This week I bought myself a camera upgrade (a nikon d3000) for my photography. 2 years ago my dad bought me a nikon p80 and at the time he said that he was interested in the camera when I finally get a better one. So this week I finally got myself an upgrade!! Woot! Macro photography here we come! For Valentine’s Day I regifted the Nikon p80 for my Dad.
I’ve been on etsy searching for camera accessories!
After searching google for dslr camera bags that haven’t spark my taste the prices range from anywhere between $25 – $100. In this case I think its all about personal style here. So I’ll post some options from etsy for you that will be affordable yet stylish!
We have demons… inner demons, things we have to learn to master and defeat over our life here on earth as I’m sure you must’ve learned in philosophy? Anyway, I can’t remember how you started off the post but you said this entity took on the form of a gargoyle. Gargoyle’s in Medieval times are said to be watchful keepers of the home despite them being scary looking (in turn in our dreams they symbolize us keeping a “watchful” distance or symbolize us actually keeping a secret from someone or ourselves). In metaphysics stones hold vibrations or truths about the Universe in their structure (religious texts often describe a prophet inscribing secretes into stone – this is just a metaphor for what stones actually do). If you recall the pose of a typical gargoyle; many of these poses of gargoyles have them actually keeping their arms crossed and to themselves symbolizing holding on to something – a vibration or truth. Our thoughts are therefore, LIGHT, and light is an illusion, able to be manipulated by the simplest of our thoughts. That’s why I said that this entity is light, we are attracted towards light (wanting to be close to it) because it is natural for us to go to the light; but light itself is manipulative (it manipulated you!). The entity is simply teaching you that you have all the answers you need inside of yourself; we are bottles of Wisdom (darkness) and the light in this world is to distract us from our all knowing power. When it changed into a different form it realized that you recognized who it was and tried to trick you by changing it’s appearance (manipulation of light). I hope this makes sense… but this is just what I noticed when you posted that dream.
An interpretation I was having with my friend Teresea via facebook.
So the website is back to its’ minimal features. Bear with me while I try to get it functioning again. While trying to fix it I somehow ended up deleting all the backup CSS for this layout. UGH. I really have no luck with websites, do I?
EDIT: Fixed the problem site is about %85 recoded 🙂
So the widget bar used for wordpress isn’t working. The bar has completely disappeared in the dashboard as well. So Idk what’s going on. But I’ll have to use a premade layout until the sidebar comes back. Just to give everyone a heads up.
I got a super cool sweater today at Global Thrift Store. I wanted a sweater that I could wear with my brown clothes since the only sweater I have is grey and that would just disintegrate with the last one that I wore all the time.
My heart continues to yearn for a certain someone. Knowing they’ll come back is just making this 10x more difficult. 🙁
Avon Silver Fawn Charisma Cologne Bottle In Orginal Box by SentimentalWhimsy via etsy
Etsy has these cute little perfume bottles of animals. Stylistically they aren’t my thing, something I would buy to display on a shelf because generally speaking they are a bit tacky (in my opinion). I tend to combine ideas into new ones and have been thinking on a spiritual level lately and thought I could use these cute animal bottles in my rituals/meditative work for the sabbats. I’m currently looking at an owl bottle for Candlemas/Imbolc in February. I’d wrap up the ritual supplies I used in the bottle and carry it around with me.
Since spirituality seems to be an ever increasing presence in my life, I think its about time to get an altar/meditation space. My current desktop altar isn’t cutting it. I need a space in my room that is *specifically* for meditations. I’ve been thinking about cleaning out one corner of my room that faces west. Now the religion I have only really known to use an altar is the Wiccan/Pagan religion and they align their altars to North. But my desktop and computer area is already facing north and there is no way am I going to move my desk around. My desk came with a miniature extension table to store a printer. Since I’m home from school, I’m gonna have to clean that off since its’ storing craft supplies right now and move my printer to it. Once I clean that area out I think I will have enough space for a small meditation altar.
HOWEVER, this space is facing West. So I’ve been doing research about the significance of having an altar face West and apparently there’s some significance from the eastern traditions which is perfect.
It is ideal to set up a Buddhist altar in a dedicated room. If the building is of two or more stories, it is proper to set it up on the top floor. If there is no dedicated room available, a quiet place or a room which can be closed up for quiet meditation at the regular practice time should be selected.
The orientation of a Buddhist altar depends on the main Buddha worshipped. If the practitioner majors in the Pureland school, the main Holiness should be Amitabha Buddha And hence the altar
should be oriented toward the East. In case of the Healing Buddha who eliminates misfortunes and prolongs lives, it should be orientated toward the West. (All notes below are added into the English translation by Dr. Lin. Note 1: Amitabha Buddha’s Pureland is in the West, hence the altar ideally is to be set up such that when we face Him, we are facing the West. A similar remark applies to the case of the Healing Buddha whose Pureland is in the East.) If the wall available is not of the ideal orientation, it is also fine to ignore this point. It is proper to select a wall with sufficient illumination so that it is easier for the practitioner to concentrate on gazing at the holy images .
The north doesn’t feel right to me. I just don’t seem to have any spiritual connection to the North, however, only during rituals and meditations do I face the North… I really do feel a strong pull towards to the to set up this altar.
Worshippers in the courtyard could witness the sacrifices offered in front of the holy of holies, and knew that therein God dwelt behind a series of curtains, through which only the high priest could pass. Priests and people faced west toward the Presence of God, the Shekinah. With the entrance in the east, sunlight was admitted in the morning, while the structure provided a modicum of shade over the courtyard in the hot afternoon.
Most spiritualists say you should put a place that is easiest for you. Just orientate the ritual/circle to north when you are actually doing one. For some reason I seem to have a strong elemental connection to water (the element of the west) right now. Dunno why.
