Moon And Astrological Sign Combinations

What sign the moon is in at the time you work magick can have a great impact on the outcome. Work magick when the moon is in a complimentary sign and you'll get a nice boost.

Moon in... Correspondence

Aires: Beginning of things, matters of self and personality

Taurus: Financial matters of a personal nature, vehicles, benefits, possessions

Gemini: Relatives, communication, studies, writing, street smarts

Cancer: Home environment, mothers, end of life, family

Leo: Pleasures, hobbies, love affairs, entertainment, sports, pets

Virgo: Working environment, health, extended service

Libra: Marriage, partnership, legal matters, small animals

Scorpio: Death, sex, taxes, inheritance, transformation

Sagittarius: Religion, metaphysics, long-distance travel, in-laws, higher learning

Capricorn: Business, cancer, reputation, father, honors

Aquarius: Friendship, acquaintances, homes and dreams, groups and organizations

Pisces: Inner development, karma, restrictions, secrets revealed

Reference: esoteric-soup.blogspot.com

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Sixth Century Fresco Of St Paul Discovered In Roman Catacomb

"A 1,400-year-old fresco of St Paul has been discovered in an ancient Roman catacomb."

Nick Pisa

June 29, 2011

The Telegraph

The fresco was found during restoration work at the Catacombs of San Gennaro (Saint Januarius) in the southern port city of Naples by experts from the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Art.

The announcement was made on the feast day of St Peter and Paul which is traditionally a bank holiday in Rome and details of the discovery were disclosed in the Vatican's official newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano".

A photograph released by the Vatican shows the apostle, famous for his conversion to Christianity from Judaism, with a long neck, a slightly pink complexion, thinning hair, a beard and big eyes that give his face a "spiritual air."

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who is Pope Benedict's Culture Minister, wrote in L'Osservatore Romano:"The image of St Paul has an intense expression, philosophical and its discovery enriches our imager of one of the principal apostles."

The figure is dressed in white and beige robes and with the letter 'I' on the hem, which may stand for 'Iesus' (Latin for Jesus) and it shows him approaching a dead person.

Details on the right hand side of the fresco have crumbled away but nevertheless it still remains a striking image which Cardinal Ravasi described as "sensational."

Father Antonio Loffredo, director of the catacombs in Naples, said: "We hope that many locals and tourists will come and look at this fresco which has been wonderfully restored."

Last year another fresco of St Paul was found in another Catacomb in Rome and that was dated to the 4th century AD and is believed to be the oldest image of him in existence.

St Paul was a Roman Jew, born in Tarsus in modern-day Turkey, who started out persecuting Christians but later became one of the greatest influences in the Church.

He did not know Jesus in life but converted to Christianity after seeing a shining light on the road to Damascus and spent much of his life travelling and preaching.

He was executed for his beliefs around AD65 and is thought to have been beheaded, rather than crucified, because he was a Roman citizen.

Source: witchnest.blogspot.com

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History In The Making

First published as Of Myths and Men in the Jan./Feb. 2007 issue Of Touchstone, A Journal of Mere Christianity.

By Robert Hart

An archeological find from the future is rare. I don't know how, but one day pages 343 and 344 of a book called "The Washington Myth", apparently written in the fortieth century, appeared on my desk. The middle of the first page is damaged and we can only read the top and bottom and a footnote. The second page is intact and contains a footnote also, of which we do not have the ending, as it appears to have been continued on the next page.

THE DEITY WASHINGTON

We begin with excerpt one from the first page, in the middle of a sentence:

"theory, that George Washington was not regarded as an actual deity by the ancient Americans, but only as their patriarch, is, we admit, plausible at first glance. Perhaps his ability to sprout wooden teeth, mentioned in many but not all ancient sources, developed from a story that originally contained no supernatural element: however, this theory is thinly supported, and must be weighed against the almost certain consensus that the story was, from the first, a tale about Washington's divine or magical powers.

"The assertion that ancient Americans were Monotheists and would not be inclined to worship a god like Washington overlooks the presence of Chinese immigrants, who, building the massive railroads in the Nineteenth Century which connected the whole country, would have been the most important cultural influence in the spread of the American nation. They would have brought ancestor worship into the American experience, transforming George Washington's patriarchal status into divinity."16

The second excerpt from page 345 begins about halfway down the page:

"and so it is clear that a multi ethnic nation, needing to have a psychological and spiritual oneness, first created the myth of a common ancestor, as the Romans had believed in Romulus and Remas. The creation of George Washington, no doubt a synthesis of various legends (the most important of which we shall mention), met a great need for a national patriarch for a new nation with no natural source of common identity. Later, the influence of the dominant oriental culture led to the worship of this ancestor, as father of the country.

