"... the one who is willing to taste every kind of learning with gusto, and who approaches learning with delight, and who is insatiable, we shall justly assert to be a philosopher."

(Plato's Republic, 475c-d).

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

I'm watching:

star trek voyager !!!!


Later ...

maybe bed?

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
The Shins
The Postal Service
Copal
Cut Copy








YEAH!

[clap]

;)

[The lyrics from the youtube video above]
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~ Mercury Rev: "Opus 40" ~

well she tossed all night like a raging sea
woke up and climbed from the suicide machine
with her spanish candles and her persian poems
stuck on the rocks inside opus 40 stoned
and scratching her wrists in the pouring rain
she collapses down upon the ocean floor again
tears in waves minds on fire
nights alone by your side
catskill mansions buried screams I'm alive
she cried but I don't know what it means
somewhere out there across the moonlit sands
there's a line drawn like the lines on her own hand
and slamming her eyes locking the door
she collapses down upon the ocean floor again
tears in waves minds on fire
nights alone by your side
tears in waves minds on fire
nights alone by your side ...

oh ohh ohh ohhhhh oh ohhhhhhh ...

[le sigh, le tears, l'empathique]

~ The Blower's Daughter ~

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new

~~~~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~~~~

You know who this is for ….

LCBxoxox

Many people have wondered why I found myself in Eurynome and, indeed, have asked me *who* the hell she was?!?

Much of what I have learnt about Eurynome comes from Hesiod, Homer, and Robert Graves.

Though it is impossible to "scientifically" validate such mythology, I *am* a firm believer in the myths, stories, poems and oral traditions that western civilisation has built itself both upon and around. Along with David Hume et.al, I agree that this nascent form of pagan 'religion' evolved so that humanity could explain to itself why, where, when, and how we and our surroundings originated ... and how we may understand them.

Whether you agree or not, whether you even care or not, I believe that my choice of name fits me like a glove ... or indeed a wetsuit if you will (ba boom cha!).

No matter what your religious/scientific/rationalist/philosophical et.al outlook, for me the mythology of Eurynome is a beautiful, poignant and siren-esque song that echoes deep within my heart ...

Cheers for reading this far!

Here's a brief-ish (!) history ...


~ E U R Y N O M E ~

(A Mother of the Graces)

Eurynome was only one of the Goddess's names.

Eurynome, "wide wandering," refers to her as the moon traveling across the sky, by the Sumerians she was called the "exalted dove," or, Iahu.

Eurynome was easily the most important Goddess of Pelasgian myth.
She was the Great Goddess, Mother, Creatrix, Ruler, called the Goddess of All Things.

~ ~ ~

There are two goddesses known as Eurynome:

One is an ancient moon goddess that gave birth to the earth and stars.

The other, more recent, Eurynome, is one of the many daughters of Okeanos (Ocean). She and Zeus mated to produce the beautiful and love dispelling Graces: Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia (Hesiod's Theogony, line 908).

When Hephestis, the lame son of Hera, was thrown from Mount Olympos (Olympus), Eurynome and Thetis rescued him and, for nine years, hid him from the other immortals. After that, he returned to Mount Olympos to claim his rightful inheritance as a god. The noble smith of the gods never forgot the motherly kindness shown to him by Eurynome and Thetis.


Eurynome appears in Homer's Iliad (listed by book and line)
• 18.398 ...Hephaistos (Hephaestus) tells his wife, Kharis (Charis), that Eurynome and Thetis had cared for him when he had been thrown from Mount Olympos (Olympus) by Zeus
• 18.399 ...Hephaistos (Hephaestus) refers to Eurynome as ‘daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus)’
• 18.405 ...Hephaistos (Hephaestus) says that only Eurynome and Thetis knew of his fate when he had been thrown from Mount Olympos (Olympus) by Zeus


~ EURYNOME'S CREATION MYTH ~

“IN the beginning, Eurynome, the Goddess of All Things, rose naked from Chaos, but found nothing substantial for her feet to rest upon, and therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves. She danced towards the south, and the wind set in motion behind her seemed something new and apart with which to begin a work of creation. Wheeling about, she caught hold of this north wind, rubbed it between her hands, and behold! the great serpent Ophion. Eurynome danced to warm herself, wildly and more wildly, until Ophion, grown lustful, coiled about those divine limbs and was moved to couple with her. Now, the North Wind, who is also called Boreas, fertilizes; which is why mares often turn their hind-quarters to the wind and breed foals without aid of a stallion. So Eurynome was likewise got with child.

Next, she assumed the form of a dove, brooding on the waves and, in due process of time, laid the Universal Egg. At her bidding, Ophion coiled seven times about this egg, until it hatched and split in two. out tumbled all things that exist, her children: sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures.

Eurynome and Ophion made their home upon Mount Olympus, where he vexed her by claiming to be the author of the Universe. Forthwith she bruised his head with her heel, kicked out his teeth, and banished him to the dark caves below the earth.

Next, the goddess created the seven planetary powers, setting a Titaness and a Titan over each. Theia and Hyperion for the Sun; Phoebe and Atlas for the Moon; Dione and Crius for the planet Mars; Metis and Coeus for the planet Mercury; Themis and Eurynmedon for the planet Jupiter; Tethys and Oceanus for Venus; Rhea and Cronus for the planet Saturn.

But the first man was Pelasgus, ancestor of the Pelasgians; he sprang from the soil of Arcadia, followed by certain others, whom he taught to make huts and feed upon acorns and sew pig-skin tunics such as poor folk still wear in Euboea and Phocis.”

"The Pelasgian Creation Myth," in Robert Graves' 'The Greek Myths' (v.I, p. 27: Penguin Books, England, 1955).

