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SIMHAMUKHA: Wrathful Lion-Headed Dakini

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SIMHAMUKHA: Wrathful Lion-Headed Dakini

The Wrathful Wisdom Dakini Simhamukha

In terms of these Higher Tantras, a meditation deity (yi-dam lha) who is both wrathful and female is the Jnana Dakini Simhamukha. It is important to understand that, despite her exceedingly wrathful appearance and animal head, she is not a guardian spirit (srung-ma), subdued by magic, converted to the Dharma, and bound by oaths of service by some powerful Mahasiddha in the past. Rather, she is a wrathful manifestation of Guhyajnana Dakini, who, according to the Nyingmapa tradition, was the principal Dakini teacher of Padmasambhava in the country of Uddiyana. Therefore, although Simhamukha is a Dakini in her aspect, she functions as a Yidam or meditation deity and her special functions are averting and repulsing (bzlog-pa) psychic attacks that may assault the practitioner and the subduing of negative female energy as personified by the Matrikas or Mamos. These latter are wild uncontrolled female spirits inhabiting the wilderness, both the mountains and the forests, beyond the confines of patriarchal civilization. These female spirits are generally hostile to the male gender. (more…)

Archangel Gabriel

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Meaning of Name: God Is my strength

Message to the Contemporary World: True liberation comes not by surrendering to either humans or machines, but to the Divine Order of the universe.

Patron Angel Of: Writers, orators, philosophers, theologians, actors, poets, physicists, computer geeks, bloggers, entrepreneurs, life coaches, motivational speakers.

Usually Arrives in Your Life: When you begin to question your place in God’s Great Equation and want to take a conscious role in fulfilling your life’s purpose.

Daily Wisdom: Many ways to God

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There are as many ways to God as there are created souls.
Muhammad

“The Valkyries” by Paulo Coelho

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I read this book on a flight to New Orleans. It was amazing. I loved this book. I wanted to give it to a person, for them to read, but that wasn’t meant to be. As it is…so be it.

