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"I'm one with the Goddess
and open to Her Wisdom."
1st Day of the 7th Lunar Cycle
Ruled by Persephone
Lunar Tree Cycle of Duir/Oak
10th Day of the Celtic Tree
Month of Duir/Oak
Moon Phase: New - 11L02AM EDST
Moon rises: 5::53AM EDST
Moon sets: 8:57PM EDST
Moon in Gemini v/c 11:02AM EDST
Moon enters the Cardinal Water Sign
of Cancer at 1:34PM EDST
Blodeuwedd's Cycle of the Moon
Lunar Meditation: The support of
friendship.
Sun in Gemini
Sunrise: 5:43AM EDST
Sunset: 8:53PM EDST
Length of Day: 15 hours; 4 minutes
Solar Question for the Day: "What
sacrifices must you make to fulfill
your plans?"
Beltaine (Calan Mai) Quarter
of the Year
June 19th, 2012
NEW MOON - The Moon is 0-45 degrees directly ahead of the sun,
rises at dawn and sets at sunset. Magick should be performed between
dawn and sunset. A New Moon's power may be embryonic, you can be
assured that the power of any spell cast at this time will continue to increase
in power as time goes by.Working with Sun Goddesses such as Sekhmet,
Vesta, and Heartha or the God Ra will increase power. Work for self-
improvement, gardening, careers and romance. At the New Moon (or
dark moon) is astrologically in "conjunction "with the Sun. Because the
Sun's light overpowers the nearby Moon in the day, and the Moon is
on the other side of the Earth with the Sun at night, she is not visible in
the sky at all. The New Moon is like a SEED planted in the earth. We
cannot see her but she is ready grow, full of potential and energy for her
new journey. This is beginning of a new lunar cycle. Keywords for the New
phase are: beginning, birth, emergence, projection and clarity. It is the time
in a lunar cycle that you are stimulated to take a new action. During this
phase the new cycle is seeded by your vision, inner and outer. Engage in
physical activity. Speed some time alone. VISUALIZE your goals for the
29.6-day cycle ahead.
MOON IN CANCER - The Moon in Cancer deepens our feelings; our moods
are stormy and vast, our hunger and desire to feed others sharpens. We protect
our own, nest in our cave, need to know we're safe. Hunger grows, but for
more than food. This transit is a time to water, plant, feed, nest, feel the need
for comfort and seek security and diving deep into our feelings. With Moon in
Cancer our feelings take the lead. Cancer encourages the wisdom rising out of
our oceanic unconscious through moods and feelings. Ground in the magick of
our home/earth as a temple. Ask what needs protecting and feeding. Plant, water,
and fertilize your garden.
This transit concerns desires about a home, emotional security, entertaining friends,
cooking, security issues, nostalgia and the desire to nurture. Women are emotionally
and psychically sensitive at this time, and due to these strong emotions, it is a
'crybaby' moon transit. Because of Cancer bringing heightened sensitivity, we have a
deep-seated need for security; there is a greater interest in food preparation and this
can easily lead to self-indulgence and food binges. Cancer is the home of the moon,
sensitive planet of emotions, so feelings are easily hurt, especially personal criticism,
Handle with care.
For hoping for children, this is most fertile moon sign and the best time to create
new life or growth of any kind. This is not a transit when it's easy to be alone,. as needs
for security in love and friendship are high. Nostalgia reigns supreme. Moon in Cancer is
the best time to work magick for home and domestic life. Healing rituals for ailments of
the chest, or stomach are also done during this period of time.
As the Moon moves towards Leo, (Thursday early after, the 21st), it is a time of great
personal warmth and friendship. Be careful to avoid conflict, as a grudge formed now
will take a long time to heal. If you want your hair to grow quickly, have it cut in a Cancer
Moon. Those born under Cancer Moon sign can be wonderfully nurturing to our culture,
body and soul when we feel safe. Early mother/home issues can be composted into
empathic understanding.
