Digest 71
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 12:36:26 -0800
Subject: "Garden", a verb.
Hello.
On Gardening, not all plants like fertilizing material added in
preparing the ground, nitrogen actually retards the flowering of
Salvias, and if not the same with Artemisias, at least seems
inconsequential. A New Zealand gardening program featured a gardener
whose approach to silver plants in general is to water once when putting
them in the ground, and that was it, no fertilizers. He had many
Artemisias and some Santolinas and things. I'm still not sure if this is
true of Lavendars.
And of course if you can provide adequate light, it is Never too soon to
start things indoors, some small trial and error can delay the growth by
many weeks.
So here is one, of all of those things that I said about the yew tree,
to single out it's way to propogating itself by spreading and rooting
branches and all of the sacred stuff that this symbolizes, this trait is
also true of the genus Ajuga (Bugleweeds). I have no ideas on how
bugleweeds are to be used, or the peripherals, and their chemistry is
disturbing, the molecules look ostensibly foriegn to the human body,
which isn't usually a good sign. It passes in the Artemisias a lot, but
I have no business without digging in my reference books to say Ajugas
are made for ingestion not incense. For what it's worth, a lot of the
molecules in question that look so tangled may be scarce, and may be
responses to insect attack. I'm still not sure what kind of signature
that is in this context, often the specific insects is the signature,
and of course a lot of Asian traditional medicine is built on all
creatures, and minerals, having signatures as well as plants.
At any rate, the Ajugas have some interesting traits, and possibly the
leafs can tend to be lyrate, which would connect Salvia lyrata, called
cancerweed, which look either a little like a lumbering bear, or like it
was squeezed by a bear's hug. The appellation by the way comes from a
stauch reputation for curing or treating cancer, again like the yew.. So
that's a bit peculiar, a cure for cancer regarded as a worthless weed!
Cultivation of it technically carries a $5,000 fine in my state. Not
like they fly over in helicopters looking for it, but really...
So whatever it is that the yew is trying to tell us in a less than
descript way, may be enunciated by the sprawling Ajugas, and maybe even
extending to the the sprawling of the tiniest, low growing popular and
commercial dead nettles (genus Lamium). Also scarcely known well enough
to constitute anything for ingestion, they are quitely evocative, and I
have previously on Occulthaven, especially back near the beginning,
elaborated on them quite a bit.
Integrating all of these features that wish to merge into this context
will be challenging, perhaps; then again, a few moment's good rapport
with a muse can explain it all.
Right now, I'm tripping over it, fuzzy bunny slippers, a signature of
the Lamiums, scarcely seem like they are significant to the issue of
past life regression. Then again, maybe I just haven't found the
connection... moon in Pisces? Dust, static, allergies? All of the above?
Hmmmm...
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Digest 72
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:26:46 -0800
Subject: OH-Re: Ghosts and Baking Soda
Hello.
Well, that's it, ghosts are attracted to the catbox, and baking soda
banishes them... (giggle)
Actually, You may have hit on something here, what I think of is how I
don't really understand how something absorbs odors in the first place,
it took
fractional quantum statics for me to think I understood how some odors
run riotously and anomalously rampant, and I'm still not certain. Could
that 1,700 year old cedar closet still pumping out aroma be still living
at the cellular or chemical level?
But I am thinking of the cultures who make offerings to "feed" the
ancestors, they offer things that are often aromatic and they know the
gift has been received if the offering has lost it's aroma or flavor or
has gone stale. I've known living people at least to be able to
destabilize amino acid suppliments, somehow, I Should find the
l-glutamine that went bitter and have it analyzed, it may be DLPA now,
and someone, here or departed, bittered some foodstuffs too. And living
women at moontime have been accused of souring milk and staling or
spoiling bread, and...
Our binding or maybe more appropriately, Manifesting herbs may be called
upon to provide substance from their aromatic presences, I'll still want
to go into fractional quantums on this though.
Anyway, maybe when I quit digging though seed boxes hoping that I safely
recovered everything and get all my plants going and get caught up on
sleep after yet another six months of deprivation for x years in a row,
I'll be able to tackle such questions at will instead of waiting for
inspirations...
Speaking of I got a Poim off the Muses today:
I am Temperance
Washing dishes
In remembrance
Of bright wishes
Sure I know what it means, I know everything, but who can answer this
riddle? (hee hee hee)
Chroni, buried beneath Calendula, Cosmos, Cladanthus, Calliopsis,
Centaurea, Cacalia, Chrysanthemum, Chaenactis, Cirsium, Cichorium,
Corymbium, Cotula, Crepis, Cynara, Coreopsis, Conyza, Chrysopsis,
Chrysothamnus, Cenia, Cephalipterum, Chrysanthemoides, Calotis,
Catananche...
