posted December 01, 2020 03:04 PM            

Could be the Mars, but I am half Irish, so there is also that (the rest is quarter Italian, quarter Scottish).

Nice song btw. Your voice reminds me of Roy Orbison.

posted December 02, 2020 02:48 PM              

Interestingly, EC's guidance said that Yeshua and his mother Miriam were Twin Souls. So, in a very real sense, she was the female form of the larger Christ Spirit. But being connected to the female form, ended up playing the more passive, receptive role. And yet, just as important and crucial as his more active/Yang role. For without her and her attunement, and bringing him into the world in an unusual way (which gave him a faster vibratory body than usual), there would have been no Yeshua as we had experienced and this world would be VERY different than it is now (you don't want to see our present time if he hadn't incarnated and overcome, and you certainly wouldn't want to be in it).

Hmmm, yeah, the astrology doesn't actually cause any of the looks stuff--genetics does. However, astrology does correlate with that level in a symbolic, representational way. The Fire Signs, Mars, and Sun most correspond to reddish hair, freckles, i.e. a more Celtic type look. The rule in astrology is that Planetary energies tend to be stronger and more concentrated than Sign.

On the other hand, Saturn and Capricorn correlate with much more swarthy/darkly pigmented correlations. But I'm thinking that the combination of the Mars conjunction, Libra Rising, and rather close Sun trine counter balance the Saturn and Capricorn enough to indicate some reddishness/Celtic type look. That, or your ASC is a bit earlier and more closely conjunct Mars. Happens all the time because of the spiritual/energetic vs physical birth different potential.

Or, you could put it this way. The Mars and Sun aspects to the ASC correspond to the Irish and Scottish part of your genetics, and the Saturn and Capricorn (chart ruler in), corresponds to the Italian part of you (at least to more southern, classic "Mediterranean" Italian; there is a fair bit of Germanic and Celtic blood mixing in northern Italy). Two similar planets [Mars+Sun] with strong aspects, plus a more "neutral and flexible" Sign (Libra), could counter balance the Saturn and secondary Sign (Venus in Capricorn) indications to tip it to the former more than the latter.

I spent years combing through MANY of the old and classic books about these correlations while making and noting my own observations, as to help with quick and dirty rectification method. I was both surprised, and yet not surprised, to find even in the thousands of years old Dead Sea Scrolls, to see references of looks in relation to astrology. Humans have been making these observations and correlations since astrology has been around.

Thank you for the compliment. I guess there is something about my voice that reminds folks of the classics, as on another astrology forum years ago, I shared a vocal cover of Hallelujah (Wainwright style) and a woman who had been involved with music and voice for a long time, said that I had a very clear voice that reminded her of a young Elvis (interestingly, we do share the same b-day).

You made a reference on another thread that made it seem like you enjoy singing as well? I think it was something about, having thought about covering one of Alanis's songs? If you do have anything up, would be interested in hearing it (but at the same time, would understand if you didn't want to. All that combo of Saturn, Pluto, and Capricorn probably inclines you to a certain reserve. But the singing part would correlate strongly with the strong Venus and to a lesser extent, Libra).

posted December 02, 2020 03:36 PM            

I'm the oddity of the family colour-wise. Everyone else has virtually black hair and tans like crazy. I'm white as a sheet. They all look more Italian than me, even though they are the Irish/Scottish side. I must have gotten some unruly gene, or, I was the postman's... Astrologically though, yeah, I think the Libra has a neutralising effect. There's a school of thought though that the Moon sign can alter appearance - have you found this to be the case?

You're welcome. Quite like Rufus Wainwright's musical style, and there's something both irritating and vulnerable about Martha's voice. She has a complex sound. Yeah, I've been in a few bands, I'm a songwriter too. Nothing online atm. I'm slowly working on some stuff with a guitarist I worked with years ago, but obv. we can't meet to work properly just now. Yes, I'm not a 'performer', I'd sing from inside a tent on the stage if I could, but I get into it eventually. I do have a Leo MC, but I just hate being the centre of attention. I've been exploring my (singing) voice since I could make a sound, just for the sheer love of it.

