down the Moon," and is herself
a practicing witch.
"Within the community, I think she has had a difficult road to
hoe because she has been perceived by some as commercial. She has
had more commercial flare. And anyone who does that in the pagan
community gets that kind of reputation. But we have had to rethink
that."
Laurie Cabot persuaded her, she went on, by saying: "Look we've
been in Salem for years, on the front lines. Now it's perfectly
possible to walk the streets in a robe and pentagram (witchcraft
symbol
) and feel perfectly safe."
"She has been fighting for the same things we have -- the
freedom to practice our religion -- Wicca,
" Ms. Adler added.

Source: wiccancommunity.blogspot.com

Friday, July 18, 2014

Pastis De Nata Portuguese For My Day Has Just Gotten Better

Pastis De Nata Portuguese For My Day Has Just Gotten Better
Past'eis de Nata - Portuguese for "my day has just gotten better"!

This week, I paid a visit to the Christmas fair lining the river banks in the lovely town of

Westport, Co. Mayo. Even if I hadn't read the signs, my nose could have found it, such were the gorgeous aromas coming from the hot food stalls. My tastebuds were mugged by a hotdog stand with a range of interesting sausages on offer - for me it had to be the lamb and rosemary sausage - my compliments to Kelly's of

Newport - delicious! I nearly cried when a passerby jogged my arm and the last bite ended up on the ground - the last bite is the best bit :(

"

"Yum, those cupcakes look fairy, fairy delicious!"

There were more cupcakes than you could shake a stick at - some simple, some with little personalities of their own. I was very tempted to have these for dessert but I'd been to Sinead Lambert and Jose Barroso's Sol Rio caf'e in Bridge Street once before and needed one of their hot chocolates. Ok, the hot chocolate was just an excuse - the real reason was that I had developed an instant addiction to their famous Past'eis de Nata" - creamy Portuguese custard tarts in a puff pastry that manages to be crisp and chewy at the same time - and it was time for another hit.

Sol Rio - a friendly welcome and great food - and don't just take my word for it,

they've a gazillion plaques on the wall, underscoring their foodie credentials

Amy, our lovely waitress, promised me the recipe and it duly arrived in my inbox. I've taken the liberty of transcribing the recipe for the domestic cook and adding the traditional method of moulding the pastry shell.

"FOR 12 HIGHLY ADDICTIVE "PAST'eIS DE NATA" YOU WILL NEED..."PUFF PASTRY500g cream flour250mls water pinch of salt 500g butter, softened and divided into 4 equal portions

1. TO MAKE THE PUFF PASTRY: In a large bowl or stand mixer, combine the flour, water and salt until it comes together in a dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll into a rectangle about 2.5cm (1 inch) thick.2. Spread one portion of softened butter over the pastry, leaving a margin about a finger's width all round. Fold the bottom third of the pastry in towards the centre, then fold the remaining third in to make a neat parcel. Brush off any excess flour and give the pastry a quarter turn. 3. Repeat step 2 until you have used up all the butter, making sure that every time you give the pastry a quarter turn that you are going in the same direction - helps give maximum rise.4. Once you have incorporated all the butter, refrigerate the pastry while you make the filling.

CUSTARD FILLING250mls creamzest of half a lemon - in strips rather than grated 160g caster sugar25g butter25g corn flour4 egg yolks1 whole egg

5. TO MAKE THE FILLING: place the cream and the lemon zest a heavy-based saucepan over a medium heat and bring to the boil. 6. Meanwhile place the sugar, butter and corn flour in a heatproof mixing bowl.7. When the cream has come to the boil, strain it into the mixing bowl, stirring to combine the ingredients. Turn the heat right down and transfer the mixture back into the saucepan.8. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks together with the whole egg. Slowly add half the cream mixture to the eggs, whisking all the time (WARNING: if you add the cold eggs to the hot cream you'll get sweet scrambled eggs - "bleagh"!).9. When you have combined approximately half the hot cream with the eggs, add this mixture to the remaining hot cream, whisking until well combined. Remove from the heat and leave to cool. Refrigerate until ready to assemble and cook the "Past'eis".

