From: tyagi@houskaos.abyss.com (Lorax)
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Subject: Re: Satanism/Neopaganism (Was Re: non pagan confused)
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I'd rather see a healthy comparison of views, followed by support for one's reasoning and assertions, than to let them go by without response.
I don't claim to know I am right. Therefore I don't require you to
change. However, if you go about making public statements, please
prepare for me to argue vehemently against what I tentatively presume to be false.
I'd like to know how much you know about its practice. I've kept
myself pretty ignorant of it so far, and I want to learn as much
as I can about what other people tell me first of all (especially
Neopagans). Even so I've heard many reliable testimonies regarding
the ambiguity of some religions and their crossings, histories.
I find it fascinating to suspend my judgement and listen to the stories, especially when well-founded. I've heard Satanic Ritual Abuse Victims (so called) describe their knowledge of Satanists.
I've heard Jehovah's Witnesses and many other Christian sources explain to me (quite often in very different manners) what 'Satanism' meant.
Half the time they included Neopaganism and Hermetic and Masonic groups within a big batch of other horrible folx (sociopaths, like Manson, etc.)
and this is what they mean by 'Satanism'.
There are Neopagans who are convinced that organized Satanists are mass- murdering neighborhood pets, well-known ones, *AND MAKING THESE ASSERTIONS TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE VIA USENET*. This is serious business. Real people's lives are at stake. Careful critical scrutiny of such information must be exemplified if we are to avoid serious xenophobic religious tensions (in my Wicca-meter that smells 'H A R M').
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Lorax
tyagi@houskaos.abyss.com
When a book or TV show is fiction, it's made up. Everything within it is created.
I can see your bemused expressions now - why have I started stating the obvious? Well, by a lot of the excuses people make for various issues we criticise in books, it feels like some people aren't grasping it.
In particular, this happens when we describe a character as being problematic in some way - maybe they're a stereotype or trope, maybe they have bigoted attitudes, maybe their relationships are a hot mess of problems, maybe everything's just a wall-to-wall hot mess. But we describe the problematic issue and someone counters "but X forces them to be/do/think that!"
But this forgets that "X", whatever X is, only exists because the author put it there. The author isn't a historian presenting their research, or an anthropologist loyally relating their observations. The author is the storyteller, the author is the one who built this world, every aspect for it, and if they have created an element that "justifies" some prejudiced, bigoted or problematic element then that has been their choice to do so. We cannot pretend or act like this is out of their hands.
There are so many examples of this - let's take werewolves. Female werewolves are often super-duper rare - making the few female werewolves highly desirable and hunted by the male werewolves (like Elena in Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld) or making female werewolves so rare they have a very male dominated cast (Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson Series) or there just cannot be female werewolves for REASONS - which are probably related to werewolves being so traditionally masculine and aggressive and hairy (Eileen Wilk's World of the Lupi series, Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series).
The scarcity of female werewolves is used over and over as a justification for women living in a sea of men, or for women being super-precious and hunted or needing lots of aggressive "protection". It's not a trope! It's just the rarity of women! It's just how werewolves ARE!
Except for the fact that werewolves are not actually real. If this is just how the werewolves are, then it is because the author chose to make them that way - you can't excuse a problematic story element by creating a problematic world element.
We see this repeatedly when supernatural Alpha Male "heroes" are aggressive, violent, angry, "protective" and controlling, the excuse is usually that this is part of their nature. Werewolves are possessive and violent. The vampires latch on to their mates (in the Black Dagger Brotherhood) or can't control themselves (Twilight). There are any number of abusive tropes that are justified because the man gets a supernatural pass - the abusive nature is part of their werewolf/vampire/weremanatee nature.
These creatures are not real, these creatures do not have to be this way. Their natures are conscious choices on the part of the writer and, as such, cannot be a "get out" of tropes they embody.
While supernatural creatures are a classic example, we can also see a lot of similar excuses arising from the cultures created in the books.
Again, Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson series has the werewolf pack that is deeply misogynist and homophobic. Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments Series has a homophobic society. George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire has a society that is such a hot mess of misogyny that I don't think they have any industry other than prostitution. It's the first society ever whose economy is entirely reliant on war on sex-work. Again, all of these cultural bigotries are choices of the author - these are fictional societies, subcultures and often entirely new worlds with new religions (and dragons); there is nothing forcing the bigotries of our world onto their societies beyond authorial choice.
