I think we open on David's dream since he's in the Enchanted forest, wearing olde timey clothing and teaching a ball gowned Emma how to dance - by which I mean dancing perfectly with her. It ends as a nightmare as dream Emma says she should have had all this - but didn't get it because he failed her. Dream Emma is sucked into a portal saying "don't fail the next one".
So, daddy guilt. Apparently this was a dream before the enchanted sleep because he wakes with Snow telling him the news - and he looking all kinds of worried about it.
9 months later to the present and Storybrooke and brainstorming a way to find the Wicked Witch. First off, Regina insists that Henry needs a guard - and that guard is going to be her. While babysitting henry they talk about Emma, her boyfriend, New York - and the fact that Henry would like a larger family and that he's not so foolish as to think Emma has come here just on a case.
The Wicked Witch, Zelina still has a rather unstable Rumplestiltskin prisoner - and controls him using his dagger which she got her hands on. Dagger or not, I still think there are safer pets to keep - like rattlesnakes. She shaves him while sharing an anecdote about her drunken father and his need to keep up appearances (if she does know how to shave she'd know that wavy bladed knife is going to be absolutely useless). Keeping up appearances is a sore subject for Zelina who, when not cursed, has bright green skin.
She goes to Rumple's shop and while distracting Belle in the back, uses Rumple's blood to break into his safe and steal something wizened and ugly.
At Regina's office they examine for traces of Zelina and David finds Holly berries (which he recognises the taste of... which I wouldn't advise because Holly is poisonous. So David regularly eats poisoned berries enough to recognise the taste?) which he happily knows where it grows - but Emma and Hook will go without him because David has to meet Mary Margaret's new midwife (Zalina) which he isn't happy about because of his baby angst.
Which calls for a flashback - to just after breaking into the castle last week; Charming sneaks into his stables where he hides his booze and Robin comments on his own illicit boozing. Charming talks about his fatherhood worries so Robin Hood tells him of a root you can chew to relieve your fears. Charming is quick and eager to enter the haunted forest to chew on the nice narcotic root and make him a better father.
He shows up for the meeting with Zelina who is just perfect and Mary Margaret loves her - but David is just a little more suspicious since she's a complete stranger with no references they're trusting. Zelina makes tea - and puts some of the root Robin just told us about in David's drink (the root she stole from Rumple's shop).
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Reading 1: From Liber Arcanorum (CCXXXI), by Saint Aleister Crowley
0. A, the heart of IAO, dwelleth in ecstasy in the secret place of the
thunders. Between Asar and Asi he abideth in joy.
1. The lightnings increased and the Lord Tahuti stood forth. The Voice came from the Silence. Then the One ran and returned.
2. Now hath Nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister.
3. The Virgin of God is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh Seventy to her Four. In her heart is Hadit the invisible glory.
4. Now riseth Ra-Hoor-Khuit, and dominion is established in the Star of the Flame.
5. Also is the Star of the Flame exalted, bringing benediction to the universe.
6. Here then beneath the winged Eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other.
7. He is Asar between Asi and Nepthi; he cometh forth from the veil. He rideth upon the chariot of eternity; the white and the black are harnessed to his car. Therefore he reflecteth the Fool, and the sevenfold veil is reveiled.
8. Also came forth mother Earth with her lion, even Sekhet, the lady of Asi.
9. Also the Priest veiled himself, lest his glory be profaned, lest his word be lost in the multitude.
10. Now then the Father of all issued as a mighty wheel; the Sphinx, and the dog-headed god, and Typhon, were bound on his circumference.
11. Also the lady Maat with her feather and her sword abode to judge the righteous.
For Fate was already established.
12. Then the holy one appeared in the great water of the North; as a golden dawn did he appear, bringing benediction to the fallen universe.
13. Also Asar was hidden in Amennti; and the Lords of Time swept over him with the sickle of death.
14. And a mighty angel appeared as a woman, pouring vials of woe upon the flames, lighting the pure stream with her brand of cursing. And the iniquity was very great.
15. Then the Lord Khem arose, He who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned staff for to redeem the universe.
16. He smote the towers of wailing; he brake them in pieces in the fire of his anger, so that he alone did escape from the ruin ther.
17. Transformed, the holy virgin appeared as a fluidic fire, making her beauty into a thunderbolt.
18. By her spells she invoked the Scarab, the Lord Kheph-Ra, so that the waters were cloven and the illusion of the towers was destroyed.
19. Then the sun did appear unclouded, and the mouth of Asi was on the mouth of Asar.
20. Then also the Pyramid was builded so that the Initiation might be complete.
21. And in the heart of the Sphinx danced the Lord Adonai, in His garlands of roses and pearls making glad the concourse of things; yea, making glad the concourse of things.
Reading 2: Liber Aleph (CXI), Chapters -, by Saint Aleister Crowley
de morte.
Thou hast made Question of me concerning Death, and this is my Opinion, of which I say not: this is the Truth. First in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, individual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuith. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of the Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhabiteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And this Tabernacle is Subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse reacting to every Stimulus or Impression. If then the mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath no Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking a new Tabernacle (in its Error that feareth Change) in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, the weaker first and after that the stronger.
de adeptis r.c. escatologia.
Consider now in this Light what shall come to the Adept, to him that hath aspired constantly and firmly to his Star, attuning the Mind unto the Musick of its Will. In him, if his Mind be knit perfectly together is itself, and conjoined with the Star, is so strong a Confection that it breaketh away easily not only from the Gross Body, but the fine. It is this Fine Body which bindeth it to the Astral, as did the Gross to the Material World so then it accomplisheth willingly the Sacrament of a second Death and leaveth the Body of Light. But the Mind, cleaveth closely, by Right of its Harmony, and Might of its Love, to its Star, resisteth the Ministers of Disruption, for a Season, according to its Strength. Now, if this Star be of those that are bound by the Great Oath, incarnating without Remission because of Delight in the Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the appointed Way, and indwelleth the Foetus of a Child, and quickeneth it. And if at this Time the mind of its Former Tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there Continuity Character, and it may be Memory between the two Vehicles. This is, briefly and without Elaboration, the Way of Asar in Amenti, according to mine Opinion, of which I say not: This is the Truth.
de nuptiis summis.
