Колесо Судьбы 

Вот у меня какой случай недавно был, правда с оракулом Дыхание ночи. Унас должен был быть серьёзный и очень жёсткий разговор с нашим сотрудником. Он должен был придти в офис в 14.00 Я делаю расклад на то, как он будет себя вести, как нам лучше всего себя вести(выпал Медведь, кстати; но сотрудник не приходит в назначенное время, а приходит гораздо позже. При чём изначально, на его поведение, выпал Клевер, вроде как сотрудник хотел убедить нас в своей незаменимости и подчеркнуть, как нам с ним повезло. Вместо этого, он пришёл позже, вел себя абсолютно угоднически и начальнику даже не пришлось призывать образ того самого Медведя, что бы добиться от сотрудника всего того, чего он хотел из него вытрясти
Вот что такое случилось? Почему сотрудник вёл себя совсем не так? Почему не пришёл в назначенное время? Или по астралу тучи долетели? )

мне показалось, как раз карты хорошо легли (я не знаю картинки, правда, поэтому говорю по классической Ленорман). Скромный сотрудник-клевер. А медведь мог показать, что начальнику ничего особенного и не надо делать, просто занимать свое обычное место.

В настоящую эпоху Полярная находится менее, чем в 1° от Северного полюса мира, и поэтому почти неподвижна при суточном вращении звёздного неба. Она очень удобна для ориентирования — направление на неё практически совпадает с направлением на север, а высота над горизонтом равна географической широте места наблюдения. Из-за прецессии земной оси положение Северного полюса мира меняется, ближе всего Полярная звезда подойдёт к нему около 2100 г. — на расстояние приблизительно 30'. В южном полушарии нет яркой полярной звезды.

Полярная является ярчайшей и ближайшей к Земле пульсирующей переменной звездой типа дельта Цефея с периодом 3,97 дней. Но Полярная — очень нестандартная цефеида: её пульсации затухают за время порядка десятков лет: в 1900 изменение яркости составляло ±8 %, а в 2005 г. — приблизительно 2 %. Кроме того, за это время звезда стала в среднем на 15 % ярче.

Полярная звезда, на самом деле, представляет собой тройную звёздную систему. В центре системы располагается сверхгигант (Полярная А), в 2000 раз превосходящий по яркости наше Солнце. Полярная B расположена на приличном удалении от Полярной А, поэтому разглядеть её в телескопы нетрудно даже с поверхности Земли. Однако карликовый компаньон центральной звезды — Полярная Ab — располагается к гиганту настолько близко, что сфотографировать его удалось лишь «Хабблу», и то, только после перенастройки оборудования. Приблизительный период обращения Полярной Ab составляет около 30 лет.

Возможно, что Полярная и окружающие её звёзды являются остатком бедного рассеянного скопления. Согласно данным Hipparcos и 2MASS, лучевые скорости ближайших соседей Полярной почти совпадают, а среднее их расстояние до Земли близко к 100 парсекам. Согласно диаграмме «цвет-звёздная величина», построенной для скопления, возраст его членов (и Полярной в том числе) находится в районе 80 миллионов лет[1].

COTD – The Star R (DruidCraft & Wildwood)
Posted by TarotBroad
Jul28

For some reason today I am feeling quite restored and healed on a spiritual level. For the past few days I’ve been in a moody, lousy, depressed funk. It ebbed and flowed like the tide and I had no clear idea what triggered it. My life, while challenging and sometimes exhausting, is far from miserable. I realized that part of the problem was that I needed to change my perceptions. I’m not going to go all New Age here (because that’s really not my thing) but I have to admit that there is some truth to the statement that you can’t always change your circumstances but you can change how you face them. The problem wasn’t that my life had become so dramatically different in the past few days or weeks, it’s that I was focusing on the negative.

