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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  I was just reading an old post I did on a book that I feel everyone should read — that is, those who are so very tired of being on a hamster wheel that never gets them to where they wish to be, wondering where’s the happiness, the freedom…   It’s called “The Paradigm Conspiracy.”  My previous post includes an overview of the book (note, the bolded areas were my doing). 

As I was reading over this overview, thoughts came up about a blog I was frequenting on here a while back — trying to tweak the minds of a group of rabid skeptics.  I was sharing a few of my experiences with them, particularly with the Tarot.  Of course, it mattered not that they had zero experience in this regard (and I’ve now spent about a decade almost incessantly using the Tarot), they still scoffed at the prospect that what I spoke was the truth.  Since they’d already warmed up to me a bit, they first tried to be charitable and suggested that I was imagining all of this (heh), but it was clear that if that wasn’t it, dishonesty had to be.  

I tried to not let it annoy me — I s’pose I asked for it by sharing such things with people who believe nothing that their science tells them they shouldn’t believe.  I remember posting my Edison post (where people mocked Edison — scientists, and other lofty ones) on that thread, and there was a brief pause … then one of them came back with something like, “Yeah, but those Edison things could be proved by science.”  At that point, I moved on, because it was clear their minds weren’t budging — but I was like, huh?  Then, why were highly regarded scientists among those who scoffed at and mocked Edison? …

My next thoughts were about a guy in my past.  My cards have actually referenced him as a “fool” (several times) in the negative sense (but there is also a positive take on the fool in the Tarot).  The way he thinks boggles my mind, but I don’t think he’s that much different than many — thinking that “success” is all about how much money you can make.  And so this guy is consumed by his work.  He sees no other way to become his version of a success.  I remember a few years ago when he started working this job, I told him that it was a prison, that it wasn’t worthy of losing his health over.  I heard from him recently — he said he’d been in the hospital a couple of times recently per lack of sleep…   What he doesn’t seem to get is that the present dictates the future.  If it isn’t balanced, the future won’t be.  If you’re not happy in the present, you won’t be in the future either.  The thing is, you can do something in the present that might not be all that you wish for, BUT you must BALANCE it with what you do want.  That is, some energy MUST be put towards what you do want.  If you are currently neglecting and abusing your body for some pay-off in the future, there’s no balance in that — so stay tuned for a messed up body in the future.  But hey, you’ll have lotsa money to go to the hospital and docs a lot…

It’s insanity.  Our bodies, our health, are PRICELESS.  Ya’ can’t go out and buy a new body — NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE.  Ask someone who has no sight, but lotsa money what they’d pay for the gift of sight.  Someone with no legs what they’d pay to have them back?  …  And yet so many of us sacrifice our lives, our health, so as to make money — to buy STUFF.  Geez. 

Actually it isn’t insanity, or even stupidity (usually), it’s what the above-mentioned book speaks of.  A kind of brainwashing via “paradigms.”  And I would add that we keep doing this over and over, because the promise of what it supposedly brings (happiness, or even real security, per money/power), never actually happens — but we think (per the paradigms) that it will if we just work a little more, a little harder…  And then maybe ya’ get “there,” but all you discover is that you’ve been a fool…you’ve been duped into sacrificing your precious body, life, health, TRUE HAPPINESS…for a pile of green paper, a false sense of security/safety, a mountain of material stuff that’s momentarily gratifying but ultimately suffocating, and an illusion of power…  All you truly have in those things is NOTHING, but you’ve lost so much in this FINITE life…

It’s time to “wake up.”  And this book is a good place to start :)  Read the overview of the “The Paradigm Conspiracy” here.  And then also realize that you ARE the power, it’s all about what you believe… And it will be those who are endeavoring to overcome the brainwashing that will truly be powerful in the future, not those who continue to put their total focus and efforts in the outer world, all the while destroying their bodies, and consequently dishonoring the real power — within them.

Peace,
Dove

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Watching ole Charlton Heston (damn, he’s good) play Moses in that movie, “The Ten Commandments.”   A movie I’ve seen so many times since I was a kid.  I’ve always liked it, only now it’s a blessing that I no longer feel even a hint of fear in watching it, unlike when I was a bible-pounding kid.  I see it so differently now…

That line jumped out at me that the Pharaoh spoke.  He was angry that “the slave’s god” was clearly kicking their god’s ass, lol ;)  And to his priests or whatever, he angrily said something like, “You created the gods — to play upon the fear of the people.”  Indeed, all “gods” are fabricated for this reason.  That’s probably the best and most telling line of the movie.