The Valkyries
- An Encounter with Angels
- Author: Paulo Coelho
- Pub: HarperOne
“And an angel descended where they were and the glory of the Lord shone all about them” Luke 2:9
Prologue
- “Something of great importance to me?” Women,” J. said. “Magic and women.”
- “And I would have found a beautiful woman disciple to take your place.”
- “It was he who taught me to understand that love is the only thing that never fails. He who had the patients to lead me along the intricate paths of magic. He who had the courage and dignity, despite his powers, to present himself always as a person with some doubts and with certain weaknesses. He who helped me to understand the forces that can transform our lives.”
- …hiding his disappointment
- Regarding clouds: “You see the soul of the rivers. Rivers that have just been reborn in the sea. They will also rise to the sky, and remain there until, for whatever reason, they once again become rain and fall to earth.” “The rivers return to the mountains, but carry with them the wisdom of the sea.”
- “You are a river. You have already run down to the sea, and you know its wisdom. You have died and been reborn many times. All you have to do is remember.”
- “Why? Why must I do this?” “Because people always kill the things they love…”
- And each man kills the thing he loves
  By all let this be heard
  Some do it with a bitter look,
  Some with a flattering word,
  The coward does it with a kiss
  The brave man with a sword.
- He was going to find that he did not necessarily deserve all that he had received.
- The curse can be broken if you complete the task. DO NOT GIVE IN TO DISTRACTIONS.
- “I should have married an engineer…” (It’s always a choice, but not a very good one for me.)
- He has always wanted to leave everything behind.
One
- “The desert is made of morning and afternoons….the other times are risky.”
- “…he told me that some things are so important that you have to learn about them on your own.”
- If you’re in love with someone, you can have that person inside your head. The same thing happens with someone you want to forget about. (Regarding 2nd mind)
Two
- (p31) …and had been prepared by the Tradition to be ready to act when the gates to paradise opened.
- (p32) “magic-space’
- (p33) “No, It was because I was afraid of being alone in the desert.” He could have said it was because he loves me, she thought.
- We are creating terrains. Our ‘earthquakes’ raise mountains. Our ‘twisters’ clear paths. This is necessary.
Three
- (p40) What a dope, she thought. To get angry in the midst of such beauty, and right after they had been talking about such interesting things…”
- (p50) A sacred hymn opens a gate to heaven and heaven appears
- (p51) The elemental, the disembodied spirits, the saints and the angels.
  They traditionally appear in the form of dwarfs, fairies, or salamanders.
- “Why is he saying this?” “Has he forgotten that I’m a master of magic, too?” (ego)
- Speaking in tongues. We can build a new tomorrow, today.
- And he asked that his angel help him to be clear, because — by God! — it was so difficult to explain
- (p55) “Angels are love in motion. They never rest, they struggle to grow, and they are beyond good and evil. Love that consumes all, that destroys all, that forgives all. Angels are made of that love, and are at the same time its messengers.
- “There is no love in peace. Whoever seeks peace is lost.” (Whoa!)
- …she could not think of one moment when love had ever brought her peace. It was always accompanied by agony, intense joy and deep sadness.
- (p58) ...he needed to make use of your hands to tether them to the stone.” (fable re: horses not running away) USE YOUR HANDS
Four
- As you fly…look our the window. You will see physical evidence of our communal shares on the terrain. We’re making the new Earth.
- (p64) He could not act toward her in the same way as he did with other disciples — after all, she knew his faults and weaknesses.
- effort
- (p67) The second mind was there, barring the entrance… (Second guesses…doubts…fears…)
- (p68) She needed to speak the pure language of the heart
- (p69) “The planet set aside certain places for itself. It tells us to go away…. The earth is able to be alone.”
- (p72) He loved his wife, but he was getting fed up with marriage. He needed some strong passion in his love.
- (p73) He was beginning to understand what J. had meant when he said that people wind up killing what they love most.
- (p75) “Do me a favor,” she said, looking directly into her husband’s eyes. “Don’t leave me in the middle of the road.”
Five
- Stop destroying things in your periods of rage. Please. Look to horizon.
- (p83) “Because I’m desperately in need of help. I have won important things for myself, but I am going to destroy them, because I tell myself that they have lost their meaning. I know it’s not true. I know they are still important, and that if I destroy them, I’ll be destroying myself, as well.”
- Ask for help when I find myself sinking.
- Three conditions for conversing with one’s angel:
  - Break a pact
  - Accept forgiveness
  - Make a bet
- (p91) There was a limit. …Her angel had said that Paulo was going to need her that afternoon.
- There are always limits…and then, reactions
- Everything that was hidden had to be revealed
Six
- (p96) “I’m talking about your pact with defeat.”
- (p97) Without really knowing why, I began to gain weight, to take poor care of myself, to become unattractive. Because – unconsciously – I felt that my beauty was a curse, and had caused suffering for my best friend.
- “That’s why there is an angel with a burning sword at the gates to paradise. To allow entry only to those who have broken the pact.”
- (p103) …the Beast had never gotten that far. (Veil of Parkoth)
- and he was ashamed
- “God has the right to destroy me…I do not.”
- The angel knew about the pact too, and was happy at not having to devote efforts to keeping Paulo from destroying himself.
Seven
- (p118) By the rivers of Babylon,
  There we sad down, yea, and wept.
  We hung our harps upon the willows
  In the midst of it
- (p119) “There is no sin but the lack of love…” “Have courage, be capable of loving, even if love appears to be a treacherous and terrible thing. Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.”
- And what of obligations? Children? Spouses? Bills and homes and responsibilities? “Well, meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams…”
- (p120) They took pride in battle
- (p122) There is an invisible thread that unites all those on the side of the light…and this thread is becoming a strong, shining rope…anchored by the angels.”
- Seventh Beam. I serve the Beam
- …it brings back something they had forgottren
- (p126) That’s all I was told to do. (I was told “be the ABE34 gate)
- She was a warrior, but she, too, needed to rest.
Eight
- They made love to men they met along the way.
- (p135) Forgive my errors, and fill my heart with enthusiasm. Grant me the strength to be both man and woman, both hard and soft.
- She remembered when she had just been an employee at the Chase Manhattan Bank, and when her life amounted to nothing more than her husband and her two children. (What of her talk of “take care of your obligations?)
- (p136) Maria Egipciaca surrendered herself to the boatman. When she arrived at Jerusalem, and angel appeared and blessed her for what she had done. …Became the lover of wealthy men
- I need love, affection. I need someone who can protect me here on earth, just as my angel protects me in heaven.
- The Ritual That Demolishes Rituals
- Using what??? “Using hatred.”
- “A carefully elaborate ritual that the person tries to perform precisely, because he or she is afraid that – if any part is left out – everything will go wrong. The name of that ritual is Routine.”
- (p147) “The woman who knows the secret you are after. Extract that secret from her, or give it up forever.”
- (p156) Because we have dared to dream, an to believe in those things no one else any longer believes in.
- “Punish us because we speak of faith, and we feel hopeless. We speak of love, but we receive neither the affection nor the comfort we feel we deserve. We speak of freedom and we are prisoners to our own guilt.”
- “We are part of this world, Lord. And this world is filled with our fears.
- “If we love, the world changes. The light of love scatters the darkness of guilt.”
- “Require us to seek out the love of others. Even with fear of rejection, of severe glances, of the hardness of heart of some — do not permit us ever to give up our quest for love.”
- “May the fire of love grown in our hearts.
  May the fire of transformation glow in our movements,
  May the fire of purification burn away our sins.
  May the fire of justice guide our steps
  May the fire of wisdom illuminate our path
  May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished. It has returned, and we carry it within us.”
- We are warriors of the light, this light we carry with pride.”
- “And for this we accept forgiveness. There is no more guilt, and we can return to paradise. And we will bring with us the fire that will burn on earth.”
- We wash away our sins, for love of the transformation that is going to shake the Earth.
- The gates are open. We are worthy to enter.
Ten
- (p162) do not look at out sins, but at the faith that animates your assembly
- I love him. She is only enamored.
- I too need to change. This woman is an instrument of the angels.
- …her angel had taught her that such things took no one away from God, or from the sacred task each person had to perform in their life.
- (p164) standing before a mirror
- She knew the five rules of victory, and has slept with every man she desired, but she had forgotten the art of love.
Eleven
- “Bets and pacts are made with the angels. Or with the devils.”
Twelve
- Each person had his own gift.
- They were prisoners of their past.
- Because we’re different from one another.
- Why am I acting this way? What’s going on with me?
- “You’re not even giving me a chance to talk.”
- …she really hadn’t permitted him to talk. Now it was too late. She had to allow her second mind to recite its boring problems. To voice the same concerns, over and over.
- (p188) He walked along, looking up at the sky. He was still thinking about his bet, and about the planes. “Often I look at people like J.,” he said. “People like J., who are at peace, and through that peace, find communion with God. I look at you, able to talk with your angel before I was — even though it was I who came here to do that. I watch you sleeping so soundly, while I’m standing at the window, and I ask myself why the miracle I’m waiting so desperately for doesn’t happen. And I ask myself: Did I choose the wrong path?
  He turned to her “What do you thing? Did I choose the wrong path?
  Chris took his hand in hers. “no. You would be very unhappy.”
  “And so would you if you had chosen mine.”
  “That’s a good thing to remember.”
- (p192) Valhalla was a fantasy. The warrior women, the huntress.
- Each would always be fascinated by the other — so long as each remained exactly what the other imagined. (When you break myth to go inside, to pairbond, please to not hold me to the facade of the myth. I am more than my avatar and more than what you need me to be.)
- …although each had seen them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side.
Thirteen
- (p202) “There. It’s done.”
- (p207) …our moments of weakness and desperation – all are unimportant
- If, on the other hand, we accept all that is wrong about us — and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life — then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow Love to enter…
- …because one that his happy can look at the world only with love.
- …but you forgot that people are insecure, and they need someone to guide them.
- But my love is stronger.
- Love is even stronger…and it will help us grow.

