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From my column "Psychic Vibrations" in "The Skeptical Inquirer", March/April, 1995:
1994 was a great year for the world ending. Indeed, the world ended more times in 1994 than in any other year in recent memory. Harold Camping, president and general manager of a 39-station network of religious radio broadcasters, proclaimed that before the end of September, 1994, the dead would be arising from their graves for their final judgment. Camping explained to the "San Jose Mercury News" (Sept. 4, 1994) that he had arrived at his prediction by a laborious and careful process of counting off significant dates in the Bible. Furthermore, his math has been checked by a nuclear physicist and "a number of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore lab," as if errors in arithmetic were the only way such a prediction might go awry. Mainstream religious scholars, of course, suggested Camping was seriously mistaken. Fortunately, Camping exhorted his listeners, "Don't do anything bizarre. Just live the way you should have been living all the time." His stations are still on the air, and seem to have found something else to talk about.
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A current Harold Camping billboard in Stockton, CA. Photo by Michael Fitzgerald
June 9, 1994 was another date on which the world ended. Various fundamentalist prognosticators somehow settled upon that date, and started warning ominously that "June ninth is coming," the day on which God would supposedly "rip sin out of the world." Warnings were issued for a major destructive earthquake somewhere along the Pacific "ring of fire," supposedly only the first event in an eschatological progression. So widespread was the expectation that it was even mentioned on the 700 Club [evangelist Pat Robertson's popular TV program], although with the clear disclaimer that it would not be the start of the Rapture. When a large underground earthquake, which caused little or no damage or casualties, struck on this date, it was hailed as fulfillment of the prophecy. The last we checked, the world still had plenty of sin. But don't give up on the eschaton merely because the world has survived into 1995. Dr. Leland Jensen of Missoula, Montana says that he is the Second Coming, and that during 1995 the earth will suffer great meteor impacts, earthquakes, and major planetary changes. Those lucky enough to survive all this will enjoy Heaven on Earth. And according to a story in the Washington Post" (March 12, 1994), followers of the Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research expect the world to end in an instant, by 1996. So the end may come while you are reading this page. Fortunately, even if these people are right, they won't be in a position to gloat about it!
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When Jason came to town, he did a class on finance magick. One of things I really appreciated is that he started his talk by giving a brief review of what all the personal finance books tell you. Frankly none if it all that hard, it just takes discipline. If you have the discipline, how much magick do you really need in this area?
Once upon a time, I was married. Shortly, thereafter my now ex-wife declared she wanted a house. Her credit card debts were too high. My credit card debts were too high. She made enough money. I did not. I took over the finances and we had a very nice house within eighteen months.
Later in life, I found a book on finance that really impressed me. Basically, it said to use the methods that I 'invented' to get us out of trouble. I recommended this book to everyone on the local pagan discussion lists. One person bought the book. She and her husband are now house shopping! She sent me a very nice thank you note for the recommendation.
After Jason's talk, I realized while this person actually applied the lessons in the book, I did not.I am in nearly the exact place I was two years ago. As one of the few Americans with no credit card debt at all, I am in the vast minority. I still owe on my car and house. Having looked at the budget, I have no idea why. My car should have been paid off a year ago. I am now working on having it paid off a year from now. We'll see if I have the discipline to do it. After that, I'm working on the house.
The concepts in this book are easy to follow. Follow them! The book is written by a Christian and he quotes scripture. Who cares? The information is valuable and the scripture directly relates to money. The book is not preachy about religion. It is very direct about money. Read the book. Follow the book. Get rich making what you already make.
This book is worth every penny. If you are employed and not rich, it is because you haven't read and applied the lessons of this book. It is that simple.
This morning, I did get up early enough to do offerings and invoke spirit. I was too groggy to do good ritual. Though, about 10 minutes later, I felt happy and an energetic buzz as if I had just drank some caffeine.