~ FURTHER ~

Eurynome was born from Chaos, and her first work was to separate the water from the sky. When she had accomplished this, she began to dance across the water. It was a beautiful, sensual dance of creation. As she danced, she danced South, and faster and faster she danced until a wind grew behind her. Eurynome caught this new thing, this wind, between her hands and rubbed it into a snake. The snake, called Ophion, watched as the Goddess danced and danced to keep herself warm. He saw Eurynome dancing across the waves and was filled with lust. He coiled his body around the Goddess seven times and made love to her as she danced.

Impregnated by Ophion, soon the Goddess lay the Universal Egg. Ophion wrapped his body around it seven times at Eurynome's bidding. As it opened, the earth spilled forth, born populated with animals and plants.

At this point the Mother ascended to Mt. Olympus and began to watch her children take shape. When she ascended, the serpent Ophion followed her as the Goddess's consort. Although Eurynome allowed this, Ophion's boast that he alone was responsible for the creation of the world angered her. Eurynome thus threw him out of heaven.

Eurynome then created the Seven Planetary Powers, putting a Titaness and a Titan over each. Theia and Hyperion were given the Sun and the power of illumination; Phoebe and Atlas were given the Moon and the power of enchantment; Dione and Crius were given the planet Mars and the power of growth; Metis and Coeus were given the planet Mercury and the power of wisdom; Themis and Eurymedon were given the planet Jupiter and the power of law; Tethys and Oceanus were given the planet Venus and the power of love; and Rhea and Cronus took the planet Saturn with the power of peace.

Of course, this is "mere" mythology. According to the theory of a matriarchal prehistory, there were no Gods or priests, only one mother Goddess and her priestesses. Part of the reason for this was that fatherhood was not clearly understood. People believed that women could be impregnated by the wind (like in the story) or by imbibing/eating certain things. Obviously, inheritance was matrilineal.

The Eurynome cult spread all over the Mediterranean and was really a base for most of the religions of the area.

In the Titan cults that preceeded the Olympic cults (Classical mythology), Eurynome was the daughter of Oceanus the Titan. She was a Titaness married to the Titan Ophion. But in this version, though Eurynome still ruled heaven, Ophion ruled as an equal. The two ruled together on Mt. Olympus until Cronos replaced Ophion and Rhea replaced Eurynome.

By the time Classical mythology came around, Eurynome had shrunk to being one of Zeus' many loves (mother of the Charites) and a gentle Oceanid, a far cry from the All-Powerful Creatrix she was once worshipped as.


(www.eurynome.com)

~ ~ ~

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.


May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.


Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad.

Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue.
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you.

Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away.
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day.


May the saddest day of your future be no worse
Than the happiest day of your past.


May the roof above us never fall in.
And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.


May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.


May there be a generation of children
On the children of your children.


May you live to be a hundred years,
With one extra year to repent!


May the Lord keep you in His hand
And never close His fist too tight.


May your neighbors respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you.


May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.


May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.


Walls for the wind,
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks beside the fire -
Laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire!


May God be with you and bless you,
May you see your children's children,
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.


May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And heaven is overflowing.


May peace and plenty be the first
To lift the latch to your door,
And happiness be guided to your home
By the candle of Christmas.


May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

seriously, that's all this module is, symbols that i don't know how to make, and have to copy and paste, since im a mac chick.

; Þ

(currently my favourite one, yay denisey!)

♥ ♥ ♥

(thanks to rossy for that one!!!)

( .) ( .)

(thanks to denicey for my - boobs -)

god im lame!

( * ) ( * ) ...perky ones
(o)(o)....big nipples

(kudos to aunt bea for those, and for a bloody good belly lafff! too)

( o ) ( o ) big ones with big nipples.

And here's a butt for you (_|_)

(courtesy of :o* ~ Misha)

:)

~ Paul Kelly - Every Fucking City ~

We argued on the channel train to Paris
The vin rouge helped us make it sweet again
But by the time that we got down to Lyon
Everything I said was wrong and you cursed me in the rain
We split up for a while in Barcelona
We met up six days later in Madrid
I was hoping that the break would make things go a little better for us
And for a little while it almost did
Now I'm in a bar in Copenhagen
And i'm trying hard to forget your name
And I'm staring at the label on a bottle of cerveza
And every fucking city feels the same

You said to call you when I got to London
A French girl told me that you'd left a note
I said to her "I like your accent" and she thought I sounded funny
So we ended up drinking in Soho
Foolishly I followed you to Dublin
Like a ghost I walked the streets of Temple Bar
And all the bright young things were throwing up their Guinness in the gutters
And once I thought I saw you from afar
Now I'm in a nightclub in Helsinki
And they're playing La Vida Loca once again
And I can't believe I'm dancing to this crap but I'm a chance here
And every fucking city sounds the same

At a cafe in the port of Amsterdam
An E-mail from you said you'd gone to Rome
For a minute I thought maybe but my funds were running low
And anyway it sounded like you weren't alone
