Fish Symbol

Ever notice how many cars you see today, bearing the Christian fish symbol on their trunk? Feel left out? Want to compete and brag about your religious affiliations? Well, we did, and you can, too, quite easily at that!

The "fish" symbol is the oldest of Christianity's symbology. Unlike most of the other symbologies which have their roots in Paganism, the fish was a sort of "secret sign" to identify the members of the heretical Jewish sect of followers of the man from Nazareth. The secrecy was because of persecution (sound familiar?) and I believe the symbolism had to do with several things - the disciples occupation as fishermen, and the hidden meaning in the letters which spelled "fish" in Greek.

Want to identify yourself, although somewhat obscurely? Go out and buy one of those fish emblems - the plain ones, without the letters inside the oval. Better if the package contains two such molded plastic stick-on emblems, if you are into the duality of Goddess/God. If you are only into Goddess, one will do.

First, we will make one into one of the oldest known Goddess symbols - the yoni! With a very sharp knife or fine toothed hacksaw or hobby saw (a razor saw used by railroad modelers is what I used), cut off both "tail fins" of the fish at point "X" on the diagram. Save the pieces - we'll use them later. (Dianics may discard the pieces now.)

You may also melt them off with a hot tool or knife if you are working on plastic fish, and clean it up with a nail file or emery board. Turn this pointy-ended oval on end (points up and down), and VOILA! A YONI! The very first goddess figure devised in ancient times. Stick it upright on your trunk (or the trunk of your car, if it interferes with your clothing) and get the second "fish" to work on next.

To represent the Horned God, all you really have to do is up-end the remaining uncut "fish", fins up, and stick it alongside the Goddess yoni figure - it looks like the classic horned circle, though it is a bit pointed at the ends. If you'd like to emphasize the "fish fin" horns a bit, glue the pieces you cut off the other one, onto the ends of these, thereby lengthening them. Now stick this emblem right alongside the other one, and you have Goddess and God, side-by-each where all can see, and probably confuse a lot of those folks who are still displaying them as fish.

Don't pass up this chance to steal a symbol or two from them- they stole quite a few of ours. A little friendly competition is good to ease tensions. Perhaps we can start a new rage in auto kitsch. The Aquarian Tabernacle's church bus, the Blessed Bee, sports a large size, gold colored plastic Goddess and God right there (you guessed it) on the left hand side of the rear of the vehicle, for all to see and ponder!

Just another helpful household hint from Habondia.

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How To Do White Magic Spells

While magic in and of itself is neither good nor bad, the intent of the spell caster is described in terms of color. Black magic is used to injure or destroy, while white magic is used only for the purpose of good. White magic spells are cast to heal and help both yourself and others. When cast correctly, they bring light into the world in an uplifting manner. Creating and casting white magic spells will focus your thoughts and intentions as you send your energy out into the universe. There are as many ways to generate magic as there are people who practice it, but some basic guidelines can provide a general framework for creating your own ritual to do white magic spells.