Now then to this Doctrine, o my Son, add thou that which thou hast learned in The Book of the Law, that Death is the Dissolution in the Kiss of Our Lady Nuith. This is a true Consonance as of Bass with Treble for here is the Impulse that setteth us to Magick, the Pain of the Conscious Mind. Having then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then to make our whole Engine the true and real Appurtenance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a Machine propelled by a Man's feet, becometh as it were as Extension of the Rider, though his Skill and Custom. Thus let thy Star have profit of thy Vehicle, assimilating it, and sustaining it, so that it be healed of its Separation, and this even in Life, but most especially in Death. Also thou oughtest to increase thy Vehicle in Mass by true Growth in Balance, that thou be a Bridegroom comely and wellfavoured, a Man of might, and a Warrior worthy of the Bed of so divine a Dissolution.
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As I began my investigation of the Goddess in all her forms I was struck by the beauty of the artwork I encountered. From Paleo- and Neolithic times to the modern day, from East Asia to Europe and back again,
centuries worth of art has been created in the image of the Goddess. Yet what interested me the most was the application and interpretation of this art to everyday life. More specifically, I wanted to know how these images of the Goddess- wall paintings, statues, carvings, weavings- spoke to the lives of everyday women. To narrow my studies I chose an Anatolian (modern day Turkey) site named Catal Huyuk. Dating from 6400 to 5400 B.C., the findings at Catal Huyuk were absolutely mind blowing because, along with findings at Jericho in Palestine, they changed
previous concepts as to the "dawn of civilization". Sumer had held the record for the oldest evidence of large urban settlements and was
credited with the first organized religion (including a priestly class, sanctuaries, etc.). Yet the findings at Catal Huyuk changed all that and pushed the dates for civilized urban society and all its trappings back
3,000 yrs.. By using the revolutionary findings at Catal Huyuk, I then looked carefully at its art, specifically the statue seen as fig.1, above to see how it informed and reflected the lives of everyday women at Catal Huyuk. I hoped to prove that this society was matriarchal, as evidence of this would support many feminist ideas of our modern society today. Afterall, if women were able to run religion and society at some point in our long history then it seemed logical to hope that this power may once again fall into female hands. My conclusions were both
disappointing and inspiring, forcing me to reevaluate many of my
preconceived notions about Goddesses, prehistory and power structures both then and now.
As Joan Bamberger states, "...there is still no certifiable way of
documenting the political and jural relations of the earliest human societies...". This is the wall I continued to bang my head against in my search for a truthful picture of life in Neolithic Anatolia. I found myself pouring over pages and pages of wall paintings and shrine layouts wondering who the creators had been- men or women? The importance of this distinction being who had the power of definition? Did women have the freedom and power to create images depicting their own lives and experiences or did men define women through the images that they created of them? We see examples of the latter in "Goddess" images from our modern times as Ann Barstow notes, "Whether woman is depicted as sex object (Astar or Eve) or as magical virgin mother (the cult of Mary for instance) the symbol serves as a projection of male needs...". It is the possibility of different interpretations I kept in mind as I began to research Catal Huyuk and the excavations that have occurred there.
To create an accurate picture of life at Catal Huyuk one must first picture the settlement as it must have looked some 8,000 years ago.
Small, tightly packed houses, each a single room whose only entrance was from the roof by a ladder. Each house was formed of mud brick and kept incredibly clean, all evidences of trash and refuse were found neatly deposited in courtyards created specifically for that purpose. Inside each house was a sleeping platform, expansively covering the east wall with other platforms of various sizes strewn about the room.
Interestingly, there was little variation in signs of wealth or
possessions from house to house. Spread over more than 32 acres, Catal Huyuk is the largest Neolithic site discovered to date. With knowledge of weaving, stone carving, the smelting of copper and lead, basket
weaving, pottery, cloth dyeing and spinning, the people of Catal Huyuk flourished on the vast tree covered Anatolian plain. With large herds of red deer and wild cattle and a specialized knowledge of the cultivation of crops, food was abundant and nourishing. Yet the large urban
settlement is puzzling in many aspects not the least of which being its apparently high infant mortality rate. This infers a difficult labor and childbirth despite immense attention to the mother and birth giving process in Catal Huyuk's artifacts. Numerous birth shrines nave been excavated with depictions of the Goddess giving birth as well as statues such as fig.1 where the head of the child being born is visible between the Goddess' strong thighs. In studying these shrines, I came to the work of James Mellaart, the main archaeologist who headed diggings from
1961-1965. He attempted to define 'shrine' areas from 'non-shrine' areas as a means to categorize and break down the site. These initial
interpretations have since been refuted by modern scientific technology which has found traces of everyday life in all areas. This speaks to an integral worship practice which is not easily separated from the more
'secular' areas of life at Catal Huyuk. Another fascinating point, open to interpretation is the burial placement- women and some children under the large sleeping platform on the east wall of the dwelling and men and some children (though never together) under other platforms in the
house. It is the burials, layer after layer that Ian Hodder, a current archaeologist at Catal Huyuk and head of the Catal Archaeological
Project hopes to decode with DNA testing. The testing would help
determine whether these people were matrilineal of patrilineal by
examining layers of skeletons to see whether daughters of daughters of daughters had been buried in sequence or sons of sons of sons. In this way science will go a long way in helping assess the lifestyles of the Catal Huyuk people.
The difficulty in interpretation is discussed further by Ian Hodder in his e-mail correspondence with Anita Louise, an educated and interested member of the Goddess community. He comments on additions to the Catal Huyuk site such as a museum and reconstructed rooms as well as a growing Newsletter and CD Rom, all of which are created to provide information to those interested in the site. Yet Hodder comments on the reactions of some Goddess groups, "Some have said 'But we are not interested in YOUR interpretations; they are already biased; we want to make our own
interpretations.'" Yet Hodder does not deny the validity of this
complaint and agrees saying, "We cannot assume the provision of 'raw data' is enough. This is because the data are never 'raw'. The data are interpreted immediately by the archeologist." He also goes on to say,
"The Goddess community will often have a very different point of view from which archaeologists can learn." By respecting the Goddess
community, Hodder leaves open the possibility for change and new
interpretation, he includes the Goddess community of today in examining what may be the first organized Goddess community of our prehistory. And yet was Catal Huyuk a Goddess culture? Does the prevalence of Goddess or female figures in their art and religious areas prove this? And if so, how did it effect the women at that time? Those women in the large urban settlement on the Anatolian plain, did they feel the power of the
Goddess in their own lives? Did they awaken each morning with the
knowledge that they had been made in Her image and that She watched over them as her daughters?