So I headed north until I got to Hamburg
A chilly city suits a troubled soul
And on the Reeperbahn I paid a woman far too much
To kick me out before I'd even reached my goal
Now I'm in a restaurant in Stockholm
And the waiter here wants me to know his name
And I can order sandwiches in seven different languages
But every fucking city looks the same
Arriverderci, au revoir, aufwiedersen, hasta la vista baby
Yeah, every fucking city's just the same

~Poems of the Day~

This is a quickie, but oh so meaningful!

~ Try To Love The World ~

Do not try
To change the world.
You will fail.
Try to love the world.
Lo, the world is changed,
Changed forever.

- Sri Chinmoy

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

i saw you last night in the gathering
but could not take you openly in my arms
so i put my lips next to your cheek
pretending to talk privately

the dance is the joy of existence
i am filled with you
skin, blood, bone, brain and soul
there's no room for lack of trust, or trust
nothing in this existence, but that existence

when i am with you, we stay up all night
when you're not here, i can't go to sleep

lovers don't finally meet somewhere
they're in each other all along

friend, our closeness is this
anywhere you put your foot
feel me
in the firmness under you
how is it with this love
i see your world
and not you

~ rumi

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“Why do I love” You, Sir?

“Why do I love” You, Sir?
Because—
The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer—Wherefore when He pass
She cannot keep Her place.

Because He knows—and
Do not You—
And We know not—
Enough for Us
The Wisdom it be so—

The Lightning—never asked an Eye
Wherefore it shut—when He was by—
Because He knows it cannot speak—
And reasons not contained—
—Of Talk—
There be—preferred by Daintier Folk—

The Sunrise—Sire—compelleth Me—
Because He’s Sunrise—and I see—
Therefore—Then—
I love Thee—

Emily Dickinson

!!!!!!!!!!!!!for all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this
day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good.
What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day
of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone
forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...
let it be something good."

~~ Author Unknown ~~

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from Matt, 6:22-3 "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
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for when i die ...
... scatter me to the four winds into the ocean and say just this: “She loved me.”

"Oh dig my grave both wide and deep,
Put tombstones at my head and feet,
And on my breast carve a turtle-dove
To signify I died of love."

-----my sweet soldier boy, presnell, 1951

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"But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

~ Thornton Wilder, from 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' ~

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Happy Biblical, Pagan, Heathen, Celtic, Jedi, Buddhist, Space Invader and, of course, NinjaFaeryPirate Reading!

XOX

from and for jacqui:

Dance when you're broken open.
Dance when you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free.
Struck, the dancer hears a tambourine inside her,
like a wave that crests into foam at the very top,
Begins.
Maybe you don't hear that tambourine,
or the tree leaves clapping time.
Close the ears on your head,
that listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes.
There are other things to see, and hear.
Music. Dance.
A brilliant city inside your soul!

~

"Guest House"

This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

~

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question.
And not with fearing for it's reputation!
Love is a madman working his wild schemes,
tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains,
drinking poison and quietly choosing annihilation.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes
to keep them dry.
You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand
times deeper and deeper under.

Love flows down, love flows down.
The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes down, love flows.
Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that?
Don't put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

"But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

~ Thornton Wilder, from 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' ~

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Be not unkind to strangers
Lest they be angels in disguise

(painted sign in my old home, shakespeare & co, paris)

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also .. just joined ning:

lolliebeezpalace4u.ning.com/

myspace - faerypiratepickledot

facebook - eurynome circe invidiosa

just in case this traveller loses touch ...

xxx

Ovid was a Roman poet, who is perhaps best known for "Metamorphoses."

Here are a few quotes from Ovid.

"The gods favor the bold."

"To be loved, be lovable."

"Habits change into character."

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

"To feed the flames. —Alere flammas"

"The burden which is well borne becomes light."

"It is art to conceal art. —Ars est celare artem"

"Dripping hollows out rock. —Gutta cavat lapidem"

"In our play we reveal what kind of people we are."

"Add little to little and there will be a big pile."

"I see and approve better things, but follow worse."

"The burden becomes light which is cheerfully borne."

"Either do not attempt at all or go through with it."

"Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion."

"There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us."

"The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture."

"Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned."

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."

"Fools laugh at the Latin language."

—Rident stolidi verba Latina"

"Courage conquers all things; it even gives strength to the body."

"Love, and a cough, are not concealed. —Amor tussisque non celantur"

"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."

"There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies."