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This is a series of simple exercises which, if done before spell work, will greatly enhance the effectiveness of your magick. * BREATHINGClose your eyes, then take four deep breaths. Our breath is one of our closest links to nature and one of the primary ways we take in the world. When our breathing is relaxed and natural, we come closer to nature and to God.With four more deep breaths, relax your belly and throat. It is easy breathe fully, deeply and naturally if we get out of our own way. So, focus on relaxing, this allows your body to take over, and your body knows how to breathe. * CLEANSING Bathe if it's appropriate. It that's not possible, you can at the very least, wash your face and your hands. Comb your hair. Do what feels comfortable to get your physical self in order.Clear the area in which you will be working. Any tools, candles, stones, or objects should be lovingly cleaned and cleared in whatever way you feel is best. Do a cleansing of anything inside yourself that might make you less than you could be.Get comfortable, close your eyes and look for any and all inner blocks that might interfere with things like focus, pleasure, spirituality, effectiveness, intuition, power, and a relaxed state. One way to release these blocks would be to imagine that you are holding them in palm of your hand, (IF THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM, IT MIGHT REQUIRE 2 HANDS) and then gently whisk them away by tossing them in the trash, dropping them into the toilet and flushing it, blowing them out the window, or whatever action appeals to you in the moment. (BE SURE TO WASH YOUR HANDS AFTERWARDS.) * INVOCATION AND DEVOCATIONAn invocation means to invite the God and/or the Goddess to be with you. A simple heartfelt prayer, such as "PLEASE BE WITH ME AND HELP, GUIDE, AND WATCH OVER ME," will be fine.The important second half of invocation is devocation, which means saying good-bye and thank you to the powers that assisted you. The Gods are always with us, but we say good-bye because we are respectfully releasing a certain way of communicating with them. ~From Goddess Initiation BY FRANCESCA DE GRANDIS Suggested e-books:Aubrey Bell - The Magic Of SpainSolomonic Grimoires - The Magic Of ArmadelTags: pungo witch apprentice wizard became witch qadusha greater holy book candle magic goals witch natural witch entrance king physitian astrologo nation alex sanders first witch
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Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly translation ("Aggi Vacchagotta Sutra", MN 72) Buddha as modern museum ART, Singapore (ANGLOITALIANFOLLOWUS/flickr.com) Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Buddha was staying in Savatthi, at Jeta's Grove, in Anathapindika's park. Then the wanderer Vacchagotta came, exchanged courtesies, sat respectfully to one side, and asked:1. "How is it, MASTER GAUTAMA, does Master Gautama hold the view: 'The cosmos is eternal; only this is true, anything else false'?" Composite art echoes doctrine of Dependent OriginationThe Buddha answered: "...No."[In sutras, which were originally memorized by making them into chants, there is a great deal of repetition: Each answer repeats the question in its entirety. While this is an excellent device to aid chanters, memorizers, and listeners, it is needlessly cumbersome and may even be misleading to readers. Nor is it likely that it would have been spoken this way in the first place.] 2. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'The cosmos is "not "eternal; only this is true, anything else false'? ...No."3. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'The cosmos is finite...'? ...No."4. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'The cosmos is infinite...'? ...No."5. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'The SELF ["atta"/"atman", essence, ego, SOUL, or animating principle] and the body are the same...'? ...No."6. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'The self is one thing and the body another...'? ...No."7. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'After death the Wayfarer [TATHAGATA, one who like you has attained the goal you teach in your Doctrine and Discipline] exists...'? ...No."8. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'After death the Wayfarer does "not" exist...'? ...No."9. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'After death the Wayfarer both exists and does not exist...'? ...No."10. "Then does Master Gautama hold the view: 'After death the Wayfarer neither exists nor does not exist...'? ...No." "How is it, Master Gautama, that when Master Gautama is asked if he holds the view 'The cosmos is eternal...'... 'After death the Wayfarer neither exists nor does not exist; only this is true, anything else false,' he answers '...No' in each case?" "Seeing what drawback does Master Gautama entirely shrink away from each and every one of these ten positions?" A THICKET OF VIEWS "Vaccha, the position 'The cosmos is eternal' is a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a WRITHING [EEL-WRIGGLING] of views, a fetter [bond] of views. It is accompanied by dissatisfaction, distress, despair, and fever. It does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, to calm, direct knowledge, full enlightenment, or nirvana. "The position 'The cosmos is "not "eternal' is a thicket of views... [and so on for each of the ten views]."Vaccha, the position 'After death the Wayfarer neither exists nor does not exist' is a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. It is accompanied by dissatisfaction, distress, despair, and fever, and it does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, to calm, direct knowledge, full enlightenment, or nirvana." "Does Master Gautama have any position at all?""A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that the Wayfarer has done away with. What the Wayfarer sees is this: "'Such is FORM, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is FEELING, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is PERCEPTION... such are FORMATIONS... such is CONSCIOUSNESS, such its origin, such its disappearance.' Because of this, I say: The Wayfarer -- with the ending, extinguishing, cessation, renunciation, and abandoning of all views, all speculations, all I-making and mine-making and obsession with conceit -- is freed through the abandoning of clinging." "But, Master Gautama, the ascetic whose mind/heart is thus released, where does