posted May 07, 2004 03:38 PM         

If you want to attract that into your life, you might check into the feng shui in your home. Are the pictures you have around those of a "strong, independent woman" or are they pictures of loving couples or "two of a kind" things?

I read somewhere, was it on this site? that a person wanted to attract a person from the past, and they printed their name and put a black edge around it and said the name aloud for 30 days, or something along that line.

It seems one could do something like that to get those vibrations going. Hm, maybe I'll do something like that myself.

Good luck! I think some man would find himself very blessed to find such a mate as yourself.

posted May 07, 2004 11:30 PM         

Another is a gifted picture of wild flowers by someone on Valentine's day few years ago.

I always buy fresh flowers(every other week) to bring love in my life and they are also on my bed side in purple vase. I have kept a pair of doves underneath my bed. Red candle on burner for 24 hours. Rose fragrance in my room. I am trying to attract love in my life.

posted May 08, 2004 04:21 PM         

If I really and truly love my right person, his name is in deep my heart, he will understand me. He can not go anywhere. He will be mine forever.

Let me share one thing what came up yesterday from Star signs, though the context in which it was written was different. But still I liked it.

posted May 09, 2004 02:13 AM         

have you read any feng shui books? that will tell you about arranging the pictures and getting them to the right place--they will "tell you" where they are to go...

if you look at something, and if it nourishes your soul, and you truly love it, then it belongs to you. if at one time you felt that way, but no longer do, then it is time to move and let it nurture someone else and keep the flow of life going

do that with everything in your house...just go from wall to wall and see whether or not something gives you a lift.

if you had a thought to give someone that picture, i think it would be a good idea to do so, if you feel "right" about it.

you are doing the right things, but i would also add--and i need to work on this too--that we both need to practice meditation to get into the present moment. we all live too much in the past and future, which are not real. the only thing real, and our own eternal soul home, is the spirit world. we need to live in the moment, mindful of "observing" our body as a bystander who is just using this body for while here on earth. it is difficult to do, but i think those who teach it make it too difficult with too many "rules" about posture, length of time, etc. do what feels right to you...and i am a virgo, too, and my house has been a mess lately, so i am too distracted to meditate properly...i am almost finished cleaning it back up, though, and i hope to truly meditate this mother's day, especially for my son who is in the spirit world now. he died nearly 8 years ago.

so i hope that helps, sVirgo, and best wishes on your journey

posted May 09, 2004 08:32 AM         

raine, I'm sorry to hear about your son.

posted May 09, 2004 09:33 PM         

how kind of you. you are making me cry, but it's not from my loss

although it is mothers day, and it has been nearly eight years now, it is still simple kindness and compassion that people display in any form whatsoever that are almost guaranteed to bring on the tears

and i needed to be reminded that there are indeed compassionate people in this world. not everyone shares your heart

bless you

and while we are on the subject, i am wondering why it might be that i have not dreamed about david in all these years. i have gotten a clear message of comfort to his girlfriend from a young man who crossed over in his early thirties. i was inspired to write a poem for her, but i have not "heard from" my own son. another person did, and told me he was fine

posted May 10, 2004 10:13 PM         

I did a small course on Feng Shui in community college. I learnt few things there.

But what you added, I have not worked out. I will try to do to feel about the things in my home. Yes, you are right that one has to live in present. I am also trying to follow though I know sometimes I start dwelling in past.

My son gave me Linda's star cards as Mother's day gift. So I am enjoying it.

posted May 14, 2004 06:55 PM         

what a thoughtful son

i trust that things are coming together for you through those cards

posted May 14, 2004 10:54 PM         

when you come back, do check out the posts under global unity in the "destiny of the U.S." and "those horrid photos" about the feminine role in the coming global unity. it is so exciting to be a part of it all

it is truly humbling to discover one stone after another being overturned on the path to the restoration of balance with the hieros gamous, sacred marriage, the two intertwining triangles represented in the star of david. i can hardly keep up with all of the new menus opening up, but i am trying

you can read more in any of margaret starbird's books, "Magdalene's lost legacy: symbolic numbers and the sacred union in christianity" "the goddess in the gospels: reclaiming the sacred feminine" and "the woman with the alabaster jar: mary magdalen and the holy grail"

but fair warning, you won't get much else done!

