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A few typical correspondent Overpopulation solutions from one of the neighbor kid's Science Projects, hee hee hee...
1. Wolf Hilburtz and electro-accretion: Modify, setup interlocking complex of "skyscapers" ie SEA-SCRAPERS in circles to create waste processing enclosures and fish/ algae farming Consider using the ocean as a giant salt battery, (Robin Leach for "Silver Lightning" Jewelry Cleaner) but DO NOT deplete the Earths electromagnetic feild in the process. I like Atmosphere. Do you like atmosphere?
2. Attitude: Virgin unspolied mountants look like the biggest of tombstones to me. I will be a sad and lonely soul until they are covered with countless Chinese immigrants stringing Chinese lanterns all over them and smiling and waving. Stop the funeral.
3. Deserts suck. Life kisses. Hug your cacti at home, they are not a staple food. Not even nopalitos.
4. Earthscrapers: Too bad Freud was wrong or we would have been building buildings seventy stories DOWN not up and using the fill dirt to fill in those diked off and drained enclosures like the Dutch. (50, 000 acres at a time, but it easier to just use electro-accretion to build a sea-wall.) Any one want a job?
5. Florida gets bigger on her own. Just leave it to the Mangroves.
6. JudeoChristian/ other ethics: LIFE IS SACRED!!! please try to act accordingly....
7. How to put and feed five generations of a family on five acres using Garden Rooms and Indian Farming; Amaranth as a grain (see Rodale Research Institute); Covering with Ivy, building with stones, how Ancients make concrete...
8. Reclaiming sand dunes as viable agricultural land by putting down tenacious, drought-tolerant, Nitrogen fixing and edible-seeded Sagebrushes, Wormwoods and other related plants, including Verbascum sp. MULLEIN which can produce 3,000,000 seeds per plant (= next generation 3,000,000 square feet of land reclaimation) in a year if the main spike is cut back at the ground after seeding. Mine in the yard "bushed out" not with 2 new spikes, but with TWELVE...
9. Space travel: Howard Wachpress & Unpaired-Pole Magnetic Levitation Systems cf. Magic Mirror literature, Alan Holt's NASA papers, and Passionflowers tring to join the space race by growing saucer designs on them, and UFO-shaped Amaranth seeds, serendipitously full of smart-drugs no doubt. Tom Bearden (sic?) on a good day. Start Trek, N.G. as a religion: Minor Gods: The Traveller, Reg Barclay, Trans-warp conduit, Soliton waves in the hands of inherent optimists, and Wormhole induction. Temporal offsets by Oliver Nicholson "Time Dilation in Tesla Coil" studies, and Chronos Apollonios, the living treasure and his question, what happens to time dilation models if you fly your ship in a circle at the speed of light, and non-linear/ orthorotation of the time dilation vector according to models of Chaos in fluid dynamics, four-layer model and breaking point, See: John Briggs and David Peat, "Turbulent Mirror", page 51, compare the inherent number 4 with 4 in the soliton wave on page 133 of the same book...; Philosophers as Practical People: Propulsion Systems derivable from abstract logic and Xeno's Paradox.
10. Get a grip. According to my calculations, the earth could comfortably accomodate AT LEAST some 3,000 times it's present population without even getting into the ocean, which covers WHAT percent of the earth? (I say, Can I Get A Witness?!?!? Hep me, hep me, AMEN!)
11. Palingenic dinners, beam 'em right in, Scotty. Mother Theresa will pass, that's cool... Multiwave oscillation (Kozyrev?) in the element tuning sweep, multiwave inherency of alkali residue, the life force, Scalar spectral diodes with stable isotope mixes in nature instead of (Moray King, Rex Research reprints, modified concept) Posts by Chonos Apollonios...
12. Compared to what the human race COULD have been right now, we have an UNDERpopulaion problem.
13. Okay, YOU look those "excess baggage" welfare kids right in the eye and tell them they are a "burden" that should never have born... YOU tell them you wish they never had been... and I hope they gouge your eyes and bust your groin. My nephew does, and he's worth all the ruptures he can dish out.