I let myself get caught up in my own drama and was preparing quite a nice pity party for myself. I can host pity parties like nobodies business. Then at 3AM while searching for meaning in various Tarot books, I had an epiphany (which I already shared in my COTD essay on Tuesday). Something about the mind-shift or metanoia (as I remember a former religion teacher explained means “a transformative change of heart”) left me feeling renewed and cleansed. It was as though a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders and allowed me to return to my usual bubbly, extroverted, opinionated self. I don’t like feeling down, depressed or sulky. As I have joked on numerous occasions, I have no use for depression in my life because depression is often defined as anger turned inward and I’m very comfortable turning my anger outwards. Of course in the current situation there was no outlet for that anger and frustration. It is rightly aimed at the Fates, destiny, the Norns, Wyrd – whatever you choose to call it. The reality is that a number of decisions made years ago by my in-laws has led to this pass and since I cannot change the past, there is nothing I can do to change the situation. What I can change is how I handle it and taking steps to improve it. Once I was able to accept that on a deep, spiritual level, I was able to let go of the anger and depression.

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It is really amazing that I drew this card today because in some respects I have felt like the lone figure wandering through the woods on the Wildwood Pole Star. Only instead of looking up at the night sky for guidance and enlightenment, I’m seeking it within myself. The forest I’m wandering through is my own tangle of self-doubts, frustration and confusion. My own lack of clarity about many things was leading me deeper and deeper into the thicket of briars but now I think I’m back in the clear. I think the healing waters being poured out by the woman on the DruidCraft Star are spilling through my soul and helping cleanse and heal whatever they touch. I’m not usually comfortable sharing this level of anything online but today I’m feeling so cheerful that I just need to let the world know. I’m sure by tomorrow I’ll be back to my snarky self.

The power of universal lore is at work here, either within the individual or permeating a web of circumstance that will bring profound change and new spiritual hope. The Pole Star of prophetic guidance and inspirational knowledge has risen and will guide you on your forthcoming journey through the forest. If you hold this ancient and basic truth near the core of your being and navigate by it you cannot go far wrong; it is there as a talisman as well as a symbol of the universal cycle of nature. Whenever you are feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of life, remember that the same laws and primal matter that bind the Pole Star and fuel its giant heart also formed you.
Wildwood Tarot ~ Mark Ryan & John Matthews
Illustration by Will

Далее голый перевод гуглом.

Мощность универсальных знаний на работе здесь, либо в индивидуальной или пронизывающая веб обстоятельства, которые принесут глубокие изменения и новые духовные надежды.Полярная звезда пророческих указаний и вдохновляющих знания поднялся и поможет вам на вашем предстоящем путешествии через лес. Если вы держите эту древнюю и простую истину вблизи ядра вашего существа и навигации по ней вы не можете пойти далеко неправильно, она существует как талисман, а как символ универсального цикла природы. Всякий раз, когда вы чувствуете себя потерял в темном лабиринте жизни, помните, что те же законы и первичной материи, которые связывают Полярную звезду и стать основой для гигантского сердца также образовал тебя.

Wildwood Таро ~ Марк Райан и Джон Мэтьюс
Иллюстрация Воля

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эффективный быстродействующий препарат для лечения эректильной дисфункции у мужчин в любом возрасте. (Важно: Отпускается без рецепта врача!)
15 января 2011 года.
В продаже появились препараты в виде геля. Их не нужно запивать водой, а эффект наступает быстрее.

Термины
Эректильная дисфункция - неспособность мужчины достигнуть эрекции и поддерживать её в состоянии, достаточном для совершения удачного полового акта.

Alternative Names: Yule,

Symbolism: Rebirth of the Sun, hope born amidst the darkness

Astrological Associations: 0 deg. Cancer (Southern Hemisphere), deg. (Northern Hemisphere)

Symbols: Evergreen trees, Yule log, holly, eight-spoked wheel, wreaths, spinning wheels.

Foods: Roasted turkey, nuts, apples, caraway rolls, dried fruit, fruitcakes, gingerbread men,

Drinks: Mulled wine, eggnog, wassail.

Plants and Herbs: Holly, mistletoe, evergreen, poinsettia, bay, pine, ginger, myrrh, valerian, cinnamon, nutmeg, oak, orange.

Incense and Oils: Rosemary, myrrh, nutmeg, saffron, cedar, pine, wintergreen, ginger, bayberry.

Colours: Red, green, white, gold.

Stones: Bloodstone, ruby, garnet, cat's eye.