Sitting here watching this, good-gawd, no wonder most people are so horrified of “God.”  Another line that got me, Moses telling his former love that he couldn’t save her child (firstborn of the Pharaoh) because he was “nothing without God.”  Again, no wonder with such things spoken in this type of movie — watching it over and over, year after year (more people watching it than reading the bible) — no wonder we are so self-loathing.  No wonder our world looks the way it does, no wonder we endeavor to destroy it, ourselves.  We believe we are nothing.  So sad. 

It’s all so misconstrued, twisted around into BS — “to play upon the fear of the people.”  No, Moses is nothing without “God,” because Moses IS “God.”  We all are, this is what Moses meant.  This body is a shell, nothing — it is the “spirit” within that is real, is “God.”  And it is us who have personified this thing called ”God” into a fiery-eyed one, separate from us — who supposedly loves us one minute, but is highly wrathed up about us the next. 

The scene that really gets me in the gut is where they are eating the herbs and bread.  Sitting there hearing (trying to ignore) the unnerving cries from a distance of the mothers and fathers watching their children die.  One man in the house with Moses’ is singing!  Yee-haw, rejoice — God’s green stuff is killing children!  Good-gawd.  And then the woman (mother of the Pharaoh, former mother of Moses) is pained by the cries and says, “They’re my people.”  Another of Moses’ people leans over to her and says sweetly, “We’re all God’s people.”  Uh.  It’s okay, hon, God knows what he’s doing in killing those children.  Geez.

When ya’ know it’s all symbolic, this movie is so much easier to watch — yet, at the same time, unnerving in the realization that so many of us believe this represents literal truth.  Moses says that he cannot save the Pharaoh’s firstborn, that the Pharaoh brought it upon himself with HIS OWN WORDS.  Not God’s words, but the Pharaoh’s own words.  Meaning, we create our own reality.  The Pharaoh wished this upon others, and since we are all God, he wished it upon himself… (”karma”)

All the children supposedly being killed by the green death-smoke — it wasn’t about death, it was about transformation.  Again, symbolic.  Interestingly, green is the color of the heart chakra, it’s about healing, it’s about love.  We “die” to (become free of) our old selves when we heal our hearts, and we become something new (transformation, aka, “death”). 

And the absurdity of this Pharaoh not letting the people go after Moses shows him some heady stuff from our “God” :)  I mean, geez, he changed the water to frickin’ blood, even the container of water that the Pharaoh held.  No water for seven days, then the three days of darkness, and that cool fiery hail ;)  How stupid could the Pharaoh be to not give Moses whatever the hell he wanted, lol   Not reality — it is all symbolic messages.   The Pharaoh represents our fear, and how our fear has an irrational death-grip on us (”let my people go.”)  And we allow our fear to have this hold on us — represented by Moses leaving each time.

It’s ALL about us, collectively, and individually.  We are very much NOT “nothing,” we are God :)  We are both Moses and the Pharaoh — it is fear, and only fear, that enslaves us.  We need only to “worship” (love) and believe in the “God” that is within us, that is us.  We need only to face the ”Pharaoh” (fear) within us and set ourselves free from it.  Only then will we truly “know God” (love and trust our own hearts) and get to “heaven” (peace, and creating the blissful lives we desire). 

*Yawn*  It’s time to wake up, to snap out of the brainwashing, the fear, that has kept us as slaves.  ”Fear not.”  “There is NOTHING to fear, but fear itself.”  (Pharaoh = Fear, Moses = Love, Freedom)

“Let my people go.”

Peace,
Dove

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Colloidal Silver, it’s a good thing :)  The blue guy was taking quarts of his own homemade stuff for years (stupid), and that ridiculous use of the silver (something that’s been used effectively for thousands of years) is why he’s now blue (note, not dead, just blue, heh), and according to NaturalNews (formerly NewsTarget), even his blue-ness is reversible.

Dove

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  This post is actually about the number 5 :)  Geez, this number is haunting me!  Especially right in this moment, I keep seeing it EVERYWHERE, and I have been seeing it and the number 16 prolifically in the last several days.  The 16 (Tower card in the Tarot) is also a number I allow to rattle me – I allow both of these numbers, 5, 16 to spur fear in me.  And the thing is, the number five is very much a part of me.  Today’s the 23rd, which equals 5, and I was also born on the 23rd (one of my 5’s), my first and second given names have 5 letters.  The number 5 is very strong in my numerology…   and gawd knows, my life has certainly reflected the 5 energy. 

