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Started reading Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. It's about Lewis and the American West. Looking forward to reading a new part of history.Anubisa
Dedicated and devoted to Lord Anubis and Lady Bast. A follower of the path of Egyptian Wicca.
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Originally posted by Dumuzi View Post
It starts at the 26th of May this year :-)
Better late than never!ThorSon's milkshake brings all the PF girls to the yard - Volcaniclastic
RIP
I have never been across the way
Seen the desert and the birds
You cut your hair short
Like a shush to an insult
The world had been yelling
Since the day you were born
Revolting with anger
While it smiled like it was cute
That everything was shit.
- J. Wylder
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I was reading Old Babylonian laws governing women and Middle Assyrian laws governing women, which led to this. How very shitty those laws are.“You have never answered but you did not need to. If I stand at the ocean I can hear you with your thousand voices. Sometimes you shout, hilarious laughter that taunts all questions. Other nights you are silent as death, a mirror in which the stars show themselves. Then I think you want to tell me something, but you never do. Of course I know I have written letters to no-one. But what if I find a trident tomorrow?" ~~Letters to Poseidon, Cees Nooteboom
“We still carry this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a primal recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth. It is a felt reverence for all that exists. Once we bring this foundational quality into our consciousness, we will be able to respond to our present man-made crisis from a place of balance, in which our actions will be grounded in an attitude of respect for all of life. This is the nature of real sustainability.”
~~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes--one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
~~Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Humans are not rational creatures. Now, logic and rationality are very helpful tools, but there’s also a place for embracing our subjectivity and thinking symbolically. Sometimes what our so-called higher thinking can’t or won’t see, our older, more primitive intuition will." John Beckett
Pagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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I finally gave in and bought the Complete Guide to the Tarot Illuminati by Kim Huggens. Joanna DeVoe is forever recommending it as a great guide to any Rider-Weight style deck and the quotes she shares from the book frequently strike a chord for me.
I am so pleased I bought it. This book is by far the best guide to tarot I've come across. It's a thick, heavy book dedicating several pages to each card and going into vast detail about the imagery and deeper meanings in each card. I know I'm a softy and get emotional easily, but the very first thing I read made me cry.
You see, I've been battling sleep maintenance insomnia; the kind where you fall asleep just fine but wake up a few hours too soon and can't fall back to sleep, for a while. That's part of the reason I haven't been posting so much lately. I like to draw a card for the day after my miracle morning routine and last night after a good days sleep for once, I got the Queen of Wands. I turned to my brand new shiny book to see what it had to say about this card. It began by describing her as the perfect balance between fire and water. That's Brigantia!! The card was telling me that Brigantia is with me. I welled up and just knew I'd bought the right book! The Queen of Wands will forever represent Brigantia for me now!
I must say I've had a great day and feel better than I have felt in weeks.
Right now I'm using the book to look up cards from a reading I did recently and it is adding a lot more depth to the reading. It's helping me work through a few things I'd missed when I just read it from my own understanding of the cards.
Once again, Joanna knew best!夕方に急なにわか雨は「夕立」と呼ばれるなら、なぜ朝ににわか雨は「朝立ち」と呼ばれないの? ^^If a sudden rain shower in the evening is referred to as an 'evening stand', then why isn't a shower in the morning called 'morning stand'?
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Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology he treats the stories well I think.You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The Power of voodoo
Who do?
You do!
Do what?
Remind me of the babe!
Army of Darkness: Guardians of the Chat
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Originally posted by iris View PostNeil Gaiman's Norse Mythology he treats the stories well I think.ThorSon's milkshake brings all the PF girls to the yard - Volcaniclastic
RIP
I have never been across the way
Seen the desert and the birds
You cut your hair short
Like a shush to an insult
The world had been yelling
Since the day you were born
Revolting with anger
While it smiled like it was cute
That everything was shit.
- J. Wylder
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Originally posted by Heka View PostOoo recommend??You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The Power of voodoo
Who do?
You do!
Do what?
Remind me of the babe!
Army of Darkness: Guardians of the Chat
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Interesting read. Don't know why but I never really though of the scarf in the same light as the veil as a mandated covering. Always though of it as a position of class and gender identification but never equated it with the veil and face covering for some reason.I'm Only Responsible For What I Say Not For What Or How You Understand!
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*fist bump
So after that anthology of the dead (which was ok at best, in fact I can't even remember a story from it. It was just sorta a palate cleanser I guess).
I went on to read a most amazing story called Fellside by M.R. Carey. A sort of 'supernatural' story. It's from the author of The Girl with all the gifts. It was emotionally stunning.
Then followed up another of his books called The boy on the bridge. A sort of sequel (more parallel)story to The Girl with all the gifts. It takes place during the same world and closely related events. Also amazing! And I love this narrator. She's so emotionally there for the characters. It's a heart tugger...with zombies, natch.Satan is my spirit animal
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore“You have never answered but you did not need to. If I stand at the ocean I can hear you with your thousand voices. Sometimes you shout, hilarious laughter that taunts all questions. Other nights you are silent as death, a mirror in which the stars show themselves. Then I think you want to tell me something, but you never do. Of course I know I have written letters to no-one. But what if I find a trident tomorrow?" ~~Letters to Poseidon, Cees Nooteboom
“We still carry this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a primal recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth. It is a felt reverence for all that exists. Once we bring this foundational quality into our consciousness, we will be able to respond to our present man-made crisis from a place of balance, in which our actions will be grounded in an attitude of respect for all of life. This is the nature of real sustainability.”
~~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes--one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
~~Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Humans are not rational creatures. Now, logic and rationality are very helpful tools, but there’s also a place for embracing our subjectivity and thinking symbolically. Sometimes what our so-called higher thinking can’t or won’t see, our older, more primitive intuition will." John Beckett
Pagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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I've recently started reading Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. I don't know why I waited so long to read them!“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
Mostly art.
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