What is EsotericDaily.com you ask? Well, on days like this it is easy to see. Today is April 7th, just another day to most, but to those with eyes to see, you will see more in an April 7th. The divine plan of the universe, if you will
Case in point, in 1567 on this day in Basel Switzerland, a "black sphere" appears in the sky and covers the face of the Sun. It was seen all day long (source: Wonder In The Sky by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck). UFO or matrix adjustment? You tell me.
Not a Picture of Priestly, but what if it was.
In 1794 on this day, three years after a Christian Right-to-Life mob -- okay, they weren't Right To Life, but anti science, progress, and freedom of thought, so yes, Right To Life -- burned his laboratory in Birmingham England, the English chemist who discovered oxygen, Joseph Priestly, immigrates to the U.S. to escape religious persecution. Yes, America was all about Freedom From Religion back then; what happened?
Next stop, April 7th 1827, the day John Walker, an English pharmacist, makes the first sale of his combustible friction match. Yes, the fire match which made smoking fun! Just think of all the wonderful things the match gave us:
Smoking cigarettes at a football game.
Forest fires!
And racist alarms!
In 1847 on this day Dr. Nathan Cooley administers either to a patient for the fist time in the first use of anesthesia.
Last and not least, on this day in 1959 scientists at Los Alamos New Mexico generate electricity from an atomic reactor for the first time, and aliens spaceships from across the universe take note.
April 6th, 1199, the warrior king Richard I, "the Lionhearted," didn't meet his end in battle, as might have been expected, but on a day relatively free of hostilities, as he casually walked around the perimeter of a castle in Châlus, France, without armor. Suddenly, a young man fired his crossbow from a parapet above, striking the king in the shoulder. Though the shot wasn't immediately fatal, the wound became gangrenous and Richard soon realized he was dying. It was then, according to a number of contemporary chronicles, that the king did something entirely unexpected: He had the young man who had shot him summoned to his room where he immediately... forgave him.
Unfortunately, the kings followers didn't think forgiving the guy was a good idea and so, flayed him alive.
All of this, I might add, on a beautiful day in France, one where the people held a Boat Festival commemorating the return of spring. Still, to this day, children celebrate this day by making a wish and then launching a miniature boat into the estuaries of the Mozelle River. Each boat holds a burning candle and symbolizes sailing on the "sea of life." Anyone finding a boat may also make a wish while bringing it to the shore.
And with Spring in the air, I leave with this message of love:
Generally, the way we label other people and things as good or bad, handsome or ugly, is determined by desire and craving. We call good what we like and bad what we dislike. These are inventions of our own minds. If beauty actually existed in objects themselves, we would all be irresistibly attracted by the same people and things. Dalai Lama
Ah
yes, April 5th, the Festival for Good Luck day (Nones of April).
Fortuna, the Lady Luck to whom all gamblers pray. Fortuna's father was
said to be Jupiter and like him, she could also be bountiful. Evidence
of Fortuna worship has been found as far north as Castlecary, Scotland and an altar and statue can now be viewed at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Unlike most of the other gods and goddess, Fortuna did not disappear
with the ascendancy of Christianity. In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius,
written while he faced execution, reflected: "...most
coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not
resist or try to change." Of course, as the Christian faith became more
and more worldly, the goddess Fortuna became their hidden secret. Go to
any casino on a Sunday morning and see all the Christians hitting the
slots: "Sweet Jesus!" you'll hear more often than not when someone hits
777.
Oddly enough, Fortuna seems to have married into the Christian faith much as Pocahontas did on this day a thousand years later.
Pocahontas
As coincidence would have it, on this day in 1614 in colonial Virginia, Pocahontas
marries Jamestown tobacco planter John Rolfe, and by doing so, ensured
peace with the Native Americans because Pocahontas' dad was the leader
of most of the tribes in the area. I guess you could say Rolfe married
up. Fast forward to the year 1758, on this same day! What? Really, on
this same day in Pennsylvania teenager Mary Jemison is kidnapped by Native Americans from her family's farm and spends the rest of her life with the Senecas
nation. She eventually wrote a best selling biography about her
captive history and it became a huge hit and was sold at all the feed
stores. _______________________________________________________________________________ On this day in 1794, French revolutionary leader Georges Jacques Danton
is executed by guillotine for standing up to the wealthy 1% bastards
running the show back then (The Monarchy). Renowned for his satire, he
said things like "The kings of Europe would dare challenge us? We throw
them the head of a king!" at the execution of Louis XVI. Before his own execution, Danton said: "Be sure you show the mob my head. It will be a long time ere they see its likes again." Danton was a man, yes, a big man. Just look at his mugshot.
