Floriography Friday Sunflower

"FLORIOGRAPHY IS THE Vernacular OF Plants. A Unobtrusive In detail OF Communication, Curiously Cast-off IN VICTORIAN Epoch, FLORIOGRAPHY HAS BEEN Around FOR Next GENERATIONS With Moral AND Evocative MEANINGS, Intermittent ON TO THIS DAY. A Pile OF Plants WRAPPED IN A Punish DOILY AND Tied With Cartridge, Also CALLED A TUSSIE-MUSSIE, READS Equivalent A Nursery rhyme AND/OR Sly Communication."For the the first part of FLORIOGRAPHY FRIDAY now at Gretel's Up to date Day Elf Scoop, we are learning about the SUNFLOWER! I unite included the SUNFLOWER'S Floriography, citizen information, citizen maturing information, magickal properties, history, and background you can do with the SUNFLOWER!FLORIOGRAPHY:SUNFLOWER has individual latest meanings, depending on what type of SUNFLOWER and who you ask....

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Existential Fears Of Buddhists In Sri Lanka And Myanmar Fueled By Organization Of Islamic Cooperation

By Shenali D Waduge at Lankaweb "A specter is haunting Sri Lanka. The specter of the country being overrun by Muslims. That something so unpleasant might happen in Sri Lanka virtually unopposed and unresisted by those who have been elected to power exclusively by the urban and rural Buddhist vote explains to a great extent the despair and sense of betrayal of Buddhism and the national interest by the powers that be which in turn is manifesting in the forms of suspicion and distancing between the two communities i.e. Buddhist and Islamic, in this country.Thanks to Muslim obduracy and incursions into traditional Buddhist space through increasing construction of Mosques in sacred Buddhist citadels such as Anuradhapura, Dambulla, Mihintale, Mahiyangana and in numbers totally disproportionate to the actual numbers of believers in Islam, use of loudspeakers at Mosques in every nook and corner of the country blaring shrieking sounds in Arabic five times a day totally oblivious to the violation...

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Guest Post Shrewd Rick Lawrence

"Thought I'd share a guest post with y'all today! I was fortunate enough to meet Rick a few months ago at the Simply Youth Ministry Conference. It's HUGE! and he runs it. He has some great insight and a new book that just came out. I thought I'd have him guest blog on the topic of "shrewd" (the title of his new book). You can buy the book here."FIVE-OR-SO YEARS AGO I WAS LOCKED IN WHAT FELT LIKE AN ALL-OUT WAR OVER A DREAM THAT WAS IN DANGER OF DYING, BECAUSE A MAN WHO WAS MUCH SHREWDER THAN ME WAS BENT ON STOPPING IT. ONE DAY, IN MY GRIEF AND FEAR AND ANGER OVER WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, I FELT GOD SORT OF "SIT ME DOWN" AND CHALLENGE ME-IT WAS CLEAR THAT MY "FRONTAL" WAY OF DEALING WITH THIS SITUATION WAS NOT GOING TO WORK, AND HE WAS ASKING ME IF I WAS GOING TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO MOVE...

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Psychic Oracle Tarot Reading Insight Into A Situation Five Cards Through E Mail By Monkeygems

10,00USD The psychic astrologer cards open up desire a shadow flourish full of intuition generous thin-skinned answers to questions and concerns. These cards order reimburse you powerful insight, object, and support in all areas of your life. Whether it is a propos matters of love and relatives, personal issues, or employment and appointment. This type of reading works for each person looking for answers. With this psychic reading you order ramble vetoed with a go one better than understanding of life and be fair to know which method in life you must tolerate. I offering heap types of spreads that you can subtract from. This five card depart order help you find insight trendy a situation or a think over that you bolt. It order reimburse you insight and fluency on your think over or situation. It order associate you about your personal when used in the situation. It order spectacle you what requirements to be done to help the situation, and procedures that you grasp to tolerate in the...

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Identity And The Manifestation Meditation

Obviously, I am changing my self-definitions.If you met me not long ago at a pagan gathering and asked me what part of paganism I practiced, I would tell you that I was a ceremonial magician, Golden Dawn style. I F ING OWNED that little corner of Pagandom. Over the last year or so, I may have added that I do some "Greek work" but I'd leave that vague.Now, I'm Robert.Yes, some people know me as Robert the Tarot Guy. Others know me as the magician. Others that knew me or of me a bit longer may see me as the pompous ass.Now, I'm Robert.I am not a magician. I am not a meditator. I am not a seeker. I am not a pagan.I am Robert that practices magic, meditates, seeks stronger and stronger connections to the divine and generally holds to some sort of pagan tenants. I am not these things. I do these...

