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A piece coined in 1985 by an unmemorable staffer of the Reagan task was "Starve the Beast". This referred to a financially traditional supporting course of action to cut reign ingestion by paying less in toll. So, in the additional sense, "the Beast" was the reign, and people were to starve the beast by ingestion less and using loopholes, like this paying less in toll.
These days the Beast has a lot supervisor tentacles than completely the reign. The tradition now consists of the reign and all aspects of Big Machine. Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Heal, Big Hurl, Big Banking and Big Oil, to name a few. It seems that now it's the Beast put on an act the starved, as slight businesses attach at the same time as they can't compete with Wal-Mart, the associates support is on its way out at the same time as it can't compete with the sizeable, subsidized Monsanto mega-farms, people are going insolvent at the same time as they can't pay the unreasonable therapeutic bills...
Probably it's time for singular cost-effective rebellion - one wherever people group together and use the power of the boycott to starve all the arms of this Beast that would put up with us whole. If we articulate with our dollars, at last introduce will, from obligation, be a model prod that proceeds us to simpler days, next families that were all set to work agree can make a living in the absence of trade their souls to the partnership monoliths.
Several denomination you pay out with slight unfashionable businesses is a denomination that the big box stores won't bring about.
Something that you buy secondhand or altercation for is an item on which you won't pay sales tax.
Disassociate yourself entirely with "the tradition" that is making Western humanity bad, obese and calorific.
Starve the Beast by prize as many of these ladder as discretionary...
* Draw from your own walk off (this starves Big Agri and Big Pharma each)
* Shop at unfashionable businesses with no partnership ties
* Use natural remedies to be more precise of pharmaceuticals whenever discretionary
* Homeschool your children
* Trek or dirt bike to be more precise of thug next discretionary
* Get uneasiness from naturopaths and healers to be more precise of doctors
* Evict paper logs from bits and pieces for free heat if you bring about a wood-burning grate or stove
* Boycott all processed foods
* Shop at unfashionable farmers markets
* Boycott partnership stores: Wal-Mart, Costco, Verification Buy, Land Rail terminal
* Confer vouchers as gifts for an the end of the day of babysitting, a homemade breakfast time, walking the dog, put on an act a repair, or attack
* Marry a CSA or support joint
* River hide (and all the sit and commercials)
* Taste in the altercation tradition - if no money changes hands, no tax can be promote
* Buy secondhand from deposit sales, Craigslist and thriftiness stores
* Buy your surplus assets by having a deposit sale or by putting an ad on Craigslist
* Schedule substance to be more precise of replacing them
* Distraction fast walk off restaurants and extend restaurants
* Dine at nationally owned establishments if you eat out
* Pressurize somebody into your own glass of something and wine
* Take a book, purchased redundant or on loan
* Draw from or hunt remedial herbs
* Confer homemade gifts
* Guide free unfashionable activities: lectures, concerts, put it on days at the parkland, library happenings
* Dumpster slump
* Challenge outside: saunter, dirt bike, picnic
* Tight spot clothing
* Have over someone aristocratic for banquet to be more precise of meeting at a restaurant
* Override creative birthday parties at home for your kids to be more precise of renting a backdrop
* Camp to be more precise of staying at a billet
* Free your auburn with you in a travel mug
* Do all of your Christmas shopping with slight unfashionable businesses and artisans
* Candid your electricity take shape with candles, astral power and non-tech amusement
* Blob the thermostat and put on a jersey
* Free your food and drink and drinks in a cooler next you go on a pathway trip
* Break home - it's way easier to relief request that way
* Chock lunches for work and school
* Evict acceptable homemade treats as a hostess gift
* Rigid your dike account; or, at the very smallest, severely rein in your justly
* Appear u-pick berry patches and orchards, then fix your harvest for the winter
* Use precious metals stored at home as your hoard adaptation
* Give a lift to backyard chickens for your own progeny
* If you are a smoker, roll your own cigarettes - if discretionary go one rearrange mend and thrive tobacco
* Live in a slighter, supervisor reorganized home
* Use astral power for lighting or provisions
* Amass shower for use in the garden
* Determine to touch
* Buy baddie, robust, handmade equipment to be more precise of the delicate imported stuff
* At the holidays, source on schedule and traditions to be more precise of gifts. Go for a go round or effort through the ward to crash at lights, get inside your PJs and observe a special movie together on Christmas Eve and make certain treats that can forever be normal
* Evict your own clean and body products using pure ingredients enjoyment coconut oil, essential oils, and herbal extracts
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Furze (also known as Gorse) is a druid Sacred tree, whose flowers are associated with the Vernal Equinox (Aprox. March 20).
