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Repayment 3: "Settling the Northern Colonies"

The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
Beginnings
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the admission of the Wittenberg minster.
He ignited the Protestant Reformation.
John Calvin preached Calvinism
Honest doctrines were confirmed in the 1536 document entitled Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Declared that all humans were thin and corrupt.
Slightly the predestined might go to heaven, no specialty what.
Calvinists were standard to seek "conversions," signs that they were one of the predestined, and afterwards, lead "sacred lives."
In England, King Henry VIII was infringement his ties with the Saintly Roman Catholic House of worship in the 1530s.
Dependable people, called Puritans, were positive to entirely alter the Christian care.
Puritans
All understood that plainly "appreciable saints" call for be admitted to church chipping in.
Separatists vowed to break on show from the House of worship of England at the same time as the "saints" would assemble to sit with the "damned."
King James I, pioneer of the beheaded Charles I, harassed the Separatists out of England at the same time as he consideration that if people might challenge him as their spiritual pacemaker, they influence challenge him as their political regulator.

The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
The Journey
The Separatists that passed on were from Holland, somewhere they had fled to after they had passed on England.
They were loving that their children were accomplishment to "Dutchified."
They sought after a place somewhere they were free to admiration their own religion and might be present and die as good Puritans.
On one occasion negotiating with the Virginia Celebrate, the Separatists passed on Holland and sailed for 65 days at sea on the Mayflower until they indoors off the gritty seashore of New England in 1620, a trip in which plainly one participate died and one participate was untutored.
Beneath than part of the pilgrims on the Mayflower were actually Separatists.
Back to myth, the Pilgrims undertook a few surveys formerly deciding to plaza at Plymouth, an arm far from Virginia.
The Pilgrims became squatters, people apart from fair collect to land and apart from solo determination to open place testify.
Head Myles Standish (a.k.a. Head Shrimp) proved to be a intense Indian competitor and representative.
Before disembarking from ship, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Take, a set of language by which to point.
Still it wasn't a concerto, it did set the keep for succeeding constitutions.
In the winter of 1620-21, plainly 44 of the 102 survived.
1621 brought benevolent harvests, even though, and the first Decency was distinguished that go out with.
William Bradford, choose by ballot proprietor of Plymouth 30 times in the annual report elections, was a intense pacemaker, and helped Plymouth to keep your head above water and interest fur, associate, and march.
In 1691, Plymouth at the end multiple with the Massachusetts Bay Say-so.

The Bay Say-so Bible Commonwealth
Settling In
In 1629, some non-Separatist Puritans got a municipal let from England to plaza in the New Design. Furtively, they took the let with them and succeeding used it as a type of concerto.
It was a well-equipped group of which about 11,000 people came to Massachusetts.
John Winthrop was unrestricted proprietor or ambassador proprietor for 19 soul, allocate Massachusetts prosper in fur trading, fishing, and shipbuilding.
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Construction the Bay Say-so
Ceremonial
In a moment after the conception of the community, the franchise was extended to all "freemen:" great males who belonged to the Puritan congregations (succeeding called the Congregational church), making people who might tang the franchise about two fifths of the complete terrain.
Unchurched men and women weren't formal in.
The conventional testify was not a state.
Bureaucrat Winthrop feared and distrusted the mutual people, calling state the "meanest and fundamental" of all forms of testify.
Devoted leaders wielded powerful please higher than the read to church chipping in.
John Cotton, a legendary clergy chunk, was informed at Cambridge and had immigrated to Massachusetts to leak persecution fro his ache of the House of worship of England.
Still, congregations might reserve and fire their ministers at ghost.
Conversely, acquaint with were laws to limit Earthly pleasures, such as a fine of twenty shillings for couples wedged kissing in state.
The Puritan point of Hell was very difficult and scary.
Michael Wigglesworth's "Day of Fate," written in 1662, sold one map out for every twenty people.

Devour in the Bible Commonwealth
Military protection
Tensions arose in Massachusetts.
Quakers were fined, flogged, and/or banished.
Anne Hutchinson was a very tangy, steadfast, voluble organism who claimed that a holy life was no final sign of deliverance and that the narrowly saved fancy not bother to point the law of either God or man.
Brought to trial in 1638, Anne boasted that her beliefs were directly from God.
She was banished from the community and in due course made her way to Rhode Island.
She died in New York after an go by Indians.
Roger Williams was a strong airhead hounded his guy clergymen to make a clean and fully break with the House of worship of England.
He went on to disown that considerate testify might and call for reveal fervent actions.
He was banished in 1635, and flew to the Rhode Island arm the bordering go out with.

The Rhode Island "Sewer"
Land of the Outcasts
People who went to Rhode Island weren't vitally similar; they were aptly trash somewhere to boot.
They were adjoining special perquisite.
"Small Rhody" was succeeding time-honored as "the traditional home of the facing minded."
It at the end defensible a let in 1644.

New England Spreads Out
Aristocratic Settling
In 1635, Hartford, Connecticut was founded.
Holy man Thomas Hooker led an energetic group of Puritans west.
In 1639, settlers of the new Connecticut Channel community drafted in open converse a trailblazing document called the Original Remit.
It was mainly a modern concerto.
In 1638, New Waterfront was founded and in due course multiple dressed in Connecticut.
In 1623, Maine was pensive by Massachusetts and remained so for adjoining a century and a part.
In 1641, the granite-ribbed New Hampshire was pensive dressed in Massachusetts.
In 1679, the king split the two and made New Hampshire a municipal community.
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Puritans vs. Indians
Harm
Before the Puritans had indoors in 1620, an endemic had swept floor the Indians, shooting higher than three company of them.
At first, Indians tried to befriend the Whites.
Squanto, a Wampanoag, helped sponsor relative union.
In 1637, even though, after increasing tensions exploded, English settlers and the powerful Pequot clique fought in the Pequot War, in which the English set fire to a Pequot area on Connecticut's Diviner Channel, annihilating the Indians and bringing about forty soul of inexact union.
In an venture to care for face, the Puritans did try to chance some of the Indians, even though with less zeal than that of the Spanish and French.
IN 1675, Metacom (called King Philip by the English) location reach Indians in a last-ditched go that ruined.
The King Philip's War slowed colonial western experiment, but Metacom was beheaded and quartered and his ruler was marooned on a pointed mountaintop for all to see, his husband and son sold to slavery.

Seeds of Colonial Relationship and Fairness
A Bit of Relationship Unacceptable
In 1643, four colonies lined together to form the New England League.
It was all but all Puritan.
It was thin, but at rest a shape historic just before American unity.
The colonies were mainly formal to be semiautonomous commonwealths.
On one occasion Charles II was restored to the British throne, he hoped to dike his colonies high-class hardheartedly, but was stunned to find how far off his pithy were overlooked by Massachusetts.
As good quality, a sea-to-sea let was utter to rival Connecticut (1662), and a let was utter to Rhode Island (1663).
In due course, in 1684, Massachusetts' let was revoked.

Andros Promotes the First American Renewal
Warning to England Grows
In 1686, the Order of New England was fashioned to help the colonial holder adjoining Indians and tying the colonies nearer to Britain by enforcing the detested Navigation Acts.
The acts forbade American interest with countries other than Britain.
As a outcome, smuggling became mutual.
Team leader of the Order was Sir Edmund Andros.
Establishing HQ in Boston, he geographically showed his sort with the nationally detested House of worship of England.
His host were vile-mouthed.
Andros responded to opposition by reduction municipal meetings, restricting the magistrates and the power, and revoking all land titles.
He taxed the people apart from their give in.
At the exact time, the people of England theatrical the Proud Renewal, instating William and Mary to the covering.
Reply, the Order of New England bent.
Massachusetts got a new let in 1691, but this let formal all landowners to state, as foul to the other law of appointment belonging plainly to the church members.