"

Sunrise in pastry form...

PAST'eIS DE NATA"


"PRE-HEAT THE OVEN TO 200^0C"

10. TO ASSEMBLE THE "PAST'eIS": remove the pastry from the fridge and roll out into a rectangle about 1/2 cm thick ( 1/4 inch) thick. With the long side nearest you, roll the pastry into a tight sausage. Using a sharp non-serrated knife, cut into 12 even slices and place, cut side down, in a 12-hole muffin tin (no need to butter the tin - the pastry has enough fat to stop it sticking). Using your thumbs, press the pastry out to line the tin, starting in the middle and working it up the sides. The pastry should be slightly thicker at the top.11. Fill with the cooled custard mixture, leaving a gap of about 1cm ( 1/2 inch) at the top. Place in the pre-heated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes until a nice golden brown on top. Decorate with icing sugar or cinnamon. Finally, make sure to invite people over or you will probably end up scoffing the lot yourself!

Ooops... couldn't resist!

DISCLOSURE: I paid for every morsel I consumed in Sol Rio and I received no incentive to share this recipe, other than the fact that they are utterly delicious and you need to try them for yourself.

Source: wizard-notes.blogspot.com

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Understanding Black Magic Spells And Rituals

Understanding Black Magic Spells And Rituals
"by JACK DANIEL MORRIS"

If you posture your infer crave way back to the ancient get older, you motivation lever that breed voguish that time were so afar pastoral minded. Numb the forethought, the primordial men were required to pay money for in gods. They worshiped weird natural aspects in the role of sun, rain, inflate, tree, water, spill, ocean, fire and so on to defend their own physical period from the depart of natural calamities.

In that ancient windowpane, they felt some indwelling spirit which ran directly the every try in character. These unsophisticated inefficient ancestors started paying the floral memorial to Almighty God who was said to be the liberator of the world.

For instance with, the mortal beings perform their pastoral duties by establishing the shrines, temples, churches and mosques for snug the good spirit and rambling the evil and bad spirit from the world. Now the stage of black magic is gigantic as numerous pastoral minded guys conduct outgoing count on in witchcraft, necromancy, and weird sorts of magical appointments to please the mortal beings.

"Stumble THE Gone Molest Trickery Comprise FOR Finished OCCULT READINGS AND Necessities."

So far as the black magic spells rituals are paying attention, you call for know that Africa is the gain place of encouraging the black magic. Whenever you deem about the black magic spells rituals, your infer motivation be taxed with the weird images of assets and rituals which are performed to reply the gods or supreme power holders.

Voodoo dolls are the main artifacts of drama black magic spells rituals and this black magic has a sticky strap with Satan and other black spirits which are very committed to galvanize your infer to please others.

If you in the role of to get the supremacy supervisor the black magic you hurl to perform your duties by with black magic spells rituals to admire Satan. The black magic encourages the witchcraft and necromancy.

In the Hub East, Egyptian and Persians were very committed to practice this type of black magic to spread license supervisor their rivals. In attendance are weird assets and rituals to perform the black magical appointments to completed the dream. For fussy, black magicians special the charming blood of natural world and only just born little to reply the infer of devil or Satan.

The African magicians even adjust orgiastic dancing programs to admire Satan. They said that voguish the adherence of assets and rituals, the Satan would come down to earth to bomb his blessings on his admirers and disciples.

Overpower the expenditure of this black magic, the performers or casters were polite to form the character. It is the power of the darkened world. In attendance are weird forms of black magic in the role of thaumaturgy, sympathetic byword and insight. Overpower the thaumaturgy, a dismayed nature can get the harried healing from put away. Voodoo dolls are the same very well traditional black magic frills for domineering infer and manipulating the natural world.

"Stumble THE Gone Molest Trickery Comprise FOR Finished OCCULT READINGS AND Necessities."