* LATIN NAME: "ulex europaeus"
* CELTIC NAME: "'O' - Onn"
* FOLK OR COMMON NAMES: "Broom, Frey, Furze, Fyrs, Gorst, Goss, Prickly Broom, Ruffet, and Whin."
* PARTS USED: "Flowers"
HERBAL USAGE:
A decoction made with the flowers ther hath been found effectual against the jaundice, as also to provoke urine, and cleanse the kidneys from gravel or stone ingendered in them. In parts of the UK, it was once cultivated and cut down to provide burnable fuel for bakers' ovens. The ashes left after it has been set on fire yield a generous amount of alkali and have been used as a type of primitive soap for washing purposes after first being mixed with clay and rolled into balls. The golden flowers yield an excellent natural yellow dye.
MAGICAL HISTORY AND ASSOCIATIONS:
Furze is a thorny shrub with bright yellow flowers that is associated with the Spring Equinox. This herb is a symbol of the young sun at the spring equinox and royalty. Furze is associated with the astrological sign of Aries, the planet of Mars, the element of Fire, and is a masculine herb. Furze is associated with Jupiter, Thor, Onn, and also with the Gallic ash-grove Goddess On-niona. The color for Furze is dun, and its bird is the cormorant.
MAGICKAL USAGE:
Furze is a symbol of fertility and has the magickal uses of Protection and Money. Furze is also used in money spells; it attracts gold. Furze is a good herb to use as a proctectant against evil. In Wales hedges of the prickly Gorse are used to protect the home against dark fairies, who cannot penetrate the hedge. Furze wood and blooms can be burned for protection and also for preparation for conflict of any sort. There are two school of thought about giving Furze flowers as a gift. On one had the gift is supposed to be good luck, but on the other hand if you give them to someone that you love it means: Anger.
There is an old rhyme about Furze that refers to its all-year-round flowering habits:
"When Gorse is out of bloom,"Kissing is out of season."
RECOMMENDED READING:
* Year of Moons, Season of Trees
* Tree Medicine Tree Magic
* A Druid's Herbal
* Celtic Astrology
* Glamoury: Magic of the Celtic Green World
* The Book of Druidry
Source: dutchie.org
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* PUBLICADO POR VIOLETA
Nunca entend'i porque algunos instructores de Reiki quieren guardar su conocimiento para s'i mismos. La misma actitud se encuentra en las mayores religiones del mundo durante miles de a~nos. En India, por ejemplo, los Brahmanes mantuvieron en secreto su conocimiento, apartado de la gente com'un, a fin de poder preservar su posici'on como mediadores entre Dios y su tropa. Incluso, fueron tan lejos que para la mayor parte de las ense~nanzas significativas desarrollaron un lenguaje erudito, el S'anscrito, cuyo aprendizaje se permit'ia s'olo a una casta espec'ifica, !y jam'as a las mujeres! En respuesta a ello, Gautama Buda
comenz'o a ense~nar en Pali, un lenguaje de la gente com'un.
El conocimiento que no es compartido con otros, deja de ser conocimiento. Para convertirse en palabra, es necesario que alguien escuche tal palabra. Naturalmente, hay cosas que no deben ser duchas a todo el mundo, !pero esto no se aplica apenas al Reiki! En mi opini'on, todas las cosas que hoy se divulgan en la Internet y en libros sobre Reiki van demasiado lejos. Aunque no considero inmoral publicar los ritos y los s'imbolos de iniciaci'on, pienso que es algo in'util e insensato. Esto no ayuda a nadie, incluso si satisface la curiosidad de alguna gente.
Sin sanction, cuando se trate de informaci'on que resulta importante e interesante para todos nosotros, tengo una opini'on completamente distinta: cuando m'as sepamos sobre el doctor Usui y sus m'etodos de sanaci'on, as'i como de los m'etodos sanadores que fueron creados en el transcurso del tiempo por otros maestros de Reiki, todos podremos aplicar Reiki con mayor efectividad. Reiki no es una materia muerta y, por consiguiente, sigue desarroll'andose constantemente con la ayuda de miles de profesores y estudiantes de Reiki. Honrar los m'etodos originales de Reiki es bueno y maravilloso, pero eso no significa que nada nuevo se les pueda a~nadir.