Animals: Stags, squirrels, wren/robin,

Mythical Beings: Phoenix, trolls, memecolion.

Associated Goddesses: Albina (Tuscan), Angerona (Roman), Anna Perenna (Roman), Fortuna (Roman), Gaia (Greek), Grian (Irish), Heket (Egyptian), Isis (Egyptian), Kefa (Egyptian), Lucina (Roman), Persephone (Greek), Rhiannon (Welsh)

Associated Gods: All reborn and Sun Gods; Apollo (Greco-Roman), Attis (Anatolian), Balder (Norse), Cronos (Greek), Helios (Greek), Hyperion (Greek), Janus (Roman), Lugh (Irish), Oak/Holly King (Anglo-Celtic), Odin (Norse), Osiris (Egyptian), Ra (Egyptian), Saturn (Roman), Sol (Roman)

Altar Decorations: Mistletoe, holly, small Yule log, strings of colored lights, Yule/Christmas cards, a candle in the shape of Kris Kringle, homemade wreath, presents wrapped in colorful paper.

Traditional Activities: Decorating the Yule tree, exchanging gifts, storytelling, making wreaths, throwing holiday parties, sending greetings.

Spell/Ritual workings: Peace, harmony, love, increased happiness, a healthier planet.

Yule. by Mike Nichols.
Our Christian friends are often quite surprised at how enthusiastically we Pagans celebrate the 'Christmas' season. Even though we prefer to use the word 'Yule', and our celebrations may peak a few days before the 25th, we nonetheless follow many of the traditional customs of the season: decorated trees, carolling, presents, Yule logs, and mistletoe. We might even go so far as putting up a 'Nativity set', though for us the three central characters are likely to be interpreted as Mother Nature, Father Time, and the Baby Sun-God. None of this will come as a surprise to anyone who knows the true history of the holiday, of course.

In fact, if truth be known, the holiday of Christmas has always been more Pagan than Christian, with it's associations of Nordic divination, Celtic fertility rites, and Roman Mithraism. That is why both Martin Luther and John Calvin abhorred it, why the Puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it (to them, no day of the year could be more holy than the Sabbath), and why it was even made illegal in Boston! The holiday was already too closely associated with the birth of older Pagan gods and heroes. And many of them (like Oedipus, Theseus, Hercules, Perseus, Jason, Dionysus, Apollo, Mithra, Horus and even Arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of Jesus. And to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the Christian Savior.

Ultimately, of course, the holiday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. It is the Winter Solstice that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. It is the birthday of the new Sun King, the Son of God -- by whatever name you choose to call him. On this darkest of nights, the Goddess becomes the Great Mother and once again gives birth. And it makes perfect poetic sense that on the longest night of the winter, 'the dark night of our souls', there springs the new spark of hope, the Sacred Fire, the Light of the World, the Coel Coeth.
That is why Pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as Christians. Perhaps even more so, as the Christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. There had been a tradition in the West that Mary bore the child Jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could seem to decide on the month. Finally, in 320 C.E., the Catholic Fathers in Rome decided to make it December, in an effort to co-opt the Mithraic celebration of the Romans and the Yule celebrations of the Celts and Saxons.

There was never much pretense that the date they finally chose was historically accurate. Shepherds just don't 'tend their flocks by night' in the high pastures in the dead of winter! But if one wishes to use the New Testament as historical evidence, this reference may point to sometime in the spring as the time of Jesus's birth. This is because the lambing season occurs in the spring and that is the only time when shepherds are likely to 'watch their flocks by night' -- to make sure the lambing goes well. Knowing this, the Eastern half of the Church continued to reject December 25, preferring a 'movable date' fixed by their astrologers according to the moon.

Thus, despite its shaky start (for over three centuries, no one knew when Jesus was supposed to have been born!), December 25 finally began to catch on. By 529, it was a civic holiday, and all work or public business (except that of cooks, bakers, or any that contributed to the delight of the holiday) was prohibited by the Emperor Justinian. In 563, the Council of Braga forbade fasting on Christmas Day, and four years later the Council of Tours proclaimed the twelve days from December 25 to Epiphany as a sacred, festive season. This last point is perhaps the hardest to impress upon the modern reader, who is lucky to get a single day off work. Christmas, in the Middle Ages, was not a single day, but rather a period of twelve days, from December 25 to January 6. The Twelve Days of Christmas, in fact. It is certainly lamentable that the modern world has abandoned this approach, along with the popular Twelfth Night celebrations.

