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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Lover: Energy Forecast for February 2012

Can you believe the first month of 2012 has already passed and gone? Today, February 1, I looked to my Star+Gate cards for the intuitive energy-weather of the month. Fittingly for this month that holds Valentine's Day, my guides are telling us to be like The Lover ~

The Lover is a way of being in the world that is giving of ourselves, open to intimacy, and passionate! And this way of being extends beyond our preparations and celebrations on February 14, into all areas and aspects of life. Let your self go and LOVE each day as it comes! Love being in the world, awakening to the sunshine, walking beneath green (or winter-bare trees), and viewing the sunset and deepening dusk at day's end. Love each moment you're awake and breathing, and each little thing you do during the day - whether it's washing the dishes, attending to your *work*, creating a masterpiece (or playfully bringing color and form into being). Love the time you spend with others, love your animal friends, and love your time in solitude:

(The 60's-early 70's nostalgia is on me, with thanks to YouTube :)

As with all archetypes, here is a down side to The Lover's energy: it can be possessive. While it's true that you can't really let go of something unless you've held onto it, it takes a fine discernment to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. Perhaps this month it's best to put our attention into the giving (of ourselves) rather than the holding-on.

Themes for this month revolve around I Want / I Have. The focus on resources at all levels, including pleasure, beauty, and comfort. "More" is not always more, and when you choose quality and substance over the superficial need to possess, you are truly walking under the light of The Lover.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Scapulimancy: Where Divination Comes From

Clearly, since logic tells us there is no known relationship between the patterns of cracks and future events, it is possible that scapulimancy persists simply as a harmless cultural tradition. ... In the case of the Naskapi hunters of the Labrador peninsula, however, there is more going on than meets the eye.

In the 1950s, an anthropologist named Omar Khayyam Moor described Naskapi scapulimancy not as a simple cultural idiosyncrasy, but as an essential mechanism related to the long-term success of Naskapi populations. The problem, Moore explains, is not necessarily in predicting the specific spot where caribou can be found, but rather in making sure that enough variability is introduced into hunting plans so that success comes neither too rarely nor too often. In the long run, adding variability or an element of randomness is the key to success. Imagine a scenario in which a hunter had a run of bad luck. Each day this hunter might venture out thinking he knows where the caribou herds will be found based on previous experience. Repeatedly taking that route, however, can quickly lead to the animals' being sensitized to the hunter's strategy, leading the hunt to eventually fail.

~ Tony Hunt and Carl Lipo, The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the mystery of Easter Island

Jan Says:
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That was an intriguing passage from a fascinating book about the Easter Island statues. It grabbed me on both the prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies and their shamans (okay, I've been there - past lives) and on the utility of randomness. I've long been a fan of randomness - it is, after all, where patterns we see in the natural world (such as star constellations) come from - and seeing it put to practical use in these archetypal human conditions (the hunter-gatherer-shaman communities) gave me an "ah ha!" moment that was quite delicious.
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The book passage goes on to say that, while randomizing our actions can help us survive and succeed, for us humans it's a really difficult thing to do. That's why we have random numbers tables. It's why we sometimes toss a coin when trying to make a decision. For the hunter-gatherers, who apparently hadn't invented coins yet, the randomization came from cracks in an animal bone heated over a fire. Of course, the common assumption is that the hunter-gatherers didn't "know" what they were doing and just primitively thought that the cracks "predicted" where the caribou would be.
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But what if the hunter-gatherers weren't that dense? I tend to think they knew more than we give them credit for - but then, I was there lifetimes ago, so maybe I'm biased. Looking at my own work in divination over this lifetime, it strikes me how many times I've had a reading client say to me, "I need direction." Yes! that's what divination is all about - it's not so much "predicting" the future (although a good reader can tap into the timestream in ways that are uncanny) as granting a direction to help us stop floundering. My readings over the years show again and again, that there are times to sit with the confusion, and times to pick a direction and go for it. Our little human minds have a hard time doing this with clarity, but with the great gifts that divination can give us - even if it's "just" random - we can find an opening to take us out of the maze and get back on our path.

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

New Stuff for Gearheads from Zazzle!

Anyone get a new Ipad for Christmas? Be sure to protect it with one of Zazzle's cool new sleeves! They fit both the regular ol' iPad and the new iPad2!