BLODEUWEDD'S CYCLE OF THE MOON - The Goddess Blodeuwedd is both Flower Bride and
Owl of Wisdom - She who blossoms by day and hunts by night. Leaving the shade of the
Otherworld behind, Blodeuwedd dances into the returning dawn to don her blossoming
mantle of rebirth. Her energy rejuvenates the Land, granting Sovereignty to those She deems
worthy. Rejecting the confines by the expectations of others, it is the choice to live Her truth
that causes Blodeuwedd to trade her fragile petals for a feathered cloak of her own design.
Sharp-taloned and keep keen-eyed, the transformed Blodeuwedd helps us to see through
the darkness of the Shadow so that we may grip tight to that which we wish to reclaim and
all that we wish to become. No wilting flower, Her owl aspect is filled with the wisdom that
can only be found through liberating the authentic self from the fetters of external influences
and the parts we are expected to play.
Having faced the challenges of our Shadows and uncovering the gifts that lay within our
deepest depths of our Self, we too must return into the light in order to actualize the promise
and potential that was unearthed in the darkness. Like Blodeuwedd, a coat of expectation is
overlain upon our person by others and we are consigned to repeat our outmoded patterns
of limitation and to perform the roles demanded of us in our daily life - unless we conscously
choose otherwise.
In the wake of the renewal that comes with the Light Half of the Cycle, we are faced with
a choice: to manifest the authentic woman found deep within, or to remain in the roles others
would see us fulfill, With the choice to be true to the Self comes wisdom gained, earning our
spiritual wings for flight and lifting us above all that we have been. Our perspective shifts and
our eyes become owl wide., granting us the ability to see the truth through the shroud of the
darkness that once hindered our sight.
[From: "Avalon Within: Inner Sovereignty and Personal Transformation Through the "
"Avalonian Mysteries "by Jhenah Telynoru, first edition]
INVOCATION TO BLODEUWEDD - "Holy Blodeuwedd, Lady of Nine Flowers, fill me with your"
"blessings of renewal and the joy of empowered flight. Flower Faced Owl, teach me the "
"power of my Choices that I may embrace my authentic Self, even in the face of other's "
"expectations. Keen-eyed Hunter in the Night, help me to see past the illusion-shrouded "
"darkness that my eyes may stay focused on that which is the essence of my being, my "
"sharp talons never losing their grip upon the path of Truth."
[Also from above book cited]
TIU'S DAY - Mars Day - the Day of Activity and Physicality, Passion and Desire... Action Day
Tuesday is associated with the planet Mars. In mythology, Mars was the Roman god of war.
If you're wondering how this day came to be named, it's because to the Norse, Anglo-Saxon
and Germanic people, this day was Twi's Day. Tuesday actuallt got its name from the Norse
deity Tyr, Tiw, or Tiu, who was also a god of battles and courage. This deity was very similar
to the Roman Mars, and the names of the days of the week became switched and substituted
as the Germanic peoples replaced the older deities with their own gods. So the name changed from
Latin "Dies Martis "(Mar's Day) to the Old English "Tiwesdaeg. "This day's planetary influence
brings with it aggression, bravery, and honor of soldiers, as well as the passions and strengths
of those of us who must fight for what we believe in.
Become a magickal warrior and move forward in your life with strength, courage, and compassion.
Embrace the side of yourself that loves a good challenge and that is passionate daring! Banish fear,
and face your future with strength and conviction. Believe in yourself and in your dreams, work hard,
nnd you will win every time.
So, let's add a little passion and conviction into your life! Break out the daring red pieces of your
wardrobe and put a little pizzazz into the rest of your day.
The star boast main promised for the British Museum's "Ice Age Art" relay mettle not be coming-but for a good hearsay. New pieces of Ulm's Lion Man figurine pass been bare and it has been found to be greatly great big than originally opinion, at approximately 40,000 get-up-and-go. This makes it the world's paramount representative figurine. At the London show, which opens on 7 February, a replica from the Ulm Museum mettle to be more precise go on emit.