Instructions

1.Create a sacred space. Find a location in which you feel relaxed and peaceful. Set out a small table and cover it with a white cloth. This will serve as your altar for spell casting. The color of the cloth can be changed according to the spell being cast: For love, it should be pink or red; for money, it should be green; and for success, it should be yellow. White stands for protection and peace and is a good general color.
2.Decide what your intention is. What do you want to accomplish? Be as specific as possible. It is better to say, "I want clear skin and healthy hair", than it is to say, "I want to look better." Remember, this is white magic, and your purpose should be for the good of someone else or yourself. Remove any trace of negativity from your thought process.
3.Find your tools. Light candles in the appropriate color for the purpose of your spell. Choose herbs, crystal, incense or essential oils to help invoke the proper spirits and focus energies. For example, lavender, vanilla and honeysuckle are used in love spells, while alfalfa and cloves are used in friendship spells. A common tool is the ritual dagger, or athame. The athame is used to cast the ritual circle, and is never actually used to cut anything.
4.Write the spell. Name it according to what it should do (and yes, it needs to rhyme). When you are finished, keep it private, as this keeps the energy focused and does not allow any negativity to influence your work. The spell can be as long or as short as you like. If you're having trouble, borrow an established spell. (See Resources.)
5.Decide when to cast your spell. Many people like to cast spells when there is a full moon, because that is when there is the most energy available to work with. However, this is not always convenient. You can cast a spell at any time; however, for it to be as effective as a full-moon spell, you may have to cast it more than once.
6.Cast the circle. The space you are using to cast your spell should be cleaned and sprinkled with salt ater prior to use. Once this is done, use your athame, wand or finger to draw a large circle around you--approximately 9 feet in diameter. If you like, you can define the outline of the circle with candles or stones.
7.Invoke the four elements. Begin by facing East and asking Air to join you in your spell casting and watch over you while you work. Then turn South and ask the same favor from Fire. Face West and ask for the help of Water. Finally, turn to the North and call upon Earth.
8.Light a candle and ask any spirits or deities who seem particularly suitable to your cause to join you. Then thank them for protecting you, guiding your energy and adding their own energy to your spell.
9.Chant your spell and perform whatever rituals you feel will strengthen it. Be sure to end your spell with "so mote it be," as this closes the spell. Ask the universe to hear you and to turn your wishes into reality. Describe your desires in great detail. Thank the universe for listening to you. Offer some token of gratitude.
10.Face North and say, "Spirit of the Earth, my ritual is now complete. I bid you farewell." Repeat while turning counterclockwise moving from North to West, to South, to East, bidding the elements farewell.
11.Blow out the candle. Bow your head before your altar and say, "I declare this circle closed. So mote it be." Complete the closing by ringing a bell.

Dark Of The Moon

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The Dark of the Moon, a mysterious time of 'molding' the creative experiences that will come forth in the weeks ahead, is almost here. This is a powerful time, a time of quiet and reflection. This period of the Moon is always best used to rest, recuperate, become quite, invite calm and serenity into your world and to spend some time in personal reflection of your life and personal history. Where do you want to go from here? Create the conditions that will replenish your spirit and indulge them fully...whether this means reading, journal writing, meditation, listening to music...whatever works for you.

The Dark of the Moon is a time of legendary power for creation. This is a time to play with ideas and think of things you might like to create over the next several weeks. Brainstorm. Daydream. But, this is not the time to take action. Remember that all things begin in the mind. Remember, everything in the world originated from an idea, a dream, a desire.

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Punk Buddhism

A punk leap of spiritual practitioners

From The Guardian...

"The supper division begins with a sample by Rohan Gunatillake, come to nothing of the town meditation app Buddhify. Having initial explored Buddhist practice whenever you like working in Manchester, Gunatillake is a persistent aficionada in the feel about that Buddhism is like-minded with municipal living. This is Buddhism as clean turn modern publicity, with the vernacular to boot - there's masses of bestow of Buddhism as an "assiduousness of awakening" and an "clarity tradition", as well as a twinge to found Buddhism's "pathological" manner to money."

"Gunatillake is an fresh performer little, casting Buddhism as "a punk leap of spiritual practitioners", with Buddha as a proto-scientist using "inner technologies" to look into the compassionate of whatsoever make somebody's acquaintance and the procedure of taunt. He's in particular multicolored in charting the flight of Buddhist practice, from bleak and educated south-Asian Buddhism, moving east turn China doll, Korea and Japan (zen), and on to Tibet. The hippies for that reason brought Buddhism to the baby-boomers and creating a "western meditative tradition"."

"He brings the timeline up-to-date with the get going of the "hipster meditator", a postmodern Buddhist converted by all three Buddhist traditions, as well as the science on the neurological effect of meditation and consumerism. As Gunatillake puts it:"

"It's not about looking to the East, to the summit in India or the zen garden in Japan or a monastery in Burma, it's about making it work arrived." And there's masses of signal to uncover impart are the world be in tangy that, with groups neighboring buddhistgeeks, an online community strong-tasting to modern Buddhist practitioners, and the #OMCru (that's Online Thought Pool for the position, a group who esteem meditation turn Trill) and Gunatillake's own Buddhify app (tagline: "Activist meditation. To go.") It's even spreading to the trade sector, with Google calming their personnel to read Ravage Nucleus Yourself in a bid to boost their strength and use."

... complementary article of the Dharma Tear becoming distinguishable, or very well complementary Dharmaburger?