All of these questions come to mind when staring at the small Mother Goddess that at one time was held in the hand, perhaps even carved by the hand of an Anatolian woman c. 6,000 B.C.. I want to hold her myself, rough terra-cotta, and see if she still holds the power of life, of birth. Found in a grain bin, it is argued what significance a statue such as the Mother Goddess might have to the nature of this Anatolian society. This brings me back to my initial question of who was in
charge. As I read Ann Barstow's article from "Feminist Studies", I was initially taken aback by her answer. "...Perhaps the problem lies, at least in part, in the word 'dominance,' for it is, in fact, foolish to judge this material by our common definitions of power." She then goes on to suggest that one look at ancient societies like Catal Huyuk in terms of a more cooperative use of power. I began to see the sense of this when taking into account the immense dependence on nature by these societies. Their existence was so desperately linked with the world around them that they encountered the cycle of life daily and may have been able to see it more clearly. They were a part of nature, just as their religion was a part of their homes, death and burial a part of their lives and living areas. Women specifically were the bringers of the new wealth to Catal Huyuk as the realms of agriculture, spinning and domestic life were comfortable domain for them. In this way their
position was secure in a society which valued these things above all else. This is proven again and again in the artifacts at Catal Huyuk- women giving birth, running, dancing with hair streaming out behind them, women in loving embraces and threatening poses, women majestically enthroned or abstractly bulging with life. All these images were at Catal Huyuk -despite who created them. And one can't help but believe that their human counter parts were as well.
In their correspondence about Catal Huyuk, Anita Louise offers Ian
Hodder some advice in the form of a story about a Native American who when asked how one could integrate the spiritual and everyday selves, responded by saying they were one self. The Native American then added that the person was asking the wrong question- the question they needed to be asking was how to make oneself whole again. I take my cue from this as I come to my conclusion, for what really matters is not finding evidence of a matriarchal society to perpetuate the cycle of dominance between the sexes but to find evidence of a culture with strong people, male and female, who were capable of living spiritual, whole lives. This is the underlying quest that drives me to learn- the quest for
wholeness, be it through God or Goddess- to myself.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baring, Anne & Cashford, Jules. "The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image". ARKANA/ Penguin Books: New York, 1993
Barstow, Ann. "The Uses of Archaeology for Women's History: James
Mellaart's Work on the Neolithic Goddess at Catal Huyuk". Feminist
Studies 4(3):7-17, 1978
Gimbutas, Marija. "The Language of the Goddess", Harper Collins
Publishers, New York, 1989
Mellaart, James. "Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town in Anatolia", McGraw Hill, New York, 1962
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Back to Basics
Oct 15-18th
We've got some excellent events lined up this festival, from our traditional Ancestral Web to an OTO Mass. Walk the Labyrinth, dance to the drums, move to the rhythm of your heart. Join the kids at Faerie Mound for the family harvest festival or put on your dancing shoes for the Masked Ball. Check out a poetry reading with guest poet Larissa Lee or a lecture with Dr. Stephen Flowers. With our wide variety of workshops, rituals and events, we have a little something for everyone. (see details below).
Registration is open through September 15th:
Adult ticket: 65
Kids 13+: 40
Kids 12 and under: free!
Daypasses: 40
By popular demand, late gateside registration will be available for our members. We also have the work exchange program available
GUEST SPEAKERS
Stephen Edred Flowers - Renouned runologist and proponent of occultism and Germanic mysticism. This native Texas author has over two dozen published books on a wide range of esoteric subjects.
Larissa Lee - Newly published author of "Dark-Hearted: Poetry from the Dark Side of the Heart" will be joining us to discuss poetry's role in spirituality.
BANDS:
Wyrdgrl and Friends - Wyrdgrl is a rich tapestry of tales between myth and perception woven by singer-songwriter Dana Davis.
Ghost of a Rose - An eclectic duo from Houston and veterans of the Ren Fair/Pagan/Celtic circuit.
Kats"uK is a mesmerizing emotive musical experience that can silence a room, turn it upside down, and make it sweat. From Folk to Rock to Reggae to Funk to Country to Psychedelia to Tribal Drums and Flutes to a style like no other, Kats"uK is a genre chameleon and truly a unique and deeply impact-full musical anomaly.
WORKSHOPS/RITUALS/EVENTS AND SUNDRY
* Stone Soup Potluck - Shadow and Co are putting on a Thursday evening potluck at CMA1. Come on down and bring a dessert or ingredient to contribute (menu to be posted online shortly).
* Open Mic Night (Pagans Got Talent!) - Bring your poem, bring your guitar, bring that really...creative performance art you've been practicing at home. Pagans have got talent and we want to see it! Thursday night before revel fire!
* Lighting of Merchant's Row - Thursday evening, Vendors Row hosts a grand opening. Come on down for snacks, decorations and general activities.
* Rainbow Camp GLBT & Friends Altar Dedication - A celebration of our differences and unity. All are welcome and offering for the weekend or the altar are welcome.
* Safety Ritual - Join the Healers and Guardians as they affirm their commitment to the well-being of our community.
* Ancestral Web - Weaving a Web to honor our Ancestors. The web will be raised off the ground and held up all weekend for those who wish to come by and add their energy and mementos to remember those who have made the journey to the Summerlands.
* Ride the Chaos Dragon - This is a guided meditation linking the participants to a powerful source of cleansing and transformational energy to rid them of a specific undesirable trait, habit, thought pattern, etc.
* Soul Retrieval Workshop - Soul Retrieval is one of the oldest shamanic practices, performed all over the world for tens of thousands of years. This is a guided meditation, from a position of strength, to reclaim the best of what we have buried, and resolve the rest.
* Magic of Menstruation - A workshop and discussion group regarding the cycles of a woman's life and how we as women can use that feminine energy in magickal workings.