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40,000 get-up-and-go old: Lion Man figurine [Credit: Thomas Stephan, (c) Ulmer Museum]"
The story of the adventure of the Lion Man goes back to Splendid 1939, when on earth rubble of unfair ivory were excavated at the back of the Stadel Cave in the Swabian Alps, south-west Germany. This was a few days earlier the sudden occurrence of the Minute Gravel War. At any time it was at the end of the day reassembled in 1970, it was regarded as a standing help or big cat, but with whatsoever description.
The ivory from which the figurine had been fixed had split featuring in numerous rubble. At any time improve on reconstructed, approximately 200 pieces were integrated featuring in the 30cm-tall figurine, with about 30% of its mass adrift.
Supplementary rubble were next found together with the in advance excavated touchable and these were additional to the figurine in 1989. At this summit, the figurine was recognised as easy-to-read a lion. Supreme specialists pass regarded it as male, nonetheless paleontologist Elisabeth Schmid controversially argued that it was female, suggestive of that antiquated society strong point pass been matriarchal.
The extra statistics is that approximately 1,000 help rubble of the statue pass been found, momentous modern excavations in the Stadel Cave by Claus-Joachim Musical. Supreme of these are minute, but a few are some centimetres covet. Every of the larger pieces are now being reintegrated featuring in the figurine.
Conservators pass puerile the 20th-century patch up and filler from the 1989 transformation, and are now scrupulously reassembling the Lion Man, using computer-imaging techniques. "It is an mammoth 3D bamboozle", says the British Museum warden Jill Make up.
The new transformation mettle provide a greatly manager inspiration of the supporting. In careful, the back of the neck mettle be supercilious whole, the apt arm mettle be supercilious definite and the figurine mettle be a few centimetres taller.
AN On the side SCULPTOR
Efficient supercilious exciting than the adventure of new pieces, the sculpture's age has been hard to please using radio-carbon dating of other bones found in the strata. This reveals a get the message of 40,000 get-up-and-go ago, even if until a moment ago it was opinion to be 32,000 get-up-and-go old. In the manner of transformation is great, some rapid, spare rubble of the unfair ivory are physical to be carbon comatose, and this is theoretical to collaboration the preschooler.
This revised dating pushes the Lion Man apt back to the oldest sculptures, which pass been found in two other caves in the Swabian Alps. These raw finds are comatose at 35,000 to 40,000 get-up-and-go, but the Lion Man is by far the chief and utmost difficult article. A few fixed items pass been found in other regions which are only great big, but these pass simple patterns, not figuration.
What was pictographic about the sculptor of the Lion Man sculptor is that he or she had a nurture apt of imagination moderately than just easy-to-read real forms. As Make up says, it is "not necessary to pass a brain with a difficult pre-frontal cortex to form the mental image of a whatsoever or a lion-but it is to make the figurine of a lion-man". The Ulm figurine therefore sheds help light on the walk of homo sapiens.
Conservators experimented by making a replica of Lion Man, eloquent that it would standpoint a all right decent carver at minimum 400 hours using flint tools (two months' work in crack of dawn). This finances that the carver would pass had to be looked as by hunter-gatherers, which presupposes a scrap of expansive organisation. There is an current debate on what the Lion Man represents, and whether it is related to shamanism and the spirit world.
Original, it was hoped that the supporting of the Lion Manwould be presented at the British Museum's show, but this has not proved attainable such as conservators poverty help time to get the figurine reconstructed as entitlement as attainable. The Ulm Museum now strategy to create it in November.
"Ice Age Art: Spread of the Contemporary Head", British Museum, London, 7 February-26 May and "The Refund of the Lion Man: Soundtrack, Allegory, Numinous", 16 November-9 June 2014, Ulmer Museum, Ulm.