posted May 15, 2004 01:42 PM         

i got to thinking back to your dream and how symbolism might fit in here (my dream, too, for that matter)

you know, in my dream of the two penises, the "orthodox" one on the LEFT had faded into the background, as the focus became riveted on the one on the right elongating and becoming snakelike. snakes can represent psychological healing and clearly the one on the RIGHT was alive and flowing and moving (in a most untraditional manner!)

since i had that dream, margaret starbird's books have enlightened me about the feminine principle being restored. your intense yearning for your counterpart is part of the universal theme of fairy tales, medieval art, the songs of the troubadours and the tarot cards.

i don't have time to repeat myself, so just check out my posts under "those horrid pictures" and "destiny of the U.S." for more of the hope they contain

and tell me, please, of any fairy-tale type stories from india, that spoke to your childhood, would you?

fairy tales held an intense fascination for me, as though i were recognizing something in them, and the long ago and far away were beckoning me

now i learn why. i grew up locked in a prison tower of orthodoxy without even knowing or suspecting that any other beliefs were possible (the "anatomically correct" penis on the LEFT side) and i could only look out through the window of fairy tales to grasp the knowledge that SOMETHING was hidden in them, something very real-- out there, somewhere...

the feminine principle in religion was ruthlessly wiped out with the inquisition, which sought to maintain the status quo, which had become male-dominated at the expense of the feminine counterpart, as represented by mary magdalen and the goddess stories with the same recurring themes

most religions have some form of it, so that is why i am asking you if you know of any from your own childhood

i shall be eager to learn of them, and from anyone else who has such traditions

"tales from a finnish tupa" was the book of my heritage, and it always involved the element of magic, where the antagonist would always go as far as he could on his own power, and then when that was exhausted, help would arrive magically

that same magic, also found in lord of the rings, will become manifest in the days ahead as we face world war III. the magic of feminine waters is the only thing that will extinguish the spreading flames of fiery male aggression, not the addition of "bigger and better" fuel

isn't it exciting to contemplate the restoration of yin/yang, feminine/masculine balance brought in those water jugs of aquarius?

the vision of george washington posted under the global unity thread rings quite true, and represents our only hope amid all of this clamor for more and more barbarity. i am afraid that soon enough those who call for more blood will have their fill

posted May 23, 2004 11:48 AM         

I kept on thinking to share something, but you know I am also raised with Cindrella fairy tale.

Beside there are lot of stories in our epics like Ramayana and Geeta. That our parents teach us short stories from them. Since our childhood we get so much of faith in God, that everynight I used to talk to God.

Let me share one more thing, I believe in fairy tales, I always dreamt of one Prince who will come and recognize me and that she is the one for whom I longed from years and births. But where is he. Now I am growing in physical age and people are trying to make me accept the fact and come out of dreamland. But I don't want to come out.

I was reading posts those horrid pictures/unlearned prison lessons. Though I have not finished all of them yet. Let me tell you my feeling that hurts me when somebody abuse/torture another person. I am against of death sentence. From my point of view, open up everybody's inner soul instead of punishing them. Share with them how to know oneself. I feel when somebody do any crime actually he/she don't know what he/she is doing but one has to stop. What Linda said that stop chain of actions.

Please don't laugh. I still get scared of your dream of penis. Look at me now I am not captitalizing even P. Ha! ha!

Since you mentioned David, I remember your son and you too. I embrace each moment of my son too. I told my other friends that I found another good friend.

posted May 23, 2004 12:30 PM         

Shabri was a woman of ‘low caste’.

Hindu Scriptures speak of the four castes, which is nothing but four types of professions.

Let me tell you about them.

