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"When things look as thought they are falling apart,"consider that they may be doing so"to make room for the right things to come together."
"- Jasmeine Moonsong"
Merry Meet and Good Morning :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. Today is Thursday, March 7, 2013.
Thursdays are ruled by Jupiter, the planet that signifies expansion and growth. Thursdays are a very strong day to work on issues of expansion, money, prosperity and generosity. Luck is in your favor on this day. If you need to work spells for prosperity, money, luck, or business, today is the day. It's also a good day for spells that need to influence important people, laws or courts. If you are working with stones today choose to wear sapphire, cat's eye, or carnelian, for protection. Use tin for talismans.
Tonight's Moon is the Waning Moon, Fourth Quarter in Capricorn. The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work except magick designed to banish harmful energies. The Waning Moon represents the Goddess in her Crone aspect. It's a time to celebrate the wisdom gained through life. The Moon in Capricorn develops strong structure. It's a good time to set boundaries and rules. The Moon moves into Aquarius at 10:01 p.m. The Moon in Aquarius is a rebellious energy. It's time to break habits and make abrupt changes. Personal freedom and individuality is the focus. The magickal color of the day is Turquoise, and the incense of the day is Carnation. Have an amazingly magickal day!
Love and Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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International Space Station by SW/LITS.
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SPACE STATION CREW EXCITED FOR 1ST PRIVATE SPACESHIP VISIT
The private spaceflight company SpaceX plans to launch its unmanned Dragon capsule to orbit Feb. 7 atop the firm's Falcon 9 booster from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida. The capsule will carry a load of food, clothing and other supplies for the six-man crew of the space station.
"We're excited about that," NASA astronaut Don Pettit told SPACE.com in an interview Wednesday (Jan. 4) from the station. "Anytime you have a visiting vehicle coming by, that's an exciting day."
Dragon's flight is partially funded by NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, which aims to stimulate the development of private spacecraft to carry cargo to the station now that NASA's space shuttle fleet is retired. [Gallery: Dragon, SpaceX's Private Spacecraft]
The Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX is the first of a number of companies vying to fly test flights to the International Space Station. NASA has also awarded funding to the Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., which is developing the Cygnus spacecraft to fly on its Taurus 2 rocket.
Dragon is due to make an automated rendezvous with the International Space Station at about 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the Earth. Once it approaches within a few meters of the laboratory, astronauts inside will use the station's robotic arm to grab hold of the capsule and attach it to the outpost.
"It's going to be packed with all kinds of supplies for us, and it's sort of the first of many wagon trains coming up here to bring us supplies," Pettit said.
After being docked for about a week, Dragon will depart the space station, carrying cargo back down to Earth, where the capsule will be retrieved after landing in the Pacific Ocean.
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Photo taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) shows high sunlight reflecting off the moon's Aristarchus crater.
In November 2011, the space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft passed over the moon's Aristarchus crater, which spans 25 miles (40 km) and sinks more than 2 miles (3.5 km) deep. Photos and video of the crater from LRO's sweep were released Dec. 25.
The huge and highly reflective Aristarchus is easily visible with the naked eye. But the details shown in the new photos are a special treat from an extremely low flyover by LRO.
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NASA QUESTIONS ASTRONAUT'S RIGHT TO SELL APOLLO 13 MEMORABILIA
FOXNEWS- NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
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LITS NOTES: My personal opinion is that if NASA wanted such documents back, they should have asked for them years ago. Knowing what astronauts were paid back then, I think Lovell deserves to do with the list as he sees fit.
Would I like to see the list donated to the space museum? Sure but "possession is nine tenths of the law "and NASA is pushing that one tenth for all "it's worth"... -SW
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This is a Charm for protection from enemies; it is a spell to be kept in your home. The charms is said to work to dispel enemy problems and to silence them if they are trying to create any kind of trouble for you; including black magic, blackmail or defamation.
This Charm has to be prepared on any Thursday by engraving it on a piece of thick copper. Then it has to be worshiped with offerings of white flowers. Then it has to be cleaned with a white colored cloth and hung on the wall of your house, facing the main door. The charm has to be always kept clean by wiping it with a white colored cloth.
Charm for protection from enemies
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PSYCHIC READINGS: A DECADE OUT WITH SARA
Because McMoneagle was known as a good problem solver, he was put in a room with several other army members who were being tested for psychic abilities. Of the 1,200 tested, only six were considered remote viewers, McMoneagle being one of them. In this test, McMoneagle was given six opaque envelopes, each of which had a targeta person or placeinside. McMoneagle had no information about what the target was, but was asked to provide information of the target to the officers. On his first try, he got five out of six targets correct, he said.