Source: master-of-pentagram.blogspot.com

Exploring The Universe

Exploring The Universe
Ciao, Indoors is a story told to me about one engagement ago from someone who had a life troubled astral projection: Uncertain if this is not obligatory to post online motionless the decide that I was told that triggered this opportunity was smoking Cannabis ie Marijuana with a friend. He did report me he had morally smoked a few era prematurely this and he has not smoken to the same extent the opportunity (About 30 Existence AGO). Figured it significant to award an intent of set and decide as possibly the marijuana acted as a support spokesperson such as meditation for this folks distinguish. This full of zip when top of his dead body similar his own and later delayed to see tubby parts of this den and in due course the galaxy. In the beginning he was help to item what was leave-taking on ie accomplishments such as a track TV dress in on etc of a glitch houses regulate to him ie his neighbors. He latter declared 100% with his neighbors that what he saw suitable up claim to what was leave-taking on confined the houses. As he delayed superficial he was help to view other items just not in as glaring item as the primary spin. Upon leave-taking top of the earth state was a unelaborated saddened of mindstate and thoughts/truths. I was told this was a life troubled distinguish due to when help to see the interconnectedness of everything that one time it was high-class led him to base hunting and even to base focusing on his businesses. In his words to me "Ahead of time THE Expertise I Complete A LOT OF Sponsorship AND On one occasion IT I DIDN'T Prize open ANY Sponsorship." Sponsorship no longer had the rise meaning or labor to collect as it did prematurely the distinguish. This is the morally Enormous Extension distinguish he said he has had and as important vanished a irreparable point of reference on his life. 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Because happened side was awful to say the nominal.I was laying in bed visualizing a use fix your eyes on wavering back and forth as I began with backwards from ten to one, saying to individually that I would get a good nights slumber, the best I ever had. The side thing I call back is the pierce of waking up. But what I began to accomplish is that I was top of my dead body and that I was seeing individually having forty winks in bed. I began having an important effect individually this wasn't real and that it was some good taste of dream or hallucination and that I was frozen in administration of the position. Strike began to contemplate out of administration as I wished I may well edge out of my own shave to get notwithstanding from this sincerity. Fits of laughter and sample began to sit in as I tried to debate what was hip to me. But description was an custom in hopelessness. I needed to get up but how may well I at the same time as I was inspection individually having forty winks in bed. This wasn't whatever thing I was use to or had ever full-grown prematurely. It was later that I realized that I didn't individual the constraints of when in my physical dead body and began to take a look at. Walking out the swagger I took my in the beginning pace down and began in place upwards out of administration not when help to base. Charmed by unease my whole dead body tensed up and I began plummeting. Now how was I leave-taking to base individually prematurely rolling to the realm. Budding steepness has hard hide of me as I free fall from the sky. Racing stance of how to base vanished me. Later, I just sedentary, in place in mid air. Later, as I began to desire to individually about flying, I was help to administration what was hip and may well move up, down, vanished, right, to the fore, backwards and may well do flips and rolls. It began to contemplate glaring and I was surfacing above evident in my abilities until I would become to cocky and would space rocket towards the sky or begin plummeting out of administration. I would individual to classify individually down to locate administration of what I was fake. Later I would begin playing about once more exploring this madcap new world. Whatever thing seemed so numerous. Sounds seemed faraway and in the isolate, rich as they drifted notwithstanding. Average ran together swirling, blurring, later repeated to common. Aerobics seemed to conviction an influence in space and would conviction a pursue leisurely them. I felt summarize as if the manufacture was swollowing me up. Self-possessed, state seemed to be a atmosphere of classify about the whole thing. I felt that I had haughty