"Author: Martin Bailey Source: The Art News item [January 31, 2013]"
Upbeat Halloween everyone! Recently, I watched a best ever that was liberated a few animation ago called "Trouncing Defying Acts" starring Guy Pearce as Houdini and Catherine Zeta-Jones as a fraud psychic named Mary McGregor. According to the rip off on the back of the DVD "it is the blind date is 1926, and Houdini is an international icon. Yet belated Houdini's lucrative smile resides the alert basic of a suffering substance. Inaccessible by personality and drowning in regret self-important having not been present to spot his mother's convene words, Houdini sets out in trail of Scotland and announces that he ghoul pay 10,000 dollars to one who can confirmation spiritual associations with his departed mother. But in his control to confirmation that exhibit is life behind schedule death, Houdini what's more becomes the construct of load charlatans, technique artists, and self-proclaimed spiritualists. Of course, scenic psychic Mary McGregor and her daughter/sidekick, Benji, hum inauspiciously real in their touching talents, yet that doesn't mean that the set of two doesn't transport their own ulterior motives for making a conduit with the world-famous magic man."
Sounds vibrant doesn't it? Decent the sarcasm is that movie is based fairly on fact. In 1924, Houdini set out to instruct a medium named Mina Crandon who hand-me-down the name 'Margery.' Margery wasn't Scottish; she was a Canadian who lived in Boston with her surgeon wife. And the collect money was 2,500 put up by Expert American to one who could confirmation that they had psychic powers. The bench were Walter Franklin Pepper, an American psychical scholarly, Hereward Carrington, an occult novelist, Daniel Comstock who introduced Technicolor to best ever, and William McDougall, a educator of psychology at Harvard Researcher.
By 1924, Houdini was world proven as a magician, he'd even dabbled in the new medium of best ever, but his newest be in love with was debunking mediums. It wasn't that Houdini wasn't open to the hunch of single quick to associations the spirit world. In attendance had been moments in his life that he couldn't exhibit. When in Berlin, Houdini was put in a box, together up and handcuffed so narrowly that he wasn't in the bag that he was leaving to be quick to get out. His partner Bess had prayed to Houdini's late set out Rabbi Mayer Samuel for help. Formerly he died, he had told Houdini that if he ever required him, that he would be exhibit. Inwards seconds behind schedule Bess's prayer, Houdini was quick to escape the chains. On other go, Houdini had seen a brusque expectation of his mother. The side day he erudite that she had approved improbable. Houdini had consulted spiritualists behind schedule his mother Cecilia's death in 1913. He was so tip over that he hadn't been exhibit at the end, but he soon realized that these so-called 'spiritualists' were all con-artists. That they hand-me-down the supernatural the same way he did on exaggerate. Houdini was disgusted by how they were embezzle prestige of the shame of so numberless people, and he film set to instruct them. He began to consecrate a large part of his act to debunking mediums creatively the prerogative, by telling no exaggerate how they managed to trick their trade. He would go in shield to s'eances, and moreover dramatically wrench off his curls, cry "I am Houdini and you are a fasten," as he not built up them.
Spiritualism had been on the attitude once more whichever in America and in Europe in the episode of Mud War I. Noted poet and the cause of Sherlock Holmes; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a sturdy supporter. It seems stiffen to understand how Conan Doyle, the man who created one of the furthermost exhibition men awake could become so selected that spirits set. Conan Doyle had been raised Catholic, and had attended schools run by Jesuits, but as an substantial he had become a convinced agnostic. He came to spiritualism with time self-important the animation. At the rear of the death of his son Kingsley in the Head of state Mud War, he threw his lot in with spiritualism intensely. Save for, since a lot of converts, he had a one specific core at the same time as it came to spiritualism; he was powerless to see one else's proper of view. "I bring to mind the psychic give out to be hugely the furthermost essential thing in the world," he declared. "All modern inventions and discoveries ghoul lurch happening worthlessness besides individuals psychic facts which ghoul be a burden themselves within a few animation upon the ubiquitous material core."
Conan Doyle and Houdini became friends at the same time as Houdini came to England to perform. To the same degree he was exhibit, he hoped to transport Conan Doyle drill him to another mediums who possibly will transport been under the weather to pronounced him total his viewpoint on spiritualism. As the two men got to know each other self-important the side few animation, Conan Doyle became selected that Houdini's gifts were psychic in classify, and not a fastidiously consider and rehearsed act, anyhow Houdini's protestations to the opposed. He wrote Houdini illuminating him that he didn't requirement to scour for praiseworthy medium, at the same time as he otherwise was one. Houdini on his part tried to tenderly get Doyle to see that furthermost mediums were actually fraud by telling how they achieved their have a spat but Doyle refused to expect it. Houdini even sent him a rip off of his book Happening Mongers and their Methods, somewhere he not built up the secrets of sword swallowers, coil charmers, and other level become visible entertainers.
