posted April 22, 2011 03:14 PM            

PlutoSquared, the only time I thought much about you while writing my post was when I was trying to remember who said something about the "in" group. I remembered Cynnared mentioned it, and wondered to myself if you also said something about it because I remembered that you were on that thread. I don't know all the players in the original drama, and as I've mentioned more than once, I don't care. Accept everyone, be kind to everyone, or leave. And that is not directed specifically at you at all.

It is directed to all the new people here who I suspect did not read Linda's work at all and just found us in a Google search for an astrology aspect. This is not a place for debate or contention. We do not care if you passionately disagree with something someone else has posted unless you can address it in Linda's way. Acceptance. Tolerance. The Lion laying down with the Lamb. Gently share the way Linda taught or find another place where you can do things YOUR way... or read Linda's work until you understand. We will accept anyone who is willing to learn and grow. If you want to push your ideas onto others, you will be tolerated but not respected. (Again, I am NOT talking to YOU, PS or Ami, specifically, but to All generally.) If you want to fight with others, it is accepted that we all make mistakes and fall from what we strive for... which is the tolerance Linda taught... but learn from it, apologize with all the genuineness in your heart and soul and try again another day. Find others who fall/fail less and learn from them. Respect their methods and learn everything you can. Keep Linda's spirit alive. Keep LINDA alive, otherwise it is YOU who do fail to respect this place and her webmaster... whoever YOU, who do not know and learn from Linda, may be.
(and I do not know who SPECIFICALLY fits what I said above and I'm jolly well tired of explaining that over and over, it has been "our" way to talk in non-specifics and have whoever a post "speaks" to "hear" it since the beginning, and I am not trying to pick on people in wormy, smarmy ways, no matter how your current perspective allows you to view the world and those around you. I just don't care enough about you to do that, if you can understand THAT.)

So, let whoever has Eyes to See and Ears to Hear Understand what I've used some of my valuable and hard earned and already stretched to it's limits personal energy to explain today because I won't be bullied into sharing any more until I begin to get some love and kind energy right back.

Things will be ok, Randall. Linda is still here. <3 Linda the Aries.

Learn from Linda. I love what you said the other day, about your fire, PS, and I will not forget it.

posted April 22, 2011 03:33 PM            

I did NOT study the social structure before I started posting. I jumped headfirst into action... and for that I AM SORRY. I wish I hadn't.

I am also SORRY if any of you have felt wrongly judged by me. However, in my defense, my nature is to defend myself, and to defend people that I care about - I DO THIS INSTINCTIVELY.

Do you understand that, really, truly (other sun signs)? Probably not. For you, a loud mouth, a fighting instinct is all annoying traits, and vulgarity...

Can you possibly comprehend this being a natural state for many of us???

I can NOT change my instincts to get all fired up (not to mention, I DON'T WANT TO), however, if there's room for better adapted fire on my part where there are more harmonious avenues for me to utilize it, I would be happy to learn - from someone who does not insult me, condemn me, or basically shun me because I am different from them...

And, I would of course love to set down some roots here, to fall in love with some friendly people, to defend "the cause" etc.
But, until there's some structure, I feel lost in the confusion - as I'm sure a lot of people here do...

Yes, there's a lot to be said for taking personal integrity, and controlling everything that one says and does - but let's not forget that we also CAN bring out the best and worst in each other. Also, negative situations and thoughts have an effect on the sphere, too...

Veiled insults, neglecting, denying, shunning, backbiting, slander, etc. and a slew of other things lead to a negative environment, too...

So, I hope everyone takes a real close look at themselves, here... the spotlight may be on me, because I am the loudest, but I'm not the center-peg. I am the court jester. I am the loud roar, the burst of fire, the pyrotechnics... I'm not the main act.

Peace is for sure very idealistic - but likely we can strive for it IF WE ALL DO OUR BEST - and stop putting each other down.

posted April 22, 2011 03:53 PM            

Isa: 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

posted April 22, 2011 03:56 PM            

Is that your way of telling me what to believe? What to adopt for myself? Because, I thought we just finished this chapter in Star Signs about false prophets and the mandating of spiritual growth for others...

posted April 22, 2011 03:59 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Nope, I was quoting that in reference to what MM said about the Lion and the Lamb.