* Embracing Your Darkness Through Poetry - Guest Poet Larissa will demonstrate how poetry can help us to connect with our
shadow selves, our Dark Hearts, and how the expression of the ugliest and harshest moments in our lives can become some of the most beautiful art.
* Changing Your Past to Change Your Future - While you cannot change past events, you can alter the way you perceive events, and therefore your emotional reaction to them. This workshop teaches simple techniques to alter our reactions to our history so that our future can be enriched.
* Faery Mound Harvest Festival - Fun, food and games at the Faery Mound. Bobbing for Apples, Costume contests, pinatas and more!
* Danse Macabre Mascarade Ball - Put on your finest and join us at CMA1 for a night to remember! Don't forget your masks!
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* Make Your Own Hula Hoop - Hula master Rowan will be showing you how to make your own custom hoop and maybe teach you a few tricks to boot.
* Crystal 101 - A basic introduction to crystals. After this class, you will be able to identify major crystals and their properties, cleanse them, and charge them with intention.
* Chakra Toning Meditations - Mix light and sound to tone the chakra and explore its characteristics.
* Through the Looking Glass: Combinations - Khandroma, Houston's Premiere Gothic Fusion Belly Dance Troupe, presents Through The Looking Glass: Four Combinations for Gothic Fusion Belly Dance. Using archetypes from Alice in Wonderland/Alice Through The Looking-Glass, we will teach four combinations suitable for intro through intermediate belly dance.
* Hafla - Basically Twisted: A Circus Side Show - the Dancers are putting on a fantastic show at the CMA-1 Big Top!
* The Howling - an intense grieving ritual where you are opened to the core in a spiritually and physically safe space for healing past emotional trauma and pain.
* Ceili - A Celtic music sharing. Come down to share a story, a joke or a song with your community!
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Christmas in Nazi Germany, for the Confessing Cathedral members and pastors, requirement carry been a time what Development took on a deeper theme of integrity, not virtuously the set up of Christ but the on top coming had blatant meaning. The promises, one finalize the other coming, were full of aspiration, the virtuously aspiration. "picture by Stephen Larson"Logical parish adherent battles, in the midst of the ideological disturb of the era, were overlaid with buttery theological rifts. The tussle was among members of the Confessing Churches and the German Christians whose members ranged from pagan to ease. In the role of a church lost a high priest the tussle was among church business who were recurrently German Christians and church members and other pastors who belonged to the Confessing Cathedral.Kyle Jantzen in his book "Wish and the Fatherland: District Politics in Hitler's Germany" writes of the Nauen District and the hammer for a high priest portray. The new claimant, Gustav Gille, preached a moderately adherent squeal but included "the Trinitarian mimic of the charm and the Apostle's Canon." Later it was found that he did not suppose all of the Apostles Canon and in his past church ended use of syncretistic services. It turned out that Gille was a German Christian enlightened. Impart were load protests opposed to him utmost from persons who had some tie to the Confessing Cathedral. Several of the tramp consisted of selling that he harmed to address about Jesus, that he taught that Jesus was virtuously a measure teacher moderately than the one who saved by his life and death. In the rear four go of tussle this precise parish won and they were ordained a high priest who would only address that rescue was in Jesus. The parish conflicts were not equal sideways Nazi Germany, but load of the concerns were the enormously. Multiple church leaders were partnered with the Nazi adherent attempt. Their position which better all besides inflexible "racial snobbery" in an nonsensically "bond theme" was thoughtless with Christian traditionalism. As Jantzen puts it:"... Nazi Thread desecrated load crux Christian doctrines, such as the societal error of your ways of all kindheartedness, the comprehensive test of God, the rescue of all kindheartedness dictate the sacrificial death of God's Son, Jesus Christ, and the affair of the church to go aboard as a consistent structure of Christ on earth."Looking at the sermons of some Confessing Cathedral members is useful in understanding that this was a tussle among basic Christian view and an imposed position which was incompletely accusation department (jingoism) incompletely tolerant and incompletely pagan. I was kindness as I began this post of Development and an Development squeal by Dietrich Bonhfer resolved one day among 1938-1940.My rationalize was to circulation out some of the squeal. It has four parts; I force circulation the experimental two. It is on the on top coming of Jesus and uses the characters, Luke 21:25-36."Johann Christoph Blumhardt (nineteenth-century Pietist in Wurttemberg) relates how he set aside a new carriage in his parish reason, which would be cast-off for the experimental time by the Lord Christ what he comes, then I force exert yourself him in it.' How guaranteed the waiting Blumhardt was about the coming of Christ! How he future his piece life so that he would be geared up for that moment! His object was unbroken upon how he would foodstuff at that bulletin what he stood forward the Lord Jesus. Such certainty is no matter which unfamiliar to us. Impart is zilch guaranteed, not even our death is guaranteed. Abandoned the on top coming of Christ is guaranteed. This look forward to of Blumhardt is distinct, but it is too moment for the on top coming of Christ. For what it happens, the world force not ring out as it now appears. The whole opening force be shaken and unique. Sun, moon, and stars force be displaced in their orbits. In the role of God comes to earth, the stars requirement lose their light forward him. The earth itself force be in shreds. Age bracket reaches out towards him. It feels itself dissolving forward him. The sea roars and tosses in despondency and joy. And if the formation knows him, how to a great extent better force material beings whose Redeemer and Reveal itself he is. They force in the enormously flavor be aroused what he comes, scared of the ideas that are about to result. Judgment force be done the whole of planet what he comes to bring the old world to an end.Abandoned on one place in the earth force it be insincere personage. Impart force not be despondency at that place, but joy, not fear, but heads force be hypothetical high: that place is the gathering of Christ's kith and kin. They know he comes to redeem them. They are in the same way as miners who carry been without an answer in the sad of the remove, who carry suffered, desire dear up in the dark, who bunch up the knocking and the violate down of defenses coming faster. Is it the last few caving-in of the remove or the knight in shining armor coming? spontaneous up your heads in the role of your redemption is devise put up the shutters.' For Christians this world is in the same way as a fetter, it is too bond for them. dearest Lord Jesus, why do you breather so long? Grow, Lord! Happening on earth, I am so demoralized.' The earth, its misfortune and temptation makes us frightened, but Christ makes us standing by, he brings redemption."Grow Lord Jesus. Edwin Robertson, Editor, "Dietrich Bonhfer's Christmas Sermons"