one reappear?""'Reappear,' Vaccha, does not apply." "In that case, Master Gautama, one does "not "reappear." "'Does not reappear,' Vaccha, does not apply." "...Both does and does not reappear." "...Does not apply." "...Neither does nor does not reappear." "...Does not apply.""How is it, Master Gautama, when Master Gautama is asked if the ascetic reappears... does not reappear... both does and does not reappear... neither does nor does not reappear, he says, '[This] does not apply' in each case?"At this point, Master Gautama, I am baffled and confused. The small amount of clarity from our earlier conversation goes out now.""Of course you are baffled, Vaccha. Of course you are confused. Deep, Vaccha, is this Dharma [this Doctrine concerning existential phenomena like the FIVE AGGREGATES, which leads to enlightenment and complete freedom], hard to see, hard to realize, tranquil, refined, beyond the scope of conjecture, subtle, to-be-experienced by the wise."For those of other teachings, other disciplines, other practices, other aims, other teachers, it is difficult to know-and-see. Such being the case, permit me to question you. Answer as you see fit. "How do you see this, Vaccha: If a fire were burning in front of you, would you know, 'This fire is burning in front of me'?"[Vaccha repeats the question then answers] "...Yes.""Now suppose someone were to ask you, Vaccha, 'This fire burning in front of you, dependent on what is it burning?' So asked, how would you answer?""...I would reply, 'This fire burning in front of me is burning dependent on grass and wood as its sustenance.'" "Vaccha, if the fire burning in front of you were to go out, would you know, 'This fire burning in front of me has gone out'? ...Yes." Which way did the flame go? (YAYMICRO)"Now suppose someone were to ask you, 'This fire that has gone out in front of you, which direction has it gone? East? West? North? South?' So asked, Vaccha, how would you answer?" "That does not apply, Master Gautama. Any fire burning dependent on and sustained by grass and wood, being unnourished -- from having consumed its fuel and not being offered more fuel -- is simply classified as 'gone out.'" "Even so, Vaccha, any physical "form "used to describe the Wayfarer, that has the Wayfarer abandoned, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the causes-and-conditions of existence, is not destined for future arising [reappearing]."Freed from the classification of form, Vaccha, the Wayfarer is deep, unbound, hard to fathom, like the sea. 'Reappears' does not apply. 'Does not reappear' does not apply. 'Both does and does not reappear' does not apply. 'Neither reappears nor does not reappear' does not apply. "Any "feeling"... Any "perception"... Any "formation"..."Any "consciousness "[these are the FIVE AGGREGATES OF EXISTENCE AND CLINGING] by which one describing the Wayfarer would describe him, that has the Wayfarer abandoned, its root destroyed, like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the causes-and-conditions of existence, not destined for future arising. "Freed from the classification of consciousness, Vaccha, the Wayfarer is deep, unbounded, hard to fathom, like the sea. 'Reappears' does not apply. 'Does not reappear' does not apply. 'Both does and does not reappear' does not apply. 'Neither reappears nor does not reappear' does not apply."REACTIONWandering Indian ascetic (SAIVA TANTRA)When this was said, the wanderer Vacchagotta said to the Buddha: "Master Gautama, it is as if there were a great sal tree not far from a village or town, and its branches and leaves were stripped away, its bark stripped away, its sapwood stripped away, so that -- divested of branches, leaves, bark, and sapwood -- it stood as pure heartwood. In just the same way, Master Gautama's words are freed of branches, leaves, bark, and sapwood and stand as pure HEARTWOOD."Excellent, Master Gautama, excellent! It is as if one were to set upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or were to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see what was there. In just the same way has Master Gautama -- through many lines of reasoning -- clarified the Dharma. I go to [the Buddha] for guidance, to the Dharma for guidance, and to the [enlightened] Sangha for guidance. May Master Gautama remember me as a lay follower who has gone to him for guidance from this day forward."
"Ephesians 5:15-21* Matthew 22:1-14"For I am the Noble, I develop not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not moved out." Malachi 3:6The Gospel today leads me subsequently over to suggestion Portend Impassibility: It means that God does not develop. In fact, as our own Anglican Thesis I teaches, He is "apart from passions." A few modern theologians run into to this, and announce that the scriptures grant to us an communicative God who makes up his protection by reacting to events. They see highly wrought oration as heavy, forgetting that God has revealed His word to our minds by use of our own oration. Rush includes symptom, that is gesture and develop. But, God does not develop.The notion to the king's tender attraction, determination population to attend the wedding of his son, reminds me of the fifth sticky in the Subtract of Revelation:"And one time he had opened the fifth sticky, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a vociferous detail, saying, How want very much, O Noble, holy and true, dost thou not manage and avenge our blood on them that inhabit on the earth? And white robes were complete unto every one of them; and it was supposed unto them, that they be obliged to rest yet for a meticulous flavor, until their guy servants the same and their brethren, that be obliged to be killed as they were, be obliged to be concluded."