And finally, on this day in 1887, Lord Acton wrote the following in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton of Cambridge University: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Possibly,
the greatest words ever spoken since Pocahontas (playful, spirited
little girl) said to John Rolfe, her husband to be:
Okay people, relax. Just because the Shirtless Warrior (Vladimir Putin) has unleashed the greatest force of evil known to the world in what appears to be his momentary lapse of reasoning, we don't all have to give in to it. Case in point, in today's news there seems to be lapse of reasoning everywhere. First, a hockey player slaps a puck out of frustration at a referee.
Ouch.
Then a 9th grad high school fight turns Satanic when a kid stabs another kid in the face with a lead pencil.
Fuck.
And most notable, on live TV right before our eyes, Will Smith Bitch Slaps Chris Rock to a stunned audience, in what I call "The Bitch Slap Heard Around the World -- copyright 2022)"
In today's post let's focus on the "Bitch Slap Heard Around the World -- c2022) since it is the most notable. If you have been so deep in your Hermetic studies you missed it, what I am talking about is this year's Academy Award show where the famous actor Will Smith slaps the face of another famous actor/comedian named Chris Rock who told a joke about Smith's wife. It was dysfunctional, to say the least, and as Chris Rock joked immediately afterwards: "The Greatest Night in TV, for those seeking violence" -- he left off the "seeking violence" part. But it was there.
To the uninitiated eye, the Bitch Slap appeared to be one of those momentary lapses of reasoning we all experience in life at one time or another, usually from a few too many drinks at a party, or for some unknown reason to me, at a wedding -- as I learned from my years as a wedding videograhpher, but that's a story for another time.
What we are talking about today are the forces that lie within. Yes, the forces at play in our everyday lives which are more complex than just good vs. evil; forces which are in each of us at any given moment of time, and can appear in us as sudden as a cough or sneeze. What I am trying to say here is that no person, deity, god or goddess, on this Earth is completely good or evil, for there are no absolutes of good and evil in a world controlled by the Demiurge (Satan, to the uninitiated), and the controlling forces of good and evil can come out of all of us at any moment.
In my Buddhist faith we call these forces "the ten worlds," which go from the Hell to Heaven, and can play out in our lives a thousand times a day, a thousand times second, and our goal as good Buddhist is to elevate ourselves to the higher worlds as often as possible -- there's a whole lot more, but that's the Cliff Notes version.
What we saw in The Bitch Slap Heard Around The World -- c2022, was more than the momentary lapse of reasoning of man who had too many drinks at a wedding. What we saw was a man propelled by the lower forces of the universe to act out in their honor. Call them demons, evils spirits, Sasquatch, whatever, it doesn't matter, they are in us all and if we are not careful, they will control us to do things like, oh, I don't know, drive away after real ending a parked car to avoid the insurance cost, keeping that extra twenty dollar bill the clerk gave you back which might cost him his job, removing that price sticker... well, you get my drift. The lower forces are in us everyday and at any moment will have us bitch slapping someone on broadcast television if we're not careful.
On the other side of the spectrum are the higher worlds. The ones that always make us feel right when we answer to them. You know, waiting for the driver of that parked car you hit so you can give him/her your insurance information, or giving that clerk back the extra money he gave you, or, in Chris Rock's case, not bitch slapping back the Sasquatch who just bitch slapped you on national TV. Yes, Chris Rock stood down and took it like an angle. I say Angel for the true angels and devils of the earth are you and I. As John Lennon said, "There ain't no guru going to come from the sky to save you." We are the Angels and Devils of the world, or better said, the avatars that act out in their honor. Which means Will Smith was controlled by a lower force on national TV in an one-act play for you and me put on by the gods to remind us of their power.