Meow! Simon’s Cat: Let me in!

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Archangel Raguel

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Meaning of Name: Friend of God

Message to the Contemporary World: The presence of anger is the absence of wisdom. The presence of greed is the absence of God.

Patron Angel Of: Land owners, farmers, manual laborers, community leaders, agricultural workers, industry workers, community planners, managers, foremen, supervisors, multitaskers.

Usually Arrives in Your Life: When it’s time to reorganize your priorities and get down to business.

Touch in Love…

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When you touch a fellow human being in love, you are doing God’s work. See within each human being a fallen angel.

Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton,
“Emmanuel’s Book”

Daily Buddhist Wisdom

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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. – Alan Watts

Mia Interviews Heddgie, the first “unaccompanied hedgehog”

// July 29th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // life the universe and everything

Mia Interviews Heddgie, the first "unaccompanied hedgehog"

Originally uploaded by chinagrrrl

My daughter, Mia, interviews Hedggie the Hedgehog at CAK airport before his first “unaccompanied hedgehog” trip. Too funny.

Meow! Simon’s Cat: Cat Man Do

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A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to wake its sleeping owner.

Storypeople: Decisions

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Here’s the Story of the Day:

Decisions

This is a bag filled with dreams & recipes for soup & he’s deciding right now which he’s really hungry for.

Daily Dharma, July 29th, 2009 – Predicting the Future

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Daily Dharma, July 29th, 2009 – Predicting the Future

July 29, 2009

Posted by Philip Ryan in : Daily Dharma , trackback

We don’t need a psychic to tell us what our future experience will be—we need only look at our own minds. If we have a good heart and helpful intentions toward others, we will continually find happiness. If instead, the mind is filled with ordinary self-centered thoughts, with anger and harmful intentions toward others, we will find only difficult experiences.

- Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Tricycle Summer 1998

Horoscope: July 29, 2009

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Libra – Life just seems determined to break the lid off that box that holds your incredible creative genie. Maybe because you’re so smooth and well put together and you make it look easy, you don’t always get the credit you deserve for being a creative dynamo. On the other hand, a person in the grip of his or her creative daemon is often messy, chaotic and extremely self-focused; it could be your unwillingness to be perceived as such that keeps you from letting your creative genius flow freely. Whatever the reasons you hold yourself back, your 5th House of creativity, romance, self-expression and pleasure has been flooded with an ocean of healing energy this year. Life has been pushing you all year long to work through the wounds that keep you from playing joyfully in the world the way you did in your best days as a child. This area of your chart gets another blast of wake-up juice from the August 5 lunar eclipse, reminding you that you can’t be an enlightened member of the community if you’re not fully expressing the unique gift(s) you incarnated to share with the rest of us. BTW: With your ruling planet Venus now in your 10th House of career (the part of your chart marked for dramatic change in the coming months by the July 21 solar eclipse), you are especially attractive to power-brokers and well-placed people who can help you reach your career goals.

Daily Sun Sign horoscope
Libra – 29 Jul 2009
Financial security is the main thing on your mind today. So it’s worth doing the paperwork to sort out your budget. Once you have that organised, not only will you feel better, you’ll also be able to spend with a clear conscience. You have a deep understanding of the suffering of others and how to relieve it in a practical way.

Daily Vedic Moon Sign horoscope
Capricorn – 29 Jul 2009
Today, you are in the mood to seek encouragement and appreciation for all the good work you have achieved. You could be chosen to organize and streamline a project or an event. Friends may seek your valuable advice on certain organizational issues that confront them today.

Daily Chinese Sign horoscope
Dog – 29 Jul 2009
It’s a fantastic time to plan for the future. Your work is likely to progress steadily; therefore, your income is probably secure. Take this opportunity to focus your financial efforts on opening a savings account or a college fund for your family. For leisure, relax in the comfort of your home. You might even want to invite a few friends over for dinner and casual conversation.

Today’s Horoscope for Libra
You may be overly concerned about money management today, especially if you feel insecure about your situation. The material world feels less stable now, whether you are worried about meeting your financial obligations or paying for something special you want. Even if your concern is based on reality, your fears are potentially more damaging than your current circumstances. Replace thoughts of scarcity with visions of abundance.

The First Quarter of the Moon
The precise moment of the First Quarter was 6:00 pm Jul, 28 2009
A stressful period of time when there is a strong desire to accomplish something, to change, and to show oneself. However, before undertaking anything, first stop and think: is it really needed? Obstacles multiply at this time and contradictions sharpen. Plans developed under this influence often turn out to be unrealistic because people tend to overvalue their abilities.

The Moon is in Scorpio
until 4:11 pm Jul, 30 2009
An emotionally difficult time. There is increased jealousy, greediness, envy and other negative feelings. The colours of the world turn black and white. Sexuality and sensuality go up and strong, powerful emotions run high, whilst diplomacy and tact will noticeably decline. However, it is a good time for any occupation which needs intensity and total devotion.

Archangel Ramiel

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Meaning of Name: God’s mercy

Message to the Contemporary World: The only history a human can ever be certain of is that which he makes himself.

Patron Angel Of: Tribal elders, shamans, prophets, family elders, archivists, librarians, historians, educators, history museum curators, archeologists, forensic specialists, statisticians, stenographers, and stock market and economic analysts.

Usually Arrives in Your Life: When it’s time to revisit your past and recognize your life’s patterns in order to facilitate future healing and growth.

Weird Words: Titivil

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Weird Words: Titivil/?t?t?v?l/

Back in 1938, Paul Harvey wrote in The Oxford Companion to English Literature that “Titivil was evidently in origin a creation of monastic wit.”

He was thinking of the earliest sense of the word. A titivil was a very specific kind of tale-bearer. He was a devil whose job was to collect up the fragments of words or phrases that monks skipped or mumbled while they were reciting divine service. He took them down to Hell, where they were logged against the offender. Might he have been invented as a way to scare the less conscientious members of monastic congregations into saying their prayers properly? It seems more than likely.