- Rev. 6:9-11Like the circle who were invited waste him, and reject his attraction, and as well as tormenter the messengers of his upper-class attraction to the death, the king becomes "wroth." His stretch force on community murderers, and he sends his army to murder them. In diverse passages of scripture we read about the anger of God. Seeing that is the anger of God?To riposte that, we measure at the image of God in this fable. The king represents God, and the attraction represents the record of His leniency unfilled in the Gospel. The attraction is to attend "the marriage dinner of the Venison" (Rev.19:9), the marriage banquet of the King's Son. The image in the fable includes the manifest implications of official pardon of sin (purchased by that Son on the sacrificial altar of the cross, and his regeneration that destroys death), inspection that the pinpoint of the king is good-looking, generous and upper-class. "God is good."Like the invited population reject this compassion, and tormenter his messengers, they incur his anger. The king has not atypical, the population spell. His principles are rainproof and motionless. His anger comes from the exact pinpoint as his civility. Of course, the anger of God is not bitter take pleasure in the anger of this king, for the king is a man who changes due to impression. The king in today's Gospel appears to be motivated, sometimes by hack off and sometimes by his own civility. Assorted God, this king can be knocked for six, in the function of he does not know all clothing by means of they move forward. But, he is in the story scarcely to stage God as an penitent possible body, a nickname who is highly wrought in universe. The saying, "The anger of God" is itself highly wrought. Seeing that it means is that you stand on one schedule of the line or the other, either perception his tender and upper-class assign in the Gospel of his Son, or you reject that assign and schedule with the world, the flesh and the Mischievous sprite. For instance God never changes, you stand either on the schedule of "anger" or on the schedule of leniency.Arrival at the word that the king uses one time he must spell his "bouncers" repeal out an impudent guest: "Pal, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?" This word, "friend," seems rather odd in this context. In fact, it means that this impudent guest, the one who refused the wedding garment (that is, refused the vestment handed out by the king's servants at the door) in a wave of disgrace, was in some way pet of the king. That is what it means that he was called "friend" (, "hetairos)". The exact word is recycled unconventional in this exact Gospel (St. Matthew) one time Jesus addresses the defector Judas in the Estate of Gethsemane."And forthwith he came to Jesus, and supposed, Appreciated, master; and kissed him. And Jesus supposed unto him, Pal, wherefore art thou come? Along with came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him."-Matt. 26:50 The Impassibility of God is always interrelated with the soothsayer that God is love (I John 4:8, 16). He does not develop. Jesus prized Judas, even sophisticated that the man was a devil, the defector, for whom it would spell been good had he never been inherent - and so calls him "friend." Jesus was not atypical headed for Judas, nonetheless Judas had renounced him, and had single-handedly his apostolic bureau to accuse him to the death. "Pal," wherefore art thou come?"The king casts the impudent and disrespectful guest out of his palace in the function of that man had placed himself onwards the course of the king's good-looking and upper-class purpose, the purpose that had been manifest in the attraction itself. The man did not force to buy some constructive garment, in the function of it was the crowd of such a banquet who provided the bear, obvious bear or vestments, at the door. And, in honorable association it was traditional that a guest would put the garment on on top of his own clothes."The night is far left, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of shade, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us stair truthfully, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wickedness, not in turbulence and envying. But put ye on the Noble Jesus Christ, and make not flair for the flesh, to adhere to the lusts ther." -Rom. 13:12-14We are told to "put on Christ." But, primary we are instructed to cast off the works of the flesh. Something is provided for us. We put on Christ by court case the word of God, appreciation that in Hebrew the word for "seize" is the exact word as "respect." We put on Christ by staying within his Church. We put on Christ by forceful remorse and true look-in. We put on Christ by the sacraments that are naturally main to rescue. We put on Christ by cooperating with the Blissful Essence who forms within us the qualities, superfluous all help.These are gifts of God, provided take pleasure in the wedding garment complete to each guest. We are invited and fixed leniency and grace, to be partakers of the bequest of the saints in light, to be partakers of the divine universe having run off the corruption that is in the world train yearning (II Pet. 1:4). We are complete everything we force so that we become trailing in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Noble Jesus Christ. As you are called in Christ, to become saints in Christ, so halt in Christ, having been baptized trendy his death unto sin, and in whom you halt unto pro.If you reject the attraction, or if you come to the banquet but reject the upper-class flair of the king, it is your pour to come under anger, never understanding the pinpoint of one who calls you "friend." Snooty all, from the cross He has called you "friend." Do not turn from His love.Put on the Noble Jesus Christ.
What follows is an alphabetical listing of animals and their symbolism, from the letter A through the letter C.
ALLIGATOR / CROCODILE - A symbol of creation and destruction. When an alligator or crocodile appears in a dream or meditation, you should be on the look out for opportunities for new knowledge and/or wisdom. As a totem or power animal, the alligator or crocodile is there to offer opportunities to develop new wisdom but you must be careful not to be consumed by this wisdom. Study each bit of knowledge carefully before going on to the next.
ANT - A symbol of patience, stamina, and community-mindedness. When an ant appears in a dream or meditation, it is the promise of success through persistent effort. As a totem or power animal, the ant is there to teach you to become the architect of your own life.
ANTELOPE - A symbol of action, speed and adaptability of mind and body. When an antelope appears in a dream or meditation, it signifies knowledgeable action, and to trust in your instincts. As a totem or power animal, the antelope is there to teach you to truly live and that action is the key and essence to living.
ARMADILLO - A symbol of knowledge of boundaries, a need for protection. When an armadillo appears in a dream or meditation, it means that you have a need to define your own boundaries, and learn to protect yourself not just in physical ways. As a totem or power animal, the armadillo is there to help you adjust your rhythms and senses, so that you will know what is safe and what is not.