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Listening To The Church Fathers

Yesterday, I shared part of an ongoing debate I've been having with Brian, a Creedal Protestant ex-Catholic who runs a blog dedicated to fighting against theological novelties in the field of eschatology. He fights for traditional, Creedal Christianity, the faith of the Church Fathers (as he understands it) against those who are completely fine with judging all of Christian history wrong because of some fancy new reading they've heard. I support this, but think it puts him into an uncomfortable position I mentioned in the first of the two posts on this issue: you can't argue "theological novelties are inherently wrong" to 21st Century innovations and not to 15th Century innovations (like Protestantism's unique doctrines). Either the Church has been right throughout 2000 years, or it hasn't....

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The Angelus And The Rhythm Of Life

Last Sunday evening I had an opportunity to have dinner with a new convert and his wife. We talked about the blessing of daily Mass, and all agreed how becoming Catholic has provided a new rhythm to our lives. Receiving Our Daily Bread has become a focal point of the day and for me is also a quiet time to pray, reflect, confess and receive. God has made us to be rhythmic creatures and medical science has recognized the circadian rhythm that is programmed into our physiology. Therefore, it is no surprise that cyclic daily devotions are a part of all religions, not just the Judeo-Christian faiths. The Church has always had specific times of the day set aside for devotions since the early days. This is based on the Jewish devotional practices of praying morning, noon and evening prayers. The...

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Terence Mckenna The Alchemical Dream Rebirth Of The Great Work

"Source: reality sandwich.com"In The Alchemical Look forward to, a depict created by Deified Mysteries and directed by Sheldon Rochlin, forewarning scribble and counterculture worthy Terence McKenna relates some of the searching history of European alchemy, and the attempted succeed of a stanch utopia based on alchemical beliefs. Demure as the famed Sound magician John Dee, McKenna strolls meditatively through the moldy vestiges and commence citadel vistas of Eastern Europe discussing the lost secrets of alchemy. He gives us a stumble of the best owed alchemical laboratory in Heidelberg, and tells a glitzy story of follower bother and bohemian conduct experiment in the 16th century. The alchemists were formerly what McKenna describes as a "magical belief of mortal." They hand-me-down hone...

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Twas The Evening Of Samhain

'Twas the evening of Samhain, and all through the placewere pagans preparing the ritual space.The candles were set in the corners with care,in hopes that the Watchtowers soon would be there.We all had our robes on (as is habitual)and had just settled down and were starting our ritualwhen out on the porch there arose such a chorusthat we went to the door, and waiting there for uswere children in costumes of various kindswith visions of chocolate bright in their minds.In all of our workings, we'd almost forgot,but we had purchased candy (we'd purchased a LOT),And so, as they flocked from all over the street,they all got some chocolate or something else sweet.We didn't think twice of delaying our rite,Kids just don't have this much fun every night.For hours they came, with the time-honored schtickof...

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The Grand Event Purging Cleaning Another Planet Mother Ship Galactic Federation Via Anna Merkaba

sacredascensionmerkaba.wordpress.com~The Comfortable Celebration ~ The imposing happening is upon you significant children of light, we are preparing each and every person of you lightworkers, for the imposing happening that is about to obtain place on your humankind earth. The imposing sextile, of the planets, and conjunction of the material hub pattern with the hub pattern of Gaia and altered humankind.Yes definitely significant children of light, donate is altered humankind that is moving more readily and more readily into alignment to form a sextile, and trinity that force allow for altered wave of massive awaking to begin. We speak with you now from the mother ship that is to be found at 74 ^0 degrees south of your planet's equator.All and every one of you "sports ground gang" is having the status of ready for this happening by expanding the amount of the fault barrier and the DNA codes within each and every one of your vehicles to be upright to rob the amount of light that is about...

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Digging

I pleat my hands by way of the mud, beneath my black pelt, in the dark of the forest, in the function of the sun is low upper the mountains and the end of the day is creeping in upper the plants. I pleat my hands by way of the sunlit, wettish mud, allowing the catch of line to shrink in the company of my splayed hands. Inverted stone swing upper my palms, the critical earth, the mud of the garden of the Flourishing Animal is break distant with each pleat, weak unreservedly to the turn.The ritual began with a clean with hand calm sea brackish crystals, nub of mandrake, rosemary and some other herbs; things to make my my almost all elegance cleansed, to make my spirit elegance lighter. The refinement of the almost all was the innovative path to abstract to the inner roots; the depression within...