"The workmanship surpassed the subject matter. —Materiam superabat opus"

"He who has lived in obscurity has lived well —Bene qui latuit bene vixit"

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."

"It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul."

"A burden which is done well becomes light. —Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus"

"What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire."

"A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog. —A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper"

"Said of Ennius: Greatest in genius, rough in skill. —Ingenio maximus, arte rudis"

"Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey."

"You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe."

"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. —Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas"

"He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow —Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit"

"Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid. —Militat omnis amans et habet sua castra Cupido"

"Everything which I said could not happen will happen now. —Omnia iam fient fieri quae posse negabam"

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged."

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you. —Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim"

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. —Quae dant, quaeque negant, gaudent tamen esse rogatae."

"As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. —Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris"

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!"

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. . . . There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."


xox

~ The Queen of Swords!

The Queen of Swords indicates a woman who is blessed (or cursed) with sharp perception, and highly honed intuition. She is acutely analytical, with a razor-sharp ability to get to the heart of a situation, seeing exactly what is, rather than what others would wish her to see.

She is a private woman, unwilling to let people too close to her until she is satisfied she thoroughly understands their motivations. But once won as a friend, she is unfailingly loyal, honest and supportive.

She's usually very intelligent, with a dry sense of humour. Her penetrating insight will often reveal aspects of themselves to others that they had previously been unable to grasp - thus she is a capable therapist, teacher or leader.

The woman represented by this card will be experienced in the flow of life, understanding a great deal about both the great triumphs, and the deepest failings of the race. Her clarity and measured expression will be of great value at times of confusion and sadness.

Sometimes in a reading, this card will turn up to indicate a woman in a particular phase of her life, where she temporarily becomes a Sword as a result of what is happening to her. In that case the card is not quite so positively defined, for it can indicate a woman left alone, and perhaps embittered. She may be a widow, or a woman passing through the aftermath of divorce.

In this case we often see the more negative aspects of the Queen - coldness, judgementalism, criticism. At these times there is a certain sourness about her, with cynicism and sharpness making themselves felt.

It should be said that these qualities are inherent to the woman who is a Queen of Swords by nature too - if the woman concerned has not evolved sufficiently you will often find that the card represents a person who is hard and cold toward others.

~ Working with the Queen of Swords ~

Here we see the Queen of perception and insight. It's a hard thing to pull the wool over the eyes of somebody like this - they will look beyond the face we present and see to the very core of the being. That's one reason why this Queen often represents a woman who stirs deep and complex reactions in the people who come into contact with her. They can feel uneasy, discomforted and awkward when being observed by her. But they may also feel open, relieved and glad to have found somebody with such long sight.

On a day ruled by her, we need to practise our own powers of perception. Rather than dealing with the imaginal psychic quality which is rightly the realm of the Queen of Cups, we must now turn our attention to the everyday world. For, though the Queen of Swords is often highly spiritually developed, she is also absorbed by the intricacies of the process of life. Therefore she looks closely at what happens in life around her.

On this day, try to remind yourself to study the interactions you have with others. Don't just deal with the face value. Struggle to seek behind that mask for the whole being beyond.

Everybody takes up roles, plays out games, displays masks. We have 'professional' faces, which fit each of our roles. And we can become forgetful of the fact that every person we meet does the same thing. Only when we come to know a person well do we recognise the complexity that lies behind the mask.

Recognise yourself when you take up a mask. Know that at this moment you are acting like (for instance) a working person doing their job, or a family member loving the family, or a person alone and taking a bath. Look hard at yourself. You take up roles. Use this day to begin to identify them clearly. Examine the way that you feel differently in each situation. And recognise that though each of those roles is an expression of you, not one single one of them IS you.

Then take that realisation beyond you into the world.......



Affirmation: My life is a constant and glorious exploration.





©1997-2004 Angel Paths Tarot and Healing.

When it comes to friends, I love 'em to bits. Those amongst my friends are those I consider family. Chosen members who inspire me, make me laugh, make me cry, and elicit my deepest compassion, loyalty and trust in.

When it comes to cyberfriends, my above words apply equally. I probably won't accept your friend request if I have not engaged in any kind of conversation with you, nor if you neglect adding a personal message to a friend request.

It's not that I don't like you. Maybe we'll become firm friends in the future. It's just that I would rather cultivate my own garden (in the words of Voltaire), than be added by people I don't know to make up friend numbers or for purely networking purposes.