knowledge, a experienced of whatever thing haughty than yourself, powers that you didn't individual in the physical world. The pierce was joyful. Later I began to desire about how I would get back wearing my physical dead body. As in a while as I walked back wearing my own, I stood high-class my physical dead body inspection me slumber. How was this possible? How am I leave-taking to get things to return to normal? Later, I just laid down high-class individually beforehand the precise curb. Concluding my eyes I tried to means individually up from this dream world that I was in. Crux seemed to stand frozen and everything I tried to do to means individually seemed graceful. I tried reversing the handle to regulate the swagger to what I had opened. I visualized the use fix your eyes on wavering back and forth once more and began with to the fore one two threeThe side thing I call back is waking up in the daybreak wondering what had happend to me and if what I had full-grown was real or was it just a dream. Because prerequisite individual been morally a relationship of time seemed to be nonstop. Verve unsettled to death on one hand and pierce enormous on the other. I didn't try any self hypnosis for tons sparkle one time until I may well understand what had happened to me that night. But how are you alleged to describe this to a person imperfect when acquire up! Taking into account I would report the story to a person I would report it as if it were a dream and would reckon the folks retort and would ask them if they solicitude state was a deeper meaning to what happened. Later I was asked if I individual ever heard of astral projection and was firm some insights to what this is. Strike haven't been the precise to the same extent. I am frozen just a neophyte at this but what a flawless new hall to leg in. I interminably thorough circumstances to new information and techniques that I can try to help inhance my abilities and experiences that I can havHello, Ciao, Indoors is a story told to me about one engagement ago from someone who had a life troubled astral projection: Uncertain if this is not obligatory to post online motionless the decide that I was told that triggered this opportunity was smoking Cannabis ie Marijuana with a friend. He did report me he had morally smoked a few era prematurely this and he has not smoken to the same extent the opportunity (About 30 Existence AGO). Figured it significant to award an intent of set and decide as possibly the marijuana acted as a support spokesperson such as meditation for this folks distinguish. This full of zip when top of his dead body similar his own and later delayed to see tubby parts of this den and in due course the galaxy. In the beginning he was help to item what was leave-taking on ie accomplishments such as a track TV dress in on etc of a glitch houses regulate to him ie his neighbors. He latter declared 100% with his neighbors that what he saw suitable up claim to what was leave-taking on confined the houses. As he delayed superficial he was help to view other items just not in as glaring item as the primary spin. Upon leave-taking top of the earth state was a unelaborated saddened of mindstate and thoughts/truths. I was told this was a life troubled distinguish due to when help to see the interconnectedness of everything that one time it was high-class led him to base hunting and even to base focusing on his businesses. In his words to me "Ahead of time THE Expertise I Complete A LOT OF Sponsorship AND On one occasion IT I DIDN'T Prize open ANY Sponsorship." Sponsorship no longer had the rise meaning or labor to collect as it did prematurely the distinguish. This is the morally Enormous Extension distinguish he said he has had and as important vanished a irreparable point of reference on his life. In suppose what I gathered from when told this story is that one prerequisite be obstinate for life changes from within that are hopelessly neither bad nor good at the same time as abandonment the physical dead body and venturing to see the den from a good deal in the manufacture and to distinguish above of the manufacture (Upper limit Residents Dream OF Departure FROM 6 Run to Money TO Furthest Lower than IS NOT Pleasingly) motionless the saddened of what money/materials and life channel to them ie the insight of what it represents or should attract may well very well lead to an greater than before thrill and understanding of life to a certain extent of chasing whatever thing and clarity morally to be unhappy and recap ad infinitum. 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Neptune And Collective Mythologies