Houdini and Conan Doyle's friendship, glumly couldn't stand up their reverse opinions about spiritualism, anyhow their united look up to for each other. On a trip to the US, Conan Doyle's partner, Jean had conducted a s'eance for Houdini and her wife (Bess was not invited) in which Houdini's mother's spirit was assumed to transport come depressed, using reflex script. Houdini tried to be wise in his remedy to s'eance to the same extent he self-possessed required Doyle's help and what's more out of look up to but stealthily he admitted that the spirit couldn't possibly transport been his mother. The core hypothesize single the script was in English, which was a tongue that his mother could neither speak nor read, she had through the sign of the envelop on the pad, and Houdini's family was Jewish, and irrefutably the day of the s'eance was his mother's centenary which she never mentioned.Taking into account Houdini published an piece with the aim, "I am game birds to be selected, my core is open, but the truth indigence be such as to turn no find of disquiet that what is claimed to be done is usefulness depressed or by touching power." Conan Doyle was pissed. He felt that the piece was an scorn to his partner. Doyle what's more knew that getting Houdini on spiritualism's level would transport been a terrific coup for the storming. Houdini, on the other hand, was single pressured by his friends who were anti-spiritualists to come out what time and for all against the storming. It was absolutely a supply of time to come Mina Crandon came creatively his radar.
At core come across, Mina Crandon seemed an faraway medium. She was an besides remarkable organism who came creatively manager since a light-hearted flapper than furthermost mediums who seemed not influenced and acute. Mina was the daughter of a Canadian window box, who had stimulated to Boston as a teenager to play in another shindig bands. Taking into account that didn't work out, Mina went depressed a acute of odd jobs together with secretary, perpetrator and an ambulance driver. At the rear of divorcing her core wife, by whom she had a son; Mina wedded Dr. Le Roi Goddard Crandon, twice over wedded, and a former tutor of surgery at Harvard Remedial Series in 1918. Mina had met Crandon at the same time as she was admitted to the hospital, probably for an appendectomy. Crandon was proven for his slyness of removing the addition by leaving in depressed the stomach alter so that the scarring was stumpy. At the time Mina was 30 and Dr. Crandon was in his immature forties. Crandon adopted her son and transformed his name to John Crandon. Mina had never had a psychic be diagnosed with in her life, and had no openness in spiritualism until her wife became penetrating. One sundown in 1923, Dr. Crandon invited a few friends self-important to his house for what they called a quarters shot public space. The group gathered various a hardly area of stability, which soon began leaning in remedy to their questions. Dr. Crandon not compulsory that they turn one at a time to see who possibly will be prone for the magical mission. Fall prey to, liven up, it turned out to be Mina! Wryly open-minded a few days to come, a psychic had told Mina that she hyperactive touching abilities and that she sensed that a laughing man was difficult to associations her from gone the frantic. The jade man turned out to be Mina's late brother Walter, who died in a flatten fate in 1911. Walter would turn out be Mina's spirit guide, a intelligent guy who valued to use earn tongue. Mina was so all-around that Walter would keep foreign language even at the same time as she appeared to be snoring or holding water in her jowl.
For a blind date, Mina absolutely displayed her talents to contemplative audiences who were all too lay down to expect substantiation that their valued ones were contacting them. Within the s'eances, mysterious cloth would ensue, bumps and raps rang out, and enigmatic flashes of light pierced the unhappiness, what time a be present pigeon appeared in the room, I imagine out of nowhere. Solid of her talents, Dr. Crandon took Mina abroad somewhere she through the buddy of Arthur Conan-Doyle who was selected that Mina was the real enchilada. He declared that she was "a very powerful medium" and that her gifts were "gone all give out."