Hope that's cool ....

Along these lines, if you decide to dump me as a friend (pout, eyes watering), I will understand ... but I would really appreciate it if you sent me a really short note just letting me know. You don't have to go into reasons (unless you want to) but I really do value everyone I have contact with, whether that contact be intense, sporadic, or never!

If you can't be arsed, that's cool ... i guess it's just water off a mermaiden's back ...

namaste ...
paix ....
cheers
:)

"Do what thou wilt for that shall be the whole of the law"
~Alister Crowley~

“As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do."
~ Zachary Scott

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins."
~Heywood Broun

“I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”
~Antonio Porchia

“I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.”
~Charlie Brown

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.”
~Charles DuBois

Go confidently into the direction of your dreams! Live the life you always imagined.
~Thoreau

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anaïs Nin

“Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
~Frederick B. Wilcox

“Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.”
~Author Unknown

“Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.”
~William Hale White

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
~Florence Nightingale

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
~Etty Hillesum

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
~Oscar Wilde

"I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations."
~ Aaron Burr

Q: What does a dyslexic pirate say?

A: RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!/y/!!!


Q. how much does a pirate charge to pierce an ear?

A. a BUCHANEEEEEEAR!


i'm filled with the hoot unless i'm not filled with the nanny ....

strong how???





The Shadow Truth spread provides insight into your attitudes and hidden feelings. This spread is used when you are having trouble confronting something, or fear that you are concealing something from yourself. The Aquatic Tarot is a modern watercolor interpretation of the classic Rider Waite symbolism. It is rapidly becoming one of the most popular decks, due to both its spectacular beauty and its traditional imagery.
The significator, not shown is the card you have chosen to embody your presence and the focus of the reading. Queen of Cups: The essence of water, such as a deep and placid lake: Spirituality, maturity, and grace. A natural counselor and healer, One whose relaxed presence seems to embody deep love and spirituality. A tranquil poet who reflects the nature of the observer. The embrace of all things dreamlike and receptive, such as perfect and unconditional love.
The card in the center represents the attitude you assume. Seven of Swords (Futility): An opportunity to withdraw from a hopeless situation and fight another day. Disengagement from a struggle you should never have been involved in. A desperate attempt to resolve a matter without conflict. The use of cleverness or outright deception to turn the tide in your favor.
The card to the right represents the thoughts and feelings that underly your attitudes. Five of Pentacles (Worry), when reversed: Concern over finance leads to prudent action. Impending physical threat is met with calm and skill. Suffering and loneliness leads to spiritual growth. Stress is met without resorting to excess or the pursuit of oblivion.
The card at the top represents how your attitude is evolving and will evolve in the future. Nine of Swords (Cruelty): Debilitating mental anguish or ill health. Being dragged down by the dishonor of others. Participation in a shameful or regrettable act. Inescapable guilt, mistrust, and doubt. May indicate a death or other catastrophic loss.
The card to the left represents how others perceive your attitude. The High Priestess, when reversed: Being confused and led astray from the true path. Spiritual deception. Overzealous and shallow-minded pursuit of the esoteric. Insecurity, conceit and self-destructiveness. The forces of nature unleashed.
The card at the bottom represents what you cannot confront or are hiding from yourself. Two of Cups (Love): The perfect harmony of union, in romance, friendship, or business. A deep and palpable connection radiating joy and contentment. A great concordance or pledge of fidelity. The joining of male and female interpreted in the broadest sense. The sanctification of the natural through that which exists on a higher plane. May indicate the meeting of a kindred soul, marriage, engagement, merger, or partnership.

yup, lil miss cuspy libra l'eury...
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Re: Aquarius 2008 - Progressive Idealistic Air Spirits Yesterday, 3:18 PM
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a band called god star oh no! (smiles) i go by dog star as well ;-)

******** Libra 2007 - Idealistic Peacemaking Air Spirits *******

Re: Aquarius 2008 - Progressive Idealistic Air Spirits Sat, February 23, 2008 - 5:58 PM
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Thanks God Star,
(just have to say, one of my fave australian bands were called godstar .. i always think of them when i see your name)

is there a page like that for Librans?

i share my birthday with Augustus Caesar ... and know of quite a few other "famous" librans, but i'd love to read something similar to what you have posted for aquarians ...

we aerialists have to stick together ;)Political Libras who made their mark on the world stage include President, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Habitat for Humanity Jimmy Carter, along with Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Dwight Eisenhower. In this group we also include political powerhouses William Penn (who gave us Pennsylvania), First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Pope Paul VI, David Ben-Gurion, Lech Walesa, Vladimir Putin, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Juan Peron, and Jesse Jackson.