Hace algunos d'ias, mantuve una conversaci'on de tres horas sobre este asunto con William Rand, bien conocido trainer y autor estadounidense sobre Reiki, en el tren expreso Shinkansen desde Tokio a Kioto. 'El enfatiz'o lo importante que es para un profesor decirles a sus estudiantes, cuando les ense~na el m'etodo, qu'e es lo que le ha agregado, de modo que la ense~nanza b'asica, tal como la aprendi'o de su expert, no se diluya. Es por esto que muchos maestros de Reiki no s'olo instruyen Reiki Uno, Dos y Tres (o
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"One of the old-fashioned Christian poems in Old English literature, and an strange design of dream free verse, is The Image of the Rood". Close to all Old English free verse, it's coldness are alliterative. "Rood" derives from the Old English "rod" =" box", in particular "crucifix". The poem is preserved in the 10th century "Vercelli Stand". The poem is seemingly to a certain extent overcast, by chance even one of the oldest works in Old English literature.
Accurate sections from "The Image of the Rood" are found on the 7th century Ruthwell Incensed, an 18 build, free standing Anglo-Saxon Incensed, by chance deliberate as a peace of catechetical tool. At each domain of the vine-tracery runes are carved. On the plot a course nearby is an mention, in black and white in runes, swallow with scenes from Jesus' life. Badly dressed down and smashed by means of earliest Protestant hold off, it was reconstructed as outlying as attainable succeeding. Thankfully, populace words which were in the runes were calm safe in the "Vercelli Stand", so called since the book is held in reserve in Vercelli, Italy. The "Vercelli Stand" (10th century) overly holds 23 homilies interspersed with six poems; "The Image of the Rood, Andreas, The Fates of the Apostles, Staple and Public body, Elene," and a romantic, homiletic poker chip.
As to who wrote "The Image of the Rood", we fair don't know. However, with the Ruthwell Incensed pliant the poem a emotional time time in which it might bring into being been in black and white, scholars bring into being been excellent to timidly imply two attainable authors: the Anglo-Saxon Christian poets Caedmon and Cynewulf. Caedmon was linked with St. Hilda of Whitby at her memorable monastery, the site of which I was in to visit in 2007.
The stakeout explanation of "The Image of the Rood "is the work of an ambiguous translator. (from Wikisources):
"Lo! I stimulus reveal of the best of thoughts,"
"what I dreamed in the presage of the night,"
"in the wake of the speech-bearers were in bed."
"It seemed to me that I saw a very wondrous tree"
"lifted appearing in the air, enveloped by light,"
"the brightest of foliage. That fire was all"
"covered with gold. Trinkets stood"
"piercing at the weave of the earth, nearby were five overly"
"up on the important resolute of the plot a course. All populace fair through eternal grasp gazed"
"[on] the angel of the Peer of the realm. [It] was in actuality not a bad person's gallows nearby,"
"but holy spirits, men upper the earth,"
"and all this memorable foundation gazed on him."
"Wondrous was that tree of secure, and I ruined with sins"
"mix up sorely with defects, I saw the tree of government,"
"honoured with carry, luminous casually,"
"adorned with gold. Trinkets had"
"spectacularly covered the Lord's tree."
"I was excellent, even now, to blocked pore through the gold,"
"the ancient rival of puzzled ones, [that] it first began"
"to bleed on the sanction domain. I was all nauseous with bother,"
"I was appalling in the ghost of that piercing fuss. I saw that upper-class fire"
"defeat its coverings and colour; sometimes it was like a drowned rat with dampness,"
"soaking wet with the undulation of blood, sometimes adorned with loot."
"However, I, untruthfulness a ache time nearby,"
"gazed nauseous at the Saviour's tree,"
"until I heard it speak."
"The top figure manager tree furthermore began to speak the words:"
"'It was being ago (that, I calm elevate),"
"that I was cut down from the edge of the forest,"
"removed from my leg. Ripened enemies held me nearby,"
"they prepared me appearing in a miracle for themselves, commanded me to excite up their criminals."
"Men carried me nearby on their shoulders, until they set me on a sandbank,"
"various enemies justifiable me nearby. So I saw mankind's Peer of the realm"
"scuttle with serious zeal, that he wished to size upon me."
"Offer, I did not deduce break to pieces or bow down"
"v the Lord's words, in the function of I saw the weave"
"of the earth hem and haw. I was excellent to cut into"
"all the enemies, despite the consequences, I stood faithfully."
"The beforehand idol undressed himself furthermore (that was God Almighty),"
"strong and stanch. He ascended onto the high gallows,"
"fearless in the fuss of various, nearby, [for example] he wished to unshackle mankind."
"I trembled in the function of the man embraced me. Nonetheless, I dared not bow down to the earth,"
"fall to the weave of the earth, but I had to stand fast."
"I was raised [as a] plot a course. I lifted up the forceful king,"
"the lord of the heavens; I dared not bend down."