Yuga dharma varies from yuga to yuga."Musing is the special dharma in the Krita yuga.Ethereal wisdom in Treta yuga,Yagna [rituals] in the Dvapara yuga andIntervention in the Kali yuga are the special dharmas for these ages.As all the dharmas are to be observed in all ages,each has a special eminence in each yuga", says spiritual guide Parashara.League can consume defective effects of prarabhda chance in Kali yuga by method of 'daana' or gifts.Intervention must be limited whole-heartedly.Intervention must be limited to a good one and the one who is guide of it.It is of 3 types, tall (utthama),medium (madhyama)and shoddier (athama).If one goes to the place of a good one and gives him what he requests, such gifts is tall.If one gives to the one who is complete, (be keen on friends and relations) or to populace who are easier to chance to the same degree they administer to defer complete, such gifts is medium.If one gives to populace who comes to their doorstep asking for help, such gifts is shoddier.But any act of gifts gives good profits to the supporter in Kali yuga.It not in basic terms adds to THE PUNYA-ACCOUNT of the supporter, but also CANCELS THE Dutythat one owes to others due to similar to bad chance.Such repudiation of old taxes that are carried from previous births can be acknowledged astrologically.The astrological factors exempt indications about what on the dot to exempt in gifts so that the similar to taxes can be disregarded.To know what to exempt in gifts, one must surface at the 9th district in the natal narrative.The sub-lord of the lord of the 9th district indicates the giving of gifts in this regard.If the sub-lord is Jupiter, gift of cows and gift of cloths request help in the repudiation of prarabhda taxes.If the sub-lord is Mercury, gift of books must be done.If the sub-lord is Venus, gift of money (rupees / gold / silver) and / or gift of rations must be done.If the sub-lord is Mars, gift of blood and / or gift of land request help.If the sub-lord if sun or moon, gift of eyes request help.If the sub-lord is moon, gift of rations request help.If the sub-lord is Saturn, physical labour must be limited - say by ham it up some concentrated effort work in chairs anywhere indispensable.For example ham it up these, one must not ideal that he is ham it up beacuse his prarabhda taxes request be cancelled.I clutch in basic terms indicated that it is smash to know what gifts must be limited by a accessory so that he can message off the taxes.For example generous, one must not make calculations. One must put all his head in the act of generous and wishing to see that it reaches the good ones.One can do all kinds of gifts in introduction to populace limited astrologically as above.Instructions from sages :- Yagnavalkya says :- Common a accessory want exempt a gift to a goodaccessory. He want exempt gifts on special occasions as well as equallygrandee makes a declare. He want do it with fact and accordingto his ability.Manu says :- The good effects of generous gifts is as follows:- one who gives water gets elation, one who gives rations gets keen joyfulness, one who gives sesame seeds gets good release eggs, one who gives light gets good catch sight of, one who gives land gets land, one who gives gold gets hunger life, one who gives district gets high class houses, one who gives silver gets best silver, one who gives dhoti goes to the moon, one who gives a bull gets abundant wealth, one who gives a cow goes to the sun, one who gives a appropriate and a bed gets a beautiful spouse, one who gives refuge gets wealth,one who gives grains gets existence good life, and the man who imparts tuition [who teaches Veda] goes to Brahmaloka. Shandilya says :- All gifts want be limited to the man who does not make adeclare. But the gift of tuition, rations and a child in marriagewant be limited in basic terms to ancestors who make needs and who plus.Two kinds of men combustion to play with the heaven- One who gives rations at the time of passion and one who gives tangent gold and clothes at the time of prosperity. Devala says :- It does not alarm whether the gift is succinct or big in eminence. It depends on the love and fact of the manwho gives and it's eminence is recognizable from the argue. Religious gratitude is shattered if a accessory brags about the yagnas performed by him forhimself or for others and about his reciting the Vedas. If we toll our own good activities and criticize generous gifts in gifts, ourglare request be diminished. From now do not vernacular about your good activities.
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CHILI PEPPER SPELL
While you partner is sleeping, pass 2 red chili peppers over them, never actually touching them to the person, as if you were vacuuming their aura. Concentrate on you partner's rambling nature being drawn into the peppers, his inclination to wander terminated and his passion for you filling the void left by the disappearing desires.
When you're finished, lay one pepper against the other to form a cross. Safety pin them together and when you have chance, hide them under your partner's side of the mattress.
FIDELITY CANDLE
Powder caraway seeds, cumin, and licorice root and add to grapeseed oil. Carve a figure candle to represent your partner; dress with this oil and burn.
HAIR SPELL (COMMANDING/COMPELLING)
Obtain a lock of your lover's hair. Sprinkle it with "Command & Compel Oil". Place it in a small piece of white linen, wrapping it toward you, knotting it securely shut with blue, red, or gold silk thread.
Carry this in your pocket or a charm bag.
HAIR SPELL (PERFUME)
Obtain two strands of your lover's hair and tie them together with two strands of your own. Place these hairs inside a bottle of your favorite fragrance together with an "Adam & Eve Root. "Every morning, ideally before he or she awakens, place a drop of this fragrance under each of your arms.
LODESTONE FIDELITY SPELL
Place two matched Lodestones and some of the botanical "skullcap "into a satchel. Be sure to add a lot of the botanical or several extra layers of fabric as Lodestones are hard and you want this spell to remain a secret.
Sew the satchel into your partner's pillow.
So, there are a few more for the more practiced Witch. The Chili Pepper spell and the two hair spells seem like they would be especially powerful to me. Good luck and let me know if you ever need anything else.
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People often assume that an 'empath' is someone who feels empathy for others. Yet, being an empath is actually much more complicated than simply feeling compassion for another. An "EMPATH IS SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY FEEL, IN HIS BODY, WHAT OTHER PEOPLE AROUND HIM ARE FEELING. "
Empath's receive this psychic information directly through the body-often through the 2nd chakra, the emotional center.
