TEN RULES for Being Human

February 28, 2005 | 1 Comment

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you.The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

– Author unknown

Posted by Jane Hansen | Filed Under Mythic Musings 

Dragons are coming

February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

It’s true! Animal Planet is doing a special report on March 20th at 8:00 P.M. ET Want to know more? it’s at http://dragonsarecoming.com/

Further reading:

Allen, J. and Griffiths, J. The Book of the Dragon. Orbis, 1979.

Barber, R. and Riches, A. A Dictionary of Fabulous Beasts. Boydell Press, 1971.

Barber, R. Bestiary. Boydell Press, 1992.

Delacampagne, A. and Delacampagne, C. Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary. Princeton University Press, 2003.

Dickinson, P. The Flight of Dragons. Pierrot, 1979.

Gould, C. Mythical Monsters: Fact or Fiction. Studio, 1992.

Hogarth, P.J. “Mythical Animals.” The Biologist 31 (1984): 44-48.

Hogarth, P.J. Dragons. Jonathan James/Allen Lane, 1979.

Nigg, J. The Book of Gryphons. Applewood Books, 1982.

Smith, M., ed. The Dragon. Unicorn, 1977.

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Art is God

February 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Sister Wendy says, “When you are talking about art, you are talking about God indirectly; all experience of art is an indirect experience of God.”

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Comment Spam Removed

February 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Sorry about that! Some dorky online gambling site comment-spammed all the posts. I’ve deleted and blocked any posts to that site.

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Look to the Sky!

February 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment

With the Astronomy Picture of the Day. Today we have an awesome re-image of a sunspot with the earth in the foreground. Tomorrow it will be a “dark chasm”

It helps put things into perspective.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

February 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The Year of the Rooster began yesterday! It is Year 4702 by Chinese calendar. CNN has some predictions

February 9, 2005 was the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, or the second new moon after the winter solstice, the actual date of Chinese New Year changes every year, with each year being named for one of twelve symbolic animals. The Chinese calendar has been in continuous use for centuries, which predates the International Calendar (based on the Gregorian Calendar) we use at the present day which goes back only some 425 years. The calendar measures time, from short durations of minutes and hours, to intervals of time measured in months, years and centuries, entirely based on the astronomical observations of the movement of the Sun, Moon and stars.

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Questions about Wicca?

February 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Check out our Intro To Wicca class; what it is, what it isn’t. This informal session, lead by Stephanie Mertz, will provide a general introduction to Wicca. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in the subject and looking for a practitioner to speak to. Come with questions and a notebook.
Date/Time: Saturday, February 12th./1:00-4:00 PM
Location: 2nd floor Gallery at Eye of Horus, 2717 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls.
Cost: Donations to cover costs are cheerfully accepted.

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Merry Old England gets merrier

February 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment

England offers licenses to pubs to stay open for 24 hours (see BBC story). So those of you planning your trips to Stonehenge can have warm Guinness at any hour.

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