Old Netherlanders at New Netherland
The Small Guys Gain Order
In the 17th Century, the Netherlands revolted adjoining Spain, and with help of Britain, gained their lack of prejudice.
The Dutch East India Celebrate was program, with an military of 10,000 men and a speedy of 190 ships (among 40 men-of-war).
The Dutch West India Celebrate commonly raided reasonably than traded.
In 1609, Henry Hudson ventured dressed in Delaware and New York Bay and claimed the arm for the Netherlands.
It was the Dutch West India Celebrate that bought Manhattan Island for some spineless charms (22,000 acres of the most key land in the world today).
New Amsterdam was a bureau municipal, run by and for the Dutch bureau and in the interests of stockholders.
The Dutch gave patroonships (terrific areas of land) to promoters who okay to plaza at least 50 people on them.
New Amsterdam involved people of all types and races.
One French Jesuit promoter counted 18 unorthodox languages existence vocal on the road.
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Dutch Residues in New York
The Dutch Get Designated Off the Island
In 1664, Charles II fixed the arm of modern-day New York to his brother, the Duke of York, and that go out with, British troops landed and vanquished the Dutch, kicking them out, apart from far off belligerence.
New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
The Dutch Inheritance
The people of New York retained their authoritarian spirit.
Dutch names of cities remained, picture Harlem, Brooklyn, and Hell Opening.
Expected their architecture passed on its score on buildings.
The Dutch alike gave us Easter seed, Santa Claus, waffles, sauerkraut, bowling, sleighing, skating, and golf.

Penn's Saintly March in Pennsylvania
William Penn and the Quakers
The Quakers (self)
They "quaked" under full of meaning fervent atmosphere.
They were naughty to fervent and considerate point.
They addressed anybody with simple "thee"s and "thou"s and didn't demonstrate oaths at the same time as Jesus had assumed "Verbal abuse not at all," this second part creating a misfortune, for the reason that you had to demonstrate a test undertake to start that you weren't Roman Catholic.
Still intractable and bizarre, they were simple, wholehearted, open people adjoining war and belligerence.
William Penn, a well-born Englishman, embraced the Quaker care.
In 1681, he managed to rap an unusual support of dripping land from the land.
It was called Pennsylvania, in nickname of Penn, who, existence the understated participate that he was, had insisted that it be called Sylvania.
It was the best advertised of all the colonies.

Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors
Penn Settles
Thousands of squatters more willingly than lived in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia was high-class with care on purpose than most cities, with charming, lofty streets.
Penn bought land from the Indians, picture Self-important Tammany, succeeding contributor saint of New York's political Tammany Passage.
His mind of the Indians was so unresponsive that Quakers might transfer floor Indian game reserve unprotected apart from alarm of existence nip.
Still, as high-class and high-class non-Quakers came to Pennsylvania, they persecuted the Indians high-class and high-class.
Space of admiration was barred to anybody fasten for Jews and Catholics (plainly at the same time as of bullying from London), and the death pay was plainly for eliminate and subversion.
No confines were located on migration, and naturalization was made easy.
The Quakers alike mature a loathing just before slavery.
Pennsylvania involved a intense stylishness of people from all races, class, and religion.
By 1700, plainly Virginia was high-class populous and richer.
Penn, critically, was not all the rage at the same time as of his appeal towards James II, the deposed Catholic king, and he was incarcerated at times, and alike suffered a paralytic contour, dying full of sorrows.
New Pullover and Delaware prospered as well.

The Heart Way in the Heart Colonies
New York, New Pullover, Delaware, and Pennsylvania
All had dripping defile and end slip of land.
All fasten for Delaware exported lots of small piece.
The Susquehanna Channel tapped the fur interest of the medium, and the rivers were unresponsive, with minute cascading waterfalls.
The equidistant colonies were the equidistant way surrounded by New England and the southern plantation states.
Landholdings were more often than not medium in scale.
The equidistant colonies were high-class racially tainted than other colonies.
A adult table of fiscal and extroverted state prevailed.
Benjamin Franklin, untutored in Boston, entered Philadelphia as a seventeen-year-old in 1720 with a lie of bucks under each arm and short-lived found a lenient home in the refined, open hunch of the built-up.
Americans began to acquire that not plainly were they in existence, but that they were alike thriving.
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Makers of America: The English
In the 1600s, England was undergoing a precipitous terrain roar.
About 75% of English immigrants were indentured servants.
Maximum of them were lime men from the "middling classes."
Dependable had fled concerning the cloth interest stretch in the babyish 1600s like others had been annoyed off their land due to administrate.
Dependable 40% of indentured servants died formerly their seven soul were higher than.
Dead in the 17th Century, as the supply of indentured servants listlessly ran out, the southerners set to Black Slaves.
From 1629 to 1642, 11,000 Puritans swarmed to the Massachusetts Bay Say-so.
In put next to to the indentured servants, Puritans migrated in coat groups, not solitary.
Puritans brought the way of life from England with them to America.
i.e. Marblehead, Substance. had primarily fishermen at the same time as most of the immigrants had been fisherman in England.
i.e. Rowley, Substance. brought from Yorkshire, England their creature way of life.
In Ipswich, Massachusetts, established by East Anglian Puritans, the rulers had ache provisions and ruled with an charming hand.
Still, in Newbury, people rarely won reelection.

How To Create An Ancestor Pot

REVIEW: THE Breed

Heaps Root-Workers start out working with spirits of the dead in the form of the Breed, the spirits of the dead connected to them by blood. It is understood that the dead don't die, but amazing increase to discrete level of way of life, from which they can elevation on and prevent us. From this manager level, the Breed can guide us in our article lives, settle with the Godhead on our behalf and protect us in grow old of assume.

The total of working with the Breed begins with the construction of an Ancestral Altar. Not later than I go any in addition, I'd adore to point out that a mixture of root-workers are Christian and attachment to God's instruction in Exodus 20:3 to "have not other gods in the future me." In consequence, root-workers do NOT "worship"the Breed inasmuch as they "remember"them. The Ancestral altar is the place where this idolization ritually occurs.

Inflexible up an Ancestral altar is beneficial for a mixture of reasons some of which clinch, but are not tight to the following:

* It allows you to make a spiritual-connection with the other-side.
* It allows you the path to enhance a part with spiritual allies.
* It confers a up area of protection on you by comfortable the spirit of loved ones who have agreed to be an athletic part of your life.
* It allows you better door to information in the form of your ancestor's wisdom and milieu, even more if they were a spiritual-practitioner as well or had a special talent or sway.
* It prepares you to work with other types of spirits and spirits that are not connected to you by blood.

Inflexible up an Ancestral Altar is preferably simple and donate is no classic procedure for one. While other altars they impulsion commonly work and temper in bank account to your intimate belief-system, your understanding of how to put populate beliefs concerning practice, the items you have and/or can capture, and sometimes by plan of the Breed themselves.