Among actors and actresses we have some very bright stars: Legends include Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Helen Hayes, Gene Autry, Lillian Gish, Bela Lugosi, Fayard Nicholas, Buster Keaton, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Andy Divine, Spanky McFarland, Bud Abbott, Spring Byington, Jean Arthur, Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine, Mickey Rooney, Carole Lombard, Rita Hayworth, Cornel Wilde, Montgomery Clift, Britt Ecklund, Trevor Howard, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Eckberg, Julie Andrews, Deborah Kerr, Stella Stevens, James Whitmore, George Peppard, Walter Matthau, Jayne Meadows, Joyce Randolph, Juliet Prowse, Angie Dickinson, Melina Mercouri, Annette Funicello, Charlton Heston, Yves Montand, Lotte Lenya, Donald Pleasence, Richard Harris, William Conrad, Anthony Newley, Sheila MacRae, Tom Bosley, Angela Lansbury, Wilford Brimley, Roger Moore, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Reeve, Phil Hartman, Divine, Glynis Johns, June Allyson, Richard Jaeckel, Ed Wood, Nipsey Russell, Tom Poston, and George C. Scott.

Modern film and television stars include such talents as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Sacha Baron Cohen, Carrie Fisher, Greg Morris, Ben Vereen, Susan Sarandon, Penny Marshall, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Heather Locklear, Will Smith, Signorney Weaver, Matt Damon, Hugh Jackman, Tony Shalhoub, Linda Hamilton, Jeff Goldblum, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Madeline Kahn, Stephanie Zimbalist, Hilary Duff, Randy Quaid, Mira Sorvino, Lorraine Bracco, Ian McShane, Kate Winslet, Chevy Chase, Margot Kidder, Suzanne Somers, Pam Dawber, Dawn Wells, Peter Boyle, Tony Roberts, Dawn French, Karen Allen, Mackenzie Crook, Nia Vardalos, Mary Kay Place, Luke Perry, Viggo Mortensen, Jerry Orbach, Elizabeth Shue, Stephanie Zimbalist, Guy Pearce, Seann William Scott, Jenna Elfman, Monica Bellucci, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Paul Petersen, Naomi Watts, George Wendt, Brandon Routh, Steve Burns, Scott Bakula, Sharon Osbourne, Alicia Silverstone, Ashlee Simpson, Chris Carter, and director Stanley Kramer.

Musicial Libras include Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Liszt, Sarah Bernhardt, George Gershwin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Vladimir Horowitz, Yo-Yo Ma, Glenn Gould, Charles Ives, Luciano Pavarotti, and Julio Iglesias. In jazz we have such greats as John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Art Blakey, Anita O'Day, Matt Schulman, and Wynton Marsalis, along with legendary bluesmen Mickey Baker, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan and "Queen of the Blues" Koko Taylor.

Libras are some of the greatest rock legends in history: Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Jackson Browne, Justin Hayward, Lindsey Buckingham, Bob Geldof, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, John Entwistle, Sammy Hagar, and superstar ladies of the stage Julie London, Joan Jett, Marilyn McCoo, Toni Braxton, India.Arie, Gwen Stefani, Natalie Maines, Martie Seidel, Linda McCartney, Olivia Newton-John, and Brill Building hitmaker Cynthia Weil. Other notable musical luminaries include Vaughn Monroe, Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, Chubby Checker, Don McLean, Laura Nyro, Shaun Cassidy, Flea, Thom Yorke, Stephan Jenkins, Meat Loaf, Robby Takac, and the inimitable "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Authors represented by the sign of Libra include the legendary poets Virgil, Rumi, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Arthur Rimbaud, ee cummings, and T.S. Eliot.

Literary legends include Noah Webster, Miguel de Cervantes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Noah Webster, Jack London, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Gore Vidal, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Katherine Mansfield, Bruce Catton, Gunter Grass, John LeCarre, Mario Puzo, John Kenneth Galbraith, Michael Crichton, Anne Rice, Art Buchwald, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., James Herriot, R.L Stine, Alvin Toffler, and playwrites Eugene O'Neill, Damon Runyon, and Arthur Miller.

Metaphysical writers include such compelling figures as Cyril Scott, musical genius and author of "The Initiate" series, Theosophist and guiding light to the world Annie Besant, astrologers Charles Jayne and Shelley Ackerman, metaphysical masters of astrology and kabbalah Marc Edmund Jones and Paul Foster Case, artist-author Vicki Evans, and the somewhat infamous Aleister Crowley.

Other Libras who excelled in their fields are journalists Walter Lippman, Jack Anderson, Chris Wallace, and Barbara Walters, Muppet creator Jim Henson, architect Christopher Wren, inventor and prize creator Alfred Nobel, impressario Ed Sullivan, parapsychological researcher J. B. Rhine and metaphysical researcher Timothy Leary. Also physicists Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi, pioneer illustrator N.C. Wyeth, "Pop-art" creator Peter Max, tv cook Emeril Lagasse, educator and political reformer John Dewey, supreme William Rehnquist, "Johnny Appleseed" John Chapman, Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, activist and comedian Dick Gregory, Lee Iacocca, sports figures Mickey Mantle, Rod Carew, Mark McGwire, Jerry Rice, Brian Boitano, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Martina Navratilova, and Serena Williams, designer Ralph Lauren, supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, George Westinghouse, Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and Her Honor Judge Judy.

A special happy birthday goes out to my departed dear ones Gladys Knapp, Ruby Alves, and Arthur Wolfe, as well as the cities of Copenhagen and Vienna and the nations of China, Argentina, Austria, and Japan. Here in America, there are no states under Libra, but it's a happy birthday to the US cities of Riverside (CA), Rock Island (Il), Roswell, Eugene, Rapid City, Knoxville, Waco, and Alexandria.
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Re: Aquarius 2008 - Progressive Idealistic Air Spirits Yesterday, 3:18 PM
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a band called god star oh no! (smiles) i go by dog star as well ;-)

Libra 2007 - Idealistic Peacemaking Air Spirits

www.aquariuspapers.com/astrol...id.html