The most potent thing that the 5 represents is change — and per the Tarot, change that isn’t very comfortable, but I think most significant changes generally aren’t.  I s’pose because I’ve experienced so much of the negative side of the 5, it’s difficult for me to see the good in it.  But there is good (”God”) in it, just like there’s good in everything.  The big “God” is everything, both the “Devil” and the good side of All That Is, ”God,” :)  Consequently “God” encompasses both sides of the coin.  Everything has both “good/positive” and “bad/negative” energy (”God”) in it.  Everything.  No matter how generally good (Star/Sun) a Tarot card is, there is still a negative to it…and no matter how negative a certain card generally is (Devil) there is still a positive side to it.  Numbers, astrological signs, Tarot cards, people, gods, and goddesses :) — everything and everyone has the energy of both positive and negative within them.  Love is just the top side of the coin, with hate on the other side.  Same with peace and conflict.  One is simply meaningless without the other.  That seems like a no-brainer, but it’s difficult at times to remember.

I am passionate about freedom, and our basic human right to have freedom.  The 5 represents freedom.  Given that, you’d think I’d love the 5.  But again, it spooks me because I have such a habit of seeing it in the negative.  There’s not one generally “good” card in the Tarot with a 5 on it.  The 5 of cups almost always represents sadness, loss, maybe having been abandoned by a loved one.  The 5 of swords (almost always) represents wicked conflict, sometimes hatred and war, self-interest in a bad way…  The 5 of coins…loss, fear, insecurity, poverty, ill-health…  The 5 of wands is usually another conflict card, with less venom than the swords card.  And even the 5th major arcana (most significant cards in the Tarot) represents something I, for the most part, deplore — religion and tradition.  The Hierophant, pope — ultimately, the teacher.  Something I’ve been called, and oddly, deplored the idea of as a child (I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I would say, ”I just know it isn’t a teacher!” lol)  The Hierophant often represents rigidity, something or someone that (come hell or highwater) is not going to change.  If I get this card in a future spot, it often means nothing’s happening, nothing’s going to change any time soon.  A “no change” message. 

So where do the cats, dogs, popcorn and foxes come in? lol  Well, in hesitating to write this post, I momentarily left the computer, plopped down in a chair, and clicked on the remote.  And there was my most unfavorite thing on TV, a football game.  Blecky, with a capital “B” ;)  A referee was on the ground for some reason, showing me the number “5″ on his back.  Geez.  Then a swoosh of …  number 18 on a players back, and then I heard the announcer say several words that seemed like gibberish to me, something about “Cats chasing dogs…popcorn…and foxes.”  I dunno.  But it all has meaning, if I would take the time with it…  The 18, I know — it’s the Moon card.  Fear.  Probably reflecting my fear of the 5.  I had just drawn cards asking about this 5 message that the Universe is drowning me in and pulled three major arcana cards, the first was the Magician (the fox is on this one in the Animal-Wise Tarot), then the Temperance card, and then the Empress.  All generally very positive and powerful cards.  A significant time in my life.  A need to bring more balance into my life, a seemingly unending need.  Healing…a need to process “stuff,” my emotions are just all over the place.  It’s like old stuff is coming up and I don’t know what to do with it, it’s overwhelming…  As always, I resist expressing myself, expressing what’s been gnawing on my insides all my life.  Reeking havoc in my life, making it impossible to have genuine, long-lasting relationships with others…and just drawing other angry ones like myself, who experience similar patterns.  Some who hide it better than I with all their syrupy talk with no foundation, others who don’t hide it at all and seem to hate everyone…  And those like me, who seem to vacillate between the two ;) forever seeking that balance and authenticity.

I know like attracts like.  I don’t believe in the “projection” theory :)  Well, I do, sort of, but I think if we have an ongoing connection with someone, there’s a potently similar energy there.  What’s intrigued me are the people I draw to me.  Oh, they all carry anger, no doubt about that — no projection there :)  I think most people carry it, just varying degrees…  But it’s interesting to observe how they each mask their anger.  Some don’t — some are clearly explosive with their anger.  Others claim they aren’t angry, all the while masking it with that passive-aggressive thing or similar.  I think those who recognize that they are angry are at least closing in on the “cure.”  But those who are angry or are still angry despite all their “love talk” and meditation, now those people are more inclined to do the projecting.  One sweet guy I drew a while back, is kinda one of those people.  Very much a “love talk” kinda guy, resisting the anger per his religion’s teachings – he now has colon cancer.  That concerns me per what I discovered with talking to my emotions, and the discovery of my anger living in my stomach…and then becoming depression (”Jake”) in my colon… 

I think we have to go and confront our “5,” maybe live with the 5 for a while to work through it all…  It seems to be crucial so as to get the healing and peace that follows in the number 6.  The 6 of cups is peace…(or it can show a continuing to repeat the patterns of the past).  The 6 of swords, grieving, healing, moving on…  The 6 of coins, giving and receiving, we gotta learn to do both…  The 6 of wands — victory! :)  And the big kahuna, heh, 6th major arcana, the Lover’s card — real love, bay-be! ;)

Unfortunately, we can’t skip the 5 to get to the 6, no reaching the love and peace of the 6, without moving through the anger and hatred of the 5 first.  Many of us try to do this — like religious leaders who wind up on the floor in a fetal position, and priests who harm children in a most vile way…  If we try to sidestep the 5, push down our anger and pain, it will come out sooner or later in some wicked way, often as disease or ill-treatment of others.  See the 5 Tarot cards, they all kinda dance together — they are surely spun from our inability or resistance to change, like many of our leaders, the Hierophant in his/her worst light.  The Hierophant is the teacher, and most of our religious teachers have taught us from fear, because most of our religions are rooted in fear… and we’re paying the price of holding this energy (anger, all ”negative” emotion is rooted in fear), of learning and endeavoring to adhere to all these rigid rules. 