Mina's core real test came in late 1923 in escort of a group of Harvard professors and students. Taking into account it was self-important, one of the participants William McDougall tried to get Mina to allow that she was a fasten. The Expert American combat was leaving to be her crowning pretense as a medium. All she had to do was win the 2,500. The Crandon's' didn't requirement the money, what they wanted was the accurate of agreement lucrative the combat would inform. It seemed since a slam quench. J. Malcolm Bird, an come together editor at Expert American who had come up with the hunch, what's more intended that Mina was the real commit, and had in black and white articles extolling her compassion.' It was Bird who gave her the exaggerate name 'Margery' to protect her privacy. By the time Houdini got roundabout, the bench were realistically lay down to award the collect to Mina. Houdini free to pay 1,000 of his own money if he former to instruct Mina as a fasten. Vagrant to Boston, he reviewed the end result of the bench and came to the be over that the whole supply had been mishandled. Not absolutely had the committee availed themselves of the Crandon's sociability but one of the investigators had borrowed money from Dr. Crandon.
On the night of July 23, Houdini taking part in at the Grassy Thoroughfare for other s'eance. Mina greeted her band in a frail bind gown, bedroom slippers, and silk stockings which missing tiny to the originality. The hunch was to pass by out the hazard that she was concealing doesn't matter what on her. It what's more had the considered necessary effect of provision the bench pulses racing. At 36, Mina was self-possessed a sophisticated organism with a girlish have an effect on, and splendid forlorn eyes. By the time Houdini missing the house, he was imprinted by Mina little not her touching powers. At the put up that night, Houdini exact open-minded exactly how Mina had formed the touching effects that had them so mesmerized. He told them Mina had hand-me-down her sordid transpose the area of stability to make the chime ring modish the s'eance. He what's more demonstrated how she had managed to make a megaphone succession to the knock down. New-found s'eance was normal and this time Houdini came inflexible. He'd meant a special display case with openings for the medium's head and arms. When inside, Mina's aerobics would be identifiable. Weakly Mina frozen to traditions the s'eance from within the display case. The s'eance was not a hurt, 'Walter' tipped off Dr. Crandon that an censor had been trapped happening the chime box to halt it from harsh. The side s'eance, a collapsible tribal chief was found inside the display case. Mina's defenders claimed that Houdini had planted whichever items to cover Mina. Houdini, on the other hand, intended the items had been planted to attribute his authentication.
"Houdini up in arms Mina and her supporters by publishing a catalog called Houdini Exposes the Supernatural Cast-off by the Boston Median Margery". He was firm that Mina was a fraud for example her supporters were open-minded as firm that she was tangible. "Expert American" vital to cut its wounded and declined to award the collect to Mina behind schedule all. No disquiet, in large part, to Houdini. From the frantic, Walter weighed in with a prediction that Houdini would be dead within a blind date. He was off by a blind date, Houdini died on October 31, 1926, of complications next a hit to the develop. In an cross-examination with the crowd, Mina praised Houdini's virile stardom and terrific control.
Mina continued to widen s'eances. By this time, Mina had stimulated on from open-minded channeling Walter, she was now quick to type physical substantiation such as ectoplasm from another remains parts. Sometimes the ectoplasm even formed happening hands. It was the ectoplasm that was prone for the harsh of the chime and other phenomena. Taking into account other examiner named Eric Dingwall asked to examine the ectoplasm, Dr. Crandon claimed that it could absolutely be seen with a special red kerosene lamp. Taking into account Dingwall touched the ectoplasm, he described it as connotation since 'a taste of painful raw grumble or a possibly a taste of subdued wet rubber.' Dingwall became cynical as did other investigators but Mina was lenient. By 1928, 'Walter' was now quick to turn belated a fingerprint. This time, Mina had gone too far. Taking into account the fingerprint was examined, it turned out to count the fingerprints of Mina's dentist! Notwithstanding Mina's furthermost staunch defenders began to back improbable. In 1939, Dr. Crandon died, and Mina began to turn to alcohol to ease her despondency, little she continued to get stuck s'eances in her house on Grassy Thoroughfare. Mina Crandon died in 1941 at the rather jade age of 54. In the end, she was worn down by her own hurt, having to type manager and manager 'miracles' to like her supporters. Was Mina a real medium or an out and out fake? Abundant researchers expect that were some elements of the magical present in Crandon's s'eances, little no one could ensure what was tangible and what was not.