14. STOP AIDS NOW
15. Water: Air wells, Laser-drilling, Condensation science, Magic Pagan Buckets and Electrum Science
16. Land management priority shifts, Stewardship Programs and Land Grants, Self-Sufficiency Grants for Welfare Recipients, Good old fashioned Christian helpin' each other out. Habitat for Humanity every square mile. Taxpayer? I'm a goldmaker!
(17. SUPPLIMENTAL: You ladies could at least say "Hi who are you and what secrets is your soul hiding, I'm dying to know" while I'm in a major urban area or on-line... whatta I gotta do, who do I gotta be, f'r Chrissakes? Um, then again, maybe this one is my fault. (This is another Underpopulation problem) Okay, what secrets are your souls hiding? Beautiful, splendid secrets...
Just my humble opinions... Being I have an Italian soul, and my mother (and everyone's mother) is (therefore) a Saint. You do not bury Saints, Cappici?
Okay, now let's make the magic
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Still one of the greatest joys in my life when I discovered the book, "Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki" ("Indians") and the work by Gladys Tantaquidgeon with the same kind of "divinatory diganostic" ideas about medicine of the Iroquis and Deleware, and realized they were saying the same thing as Pausanias says about the a Temple of Ceres in his guide to Greece, where offerings were floated to see if they were bad or good, just as the tribes mentioned were sayed to have performed the old "Witch Test" on medicines to see if they were right for the patient in question.
I have gone on to trace this phenomena in more subtle concealed terms in many cultures, including the Knights of the Roundtable and the legend of Lugh/ St. Columba (sic?).
When I began my quest, though, I came out of electronic music, armed with books by Christopher Hills (resonance, everything is resonance, resonance, resonance, resonance like that knob/ slider on the synthesizer) and the faintest knowledge of holography. I realized it was possible to create a hologram of a person, feed it a hologram of a medicine, and produce a hologram of what would actually happen if a person took the medicine represented.
I apologize for how long it took me to realize that the latter way of presenting may have been **inherent** (see "Implicate", below) in the older, more metaphysical way of describing it, due to any force that could act coherently and was already present in the situation, I am sure discussion may embrace many speculations here, and I hope it does. Personally, I am fairly content with the idea that these shamanic practices may involve dynamic thermal imaging/ thermal holography. I enthusiatically invite feedback from anyone about this, and I can give you other examples of spontanoeous coherence effects in heat/ thermal energy if you'd like.
Keep in mind I wouldn't aspire to be a magician at all if I erroneously believe thermodynamics to be non-reversible. David Bohm's INK DROP EXPERIMENT has proven that much. (See books by John Briggs and David Peat, "Turbulent Mirror" and "Looking-Glass Universe" for more information about David Bohm and the inkdrop experiment, and the more holographic view of reality, his terms "Implicate" and "Explicate" can be used to help explain many things, hopefully for the freedom of magic and the rights of Pagans...
Kicking *ss for animal rights anyway; what next? More rights for people, too?
Hope so.
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It has been a long time it seems since Scott Cunningham introduced me to the concept of Graveyard Dust and its substitutes; I'd love to hear more on this subject, it is one of those I never see enough in lierature.
I have been left to wonder if it is one of those magical herbs whose traditional uses were born out of the Doctorine of Signatures, being that Calendula used in ritual to "understand the *Language of Bird* has a seed that might look like an ear covered by many little beaks, or Mugwort, a magical lockpick has that "turnkey' signature that makes to want to tiwst the leaf upside down, usually as a trail marker, to see the white underside like turning a key (also see "Pathfinder" a similar plant witth similar traditons in the Pacific Northwest, an Adenocaulon specie, I believe.) being that much of the common Mullein is a greyish or silvery sort of color, ashen; perhaps like one might suspect for many such plants, (example: Atriplex sp., Saltbush) it betrays the presence of certain salts. and may have been considered a Signature or divine label of this quality.
Perhaps Artemisias should not be above suspicion here of being possessed of significant magickal salts; I have mentioned they are nitrogen fixers; one grower in New Zealand speaks of all silver plants as disliking fertilizers, (Nitrogen potassium phosophorus) as if they were making thier own perhaps...