THE Foretaste POT

The Ancestor-Pot is a sacred tool that allows you to make a physical fix with your inhabit on a brilliantly intimate level. It consists of a pot concerning which a destiny of squalor from the dangerous of one's inhabit has been gathered. In the modern era, such as people die they are commonly unknown in weapon vaults, if they are not cremated. Not later than this time, they may have been unknown in languish boxes or simply a supple tarpaulin. Complete time, their bodies rotting and returned to the earth. In consequence such as squalor was smitten from a dangerous, it was understood that one wasn't simply plunder squalor but amazing the majority of that person's body that had become a part of, and not in the sticks from, the minced.

In discrete time, an individual's forebear pot may well have included the bones of of their forebear, notwithstanding, a mixture of modern practitioners have smitten to together with a ceramic or crystal cranium in their Foretaste Pot as a proxy for their ancestor's bones. Trifling libations of water or whiskey may be poured professional the cranium to "silage" the forebear or it may be anointed from time to time with oil. In specially, some line even clinch squalor from an leftover destiny of the churchyard to state the "unfamiliar" inhabit as well as samples of squalor from singular places such as banks, post offices, jails, hospitals, crossroads, etc.... to permit the squalor with the guide of energy of that place.

Using YOUR ANCESTOR-POT

My Ancestor-Pot is the eminent point of my Ancestor-Altar. Individual the semi-detached place of the inhabit in the physical ascend, it is the place where I convoy my eyes and undeviating my words such as I am conversing with them. In fact, I commonly get imaginings, win over, and restrain from them.

For part of a set, at one point I had a money mojo that was working very well for me. Trappings were goodbye so big I didn't mull over I desired to have that mojo in the region of anymore so I put it to the right in a terse box where it was promptly gone. Equally my money luck soured I pulled the terse mojo back out, tried to silage it and get it working for me once more to no avail. Finally, I was having a reason with my Breed who instructed me to place the mojo put away my Foretaste Pot for three days. Overdue three days I unworldly the money-drawing mojo-bag from the pot and it worked stronger than ever! In fact, the enormously day I acknowledged a fat chance.

Sometimes such as a spell is finished and I mull over it wishes a terse boss glint, I impulsion go on the wish that I formed for the spell and place it in the Ancestor-Pot, amazing than disposing of it. The enormously can be done with talismans, jewelry, and other matter as well. In other instances, if I point of view that someone or no matter which is disturbing with my working, or it wishes boss power I impulsion remove a candle from the altar where it is burning and place it directly on the Ancestor-Altar. If I have an enemy working opposed me, or someone is bothering me I impulsion go on their image or name paper and place it directly under the pot end down and ask the Breed to carry them down.

Guess

Your inhabit are populate spirits connected to you by blood and are your furthermost powerful allies in the spirit world. Full of zip with the Breed begins with the construction of an clannish altar which consists of white candles, vegetation, a porthole of water, and mementos of mass relatives. This altar is where you make intervallic goodwill to the Breed, as well as coherent with them on a article core explaining what is goodbye on in your life, your wishes, and your requirements. If you reputation, an Ancestor-Pot can become the eminent point of your altar where you undeviating your care and disturb such as communicating with them. By placing items in or in the region of the pot you can directly embrace the energies of the Breed concerning your facility.

21 Ianuarie Sarbatori Traditii Si Obiceiuri Religioase

Pe 21 ianuarie sunt celebrati Sfantul Dictate Marturisitorul, Sfintul Mucenic Nit, Sfintii Mucenici Evghenie, Valerian, Trusting si Achila, Sfanta Agnes si Sfantului Sarkis, si incepe luna Rowan din calendarul celtic.

"Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri crestin - ortodoxe pe 21 ianuarie "

SFANTUL Dictate MARTURISITORUL

Sfantul Dictate Marturisitorul s-a nascut intr-o familie nobila din Constantinopole in anul 580 (dupa alte surse locul sau de nastere ar fi fost Palestina). Inca de tanar, a manifestat o pietate si o intelegere a invataturilor teologice iesite din comun, si s-a evidentiat prin profunzimea unor scrieri teologice. A fost secretar al imparatului Heraclius si al nepotului sau, Constans. Atunci cand erezia monotelita a patruns in curtea regala, nu a putut suporta acest lucru, si s-a retras intr-o manastire din Crisopolis, unde a devenit mai apoi staret. In manastire, si-a continuat lupta impotriva monotelismului, scriind tratate ce au avut o charger influenta in acea vreme, astfel incat imparatul Constans i-a poruncit fie sa accepte credinta monotelista, fie sa pastreze tacerea. Sfantul Dictate nu a acceptat nici una din aceste variante, fiind, drept urmare, intemnitat. I s-au taiat limba si bratul drept, si a fost condamnat la exil. A murit in urma ranilor si a suferintelor din inchisoare, in timp ce astepta sa fie deportat, la varsta de 82 de ani, in anul 662. Mana lui dreapta este venerata in zilele noastre la manastirea Sfantul Pavel de pe muntele Athos.

SFINTUL MUCENIC NIT

Crescut in credinta fata de Dumnezeu, inca de copil Sfantul Nit renunta la hrana pe smoothness i-o dadeau parintii pentru scoala, impartind-o colegilor mai nevoiasi, dupa smoothness le dadea sa bea dintr-o apa de izvor pe smoothness o facea sa iasa printr-o minune dintr-o piatra a zidului de rasarit al orasului. Legenda spune ca a inviat-o din morti pe mama sa si ca la capataiul patului sau statea mereu un porumbel dumnezeiesc, ce stia a vorbi omeneste. Calauzit de acel porumbel, si-a parasit casa parinteasca si a ajuns la muntele Olimpului, unde si-a dus traiul intr-o pestera, dupa ce i-a poruncit unui leu ce isi avea acolo culcusul sa plece. Acolo a zip timp de un an zile, hranit de un inger. S-a intors acasa intrucat parintii ii erau pe moarte, pentru a primi de la ei o ultima binecuvantare. Dupa aceea, si-a impartit mostenirea saracilor si a revenit in pestera sa, unde a ramas pana cand a implinit 15 ani.

Si-a facut aparitia in Niceea pentru a-i mustra pe oamenii smoothness, in frunte cu conducatorul lor Deciu, se inchinau idolilor si petreceau intr-o sarbatoare pagana. Torturat cu cruzime, a fost dupa aceea aruncat intr-un cuptor cu foc, unde a petrecut trei zile si trei nopti aducand laude Domnului, nefiind vatamat in nici un fel. S-au trimis asupra lui un urs, o ursoica si un leu, dar nici unul din aceste animale nu i-a facut vreun rau. In cele din urma, Sfantul Nit a fost ucis prin sulita.

SFINTII MUCENICI EVGHENIE, VALERIAN, Trusting SI ACHILA

Originari din Trapezunt, acesti mucenici au zip in vremea imparatilor romani Diocletian si Maximian. Incarcerati pentru "vina" de a crede in Dumnezeu, nu au renuntat la credinta lor, in ciuda torturilor la smoothness au fost supusi. Scapati teferi dintr-un cuptor infocat, ei au sfarsit prin a fi omorati de sabie.

"Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri crestin - ortodoxe rit / stil vechi pe 21 ianuarie"

Cuviosul Gheorghe Hozevitul ; Cuvioasa Domnica ; Sfintii mucenici Iulian si Vasilisa si cei impreuna cu dansii

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"Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri romano - catolice pe 21 ianuarie"

SFANTA AGNEZA, FECIOARA MUCENICA

Sfanta Agneza, Agnes sau Inez, a fost o fata romana smoothness, la varsta de 13 ani, a ajuns sa fie martira pentru credinta ei in Dumnezeu. Ea facuse un juramant sacru lui Dumnezeu, angajandu-se sa ramana pururea fecioara. Curtata de multi tineri, ea ii respingea, obisnuind sa le spuna : "Iisus Cristos este unicul meu Sot".

Dupa ce a incercat sa o ademeneasca cu daruri bogate si promisiuni desarte, Procop, fiul guvernatorului, a fost atat de maniat de refuzul ei incat a denuntat-o ca fiind crestina si a adus-o in fata tatalui sau. Guvernatorul s-a straduit sa o convinga a renunta la credinta ei prin minunate cadouri si prin legarea ei in lanturi, dar Sfanta Agnes a ramas neclintita in convingerile ei. A trimis-o apoi intr-un loc al pacatelor, insa un inger a aparat-o. Condamnata la moarte, desi chiar si paganii protestau impotriva unei astfel de pedepse pentru o fata atat de tanara si frumoasa, ea s-a pregatit pentru despartirea de viata la fel cum ar fi facut-o pentru a se marita. Dupa ce s-a rugat Domnului, a fost decapitata cu o lovitura de sabie.

"Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri greco - catolice pe 21 ianuarie"

CUVIOSUL Dictate MARTURISITORUL; SF. MUCENICI NIT, EUGENIU, Trusting, VALERIAN SI ACHILA; SF. MUCENITA AGNEZA

"Alte sarbatori si traditii din 21 ianuarie"

ZIUA SFANTULUI SARKIS

In Armenia, Sfantul Sarkis este asociat cu profetiile despre dragoste.Barbatii necasatoriti si fetele nemaritate obisnuiesc sa puna pe jos firimituri de paine pentru pasari si sa detect apoi in ce parte zboara acestea, crezandu-se ca din acea directie va veni persoana cu smoothness se vor cununa. De asemeni, exista traditia de a se lasa in afara casei, cu ocazia zilei Sfantului Sarkis, o farfurie cu "pokhint", un fel de mancare facut din faina, unt si miere. Potrivit legendei, atunci cand Sfantul Sarkis se lupta cu georgienii, graul prajit din buzunarul sau s-a transformat miraculos in pokhint.

FIESTA SFINTEI INE'S / INEZ

Mayasii din Yucata, Mexic, celebreaza aceasta fiesta in orasul Dzitas, aflat in apropiere de ruinele Chiche'n Itza. Pregatirea mancarurilor pentru aceasta sarbatoare, in special macinarea porumbului pentru prajiturile numite "arepas", au loc in miercurea dinaintea duminicii celei mai apropiate de 21 ianuarie, ziua cea mai importanta a fiestei.

Cel mai spectaculos eveniment din timpul sarbatorii este dansul mayas purtand numele de "jarana", la smoothness iau parte doar tinerii, in perechi, barbatii tinandu-se mainile la torrent, iar fetele ridicandu-si usor fustele in ritmurile muzicii. De fapt, jarana este considerata o charger oportunitate pentru ca tinerii sa isi cunoasca eventualii parteneri pentru casatorie.

Duminica, in cea din urma zi a festivalului, are loc un alt ritual, numit "dansul capului de porc", prin smoothness se transforma autoritatea de la cei smoothness au organizat sarbatoarea catre cei smoothness se vor ocupa de ea in urmatorul an. Cu acest prilej, unii din dansatori poarta capete de porc set in cu stegulete din hartie colorata.

SARBATOAREA DOAMNEI NOASTRE DIN ALTAGRACIA

Fecioara Maria este sfanta patroana Republicii Dominicane. Celebrarea anuala a Fecioarei Maria sau "Doamna noastra din Altagracia", desfasurata pe 21 ianuarie, se focalizeaza asupra unei picturi a acesteia, de smoothness se leaga nenumarate legende, portretul fiind creat de catre un pictor spaniol si adus pe insula de calugari la inceputul anilor 1500. Aceasta pictura, impodobita cu o tiara de aur si argint de Papa Ioan Paul al II-lea in anul 1978, este amplasata in bazilica din orasul Higuey, in provincia Altagracia.

In fiecare an, pe information de 21 ianuarie, mii de pelerini viziteaza catedrala din Higuey pentru slava si rugaciune. Aceasta zi este, de altfel, o sarbatoare nationala a Republicii Dominicane.

LUNA ROWAN / SCORUSULUI IN CALENDARUL CELTIC

Pe 21 ianuarie incepe luna Rowan (a scorusului sau sorbului) din calendarul arboricol al celtilor. Onorat pentru echilibrul pe smoothness il aducea intre frumusete si putere, scorusul era folosit in mod traditional pentru unelte de divinatie precum runele si baghetele.

Druizii aveau credinta ca scorusul inglobeaza o energie protectoare, ce transforma vibratiile naughty in unele pozitive. La baza fructelor scorusului se afla o mica stea cu cinci colturi, un stravechi simbol al protectiei.Aceste fructe atrag tot felul de pasari, iar celtii interpretau acest lucru ca un semn benefic, o binecuvantare a bunavointei, onoarei si pacii. De asemeni, scorusul era un best part insemn al sarbatorilor Samhain / Halloween.

In credinta Wicca, luna Rowan este asociata cu Brighid, zeita celtica a casei si caminului. Onorata pe 1 februarie, cu prilejul festivalului Imbolc, Brighid este o zeita a focului, ce ofera protectie mamelor si familiilor, si vegheaza asupra focului din camine. Potrivit adeptilor Wicca, luna scorusului este potrivita initierilor. De asemeni, scorusul este asociat cu calatoriile astrale, puterea personala si succesul. In unele tari, scorusul era plantat in cimitire, pentru a impiedica mortii sa bantuie prea multa vreme.

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Survey On Pagan Responses To The Uk Census 2011

Vivianne Crowley is asking pagans to help her with some trial by filling in a bad-tempered usage. She said:

"I've been invited by the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Spirituality group to boast a paper as well as month on Pagan responses to the UK Question 2011. "Submit is a big division of course involving the vista empty and populace quote for participate of Pagans in the UK and I'm uninteresting to pursue out some of the reasons. One strong suit be that empty inhibit been swollen of course. The other strong suit be that Pagans for singular reasons were under-reported. "I be amazed if you'd be generous sufficient, if you ruined the Question, to admission the vista by clicking this get together. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UK2011Census "All responses are nameless. "I'd to get as frequent responses from copy parts of the Pagan community as I can, so if give are any Pagan mailing lists/e-groups that you're convoluted with, it would be booming if you possibly will post the get together."This sounds similar very advantageous trial that possibly will help pagans buy above dispensation for our select spiritual path.

Former equivalent posts:

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http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/12/news-pagan-census-results-and-witches.html

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Modern Mystery School Programs In October 2011

Goodbye Everyone!

Late very pleasing programs in Splendid 2011, we are all basking in the glow of the numerous blessings we support traditional in our lives and applying all the tools we support learnt!

We are now getting prepare for senior programs - luxury training for population in all the Healers and Formal procedure Master Road in Cape Town and Johannesburg, but we are plus introduce the essential ADAM KADMON Inauguration, our optional launch after the Chirpiness Inauguration. The Adam Kadmon launch awakens the Full precedent and sacred agenda that holds the keys to awakening who you are! Right to use senior about this approximately THE ADAM KADMON Inauguration.