He wasn’t English to start with. He turns up in continental Europe in the fourteenth century under various names, including Titinillus and Titivillus. He’s mentioned in a sermon dated to the early 1300s by a Dominican monk named Petrus de Palude who later became Patriarch of Jerusalem: “Fragmina psalmorum Titiuillus colligit horum. Quaque die mille vicibus sarcinat ille” (Titivillus collects up fragments of these psalms. Every day he fills his bag a thousand times.) One guess is that his name was from the Latin word titivillitium used by the Roman comic dramatist Titus Maccius Plautus and which seems to have meant a mere trifle or a trivial bit of gossip.

Titivil escaped from the cloisters into the medieval mystery plays and from there into the colloquial language as a mischievous tale-bearer or more generally a ne’er-do-well or scoundrel. He vanished from common usage around the beginning of the seventeenth century and this is among his last appearances:

Coquette: A pratling, or proud gossip; a fisking or fliperous minx; a cocket, or a tatling housewife; a titifill, a flebergebit.

A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, by Randle Cotgrave, 1611. The definition is worse than the original word for modern readers because so many of the terms are unfamiliar: pratling is from prattle and meant gossiping; fisking meant flighty or frisky; the OED does not define fliperous and it appears nowhere else but here; cocket is just an early English spelling of coquette; tatling meant passing on tittle-tattle; flebergebit would now be spelled flibbertigibbet. And proud then meant haughty or arrogant.

Mia’s first “unaccompanied minor” flight

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I did it. I did it without having an aneurysm or running after the plane screaming like a crazy woman.

Yesterday I took Mia to CAK airport and let her get on a non-stop flight to Denver, CO without me. Her first “unaccompanied minor” flight to have a weeklong vacation with her dad’s parents and all of their five grandchildren.

She’s been really excited for this trip. There was no reason to not let her go. So I muscled-up and did it.

Thanks to BG who kept me occupied and busy while my kid was in the air and thanks to flightview.com which let me track that airplane from CAK to DEN. And thank you for Verizon and Virgin cell phone service so I can be a neurotic mom while she’s away.

oh…they grow up so quickly.

Today’s Angel Quote

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Experiences with angels often involve a threatening situation which is suddenly resolved by a figure appearing from nowhere.

– H.C. Moolenburgh,
“Meetings With Angels”

PAS-Meriti: Sekhmet

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Behold, I smell the earth before the mighty one.
Behold how I have kept the vigil in the shrine of Sekhmet.
Behold, I am the child, the child of Sekhmet, the lady of the east.
I am with her. I am one with her.
I am Sekhmet and the flames of all those who praise her.
I am the hand of the powerful goddess, wearer of the solar disc.
I am the twice beautiful one, more splendid than yesterday.
I am she who goes forth with Ra. I am she.
My hair is the hair of Sekhmet, the golden one.
My eyes are the eyes of the lioness.
My ears are the ears of the goddess.
My nose is the nose of she who can sniff out all evil.
My teeth are the fangs, which can devour the darkness
My neck is the neck of the divine goddess.
My hands are the hands with long claws.
My forearms are the forearms of the mighty one
My backbone is golden and it shines with splendor
My chest is the chest of the mighty one of terror.
My belly and back are the belly and back of Sekhmet.
My buttocks are strong, as the goddess .
My hips and legs are the hips and legs of the goddess
My feet are the clawed feet of the lion goddess.
There is no part of me that is not of the goddess.
I am Sekhmet who cometh forth in the dawn.
I am the power of Ra by day.
I shall not be dragged back by my arms and none shall lay violent hands upon me, lest I destroy them utterly.
Nether man nor god shall hurt me, nor shall the living,
Nor shall the holy dead detain me.
Nor shall the demons destroy me in battle, for I am Sekhmet
And I shall eat off their faces.
I am she who cometh forth.
I am yesterday and I am the seer of millions of years.
I am the power of the divine judge.
I dwell in the east.
I am the lady of eternity, the unveiled one.
My name is created to defy all evil.
I am the flame that shineth in the sanctuary.
I am Sekhmet.

New Llewellyn Journal Article on Soul Mates

// July 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // life the universe and everything, personal

From: Llewellyn Journal Article

What Is a Soul Mate?

By: Ann Merivale

In his article relating to his newly published Encyclopedia of Angels¹, (Llewellyn Journal, 01-19-2009), Richard Webster recounts a recent visit he made with his wife to the Lac d’Annecy in the French Alps. His reason for going there was that he had heard of a delightful legend concerning the origins of this lake: that it (and a second one) had been formed by the copious tears wept by an angel who had been called back to Heaven and could not bear the thought of leaving that part of France.

Meow! Simon’s Cat: Fly Guy

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