The first is Brahmin. The Learned, professors, priests…

The Second is the Kshtriyas: The warriors, soldiers, protectors…

The third is the Vaishyas: the Commercial community, shop keepers, traders…

The fourth is the Shudras: The working community, those who serve the first three…

As time passed, the learned class started to feel very arrogant and believed themselves to be the’ highest’, because they were the most learned, and knew the Scriptures.

They imposed the ‘law’ that if one was born into one caste, they would remain there for life.

And so the menial workers were referred to as ‘low’ and later ‘untouchable’

I am going to tell you the story of Shabri.

Shabri belonged to the ‘low caste’

No one befriended her.

So she lived alone.

Her Guru(master) had told her, that Lord Sri Ram(one of our God's name) would one day visit her cottage.

Shabri would decorate her cottage with beautiful flowers every day, hoping that that would be the wonderful day, that Sri Ram would visit her.

One day Ram arrived at her village.

And He did visit Shabri cottage.

Shabri was beside herself with joy.

She made him sit and brought a plate of berries for him to eat.

She wanted to make sure that they were sweet. It is popularly believed that she tasted the berries before giving them to Sri Ram to eat.

Sri Ram ate them with great relish and was happy at the faith and love that Shabri possessed. And the beauty of the relation between the true devotee and the Lord was such that Ram was happy in eating the same fruit that had been tasted by Shabari herself, lest the fruit should be bitter

The people in the village were appalled at Shabri’s audacity.

This story has touched me a lot, because there was a time when people have done a lot of atrocities in name of casteism and untouchables. Even I have seen myself that when I was small, there was a seperate cup for a cleaning lady in which she was served tea. Some people don't even give them glass to drink water, they will pour water directly into their hands and keep their body away from them, so that they would not touch them otherwise they might have to take bath again.

posted May 24, 2004 12:28 AM         

If I have heard his name? Mahatma Gandhi! He is my hero!

As I just posted on "Know thy enemy" in global unity, when I joined in February I had naturally anticipated with delight the sharing of stories such as his, that proved the power of creative peaceful approaches to global strife.

And I mean POWER! Could bombs and guns have won the freedom of the Indian people, like Gandhi's peaceful protest did?

No, of course not, but peace swallowed up the tyranny that the oppressors had imposed. And that will forever stand as proof that a trust in peaceful resolution of problems is not "weakness" or "too idealistic and not possible" but rather is amply rewarded, and clearly very, very practical and powerful!

I hope that the people there in global unity will one day rid themselves of the collective hatred that represents the driving force sweeping this nation into war...the force that attacks those who are seeking peaceful solutions to world problems and labels them as traitors.

As the two opposing forces, peace and war, polarize in the coming days, it will seem as though the strength of bullyism is winning out, but it is the coming of the feminine goddess to the planet, as the counterpart to the male-dominated religions of the past, that will bring on the peace of the millenium--the age of Aquarius--where the balanced male and female reign in harmony and happiness.

So keeping that hope alive in us, we can focus our energies on coaxing out the water that is borne by Aquarius, so that our planet can be sprinkled with peace, solely because so many have chosen to nurture peace and love in their hearts.

It will slowly reach the critical mass, as more and more people finally get so disgusted with the torture and killing and rape and madness that they will turn their swords into plowshares, so that the "untouchables" in all too many of earth's cultures can be fed rather than bled.

And, yes, that is the rest of the fairy tale, the happy ending, that I will never surrender. I will always believe in fairy tales, and will seek to do my own small part in bringing the "long ago and far away" into the "here and now"

Isn't it exciting? Never before has such a thought brought out the latent passion in my heart like this has. And sVirgo, and anyone else who shares these thoughts, please know that the stars have declared victorious peace after mankind's last futile struggle to bring peace from the center of its ego--the current escalating world war III--just as the alcoholic must "hit bottom" before he or she acknowledges that they can't do it alone any more.

It is good to know that here in astral realms there is the peace and hope for which I have been looking so long. May we continue to encourage one another in the battle of our lives--to help establish the dream of peace on this warring planet.