Freedom, a wonderfully positive side of the 5, is not, nor will it ever be about rigid rules.  And without freedom (no rigid rules or religion, negative face of the Hierophant), then there will be no genuine love, the blessed energy of the Lover’s card.

Hmm, well, it’s a little after five, maybe I should go make some popcorn, lighten up a bit ;)

Peace,
Dove

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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  I have this absolutely wonderful book for which I  reach so often, and have done so for several years now.  Ya’ might say, it’s my sacred book, my “bible.”  :)  And oddly enough, it mentions “God” throughout the book.  And that’s not something I’m generally fond of, a reference to a male biblical ”God” outside of us – I’m very anti-religion.  Been there, done that — took on a lot of fear that took a lot of years to shed because of it.  I know that being taught from birth that one is a “sinner” (and all the hell and brimstone stuff) is gravely harmful…  I don’t think, I know, it has greatly harmed, almost destroyed, our world.  I believe “God” is neither male nor female.  I believe the stories in that old book are primarily symbolic and when  it references “God,” it speaks of us, a wisdom and power within us…   I believe many are coming to realize the truth of what I am saying here, and many more will.   But, because I love this book so much, it is so filled with wisdom, I’m tolerant of the “God” aspect of it ;)

I recently connected with a woman on here, Grace :) and seemingly made the mistake of expressing my honest views with regard to religion and such.  I’ve never been a “yes” person, and I’m exceedingly honest.  I don’t want “followers” or “friends” with whom I cannot be honest, and “yes people,” well, they bore me.  I tend to tell it like it is…I guess I am a lot like that there Queen of Swords :)

I thought my last post to Grace would help her to understand my position, but I don’t feel that it did per her response — I see the defensiveness (her:  my “numbers of new commentors and visitors” …) despite her efforts to pretty it up :)  And that’s okay.  But her response did kind of stun me, it was like she couldn’t hear or didn’t want to hear what I was saying.  I admit her position makes no sense to me…  But upon feeling her defensiveness, including stating that her other friends did not take my position (even as I stated that I felt she had been light-hearted and not intentionally disrespectful per one of her statements), but I then started questioning myself…and it didn’t feel good to do so. 

And so I got still for a moment, and asked, “Am I wrong?”  How can I feel so strongly about my position on this…if it is so wrong to be feeling this way.   I see clearly that religion harms people, it not only seems wrong, it seems very wrong…  Why do I feel bad for speaking my truth?  And as I was feeling/thinking this way, this book came to mind.  Ahh, so I decided to ask the book :)

And the book I’m referencing is a wonderful book called “The Language of Letting Go,” by a woman, Melody Beattie, that I feel is so very “connected,” so very wise.  I love her, and I love this book of hers.  I often get still and “ask a book” a question, and I get the most amazing answers, invariably on point.  But this book, the way it’s set up, works the best in doing this little ritual.  So I filled my mind with the energy of this issue between Grace and I, and I asked to be shown the answer.  “Am I wrong?”  “Should I join in and embrace beliefs that I feel are so very harmful, so destructive?”  “Tell me, what do I need to know about this?”  And, with my eyes closed, I opened the book randomly.  I often hear which side (which page), and I heard “Right, top.”  The whole book is set up with short elaborations on different issues.  The title of the section I opened to is “Who Knows Best?” :)  And I’m going to type it here and will show the point where I was directed to first read, the “Right, top” point.

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Who Knows Best? 
(by Melody Beattie from “The Language of Letting Go)

Others do not know what’s best for us.  We do not know what’s best for others.  It is our job to determine what’s best for ourselves.  “I know what you need”…  “I know what you should do.”…  “Now listen, this is what I think you should be working on right now.”

These are audacious statements, beliefs that take us away from how we operate on a spiritual plane of life.  Each of us is given the ability to be able to discern and detect our own path, on a daily basis.  This is not always easy.  We may have to struggle to reach that quiet, still place.