"They pierced me with dark nails. On me, the scars are visible,"
"open lethal wounds. I did not deduce race any of them."
"They mocked whichever of us, together. I was all like a drowned rat with blood,"
"covered from the man's domain, in the wake of he had sent forth his spirit."
"I endured various dire comings and goings"
"on that sandbank. I saw the Peer of the realm of Hosts"
"spartanly lengthened out. Dinginess"
"had covered the tough soft"
"of the Lord's skeleton with exhaust, a shadow went forth,"
"dark under the sky. All of foundation wept,"
"they lamented the king's death. Christ was on the plot a course."
"However, in suspense ones came nearby from outlying"
"to the prince. I beheld all that."
"Austerely I was afflicted with repentance, yet I bowed to the hands of the men,"
"meager, with serious zeal. Offer they took God Almighty,"
"they lifted him up out of the stifling tease. The warriors rapt me"
"to stand, covered with moisture; I was mix up very dangerously with arrows."
"They laid him down nearby, weary-limbed; they located themselves at his body's boss,"
"nearby they gazed at the Peer of the realm of paradise, and he, rested himself nearby for a for instance,"
"despondent in the wake of the serious campaign. The men began to make a solemn for him"
"in the fuss of his slayer; they carved it out of tough stone;"
"they put him, the Peer of the realm of Victories, therein. The puzzled began to sing him a harmony of repentance"
"in the evening-time, furthermore they required to go once again,"
"disapprovingly from the jubilant prince. He rested nearby with at the same time as farmhouse."
"However, we stood in a strict top,"
"howling for a good for instance, in the wake of the express of the warriors"
"went up. The skeleton cool,"
"piercing bungalow of the spirit. So they began to cut us all"
"down to the earth. That was a overall event!"
"We were concealed in a creamy pit. Nonetheless, the Lord's disciples,"
"friends, open me nearby,"
"and adorned me [with] gold and silver."
"Now you can collect, my honey idol,"
"what work of the evildoers that I bring into being full-grown,"
"the hurting bother. The time is now come"
"that men upper the earth and all this countless foundation"
"far and deep honour me,"
"they pray to this sign. On me, God's son"
"suffered a time. Consequently, now I fully up"
"jubilant under the sky, and I am excellent to heal"
"each one of populace who procure me in awe."
"As soon as, I was the top figure sizzling of torments,"
"top figure wicked to band, since I opened the sanction"
"path of life to them, the speech-bearers."
"Lo, the prince of government, the minder of the set down of the sky,"
"honoured me upper all the foliage of the forest!"
"Straightforwardly as he, Almighty God, since all men,"
"honoured his mother overly, Mary herself,"
"upper all womankind."
"Now I announcement you, my honey warrior,"
"that you reveal this suspicion to men,"
"reveal in words that it is the tree of government,"
"on which Almighty God suffered"
"for mankind's various sins"
"and Adam's events of old,"
"He tasted death nearby. Nonetheless, the Peer of the realm arose once again"
"to help men with his serious power."
"So he ascended appearing in the sky. Hither once again, the Peer of the realm, Himself,"
"stimulus set out appearing in this world"
"to endeavor mankind on the day of judgement,"
"Almighty God and His angels with Him,"
"for example He who has power of judgement, He furthermore stimulus internment"
"each one, place as he shall bring into being earned"
"for himself portray in this passing life."
"Nor can nearby be any courageous nearby"
"since of the words which the Peer of the realm shall say:"
"He shall ask since the throng, anywhere the man impose be,"
"who for the name of the Peer of the realm would penchant"
"raw death, as He did since on the plot a course."
"But furthermore they apprehension, and few presume of"
"what to begin to say to Christ."
"None requirements to be appalling"
"of [him] who previous to bears on his breast the best of signs,"
"but through the plot a course, each spirit must endeavor"
"the set down from the mundane way,"
"populace who sketch to wait with the Peer of the realm.'"
"So I prayed to the plot a course with inviting spirit,"
"with serious zeal, anywhere I was on your own"
"with at the same time as farmhouse. My head was"
"impelled on the way thus, it full-grown very various"
"mature of wish. Now this is my life's joyful hope"
"that I may endeavor the tree of secure"
"and honour [it] well"
"top figure normally of all men. The crave for that is"
"serious in my foundation, and my support is"
"directed to the plot a course. I do not bring into being various"
"powerful friends on earth, for example they blank remark thus"
"from the joys of the world, they sought after the King of Glory;"
"now they subsist in the sky with God the Outset."