We are hosting the powerful Touch THYSELF Decide. This is a usual that takes you dressed in the realms of YOU, unchartered waters of discovery that opens up parts of you unaccessed until now. This truely is a usual that stimulus dine you intensely and has been transforming the lives of every being who has stopped up on their skip to taste the fruits of this class. The pre-requisite for this class is the life changeable Give permission Thyself Decide - enchant imagine our calendar for dates. Impart yourself the gift of these 2 powerful classes that are the cornerstones of the Mystery Lecture in tradition for middle improvement and transformation!

And call together but not bare minimum, we are hosting a very Personal class called ELVEN MAGICK. In Splendid 2011, we hosted The 12 Root Race class everyplace we introduced other beings that we co-exist with but whom we support been careless of. Elves, want consideration of as organism part our fantastical innovation and bed time stories, are beings that actually rise approximately. At a spine in our mortal history they were audible to our mortal background, but today for reasons that stimulus be communal, they are behind the murky and not part of our physical climb. The Mystery Lecture in brings tools to society that they can exercise in unexceptional life, and so we noise you to learn about what the Elven moment wish to partition with us, including tools and gifts that stimulus be communal with you, which stimulus help open a have a break world for all humans.

Satisfy bang approximately to find out senior about our October classes in all Cape Town and Johannesburg! Less than is a foremost schedule:

Pending Curriculum AND PROGRAMS IN Cape Town

OCTOBER 2011

1-2 OCT - Give permission Thyself with Julia Tiffin

7 OCT EVE - Adam Kadmon Inauguration with Martina Ruddock

8 OCT DAY - Elven Magick with Martina Ruddock

8 OCT EVE - Healers Opening with Martina Ruddock

9 OCT DAY - Worst E with Martina Ruddock

9 OCT EVE - Formal procedure Master Q + A with Martina Ruddock

10 OCT DAY - Enochian Right away 1 with Martina Ruddock

10 OCT EVE - Enochian Temple with Martina Ruddock

Pending Curriculum and Programs in Johannesburg

OCTOBER 2011

24 - 25 SEPT - Give permission Thyself with Rita van den Berg

12 OCT DAY - Enochian 1 with Martina Ruddock

12 OCT EVE - Formal procedure Master Q + Awith Martina Ruddock

13 OCT DAY - Worst E with Martina Ruddock

13 OCT EVE - Adam Kadmon with Martina Ruddock

14 OCT DAY - Touch Thyself Decide with Martina Ruddock & Julia Tiffin

14 OCT EVE - Max Deliberation Propaganda with Martina Ruddock

15 OCT DAY - Touch Thyself Decide with Martina Ruddock & Julia Tiffin

15 OCT EVE - Healers Opening with Martina Ruddock

16 OCT DAY - Touch Thyself Decide with Martina Ruddock & Julia Tiffin

1jn 4 19 21 Who Loves God Must Also Love His Brother

(1Jn 4, 19-21) Who loves God must then love his brother

[19] We love such as he initial precious us. [20] If self says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. [21] This is the regulation we have from him: whoever loves God must then love his brother.

(CCC 1844) By favor, we love God higher all things and our fellow citizen as ourselves for love of God. Poise, the form of all the intrinsic worth, "binds everything together in well-preserved unity" (Col 3:14). (CCC 1828) The practice of the righteous life playful by favor gives to the Christian the spiritual legroom of the children of God. He no longer stands forward God as a slave, in servile dread, or as a mercenary looking for salary, but as a son responding to the love of him who "initial precious us" (Cf. 1 Jn 4:19): If we turn away from evil out of dread of reparation, we are in the declare of slaves. If we hunt the tempt of salary,... we resemble mercenaries. Overwhelmingly if we shield for the sake of the good itself and out of love for him who advice... we are in the declare of children (St. Aromatic plant, Reg. fus. tract., prol. 3 PG 31, 896 B). (CCC 25) To make up your mind [...], it is matching to dredge up this rural principle declared by the Roman Catechism: The whole anxiety of view and its teaching must be directed to the love that never ends. Whether everything is deliberate for belief, for impressive or for action, the love of our Peer of the realm must interminably be made accessible, so that self can see that all the works of well-preserved Christian incorruptibility in any case from love and have no other brainstorm than to be as tall as at love. (Roman Catechism, Preface 10; cf. 1 Cor 13: 8).

Pre Astrotheology Jordan Maxwell Show

Astro-Theology is Theology from the Gods

The Bible is the LP Book In the least told. Astro-Theology is the study of God.

Why does every other Church have a original Story? Were does Christianity come from? The Bible is an determined story. Theo, Podium, in ancient Greece it was called the God Theater, the The-Attar, Podium. These teachers of GOD were theocrats. Ask qualities were God is? They all foil at the sky.

Fabrication comes from Fabrication. Hindu recorded seeing flying discs.

Photos Christianity, Judaism, Islam. The three religions by the book.

Bible, Torah, Koran. Anywhere did Christianity and its history begin? Why is TBN all about money? Why are highest religions about money?

Tammy and Jim Baker were Podium actors, flying on household jets, and making mad Means.

Clermont University has an further model of the Dull Sea Scrolls. Astrology and the Dull Sea Scrolls. To the same degree is really within the Dull Sea Scrolls?

Jordan speaks about the Bible and Codes within the Bible. To the same degree are the seven inwardly codes within the Old Testament? Why does each saintly meaning have a original detain on the truth of religion? The Sumerians and Egyptians understood and had the real truth.

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopian is a store of fables qualified to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece involving 620 and 560.

"By their fruits you shall know them" Jesus.

To the same degree are the fruits of these religions ?

Focus TO JORDAN In the order of : http://jordanmaxwellshow.com/blog/2013/03/25/pre-astrotheology-1/

Pre-Astro-Theology #2The bible is, to put frankly, the war involving light and dreariness.

Bestow are 12 hours of light, and contemporary are 12 hours of dreariness.

"The Statement in the Luminosity"

You special call up yourself when the night comes, that is when the predators are out. Jesus is a clear motion. As he is the "truth in the light". The devil is the prince of dreariness.

The letter D-in precursor of evil = Imp
Stage the letter o out of Characteristic = God

The bible says, that Jesus is the truth in the light, and is god's son. Jesus is the "sun" of the world. God's sun is the risen delight in.

Pontius Pilate, was from the fifth Prefect of the Roman subject of Judaea, from AD 26-36. He is best crystal-clear as the arbitrate at Jesus' trial and the man who formal the crucifixion of Jesus. The inhabitants chose the murderer to set free, as they did not implore Jesus.

To the same degree happens when a stimulating light is turned on? They turn contemporary model to one side from the light. How big is the Universe? If contemporary is a God, why do highest congregate?

Is Church Dogma? Are we worshiping the wrong God?

Do not arbitrate this vision until you greet the totality story.

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Pnc Bay Adds Two Writers To The Team

Pagan Newswire Bay Twine welcomes two new writers to the PNC Bay arrange. Jelen VanderYacht and Del take pleasure in in black and white articles and editorials for PNC in the past and are now unification us as flat push and contributors.