Given the remarkable role of salt in Ludo Chardenon's remedy for sunstoke in his little herbal, and some other correspondences, I have been wondering about Von Reichenbach's apparitions over gravesides, as Palingenic matrices or feild substrates, as if one "pushing up daisies" (another possible salt source, salts as in any salts) were OBE out the ajna chakra; perhaps such apparitions confined to such a locus are one reason the disincarnate,or NEAR disincarnate don't get out much to know everything, as was mentioned here a little. earlier. Maybe calcium isn't the only alkali that keeps turning upover and over again in the good magical literature, actually, and indeed it is unlikely to be the sole player in Palingenics/ Palingenesy.
Salt (NaCl) or other salts also might be used in breaking fascinations. and perhaps in very related ways (in a less magical sense, Bone meal might not be out of the question of OCD's).
I do not know what all this means exactly, maybe, but the recurring themes Do become rather noticable after a while... I would be greatful for other similar references, and even a few more on Astological Medicines' 12 correspondent salts, besides the Vanda Sawtell book that I have, wouldn't hurt.
Many thanks
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Re: the Grey alien archetype and children's responses, I think that's
important, Do you have any further insights or references on that? I
could try speculating, my experience with the large eyes according to my
brain is that genera of painting that created so many portaits of
children with such large and often sad looking eyes; also those eyes
seem to be found a lot when someone is asking donations to feed starving
children. I think a lot of people may be responsive to some of the
features of Greys like this, maybe not the ones on Greys per se.
I cannot think what the pointed chin represents, outside of maybe the
regional endocrine, the thyroid, something like an overactive thyroid
while sleeping is promoting a rather tetanic repiratory oppression and a
rather tetanic sleep paralysis? It may be paradoxical almost to the
sleepwalking prevention idea, but I have long suspected the phenethyl
derivatives in Oreganos may be thyroid precursors possibly by way of
becoming pheylalanine or tyrosine.
Hopefully that is a correct shamanic way of looking at it, and it would
be helpful alleviating the Night hag or whatever form it takes if this
generalism were true. Seems like this is not the first time in such a
thread I am mentioning tetany. To tell you the truth, though, I hadn't
really noticed the chins so much as the eyes. I am also tempted to think
of this as an amygdaloid, (an almond shape) and thus an invocation of
almond, alms for the poor, and whatever. It may be that literally almond
as some preparation might as much help problematics of the experiencee,
and create the same benfits as positive respondss to Greys on children
and possibly adults; most of the Grey drawings I see don't look that
emphatic or adoptable, IMHO.
In fact I did almond aromatherapeutically when i startd into Egyptian
stuff, it was quite calming, a well as somehow seemed to put me in a
mood for Egyptian... I used it on the basis of promoting alertness, so to
learn better, re scott Cunningham's material.
Another thing that was mentioned was the connection between Greys and
smoke, and Chi.
I think that's a good point also, the sort of grey plants, to bring the
Doctorine of Signatures back into it, that would actually help with the
respiratory and other conditions associated. White mugwort, and that
kind of thing and quite possibly alot of other silver plants, at least
in the Aster family.
Perhaps an evolutionary biologist can be consulted about the role smoke
may play; the picture I seem to get is that many chemicals in smoke may
be anti-histamine and stimulant, sleep-antagonizing, because obviously
of the possible need for the body to respond to the smell of smoke, ie a
forest fire, by waking up and running like blazes. And cigarette smoke
was not out of the question although I know of no clear pattern of
exposure among many reports and even polls of abductees that I have yet
to read :-) Mother always did tell me never to get sleep paralysis in
the middle of a cigarette though, says it makes the homeowners insurance
go up, or something.
I have mentioned before I think about Greys and smoke and the disturbing
thing to me being if the house were on fire and I had sleep paralysis. I
wouln't doubt that the signatures of Chia seeds (certains Sages, ie
Salvia species) cover Chi as smoke, do you think that neurological paths
intended to use Chi to offset for protection from fire are backing up
and casuing more blockage in the from of paralysis? Could this be
calcium ions? You would get this much from the older Theosophy books
quite easily in fact, most certainly from Charles Leadbeater's work
alone.