Giving advice, making decisions for others, mapping out their strategy, is not our job.  Nor is it their job to direct us.  Even if we have a clean contract with someone to help us — such aas in a sponsorship relationship — we cannot trust that others always know what is best for us.  We are responsible for listening to the information that comes to us.  We are responsible for asking for guidance and direction.  But …

{here is where the “right/top” of the page begins)

… it is our responsibility to sift and sort through information, and then listen to ourselves about what is best for us.  Nobody can know that but ourselves.  *Dove smiles*

A great gift we can give to others is to be able to trust in them — that they have their own source of guidance and wisdom, that they have the ability to discern what is best for them and the right to find that path by making mistakes and learning.  (Melody’s emphasis in italics)

To trust ourselves to be able to discover — through that same imperfect process of struggle, trial, and error — is a great gift we can give ourselves.

(And then Melody always concludes each section with an affirmation.)
Today, I will remember that we are each given the gift of being able to discover what is best for ourselves.  God, help me trust that gift.

I love this answer.  And I find it delicious that “God” did not tell me I’d be frying in hell if I don’t measure up jiffy quick, lol ;)  Nah, he/she guided me toward trusting what I strongly believe is the truth  in this moment.  That we learn to trust the way we feel, our own heart/intuition (the “God” within) – and allow others the same.  That’s more important than a bunch of rigid, harmful religious rules…  And what my intuition tells me in this moment, is that if we can’t do that with someone without fear of being rejected, without fear of losing ”friends” or “followers,” then that’s not a healthy connection or situation.

Peace,
Dove

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Absolutes.  I read a post today that used these two words (”never” this, “always” that) in a sentence as to how we are apparently supposed to conduct ourselves without exception.  I keep asking myself why that bothers me so much.  And what’s coming to me is it boxes us in, when there are no exceptions.  It’s limiting, it’s suffocating, it’s controlling. 

Ahh, I’m getting it now.  Freedom.  I’m big on freedom, and these boxes labeled “never” and “always” are stifling.  They limit us, ya’ don’t dare peek outside the box even for a second — for a breath of “fresh air.”  And with our tidy boxes of no exceptions, we are ripe and ready for judging others if they should dare go outside that box.  When we say never or always, that’s it — no more talking about it, no opening for any other consideration, the door is shut, we’ve found the “truth.”  Are there any truly valid absolutes?  That’s just it, we don’t know.  How do we even know what is a “good” or a “bad” outcome — how do we know that these are valid measuring sticks as to whether something is or is not an absolute truth.  If we stop and think, we can all come up with a plethora of examples where people went against a supposed absolute and the outcome was wonderful — or they followed the rule of the supposed absolute and the outcome wasn’t so great.  And again, how do we know that what we see as “good” or “bad” is a valid argument for an absolute anyway?  We don’t truly see the big (big) picture — as to why everything happens the way it happens. 

It just seems like it would promote freedom, and non-judgment if we simply trusted our own intuition from moment to moment, and allowed others to do the same without judgment, rather than stuffing ourselves and others in boxes with absolutes. 

I think the most empowering thing we can do is to learn to trust our own heart, our own “intuition.”  And the only way we can really do that is without boxes, trusting that we do the “right” thing every time we follow our intuition — no matter what the outcome looks like.  Otherwise, we continue to go through life judging (aka hating) ourselves (and others) for supposedly making the “wrong” choice per some outcome that we don’t think looks pretty enough for this reality.   And consequently, at best, we learn to only half-assed trust ourselves. 

Many believe that we never make the “wrong” choice in anything that we do per the “big picture.”  I tend to agree with that, and I believe my intuitive ability has strenghtened in that belief.  It’s freeing.  Ya’ trust “it,” and then you don’t worry about the outcome or what the supposed “truth” is.  It doesn’t matter.  What matters is building that strength of trust within us, and allowing and encouraging the same in others. 

Peace,
Dove

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com    {added my experience with the Kundalini in the first comment}  I see several people have been viewing my MS Paint pic, “Rising.”  A picture that came through me not long ago (I never plan to paint anything in particular, I just start playing with the colors and shapes, and it becomes whatever it becomes. And I only started doing this in MS Paint a few months ago. Before that, I’d only done a few pics by hand).

I found this image fascinating because a snake (that I believe is representing the Kundalini) wanted to be there (as mentioned in that post, I resisted putting it there initially) and because the interpretation I googled after doing the pic, seemed to correlate with both the image and previous experiences that I’ve had, that also was very intriguing.  It says, “The Phoenix that I know is a traveler going through the inky vastness of space” and, in looking at my Phoenix pic, that seems to be a perfect description of what my bird is doing :)

The thing that’s on the Phoenix, that looks like a beehive to me, well, I’m wondering if that’s what it actually is supposed to be. I started thinking about how they’re saying the bees are disappearing…and maybe this hive is a little hint of the significance of that.