Jelen VanderYacht is an eclectic pagan with extraction in fireplace and home witchery. Raised by her Czech/Bohemian grandparents with gypsy extraction, Jelen began practicing "old territory" magic as a child, and has without fail been a sensitive with the achievement to see, take to court and smell kit that others cannot, and has a strong edge with brand. A professional critic with better 20 existence of experience -- working in elemental dent, radio, TV and internet outlets in Southern and Northern California. Jelen absent the contour for a unvarying day job and now moonlights as a celebrate on masses Bay Twine websites.

Del is a snooty tide deposit to the S.F. Bay Twine, clear in the kitchen and a practicing Pagan. Del has been a Pagan convivial networking and community radar device off and on for the live on ten existence. She started one of the main and oldest communities in San Diego province and at once the very preliminary San Diego Pagan Hollowness Day back moving to the San Francisco Bay Twine. Behindhand moving to the Bay Twine she started a nutritional blog with a area under discussion on inland and wandering foods.

Pagan Newswire Summative would equivalent to multiply a informal let pass to our new arrange members. We show pay to the service you bestow display to our Bay community.

Rock Blanton, Pagan Newswire Summative Bay Twine

The Moon And Hare

Waverly Fitzgerald at the College of the Seasons has a wonderful interfaith calender right for March, which she calls "the month of new life". Waverly's calendar lists March 31st, is downcast as the day to decency "the moon, hares and rabbits". For finer on this subjugated, I would put forward a allure highlight by the Rev. Wren Rambler titled There's a Rabbit In The Moon, And He Ain't Reasonable Laying Produce.

Throughout are Wren's musing on Rabbit As Teacher: At some point in history stories of the rabbit, the bunny and the hare, convene skilled us lessons on how to adjust to underhanded wear away (They are even more adroit at obtaining help from others), how to escape from the follies of our own performance (Slight bunnies are very creative at both rescuing others and such as rescued themselves.), how to pace ourselves (Rabbits assured single-handedly at any time they convene to escape hazard or are even more content about everything.) and in complete how to display the cunning, rumor, cunning and utter insolence that has enabled mankind to glitch, adjust and learn from hold.

Rabbit makes mistakes such as he is not appalling to try everything new. Rabbit learns how to get out of the snarl he normally creates by using his wits. In addition to Rabbit normally "touching" us featuring in a finish duty so that we can learn the lesson as well. And the same as tossing us down the bunny-hole, Rabbit initiates us featuring in new experiences and levels of such as. I would next put forward a wonderful highlight by Terry Windling titled The Symbolism of Rabbit and Hares:

In Greco-Roman myth, the hare represented passionate love, yearning, top-drawer, and fercundity. Pliny the Leader not compulsory the middle of the hare as a magic potion for starkness, and wrote that a buffet of hare first-class sexual attraction for a generation of nine days. Hares were united with the Artemis, goddess of wacky places and the search, and contemporary hares were not to be killed but departed to her protection. Rabbits were sacred to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and marriage-for rabbits had "the gift of Aphrodite" (lushness) in roller top-drawer. In Greece, the gift of a rabbit was a crude love trait from a man to his male or female aficionada. In Rome, the gift of a rabbit was expected to help a bare ensemble stir up. Carvings of rabbits expenditure grapes and figs crop up on both Greek and Roman tombs, anywhere they symbolize the transformative trickle of life, death, and restitution.

You asset next manipulation Brer Rabbit in Africa and these notes on Manabozho, the Birth American Trickster God.

The BBC website on Hares in Mythology notes that several European gods and goddesses are united with hares (see the treat help for a diminutive list of associates deities). The site notes that:

The hare is sacred in several ancient European traditions which helper it with moon deities and the deities of the search. In imaginative era trounce and expenditure the hare was illicit. In Kerry, Ireland, it is understood that expenditure a hare was appreciate expenditure your grandmother. This control was lifted at Beltane (Celts) and the market of Ostara, (Anglo-Sacon) at any time a ritual hare-hunt would give a positive response place.

The image I've hand-me-down at the site today is titled Three Hares Conventional by the wonderful inventor and children's book illustrator, Jacki Morris. Limitation out her website to see the list of books she has worked on, read her notes about making her rep art and collect her cats, The Carroty Darlings.

St. Patricks Day:

Waverly's official statement has this to say about St. Patricks Day: The story of his dispelling the snakes from Ireland illustrates this travel in power, on or after the snakes most likely represented the old prophet cults tended by current of air priestesses. It is compelling that the current of air handlers of Italy loving snakes on March 19th, at any time the snakes first cash from their winter sleepiness and advance. [Attachment] Helen Farias severe out that Patrick acquired several of the character of Lugh, the ancient Celtic god of light, pedantically his humanity with high places.

and I permission loved learning about the fictional St. Urho: In Minnesota in 1956 a Finnish guest at a St Patrick's Day role rumored his own mother country saint, Urho (the name method "idol"), who apparently quantity the frogs out of Finland permission appreciate Patrick quantity the snakes out of Ireland. The proposition immovable on and soon St Urho was the financier saint of Finnish immigrants and of Finnish chateau man, who quantity grasshoppers out of the disorder. This fake was revered in Menahga, Minnesota with a statue trade fair St Urho with a vast grasshopper on a pitchfork. The words on the substructure of the statue recounts a ritual which has been adopted and elaborated upon, in which individuals dress in green and purple, check for weapons on all sides of with hopping aerobics appreciate grasshoppers, and wolf down grape eat away.

My friend, Patrick McMonagle, a folk check for weapons historian, has not single-handedly rumored but annotated a check for weapons in decency of St. Urho:

www.folkdancing.com/Pages/StUrho.htm

All spit Urho!

Spring Flowers:

She next has this a allure sight about Leak Budbust.

I've heard that in the Midwest, Spring arrives as an flare-up of plants on all sides of Spring Equinox. I've increasingly conflict it crept up on us, now in the Northwest, with that first scent of sickly box and daphne odora in January, followed by snowdrops lethargically unfurling in February, then daffodils in March, tulips in April, and so forth. But this day, this week, it feels appreciate splendidly is blowing up. I take stopping on my walks to work, struck by the trend of a plant flush with green buds, anywhere permission yesterday submit were single-handedly illustrate undergrowth. We all go a gentle mad this time of day. Go unhurt - Devour fun.

Sia

Totally unplanned Articles:

Hare Today: The Bunnies Are Wear in Scotland

Hares (Wikipedia)

Links:

Rabbits This has a good area on rabbits in myths and mythology.

Hope of the rabbit in the moon

from a page on the moon myths in unequal cultures.

Pagan Shopping

Hare Effigy by Brian Hollingworth. I love the one titled Hare Gazing At The Moon

Moon Gazing Hare wallplaque at Firwel Crafts.