Which brings me back to the Shirtless Warrior, Vladimir Putin. Was it just a momentary lapse of judgment that caused him to bitch slap the world by invading his neighboring country and starting a war? Slippery slope? Maybe, but didn't the one-act play also show us the possibilities of peace and love in all of us. On a deeper level I believe it does, for in Hollywood legend, Chris Rock is usually the fowl mouthed comedian answering to the lower gods, while Will Smith is always the wholesome good guy. Which begs the question, if good guys can be bad and bad guys good, can't Vladimir Putin listen to the higher forces within him and stop his senseless killing?
My spirit guide tells me this is so, and so lets keep chanting and praying for peace. And maybe, just maybe, this will be These Will Be the Last Bitch Slaps Heard Around The World -- copyright 2022.
The old Pagan ritual of "carrying death away" is carried out in certain regions of Germany on this day. In celebration of Winter's demise, special straw dolls are burned in sacred bonfires or are "drowned" in sacred wells.
The Sun was warm but the wind was chill, You know how it is with an April day When the Sun is out and the wind is still, Your one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over a cloud lit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And your two months back in the middle of March.
-- ROBERT FROST ( 1874 - 1963 ) __________________________________________________________________________________
Greatness sometimes takes outside inspiration as well as outside aid. Born in Colmar, Alsace, on this day in 1834, the sculptor Fredric Auguste Bartholdi became inspired while attending a dinner at the home of Lefebvre de Laboulaye in 1865. His host suggested that he sculpt a symbol of liberty. Traveling to America in 1871, Bartholdi saw that New York Harbor was the perfect place to erect his vision: a cross between the Colossus of Rhodes and the monumental statues that lined Egypt's Nile River. Although the French government was willing to pay for Barholdi's grand sculpture, the American government had to ask for public donations to fund the construction of the foundation and pedestal. After six years of appeals, work began on the pedestal, but it wasn't finished until publisher Joseph Pulitzer took on the job of fundraising. Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty was completed in 1886. (The statue itself was finished in 1884, although its arm was not properly attached until its restoration in 1984.)
April 1st is here again, happy new cycle! What joy. Ode to joy. One of those rare days we can take our mask off and be ourselves. “Do this in my honor,” said the lord Jesus. I’ll show you where He said that later, but first, let’s dig deeper into this first day of fools, April 1st.
We must start with the Tarot, for The Fool card is Zero and represents the start of a new cycle. The Fool is enthusiastic and impulsive, and any lessons he/she learns in this life will make them grow in the next. Yes, I am talking about rebirth, or as we like to say in modern times, reincarnation.
You see, in ancient times, April 1st was the first day of the new year. It was the natural start of a new cycle. The time when life was returning to the trees and flowers, and the frozen ice was retreating back into the earth from which it came. The Anglo-Saxxons called it Eastermonath, for the goddess Eostre, who was the goddess of spring and rebirth. She was also called “Ostara” and “Eastre” in other tribes. The name is not important, for most of the written records honoring the pagan gods and goddesses of the past were destroyed by the Abrahmic faiths as they grew into the Knights in Satan's Army that they are today. Sad, but true.
Aphrodite
April is named after the Greek goddess Aphrodite (the Roman Venus). And in ancient, ancient times, after the March equinox, it was customary to hold a week-long celebration to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Yes, the miracle of reincarnation of life that happens right before our eyes every year. This, my spirit guides reminds me, is why we feel such joy this time of year as we are reminded of the reality of our own deaths (winters), which will inevitably be followed up by our reincarnations (springs); time, after, time, after, time.... The miracle that no religious story can top, for we see it before our own eyes, each year; that is, for those of us with eyes to see.
Yes, reincarnation, that thing we all know from within; that thing that can't be learned from a book, or taught through a religious conversion. That thing we all know when we see people we've seen before, for the first time. That thing that is just there from the beginning of our lives to the end. The base of all true religious beliefs before the Abrahamic faiths became threatened by it -- for reasons I do not understand -- and had all of the "reincarnation stories" wiped out from history by crushing the Pagans, Cathars, Gnostics, Kabbalist, Sufis, etc.... all of us who would not be converted, and so were put to flames, the sword, or both. I know, I was one of them.