Of course, the Christian version of the holiday spread to many countries no faster than Christianity itself, which means that 'Christmas' wasn't celebrated in Ireland until the late fifth century; in England, Switzerland, and Austria until the seventh; in Germany until the eighth; and in the Slavic lands until the ninth and tenth. Not that these countries lacked their own mid-winter celebrations of Yuletide. Long before the world had heard of Jesus, Pagans had been observing the season by bringing in the Yule log, wishing on it, and lighting it from the remains of last year's log. Riddles were posed and answered, magic and rituals were practiced, wild boars were sacrificed and consumed along with large quantities of liquor, corn dollies were carried from house to house while carolling, fertility rites were practiced (girls standing under a sprig of mistletoe were subject to a bit more than a kiss), and divinations were cast for the coming Spring. Many of these Pagan customs, in an appropriately watered-down form, have entered the mainstream of Christian celebration, though most celebrants do not realize (or do not mention it, if they do) their origins.

For modern Witches, Yule (from the Anglo-Saxon 'Yula', meaning 'wheel' of the year) is usually celebrated on the actual Winter Solstice, which may vary by a few days, though it usually occurs on or around December 21st. It is a Lesser Sabbat or Lower Holiday in the modern Pagan calendar, one of the four quarter-days of the year, but a very important one. This year (1988) it occurs on December 21st at 9:28 am CST. Pagan customs are still enthusiastically followed. Once, the Yule log had been the center of the celebration. It was lighted on the eve of the solstice (it should light on the first try) and must be kept burning for twelve hours, for good luck. It should be made of ash. Later, the Yule log was replaced by the Yule tree but, instead of burning it, burning candles were placed on it. In Christianity, Protestants might claim that Martin Luther invented the custom, and Catholics might grant St. Boniface the honor, but the custom can demonstrably be traced back through the Roman Saturnalia all the way to ancient Egypt. Needless to say, such a tree should be cut down rather than purchased, and should be disposed of by burning, the proper way to dispatch any sacred object.

Along with the evergreen, the holly and the ivy and the mistletoe were important plants of the season, all symbolizing fertility and everlasting life. Mistletoe was especially venerated by the Celtic Druids, who cut it with a golden sickle on the sixth night of the moon, and believed it to be an aphrodisiac. (Magically -- not medicinally! It's highly toxic!) But aphrodisiacs must have been the smallest part of the Yuletide menu in ancient times, as contemporary reports indicate that the tables fairly creaked under the strain of every type of good food. And drink! The most popular of which was the 'wassail cup' deriving its name from the Anglo-Saxon term 'waes hael' (be whole or hale).

Medieval Christmas folklore seems endless: that animals will all kneel down as the Holy Night arrives, that bees hum the '100th psalm' on Christmas Eve, that a windy Christmas will bring good luck, that a person born on Christmas Day can see the Little People, that a cricket on the hearth brings good luck, that if one opens all the doors of the house at midnight all the evil spirits will depart, that you will have one lucky month for each Christmas pudding you sample, that the tree must be taken down by Twelfth Night or bad luck is sure to follow, that 'if Christmas on a Sunday be, a windy winter we shall see', that 'hours of sun on Christmas Day, so many frosts in the month of May', that one can use the Twelve Days of Christmas to predict the weather for each of the twelve months of the coming year, and so on.

Remembering that most Christmas customs are ultimately based upon older Pagan customs, it only remains for modern Pagans to reclaim their lost traditions. In doing so, we can share many common customs with our Christian friends, albeit with a slightly different interpretation. And thus we all share in the beauty of this most magical of seasons, when the Mother Goddess once again gives birth to the baby Sun-God and sets the wheel in motion again. To conclude with a long-overdue paraphrase, 'Goddess bless us, every one!'

This file contains eight seasonal articles by Mike Nichols. They may be freely distributed provided that the following conditions are met: (1) No fee is charged for their use and distribution and no commercial use