When the Sun transits Libra, we are shown the light of entering into relationships, ideals, partying, and other pleasing social forms. It's the beginning of Autumn, with its focus on harvesting that which is agreeable to us, socializing and connecting with a greater "perfect vision" while seeing the endings in the old forms of our lives. Libra is self-initiating, interactive, and tries to see all the different points of view in any situation. The Sun in Libra shines the light of wisdom on how we must be fair, balanced, and well-rounded in our ideal of justice, opening us to living a greater image of truth, goodness, and beauty.

In this phase of the twelve-step evolutionary process, that which began in Aries, stabilized in Taurus, expanded in Gemini, consolidated in Cancer, creatively projected in Leo and refined in Virgo is shaped into a new collective form or ideal. Libra is symbolically associated with the Scales, showing the weighing and judging function of this sign which always strives for fairness and perfect equilibrium.

This is the apportioning of the harvest, and the incorporation of the adjustments of Virgo into a more ideal and beautiful social forms. The power of Leo organized usefully by the discrimination and education of Virgo are balanced and harmonized in more perfect grace of expression in Libra. This sign's keywords are "I balance." This is the sign of romance, refinement, and appreciation. Libra explores the archetypes of transfiguration and reconstruction through actions and interactions, adjusting the balance of things.

The new initiatives and possibilities offered in 2005 by Jupiter in Libra have been deepened and transformed into social power and magnetism by Jupiter in Scorpio last year. We are gaining through "emptiness," which has been filled with life contents and a greater vision thanks to Jupiter in Sagittarius.

Venus, the ruler of Libra, is in Virgo through November 8. With Mercury also in Libra from October 23 through November 11, there should be heightened interactivity and mobility toward new visions and ideas. This October, with Mercury, Venus and Mars all harmonizing through a double sextile-trine, it should be good for romance, play, creativity, and sharing of ideas and ideals. It also helps our Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio sectors harmonize with each other, and with the Sun in Libra as well, our Leo is included in this party of planets.

Mythologically, Libra is in the axis of the Relator, or Lover. This sign (along with its polar opposite, Aries) repotentializes the dance of relationship between self and others begun in Aries. Libra shows us how to be refined and gracious as we interact with others. It is the part of us willing to dance with others' points of view, seeing other perspectives, and basically just being diplomatic and pleasant. Libra's reasonableness and moderation are healthy antidotes for the stubborn selfish extremism that seems so prevalent today.

Libra, when freed of the traps of superficiality, vanity, extravagance, timidity, indecisiveness, vascillation, impatience, and getting too theoretical, demonstrate a harmonious, cooperative, agreeable impartial consideration for others that brings a greater sense of belonging to everyone involved. They are born peacemakers and mediators, and see the ten thousand ways we can all get along if everyone just gives a little bit. They are expressive, modest, inspirational, creative, appreciative, romantic and artistic. The sign of Libra has given us some of the greatest icons of history.

Think Mohandas K. Gandhi, master politician, revolutionary, statesman and "mahatma," or Great Spirit. He led his country to independence from Great Britain through demonstrating the practical efficacy of the doctrine of "non-violence," or ahimsa, applied through the power of satyagraha, or "Soul-force." Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds humanity has produced, once said of Gandhi that "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood." One of the most effective politicians in history, he demonstrated the practical truth that the way of applied Soul force using non-violent techniques is the most powerful political tool we have.

A Libra icon for the ages is John Lennon the Beatle, global lightning rod of the Vietnam anti-war movement who gave us "All You Need Is Love" and "Give Peace A Chance" along with about a hundred other songs for all time. Gandhi and Lennon's shared politics of non-violence is the only sane way for our world to come out of the fear, hatred, and barbarism that we're subjected to. Paul Simon, another Libra, helped to break down the barriers of apartheid in South Africa while bringing their ancient and beautiful music out for all the world to hear. Libra strives to make a better world, more fair, just, and beautiful for all.

Libra's archetypal nature is easily seen in Lenny Bruce, the standup comedian and social critic beloved by millions for exposing society's hypocrisies while making us laugh. He busted racism, sexism, prisons, movies, social pomposities and even the Lone Ranger. And speaking of Libras who made us laugh, let us honor the icon himself, Groucho Marx, deflater of egos and pretentiousness while making double entendres and raising his bushy eyebrows. Some of the most brilliant satires ever to hit the silver screen were courtesy of this master of the one-line zinger, beloved to this day.
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Re: Aquarius 2008 - Progressive Idealistic Air Spirits Sat, February 23, 2008 - 5:58 PM
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Thanks God Star,
(just have to say, one of my fave australian bands were called godstar .. i always think of them when i see your name)

is there a page like that for Librans?

i share my birthday with Augustus Caesar ... and know of quite a few other "famous" librans, but i'd love to read something similar to what you have posted for aquarians ...

we aerialists have to stick together ;)

~ The Aliens ~

you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
friction or
distress.
they dress well, eat
well, sleep well.
they are contented with
their family
life.
they have moments of
grief
but all in all
they are undisturbed
and often feel