Anyway, so I thought I’d gather a few bee totem interpretations here for further pondering. I know the bee is a potent totem, about accomplishing the “impossible.” Bees are on the Lovers card in the Animal-Wise Tarot deck (by Ted Andrews), so that reminds me that it’s also about sexuality.  And the phrase “busy as a bee” is also a reminder of it’s being symbolic of work or working. But it’s interesting that the hive is placed here with the Phoenix and Kundalini, and not the bee…but where the bee lives and works.  I see no bees in or around it.

Well, my observation would be this, “if I knew what this is representing” (a spin from the Vanzant diva, heh), it seems this powerful energy (Phoenix) is rising up from the earth, which is us, so it’s also rising up in us (Kundalini).  The Kundalini (the “God” that is within all of us — that is us) is our power rising up (our “awakening” to that which we truly are) to bring about our freedom from the oppression and exploitation (all we f*ckin’ do is work, and most of us so as to make others richer while we become more like slaves) that has continued to get worse and worse. 

To me, it all mirrors a bit in the Bible, and my favorite part where Moses says, “Let my people go.”  Moses’ Kundalini (”God-power”) had risen, his “snake” was definitely up there in that moment, heh  ;) 

Peace,
Dove

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Bee Totem…

Fertility and the Honey of Life,
Accomplishing the Impossible

Bees are the symbol of fertility and sexuality.
Its honeycomb, a hexagon, is the symbol of the heart and
represents the sweetness of life found within our own heart.
It is also the symbol of the sun and all its energies.

The bee reminds us to extract the honey of life
and to make our lives fertile (productive) while the sun shines.
No matter how great the dream is, there is the promise of fulfillment
if we pursue our dreams.

If a Bee has shown up in your life, examine your own productivity.
Are you doing all you can to make your life more fertile?
Are you busy enough?
Are you making time to savor the honey of life and not becoming a workaholic?

The Bee is the symbol of accomplishing the impossible.
Aerodynamically, its body is too large for its wings and should not be able to fly.
Although now we understand how it does fly (high rate of wing movement),
the Bee remains a symbol of accomplishing anything you put your mind to

In Hinduism, the Bee relates to Vishnu, Krishna or Kama, the God of Love.
In Egypt, the Bee symbolized royalty.
In Greece, it was the symbol of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
The Celts associated the Bee with hidden wisdom

Source: http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/bee.htm

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Bee Totem…

Bee shows us we can accomplish what seems impossible by having dedication and working hard. It asks us to pursue our dreams with incredible focus and fertilize our aspirations. Bee teaches us to cooperate with others who have similar goals so we can learn how to help each other.

Source:  http://www.animaltotem.com/bee.html

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Bee - The bee is the messanger of the gods. If he comes buzzing into your life, take note. You may be receiving a message from Spirit. Alternately, you could be getting a message to do a little less and just be still for awhile! When we take the time to just be, we clear our minds to receive divine guidance.

Source:  http://www.visionsofheaven.com/articles_docs/ARanimals.html#Beaver

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The Bumble Bee

Unlike the honeybee, the bumblebee usually has fewer individuals in its colony. They do not store large amounts of honey like the honeybee does. Bumblebees are one of the few insects that can control their body temperature. In cold weather the queen and her workers can shiver their flight muscles to warm themselves allowing them to fly and work at lower temperatures than most other insects. Their large size and hairy coat also helps to keep them warm.

Yogi masters have been known to quiet their heartbeat and adjust their body temperatures when in an altered state. This skill is linked to the ancient initiations of mastering the body, mind and spirit. Those with this totem usually have strong past life ties connected to the ancient secrets of longevity and can benefit from the study and practice of yoga. They also make good hypnotherapists.

All bees are productive. They remain focused in their activities and do not get distracted from their goal. Their legs are one of their most sensitive organs. A bee actually tastes through its legs and reminds us to slow down, smell the roses and taste the sweet nectar of life. Hypoglycemia and diabetes can sometimes occur in those who carry this medicine. Therefore daily exercise and good nutrition is advised.

The bumblebee carries the power of service. They are important pollinators of many plants. As a bee lands upon one flower, collecting its nectar, pollen also attaches itself to the leg fibers. It is then transferred to other flowers, creating a fertilization process. Their movement from one plant to another symbolizes the interconnectedness of all living things. The bumblebee is a messenger that holds the secrets of life and service.

If your energy is scattered the bumblebee can show you how to regain focus. If it stings you, it is saying, wake up and follow the rhythm of your own heartbeat. When a bumblebee buzzes you it is asking you to follow its lead. In so doing you will arrive at the destination most appropriate for your new life awakening.