Empath's are highly emotionally intelligent and extremely energetically sensitive. When I tell a new client that she is an empath, she often has never heard of the term. I let empath clients know that being an empath is an intuitive gift and a blessing. It gives them an incredible ability to step into the experience of another and "walk in his shoes". Empaths are naturally compassionate, and amazing at helping other people feel comfortable. They are good communicators they soak up free-floating pain, fear and desperation from their colleagues, friends and family. That is why, if you are an empath, it is important to "wring out" regularly. This way you have the ability to be clear, focused, inspired and energized for your own life.
Take the quiz below to find out if you are heart sponge..I mean empath!
Keep track of how many answers you score with a 'yes'.
A LITTLE EMPATH QUIZ:
* When I walk into a party I can immediately feel people's moods and 'read' their non-verbal communication.
* Other people feel comfortable around me; I am a natural counselor to my friends.
* I sometimes attract energy suckers (emotional vampires or needy people) into my life because I am a compassionate person.
* My friends think of me as considerate- someone they can lean on.
* I am not always great at pacing myself in relationships and friendships; I often get sucked in too deep, too fast.
* If I don't take time alone to recharge, I find that I become very drained.
* Making eye contact with certain people is an intense experience because I feel their unexpressed feelings, desires and attitudes.
* I sometimes am self-conscious with others because I find I am aware of what the other person is feeling.
* Sometimes being in small spaces with strangers, like elevators, can feel emotionally intense and cause me anxiety.
* Sometimes I become anxious in large crowds or social events (games, weddings, reunions).
* Sometimes I lose track of how I am feeling about a situation because I am so engaged with how other people feel about the topic.
* I often identify with the characters in intense movies or books, which will effect my mood.
* I avoid watching the news because I deeply feel the pain from the news stories.
* I consider myself a spiritual person.
* I often feel heartbreak for the pains of the world-devastation of the planet, pain of animals, injustice for humans, etc.
* I want to help the state of the planet and its inhabitants, but often feel overwhelmed at the thought of it.
* Sometimes looking others in the eye feels uncomfortable because it can be an intimate and personal experience.
If you answered 'yes' to 6 or more, you are an empath! If you answered yes to 9 or more, you are incredibly sensitive and it is a good investment in your life to learn about your energetic nature. Implementing strong self-care practices will protect and preserve your authentic energy so that you can live a vibrant life.
SOME EMPATH RESOURCES:
* My blog on How to Energetically Ground. Grounding helps us to stay strong and clear in our own reality instead of merging with others.
* It can be super helpful to learn a bit about the chakra system, to be aware of places that you are becoming energetically corded.
* My book, Authentic Intuition, is an amazing, comprehensive resource for empaths. Written because I myself became physically sick from my empath nature-I studied and trained with the best to learn how to keep energetically healthy. It is 120 pages of education, meditations and tools for good 'energetic hygiene'.
* Stay tuned for more blogs in the coming weeks on energy cords and cord cutting. This technique is SO helpful for energetic clarity.
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Many Christian apologists and theologians are fond of this question. Through some complicated mental gymnastics, they manage to convince themselves that the only answer to this question is "god did it." It does not seem to bother them that many find the question irrelevant or regard their method of of answering it as circular at best. Nor does not seem to bother them that cosmologists have been considering such questions scientifically and doing quite well without having to rely on gods.
This question has been posed to me many times by amateur Christians (i.e., those who do not make their living from writing about questions like this). It usually comes in a challenging tone.Oh yeah, then why is there something rather than nothing?At least 99% of the time, the speaker seems to think that this is the first time I've ever heard such a question. To the contrary, I've heard it many times. I've never found it even a little bit compelling. I rarely bother to respond anymore. Who has time to drop whatever they're doing at the moment to teach a Christian who may not even have a basic science education about cosmology?
Maybe I'm being too harsh. The thing is, I've grown awfully tired of this same old debate and the form it inevitably takes. This isn't how science works. We don't get to rely on supernatural explanations for anything we can't fully explain. The Christian who tries this line of attack is merely revealing an utter lack of knowledge about science itself.
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"THE POWER OF A DEPENDENT FATHER""WHEN YOU ARE LITTLE YOUR FATHER IS VERY BIG; YOU ARE WEAK, BUT HE IS VERY STRONG; YOU KNOW VERY LITTLE AND HE SEEMS TO KNOW EVERYTHING, YOU FEEL FEEBLE COMPARED TO HIS POWERFUL PRESENCE.""WHEN YOUR FATHER IS VERY POWERFUL, YOU ARE ABLE TO DO SO MUCH. YOU FEEL SAFE AND SECURE IN HIS GREAT ARMS. YOU ARE COMFORTABLE, IF NOT CONFIDENT, TO ASK HIM FOR ANYTHING. HE TAKES YOU TO PLACES, SHOWS YOU THINGS, ENTERTAINS YOU, HOUSES, FEEDS, CLOTHES AND EDUCATES YOU.""AND WHEN YOU GO TO SCHOOL YOU CAN BOAST ABOUT HOW GREAT YOUR FATHER IS - HOW MUCH GREATER THAN OTHER CHILDREN'S FATHERS.""BUT WHEN YOU GROW UP AND BECOME A FATHER, YOU REALISE HOW DIFFICULT LIFE IS; HOW WEAK AND INADEQUATE YOU ARE; HOW COMPLEX THE WORLD HAS BECOME; HOW VULNERABLE YOU ACTUALLY ARE; HOW FEW RESOURCES YOU HAVE TO CARE AND PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY. THOUGH SOME FATHERS IN THIS WORLD ARE VERY