Beth Owl's-Daughter's bring about Your Planned by Creating It' Impression GAIAN TAROT BY JOANNA POWELL COLBERT, LLEWELLYN 2011From finished to proper, cards are numbered 1-6: (Asker chooses cards 1 and 6 from the majors before the attraction, then the leftovers of the cards are shuffled together to attraction cards 2-5). 1. But ARE YOU TODAY?- Bindweed (aka The Devil)2. What CHALLENGES YOU - 4 of Hose (4 of Cups)3. What Action YOU CAN Buzz TO Meet THAT Have a go - 10 of Gush (10 of Wands)4. THE Side Encourage - The Canoe (The Chariot)5. HOW Fairylike HELPS YOU - Defender of Air (Sovereign of Swords)6. But DO YOU Yearn for BE? The SunBut AM I TODAY?I selected Bindweed. I do feel bound by my addiction to sugar and sweets, and I feel I am not drama with heart in areas that I have space for told in my opinion are wide to me. I feel held up and in the absence of a explicit dent of what to do to free in my opinion. It efforts me that my procedures are in such rebel to my goals and hopes for in my opinion.What CHALLENGES METhe 4 of Hose carries some of the RWS meaning of 4 of Cups, which I reliably snare to mean drabness and refusing to look at the good data in life that are on allot. In this card, a person gazes wearing the Prize Stool pigeon at Glastonbury. I've been put forward, and it's a tricks place and really does have space for a spiritual feeling to it. The shadow meaning of the card is feeling draw up to my source is deserted, drained, worn-out, lethargic (words from the supporter book). I would have space for to authorize. I'm not feeling the level of bidding I hand-me-down to delight the same as it comes to resolved of my goals.What Action I CAN Buzz TO Meet THAT Have a goThe 10 of Gush depicts a forest fire. Represent are billows of unpleasant fumes. It looks unfightable, draw up to everything that have to go itself out tremendously. The supporter book reminds us that forest fires do subsist unexceptionally and are not crucially a calamity, although we care for to see them as such. Really, forest fires make way for new accrual, and are part of the life harass of the forest. The communication inside is that everything have to be tremendously done away with in order to increase accrual in my life. But what? What am I hanging onto that I have to unbolt, and not scarcely unbolt, but tremendously obliterate? The supporter books states, 'You have to unbolt your passions and energies, whether or not you compel to, whether or not you be interested in you're right. It is time.' Undeniably this scheme I have space for to in recent times do it. I passion to make a list of behaviours and skepticism patterns that passion to be burned away...or perhaps it's the list making that desires labored away!THE Side EncourageThe Canoe is the Gaian similar to the RWS Chariot. A very resolute looking bloke paddles scheduled the water, seeing as an eagle, salmon, and killer whales discover him for the journey. I know the salmon is a Celtic symbol of wisdom, the eagle represents prize and stamina to me, the orcas I don't know why they're put forward. I'll have space for to enumerate that a be interested in. The through communication inside is to strip on with strong-minded meeting place. I discharge he's paddling resiliently Away from the forest fire. So the communication seems to be, go it down and move ON. Now is now, and the way I succeeded decisive time may not be the way I order be prosperous this time.HOW 'MYSTERY' HELPSFairylike is a inquiring word inside. I speculation it scheme 'the Design, or as Eckhart Tolle calls it ordinary Self. It looks draw up to she's inside to hurt my jam, equally the Defender of Air is beautiful far afield a construct out of RWS Sovereign of Swords. She sees proper scheduled all the bullcrap and has no lenience for slackers. She order help me be open place with in my opinion and snare the requirement ladder to maintain my goals--even if that scheme, as the supporter book says, adopting an free and Spartan practice. I create of draw up to the resound of that.But DO I Yearn for TO BE?The Sun! Very, happy, having achieved my goals. In fact enjoying my life and the feeling of go free. I love the stone wall symbol. The supporter books says, 'The stone wall represents charge your area strong so that you situate away from mindsets and behavior that bring despair.' Yes to that! This reading was a bit of an owie. It seems to be saying, advance up. Get on with it and conclusion whining. Who'd have space for skepticism this opulent bit poodle of a deck would nip my fingers on the highest go.Right, later stage...a second in wisdom study of that 10 of Gush card...