And then there's the protective magic charms in Native American stuff
involving some of the same plants; (Daniel Moerman's MPNADB database
should have a few at least...) this seems a highly consistent and well
developed area altogether maybe. Most of the ideas about Correspondences
like Signatures regarding origin easily grant enough to account for
these consistencies, any good theory has to, really. Obviously one of
Artemis' better known titles, "Protectress' is still applicable here
also, and the best known grey plants might actaully be the Artemisias:
Wormwood, Sagebrush etc.
Artemis' exaggerated status as a mammal, such as the, I never counted
really hundred breasted? Artemis, again serves the function of
Tryptophan and also calcium symbol, since milk is most notable, probably
for these.
Geez, what a list of correspondences! I'm starting to see why the human
mind may abbreviate the process with archetyes and symbols... Then again
I can also detect a suppressed shaman or mage in it as well, perhaps...
it obviously helps to be concious of the language that may be used.
I was also interested in hearing more about the eight brain model
regarding Leary and so on. Sounds kind of like Casteneda maybe. Since it
is VERY hard to argue with the Ancient and Wise Egyptians about
anything, I thought to compromise thier idea that intelligence resided
in the heart and or blood with our modern ideas and started asking how
many more possible neural carriers could there be then; it is not
impossible to list a dozen. Does this model, or any that you know of,
associate the different functions with different, seperate carriers?
Oh, and about the multiplicity of Greys, I am surprised they don't come
by the dozen. Perhaps there is a Sufi (with a harem! :-) in our midst
that can explain more about this "A Persian's heaven is easily made,
'tis but black eyes and lemonade" (Thomas Moore's peom here has become,
or was created according to, an archetype?) business and what the Houri
are, from any traditional point of view (ie I don't see fit as yet to
distinguish them from the Horae in Greek mythology)
As always, wondering... oh yeah, that's what we're here for! :-) Cool!
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Hi, I'm Chronos Apollonios and I'm
1. Too shy to post my profile (darned Capricorn!)
2. Been doing a lot of Far Memory work and my profile has gotten really
too long to post...
3. I accidentally cloaked my profile during an invisibilty spell gone
awry.
4. Wasn't really interesting, I've been dead for six hundred and fifty
years.
5. The dog ate it.
6. Aliens landed and took it with them.
7. etc...what? get serious? (ouch) here's some of it:
Religious Affiliation: Non-denominational.
Religious Disposition: Just this side of worship; opinion: Appreciation
is freedom; worship is bondage. Giving thanks to Deity is good for the
spirit, giving assistance to Deity is good for the world.
Interests: Largely Greek Gods and Goddesses- not limited to; Herbalism,
Doctorine of Signatures, Gardening; Shamanism, Spiritualism (like
Seances and Ectoplasm), Parapsychology, Scientific Magic, Paganism,
Wicca, Coptic/ Gnostic, Native American, Palingenics, Alchemy, ad infinitum.
Background: Been at it since, oh about last week, I think...(giggle)
Failed college- ate one of my professors... Gurus: Closest thing is
Gurudas-
buy his books; Theosophist Charles Leadbeater. Check out his books too.
(Got all but kicked right off the inane Arcana list very recently
because some of my best work IMHO had "pop-tarts" in the subject
line...AFTER I explained how I get a little silly when I'm shy and
nervous...)
Personal Affliliations: Guilds/ Gods, Totems/ Clans:
Chronos, Apollo, Posiedon, Zeus, Uranos, Glaucos, Triton, etc.; By
correspondence, default or proxy: Karya, Carmenta, Diktyanna,
Britomartis, Artemis, Hecate, Lamia, Dionysos, Hermes, Hephaestos, etc.;
Other: Plutus, Fortuna, Amalthea, Lares-Penates,; Bears, felines,
delphines, raven and crow, goat, equestrines and other astrological,
mythological, or iconographical correspondents of my chart.
Techniques: None. Those who cannot do, teach.
Favorite magic: Swimming medicines, resurrection, Catoptromancy (as in
Pausanias, "Guide to Greece"- not as elsewhere i.e., Medical
divination), Far Memory, materialization, magic mirrors, apportioning/
apportation.