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Digest 73
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:56:18 -0800
Subject: Miscellaneous The Next Generation
Hello.
Winter bruises? Rats, where are my biology and biochemistry books, and
why have I never read them? I found nothing yet that associates brusing
with a nutritional deficiency, I'm about to hit up a search engine.
On top of my approach to medicine is to stay as simple as possible
(meaning I know nothing about it basically) which Does remain a good
compliment to oversimplification, my intuition may be having a bad hair
year, normally I would be able to tell you something. "Um, pop-tart
deficiency?" is about my speed at the moment...
I'll be thinking of near-ever green herbs who purple in the winter,
catnip is one, but don't try it at home, eh?
After that I'll break out Cornell on astrological medicine. My smart
money's there. Oh wait, I don't have any money, I'm living solely on
"top ramen" again for yet another month after what just hit me.
Er, anybody wanna start a commune?
Today I got my potting soil, perlite and the washed aquarium sand I
often case the top of the trays with to delay algal & fungal growth so
the seeds, especially the tiny ones don't suffer "damping off".
This sounds pretty boring but it's a big party for me, even after
getting soaked in the rain and packing the stuff on a bus (Zeus, is
there ANY patron of public transportation so manly as I? (giggle)).
So I was looking through two hundred thousand dollars of trashy seeds
(Thompson and Morgan wants SIX BUCKS for a mix of five kinds of basil...
Christ I've stashed thirty kinds of basil including the lovely New
Guinea, and I'd be happy to unload a good mix for $2.50. It's a bad year
there...)
But one of their fancy photo packages had a picture of this "Mole Plant"
thingie... normally I wouldn't touch a spurge (family Euphorbiaceae)
with a ten foot pole they're so toxic and I don't even Care what it
looks like, but they have this lovely picture of a mole and some arrows
So perfoliate or sagittate leaves would be, come to think of it, a
plausible signature for repellant properties... looking for the long
list of snake repellants again, hmm, how many have forked tongues?
There's a plant in "Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast" (Pojar and
Mackinnon) that looks convincingly enough like a snake's head to have
earned it the name, "snake liverwort" (Conocephalum conicum), which
emits a "pleasant odor". Most aromatics repel something, anyway. Just
because snakes spit, you'd think it maybe an eye medicine? The Diditdaht
used it that way.
Worth some flap if Water plantain is amongst those that repels
something, this is clearly sagittate and in fact the star of the Ryder
deck's level of herbal medicine campaigning as a traditional anti-rabic.
Being a high coincidence of reputation for certain plants both repelling
various creatures and treating the venomous or infected bites, the
underlying logic may be that they shun what could either knock out, or
is already made immune to, their "defenses". In the case of rabid
creatures, they theoretically shun
what might improve their condition simply because it might.
Twenty-three years of esoteria and weird science up on some of these
creatures, and I suppose a suggestion as simple as a red-end light
deficiency is going to meet the same brick wall.
And another look at cup plants, in case anyone can see themselves in
them. Otherwise, I would wonder why we shamans are here when we don't
get to do anyone a damned bit of good.
Well, anyway, it all makes for some interesting digging through Scott
Cunningham books, including what he forgot to index, and wild wonderings
about wild lettuce, which like the toxic "Mole Plant", has in some
specie the perfoliate leaves and an unrelated milky latex sap. Soon I'll
be throwing peppercress seed at virtually every creature in creation no
doubt, milky juice or not... but hey, weird science marches on.
Now, does the "arrow" kind of leaf sign also mean that these make the
oogie-boogie things move into the spare bedroom? Hmm, yet another
night's deluded diversions in some moldy college library... no wait I
have my own moldy library...
Well, thanks for the kinds words, everyone, I'll try to be worthy of
them one of these days. Wow, a real science person Likes my
posts? I'll have to try to use terms like "benzene-saturated myopic
pinhead" far less unilaterally from now on. I had no idea!
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Digest 74
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 01:13:54 -0800
Subject: Weird Science Daily
Hello. (gawd what a lack of enthusiasm. read,
Hello!!!!!)
So what's new and far out? I dunno. You ever see that thing in
Time-Life's "Mystic Places" looks like a "schmoo" from "Li'l Abner" or
the lingham from that certain Tarot deck done in the 1900's by some
fellow "Comte de St. Germaine" who "isn't" the famous Count (Comte) but
typically probably is?