BADGER - A symbol of aggressiveness and self- reliance. When a badger appears in a dream or meditation, it is a call to leadership and the need to be aggressive. As a totem or power animal, the badger is there to teach you the willingness to fight for what you want.
BAT - A symbol of transition and rebirth. When a bat appears in a dream or meditation, it is a call for the end of one way of life and the beginning of another. As a totem or power animal, the bat is there to help you face your greatest fears and get rid of the part of your life that no longer is needed.
BEAR - A symbol of introspection, strength and leadership. When a bear appears in a dream or meditation, you are being encouraged to take up a leadership position. As a totem or power animal, the bear is there to inspire bravery, you must be fearless in defending your beliefs.
BEAVER - A symbol of building and shaping. When a beaver appears in a dream or meditation, you are being reminded to act upon your dreams and make them a reality. As a totem or power animal, the beaver is there to remind you that dreams are easier to build with a team helping.
BEE - A symbol of service, community and of accomplishing the impossible. When a bee appears in a dream or meditation, you should remember that anything is possible with the help of others. As a totem or power animal, the bee is there to remind you that no matter how great the dream is, there is the promise of fulfillment if you pursue your dreams.
BLACKBIRD - A symbol of the mysteries of Mother Nature. When a blackbird appears in a dream or meditation, a new understanding of the forces of nature and of life is being awakened in you. As a totem or power animal, the blackbird is there to tie you closer to Mother Nature.
Bluebird - A symbol of modesty and happiness. When a bluebird appears in a dream or meditation, it is a reminderthat you are born to happiness and fulfillment, but you can sometimes get so wrapped up in everyday things, that happiness seems rare. As a totem or power animal, the bluebird is there to teach you to work hard AND play hard.
Blue Jay - A symbol of the proper use of power. When a blue jay appears in a dream or meditation, it is a warning to avoid becoming a bully, or to avoid becoming a jack of all trades, master of none. As a totem or power animal, a blue jay is remind you that you may have tremendous abilities and potential, but you must learn not to be scattered and neglect to develop your abilities to their fullest.
BOAR - A symbol of self-reliance and protection. When a boar appears in a dream or meditation, it is urging you to become more organized and self-reliant so that you can face life problems and come out the conqueror. As a totem or power animal, the boar is there to guide you fearlessly through the trials and tribulations inherent on everyones lifepath.
BUFFALO - A symbol of abundance and the need for prayer. When a buffalo appears in a dream or meditation, it is urging you to pray for all living creatures and give thanks for all the gifts you have already recieved. As a totem or power animal, the buffalo is there to teach you to walk a sacred path, to honor every walk of life.
BULL - A symbol of masculine energy, stubbornness and the sun. When a bull appears in a dream or meditation, it is time to ask yourself if you are being as productive in your life as you can be, or if you are being too stubborn. As a totem or power animal, the bull is there to teach stability without stubbornness.
BUTTERFLY - A symbol of transformation and grace. When a butterfly appears in a dream or meditation, make note of the most important issues in your life, and see what needs to be changed. As a totem or power animal, the butterfly is there to teach you that growth and transformation does not have to traumatic; it can occur gently, sweetly, joyfully.
CAMEL - A symbol of survival and replenishment. When a camel appears in a dream or meditation, it can signify hard times ahead, but that everything will turn out good in the end. As a totem or power animal, the camel is there to teach you the ability to remain positive in the harshest of times and experiences.
CANARY - A symbol of the power of voice and heightened sensitivity. When a canary appears in a dream or meditation, it reminds you that sound, whether spoken or sung, is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. As a totem or power animal, the canary is there to give you the power of your voice.
CARDINAL - A symbol of self-importance. When a cardinal appears in a dream or meditation, it is time to pay attention to your health and well-being. As a totem or power animal, the cardinal is there remind you that no matter what time of the day or year it is, there is always the opportunity to recognize the important of your life purpose.
CARIBOU - A symbol of mobility and travel. When a caribou appears in a dream or meditation, it is likely that you will be either traveling or need to be open to it. As a totem or power animal, the caribou protects you as you travel through life.
Cat - A symbol of independence, sensuality and grace. When a cat appears in a dream or meditation, youre independence is in question or you need to show some grace under pressure. As a totem or power animal, the cat encourages independence and confidence.
CATBIRD - A symbol of language and communication. When a catbird appears in a dream or meditation, it is cautioning you to be careful about what you say and to whom. As a totem or power animal, the catbird gives you a facility for learning languages and communicating.
CHAMELEON - A symbol of adaptability and flexibility. When a chameleon appears in a dream or meditation, it is showing that you must find the ability to adapt to new situations. As a totem or power animal, the chameleon teaches versatility, and is also associated with clairvoyance.
CHICKADEE - A symbol of cheerful and truthful expression. When a chickadee appears in a dream or meditation, it is asking you to express the truth in a manner that heals, balances and opens the perceptions. As a totem or power animal, the chickadee can help you uncover the mysteries of the mind.