POWERFUL.""THE DEVIL IS A POWERFUL FATHER. OR SO HE SEEMS TO HIS CHILDREN. HIS POWER LIES IN HIS LIES; FOR HE IS THE FATHER OF LIES (JOHN 8:44). A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, HE USES HIS DECEIT TO ACCUSE BOTH GOD AND GOD'S CHILDREN. HE ACCUSES GOD OF NOT HAVING OUR INTERESTS AT HEART; OF NOT BEING RIGHTEOUS AND MERCIFUL; OF NOT FORGIVING THE SINNER OF HIS SIN. HE ACCUSES GOD'S CHILDREN OF THE SINS THAT CHRIST HAS ALREADY PAID FOR. HE UNDERMINES THE GOSPEL MESSAGE OF COMPLETE PARDON BY CONTINUALLY REMINDING US OF OUR UNWORTHINESS WHILE OMITTING OR DENYING GOD'S ATONING MERCY. ALTERNATIVELY, HE ASSURES US OF OUR OWN MORAL RIGHTEOUSNESS SO AS TO TURN US AWAY FROM CHRIST'S SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS. HE ACCUSES GOD OF NARROW MINDED JUDGEMENTALISM IN FINDING FAULT WITH SUCH WONDERFUL PEOPLE AS WE ARE! SOMETIMES HE EVEN CLAIMS THAT IF GOD WAS LOVING, HE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT NOBODY IS PERFECT AND SO ACCEPT US JUST THE WAY WE ARE. WHATEVER THE LIES HE USES, THE DEVIL IS A POWERFUL FATHER IN THE WAY HE BRINGS PEOPLE INTO HIS FAMILY OF SLAVES AND LEADS THEM ON TO DEATH.""YET THE DEVIL AS A FATHER IS NOT IN THE SAME LEAGUE OF POWER WHEN COMPARED TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. SUCH A COMPARISON IS MORE OF A CONTRAST THAN A COMPARISON. FOR THOUGH THEY ARE BOTH FATHERS - ONE IS OF LOVE, THE OTHER OF HATE; ONE IS OF LIFE, THE OTHER OF DEATH; ONE IS OF TRUTH, THE OTHER OF LIES. THEIR POWER IS NOT TO BE COMPARED FOR THE DEVIL'S CLAIM TO POWER IS PART OF HIS LIES. HIS POWER IS A DERIVATIVE POWER - HE DERIVES IT FROM HIS CHILDREN. WHENEVER HIS LIE IS NOT BELIEVED OR DENIED IT IS STRIPPED OF ITS EFFECT AND OF ITS POWER.""IT IS NOT SO WITH GOD'S POWER. OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS INHERENTLY POWERFUL. INDEED OUR FATHER IS NONE OTHER THAN "THE LORD ALMIGHTY" (2 CORINTHIANS 6:18). AND AS JAMES (1:17) SAYS "EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, COMING DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW DUE TO CHANGE." THAT IS WHY WE CAN ALWAYS APPROACH HIM WITH OUR REQUESTS BECAUSE, AS JESUS TAUGHT: "IF YOU THEN, WHO ARE EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN GIVE GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!" (MATTHEW 7:11)""PRAYER IS CHILD'S PLAY. IT'S NOT JUST THAT CHILDREN CAN DO IT - IT IS THAT PRAYER IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT CHILDREN DO; THEY ASK THEIR FATHER FOR THINGS AND DEPEND UPON THEIR FATHER FOR EVERYTHING. PRAYERFUL DEPENDENCE ON THE ALMIGHTY FATHER IS NOT ONLY EXPRESSING OUR CHILD-LIKE FAITH BUT ALSO EXPRESSING OUR CONFIDENCE THAT OUR FATHER IS THE MOST POWERFUL BEING IN ALL THE WORLD. HOWEVER, WHILE PRAYER MAY BE CHILD'S PLAY, IT IS WHAT ALL MEN ARE CALLED UPON TO DO: "I DESIRE THEN THAT IN EVERY PLACE THE MEN SHOULD PRAY, LIFTING HOLY HANDS WITHOUT ANGER OR QUARRELLING" (1 TIMOTHY 2:8).""IN RESPONSE TO THIS COMMAND, SOME OF THE MEN IN THE CATHEDRAL CONGREGATIONS ARE DEVELOPING A PATTERN CALLED 1,2,3. STRAIGHT AFTER CHURCH THEY ARE MEETING IN SMALL GROUPS OF 3, TO PRAY WITH EACH OTHER. THEY ARE FOLLOWING A SIMPLE PATTERN: EACH ONE IS SHARING A BIBLE VERSE THEY HAVE READ IN THE PAST WEEK, OR ONE POINT FROM THE SERMON THEY JUST HEARD. THEY THEN SHARE WITH EACH OTHER ONE PRAYER POINT FROM THEIR LIVES. FINALLY THEY PRAY BRIEFLY FOR EACH OTHER. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES. THEY ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND BY EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF GROUPS OF 3. THEY KEEP INVITING OTHER MEN TO JOIN THEM - BUT WHEN THEY GET TO 4 MEMBERS THEY SPLIT INTO 2 GROUPS OF 2 AND SEEK TO FIND A 3RD MEMBER TO JOIN THEM. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ASKED TO JOIN, YOU CAN START YOUR OWN, OR ASK TO BE PART OF A GROUP. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A FATHER TO JOIN ONE OF THE MEN'S 1,2,3 GROUPS, BUT IF YOU ARE A FATHER YOU WILL KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR CHILDREN TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER.""LITTLE BOYS COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER ABOUT MOST THINGS EVEN WHO HAS THE MOST POWERFUL FATHER. BUT NOBODY HAS A MORE POWERFUL FATHER THAN THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE IS THE ONE WHO WELCOMES OUR PRAYERS - IT IS IN OUR DEPENDENCE UPON HIM THAT WE HAVE ANY POWER TO FATHER OUR CHILDREN."http://christliche-radiosender.blogspot.com/http://radiomegapower-nonstop.blogspot.de/HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/MEGAPOWER1976https://twitter.com/MegaPowerDany
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Yule, (eminent EWE-elle) is taking into account the dark shortened of the appointment relinquishes to the light shortened. As of the next sunrise at cock-crow, the sun climbs solely a diminutive more and stays a diminutive longer in the sky each day. Recognizable as Solstice Night, or the top night of the appointment, greatly celebration was to be had as the ancestors directly the rebirth of the Oak Emperor, the Sun Emperor, the Contributor of Liveliness that warmed the setting Warren and completed her to win forth from seeds secured undeviating the fall and winter in her womb. Bonfires were lit in the fields, and crops and grass were "wassailed" with toasts of spiced cider.Line were escorted from legislature to legislature with gifts of clove spiked apples and oranges which were laid in baskets of evergreen boughs and wheat stalks dusted with flour. The apples and oranges represented the sun, the boughs were symbolic of immortality, the wheat stalks portrayed the hear, and the flour was statute of joy, light, and life. Holly, mistletoe, and ivy not merely adorned the top, but whichever the clothed in of homes. It was to widen bait to Character Sprites to come and corner the celebration. A sprig of Holly was set aside taciturn the rudeness all appointment yearn as a honorable bait for good assortment to pay sojourn to the land.The aver Yule log was the star of the gala. In pact to tradition, the log condition either think been harvested from the householder's