Demiurge
That threat of reincarnation scared them so much that they changed the first of the year from April 1st to January 1st to try and wipe reincarnation from our memories as they had our other celebrations which were now theirs in the form of religious holidays. But we knew the truth, and so when April 1st came along we ran into the streets playing tricks on them, and we laughed, and they called us crazy but because their own spirits knew the truth they celebrated too by joining in our tricks, even though they knew not why in their minds, they knew why in their souls. And those behind the scenes, the Demiurge's Knights in Satan's Army, knew what we were up to. And so we continue our celebration of the New Year on April 1st each year. The jester fools to the king who allows us this day for his amusement. For even the king knows that he too will one day be reincarnated, possibly, into that of a jester.
Yes, it is April Fools' Day today. Let the cycle begin.
Oh yeah, and about that Jesus quote I started with: April Fools'!
In old pagan days, March 31 was the celebration of the Luna goddess.
“Luna’s themes are all lunar attributes – instinct, creativity, luck, femininity, water element, miracles (on a Blue Moon) – also safety in travel. Her symbols are silver or white Items, water, moon images and the number 13.
The Roman Goddess personifying the moon, Luna had the additional unique quality of being a protectress of charioteers, which in modern times could make Her a patroness of automobiles!
While March came in like a lion, Luna escorts it out lavishly, with Her soft, shimmering light. She is the full moon, which symbolizes the growing awareness developed this month, the fullness of loving emotions, and charms and enchantments empowered by the silvery light of the moon.
And if you are feeling overwhelmed or exited beyond compare, enjoy the extra energy afforded by the gods today, for tomorrow is a full moon Fools day, beware the jesters early in the morning.
~ Viola
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Today in 1631 John Donne died in London. This contemporary of Shakespeare's published almost nothing during his lifetime. Centuries later, we are lucky to have a few of the verses he left behind. Like this: Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name... Or this: It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be... This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is... The most notable work of Donne, “...never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Which means (for those who hate): because we are all part of mankind, any person's death is a loss to all of us: “Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
The line also suggests that we all will die: the bell will toll for each one of us. Deal with it, let go, grow!
__________________________________________________________________________________ On this date in the year 1848, the famous Fox Sisters supposedly made communication with the spirit world at Hydesville Cottage in upstate New York. Their famous seances gave birth to the popular spiritualist movement, which was all the rage in the United States and England from the mid-1880's to the early twentieth century. If they were fakes in life, they are certainly not in death. For we still see them in mirrors, alone at night, try it. They do come for a shilling.
Outside my window it is raining, the familiar sounds of April are calling me as I am reminded that today, March 30th, in ancient times was the day of the god Janus and goddess Concordia. "Janus" is the god of beginnings, gates, and transitions, while "Concordia" is the goddess of "agreements" like those in marriages. Together they mean “let peace reign.”
Funny that this should happen on the day after Ishtar's Day, for yesterday was the day of Ishtar, the goddess of war and love, and also the day Russia promised to stop bombing and begin talking. It was another lie, Russia’s bombing of Ukraine has continued. It is to fuck with the will of the Ukrainian people and the massive world supporting Behind her. Putin’s troops are still marching, bombing, and killing.
Nothing has changed. There is hope though, for the gods and goddesses are watching and speaking if we listen to them from beyond the rain. They are saying: "truth is coming" and “Vladimir Putin's days are number.” The events that Vladimir Putin and his army think they are in control of, they are not, for evil will lose in the end.
Case in point, on this day in 1814, the world allied against Napoleon and ended his decade of domination by liberating France from his control. Twenty seven years later on this exact same day a guy named Napoleon Guerin files his patent for the first egg incubator which would allow the world to feed more people with chicken than ever.
Napoleon Guerin, the incubator egg guy who filed his patent on the same day Napoleon lost his power, is a sign. Napoleon Guerin’s last name is a combination of love and war in old Latin which translated means: "to watch or guard." If we listen to the signs, we see a world United brings truth, peace, and love. Pay attention to the rain, the voice of the gods.