Source:  http://www.sayahda.com/cycle.htm

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Bumble Bee

Bee is the ancient symbol of good fortune, joy and harmony. In the dream world, bee comes as a gift from Spirit. He buzzes about in order to awaken us into the moment. Alert and aware, we see that life is sweet and filled with brightness, color and light. Bee also teaches us to engage fully in our creative endeavors. The key is to focus with intention and to be single-minded in purpose. Finally, bee shows us that all life is interdependent.

Source:  http://www.cathyginter.com/TOTEM.html

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First of all, don’t fear it….  That gives them our power.  We have to shake the fear and the funk — the attitude that they’re winning, that there’s nothing we can do.  Know that we are not powerless…our beliefs are very powerful.   What you believe, so shall it be.  KNOW THAT YOU ARE POWERFUL.  “Knowing” anything else is a losing game. 

See, literally, and on a regular basis, see in your mind a world where freedom and justice actually do prevail.  If you can’t believe it, pretend — act the part, feel in your heart that freedom is our truth.  See it and FEEL it in your heart.  That’s powerful, I promise. 

See those who are trampling on our freedom, see them being escorted out of OUR government…  See our freedoms being restored, our world coming to a place of peace.  See it, feel it, just like a star athlete sees himself winning.  And then take the practical action that you feel is right for you.  Unite with others and care about their welfare as you would wish them to care about yours… 

There is no loss that is worse than losing our freedom.  The first and most crucial step toward not losing it is to FEAR NOT.

Knowing our power…and knowing our basic human right to freedom — to think and believe and speak and write as we choose, to be free of their excessive need to control us, and fearlessly uniting and taking heart-centered actions as we feel impassioned to do so will ensure our freedom… 

Read that again, not easy, but it will take all of those things.  They have now become accustomed to easily taking from us that which they wish to take.  They will take whatever we allow them to easily take.  We’ve got to snap out of it – our comfy couch and tv shows will not keep us safe.  It’s an absurd illusion of safety, and we have long lost the government that was to be for and of the People.

Lose the fear and sense of powerlessness.  Our power is in a genuine sense of powerfulness, righteous and well-guided anger, and in a well-intentioned and courageous heart.  Their power is great only because we stay separate and they do everything to keep us separate and fearful for that very reason.  It’s time to change all that, or endure the consequences of not doing so.

Excerpt from newstarget.com..

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The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It’s a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET’s News.com, Kathryn Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com

This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline and I could be arrested as a “terrorist.” Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com could be labeled a “terrorist” and arrested. Byron Richards, Len Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check yourself here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h1955_rfs.xml

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Take action now, or lose your freedoms forever

If you live in the U.S., it is urgent that you call your senators right now and voice your strong opposition against this extremely dangerous law.

Here are the phone numbers for the U.S. Senate switchboard:

1-877-851-6437
1-800-833-6354
1-888-355-3588
1-866-220-0044
1-866-808-0065
1-877-762-8762
1-866-340-9281
1-800-862-5530

How to do this:

1) Make sure you know the names of your Senators.
2) Call the U.S. Senate switchboard using one of the numbers above.
3) Ask to speak to the offices of your Senators.
4) Tell them you are strongly opposed to S. 1959, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
5) Ask for their fax number.
6) Follow up your phone call with a written, signed letter that you fax to your Senators.

Stopping this bill from becoming law is the single most important thing all Americans can do right now.

Read the rest here, http://www.newstarget.com/022308.html

What’s wrong with this picture?? 

A guy is trying to unlock his OWN front door and FROM THAT he’s tasered, arrested and convicted of supposedly resisting arrest. *look of total disbelief*   His attorney, after this guy is convicted, says, “I’m mortified…he shouldn’t have been convicted…they’re taser happy.”

Man Tasered” Breaking” Into Own Home

First point, wouldn’t one’s first thoughts upon seeing someone on THE FRONT PORCH at THE FRONT DOOR consider for a nano-second that just maybe this was the resident of said home?  Second point, the guy had been drinking, he didn’t look that big or dangerous, he showed them his hands — no weapon. They (two cops) had drawn guns on him. Why — why in hell was it necessary to taser this guy?  Because they could??

And then they further show their stupidity and control-freak crap by pursuing a conviction on a man who was simply trying to enter HIS OWN HOME. And the DA, lol, saying the tasering was a “smart” move on their part.  *eyes rolling*  It looked like it was hard for him to keep a straight face in saying that.  I say, thanks for showing us the, um, caliber of individuals that are policing and governing your fine community by ensuring all of this is strongly in public view – Omaha, Nebraska.  So, attention all law-abiding citizens, if you live in or are just passing through Omaha, Nebraska, ya’ might wanna hire a body guard before trying to enter your own home, or any other such outlandish activity or atrocity.

And other news… Oh look, what a coincidence :) A story reflecting why we, um, should trust and totally cooperate with any “law enforcement officer” — no matter what.