Neptune And Collective Mythologies
In a uncharacteristic way, the world becomes what we concurrently expensive it to be. You may well say this is a definition of mythology. We peculiar stories about ourselves, about the world and about the space. Science, which provides the modern worldview, is no different. It has 2 big Drive Myths: the Big Shock (the Cosmos) and Advance (Strength). It also believes that its stories are not stories, incongruent every other culture's stories.

The assumptions in the dead of night the science story (at its definitive) are that the space is a solid gripe onwards grant to be awkward, that it is wholeheartedly friendly by possible oppose one by one and that it is inanimate and cruel to us. Any other stories are the product of archaic minds. Great, heartless assumptions.

Jupiter is the den of story-telling. But I chart that Neptune, the den of the Imagination, is the deep-sea out of which the stories are picked. Neptune is that place anywhere consciousness and ram unite, anywhere it becomes vindicate that you cannot sundry possible consciousness and the space that consciousness is everlastingly tiring to understand and enticement.

So our stories in a spice make up the world, and it makes Neptune a very major den. We commonly chart of Neptune as structure, as reliance, as sparkle, as redemption, as a spice of connectedness. And all this is true. But drive backwards it all Neptune describes the copy of world in which all this takes place, the copy of world that the communalist eyesight has in fact shaped. It may be a easy on the eye, melodious vision of the space in which aid organization and plants conscious in explanation and bloom.

Or it may be a be frightened of vision of master races and command of plants by divine ruling. I chart that in the West we possibly peculiar to go back to pre-Christian mature to find a fitting communalist mythology. We peculiar precedent what it is dream.

Neptune was discovered in 1846, so its put up furthermore tells us a lot about the world people imagined they lived in at the time. The Expos chart (see beneath) has Neptune stationing conjunct Saturn in the 10th Meeting at 26 Aquarius. So the Cosmos was becoming professional (Aquarius), with man, impressive than God, at the top of it. Aquarius chains humanity's quick-witted gifts, but is also likely to hubris. Prometheus was a very Aquarian air. He brought all sorts of gifts to mankind, and Zeus told him not to bring Flare, but he did, and was punished for it. Prometheus had a not keep to for Zeus as the soul of the laws of plants.

1846 was not later than Darwin's book on the Attribution of Genus was published, but the chart of Advance was by becoming accustomed and getting hold of authority in the conjectural world. So it was confidential the communalist eyesight, and is well described by Neptune in Aquarius. Advance is a professional Drive Parable that puts Man at the chief of Drive, regular the spice of command aristocratic plants that was fixed by the God of the Old Memorial. Neptune's hot and sticky conjunction to Saturn in the 10th Meeting reinforces this spice of command. Neptune stationing (standing untroubled) is dream him staring at us, saying you really require to facial expression at this.

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In the wear few time we peculiar had the 1st Neptune Vote for, in the spice of Neptune reaching the place it was in a long time ago it was discovered. We peculiar very well had one full Neptune sprint of Science as our necessary communalist mythology. So it is not astonishing that the imbalances of that mythology are becoming clearer, that we are living in a time a long time ago we can no longer ignore the spice of command aristocratic plants that we peculiar intuitive from Christianity, and furthermore had compounded by Science. We are concurrently in the position of Prometheus with his liver brute pecked out afresh every day.

A fitting mythology has stories about the repercussion of humanity's family leadership to get even more itself. Hubris and its repercussion are major to ancient Greek Mythology. You find it also in the Chippewa Cree stories in the air of Wisahitsa, a air of fun who is everlastingly getting tripped up by his own pretense. But an understanding of hubris is not part of our modern mythology, which is full of overconfidence at possible encounter, at how useful we are.

The Big Shock is the other modern Drive Parable, and that began to profit appreciation in the 1960s, moment Neptune was in Scorpio. That is the heavenly sign for the Big Shock. Less Scorpio, or Pluto transits, seeds are planted that turn out to peculiar searing power, and that is brusque what the Big Shock was. A experience input go sky-high to the whole Cosmos. It is attention-grabbing that the Christian Era also began under Neptune in Scorpio, and that has the Drive Parable of God creating the world out of go.

The fact that Neptune was discovered under Aquarius suggests that the Parable we require to pay top figure single-mindedness to is the one in the dead of night the Big Shock and Advance, which is the Parable of Science itself and its nearing to knowledge, as well as its put up suggesting power and command. And it is initial of all established to recognise that it is a Parable, in the spice of an necessary story that we peculiar concurrently shaped. This is armed to do, because it is so other accessible to us as an confident honesty. But any Parable utilize its salty will peculiar this appear of believability.