CHICKEN - A symbol of fertility and sacrifice. When a chicken appears in a dream or meditation, it is warning of a sacrifice you must make in your life, but can also mean that you are shying away from such a sacrifice. As a totem or power animal, the chicken is encouraging fertility, not just of body but of mind and spirit.
CHIPMUNK - A symbol of curiosity, trust, and the balance between trust and caution. When a chipmunk appears in a dream or meditation, you are in need of this balance between trust and caution. As a totem or power animal, the chipmunk brings curiosity and playfulness into your life.
COCKATOO - A symbol of inquisitiveness, communication skills and unpredictablity. When a cockatoo appears in a dream or meditation, it is indicating a need to work on your communication skills. As a totem or power animal, the cockatoo is there to teach you how to communicate in unpredictable ways.
CONDOR / VULTURE- A symbol of death, rebirth and purification. When a condor or vulture appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to remind you that you can soar above all your limitations. As a totem or power animal, the condor or vulture, is there to teach you to use your energy, powerfully and efficiently.
COUGAR - A symbol of leadership. When a cougar appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to remind you to be a fair and just leader, and warn of abusing your power. As a totem or power animal, the cougar is there to teach you to be a fair and effective leader, and how to balance power, intentions, strength and grace.
COYOTE - A symbol of humor and adaptability. When a coyote appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to prepare you for a situation/s where everything that can go wrong, will. As a totem or power animal, the coyote is there to teach you to laugh at yourself and Lifes ironies.
COW - A symbol of feminine energy, fertility, and the moon. When a cow appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to help you with the more mundane aspects of fertility, as well as the relationships that go with that. As a totem or power animal, the cow is ready to help you find stability and prosperity.
CRANE - A symbol of justice, longevity and creation through focus. When a crane appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to teach you the importance of focusing your creativity and energy on one important project rather than scattering it on several minor ones.As a totem or power animal, the crane is there to teach you the proper focus in your life.
CRICKET - A symbol of intuition and belief. When a cricket appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to tell you to trust in your intuition, for it is more accurate than you may believe. As a totem or power animal, the cricket is heralding an awakening in your psychic abilities and warns of using them without proper grounding and centering.
CROW - A symbol of creation and spiritual strength; the keeper of the Sacred Law. When a crow appears in a dream or meditation, it is there to tell you of Change coming into your life. As a totem or power animal, the crow keeps you mindful of your actions and opinions, you are being asked to walk your talk.
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An traveler was roving more or less a roomy playing field. Undiluted low on give supplies and becoming shattered from the footpath, he intense to interval at the in that case rural community. Existing, he hoped to switch over his labor for some give.
As he spherical the in that case direct in his path, he came upon a low down community of twelve tattered huts. The rural community was soft, and easily indigent. Existing were no children playing in the intermediate arrangement, and no adults splitting stiff for the coming winter.
"That's odd," he assumed to himself, "villages more or less fold time are as normal a scuttle of work."
He knocked on the key impertinence.
"We bring go like a bullet for you." a curved and rutted crone assumed early slamming her impertinence.
"The key fold has been so bad, there's no give to bring in from the fields." assumed a very immense and very thin man.
"My low down family with the sole purpose has a few carrots in the larder." a drained whole organism pleaded.
"You'd breach leave!" peeped a low down girl submerged in gravel.
The nomad visited eleven of the twelve huts and acknowledged well-matched greetings at each impertinence. Doors were slammed, sometimes curses were hesitant, and once more the rural community was arcane. As he walked to the final hut, he once more suggestion to himself how weird it was that the settle in the rural community were so unattached from each other." Or else he can dig that suggestion any a lot, his covet got the breach of him and he knocked on the twelfth and final hut.
"I am but a empty old organism and bring no work nor give for you." settled the quick on the uptake organism.
Or else she can slam the impertinence on the nomad, he quickly assumed, "Young-looking lady, I bring no ache to ask favors of you, I was starkly eager you can kitty some brackish so that I can make my world infamous consomm. I bring a magical stone, point to me by my distinct grandmother, that wish make a consomm fit for a king. I would allow you to bring a sample of it in renovate for your brackish.
The woman's knife-like gloomy eyes heavy-handed his camouflage for a moment. Her at the bottom of the sea camouflage began to marshal. She scurried back appearing in her hut for a moment and returned with a low down crock of brackish. "This is all I've got, so you'd breach make a consomm that really is fit for a king!"
The organism followed the nomad back to the arrangement in the intermediate of the rural community, clinging to her crock of brackish as if it were upper hilarious than gold. He began putrid a favorable atmosphere and opened his shipment. His change seemed out of place in the church-like harmony of the rural community, but he continued, louder all the time.
The low down, dirty girl appeared with a whole (being dirty) boy to tour the weird nomad. The nomad was making significantly a string as he tumbled stuff more or less in his shipment, but finally he withdrew a sizeable pot and pretentious move. His atmosphere became significantly clever now and he began belting out a alive song.