Do you write also?

posted December 02, 2020 08:30 PM              

Invariably I always slack off, and it gradually comes back. But I came across a EC reading which talked about Kundalini and if Kundalini reached to the Pituitary gland via deep meditation or spiritual activity, that was a safe, helpful way to celibacy.

The other side effect was that I felt so alive! So intune, so aware, so balanced, and just felt complete within myself--hard to explain. Part of me thinks I am crazy for not maintaining that state, because my normal state pales in comparison.

Considering Yeshua's veiled words and teaching here, "“For there are eunuchs who were born so from their mother's womb and there are eunuchs who became eunuchs by men and there are those who have made themselves eunuchs for the cause of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever can receive it let him receive it.”

It seems quite likely that he experienced something very similar as what I experienced and what EC's guidance describes, and unlike me he had the discipline to keep that energy raised up constantly. I don't agree with "forced celibacy" as in priests and the like. I see that as potentially very harmful. There is a big difference between redirection of energy and repression/suppression of it.

One of my more odd experiences some years back, was I became friends with a much older woman than myself online. We were on a metaphysical forum. Anyways, shortly into our friendship, she had a vision during meditation that she had been my mother during my Egyptian lifetime. Anyways, a little while into the friendship, I thought I would share a pic of myself. Didn't hear anything back for a little while, but when she wrote back, it was very dramatic and she said, "what, were you trying to give me a heart attack or something?!"

I was like "wah??" She explained: A few years before we had started talking, she was meditating and she swears a man materialized in her room, smiled at her, and then dematerialized/left. What she was so surprised by, was that my pic/face looked a lot like the man who had materialized. I was like, "well, don't remember doing that, maybe it was future me?" (We later met up and spent time in person, and she seemed like a pretty grounded and balanced person at the time).

I suspect if I kept up that Kundalini raising process, these kinds of things would become possible. In one of the biographies about Bob Monroe, Monroe mentions that one of his friends had experiences where two different people separated by distance, would sometimes see him at the same time. I think most of us only scratch the surface of what we are capable of. Even someone like Wim Hof is really only scratching the surface, though deeper than most.

That's interesting about your family and how you're an anomaly. I mean, brown hair, brown eyes, tan, etc does tend to be more dominant over things like blue eyes, light skin, etc so in that sense, it does make some sense and it seems like some recessive genes got expressed in you but not the rest.

Can't say that I have noticed the Moon having anything to do with the physical looks (the vibe and mannerisms YES), unless Cancer is the ASC, or the Moon is strongly aspected to the ASC degree especially from an amplified area of the Chart (near the Angles and in the 5th House). With early Libra Moon conjunct late Saturn in Virgo, I'd likely be darker, more slender, with sharper features than what I look like if that was a major factor. But nah, I look VERY Leo ASC except for my height and torso length (the Sun in Cap and inconjunct the ASC degree relates to that).

posted December 19, 2020 02:08 AM            

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Back in April, they told BBC Scotland they felt "helpless".

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Around 200 people are starting 2021 off without any medical debt thanks to the kindness of an oncology doctor who erased $650,000 of his patients' debt.

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Newark police and city officials say their de-escalation training program is working, with not one officer firing his or her weapon while on duty in 2020.

The New Jersey police force faced huge challenges this year, with officers being exposed to COVID-19 on the job, and protestors marching against police brutality in the summer.

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When the pandemic hit last year, as suppliers to Portland area restaurants forced to close, that future seemed very much in jeopardy. Their main source of income was suddenly gone. Left behind, eight overflowing greenhouses plus 10 tons of veggies in cold storage of supply—and zero demand.

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In Jewish tradition, a mitzvah is a good deed that’s performed with a good heart simply because it’s the right thing to do. And that’s just how Evelyn Topper described the kind act of a homeless stranger who’d gone out of his way to return her lost wallet.

Topper likely dropped the wallet when she and her granddaughter, Mikayla Gounard, were leaving a local coffee shop in San Rafael, California that they’d just patronized, but Topper didn’t realize it was missing until she got home. With her credit, debit, and medical cards gone, she was understandably upset.

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In 2020, hardships brought on by heavy flooding and compounded by the added limitations of the COVID-19 lockdown left many migrant workers in the Hyderabad region of India stranded without means of support. Dosapati, who lives with his family there, has made it his mission to ensure the area’s struggling workers won’t go without food and other essential items.