Much as Crowley himself would be no more generous than Page's vignette
in the Led Zeppelin movie?
My "lingham" has no wings personally.
What the hell is that thing? The ghost of some duck who died of the flu
and decided to possess my liver into mortality via magnetotaxes?
So really, when Francis Hitching is it or John Mitchell goes on about
how the snail shaped Silbury Hill attacted snails in the olden days,
what is this saying? That the power of signatures, sympathy and
antipathy, were employed to power a teleporter between these sites on
Earth and identical sites on Mars, likely sympathetic resonance?
I remember a past life regression I had once where I was not only
heaving some grand excess of wine into a stream, but I had the distinct
impression that That was a process of reconditioning the body to go to
and live on the moon. I know that sounds totally nuts... then again
there are some Major underlying this-and-thats... Yeah, and guess what
the Mayan regression turned up? Flying off the world and being sicker
than a dog...
So about those ghosts in the living room... I asked my dentist today
about chronic halitosis problems (why does this word have the
"salt" root in it?) and an Acid Reflux problem may be likely. And just
when I was ready to believe the Japanese version, that the dogsh*t smell
was a sign of slight possession by a bereaved woman ghost who either
mourns lost children or children not birthed, called a "Tengu",
wandering around the aethereal plane all unkempt like I-and-I's previous
semidreadlocks. Call it a "tangle" and wave knotgrass if you like, hint
hint.
So between the sunflower-and-parsley-seed oil treatment for that, which,
like flax seed and milk thistle really pisses off my liver, tis it a
wonder "only the wicked grow parsley" (sage, rosemary and thyme, giggle
lavendar's blue, dilly dilly (two more There) same theme as Rapunzel,
missed opportunity of procreation)
Er, that and sunlight antagonizing one's stash of aetherial fluidum,
often mistaken as the infringement of sunlight on the magickal dreams of
the night... or that and the dead guy with the ulcers wandering
around... or neurotransmitter lost to the battle against bioacidity?
(depleted ATP compensated by depleted neurotransmitter of phenethyl
type, not new that one. Biochemistry of love, that one...)
Er, that and -orange at that chakra, antisocial aspect. Dodgy to rest
it, but someone's less than nice in such a picture.
Magickal geniuses behold, I have spelt out common threads, of possible
great worth, and hopefully I'm not just full of sh*t. Only here in the
holocosm...
Temperance tarot mystery of the week #3:
My teeth are the bone that is outright, the bridge between land and
water.
#4: I have one foot in the night, and one in the day.
darn those muses anyway.
Choni, hopefully in peak generous but challengingly evasive form once
again, damnable old goat thing that he am. Crowley, be proud!
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Digest 76
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:49:30 -0800
Subject: A Deep Mystery
Hello.
I'd like to do Valentines a little, the three Charis and the heart as an
assymterical magnetic feild, and all of that.
But you all know where I've been right? I told you about Dalmatican
toadflax with the little honeysuckle spurs full of a nectar jackpot, I
wondered what does a diamond leaf like a diamondback and a stem like the
spine of a snake have to do with gambing when I thought what Vegas would
sound like if a snake had put out your eyes, if all of it is enough like
a snake's rattle to trigger the fight or flight, the addiction factor in
gambling is adrenalin. A shaman's rattle could make a good substitute.
Sticking you fingers in your ears could let you walk out with the shirt
on your back. Thus a Medicinal Philosophy embodied by a plant.
And the later down the same alley, not ten feet from where some poor
bastard has spent his rent on a pile of pulltabs a foot high, was a
barnyard grass with a seed that looks like a football, a horseshoe on it
and an antennae bent in half. 50/50? When you feel lucky you do the
lottery, a million to one against you. 50/50 you don't really feel lucky
do you, why are you betting?!?!? And the grass itself is a cyanogen,
toxic, deadly, just to drive it home.
So for repeating, some of the Evening primroses rattle a little. We try
to keep the Artemisias and adrenal things away from pregnant women, we
witchies have old lore about not even stepping over a carrot and all of
that if one is with child. I'd not shake my rattle either. But any
wonder that several members of the Evening primrose family have recieved
citations as antiabortives? Between that and the Evening Primrose oil,
and looking for species that may be even more medicinally valuable, I'm
collecting them right down to the Fushcias. Baby rattles is another
expression of the signature. I have some lovely Native American lore
bridging several tribes about Blue Beetle and so on.