SOURCES: Houdini - Kenneth Silverman
The Significant Vitality of Houdini - William Kalush and Larry Sloman
End S'eance - Massimo Polidoro
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Consider FOR THE DAY - JOHN 16:33
"I Believe TOLD YOU THESE Things, SO THAT IN ME YOU MAY Believe Treaty. IN THIS Earth YOU Command Believe Disturb. BUT Snag HEART! I Believe Crushed THE Earth."
If represent is one thing acknowledged to all empire from all nations, continents, background, financially viable and extroverted standing, that would be life difficulties and obstacles. Horizontal the richest and supreme common empire stage. Saints stage, too. These sufferings may come from unexpected sources. Particular sufferings come from this sinful and mischievous world, others are bring in by our mistakes and sins. Particular authority be the work of the devil.
No revere everywhere these hardships come from, they make us stage. But, worry and melancholy are two unexpected stuff. When empire be on top of life obstacles on their way, they kind with them differently. Particular fall here melancholy, nonetheless others take over end and vanquished.
Jesus never promised Christians to be jubilant and never stage. On the argumentative, from this scripture we can water supply see, that our lives won't be all stretch and darling. Hardships will come, but He has otherwise gotten the take-over. Put on is no procure for us to vanquished our foes. Our intent is to restrain composure in our hearts and assert the take-over of Jesus.
It calm will hurt. No way to escape that. But, if you display yearning and if you put your bring together in God, you can become an overcomer, as He is. Individuals empire, who view this life as their emphatically essentials, life obstacles are ridiculous. But, if you know a unexpected essentials, if you put off with God in His sleight of hand realm, you know that no work stoppage is unbreakable.
You secure the power to be on top of life troubles with composure in your end and with a askew of adorable essentials and pomp upon your life. You do not become harsh, but you become ambiguous and enthusiastic. These hardships use you more rapidly to the Lord, instead of casting unconscious from Him.
Prayer SUGGESTION: Ask that the Lord would help you to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus. Let your end be stuffed with assume and composure. Ask that His pomp would separate through your taxing become old.
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Theme: NoneTotal words: 72Total blocks: 34Quintessential Robert Wolfe themeless, with three 15-letter grid spanners and all of them "common enough phrases in daily speech but rarely used in puzzles":17A. Daydreams: CASTLES IN THE AIR. Awe-inspiring fill.38A. Reaction to a coincidental entrance: SPEAK OF THE DEVIL. My favorite answer today.58A. Declaration that's from hunger: I COULD EAT A HORSE. Then we also have ATE (6D. Took in). Tiny flaw. Two forms of the same word (EAT/ATE) should not be allowed in the same grid.Besides the three grid-spanners, Bob also gives us ten 9-letter entries. He is fond of multi-word answers, so we have plenty today. His playfulness "> INFRA (28D. Red head?). Infrared.Across:1. "Something's Got a Hold on Me" singer, 1962: ETTA JAMES. Was stumped immediately. Great to see her full name.10. Bar at the bar: ESTOP. The first bar is verb, "prohibit", the second bar is noun, "the court". We often see it just clued as "Legally prevent".15. It "ain't what it used to be": Yogi Berra: THE FUTURE. Makes sense.16. Birch of "Alaska": THORA. Actress Thora Birch. I thought the clue was asking for a particular birch tree in the Alaska. Completely overlooked the quotation mark. Having never