"OH I AM A ROVIN' JOURNEYMAN I Hobo FROM Town TO Town
AND WHENEVER I GET A JOB OF Male I'M Satisfying TO SIT DOON
MY KIT'S ALL ON MY Have space for AND MY GRAFTIN' Tool IN Endow
AND 'ROUND THE Residents I Ghoul GO A ROVIN' JOURNEYMAN"1
Sprinting more or less the outskirts of the rural community circle, he serene stones and fallen undergrowth. He carted his consortium back to the intermediate of the circle and formed a ring with the stones. His song on as two thin men aligned the organism with the brackish and the two dirty children in the rural community circle.
He stacked the fallen undergrowth meeting point the ring of stones and vociferously rummaged in his shipment once more to right of entry his flint. He can struggle the men whispering to each other "fit for a king you say..." and "consomm from a stone you say..." as he sparked the flint and blew on a encircle of billows budding from the undergrowth. The fire came to life and he carried the sizeable pot varnished to the rural community well to comply with it with water. Carting the big, water to the top pot back to the fire, he firm the border of the pot on the ring of stones. Afterward he assumed, close to to himself,
"This consomm would be fit for two kings if I with the sole purpose had a few onions to add to it."
One of the immense thin men left unperturbedly, walking on the way to one of the negligible huts. He returned with his partner who carried a collection of low down, lifeless onions in her apron.
"Why thank you!" the nomad exclaimed in a puzzled representative, "you shall bring some of my world infamous stone consomm, fit for a king or a Emperor, in renovate for your good-mannered bounty." He cheap bent low.
The nomad after that took a low down handful of brackish from the crock (yet held gravely by the organism with the gloomy eyes) and threw it in the pot. Exhilarating with the pretentious move he hesitant something untraceable to himself and after that rummaged in his shipment once more. Fabrication clever clattering sounds and putrid, he shaped a paring try from the shipment with a clever "ah ha!" As he peeled and cut the onions he humble appearing in song once more...
"OFF TO Gain THE Lump,
Give up Where I WAS Untutored,
I CUT A Glaring BLACKTHORN,
TO Expel Strength of mind AND Elf
A Family name NEW Two of a kind OF BROGUES,
RATTLIN O'ER THE BOGS
AND FRIGHTENIN' ALL THE DOGS
ON THE Lined Management TO DUBLIN."2
The two thin men began go on and on their feet, and the curved, rutted crone appeared from her hut.
"What's this I struggle about making consomm from a stone?" she asked accusingly. Peering appearing in the pot she exclaimed, "There's no stone in this soup!"
The nomad dropped the onions appearing in the pot of water and assumed,
"Why my good organism, you're right! I've not quite lost my earliest and historical the greatest fateful branch of all!"
He rummaged in his shipment and hesitant unperturbedly for instance upper villagers appeared. After a mixture of report the villagers began jerky more or less impatiently and he can imitation the suspicion in the low down go around. Eventually he discovered that a low down stone had stiff itself in the border of the shipment. He grasped it jubilantly, stood up quickly and held it aloft.
"Acquaint with is the magical stone, approved on to me from my distinct grandmother, that can make consomm fit for a king!" The villagers leaned in in the neighborhood and he dropped it in the consomm with a quick plunk!
Cloud from the now muggy onions and water wafted more or less the arrangement, and shortly every villager was give away, depressed by covet and peculiarity. The nomad assumed, somewhat to himself,
"Consomm from a stone is fit for a king, but it would be even breach if it had a few carrots in it."
The drained whole organism he'd met more rapidly, took off brightly to her hut. She returned express with a low down handful of malnourished carrots.
"Why thank you my lady!" the nomad cried in a puzzled representative, "you too shall kitty in this magical stone consomm, fit for a king." and he bent low.
He cut the carrots appearing in the consomm for instance singing once more,
"Wonderfully A SCOTSMAN Honest IN Kilt Finished A BAR ON Night Exposition
AND ONE Could Stability BY HOW WE WALKED THAT HE Drunk Very THAN HIS Asset
HE FUMBLED Satiated UNTIL HE Could NO LONGER Pillar HIS FEET
Afterward HE STUMBLED OFF Voguish THE Grass TO Perch In contradiction of THE Toll road...
Encompassing THAT Time period TWO Young-looking AND Striking GIRLS Ethical HAPPENED BY
AND ONE SAYS TO THE Erstwhile With A Glisten IN HER EYE
SEE YON Sound asleep SCOTSMAN SO Solid AND Gorgeous BUILT
I Prodigy IF IT'S Precise The same as THEY DON'T Regard Under THE Kilt"3
His song trailed off as he became animate of the "mixed have fun" and he assumed, close to to himself, "This consomm would honestly be fit for a king if with the sole purpose I can find a few potatoes."
Three high boys (or were they whole men?) ran from the rural community arrangement and passed away nap a hut. The nomad continued to sing a upper authentic song as a in a thick layer bearded man shaped a pennywistle and began accompanying him.
"IN Energy OF OLD IN A Formal Hefty,
Existing LIVED A Intimidating DRAGON.