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posted April 22, 2011 04:09 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Wow, MM! That is probably the most beautiful post I've read on here in a long long time. It is exactly what I want Lindaland to be. Exactly. And I know Linda's Spirit is around this place. My love and respect for her is the driving force that keeps me moving on and keeping the flames burning here. Yes, many are here to just talk Astrology, and Linda would love this, but Lindaland is more than that. I just could not express it any better than you did.

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I learn so much ,here.Love feeds the spirit like food feeds the body.

posted April 22, 2011 04:22 PM            

I will politely refrain from speaking with you on Lindaland, bonding, sharing, etc. until I get a better grip on this "Master Teacher" stuff...

As, I will not accept Linda Goodman as my Master Teacher...

My gut screams, "NOOOOO!"

So...

posted April 22, 2011 04:29 PM            

~Linda Goodman

posted April 22, 2011 04:32 PM            

Linda Goodman said that others should not accept her way, unless it is appropriate.

posted April 22, 2011 04:33 PM            

THEN THIS NEEDS TO GO IN THE DISCLAIMER!

Cuz, I didn't sign up for that. I joined because I appreciated Linda Goodman's books... they taught me a lot about astrology, which I like...

posted April 22, 2011 04:35 PM            

I don't know what else has happened, and I don't think I want to. I don't know how to say that without sounding unsupportive (I keep getting a red line under that - it is a word, isn't it?) - listening is one thing, I'm just doing my best to not get into the middle of anything again.

posted April 22, 2011 04:38 PM            

.....

"Yes, it is time for a Messiah. A Wayshower, who will once again remind us of the basic lessons of love he taught before, so soon forgotten. For it makes no difference how far an individual or nation has fallen into error; love will bring a renewed dedication to humanity. Just as it makes no difference how far away someone has gone, for love will bring a return. As poet, Emmet Fox noted, when it is projected with sufficient intensity, there is no distance that love cannot span, no illness--moral, mental, emotional or spiritual--that love cannot heal. No victory that love cannot win. Love is concentrated kinetic energy, the most awesome force in nature...and beyond Her.

If only you could love deeply enough and sustain love long enough, you could become the source of your own miracles, as powerful as the ancient "gods and goddeses." There is no dream you couldn't turn into a reality, no law you can't change, no situation you can't reverse--if only you could love enough.

Loving enough is not easy. Loving enough doesn't mean loving only those who love you, who are kind and considerate and generous. Loving enough means also loving those who 'say all manner of evil against you,' who hate you and actively demonstrate that hatred, who seemingly lack all compassion and sensitivity. Anyone can return the love of those who love him--or her. There's little glory or power in that kind of love. We are incarnated in these flesh bodies on Earth to learn love's deeper, more difficult lesson of loving the unlovable. In this accomplishment lies all the force and energy of true passion. More often than not, it's a painful effort, but the rewards, when it's mastered, are...beyond imagining. Never mind unnecessary religious 'canonization'--you, too, can become a 'saint,'--if you can love enough.

Who among us is not, at times, unlovable? And are not these the very times when we secretly yearn and need to be loved the most? Oh! the magic of receiving kindness in return from one to whom we have been unkind...the miracle of hearing, when we have said: 'I'm sorry I said such cruel things,' the answer: 'What cruel things? I didn't hear them.'

Then the heart bursts with joy and our cup runneth over. For this most ancient alchemy secret of all is such a simple secret. If it was negative, it didn't happen--except in the world of illusion.

And so, may the Force...of Love...be with you. May it prevent the predicted cataclysms of Nature, as well as the personal cataclysms of separation and divorce, through its prisms of Light."

posted April 22, 2011 04:43 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
You are over-reacting, PS. Most people here have never read a Linda book at all.

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No, I'm taking Mystic at her words... if an entire group has dismissed me because I am un-Linda-like... not only is that unfair, but I will most certainly NEVER WIN and will have to contend with a group of people who DO and have admittedly believed that, through Mystic's words, that I am an outsider, unworthy of respect, because I do not emulate Linda Goodman...