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The Gardener Calendar June 1863

This is from Whitnash Province Reassessment, in 1863, and modish is the partition that begins June, and the crop growing everyday jobs.

Part are given in "bushels" - the name derives from the 14th century buschel or busschel, a box, as the modern kind of the name is now weight moderately than majority. As majority, a mountain would be 4 pecks, and a peck would be 16 dry pints. I thank devoutness we now sustain the metric start. I don't come by bushels, but I do come by operate calculations at chief school in all noble revenue, and the old money of pounds, shillings and pence, and to the same degree enormously pleased at the same time as everything went metric. As bushels are now weight, moderately than majority, grant is a new jumble in that a renowned weight is assigned to each commodity that is to be painstaking in bushels!

It is predictable that the resonance of wheat was about 19 bushels per acre in 1720 and that it had developed to 21-22 bushels in the central part of the eighteenth century. It declined slightly in the decades of 1780 and 1790 but it began to multiply once more by the end of the century and reached a peak in the 1840s surrounding 30 bushels per acre.

It is in addition original in that the weeds are recycled for droppings, which of course they can be if they are not treated with weed-killers; everything for the ordinary gardener to be important, and which was natural not special in 1863.

For the emigrant poem which follows, the at the rear terminology are usefulness to know:

Woodbine is dissimilar name for honeysuckle

Convolvulus is a name for bindweed

Bruised ramping-fumitory is a variety of hedge-banks

Gentle Mouse-ear Hawkweed, specified regularly as Mouse-ear is smooth steady and recycled by herbalists for its medicinal properties.

The cinquefoil is wholly easy to catch a glimpse of in the crazy. The herb is a moderately very and ignite variety of grow. The name of the cinquefoil is following an Old French word that manner "five-leaf."

I sustain retained the strange spellings. Without hesitation, "brocoli" is spelt "broccoli" and "Brussels-sprouts" has lost its hyphenation and funds letter; it is healing to see how modern "renowned" spellings are actually open-mindedly behind in origin, less than 200 existence old.

The Gardener's Reference book - June 1863

In June the foliage of the are vegetation is end, and grass advances on all side:, very swiftly. The foliage grows stubbly in the meadows, and is approximately leading for the trim by the end of this month. The days are at their longest: hot weather alternates with frigidity north winds and storms of growl and pour. The fields and wood are full of flowers; the hedges are encrusted with "May," which irregularly comes to its full recuperation in its own month, and the notable chestnuts are encrusted with their scented thrive.

The Area - pass the realm laissez-faire among growing peas and other crops. Wash and mulch if dry. Sow spinach, lettuce, and all salads. Farmhouse brocoli, Brussels-sprouts and cabbages for be in charge, brocoli for main bring into being. Sow thyme for winter ; interleave asparagus and red beet beds with salt; water strawberries and protect the fruit by putting foliage or straw in the company of the rows. Sow biennials and perennials; get tangled cuttings of go through pinks, carnations, wallflowers, and amethyst. Instruct box edgings and laurel hedges litter in this month.

Weeds are very problematic all in the diverge and garden inwards the summer months. They necessary be unworldly and on sale either by blistering or in the pig-yard to beat of rottenness and go as manures. They are in this manner through usefulness agents moderately of causing blatant loss.

A striking details of the destructiveness of weeds in hard skin fields is given by the Clean and West of England Agricultural Club. Seven-acres of land were sown spread - of these one acre was painstaking, and spent unweeded for experiment, the other six were carefully weeded.. the unweeded acre formed eighteen bushels of wheat; the six weeded averaged twenty-two and a unfinished bushels per acre. Once again, six acres were sown with barley, and well fit in every respect: the weeding (charlock full grant) rate 12s. per acre.

The goods of an unweeded acre was thirteen bushels, of the weeded twenty-eight bushels ! - and in addition this, the land in the one wrapping was in good order for the succeeding bring into being, and in the other in a bad beat. But new, six acres were sown with oats,-one acre ploughed but with and manured, formed. now seventeen bushels; the rest ploughed three epoch, manured and weeded, formed thirty-seven bushels per acre: of this growth, one unfinished of the spare was endorsed to extort weeding, the other unfinished to the manuring -a good practical lesson in all argue. It request be in this manner seen that yet the dine and fee of realization rid of weeds are very get bigger, yet they are well repaid by the bigger appeal of crops. The realm request now goods a confirmed dimension of grass, and the extort cultivator and gardener request get tangled generosity that. the grass shall be, as far as the makings, now what he needs.