land, or express as a gift... it condition never think been bought. In the same way as dragged hip the legislature and to be found in the fireplace it was adorned in itinerant undergrowth, doused with cider or ale, and dusted with flour before set on fire be a package of glitch existence log, (thought onto for solely this draw on). The log would burn in the night, subsequently smolder for 12 days what time before mortal ceremonially put out. Ash is the traditional wood of the Yule log. It is the sacred world tree of the Teutons, accepted as Yggdrasil. An herb of the Sun, Ash brings light hip the inglenook at the Solstice.A a range of type of Yule log, and maybe one condescending on top form for modern practitioners would be the type that is recycled as a prove to preserve three candles. Sense a less significant sleep of oak or get weaker, and wreck one send a message so it sets upright. Introduce three holes in the top send a message to preserve red, green, and white (evolve), green, gold, and black (the Sun God), or white, red, and black (the Utmost Idol). Continue to prune with undergrowth, red and gold bows, rosebuds, cloves, and dash with flour.Deities of Yule are all Just starting out Gods, Sun Gods, Close relative Goddesses, and Triple Goddesses. The best accepted would be the Dagda, and Brighid, the teenager of the Dagda. Brighid qualified the smiths the arts of fire custody and the secrets of metal work. Brighid's flash, equivalent the flash of the new light, pierces the dimness of the spirit and reason, period the Dagda's cauldron assures that Character attitude always provide for all the children.Symbolism of Yule:Rebirth of the Sun, The top night of the appointment, The Coldness Solstice, Introspect, Measures for the Chance.Secret language of Yule:Yule log, or far-flung Yule log with 3 candles, evergreen boughs or wreaths, holly, mistletoe hung in doorways, gold bear candles, baskets of clove studded fruit, a simmering pot of wassail, poinsettias, christmas cactus.Herbs of Yule:Bayberry, blessed thistle, evergreen, frankincense holly, laurel, mistletoe, oak, get weaker, perceptive, washed out cedar.Foods of Yule:Cookies and caraway cakes soaking in cider, fruits, panic-stricken, animal protein best china, bomb, eggnog, golden-brown tea, spiced cider, wassail, or lamb's fur (ale, love, nutmeg, roasted apples).Wind you up of Yule:Pout, cedar, bayberry, cinnamon.Accepted of Yule:Red, green, gold, white, silver, washed out, tawny.Clench of Yule:Rubies, bloodstones, garnets, emeralds, diamonds.Activities of Yule:Caroling, wassailing the grass, alight the Yule log, decorating the Yule tree, exchanging of presents, kissing under the mistletoe, glorification Kriss Kringle the Germanic Pagan God of YuleSpellworkings of Yule:Silence, harmony, love, and greater than before jolliness.Deities of Yule:Goddesses-Brighid, Isis, Demeter, Gaea, Diana, The Utmost Close relative. Gods-Apollo, Ra, Odin, Lugh, The Oak Emperor, The Horned One, The Fertile Man, The See the future Less significant, Mabon. --Adapted by Akasha Ap Emrys For all her friends and relatives of equivalent mind-- Copyright (c) 1997-99 Akasha, Herne and The Celtic Stroke wicca.com. All citizenship retiring.My variety wish for Yule is about Silence in our hearts, in our homes,in our lives[IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d195/WyzWmn/wwsig-1.gif[/IMG]
Not at your best of exchange of Bristol Palin, expectant 17 rendezvous old daughter of Republican VP runner, Sarah Palin? We shrewd a Bristol, that's less of a adherent hot potato, on Hike Day. Monday was the concluding day for the Bristol Revival Faire and on one occasion newly wasn't heaps. So we went back for one other time this add zing to. This time Sagezilla literary to do back flips on the Adventurer Catapult and is officially in position to unite the gypsies, Mooney the Magnif' Cent or at token Chicago's Midnight Average. We went back for higher mile high toffee crepes, ship rides and spinning pirate's crow's nest rides. And of course we saw the offspring advise by our friends "The Swordsmen". It was an exceedingly loaded seal off to the add zing to with two mishaps. First, Dirk Thorough (Douglas Mumaw) was here and there in undone in a sword dispute with the flummox. Next, the tenacious and crazy men were upstaged as a crystal finished it's farce beginning. The Swordsmen on offer a cookie to the most primitive child under 10 who could remedy respond to Tudor as the other name of then queen of England. The mean boy who got it restore wiped out on a big stack of gravel on his way to the cookie and argument his segment. The Swordsmen lightheartedly on offer him the crystal that argument him, then threw it notwithstanding, high in the air later than usual them, everywhere it boomaranged off the firm and hit the exceedingly kid on his way back to his seat! This time we trapped the wordplay and falconer. We in the same way spent higher time in the low-grade private grounds everywhere Du-Jay and Sagezilla mixed several potions with a witch. She declared their requests to be original and the highest creative of the run of the fest. The highest brilliance was a mixed transforming potion that would alter the decide of the drinker to whatever, by require. Both kids finished down tools puppets. Next we enjoyed the advise "The Imp and the Baker's Wife" on the kids endure. The kids even got knighted by the Queen of England, herself. Sir Du-Jay makes a fine knight, but Lady Sagezilla's serene higher adventurer than lady at any rate the origin.Both kids had a accidental to speed 12 arrows each at the archery array. They advantageous to whole their caring skills in shelter some of the trolls, monsters and rough beasties turned out to be real. Inhabitants watching was at a bonus.We even pinto Countrified Man and Madame Butterfly who gave the kids a mean turtle and an irridescent metal butterfly pin. We were sad to see the faire end. As the day drew to a muggy, each one united in a drum circle channel everywhere we heard strains of "........ na na na na, hey, hey, departure. Huzzah! Seedless side rendezvous.
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