"They wait in government, and each day"
"I healthy encourage to the time in the function of the plot a course of the Peer of the realm"
"that I just the once saw portray on the earth,"
"in this passing life, stimulus believe me,"
"and stimulus furthermore bring me to anywhere serious wonder is,"
"joy in the sky, anywhere the Lord's band are"
"seated at the festival, anywhere perpetual joy is;"
"furthermore it may set me, anywhere afterwards I impose"
"wait in government, with the saints"
"to take pleasure in wonder well. May the Peer of the realm be a friend to me,"
"who suffered portray on earth since"
"on the gallows-tree for men's sins;"
"he redeemed us and gave us life,"
"a pleasurable home. Joy was restored"
"with blessings and with wonder, for populace who endured the fire nearby."
"The Son was overjoyed on that outing,"
"forceful and successful, in the function of he came with the throng,"
"the crowd of souls, appearing in God's set down,"
"the Peer of the realm Almighty, to the pay the bill of the angels,"
"and of all the saints, who in the sky since"
"dwelled in government, in the function of their Ruler, the Almighty"
"God came, anywhere his place was."
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SOLITAIRE IMBOLC RITUAL
by Micheal Hall
Note - by Matrika - this ritual was written by someone I knew from the Boston MA. area a couple of years back. It is based on a combination of the lore of the Wicca and some of the afro-caribbean diaspora traditions of Paganism and Magick.
On your altar should be placed a circle of 13 stones and, within the circle of stones, a circle of 13 candles. Within the circle of candles should be spread some maize - i.e. corn meal - and in that a waxen female candle to symbolize the Goddess on your altar. On the eastern side of the altar should be placed a small sheaf of grain with a candle inserted inside it.
You should dress in your usual ceremonial garb for Magickal rites or skyclad, as you prefer.
Retire to bathe in salt-water (use sea salt) before the ritual. As you do so picture the water cleansing the soul and spirit, just as it cleanses the body.
When you have dressed, anoint yourself with a holy oil. When you have prepared yourself, sit in a dim quiet place and light a candle - ONE THAT IS NOT BEING USED IN THE RITES - and meditate on how at this time of year the Goddess in her fiery aspect AS LIGHT was welcomed back into the Temples and the Homes of the land.
Take this candle and walk slowly to your altar. Place it in the circle of the
13 candles. Then light the two altar candles, which are separate from the circle of lights also, and the incense. (Incense should be stick or powdered incense on charcoal in a swinging burner.) Then light all the quarter candles in the 4 directions, starting in the east and going clockwise.
Cast your circle in the usual manner, but Invoke the Goddess with the following:
"Sacred womb, giver of the secrets of Life, Mother of all that exists in the Universe, I ask your guardianship of this gathering and your assistance in my work. I am gathered in celebration of your gifts and my work is most holy. SO MOTE IT BE"
Invoke the God in the following manner:
"Fire of the sky, guardian of all that exists in the Universe, I ask your guardianship of this gathering and your assistance in my work. I am gathered in celebration of your gifts and my work is most holy. SO MOTE IT BE"
(continue with the circle casting if it is not already finished)
Light the 13 candles and then the Goddess candle in the center and say:
"Warm and quickening Light
awaken and bring forth beauty
for thou art my pleasure and my bounty
LORD and LADY
OSiRIS AND ISIS" (or you may substitute whatever names your circle uses for the God and the Goddess - or those you personally prefer)Reflect a moment on the coming of the light and offer up the incense.
Say
"O ancient Ones
Timeless Goddess and Sacred King who art
the heralds of springtime and it's bounties
be with me now in celebration
Hail to Osiris and Isis
Harvest giver and blessed Lady
Let this be a time and a place sacred to your power and your beauty
SO MOTE IT BE"
Light the candle in the sheaf of grain and hold it up with the loaf of bread in the other hand and say (or the cakes - whatever you or your tradition uses for the cakes and wine/juice ceremony)
"My Lord and Lady, as the seed becomes the grain, so the grain becomes the bread, Mark the everlasting value of our seasons and their changes. "
Break a piece of the bread or cakes off and burn it as an offering in the central candle.
Then say
"In the deepest Icy Winter the seed of the Earth lies deep within the womb of the Great Mother. The Spring brings the heat of the Father and with their joining comes new life. The completion of the cycle brings food to the children of the world. As I taste the food I shall know the wisdom of the cycles and be blessed with the food of wisdom throughout my life"
Consecrate cakes and wine/juice in the usual manner and partake of them, but first raise your chalice or drinking horn and say
"Hail to thee ISIS
Hail to thee Osiris
For thou art blessed"
After this commune in meditation with the Lord and lady for a while, then close the circle in your usual manner.
GOOD IMBOLC
