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June 8th, 2004
May 28th, 2004
04:10 pm - Too much seeing
Teaching is a great way to learn, especially when you have to see through your audience's eyes. But then we all know that's not possible. To have another person's dreams or desires or concerns just isn't plausible. LOL
So why are our dreams affected by what we eat? That's common knowledge: you eat spicy foods and your dreams are shifted. You eat legumes and your dreams become...(something)...and if you eat meat when you rarely do, your dreams become aggressive.
Now for the shaman interested folk, suppose you are ingesting the core of the entity? Cool, eh? That's why Natives on all continents prefer to kill their own higher lives. That would explain the unfamiliar dreams.
So as most pagans know, focus provides a mechanism for change/magic/energy work. And focus is developed through many means, one of which is teaching. The teacher, as an apex, becomes the repository for change. Very selfish, then, to teach.
Especially, if you're untrained and unethical.
So here's a question I have...how do we determine an ethical teacher or create a model for ethics? One determination (has been around forever) is that a teacher must NEVER have relations with their student. Too much of a "power over" possibility. But aside from that basic one, what are other ways?
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May 13th, 2004
10:12 pm - Tell me...
I have this beautiful young woman for a daughter who was thrilled to be getting all decked out for prom. When she called her boyfriend to "plan," he hadn't a clue what was going on and dismissed the whole deal as unimportant.
So here's my question to the men who might be reading this: when did you begin to understand what girls/women might be saying and asking for? I know there are some guys who have this wonderful innate understanding, while others start without a clue.
I don't want to judge this young man as unfeeling and selfish if he's really trying and just doesn't know where to start. So...my question. When do young men begin to understand there might be multiple ways to approach relationships and they don't have a corner on the best right way?
Feeling a little protective here.
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10:08 pm - The Goddess quiz
I can't get them to show up here. But I tied with two: Athena and Aphrodite. There's an "A" theme here. LOL LOL LOL (snort chuckle)
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03:39 pm - Faces everywhere
What does face represent in the Asian culture? Anyone know?
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May 12th, 2004
09:44 pm - Here & Now
I so often wish I had more answers the older I get. Is this some form of cosmic joke? I'm serious. The more mastery I gain (in anything), the less I really know. And I'm don't think of myself as a modest person by nature. So it pisses me off. But I think I'm just generally pissed off right now.
Why is it we need to take care of people who don't give a rats pitooty that we're doing that, couldn't form the words thank you if they were tied to a stake, and in general are so into themselves that they can't possibly accept the help of anyone else?
In these cases, is religion a support for doing the right thing that's very hard to do, (we have to sublimate our own desires and dreams to theirs) or is it a blind for the hunter?
Then there was the meeting I went to, where everyone but me had gone through this very rigorous and specialized training. I am impressed by people who have dreams and vision. I wanted to listen and understand what they were putting together. But once they found out I didn't have this particular brand of training, I was snubbed. And it wasn't because I wasn't contributing from time to time. It was REALLY weird. I haven't been snubbed like that since an 8th grade sleep over. I wanted to shout at them, what if I was friends with Deepok Chopra? Would I be worthy of your freaking attention and respect then? Because the snub clearly had nothing to do with who I was or what I am about (they don't know). It was more about status. How dull.
LOL
OK, so journals DO have a function.
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May 5th, 2004
05:14 pm
You are the Wheel of Fortune card. The Wheel of
Fortune continues one of the major themes of
the major arcana: balance. Here the universal
tendency towards balance is described by the
Law of Karma. Karma is your destiny as a result
of actions you have taken in the past. The Wheel
of Fortune also operates on a scale larger than
ourselves. Our fate or destiny is in part
determined by factors beyond our control.
Luck describes these external
forces over which we have no control and is the
province of the Wheel of Fortune. Image from
the Aquatic Tarot deck.
http://www.atarot.de/AquaticTarot/
Which Tarot Card Are You?
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April 28th, 2004
10:08 pm - The root.
Funny thing how magic works. As the world gets stronger in its grip on people's imaginations, the longer it takes for people to be able to turn back to where magic lays open and obvious.
I was absolutely shocked with the answers I got to a few "value" questions I asked in a business meeting. (probably the wrong place to do this, but I'm the boss.) I respect these folks. I even thought I knew them in some way after 3 years. I knew they weren't especially connected magically, but we had had many coffee infused conversations that explore the future of technology and biology and morality and...
My question/s were these: "what do you revere highly enough to want everyone else to have or experience"..."What guides your life?"..."How do you think your world differs from your parents?"
I heard entirely "thing" driven answers. One said he couldn't imagine living with fewer than 5 TVs. This from a guy who designs beautiful artwork, fights his in-laws about feeding his kids sugar, and who speaks with incredible insight. And yet, he has to have every gadget and works intolerable hours to get the things all his friends have.
We talked for an hour and 1/2 over these questions and there weren't any spiritual based answers. Wow! I love my gadgets too, but they serve me. Not the other way around (or so I'd like to believe). I don't think I would feel "less than" if I didn't have the computers and PDAs and cell phones and...and...all that.
Are there stages in our lives that prevent us from facing the unknown and magic squarely on? Part of our natural personal maturing? Natural evolution?
Or is it just that some of us substitute gadgets that reflect substance, for the magic that actually creates substance? Ooooooh, an irony. Didn't see that coming.
(My work here is done. sigh)
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April 27th, 2004
09:57 pm - I was pretty sure I'd bombed!!!!!!!!
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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09:35 pm - Ah, Jello, such memories
OK, so while my newly returned (from a weekend away) love goes out to free some keys from the clutches of an evil van (driven by a teenager, go figure) I will tell about a contest that ran in college over a radio station.
And yes, it's about jello.
I was a DJ and was really bored...my time slot was 2 a.m. to 6 a.m...so I decided to run a sexual fantasy contest. Really, I thought, who cared. I planned to call in myself, talk to myself, and even give myself a sound verbal thrashing. It was going to be a hoot. But then I found out how many insomniacs there are in a small college town!!! Let me tell you, I didn't run music for 3 weeks.
The winning fantasy was jello. Jaccuzi jello. Winter jaccuzi jello. Lime. Not orange because it stains and makes you look like a QT carrot. Not strawberry because you look raw. Not lemon because the flavor sucks and nobody except cheerleaders look good in yellow.
Everyone enjoys skin contact which is why it won. It was months before the stores were able to keep jello in stock. And jaccuzi sales were off the charts. (I hesitate to tell you the name of the town.) But to this day, you'll notice that every Lutheran event has more jello dishes than any other dish. Now you know why.
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