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More people nowadays are looking to witchcraft spells to bring some order and peace into their lives. It is the power within yourself that acts as the intermediate in making a witchcraft spell really work for you. If you feel you want to use some of this inner mind power to bring a change into your life, then this article will help you.
You can do great, sometimes unbelievable things by casting spells. Spells are dynamic, they are enchanting, and if used correctly as part of a larger system, life-changing. So then, what is the first thing to know when you're learning to cast a spell? It's easy - you just need a spell and be ready to give it a good try!
Here is what you need to be looking for when picking the right spell that will work for you. If you stick to these guidelines your spell casting will improve considerably, you will notice it.
First, if you are just a beginner and starting out, go for the simpler ones. This is a skill like any other and you cannot expect to be a master any time soon. Go for the basics. Of course, the spell that you try must be exciting for you, otherwise it won't have that strong of an effect. But don't ever go beyond your capabilities as you will find out that you get no results, and that can be massively disappointing.
So I recommend you stick to the basics at first.
Second, do not expect fast results from only performing a spell once. Be ready to go back to the drawing board (so to speak) and give it another go. Perform your spell again and again whenever necessary, so you can start to feel its power growing within your subconscious and in your heart.
The very common misunderstanding is that the spell by itself for some reason has the power, but this is not so. The power does not come from the elements, this is impossible. The power comes from within you, from deep in your soul. The spell is intended to bring about change within yourself and that's where the leverage is.
So, to increase this internal power, you need to be working on growing it. And performing spells routinely will help you do just that. If you really begin to understand how a spell works and you begin to build a connection with in, tune into it, then you will start to see the spell work and give you results. But nothing won't happen before you have made the spell a part of yourself.
And last but not least, if you find that connecting with a spell really isn't working out much, then find a personal item which has sentimental value to you and keep it close to you. This helps you to tune in to the powers within you. It's especially helpful if this object generates emotions within you - that's what sets things in motion.
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Gods people need to think from Cause to Effect
" There are periods which are turning points in the history of nations and of the church. In the providence of God, when these different crises arrive, the light for that time is given. If it is... received, there is spiritual progress; if it is rejected, spiritual declension and shipwreck follow".
E.G White {{Bible Echo, August 26, 1895 par. 11}
The Last Crisis: "We are living in the time of the end. The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live are solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth. Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude.
The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.
The condition of things in the world shows that troublous times are right upon us.
{Testimonies to the church vol 9 page11}
911 September 11th what does it mean.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF A CAT IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATIONCUSTOMS TRADITIONS AND RITUALSTHE STORY OF THE MYSTICAL CATFood for Thought ByVIKRAM KARVE
The military is steeped in tradition.
There are many customs, traditions and rituals.
I remember, there was a custom in the army, in the artillery, where they do not light more than two cigarettes with a single matchstick.
In the navy, we do not clink glasses while drinking or making a toast.
If we asked the reason for a certain custom which we found meaningless, our seniors would admonish us: "This is the Naval Tradition"
Even in our day to day life, in the name of tradition, we unquestioningly follow traditions and customs and perform all types of religious, social and superstitious rituals without understanding the spirit behind the ritual. A RITUAL is an action performed purely for SYMBOLIC VALUE. In many cases there is no logic or rational explanation for the ritual. This apocryphal story from ancient wisdom " THE MYSTICAL CAT " illustrates how customs, traditions and rituals begin.
The story also tells you how due to repeated repetition over the years these customs and rituals are gradually established and become a part of culture.
And then, once established, customs, traditions and rituals are blindly followed for years and years, despite the fact that, in most cases, these customs and traditions have lost their significance and the rituals have outlived their utility and meaning. THE MYSTICAL CAT"An Ancient Wisdom Teaching Story"ByVIKRAM KARVE
A seeker joined a monastery to learn meditation and the art of living.
Every evening all students and disciples assembled in the large meditation hall for a discourse by the Spiritual Guru followed by group meditation.
Just before the meditation session commenced the disciples would catch a cat, tie it up and place the tied up cat on the lap of the Spiritual Guru.
The Guru would then start caressing the cat and begin the discourse and meditation session.
After the meditation session was over, the cat would be untied and set free.
This was the established daily ritual.