Disciplines: Iconography, Mythography, Herbalism, Doctorine of
Signatures,
Shamanism any darn way but how the world claims to do it (no drums no
drugs no OBE no touchy-feely no Wounded Healer no empathy no BS) more
like in the books "Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki" or "Ethnobotany of the
Hopi"
Occupations in previous incarnations according to my demented and
illusory visions: Scribe, teacher, archivist, writer, child-finder,
tourism officer, Ephesian sherriff, seedsman, healer, curator of
Botanical gardens, groundskeeper, culturebearer, preist of Chronos,
Apollo and Posedon/ Glaucos.
Other: Single and seeking; matriarchal (where the girls ask the boys to
dance etc., before women become oppressed...); recovered musician; avid
if inept gardener (double-dormancy, ooh, aah); ecologocially oriented,
whatever that means.
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Hmmm, I'm not exactly sure what that means where the word "psychedelics"
appeared just before the Give and Takes of the Doctorine of Signatures?
Left to my own devices, I go back to a nasty little argument me and the
Morning Glory family were having about talking "tempting" Lysergic acid
and derivatives, and gift-wrapping it in Strychnine as if Satan
personally had designed them. I'm not sure we settled the issue..
(Leave it to Salespeople, you'd be amazed who I've heard saying their
blotter was laced with strychnine to keep your heart beating because
their stuff was "too clean and too pure". I'm like, "Uh, funny I don't
remember Hoffmann saying that, but I remember Woodstock: the brown acid
is bad".)
You are meaning things like this, or that over-use of probably any
entheogen has a reputation for being destructive to one's body? I'd like
to get more into this question, because I'm not sure I've been able to
resolve it in the Ancient Systems and so on. I mean, I can say things
like, Morning Glories are sacred to Chronos, the flowers correspond to
his Cornucopia, so leave it to a trained professional, more or less a
Chronosian priest, an experienced old hand, or any other equivalent, but
the area is kind of hollow philosophically speaking, and I'm sure that's
just a temporary superficial perception of mine. I’m not really sure one should leave these
things to anyone sometimes.
(I'll try "Calcium" for 400, Alex..Chronos Jeapordios)
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You know, I'm actually quite surprised we haven't been in a discussion
about the (drumroll) Comte de Sainte-Germaine. There is a lovely little
anecdote about someone accidentally getting some of one of his elixirs.
Same old, has the "Certain phase of the moon" in it's prescription,
(ooh, I better check "Song Remains the Same" again to see if the moon
wasn't prominently featured in Jimmy Page's vignette. Not like even I
can't fast pitch a whole fleet of Lunar associations on that one myself.
Better mention Indries Shah "Oriental Magic" and the Silverfish ritual
again and Calcium, calcium, and more calcium.)
Mind you, I'm hopefully broad minded, I don't see the need to split
Alchemy into any subdivisions, especially how often Alchemy is called
THE WORK (what is the not the Work ,*therefore* what is alchemy not?)
whatever in particular is being talked about (I'm basically a lumper not
a splitter, earthsigns Taurus and Capricorn may tend to do that) but as
a matter of fact the correspondences (bellow-like flowers, white
foilaged plants, etc, etc) DO seem to support at least both styles
simultaneously, and I think it's thought provoking and highly rewarding
for anyone to try dabbling in the ideas of both.
It's hard NOT to notice for example how Wormwood and other Artemisias
are silver-leaved and then gold-flowered, they are "tuning to gold", as
it were... they relate to the "bellows" of the body (Holy Lamaze,
Batman!) and then there is the warning about them that pregnant persons
shouldn't even get near the Artemisias maybe, should this be considered
"of the Moist Way" also? (who, me stop to postulate a divine recompense
here? Oh, okay show me Crowley's Hermit (Thoth Tarot) and I think of
Paracelsus Homunculating, Virgo Virgo Virgo...)
I will go into the garden today and look for more plant-things that look
like bellows besides the Bleeding Hearts. (They are quite probably
correct here Chemically, I already know that, and in folklore as well)
Might the gasping fish be considered an acceptable correspondence of the
bellow? And I will pitch the Lamium species and varieties again, guess
what earthy tantric fluids they remind me of often; I have heard
Fritillary-lilles (Fritillaria specie) are even "worse"in this respect.
*Strangely*, their netting might have made them sacred to Diktyanna, a
birth goddess and protectress of shipwrecked hermits...