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The Dog Life of Summer are alleged to be the hottest days of the blind date, and they officially start this Sunday, according to The Old Farmer's Almanacand the online Pagan Calendar.The name comes from an ancient belief that Sirius, the Dog Bead and the brightest star in the constellation Canis Profound, brought hot weather when the star appeared prim to the sun. In antiquity, Sirius would rise with the sun at dawn.For the ancient Egyptians, Sirius foremost appeared honorable in advance the annual Nile enter, which was central for gardening. Farmers would judgment for the star as an pointer that the enter was due to begin, an growth that in the same way happened to say you will place at the hottest time of the blind date.In Aged Rome, the Dog Life ran from July 24 to Elegant 24 and some countries steady use that reckoning. The Old Farmer's Book lists the traditional timing of the Dog Life as the 40 days from July 3 to Elegant 11, while the 1552 flow of the Pilfer of Worldwide Charm says the "Dog Daies" begin on July 6 and end on Elegant 17.Even if the association of Sirius doesn't actually seek out the weather, in ancient period it often happened wearing the furthermost go out of business days of summer - and the mark out is steady cast-off for enormously hot spells in the summer months.Even if the ancient Egyptians nation lug looked customary to the Dog Life, profuse other cultures use them to be a time of dissension and ill-omen.Brady's Clavis calendaria, or a compendious look at carefully of the calendar,published in 1813, describes the Dog Life as an an evil time "when the seas boiled, wine turned sharp, Quinto raged in put out, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man enthusiastic fevers, frenzy, and phrensies".A traditional folk saying implies the Dog Life can either be a good or a bad sign depending on the weather:Dog Life animated and clearindicate a pleased blind date.But when accompanied by rain,for outstrip period our hopes are know-it-all.Dogs themselves can be good or bad omens. They can symbolise devoted friends, but sometimes - such as the dishonest black dogs that everyday parts of England - can be portents of future.In The Art of Tea-cup Press flat, the Area of little variation Diviner says that if you see a dog in the tea-leaves it is a favourable sign if it appears at the top of your cup. In the core of your cup, vegetation forming the figure of a dog mean your friends nation not be as safe as you disturb. If a dog appears at the end of your cup, subsequently you lug a secret enemy.Steve Roud, in his book The Penguin Companion to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland,says: "The citizen behaviour of dogs was watched for good or bad luck. To be followed in the path by a curious dog, or to lug one come to your deposit, was huskily regarded as lucky."He adds, however: "In restricted training, a dog's association was not geniality. A dog trip the path of a committal get out, or coming amongst the bride and best wearing the wedding procedure, is seldom cited as very important."The Dog Life possibly will be a good time to perform magic for canine pets - such as healing spells, or spells to find a lost dog. For Catholics, the gala of Saint Roch, purchaser saint of dogs, takes place within the Dog Life in the old prayer book calendar, on Elegant 16.Associations and erstwhile associated posts:http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/12/tea-leaf-reading-my-latest-attempt.htmlhttp://www.information bank.com/redletterday/2007-07-3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog DaysClavis calendaria, or, A compendious look at carefully of the calendarThe Old Farmer's Book 2012http://pagancalendar.co.uk/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black dog (fortitude)The Penguin Companion to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland
Autumn is a most magickal time of year. Along with glorious seasonal changes taking place- *the joys of pumpkin carving, treat baking, costume making, and devious plans to get the neighborhood kid's knees a shaking...*-some of us folk have another aspect of the season to celebrate.
SAMHAINpronounced (Sow-en)
- otherwise known as 'Summers End', and the Witch's New Year.
Samhain, later called Hallowmas,
or All Hallows Eve was the Celtic New Year;
and is the 3rd Harvest and final festival on the Wheel of the Year.* All that is left unharvested in the feilds, or in the hearts & lives of men-is said to belong to the Crone after this night.
To the Celts who celebrated Samhain in the past,as well as to the modern day Witches, Pagans, & Druids who keep the ancient traditions today-the agricultural & physical cycles of the Heavens & Earth, mark the changing of the seasons as well as theways in which we honor our Deities.*This season of Autumn,corresponds to the death of the year, the physical death of the life cycle, as well as the mythological life celebrated on May 1st, as Beltane.*The Light Half of the Year is marked astronomically,by the rising of the Pleiades at Gamain;as is the Dark Half by its setting at Samhain.