The Guru would start the meditation session only after the tied up cat was placed on his lap and he was extremely particular about this.
Once when the cat could not be found, the Guru refused to start the meditation session and demanded that the cat be placed on his lap.
So the meditation session was delayed and all the seekers launched a desperate hunt for the cat.
The searched for hours till they found the cat.
The cat was duly tied up and placed on the Guru's lap and only then did he start his discourse-cum-meditation session.
The seeker was quite perplexed at the mystery of the tied up cat. He could not understand the significance of this ritual and how it was connected to meditation.
The seeker wondered: "WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TIED UP CAT PLACED ON THE GURU'S LAP AND WHAT IS ITS CORRELATION WITH MEDITATION?"
He asked around but no one knew the answer till someone told him to ask a wise old man who lived in a cave up the hills.
So our curious seeker trudged up the hills to meet the wise old man and ask him the significance of this time-honoured ritual.
"IT IS LIKE THIS," the wise old man said:
"ONE EVENING, MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN THE THEN SPIRITUAL GURU AND HIS DISCIPLES BEGAN THEIR EVENING MEDITATION, A CAT THAT LIVED IN THE MONASTERY MADE SO MUCH NOISE THAT IT DISTRACTED THEM AND DISTURBED THEIR MEDITATION PRACTICE.
SO THE GURU ORDERED THAT THE CAT BE TIED UP DURING THE EVENING DISCOURSE-CUM-MEDITATION PRACTICE.
THIS PRACTICE OF TYING UP THE CAT BEFORE MEDITATION PRACTICE CONTINUED, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN AFTER THE TEACHER DIED, THE NEXT GURU CONTINUED THIS TRADITION AND A CAT CONTINUED TO BE TIED UP DURING THE MEDITATION SESSION.
WHEN THE CAT DIED, ANOTHER CAT WAS BROUGHT TO THE MONASTERY TO BE TIED UP DURING THE EVENING MEDITATION SESSION.
AND WHEN THAT CAT DIED TOO, THEY BROUGHT ANOTHER CAT TO BE TIED UP DURING MEDITATION PRACTICE, AND THEN AS CATS KEPT DYING, THEY KEPT REPLACING THE DEAD CATS WITH NEW CATS, AND THE PRACTICE OF TYING UP A CAT DURING MEDITATION CONTINUED.
WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME THIS HAS BECOME SUCH AN ESTABLISHED RITUAL THAT NOW NO ONE CAN DARE TO QUESTION IT. SO IT HAS BECOME A CUSTOM, TRADITION AND ESTABLISHED RITUAL TO TIE UP A CAT DURING THE MEDITATION SESSION."
Years later, the ritual of tying up the cat during the meditation session continued and continued.
Our seeker, who by then had become the Spiritual Guru, wrote a scholarly treatise about the significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.
I wonder why we accept customs and traditions without understanding their significance?
Just like a blind man lead by others, why do we blindly follow rituals without examining the meaning, logic and significance of that ritual using our own intelligence and judgement?
Why do we follow customs traditions and rituals that are obsolete and have lost their significance and outlived their utility?
If you see any ritual, custom or tradition being blindly followed and for which there seems to be no rational or logical explanation, remember this story of the Mystical Cat, and stop blindly following superstition which has become meaningless in the modern world of today.
Dear Reader - do you follow any rituals which are meaningless in the modern world of today?
VIKRAM KARVE
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I think Hnaef may have missed the point on this one.
I'm sure that Mouse is right, and the link of Easter to the alleged goddess Eostre is a pile of foetid dingo's kidneys. Frankly, it's just as likely that it was named after Estragon from "Waiting for Godot". This is the way that back-creation of religious explanations tends to work. Let me give you an example. And remember this is just a bit of fun - no Celts were decapitated in the production of this blog post.
There is a real tradition that people roll oranges (or at least did when I was young) down Dunstable Downs on Good Friday. A steepish, concave slope called Pascombe Pit, to be precise, that haven for young courting Dunstablians.
People notice that Pasc- as a prefix is a bit like Pasch-. So there you go, there's the rock-solid religious connection (and it" is" combe-shaped, since you mention it). And the oranges are clearly the stone that was rolled away from the Tomb.
Except, that's clearly just a Christianisation of a pagan ritual. But of course, oranges are - as the name suggest - orange. So clearly they represent the sun. Pascombe Pit orange-rolling was therefore a place where you rolled oranges downhill to represent the sun er... getting stronger in the summer. And Dunstable Downs faces West, and that's the way the sun sets. And so the oranges are rightly going "down" in a westerly direction. It's all coming together.