To ease the migrant workers’ burden, Dosapati has spent ₹50 lakh of his own funds (close to $61,000) to establish and run a ‘Rice ATM’, doling out rice and other necessities 24 hours a day, seven days a week to those in need.

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A kind-hearted plumber has spent $77,000 during the pandemic helping thousands of vulnerable families fix their heating and plumbing for free.

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Disgusted and disheartened by this, he founded Depher (Disabled and Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Response) and has since helped more than 10,000 families.

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Brexit, immigration and successive coronavirus lockdowns have left the British public divided and entrenched in partisan views – or so the narrative goes. But a landmark study into people’s beliefs suggests that, while a small minority of political extremists have stoked the so-called culture wars, the rest of us have formed broad consensuses around supposedly divisive issues.

Conducted by More in Common, a thinktank founded after the murder of MP Jo Cox, the study used focus groups, academic interviews and a poll of 10,000 voters to gauge the mood of the British public following a tumultuous five years.

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A charity that uses clowns to bring laughter and respite to displaced children has won the inaugural Kindness Awards

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High in the Eagle mountains of the Czech Republic is a village with a difference: 80 per cent of its residents have a disability. A charismatic priest turned the once-abandoned spot into a community for some of the country’s most marginalised citizens

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Once a lively weekend bolthole for city-dwelling Czechs, Neratov was decimated by war and the communist rule of the mid-20th century. Its baroque church, a site of historic pilgrimage, was destroyed by a missile fired by a drunken soldier. By the end of communism in 1989, the village had a population of just two people.

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With global e-waste set to reach 74 million tonnes by 2030, it is the world’s fastest growing non-industrial waste stream. From Ghana to Tanzania, entrepreneurs across Africa are turning electronic trash into treasure

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Walking sticks and hunched-over figures are familiar ways to visually designate old age – but should they be? This question was the starting point for a competition by the charity Centre for Ageing Better, which asked designers to submit ‘age positive’ alternatives.

The winning entry, a submission by London-based SwaG Design, gave the original symbol of the couple crossing the road an energetic spin, with their walking stick becoming a dancing cane.

“Dancing is one of the things that people of all ages love,” said Jon Miller from SwaG Design. “It promotes physical, mental and emotional health as well as a chance to be sociable, expressive and uplifting.”

Research has shown that stereotypes can become self-fulfilling prophecies, as they can affect how older people view themselves, their capabilities and the sorts of activities they take part in.
http://www.positive.news/society/dancing-duo-replaces-doddery-pair-in-age-positive-road-sign-overhaul/

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Alfred Guerra never faltered when it came to proudly serving his country in World War II. Now, in his time of need, his community is stepping up to proudly serve the war hero.

His family tried to keep up with the repair and maintenance on the old house, but it became uninhabitable after his son, who had torn out much of the interior during the remodel, suddenly passed away from cancer.

Hoping to harness the power of social media, his daughter, Maria, reached out via Facebook to ask for help. It wasn’t long before a variety of veterans groups heard about the man who had earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart for acts of bravery in the Philippines.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/restore-home-94-year-old-war-hero-alfred-guerra/

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Carrying around a rented camera searching for stories, Nandu Ks found nothing very interesting until one day he came to a bridge.

I was always keen to capture images which had a story to tell, images which had life.

“I noticed a man rowing a boat and collecting something from the river,” Nandu told GNN.

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http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ns-rajappan-litter-clean-up-plastic-bottles-kerala-lake/

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When clouds of radiation began streaming into the air around the Fukushima nuclear plant, 160,000 residents were told to simply cut and run.

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However, it seems only 159,998 residents listened. The other two—Naoto Matsumura and Sakae Kato—remained. Evidently, the city possessed not one, but two men whose love of animals cracked through their innate sense of self-preservation; men who would give up everything rather than consigning other beings to starvation.

Living within the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the damaged reactor, the two men, unrelated to one another, both live alone while taking care of dozens of stray animals that were left behind when the evacuation order was given....

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/two-men-live-in-fukushima-taking-care-of-animals-naoto-matsumura/

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