Do you think any of the classical personages, Paracelsus, etc, were
actually any different in their approach then? Paracelsus' feats of
course include the Homunculus, which is considerably of the Moist Way,
again, *if* one is to subdivide alchemy. I am not sure that he did. And
I probably don't remind anyone of his connections to the Doctorine of
Signatures out of actual necessity...
I am also curious to any personal thought or references in literature
that actually come out and say whether or not the solidification of a
tantric fluid should be considered an operation Calcination in itself...
I would think I would recall anything appreciably direct.
I also have noting in print to tell me if lactation produces tantric
"substance". Can we include why
doesn't powdered milk spoil when you reconstitute it, or is there a
"perfectly logical" explanation for that?
(I am of course just feigning ignorance to stimulate list activity, giggle) I actually know an
old Greek soul who will tell you
Allllllllll abouuuuuuuut whether or not Hephaestos was a puffer if you
promise not to feed a small forest through your printer over it... We
will have to ask Aphrodite if he was a good lover...(giggle)
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You know, if I didn't know better, (and I don't actually), I'd swear I
had been listening to yet another reason, and maybe one of the best,
that Artemis is rather kind of a "tomboy", there's alot of icons to
serve to connct that association, the milk is the silk of the silkworm
on the Mulberry that is sacred to the Morae, or Fates, and the rope
head-dresses of some of the Artemis images from near to Ephesos.
Maybe I should still speculate that wicking with rope may have been used
to alter tantric fluids---normally, I think of it as meaning using a
wick to filter impurities out of seawater if you're stranded in the
ocean somewhere, which I'm not absolutely sure is sound advice. I don't
know why it couldn't mean both, and more... another popular water
purification trick is, again, bioflocculants or precipitants, they just
cause the impurities to come right out of it. I had never thought these
might be used in Alchemy to extract certain things from a mixture, or
used on Tantric fluids. (Virgo is a symbol that can be used to support
this implication, IMHO)
Actually, the reason I asked is because, I think it is in Von
Schrenk-Notzing's book on occult phenomena, there are pictures of
ectoplasm or aethereal stuff precipitating around the (otherwise
decorative, giggle) mammalian errogenous zones of, Gasp! (giggle!) a
man. This, my mother- nor father- never explained... :-)
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The Amiable Mage Tarot by Chronos Apollonios:
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Some descriptions of the finished ones, since I have no other way to
share it:
(Some of the the MAJOR ARCANA, in no particular order):
LIBERATION (=Temperance) we see the angel Temperance from the right side
slightly. He is pouring two cups of libation onto the ground with his
arms reaching stright up. Irises and melons surround him, there is a cup
of coffee at his feet...and a banana. A pine tree rises behind him with
its tip striaght above his head; there is an acorn to either side of
him. There is a likeness of him in the center of his chest whose
upraised arms are contained by two points of an inverted star, which
reaches down to his lap.
There is a cauldron in the lower center of the card, and a slightly
smaller cauldron turned at a 90* angle to it whose mouth is then
vertical:
THE HERMIT: Posiedon sits, a merman on an island no bigger than he. He
is mourning, thinking or perhaps contemplating his reflection on the
waters in the moonlight. There are five small stars behind his, three on
his left, with a large crescent moon, two on the right with a much
larger star above them. A seventh star above his head has points on the
even numbers on a clock behind it. All of the stars have six points; the
moon has a trace of a nose.
THE ENEMY (=Death) A clock with Roman numerals occupies the center and
nearly the width of the card. It is in the center of a spider's web.The
Man and Woman found on the Fortune card are chained benath water riging
above thier heads. The waterline goes though the center of the clock
bisecting 3 and 9. He is chained by his right hand, she by her left, and
she is the one on the right of the card. A pyramid whose height is about
one third of the diameter of the top half of the clock is present. The
capstone with the eye is there, and it is radiant. A bow runs horizontal
across the top, its tips reaching the sides and an arow in it is drawn
back, almost suggesting the shape of a heart. The arrow reaches the
center of the top and bisects the black and white two faces of Janus,
god of doorways. The white face is facing right.
THE CHARIOT: A "penatium", or ancient model of a temple in the home
devoted to the Roman Lares or Penates, rises to dominate the scene; the
typical temple has a circle on the front beneath the apex, with a black
salamander design spiralling clockwise on it.