Could it be? Really? Finally positive news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The leaders of Russia have agreed to meet with the leaders of Ukraine in Turkey. I have been chanting for peace in the region since the conflict began. This morning I added in my prayers: "Let Vladimir Putin have a change of heart and end his war." This afternoon, poof, it seems to be happening. I don't know about you, but I am ready to move on from this disaster and begin the healing. So let us celebrate the Annual Festival of Ishtar which was celebrated on this day back in ancient times and still is by many Wiccan and Initiates as myself; yes, Ishtar the goddess of love and war speaks on this day. And she is saying, "Stop the War Vladimir Putin, and Love."
Keep chanting, praying, making offerings, and whatever it is you do to bring positive change in the world. Today, Ishtar is getting things done for us.
Thank you Ishtar, amen.
~~
Speaking of other beautiful things, on this day in 1797, social critic Mary Wollstonecraft, an early activist for women's rights, married William Godwin, the most radical reformer of his time. The two were philosophically opposed to the institution of marriage, but since Mary was pregnant they decided to marry for the baby's sake. The baby? None of than Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Yes, the daughter of two liberals who married Percy Shelly and wrote Frankenstein. Let's hear if for the liberals on this day of Ishtar.
Speaking of liberal people, how about this: on this day in 1814 the king of Denmark outlawed racial and religious discrimination. Wow, way to go Liberals.
And if this isn't enough, on this day in 1865 the final battle of the American Civil War began in Pertersburg Virginia. General Robert E. Lee's Rebels fled the city and Lee surrendered eight days later.
"But her (USA) mission will not then be finished; for ere another century
shall have gone by, the oppressors of the whole earth, hating and
envying her exaltation, shall join themselves together to raise up their
hands against her. But if she still be found worthy of her high calling
they shall surely be discomfitted, and then will be ended her third and
last great struggle for existence. Thence-forth shall the Republic go
on, increasing in power and goodness, until her borders shall end only
in the remotest corners of the earth, and the whole earth shall beneath
her shadowing wing become a Universal Republic. Let her in her
prosperity, however remember the Lord her God, her trust be always in
Him, and she shall never be confounded."
Sounds like a prophetic warning for the USA's struggles today facing the January 6th insurrection internally, and Vladimir Putin's threat of Nuclear War as he kills thousands in Ukraine. It isn't. The prophetic warning telling America to "be found worthy of her high calling," actually appeared to General McClellan on this day in the year 1862 as he prepared to protect the America from its insurrection from the South during that period. The prophet who spoke to McClellan? George Washington. Which begs the question? Where are you today, George? We need you now more than ever. Case in point, in the heart of America, Kansas City suburb to be exact, there is a Trump supporter who owns his own radio station and has recently began broadcasting Russian state-sponsored programming in the midst of the Ukrainian war. That's right, the same guy who most certainly supported George Bush's War by saying "You are either with us or against us," when peacenixs like me protested the reasons to invade a country, now says broadcasting Vladimir Putin's propaganda to justify the senseless killing of Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine is Free Speech. Truth is, this asshole along with the Trump Fringe hold on the Republican party are willing to sell out the USA to a despot like Putin because they are closed-minded idiots who don't like true freedom of speech. I don't have a problem with this guy, or the Trumpers, but I just want them to acknowledge they are drinking the Vladimir Putin Koolaide because the guy wears a Jesus cross and believes in a white country, as they do. Bigots. Maybe that's why the ghost of George Washington hasn't appeared to any American leaders today?
Okay, I need to cool down. I'll go back to chanting for peace with the hopes that this Right Wing Fringe period ends soon.
_________________________________________________________________________________ And for some good news:
First Lady Helen Taft
On this day in 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and
the Japanese ambassador's wife, Viscountess Chinda, planted two Yoshino
cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac tidal basin. Mayor
Ozaki donated the trees to enhance the growing friendship between
the United States and Japan and also celebrate the continued close
relationship between the two nations.
Large and colorful helium balloons, floats, marching bands from across
the country, music and showmanship are parts of the Festival's parade
and other events. One has to wonder if President Truman
noticed the friendship trees on August 6, 1945 or August 9, 1945 when
we dropped atomic bombs on them killing 75,000 people. I wonder how
good those apples tasted that day. _________________________________________________________________________________ A person can escape the unhappiness that befalls her, but not the unhappiness she creates herself. --Father Tolstoy
Pope Francis spoke of "scenes
of death" in which "bombs are destroying the homes of many of our defenseless Ukrainian brothers and sisters" and of "a cruel and
senseless war that threatens everyone."