Ex-Cop Arrested on 30 Identity Fraud Charges

Oh, but I’m sure this is an isolated case, and that most cops are way up there in the honesty and other morals department. And I’m sure they screen those cops-to-be with a fine-tooth comb. Yep, we should not concern our little sheeple head about such things.  So we should just bend over and take our beating tasering like a good little slave citizen should.   

Here’s a fact. The nature of this existence is change. That’s a surety. So either something gets better — or it gets worse. Look at our legal system, our government, has it been getting better?

Dove

Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite websites, www.newstarget.com, on the big “C” industry and their total disregard for the lives and health of women.  I love pink, but those pink ribbons are a wicked sham…

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While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell these women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with harmful, authoritative medical demands and toss them into chemotherapy — a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs.

Yet even the World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative, though. My own opinion is that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry seems interested in teaching any of these strategies to women. In the cancer industry, there is no incentive to teach women how to avoid breast cancer, because to do so would eliminate a future customer! Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake here, and the cancer industry is banking on the continuation of this disease among the population.

That’s why I started the Education Not Medication program. It is a humble effort to teach women how to prevent their own breast cancer through scientifically-supported natural health strategies that are easy to understand and simple to follow. They include things like eating more broccoli and garlic, getting more natural sunlight on your skin (to generate the anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D, which has recently been shown to prevent an astonishing 77 percent of ALL cancers!) and avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in manufactured foods (such as sodium nitrite, found in bacon, sausage and virtually all packaged meats). A more detailed list is offered below.

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The real answers to breast cancer prevention

Here, for the benefit of women everywhere, is a partial list of the things that cause cancer and things that don’t. You’re not going to find full descriptions and citations here, as that would require an entire book all by itself, but this is a very useful reference list that tells the truth about what causes or prevents cancer in the human body.

18 things that CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order)

• Smoking cigarettes
• Mammography radiation - see articles on mammograms
• Chemotherapy and radiation
• Perfumes and fragrance products
• Cosmetics and personal care products - see articles on personal care products
• Home cleaning products, including laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc.
• Drinking non-organic milk or eating non-organic dairy products
• Hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids - See Poison In the Food or articles on hydrogenated oils
• Plastic food containers - includes plastic lining inside food cans
• Sodium nitrite - found in most processed meats, see articles on sodium nitrite
• Pesticides, PCBs, chlorine and other chemicals
• Acrylamides (formed during high-heat food processing such as frying)
• Watching television / lack of exercise
• Severe emotional distress or relationship stress
• Refined sugars / refined grains
• Dry cleaning chemicals
• Hair color chemicals
• Nail polish remover

22 things that PREVENT cancer:

• Vitamin D and sunshine - see the Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D
• Anti-cancer foods - see articles about anti-cancer foods
• Medicinal mushrooms - reishi, shiitake, agaricus blazei, etc. See www.MushroomScience.com or www.DragonHerbs.com
• Green tea - see articles about green tea
• Broccoli and cruciferous vegetables - see articles about broccoli
• Lycopene and tomatoes
• Infra-red saunas and sweat lodges - because sweating expels toxins
• Chlorella - see articles on chlorella, or check out a recommended chlorella product: Rejuvenate! From IntegratedHealth.com (product to be launched soon)
• Pomegranate seeds - see artiles on pomegranate or http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=32
• Omega-3 oils / chia seeds - available from GoodCauseWellness.com
• Rainforest herbs - There are many anti-cancer rainforest herbs, including graviola and Cat’s Claw (Una de Gato). Recommended sources is Terry Pezzi of the high-integrity Amazon Herb Company (also helping to preserve the Amazon rainforest) - Another great source of rainforest herbs is Rain Tree with Leslie Taylor
• Juice detoxification - Read books by Dr. Gabriel Cousens or visit his retreat in Southern Arizona
• Acupuncture - helps move blood and chi (body’s energy)
• Sprouts - ALL sprouts are anti-cancer. Best sprouting machine is the EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter (use any search engine to find resellers)
• Red clover - Helps cleanse the blood. Find from any supplement maker.
• Deep breathing / oxygenation / stress reduction - Best product is called Stress Eraser (highly recommended)
• Yoga, Tai Chi or Pilates - These all boost lymph circulation
• Cacao - (real chocolate) - Good sources are NavitasNaturals.com or Superfoods.com
• Therapeutic massage - helps move lymph, boost circulation
• Mint - grow your own (the easiest plant to grow)
• Apricot pits / laetrile / vitamin B17 - View this World Without Cancer video featuring G. Edward Griffin
• Blackberries - Most berries contain some form of anti-cancer medicine

Click here to read this article:  http://www.newstarget.com/022157.html