There is a clown in front of it, with typical circus clown paint and a
shirt with different colored salamanders interlocking, they are black
green orange and purple. Eight balloons are in his right hand, in seven
colors of the rainbow and there is a white one as well. a yellow kite is
in his left. Beneath the kite is a peacock. To the right of him, a tiny
Phoenix bird rises from flames on top of a short Grecian Doric column,
The Phoenix is red on top and gold beneath.
FORTUNE (=The Wheel of Fortune): A yin-yang symol in the center fills
most of the space on the card. It is surrounded by the tips of perhaps
seventy two peacock feathers. The black side points up, and a laminscate
or figure eight, running lenghtwise vertically, encircles the two
smaller color areas in the symbol. In the lower (black) one, there
appears an apple. Above all this is a tiny scales or balance, symbol of
Libra; at either side a Cornucopia or Horn-of-Plenty facing
symmetrically. Another tiny model of a Greek or Roman temple appears
with the bottom of its roof perfectly parallel wth the bottom of the
apple. There are tiny circles on a proportionately large hill on which
it sits, they are seeds, or marbles, or atoms, perhaps. At the bottom
left, a woman kneels and gazes in the water of a cauldron she is
tilting, as if divining; a young man on the lower left dangles a mirror
upside down from a string and gazes at his reflection it; (it is as if
he has read Pausanias, A Guide to Greece, or perhaps Lewis Spence,
"Encyclopedia of Occultism", on Catoptromancy or Patrae. He dangles the
mirror just touching a stream in the very foreground, she has half of a
vertical line thru the cauldron over the water.
Behind the woman is a skull, perhaps of the sort that Wizards in
cartoons have sitting on a book and inquire remarkable questions of.
Behind the man, there is a Mugwort growing. The lowest buch of peacock
feathers give way to a dozen faces, of which the skull is one, as if
they were all incarntions of the same being perhaps. The man sees his
reflection in his mirror, but in her cauldron, the woman gazes upon the
reflection of the moon, as if suggesting an illusion of some kind
perhaps.
THE WORLD: A knight in armor occupies the whole image, he has a Crest on
his helmet. He is standing, with his left knee slightly bent, in water.
The water is level with the middle of his left knee, and above his right
by perhaps agin the size of the knee itself. He is encoiled by a
serpent, rather without feature or texture, but its head is a globe that
looks like the earth, it is the size of his heas an sitting aover his
left shoulder, it's highest coil reaching under his arms. There is a
sword driven through its three coils peircing all three at once, with
its handle over his heart and coming at an angle to almost touch his
left knee. There is no face plate in his helmet, and his eyeslits are
so small as to admit only the least of light. He is flanked by Doric
columns and there are a number of stars in an arc over him there are 10,
or perhaps 12.
One other is completed:
THE TOWER: The Leaning Tower of Pisa looms dominating the background. In
the center before it there is a dandelion seed iwth an unborn child in
its embryo and a spiral around the stalk of the seed with five turns,
which at the very bottom widen to surround the embryo. The stalk rises
up to the parachute or wings of the seed, which occupies the very top of
the card. There is a sunflower to either side, and dandelions, or
perhaps chicory beneath them.
I wonder what all this means !!
*****20
Shouldn't smell that Lotus oil should I? Well, giggle, I've been seized
by a Muse who will keep making me walk around singing in by best
Operatic, which isn't very good, about Castor beans, and won't let me go
until I confess about my little suspicions that Paracelsus' "Homunculus"
just have to have a few dung beetles in it, and this according to the
Doctorine of Signatures (dunno, I may have to stop renting Muses and buy
one I can depend on).
with which Paracelsus is often associated.
That this concerns a rather anaerobic environment is perhaps little to
put past the seedoil (Deep Diversity company has been offering seed of
the Frances Hoffman collection of Castor beans strains whose seeds are
alleged to look like Scarab Beetles; (woops, says they're poisonous too)
Castor oil has been said to have been used for torches inside the
Pyramids of Egypt because it doesn't make soot on the ceilings similar remarks also made about Maguey extracts and the
Mexican Pyramids ). Hmmmmm...