very good.
and when they die
it is an easy
death, usually in their
sleep.

you may not believe
it
but such people do
exist.

but I am not one of
them.
oh no, I am not one
of them,
I am not even near
to being
one of
them

but they are
there

and I am
here.

~ Charles Bukowski

I AM EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED WITH MY FRIENDS

my TRUE friends,

know who I am, what I stand for, and how emotionally THERE i am and will always be for people who need MY help.

If that bothers you, tis naught but water off a mermaiden's back.

De-friend me, make me feel so upset and attacked in certain "private" tribes that i would rather leave than stay, I do not care.

"I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations."
~ Aaron Burr

I, like many philosophers and humans before and with me, have consecrated our LIVES to finding THE TRUTH, and I have consecrated MY life to finding out the truth and helping those in need.

I hold my head and my heart proudly.
Still wanna be my friend?

Yeah?

A W E S O M E !!!

bring it ooonnnnn!

:)

PAIX
et
LAUGHTER!

~
Goya's Devouring Monster
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The Mystery of Goya's Saturn
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The painting known as 'Saturn Devouring One of His Sons', by Francisco Goya, presents us with a terrifying cannibal god, Kronos, whom he depicts as a wild, revolting figure, consuming his offspring. The ancient deity looks crazed, his eyes are atrocious and the painting is one of those which imprints itself on the psyche of those who examine it closely.

'Saturn Devouring One of His Sons' springing from the Kronos myth, was a part of Goya's 'Black Painting' series when Goya 'carved his fates and inscribed his nighmares directly onto plaster.'

The earliest version of the Kronos myth--Saturn is the later Roman name--was written down by Hesiod in his Theogony, around the eighth century, B.C.E.

First comes Chaos; then Earth/Gaia; Tartarus in the bowels of Earth; and finally Eros. Earth gives birth to Heaven, also known as Ouranos, and then bears twelve of his children, the last, "most terrible of sons/The crooked-scheming Kronos." Earth and Ouranos have three more sons, so fearsome and mighty that Ouranos forces them back inside their mother, burying them alive. She forms a sickle, and asks her other sons to use it against their father, "For it was he/Who first began devising shameful acts." All are afraid, except Kronos. She gives him the sickle, hides him in her, and he castrates his father, preventing him from having more children, then assumes power among the Titans. But fear lives in his heart; a usurper himself, he learns that one of his own children will usurp him, and he devours them at birth:

As each child issued from the holy womb
And lay upon its mother's knees, each one
Was seized by mighty Kronos, and gulped down.

Through a ruse by his mother, the last born, Zeus, survives, leads a war against Kronos, and casts him down to Tartarus. Even gods cannot overcome Fate.

Reviewers have asked what it was that Goya recognized in himself that charged the work with such raw, wounding power? Jason Scott Morgan, for example, alludes to the traditional father and son narrative which has been presented in, amongst other documents, the Bible.

Maybe Goya was painting this narrative but I suspect not. Before he began the Black Paintings, Goya survived a near fatal illness, documented in his Self-portrait with Dr. Arrieta. Goya depicts himself as a "pained and weary artist, surrounded by dark, phantasmal faces." It is plausible that Saturn was painted as a way to express the lonely terror of mortality. Since my husband's body has been ravaged by a third round of bowel cancer, and we have faced the lonely terror of mortality, I have every reason to think that this is likely. If I could paint I would paint Atrophe, towering like a giant, scissors in hand, tormenting us with the reality that she has the power to cut the thread at any moment. Goya's Saturn touches me deeply because it expresses shared pain and his Atropos paints the dark dreams that haunt me.

~So what charged Goya's painting of Saturn?`

As his health declined, as he stared creative impotence in the eyes - Saturn's eyes, Atrophos's scissors his work gathered momentum and a dark force. It doesn't really matter if Goya threw away his pastels and used someone like Saturn as a metaphor to represent the terror of creative impotence. Who cares if Goya used Saturn as a metaphor to depict the 'black dog' that consumes artists offspring -- that hungrily devours work deemed, for whatever reason, not to be of any merit, not to fit the stereotypical mould. The main thing is that Goya went right outside the square and painted with force that speaks with passion today.

I imagine Goya must have smiled wryly when he realised that he had captured the demonic figure who had lived with him all his life. But most of all I am grateful that he has so powerfully captured the demon who lurks in my nightmares, for I know now that I am not alone.

[worth repeating: "I imagine Goya must have smiled wryly when he realised that he had captured the demonic figure who had lived with him all his life. But most of all I am grateful that he has so powerfully captured the demon who lurks in my nightmares, for I know now that I am not alone."

If only we could all exorcise our demons, esp those older maternal female garden variety mamans's thru painting ...it may take a little more though ...

Reminds me of Churchill:

Nancy Astor was a native Virginian who became Britain’s first woman member of the House of Commons. In the 1930’s she headed a clique in the House of Commons that found something to admire in Hitler’s Germany. Churchill described an Astorite as an appeaser "who feeds the crocodile hoping that it will eat him last." One time shortly thereafter, Churchill found himself at Cliveden, the Astor mansion.

After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee. When Churchill came by, she glared and said. "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." "Nancy," Churchill replied to the acid-tongued woman, "if I were your husband, I’d drink it."

~ ! ~ ! ~ ! ~

"Do what thou wilt for that shall be the whole of the law"

~Alister Crowley~