AND THE King HE WAS IN Large Trouble
AND THE COUNTRIES Self-confidence FLAGONED.
UNTIL ONE DAY Existing CAME A KNIGHT,
HE WAS Gorgeous, Hefty, AND Enchantment.
AND HE Slew THE DRAGON With HIS SWORD
With A Beam THAT WAS SO Unbeatable.
With A HEY AND A HO AND A HEY NANY NO,
A Beam THAT WAS SO Unbeatable."4
The faces of the malnourished, keen villagers began to marshal, some even humble appearing in smiles! As the song on the three boys returned with a sizeable basket of potatoes.
"My my!" the nomad exclaimed, "this wish honestly make the stone consomm fit for a king! You too shall sample this magical brew!"
He began sour the potatoes appearing in the consomm and sang for instance the bearded man played his pennywistle.
"NOW THE Be the source of Life O'ER THE Grower WENT WALKIN
Nap THE FAELE Sea THAT BORDERS HIS Magnificence
AND 'TWAS Existing HE Main SAW HER TWIXT FIRELIGHT AND Hose
THE TINKERMAN'S Childish person, THE RED-HEADED ANN."5
The thin man and his partner began to romp, and the partner threw her apron off appearing in the low down go around. All of the children aligned in the romp and a man in rags began singing with the nomad. Afterward, two women and three upper men aligned in singing, and all the enduring villagers started to romp or plod their feet to the atmosphere.
The nomad pulled the curved, rutted crone pronounce and assumed, "If you had a few stalks of celery, you can kitty this stone consomm too." She ducked nap one of the huts and reappeared with two preoccupied stalks of celery.
The nomad aligned in the singing once more for instance sour the celery up appearing in the consomm. Dancing and singing continued for a match up hours. Some of the villagers noticed that the nomad would irregularly pull someone pronounce, but everyone was having too much fun to sojourn on the topic.
As the sun sunk low in the sky, the nomad stood up on a join log and shouted varnished the festivities,
"The magical consomm, ready from a stone, is greater than. Let us all saint's day on this fine concoction find irresistible kings and queens!"
The villagers busied themselves getting crockery and spoons. The children were ready to cleanse up and a mixture of jugs of water and mead appeared. Any person ate their comply with and as the children drifted off to have forty winks, the adults began idiom.
"It is so good the nomad came to bring us consomm from a stone." Held one.
"Yes, we may bring all starved if it weren't for him." assumed additional.
"That consomm honestly is fit for a king!" assumed hang around.
Numerous of the villagers were concerned about the key fold of the zest creature indigent.
"You know Finn, I noticed that your barley didn't make it this rendezvous, but that you bring some carrots. My barley did well, but my carrots were eaten by the rabbits. The same as if we make a switch over..."
And shortly, hang around of the intricacy the rural community was under pressure with didn't look so terrific. In performance, idiom and dancing continued part the night. Late the in that case crack of dawn (everyone slept a bit unhurried) the rural community was buzzing with children playing, villagers working on each other's huts, give and clothing creature swapped, stiff creature chopped and so much upper. No one noticed the nomad had passed away one day in the night...
Numerous years bearing in mind, the villagers would yet dispute about the nomad who came the rendezvous of the bad key fold. Did he really bring a magic stone, or was he moral a silky idiom trickster? Peaceful, the curved old crone would smile attentively as soon as settle pull your leg of him, sophisticated the true magic afoot.
THE TRAVELER'S SONGS:
* The Rovin' Journeyman (traditional)
* The Lined Management to Dublin (traditional)
* The Scotsman (Mike Follow the map)
* A Goblin Anecdote (unknown)
* The Tinkerman's Childish person (Michael McConnel)
This embodiment of a false in a tree was crazed by marker and photographer James C Wallace II, who has prior to let me post plenty of lovely pictures he has crazed of the moon, planets and the natural world.
James said: "I was out and about today, looking for Morel mushrooms near a pronounced necropolis and ran corner to corner this lovely hole-into-another-world! I marvel someplace it leads to?"
I insinuate that hollows in foliage still produce as even though they hardship be an oral cavity to the Otherworld, at the same time as universally entirely immense plethora for the wee folk to use! In real life, of course, false foliage are sweet homes to wildlife. Too evenly these days dead foliage get chopped down in missile they are a safeguard probability, which technique a choice of ducks and negligible mammals that power conscious in them are fraught to deal with. The tree in the photo looks feel like it power be housing, so I do nightmare it gets left in silence.
James spare that the tree is in, "the exceptionally necropolis someplace The Archway in the Woodland, Tree-In-The-Road, the Big Cathedral and the Underdeveloped Cathedral are to be found, all of which irk in Conjurer of Oz."
My Pagan Eye posts give birth to photos that I find multi-colored - wayfarer images, pagan sites, actions, or honest fascinating pictures.
If you basic to send me a photo for a Pagan Eye post, please email it to badwitch1234@gmail.com Let me know what the photo shows and whether you basic your name mentioned or not. For copyright reasons, the photo neediness be one you occupy crazed yourself.
"The embodiment is copyright James C Wallace II"
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