Way to go Pope, I am so proud of you.
In his homily, the Pope spoke about the century-old apocalyptic prophecy that was given to three children in Fatima Portugal back in 1917. Yes, the "Fatima Incident." In case you don't know it, here it is in 30 seconds:
On May 13, 1917, around noon there were three peasants children attending to their sheep when out of the sky appeared a beautiful woman which they took as Mother Mary from their School teachings -- since this was before television and the internet, it could have been a UFOs or the an other feminine goddesses that predated the Virgin Mary myth -- more on this later.
The children told the priest that they had seen visions on three different days. The vision were written and saved by the Catholic church, and are of souls burning in hell, the the end of WWI, the fall of Communism, and the killing of religious and lay people by soldiers.
End of The Three Secrets of Fatima" in 30 seconds.
Now, this is the story that has been handed down to us by the Catholic church, for the children were never allowed to tell their story to anyone else. And so, we will never know what the children actually saw, or what they indeed told the priest at the time, but my spirit guides tells me it is a different one than the church broadcasted to the world. Where the children talked about peace, the church wrote penance. Where the children said that we all needed to come together in love, the church wrote, we must all be consecrated in the Catholic faith. The pattern continues up to the foretelling of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981. Hogwash.
The Fatima Vision was a heavenly message for us all by a benevolent feminine goddess, but was hijacked by the Catholic church to help them grow their church. Now, I don't mean to point out the Catholic church on this one for all churches do it, at least in my experience. It's the business side of it which they all have.
Finally, my spirit guide tells me that the feminine goddess that presented herself to the children in Fatima that day, was an early prophesy of the change we are experiencing in the world today from leaving the masculine Pieces period for the age of Aquarius which is happening now. The masculine days of world wars are over. The world will not have it. We will come together to stop the evil that is at the root of the Russian invasion, as one body in love and peace. This is the true message of Fatima that day. This is the real reason Pope Francis spoke of it in my humble opinion.
Another March 25th and the heavenly deities are out today. My spirit guide tells me we should expect peace in Ukraine any day now, and Justice in the USA. Not sure how this will play out but I'll keep you updated. Looking at my earlier post on this day I'm reminded that the Church's prosecution of Joan of Arc was in full-tilt boogie on this day in 1431. In the trial records she asked to hear mass. Of course the madman church wouldn't do it. All she had to do was lie and say she didn't hear god (or her spirit guide as I am told by Viola, my spirit guide), but she wouldn't. Yes, she was a witch in the minds of the male clergy who said, "No woman can speak to God, God wouldn't have that (I paraphrase)."
Funny that in this year 2022 of our lord, the first black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, has been appointed to be a judge on the highest court in the land, and boy does this have the QAnon Men angry. Case in point, instead of asking Jackson factual questions about law, Josh and Ted wanted to know about her connection with a Child Pornography case that the QAnon conspiracy nuts believe support their belief that "Everyone who didn't support Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are involved in a child pornography ring where they meet for pizza on Friday nights." What the Fuck! The question was asked by Sen. Josh Hawley, and then by Sen. Ted Cruz, who should have been escorted out of the building at that moment and driven to the E.I.E.I.O CRAZY FARM.
If that doesn't spell R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N, then I don't know what does.
Rest in peace Joan of Arc, repent and face the truth, Josh and Ted.
Joan of Arc being Accused of talking with God.
Ted Cruz Spreading Child Pornography Lies for His Idiot Fan Base.
______________________________________________________________________________ Speaking of persecuted woman, on this day in1692 John Proctor of Salem Village
encountered Samuel Sibley at a tavern for an ale and
asked, "how are the folks of the Village?"
"Very bad last night," Sibley answered, "your maid (Mary) is at it again, she is practicing magic." Proctor:
"I'm going there now then to fetch the jade (A jade is a worn-out
horse, a term, when applied to woman is comparable to 'bitch'). If
they are to continue (he was upset they had been hanging out laughing),
we should all be devils and witches quickly. I tried to keep her busy
at the spinning wheel and threatened to thresh her if she tried that
again. It worked, too, until I had to be away...." (From: The Salem Witch Trials, Marilynne Roach.)