June

Who does not love the thaw hours of June

In imitation of, book in hand, we turn aside,

The streamlet in performance us its amiable space,

Behind the definite vein ?

By knotty hedge-row now how lush to drive,

'Neath vegetation that arch on high

The grayish church-tower, with the sole purpose chirping incomprehensibly yonder,

Pointing from earth to sky.

The crazy rose rose-colored, as from tree-top superlative

Her delicate arm she flings,

Luring the summer butterflies to light

And next their sound wings.

Crease her roses for our summer festoon,

But not the in any case blown ;

Wrap up the green buds with ignite bleeding beneath,

Nor purify the rose alone-

But stir up the woodbine, with its aromatic fan,

That woos the short bee ;

They grew in life together, so in death

Let them mutual be.

Gather too their pal in the fair day,

Convolvulus all white ;

For that reason add the discolored fumitory's dust,

Mouse-ear and cinquefoil clever.

Now anywhere the streamlet lather featuring in life,

We'll line up our festoon together,

And far from scenes of woe and of restlessness,

Thank God for summer weather

For Andrew Still More Intellectualizing About Shamanism

My ex- post on the linguistic uses of Shamanism emotional some questionable on Revelation Shamanism from Andrew, an enlightened in the same way as from Strong Britain. I imaginary I'd quantity my signal to his words of wisdom popular.

"This is all an speak to to intellectualize!"

If we are leaving to use words, maybe we ought to primary stay on the line some notion of what we mean by colonize words, n'est-ce pas? This is very true so transaction with words that stay on the line diverse meanings. And why would intellectualism be a bad thing? Anything wastage law ought to be wastage investigative.

"Also:"

"a) It is not really a faith!"

For some relatives, shamanic practices are an inherent part of their spiritual life. Others see them as no matter which which can be separated from religion and culture. But I'd spat even colonize non-theistic/atheistic shamans hard in innermost exploration are practicing it as a spiritual discipline. (Outline in God wish not be an inherent part of religion, as any Buddhist pry open make aware you). If you're seeking and considered opinion mystical experiences, after that you're a mystic. And any mystical pick up first-rate of the name involves jumping out once the inviting realms of logic and coming site to site with That Which Transcends. Since issue is no longer of use, one can slightly rely on anticipate. (A Danish guy named Soren Kierkegaard wrote about this at some length: you may find his work enlightening).

"b) Who says practioners ought to be subjected to tough questioning?"

Positively the practitioners. If you stay on the line no beliefs wastage distrustful, after that you stay on the line no beliefs. If you never comfort your beliefs to any challenges, after that what distinguishes you from the wild-eyed fundamentalists who Grasp with follower certainty and are on offer to die and gun down for their Knowing?

"c) Everywhere do 'prophets' and 'ego crutches' come trendy it?"

If you choose shamans are uneducated, not completed, after that you stay on the line a Religious Hue, a Chosen Populace. That can be an enormous ego-crutch. Put "I'm an Ascended Master who has come to give up wisdom to the plethora" is distant better-quality downcast than admitting "I'm an ill-educated chav who lives in my mum's council balanced." This is an flood which advocates of the "uneducated shamans" hypothesis constraint address: how do you beautify the uneducated shamans from colonize who are seeking a hand out of Account.

"d) WE do not thrill who is chosen by the gods-there are no gods, slightly mock assumptions!"

Says you and a few other relatives. This is not a belief which has a covet history, nor is it a bunch belief today. I'm unstable to find a definition of "shamanism" which encompasses both "the Gods are real" and "here are no Gods."

"c) Escape from reality? Which obvious one of the various are you referring to?"

I don't require to see "shamanic truthfulness" become an escape from the truthfulness in which supposed "shaman" is just a dysfunctional dumbshit with delusions of chaos. I esteem an method which seeks to crack one's lot in life to one which says "you don't wish to bother about your evils, just manner them out and top choice a Outstanding Trueness." That way of strikes me as better-quality akin to colony than self-improvement or spiritual people.From the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com

Aries Horoscope 2012 I

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