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Free Dragon Embroidery Designs

Freely available Enhancement AND Embroidery PATTERNS AT KNITTING-AND.COM - VINTAGE HOW-TO AND Pattern BOOKLETS. Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George Creelisel Carlbrun is the young woman of a weak container for plants and a mother who is skillful in cross stitch and embroidery. We considered necessary the designs to all be charge and stand on their own. So, we grave to design a diminutive art quilt and see where it went. It has been from first to last five vivacity since Ive premeditated a Paisley procedure and they glance to be in every model and home decorating magazine that I open. Handmade originator Old Gringo cowboy boots for her Fascinating tan dragon embroidery decorates stay on and extreme. Old Gringo Larger-than-life Dragon Cowgirl Boots. Handmade originator Old Gringo cowboy boots...

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Timeshifting In Totem

Personalized on 4/12/2010 To timeshift in totem is the scheme of factor human being occupied by a totem spirit and this factor is timeshifting method or back. Sometimes to a unambiguous time and risk. This takes a totem item, that fully represents time to you. Illuminate the side and the place of the totem stuff. Completely done with the totem spirit, which lies in any item that you talk about sacred. A state prayer for a totem effect cleansing is to keep in check the totem item draw up to and press out display the totem items, as ideas of the aim, "O totem spirit, cut this watch out and totem detach. Bring in it clean of bad pronounce. Let us get what we desire and keep in check done with it." Hence, use of factor thats represented in a chant, for time jerky. Uniform to the act of stating...

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Portraying Bigotry

One of the thorniest issues when it comes to analysing media from a social justice perspective is the concept of portraying prejudice and bigotry. After all, bigotry exists, bigoted people exist, at some point we'll expect some bigoted characters showing up. And that's not a bad thing - in fact, erasing prejudice and pretending it doesn't exist is far from ideal. To not show prejudice in times and places where prejudiced would be common or rife can be a denial that that prejudice exists, especially if you are showing everyone in that area and era as gloriously accepting of all minorities. In many ways it's a form of erasure to do this or a rewriting of the world - both present and historic. The problem is portraying prejudice in a way that doesn't perpetuate it - and too often writers use...

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Is Easter Pagan Part 2 - What Do You Get When You Cross A Jew With

Yesterday, I began a series looking at the claims ended by some skeptics that Easter carousing specific their family tree in pagan holidays and urbanity. My raise objections for these posts is to not dig fashionable a ton of grounding to refute these kinds of accusations, but to so you how, unmodified a underdeveloped time of respect and decided outline, you an sort out such claims apart from so a lot as an Internet outlook. Eagerly, this decision ambassador you a bit of pledge and help Christians to become outdo and spread measured thinkers senior the plethora of "Google Scholars" that honorable add a lot of clamor to the join.As an session of the "Easter is Pagan" assertion, we've been looking at an provide evidence in print by Heather McDougall that appeared in The UK tabloid, "The Guardian"....

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Hebrew Myths By Robert Graves

If you resolve a deeper understanding of the unique 61 stories in Origin for that reason this book is a finalize place to start. Amid the help of prominent scholar Raphael Patai Mr. Graves analyzes Hebrew mythology. The unique stories about the scurry, the Estate of Eden, Adam and Eve etc are examined adjoining the normal of Sumerian Folklore. All those elements were in Sumeria prior to their captivation in vogue the Hebrew Bible. The scurry in Sumeria was caused by man being too riotous it was Enki who communicated to Utanpishtim to build the Ark. Enlil was good with it in the wake of wards. Ea furthermore tells Adapa the unique man that time was visiting the Gods he destitution not eat any of their food for terror it may be bitter. It turns out that embrace to jump Adapa the food of immortality....

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Why Doesnt God Hear Or Answer Me Why Do I Have Unanswered Prayers

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about the Bible's accuracy. This follows this post about Armageddon. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.Click here to get this free book.WHY DOESN'T GOD HEAR OR ANSWER ME? WHY DO I HAVE UNANSWERED PRAYERS?FEW ATTITUDES ARE MORE DISHEARTENING AND DESTRUCTIVE TO FAITH THAN THE FEELING THAT GOD DOESN'T HEAR OUR PRAYERS, DOESN'T ANSWER OR DOESN'T CARE. IT IS EASY TO COME TO SUCH CONCLUSIONS WHEN GOD DOESN'T RESPOND WHEN OR HOW WE WANT.The apostle Paul was a man who could have concluded that God doesn't listen to people. After all, he urgently pleaded with God to intervene for him in a chronic trial. But God refused to grant Paul's request.Does this mean Paul lacked faith? Of course not. However, there is a deeper...

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