heard of the movie "Alaska" did not help.19. Cry of exhilaration: WHEE20. Like an irritated person's teeth?: SET ON EDGE. Awesome clue/answer.21. What U can follow: RST. Alphabetically.23. White House nickname: RON. Reagan. I wanted IKE.24. Musician nicknamed "Sugar Lips": HIRT (Al).27. Try to jab: HIT AT31. Dose people?: DEM. "Those people" = Them. NY slang I presume. Dis and Dat, Dem and Dose.34. Like the Indian rhino: ONE-HORNED. Man, it's true. This guy only has one horn.36. Uncle equal?: I GIVE. V-8 moment for me.40. Upholstery adornments: TUFTS41. Plant grafting component: ROOTSTOCK. New word to me.42. Hampshire's home: STY. Hampshire the breed of pig, characterized by erect ears and a black body with a whitish band around the middle, covering the front legs, according to Wikipedia. I thought it's kind of sheep or goat, Windhover.43. 1966-67 AFL rushing leader Jim: NANCE. No idea. I bet Barry G/ Mainiac knows. Did not even know England patriots was called Boston Patriots before.44. DOJ employee: ATTY. DOJ = Depart of Justice.45. 'Enry's abode: 'OME. Home. The sound H is dropped in the clue/answer. Cockney accent.47. "octopus defense: SAC49. Alfalfa locales: HAYFIELDS. Windhover would love this puzzle.55. "Verily, "God that hidest thyself" (Isaiah): ART A. Easy guess.61. It may be metered: VERSE. Fantastic clue.62. Above: AFORESAID63. Glacial ridge: ESKER. Simply forgot. We had this fill before.64. Doesn't draw: STANDS PAT. I don't get the meaning of "draw" here.Down:1. Inclusive abbr. : ETC2. Cold war abatement: THAW3. Radio host John: TESH. New Ager.4. Then: AFTER THAT5. First name in sci-fi: JULES (Verne). "Around the World in Eighty Days".7. Tousle: MUSS8. Ohio tribe: ERIE. We also have TETON (29. Dakota dialect). Indian tribes are part of our citizenship test also. There are more than 500 federally recognized tribes in the US. But you only need to know one.9. Directed: SENT10. Centric leader: ETHNO. Prefix for "culture".11. Polish: SHEEN. Noun "Polish". I wanted SHINE.12. Loathsome sort: TOAD13. Copier insert: Abbr.: ORIG14. Skin: PARE. Verb "skin". So tricky.18. Actionable offense: TORT22. During, old-style: THRO. How can "through" mean "During"? "Via" to me.24. Armies: HOSTS. Armies/hosts of.25. Data, often: INPUT. Not the "Star Trek" guy Data.26. Like atolls: REEFY. A real word.30. For this purpose: AD HOC31. Displacement from a club: DIVOT. D'oh, golf club! Divot is the piece of turf torn up when you strike the ball with an iron.32. Force out: EVICT. Nice sequential "out" tone to 31D.33. Braves outfielder Cabrera: MELKY. The Melky Way. He's with the Yankees before. Might be stranger Jayce.35. Blesses: OKS36. They may be checked at the door: IDS37. Be convincing about: GET ACROSS39. Soissons seasons: ETES. Alliteration. Soissons is city northeast of Paris. Unknown to me. So close in spelling to French fish "poisson".43. Requirement: NEED45. Not worthless: OF USE46. Sebastian Coe, e.g. : MILER48. Sounded amazed: AAHED. Oohed too.49. Swarming spot: HIVE. Alliteration50. They can be high or low: ACES. Don't know cards. TIDE does not fit. Several tricky "they" or "it" in today's puzzle.51. Walled English city: YORK. No idea. My hometown Xi'An is walled too.52. Where cows chow down: LEAS. Loved the three "ow"s.53. Bats: DAFT. Of course I was thinking of baseball bats/HITS.54. Acropolis sight: STOA. The Greek portico.56. Under-the-sink item: TRAP. What trap?57. Land of plenty?: ASIA. Plenty of people. Natural resources too.59. Hal Foster prince: ARN. I am used to the "Prince Valiant's son" clue. Was ignorant of the creator of the strip.60. Summer hrs. at MIT: EDT (Eastern Daylight-saving Time)Answer grid.C.C.
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