Here's the deep mystery: Imagine how far They got with this!
I did this until it ran into Oranges. no surprise, they're packing
glutamine.
This is probably all a re-run, but if I have to think for my monkey mind
that any attention deficit thingie is a little to rattly for it's own
good, where does the signature thing fall in? Toadflax and flax too
might yeild deadly brews, but that don't stop one from looking at it's
cousin Mullien.
Meditation does elude those who fight it, and from my point of view as a
wallflower, people's lives make no sense to me. Is a telescopic carrot
going to treat short-sightedness? How many times Are physical conditions
euphemisms for attitude badness? Seems I was taught That kind of thing
as long as I can remember. Me, the doctors marvel at my general health,
and I haven't told them my lifestyle yet (grin)...
Welcome to the macrocosm and the microcosm at once...
Something to wonder on...
Chroni
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:39:41 -0800
Subject: Re: Occult Haven Digest, digest #76
Hello!
What a lovely and fascinating disgest. Thanks! I still think it's
one of those "tengu" things (grin) but is that not lovely or what? I
just learned more in one post than from twelve dentists in ten years. I,
um, have this friend... with a highly developed gag response... okay I
give up, how to they get away with brushing their tongue?
Thanks, all, for the additional ADD/ADHD info, I've been too spacy to
dig into it, but what I've seen here really does register.
Some of this is typical indeed for people who function strongly on the
6th and 7th chakras (7-chakra system), a lot of not following through
with ideas is that to a certain degree, the imagining of it is tangible
enough that it is in fact perceived as already done. Or something very
much like that. Some of the medications may cause people to tend to
function at the 2nd and 3rd chakras more? I wouldn't be surprised if
magickians are more succeptible, and our "spacey, flakey new-agers" may
be a result of these.
Ah, yes, the feild day diagnosing every kid who likes to run and play
with ADD. I have several nephews who were in that category, and probably
the person diagnosing them was more typical, restlessly firing that
diagnosis at anything that moves. In the end, they backed off of this.
Thus must be happening constantly a lot of places from the sound of it.
Being we're into faeries and things and all that, I'll repeat something
I must have posted previously, about how my *teachings* treat faeries as
symbols for various functions, and they're pretty well clustered, too,
being a coordinate of the remarkable popularity of the concept. Doesn't
mean there Aren't some out there, but generally the references seem to
concern magickal reproduction, and the inevitable associated threads of
population, longevity, and so on. And magick in general. Alot of
"fractical particle motion" or some interesting thing seems to be
archetypically depicted around them clear up to Disney, all that twinkly
stuff. Wouldn't be much awry if that twinkly stuff really was blatantly
present a lot of times someone makes a tangible magick. I still have
trouble linking all of that elsewhere, a peacock might be a good
Euphemism for such splashes of color, or the rainbow...
So anyway, you could take that cluster and start guessing a lot of
things in faeries lore. One I still like is the reference in Shakespeare
that Titania (is that a Greek travestic if I ever heard one?- He may
Have gotten this from Kallimacho's "Kynopion" epigram) is "of knotgrass
made", keeps one from fainting when one reads of knotgrass' formidable
medical reputation in the Orient. Obviously, that 100-year-old knotgrass
root putting 3rd set of teeth (James A. Duke, "CRC Handbook..." quoting
Varro E. Tyler) in one's head ought to be cheerfully suspect of any
other remarkable regenerative (time-reversing?) effects. How to age the
knotgrass artificially is another time issue that surrounds the theme,
worthy of the time concepts associable with this "fractal particle
motion" business, much as it was presented on Star Trek. And Magnetism
manages to be a strong, if subtle, recurring theme as well. Especially
for having thrown in a knotgrass.
They can also go in a weird little Cupid class, the times the unborn
might have to take deliberate intervention so that their stubborn and
uncooperative parents-to-be actually get them created. I figure failing
that they'll give someone a weird fascination with creating offsring by
magick. I don't know why I got that myself exactly come to think of it.
BTW, speaking of legendary forest denizens*we* do Robin Hood as a
materialization gig, too, something like the conical Omphalon things,
drawing up an energy through a circle, something like that. Especially
as much as some very common motifs are recycled into it. It's possible
that distorting an earth feild like that is one assurance that only the
ground is targeted for matter, as the minimum that it means. Red may be
used to imply heat, thermodynamics, a flexible antagonism of
magnetization--- some popular Palingenics themes.
Of course somehow I seem to think my studies in this area are already
finished... and I really can't remember much of the last study I made.
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