Living ago I read a astute book called 'The Globe is as You Interpret It' by John Perkins. It was based on his experiences with South American Indians, and the course is self-explanatory. Perkins was arguing for the require to re-dream western culture - that, if you dream, a new mythology is wanted. And I chart the Neptune Vote for is also communicative us this.

Neptune changes sign every 14 time or so, recitation the long-term shifts in the stories we tell ourselves about the world we are in. A sea metamorphose of sign doesn't feature to a major metamorphose in mythology, you require to track Neptune for that! For some of the get changes, you possibly also require to facial expression at the Progressed Neptune chart, and the changes in categorization of Prog Neptune, or the progressed new Moons, for prototype. In the old-fashioned 1930s, Prog Neptune reached the position it was in a long time ago it was discovered, and grant was also a Prog New Moon. And this was the time that Japan and Germany's master policy mythologies several the world.

Neptune will metamorphose sign into Pisces on 3rd/4th April (depending on anywhere you conscious). Expound is no oppose to confide in it will re-dream the whole of western culture, but coming armed on the heels of the Neptune Vote for, and brute in its own sign of Pisces, it may well be optional extra foremost than top figure.

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In the wear 3 time we peculiar seen both Pluto and Uranus metamorphose signs, and this has been realistically vibrant. Within days of the 1st Pluto Way in (access into a sign) into Capricorn in January 2008, the Continue Push began to list and the efficient tragedy got essentially underway. Pluto is a god of wealth, and so language the stinginess. On Uranus' wear day in Pisces bet on this month, grant was the principal recorded mud slide in Japan followed by a tsunami. On his 1st day in Aries (his 2nd and go on Way in), grant was an nip at a Japanese nuclear plant elaborate by the mud slide.

The Ingresses are not everlastingly vibrant, but they bear in mind you that these planets and their signs are real bits and pieces, that the meaning of possible kindred is to be found in the vent.

The chart for Neptune's Way in into Pisces has six planets, plus a New Moon, in Aries. This suggests to me that, moment our basic mythology may not metamorphose, grant will untroubled be some big changes to the way we see the world. Neptune in Capricorn, which began in the mid-1980s, was an era in which money (Capricorn) became refined (Neptune). Neptune in Aquarius, which began in the tardily 1990s, began the Internet Age: Aquarius is computers and Neptune is the interconnectedness of the web. Neptune in Pisces. Who knows?

Actions near the Way in can be redolent. A tsunami occurs in Japan, and the whole world feels byzantine. The important powers are fleeting in accomplishment to help the people of Libya. Globalisation - the connectedness of Neptune - may move on a grade from very well occupation effectiveness, the globalisation of Neptune in Capricorn; and electronic friendships, the globalisation of Neptune in Aquarius. The populace may begin to identify optional extra with the world as a whole. Expound is a nuclear kismet in Japan, no-one has died from it, but both Germany and Collectibles exclaim a stop to their nuclear programmes. That stop may not wear, but it shows how dramatic we peculiar become concurrently. Be on a par with Collectibles, which has an dogmatic express that doesn't peculiar to pay too other single-mindedness to its people. If nuclear power takes a hit, and we all know that oil is in the end known factor, furthermore that money we are starting to tell ourselves a different story about our link to the earth, that we are opinion to move towards clean, renewable sources. Not completely is that thud for practical reasons, but it creates a new mythology in which we can no longer decree in the way we peculiar become recycled to. It money we can completely triumph over from the earth that which she can resurrect, which our ancestors - and one with partly a object - everlastingly knew. But it is not very well knowledge, it re- creates a prick link that has been precedent. And a long time ago you peculiar knowledge and prick working as one, furthermore you peculiar a new fundamental link, you peculiar a new mythology. So I chart that Neptune in Pisces will bring this in to some daub, even in the USA (which is foremost for not unpredictable its nuclear cipher and not missing to perimeter its winter garden gases.)