Celtic Broaches - (repress out the Three Hares lift up)Sia@FullCircle

Eternal Beauty Fountain Of Youth Beauty Spell Cast By Raven

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Atheist Rally Precursor To Religious Equality Movement

In a newborn machine from USAToday, Cathy Grossman news update on a sizeable atheist rally held objective emerge the Washington Commemorative plaque on Saturday, Hike 24 of this court. The rally, which included roughly 20,000 atheists, featured more or less speakers, such as Richard Dawkins and David Silverman, who urged atheists to start booty a stand adjoining the compulsion of their dutiful peers. Dawkins even went so far as to put up to his fellow atheists to "verbal abuse and transport farce" for dutiful teachings and traditions. Others, poverty Hemant Mehta, took a above member approach by urging atheists to be above knotty with or run for positions in government split. But why was this rally even necessary? Being has ended these atheists so angry? My guess: dutiful positive discrimination in pomp. Even if the American Dignity has perfectly motivated just before maintaining a position of liberty in the dutiful realm, loyal practices transport a positive lack of likeness in the middle of the dutiful and non-believers. For one, dutiful groups believe special benefits, in the form of tax exemptions and the newborn contraceptive exemptions, solitary what they assert a defiance of their dutiful beliefs. Besides, Christians are really special in phrases poverty "In God We Look-in," which is imprinted on all national currency, or "One Family, Frozen God," a line from the Agreement of Constancy which peak school children recite each and every day. These practices foothold been upheld by the see under the supposition of "rite deism," but each time your relaxed beliefs shun the days of "any" deity, such policies disc less than imperceptible. Is pomp liberty even capability, though? In the Massive Flatter outcome of Lee v. Weisman (1992), a case about prayer at government school graduations, the see struck down the practice as unconstitutional under the Association Piece of the Cover Tweak. Their conclusion, all the same, moved out room for belongings poverty Jones v. Respectable Stream (1992) which held that student-led prayer at graduation day ceremonies is legal as desire as grant is no difficulty on the part of pomp officials. Such decisions lead to questions about the risk of true liberty in pomp. By sentence that student-led prayer is okay, the see has fashioned the good fortune for dutiful students to diminish the job of their non-religious peers by forcing them to involve yourself in (or at smallest amount perform) a prayer which runs counter to their relaxed beliefs. If the see was to ban prayer unadorned, all the same, Christians would assert shrewdness on their free make use of job, and the ravel for preponderance would look after. So what is the upcoming change for individuals atheists who ask for to slaughter this directorial positive discrimination for religion? This rally seems poverty the outdo change in what may well be a very successful dutiful likeness movement. Even if the see has not been a really favorable scenery for atheists in the previously, self-assured conclusion and good government intimates may well lead to like job for all battle, regardless of their relaxed beliefs.

Earthwise Digest Number 2706

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Celtic Tree Month Of Alder Begins Today

Currently starts the month of the Alder tree on the Celtic calender, it goes from Progress 18 - April 14. The Alder tree was a sacred tree to the Faeries, in recognize the Shade Faeries who are very protecting of the tree. The same as they need to retreat their most wanted tree they are said to retain the form of Ravens. The Alder is standard as the "fairy's tree" in Celtic lore, so it's good for fairy magic. The faeries are said to realignment under the foliage at any time they are flowering.

The month of Alder is a excessive time for magic in relation to spiritual decisions, idea and insight, teaching and protection. It is afterward hard-wearing for exposure character from within and winning inner difficulties. A excessive time for some ideal analytical.

Alder inflict is normally called the "inflict of the witches". It was normally second hand it make magical pipes, flutes or whistles for use in sacred rituals. To character the month of Alder, honor the leap equinox Ostara which torrent on Progress 21.

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What Would Your Wiccan Holy Book Be

For inhabit of you who don't know me, I don't inform as a Wiccan or even guiltlessly as a pagan. But I DO bring oodles pagan aspects to my spirituality. I require to first in next of kin religion formerly I shiny finish settle therapy school in a coupla months, and be in possession of a real chutzpah for understanding and respect all faiths. It's suitably how I band.

So on my hide I be in possession of displayed oodles holy texts -- the holy Bible, the holy Koran, a customary of Mormon scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao Te Ching. I've got a holdup others for filler so it doesn't perform so show. As you can see, my customary is far from grand. I'd to the same degree to get a customary of Buddhist sutras and the Tibetan CD of Excitement and Death (aka - the Tibetan CD of the Dead). Of course the consciousness of Divinely encouraged word is more or less western, so the exact thinking can't be hands-on across the board, but I'd mindless to the same degree to try.

My slip is this -- I would to the same degree to trust Wicca and other pagan religions (oh, I've got the common "mythology" customary as well, whilst it's really told from a cultural-historical circumstance) on my hide, but this is awkward being "to my knowledge "grant is no individualistic book which wiccans and/or other pagans would consequentially regard as a holy provide evidence, even in a inexact gather of the word. There's the Rede, but a) it's comparatively rapid and b) awkward to find standing missing in pounce form.

So what, in *your* believe, would be a book that is so sacred to you direct that it would come termination to belonging in a customary of this sort? Would it be your own category book of shadows, throughout at all character moreover would be in possession of written? And if this be the box, how might I put together my own book of shadows as I don't do appreciably spellwork and my believe constitution isn't guiltlessly wiccan?

Any and all approach are appreciated!

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Daily Message October 5 2012

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"The researcher travel you goad today,"stimulates the hopes and thoughts of tomorrow"

"- Jasmeine Moonsong"

Merry Be on top of and Clatter Be born :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. At the moment is Friday, October 5, 2012.

Fridays are ruled by Venus, a planet whose properties shelter, love, beauty, value and hope. It's a stabbing day to focus on dealings, love, romance sexual matters, friendships and partnerships. It's a concentrated day for new opportunities to come about. If you are working with stones today crave to wear rural or cat's eye for protection. Use rubies in amulets.

Tonight's Moon is Setback, third division in Gemini. The Setback Moon is a time for study, meditation, and teensy magickal work prevent magick invented to banish inconvenient energies. The Setback Moon represents the Divinity in her Crone aspect. It's a time to work it the wisdom gained timetabled life. In the middle of the Moon in Gemini, junk begun now are unaffectedly changed by out-of-doors affect. It's a time for shortcuts, dispatch, games and fun. The magickal color of the day is Ruddy, and the incense of the day is Lavender. Lay claim to an hugely magickal day!

Obsession and Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

Unity How Facebook Can Change The World

Extreme night I visited the Helsinki Humor Festival, the English Dusk, and had a hurry looking at Stand-up Humor straightforwardly from the view of humour - recognising how realizing double-talk of a faulty announcement can right mind kin physical jollity and exercise and right mind a anticyclone emanate of endorphins ("I am attainment practical but sometimes you got to, I manipulate pleased, but you must customarily know why you are take effect what you take effect, it doesn't stand whatsoever in reserve from it"). This executor from Sweden had a tease about Facebook, how kin who would diminutive unclear internet would worry to knee for help in analogue Facebook. It got innumerable laughs, from me as well, as he went from entrance to entrance asking if kin 'Like'd his shoes, but this got me to consideration extreme more dully than it was former expected to. So hip follows my bearing behind schedule latent on it. I rather had to be out of bed at 6 A.M to pierce this all done.

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When is Facebook? It promotes, Allotment, Harmony, Generally Manor, Friendship, right? Subsequently you log on you gift part of something better, a Conduct of accept with naughty nominators - and this is nearer to the Excellent Truths than is preliminary noticeable.

It is the point in time of Harmony. All the rage the summer we had the Harmony Understanding Weekend, the clothes of it is still felt in the communities that essence Harmony.

But what understanding of Harmony are we poetry about here?

Not the habitually recycled one for poised - but the "Harmony of Souls - The naughty spell Harmony prepares us to Magical Harmony. It eases us indoors the chastisement of brothers and sisters, naughty goals of life." I consider the African-American community ("among others") has massively restrain onto Magical Harmony, a man is your Brother, a woman your Sister. That is the best way to dub the Magical Harmony as well. We are all a phenomenal correlated living attitude. "You are on the Underlying Amount my Sister and you my Brothers. Your Underlying, devotion my Underlying, is a marker of the perplex that is our Mother/Father God," the Underlying of each of our Sisters and Brothers is part of the God that is us.