Oh, by the way, Proctor would eventually be accused of being a witch himself once he saw how out of control things had gotten and stood up for the accused. My spirit guide tells me that this will be the fate of Josh and Ted too in the end, for they will be eaten up by their own evil. That's the problem with evil, it is like acid in a plastic bottle and can not be contained, and will eventually eat its container. _______________________________________________________________ Finally, on this day in 1957, 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's book of poems called "Howl and Other Poems" were seized by U.S. Customs agents. Why did these words scare the establishment? Well, the Attorney Generals Office wrote: “Howl”’s candid description of illegal drug use and
homosexuality, graphic language, and profanity" were the problem.
On a closer examination, however, one finds that the real problem the establishment had with the book is the same it had with the hippy movement in general: a condemnation of the soulless, materialist, money-obsessed obscenity of American society and its treatment of minorities. That was the meat of the poem "Howl."
In Ancient Rome, March 24th was a very painful day. Yes, a painful day indeed. You see, it was considered the Day of Blood (dies sanguines). Ouch. In honor of the Mother-Goddess Cybele, people would lacerate themselves with knives to offer her blood. New priest would castrate themselves and spill their blood on the altar, and the old priest would think “Thank god that's not me.” This was done in a real-life imitation of what had happened to the goddess’ consort Attis, who in case you didn’t know, was the beau of the goddess Cybele and to show his love he castrated himself to avoid marrying another, that’s one story, there are many, but they all end with him loosing his jewels. Ouch again. But don’t feel sorry for Cybele and Attis’ love life, for you see, Attis was a vegetation deity who could regenerate himself each year. That’s right, each spring he would grow new testicles in case Cybele was in the mood for some,oh la la.
One story goes that Attis grew up like a flower, and when he had grown to be fair and tall, he was beloved by the Mother of the Gods (Cybele). And she entrusted all things to him, and so set on his head the starry cap of youth. Yes, he was a nature boy, and real tree huger, and man who understood the strength of a powerful woman.
In all of the stories, Attis is a vegetation god, and in his self-mutilation, death, and resurrection, he represents the fruits of the earth, which die in winter only to rise again in the spring. Hmmm, sounds like another resurrection story some believe today, the name of which escapes me right now, but you know the one, the Jewish carpenter who… or is it Krishna on a cloud?… wait, no, it’s that macho-man god on a carpet? shit, it’s all of them.
Moving on: as I said earlier, Cybele was the Mother of the Gods, that much is very clear, what I failed to mention is that she/he was born a hermaphrodite, which scared the shit out of the other gods so much, they castrated her and tossed the male organ to the ground — that’s right boys and girls, they had closed minded homophobics back then too, just as we do today. Anyway, the male organ grew into an almond tree and one woman came upon the tree and plucked its fruit. Holding it to her chest, it disappeared, and suddenly she was pregnant. The child she bore was… Attis... oh yes, Jesus, that's the name I forgot earler. The other virgin birth story that would come a thousand years later, but who's counting?
Yes, Cybele fell in love with Attis and the boy promised to always belong to her. But, he was of Greek ancestery and so that was hard, and well, he cheated on her by asking another to marry him.
Attis, only the head since, well, you know what happen to the rest.
Enraged and in a jealous frenzy, Cybele appeared at the wedding with her lions (the symbol of her dominance over the wild) and drove everyone mad, including Attis who ran off into the hills. Screaming and thrashing about, he cursed himself for forsaking the goddess.
Then, he castrated himself. Cybele came upon his bloodied body at the foot of a pine tree. Feeling guilty for what she had done, she repented her actions to Zeus. Empathetic to the goddess, Zeus decreed that Attis’ body would never decay and that the pine tree would forever be considered a sacred tree.
There you have it boys and girls, the story of Attis and His Testis: the original Spring resurrection story.
Case in point, in 1567 on this day in Basel Switzerland, a "black sphere" appears in the sky and covers the face of the Sun. It was seen all day long (source: Wonder In The Sky by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck). UFO or matrix adjustment? You tell me. 
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