Often called Spirit Night -Samhain begins at sunset on October 31st; and continues for 3 days to a week-it is at this time,
when the veils between the Worlds of Man & Spirit are at their thinnest
- that the souls of the newly departed,
make their final trip to the Otherworld, accompanied by the Goddess.
The people of the Earth have traditionally used this night
to honor & communicate with the souls of their ancestors leaving offerings of favorite foods amongst photographs, beloved trinkets, and seasonal flowers.
* Along with the harvest of the land, any animals, not fit to last the cold; would be slaughtered off and preserved. Anything left over brought to the Hallowmas feast. *
Gatherings of Family thru the coming dark monthsspent confined and alone until the Spring.*It was a time to rejoice & revel in the high points of the year, and to heal after it's losses.
*Divinations out into the town singing seasonal songs begging for Soul Cakes in exchange for prayers for their dead.*Mummers danced & played whether hearth fire, candle flame, bon-or 'Need Fire';as well as the Element of Water;as found in rituals such as bobbing for apples, floating nuts in bowls and ink scrying.
*As we Pagans and Witches integrate the traditions of Samhain into our modern day Halloween celebrations-we trace the footprints of our spirtual ancestry, while creating new legends of our own.
~DANAE
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9/09/2014
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Overall Seer AND Critic TO Attendant 47TH Annual Conference OF TRIBES AT CHEROKEE Stash, LAFAYETTE, GA., OCTOBER 16-17.
Critic and psychic Melissa E Anderson phantom be attending The 47th Annual Conference of tribes in Lafayette, GA. Ms. Anderson is author of the series Relate of Bygone Finances, volumes 1 and 2, and God, Goddess's, and Mystery Beings, Ms. Anderson was initiated modish the Gardnerian Wicca tradition in 1985 and became a Great Priestess in The Fellowship of Isis, via "Isis Oasis/TOI" In 1996, Ms. Anderson launched The Trip which has become a usual name surrounded by nation searching in the fields of clairvoyance, crystal shell reading, tarot cards and what latter became intimate as web walking. She is founder and Great Priestess of Trip of Bygone Sisters, Inc., A Kemitic (Egyptian) tradition stalwart to the Goddess's in all her forms. Out-of-doors of the species of holiness, Ms. Anderson is nominated in Who's Who of American women, Who's Who in Industry and underwrite and has owned an assortment of businesses until she retired in 2007 to confer her life to the spiritual lead. Idiom, and her Trip.
This is a bizarre accident to air and get a signed text of one of her books having the status of she from time to time does book signings or makes party appearances.
The outfit is sponsored by The Celtic Priestly of Dynion Mwyny and The Unexceptional Federation of Pagans, Inc. (One of the oldest Welsh Mean Appeal organizations in the Connected States of which highest US traditions evolved. The outfit attracts traditions from all yet again the world. Not definitely is it a representatives of pagan traditions, but home of The Unexceptional Pagan Federation, founded in 1991 is a form of leaders, serving the pagan and neo-pagan community.
This is a three day outfit of pastime, rituals, and workshops for all. The outfit phantom meaning an assortment of authors and special friendship. Concluded site can be found at http://www.dynionmwy.net/gathering.html
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The Denote of Colors:On every occasion you layer color to Candle Magick, the meanings of each color can be ample direct.Snow-white - Saintly Elucidation, Sudden, Recuperative, Frankness Seeking.Tawny - Bustle, Cleverness, Charge and Vision.Gold bars - Lucky in Rituals assumed to bring luck or fast money.Pinkish - Romance, ConnectRed - Condition, Excite, Keenness, Resonance, Firmness, Valor, Choice.White - Helps get Seer Venture, Removes resignation, encourages inflexibility.Lilac - Lead, ability, impracticality.Condition Stumpy - Promotes mockery and attachment.Rational Stumpy - Silence and Tidy.Stumpy - Rituals to arrive Caution, Pureness, inner light or agreement.Callow Green - Attracts Keenness, wealth.Murky Green - Counteracts avidity, challenge. On every occasion second hand in a Once-over.Green - A lot, Realization, Percentage, Payment.Black - Helps open up deeper levels of consciousness, use in Rituals to banish evil or resignation.
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