Month: April 2018
The Headless Dullahan
The Dullahan also named ( Durahan , Gan Ceann ) it is a class of unseeliemeaning an evil or malevolent faerie. It is headless, sighted by folks in the dark of night riding a acephalous black horse and totes his/her head under one arm. The head’s eyes are monstrous and flicker back and forth, while the maw holds a frozen horrific grin that spreads from ear to ear. This eerie cranium sports the texture and hue of fermented curds. The switch carried by the dullahan is a deceased body’s backbone, and the caravans they transport are crafted from macabre funeral items such as candles in skulls to shed light at night, the wheel rods are created from femur bones, the cart’s jacket is made from a maggot-munched shroud. Once the dullahan ceases riding, it stops on the spot where a specific body is due to die. The dullahan shouts…
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Is meditating on death like putting on a fur coat in summer?
StandardAs the Buddha advised, we need to be alert to the possibility that death meditation could be detrimental if we overdo it, or do it in the wrong spirit or state of mind.
I think that it’s fascinating; thinking about Death, It’s another step, I mean 😉
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André Bauchant (1873 – 1958, French)
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Charming Birds And Sea Girls
Néréides et Naiades
Adam And Eve
Grand paysage avec baigneuses et danseuses
Ulysses Imploring Neptune To Save Him
Le Char d’Apollon
Souvenir d’Apollon Musagète
Four Women
Armando Sendin (1928, Brazilian)
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Nietzsche on Truth, Lies, the Power and Peril of Metaphor, and How We Use Language to Reveal and Conceal Reality
Standard“What then is the truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished…”
A wonderful article about the Truth in Nietzsche’s Head. By: https://www.brainpickings.org/
Energies of Now: Venus Rising (and Friday the 13th)
I originally wrote this musing in April 2016, when the Taurus Mysteries were rising on the wheel of the year.
Then I revisited the Venus-Rising theme, when the Libra Mysteries — the other zodiac archetype ruled by Venus – were rising with the equinox.
Today, it’s Friday the 13th — both Friday, and 13, with ancient associations to the Divine Feminine and Lunar ways.
That’s Astro-Speak, but remember —astrology is simply a symbolic, metaphorical, and mythic energy for the energies, patterns, and cycles we’re born into, embody, and that we dance with after that.
The symbols and metaphors equate to qualities, themes, and the core values that move us and express in and through and between us. The cycles are just like various acts in a play or film.
Botanical garden, Forth Worth, Texas.
Just now,Taurus season is on the horizon, but Venus is visiting her home territory…
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Energies of Now: Venus Rising (and Friday the 13th)
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I’m not a fan of using several charts to determine the nature of an event or whether it will occur at all. Here, I draw exclusively on the Chart of the Year as calculated for Tehran at the Spring Equinox and Nouruz. The general query is to assess the position of Iran at a time when once again, The Islamic Republic of Iran is being threatened with more than sanctions and covert attacks. It seems almost an absurdity to ask if Iran will be at war. It has been on a war footing since 1979 and many times prior to that. This is more of an examination than a prediction.
Predicting wars is a very bad habit. Assessing relative strengths, what’s at play and the nature of the subject is much wiser, because wars can be prevented. I’m a firm believer in studying what Tibetan Buddhists refer to as “causes and conditions.” These can…
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Author Marjorie Mallon on Blogging, Dreams, and Her Paperback Release
Congratulations to Marjorie Mallon on the paperback release of The Curse of Time Book 1 Bloodstone – yahoo! You may recall she came by last year to post about the topic of self harm that she addresses in this book. Today, Marjorie (I call her MJ!), stops by as part of her blog tour to chat about her experiences blogging and how dreams are achievable at any age. I’m giving MJ the floor now:
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