"Although we do not doubt that George Washington was real as a felt force for unity and a sense of national identity - a reality possessing great spiritual power - it is nonetheless certain, because it is agreed upon by scholars", "that George Washington did not actually exist, nor did he "need "to exist, as a real man in history."

The footnote reads:

"16 Regarding the subject of Washington as a real patriarch to the mind of the ancient Americans, and not a merely symbolic one, much extensive research by the Austrian scholar, Barbara Teehrignen (in "Das Wahramericanischergeschictegrossbuch", published in 3907") "reveals an obelisk to Washington's honor in the Capital city named for him. The meaning of the obelisk is clear, as the male organ was so revered that whole communities called themselves 'Penal colonies,' no doubt to invoke the blessing of fertility. The symbolic connection with the idea of Washington as 'the father of our country' is clear."

THE REAL GEORGE

On to the next page:

"In order to find the root of the George Washington myth, we need to look across the ocean, from America to England, the ancestral home of the colonists of the first 13 states. There we see that the king against whom they rebelled was named George. It helps to be aware of an old English phrase, 'The Real George.' It refers, ultimately, to the legendary Saint George who slew a dragon.

"Consider first the dragon, a word that was used in an altered form by the British military when fighting against the American rebels, "Dragoon". (Those soldiers would later be called by Americans "the Goons," or "the Goon squad," first used by a man now known to have been a real historical figure, a Naval hero named Popeye. He was also noted for the creation of some stimulant containing spinach and olive oil).

"The Dragoons, being defeated by the American army and various state militias, must have come to symbolize the country over which the Americans triumphed, as 'the Real George' symbolized America. Thus the idea that their George, that is the Real George, slew the dragon began as a slang expression that came to be taken literally as the memory of the real events was lost.

"Washington is a name that comes also, no doubt, from the idea of the Real George, the symbol of the American fighters, washing or cleansing the land of the British enemy. When the Capital city was later built, the use of "ton" - commonly used in England and America as a short version of "town" - was added to the word, making it Washing Town, or Washington. The original 'washing' was owed to this Real George (as opposed to the less than real George of England) who slew the Dragoons or the dragon, cleansing the land of oppression and enmity. So went the myth.

"In the Washington Studies Seminar, that still meets regularly, some of my colleagues have objected the many records about the President of the Constitutional Convention, 'first President,' and General all rolled into one, purport to be eye witness accounts. Here we must consider that these have become, for purposes of our consideration, hear-say evidence.

"That is, they are set forth as eye-witness accounts, but by the time they have been transmitted to us (which is the key point for the professional scholar of American Mythology) they become mere hear-say. The earliest copies we have date from several decades after the events described, other than some documents whose authenticity cannot be verified, but which so exactly express the Washington myth as we have come to understand it, that we are safe in treating them as examples of the ideological development of a culturally necessary mythology. As such, their evidentiary value is greatly diminished.

"The problem also remains of tracing the origins that led to the myth of George Washington, since scholars have come to believe that what we really have is four separate traditions that later came together as one.17 The four traditions are the agricultural, the military, and the two political traditions. In these various traditions George Washington is a Plantation owner in Northern Virginia, the Army General, the President of the Constitutional Convention, and the President of the United States.

"Although it is possible (though highly unlikely) that one man, in his lifetime, may have fulfilled all of these roles, it seems much more plausible that a combination of legends about different heroes in ancient America were combined over a long period of time in the already dominant myth of George Washington."

EMBARRASSING TEXTS

Finally the incomplete footnote from the second page:

"17. The military version of the myth is further complicated by recent discoveries of lost texts. In these George Washington appears as an officer fighting under British command instead of fighting against the British. In this version the entire war is completely different, apparently one of defense against an invading coalition from France and India. Could it be that these texts were seen as an embarrassment and challenge to American orthodoxy? If so, it is small wonder that they were concealed deliberately rather than allowing the risk"

That is all that we have from this future work. I was forced to rethink everything I had ever learned about American History.

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