Your altar should face the direction that is taught in your tradition. Usually this would be the North or the East. The West is the direction of endings, imagination, the subconscious, and dreams; I don’t know of any tradition which uses it on a regular basis.
Of course!! Subconscious, dreams, imagination, all things related to the third eye! No wonder I feel a strong connection there. But I *DO* like what other traditions say about the Presence of God being in the West. Also I get a lot of sunlight this time of year and to have it shine down on my altar would be cool. So I think that’s settled, I will put near that wall when I’ve saved enough monies for the table I’m thinking about buying.
Ever since my pineal gland has been pulsating occasionally I get random names and such pop into my head. Sometimes they mean nothing at the time, and sometimes they relate to something. As I’ve blogged about before I’ve been going through a lot of heavy emotions lately regarding a relationship that I’m expecting to blossom but I’m really in no position to be the active pursuer anymore. Real frustrating. Anyway, this week a name, Jessica, popped into my head and I thought it was weird because I haven’t been connected to any Jessicas of late. I recently joined an online social network called, Temple Illuminatus and its a bunch of people who are into the occult arts and sciences – not only that but the maturity level is decent, no fluff in other words. I posted my experience as well with a tarot reading I did on it – I never use reversals – so for some reason I felt it was necessary for me to do reversals. I haven’t been great at reading for myself lately because of all these heavy emotions clouding my intuition and judgement.
For me, the shadow represents unseen motivations in the situation and the highlight represents something clouding the situation and/or something important to be aware of in the situation.
A fellow temple member contacted me tonight about his insights into the reading and it made total sense. First he sees that the hanged man represents action in something that I don’t see having any action – something that’s been stagnated so to speak – “no more searching for answers, no more needing to wait, maturity, answers.” 9/wands in the past is someone who has been fighting their way through and trying to search for answers. Presently the page of cups is showing, in some decks the page holds a heart crystal in one hand this fellow member sees this as my intuition giving me a message from the heart (a.k.a “Jessica”). In the Future position represents the person or a person who, “responds to emotional needs, a good person to be in love with or with a relationship – compassionate – it is an answer to your prayers“. What about the queen? I asked them. “This could mean you, my friend. – You strike me as very intelligent. This person out there is very, very emotional – something that would be good for you. You might scare her away being, well, too much yourself.” Be more open? I asked. “See this queen as a shadow – yes. More your inner feelings… less talk – more on her level for now. They need this at least in the beginning. See it as a warning to still be you, but not as boldly. “ My friend continued the conversation by returning to the hanged man – “This refers to your ‘actions’ – will you take the advice once you meet this person, or will you take no action.. and blow it all away by scaring them away… without showing how emotional of a side you have. I see this as a wonderful omen.” Me too!! That’s why I asked cause it was so clear. I exclaimed. “Keep your senses open now… you need to be ready… you may have only one first impression here – or – a second chance.” After this I excitedly go search for the meaning of the name “Jessica”! Why had I never thought of the symbolic, etymological or metaphorical meaning of the name Jessica!!! Jessica \j(e)-ssi-ca\ as a girl’s name is pronounced JESS-a-kah. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Jessica is “He sees”.“YES…keep your eyes open..be ready to be YOU (from the heart)…and SEE the opportunity…and take it (Hanged Man REV)” affirmed my friend.
three of wands – eight of coins – emperor – ace of cups
I have seen the emperor represent agencies or companies that I’ve applied to in the past and having it be next to the eight of coins seems really positive to me. Ace/cups to me in the past HAS represented disappointment but it can also be overwhelming happiness. I just clarified it with the 2/cups so it could just be a new partnership at the marketing firm! Trying to not get ahead of myself here, but the three/wands could represent that I have waited a great deal finally my efforts are paying off and my ships are coming in (job). This look real positive for the office/graphic design position. We’ll see what happens. Well, yes, I did go to the interview with that company and did come out with a bit of disappointment because the job wasn’t exactly what I’d like to be in it was very basic graphic design and not so much conceptual design. But I did receive positive feedback from my Boss at Tearoom about my first day so that’s good. Just gotta work on my interpersonal skills with them, get back into being my old self.
four of pentacles – queen of cups – nine of swords – two of wands
Next week, I’ll be holding onto something, perhaps something emotional related. Something will come up and it’ll cause more worry/stress and indecision.
So things went really well at tearoom today. Just a bit heck tick and hopefully on Wednesday it wouldn’t be as stressful. One of the things that surprised me the most was how hard it was to focus on a person and their question for 30 minutes!! Total shock for me about how difficult it was to milk the reading. I definitely have some catching up to do and more practice. Holy wow. But I liked being there and was comfortable. I only had a one customer who was kinda rude to me either she was rude or just really uptight. So that reading was kinda draining as I tried to keep things going on but she just wouldn’t give me enough feedback to feed off of lol. Anyway I’m sure when things will get easier it’ll be better. But its nice to finally have money coming in. I’m really just amazed that the Tremont Tearoom popped into my head for a place to work and then I emailed them and two weeks later I’m working there lol. I wish a lot of things in my life were this way, but these people actually understand me and my weird quirks. 😛
I am really really hoping tomorrow’s interview will come through because I really want to move out and I found a beautiful apartment in Dorchester. Its’ spacious and awesome! I just wish that it was closer to the place I’m interviewing tomorrow, but being in Boston I’ll have plenty to do around where I guess if I move to the countryside there won’t be much to do I’ll just have to drive further, no biggie.
Things seem to be looking up and I do feel like the energies have changed a bit. And honestly I do think the solar flares this week had something to do with it.
I had another pineal session last night and information about the energy of shapes came through. Its’ not much different than qabbalah but I’ll be writing a post on it shortly.