Until you remember that the orange hasn't been in these isles "that long "and was probably unknown in prehistory. So any claims of a long tradition are in a bit of a state.
But then you remember that there used to be a gallows on top of Dunstable Downs. And there are Five Knolls (actually, there's "seven" barrows, but that's another story) and Elizabeth Pratt was arrested on the Five Knolls and charged with witchcraft and died in Bedford Jail (at the same time that John Bunyan was in there, although there's no evidence she influenced "Pilgrim's Progress"). So there's a death link, and there's a witchcraft link.
So clearly in the old days they didn't used to roll oranges down Pascombe Pit. No, they rolled the "heads" down. After all, to Celts the head was the source of the soul, and heads would roll quite nicely. So the Celts would decapitate their victims at the top of the hill - probably criminals, because let's face it those Celts were basically nice, decent types. Probably be keen on a game of cricket if they were around these days. Probably better at cricket than England, at any rate. So they'd execute their criminals, unless there was a real criminal shortage. Then they'd roll the heads down the hill, as a sacrifice to the setting Sun. Goodness knows what they did with the rest of their victims, unless there was a kebab van up at the picnic site in ancient times.
And Vitamin C, like religion, is good for the soul. Which is why in more modern times they used oranges. Although last time I heard, even using oranges was banned for Health 'n' Safety reasons, so goodness knows what Central Beds Council would make of using heads. Unless you could persuade them it was a genuinely neo-pagan ritual, in which case they might give you a grant.
And that's how you get from an innocent Eastertide tradition to a story of decapitation and sun-worship. I'm sure we all feel better for that.
And, if nothing else, I'm getting a worried feeling about why that orange I rolled down Pascombe Pit when I was a child felt so "heavy".
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Dunstable Downs image from Wikimedia Commons, original uploader Infors. Author Thomas Ormston.
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MEANING: The most commonly used symbol connected to the number 9 used by the Baha'i is the nine-pointed star. In this variation the nine pointed star polygon is created using one continuous line. By connecting the lines to the second vertex, the shape becomes more open. There is no particular design of the nine-pointed star that is used more often than others.
The nine-pointed star is generally used by Baha'is as a symbol of their Faith. Nine, as the highest single-digit number, symbolizes completeness. Since the Baha'i Faith claims to be the fulfillment of the expectations of all prior religions, this symbol is used in many variations in the (nine-sided) Baha'i temples.
The Baha'i Faith is a monotheistic religion that emerged in the nineteenth century. It puts forward that many major religions in the world today are part of a progressive revelation from God, and it considers such diverse figures as Krishna, Zoroaster, Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammad to be divine messengers sent by God to guide the world's spiritual development. Bah'u'llh, the latest of these Messengers, brought new spiritual and social teachings for our time. His essential message is of unity. He taught the oneness of God, the oneness of the human family, and the oneness of religion.
Baha'is emphasize unity among all of mankind and strive for a united world society. In working toward this goal, the Baha'is vigorously engage in social programs and education that promote racial and gender equality, religious tolerance, environmental responsibility, and improved economies for those in need.
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Back in the day, Dungeons and Dragons was no stranger to controversy. Besides attracting criticism for it's portrayal of gods, demons and devils, and attendant accusations of encouraging devil worship, there was ongoing concern about the depiction of naked bodies, predominantly those of women.
Those expressions of concern finally precipitated editorial changes at Dragon Magazine, in reaction to angry letters over what was perhaps the best cover of Dragon Magazine ever, that of Issue 114, published in October 1986.
The contents of Issue 114 were in themselves controversial, as Dragon Magazine once again published a revised Witch class.
However, it was David Martin's depiction of a naked Witch on the front cover of Dragon that resulted in a new artwork policy. That new policy was announced in Issue 117, following several months of argument and counter-argument between those who supported the depiction of nakedness in Dungeons and Dragons art and those who opposed it.
The early versions of Dungeons and Dragons were billed as a game for adults. As the game grew in popularity, it garnered more teenage and pre-teen players. It is little surprise, then, that there was heightened sensitivity amongst the staffers of TSR and Dragon Magazine to the issues of nakedness.
The Dragon Editorial staff concluded that the above depiction of a naked Witch crossed the line.
While it is easy for us to disagree with their assessment, we were not in the pressure cooker with the 1980's morality police, they were.
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