Curiouser and curiouser!
*****21
I like that center of gravity idea. Does it shift much, or am I getting
into Castaneda here? This is what the Theosophists, with India as
source, refer to as Garima, the power to make one's self heavy? (Alice
A. Bailey, The Soul and Its Mechanism, pg. 125--nice book, actually,
kinda; there are seven other powers, and the rest are associated there
with Christ, with Scripture refernces)
Of course I'm easily confused; Kenneth Meadows in "Earth Medicine" has
some "new" chakras in Native American context, including the dreaded
Magenta Chakra! and a Dark Red, which is supposed to pertain to (also)
balance and movement and isn't even on the body per se, but supposedly
Between the Ankles! Somehow though, I tend to trust him, his chart on pg
64 actually gives Frquency Multiples and Factor of Frequency
Multiples... Maybe it's the Dark Red where Laghima, the power to make
one's self light (same Bailey book same page, 125) comes from?
*****22
Hi all
I'm looking out at neighbors trees all thrashed from our winter
Icestorm, the few branches left all pointing in one direction only.
Reminds me of plants that flower like this, on one side of the stem
only, like certain Skullcaps, or Horminum sp. (mint family, related to
Salvia horminum botanically and etymologically) and Bellflowers,
Campanula sp. like the one in the Rapunzel story. (Campanula rapunculus)
(I can never bring up Rapunzel and Rapunzelwurzel without wondering if Rapunzel's father
stealing it from the witch's garden happened to have anything to do with
Rapunzel's parents finally succeeding in making a Rapunzel after all
that hoping trying! What, Ginseng in for more competition, on top of
the Codonopsis that Rapunzelwurzel is so closely related to, and it's
formidable status in Oriental medicine? Hmmmmm... but don't try it at
home!!!) :-)
As a would-be Magical Signaturist, does anyone know of these
one-sided flowers being good for taming the winds they look they they're
beaten in, at least in literature, or of similar uses for them?
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your goldmaking root, er, I mean,
golden hair" :-) Hmmm...perhaps Rapunzel knows this Rumplestiltskin? Now
THERE was an Alchemist for you!...
Just wondering, as always... next I'll wonder why!
*****23
Sometime somewhere in the dim and Arcane past I posted a
reference to a Babylonian Terra Cotta Devil Trap, that I found in E. A.
W. Budge, "Amulets and Talismans"; it was my impression that in spite of
a little "mumbo jumbo" within material on the subject, that in general
it was expected to keep houses from catching ablaze. (Interestingly, the
responses posted didn't seem to get to the method of Consectration or
Installation, I recall something about one on each corner of the house.
Very magnetic, IMHO)
Anyway, I don't have to go too far to find things reminiscent,
somewhere I have an article via a Periodicals Index about a successful
experiment putting out flames via radiowaves (what, Microwave ovens in
reverse?) Before I get all Deep Space Nine and blame the right handed
antineurinos or whatever the $#$@ they are, outright, I was digging
around in Spence, Encyclopedia (see previous posts) again and found:
"Causimomancy: Divination by Fire. It is a happy presage when
combustible objects cast into the fire do not burn". I'll say. :-)
Haven't looked forward to going to the stake myself so much
since either the story about the amulet re: The Prince of Orange, or
that superstition that if you put hot coals on someone and it don't
leave a mark, they really are gone on to the other world(s). Probably
just superstition. At least in Pliny, they often sit up when you try to
creme 'em and don't tell me it's because they weren't good doctors. :-)
Okay, neutrinos aside, I'm actually voting for- in a
non-deterministic sense of course :-) Gasp!, LUCK! Well, at least I knew
what they meant by "devil"; (and 666 is the number of the Khamea for
gold, BTW. --Budge, “A&T” also).
Okay, get the forest fire on the radio and tell it to quit it,
two in every garage. Have I bought off my Papyrus karma yet? (Giggle)
probably not...Save More Trees.. And here I'd been looking under "Fire
Society Medicines" (also good) in Native America.
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(Sponsored by Pagan Firefighters of America, who must sometimes resort
to smothering flames (and almonds, and one another) in Chocolate, but
that's another story, and I'm perfectly delirous at this hour and therefore melting, too...