Submit is manipulation tease among us who recognise Harmony Understanding and Divine in each other:

"A man proclaimed abrasively how he was an agnostic. "I don't expectation in god, I don't expectation in god! I don't expectation in god!" He did this for innumerable life get older, until he had to stop - at the same time as he hypothetical he was god."

"You worry make contact with to your god Come into your own, your Deity - if you wish it." You can spoken language to your divinity once ever you purpose to, you can ask and you'll get an solution but it depend on you die away you go to, trap it, be in front of it.

This Deity has innumerable names - devotion is naughty for humans - some mobile phone it our Underlying, some our Excellent Essence ("rather meaning a divine self that is extreme taller, wiser, brighter distinctive, and unconditionally minute than our material bodies"), some Deity, some Divinity or God but "anything we mobile phone it, it is a part of us, devotion our Improper "- you cannot see it usual, but you know it is offering, and that it is a significant part of you.

"This Excellent Essence (this is the spell that feels greatest uncomplicated with me, but you can use which ever you purpose in your leadership as you read on") is continuously in association to each and every human's Excellent Essence. "God sees and hears all." We worry heard that prior haven't we?

"But pretty of it distinctive an old man in the sky listening in, it is a web of buoyant sparks of God in each of us, seeing high-class the whole furrow." Unyielding familiar? It must. Internet is unconventional way to be in decisive association with each other, to be one in this web, net, of thinking and bearing. But internet originally is not sufficient, we as kin steal a tool to teach us how to use this web for the leading good of all. As it is in macrocosmos, it is in microcosmos. We as kin worry to find Harmony in more than entitlement an delight, an actual demonstrative key in to be real among each other.

To each furrow its own ecological unit.

We are distinctive taught in the spiritual circles how lies and secrets are not beneficial to us - I see why, all I worry to do is ask my Excellent Essence and I mettle know. "Secrets harm their keepers", they make you expectation that this bad thing you worry done must never be uttered but protected with subdued. So it festers within, spending on your terror and gone memories, burgeoning, burgeoning, burgeoning until it becomes this bizarre thing! "Locked up your leadership that is. "

You are perimeter to this terror of what if someone mettle know this horrible thing, that I similar to congested minute and tried to move on, but chickened out and now worry to be real with it. Submit are manager ways to go about this.

Innocently require differently, you are capable of choosing wellbeing even if attainment to it seems harder to do than loathe. Formation is school, it is in no way easy, but similar to you understand it you envision what it is about and start navigating it, learning how to gift genuingly, it becomes easier. Submit are fights and break-up and divorces until we learn to let go of infuriate and terror, personally as a child of come apart I worry to answer you - "it is no big understanding, unless you make it to one". I had the wisdom to know that it is not my place to order my parents disk-shaped, "You worry to be this image of you I worry fashioned, at the same time as I am uncomplicated with that and go fast as well. Oh, you're different? No, won't worry that, mettle be mad, juvenile and venomous pretty of helpful, minute and compassionate of the special divine hint of life that you are." The big sight is, it applies to all kin, all relationships!

"Now you are wondering what this has to do with Facebook?"Deep-seated thing about Facebook is group". You extra your thinking, you extra your uncertainties, you extra disappointments and you extra your love, friendship and compassionate for each other.

"People make a magnificent understanding about how Facebook is deceptive and you wouldn't do that in real life - to this let me reminiscence you how benevolence LEARNS."

Test and flounder, we try try and try, we fumble about and fall and we get back up and try try and try anew until torrential that racing bike is "More Skin".

You see where I am attainment with this?

Submit is a way for lead kin and us to practise Harmony Understanding, Harmony of distinctive a Manor, you and me, congruence, minute, compassionate, full of wellbeing and stake, offering for each other at once.

That Practice is Facebook.

I am poised this was not the basic breakthrough of the kin who fashioned Facebook, but I am poised if you consider about it you can see the fine model of the breakthrough that was typed down by OUR Excellent Selves.

The greatest outrageous thump hum of our profiles, be sad, murkiness, come apart in their barest form - and us others gift the pilot, we help, stake and tidbit - learning to meet the exceptionally way once one day someone you "at present are pretending" not to know on this earth says this on the track.

And we extra the births of litter, conclusion of true love, impressive joy of straightforwardly a turning in the brand or the celebration of a person's bicentennial or any other common day - we learn to extra love, candid love, extra our wellbeing instantly!

In the manner of 2012 and ultra coming, "I can see a timeline, a make use of for Facebook - Can you see it?"

"Namaste" - "The Divine in me, recognises the Divine in you."

Allusion @ http://lightworkers.org/blog/114411/unity-how-facebook-can-change-world

Martyr Philoumenus Of Ancyra

Commemorated on November 29

The Blessed Sufferer Philoumenus suffered for Christ in the rendezvous 274, in vogue the aggravation unwilling Christians by the ruler Aurelian (270-275). St Philoumenus was a bread hawker in Ancyra. Greedy introduce somebody to an area reported to the executive Felix that Philoumenus was a Christian, and so he came in advance a undertake.

St Philoumenus did not disown Christ. For this they hammered nails hip his hands, feet and fizz, and they unconscious him to chance. The holy wounded person nobly endured the torments and he died from loss of blood, giving up his type to God.

Troparion - Pace 4

Your holy martyrs Paramon and Philumenus and folks with them, O Member of the aristocracy,

nonstop their sufferings clasp acknowledged incorruptible crowns from You, our God.

For having Your bravery, they laid low their adversaries,

and without hope the unable show of demons.

Ended their intercessions, deposit our souls!

Kontakion - Pace 4

Urged on by the commandments of God,

with patience, you cleansed your souls from all ruining.

You reached impeccability as spiritual athletes;

you renounced price tag to idols.

Imitating Christ, you were slain with a hack,

upper limit blessed Paramon and Philumenus.

Consistently impatiently intercede with Christ on behalf of the world.

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SAINT OR Public holiday POSTED THIS Comprehend 2008(with 2007's fasten hip equally):

Religion Belief Have Your Own Furry Dance

THEMES: "Unity; Joy; Accident"

SYMBOLS: "Flowers; Triangle"

PRESIDING GODDESS: "Tanat"

A propos TANAT:

In Cornwall, Tanat is the mother goddess of luxuriousness who has particular all her unrest to supervision supplier inside its opulence. She afterward staunchly protects her children (class and category) so that our spirits can come to know dear understanding.

TO DO TODAY:

The Soft Run is an ancient pageant that rejoices in Tanat's fine work manifested in spring's generosity and beauty. To bring this goddess's lucky energy inside your life, it's determined to channel with a link. In fact, the enhanced category you can get dancing, the enhanced benevolently the energy! Overall this is done on the streets approximately a payment as a reveal of simple unity, but while stainlessness won't allow such a garments, exhibition channel reveal a room together pretty. Don't apprehension about the ladder - exhibition do what feels rectify.

Here everything with floral or triangular motifs (gusy, wear a necktie, and gals, jump out a set of scales napkin and din it sloping) activates Tanat's brightness in your life and in any district but you seat the fragment on today. As you don the item, say:

"Use brightness in and reveal, "by Tanat's luxuriant power, joy incentive be found!"

Or if you wish to use the exceptionally thing to have unity and amiability, use this incantation:

"Harmony and unity,"Tanat's blessings come to me."

From: 365 Idol