Loving The World

ט'ו בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 16

Cosmos

י'ד בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 15

Commentary on Balak on this Full Moon Shabbat from Garden of the Dark Moon Jubilee - Cosmos.

Vardlokkur

י׳ בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 11

Last night in the middle of the night a storm blew out our power for five hours. But, my alarm clock is battery-operated, so I woke up anyway. After being out for five hours, just as it was time to stop hitting the snooze button and to actually get up, the power came back on. I got up. And wobbled to the bathroom, feeling ill and exhausted.

Yuck, there was no way I would make it through the day feeling like I did - power or no power. The power coming back on just didn't entice me to disregard what my body was telling me. I went back to bed and promptly fell back asleep. I slept until nearly noon - and woke up feeling so much better. It is truly amazing the miracles enough rest can work on a body. I must've really needed some.

Later this afternoon, I drew a magic rune from the bag which rests within my altar space. That rune was Ansuz - the rune of order from chaos, divine communication, ancestral transmission of knowledge, the power of the mind to use words and symbols for transformation and of the Vardlokkur.

Vardlokkur is an Old Norse word made from combining two words - vard meaning "warrant, guarantee, answer for; guard, watch, defend”; and lokkur meaning “magic song, magic charm.”

As physical rest guarded and restored my body, so too this vardlokkur answered the resting spell with a song of shabbat, restoring my mind.



Runerow entries:

Runes 1-3: Transmission of a Sacred Secret
Rune 4: The Wholiness Code
Rune 5: Mysteries of the Staircase
Rune 6: The Ship of Safe Passage
Rune 7: The Ætheling
Rune 8: Communication
Rune 9: The Nature Of My Work
Runes 10-11: Wyrd Shema
Rune 12: The View From My Room
Rune 13: Thurisaz On The Falling Man
Rune 14: Power To Do It
Rune 15: Wyrd Preparation
Rune 16: Mother Of Manifest Blessing
Rune 17: By Force Of Destiny
Rune 18: The Othala Force
Rune 19: Secrets Of The Name

My Oldest Grandsons Embark Upon A Journey

ח' בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 9

My three oldest grandsons (ages 8, 9 and 10) have entered upon and actively dedicated themselves to a spiritual path (two today and another a few weeks ago). While their paths and beliefs differ from my own, I am pleased that they desire spiritual development at this tender age.

May their way be well guided, lead to understanding, and be full of blessing.

Passed All Ten Exams For MDS 3.0 RAC-CT Professional Certification

ח' בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 9

I just completed all ten course exams for MDS 3.0 RAC-CT certification by the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators (AANAC). I sat down at my computer and did them all until they were done. Passed them all on the first attempt too. I should get my official certificate and pin within 7-14 business days.

I also joined and paid my dues yesterday to become a member of AANAC, the professional organization representing the work that I do.

I'm so glad I've gotten the exams over with. I hate taking tests, especially in one marathon sitting and when some test questions are not well written. Taking tests gives me a headache. But they're all done now - yay!

Vital Achdut

ז' בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 8

Commentary on Chukat from Garden of the Dark Moon Jubilee - Vital Achdut.

RAC-CT For MDS 3.0

ג' בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 4

Well, one day down, two more days to go. I'm in the process of getting certified as an RN Assessement Coordinator (RAC-CT) for MDS 3.0 which goes live October 1, 2010. I'm really happy that my employer is enabling me to get this official certification through the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators. After 3 days of intense training covering 10 courses of study, I'll have to take 10 final exams. This is a much appreciated opportunity - to get the professional credential as well as the excellent training in the new tool.

Right now, I'm sitting in my hotel room contemplating taking the first exam online with all the new info fresh in my brain. On the other hand, I'm pretty tired at the moment and I really don't want to do this using my laptop with its touchy keypad. I think I'll wait until this weekend after a good night's rest and when I can work on my desktop computer at home in my own familiar space.

This is a good thing!

Korach's Witch Of A Wife

א' בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 2

Responsible Citizen's poem on the comment thread at DovBear:

Now Korach was a good man
He always did what's right
But Moshe tried to rule him
And so he picked a fight.

He wanted to go back to Mitzrayim
That ancient happy land,
And so Hashem punched him
And he was swallowed in the sand!

My poetic response to Responsible Citizen:

Now Korach was a good man
He always did what's right
But Moshe tried to rule him
And so he picked a fight.

Now Korach's wife was a wicked woman
Her magic is the best
Moshe cannot rule her
At any time, in any test
Even as the tides of His story turns
She writes Her story's Purimfest.

Related entry - Korach's Argument and Aharon's Magical Staff

At The End Of The Rainbow

א' בתמוז תש"ע
Faunus 2

A storm rolled through the area a short time ago. Here is a photo that I just captured of the tree at the end of the rainbow on my street.

Related entry - like gold found at the end of a rainbow, through a golden thread of time, Korach's Argument and Aharon's Magical Staff.

Korach's Argument And Aharon's Magical Staff

ל׳ בסיון תש"ע
Faunus 1

Commentary on Korach from Garden of the Dark Moon Jubilee - Korach's Argument and Aharon's Magical Staff.

The Pre-History Of Desire

כ״ד בסיון תש"ע
Mab 25

I dreamt.

We human beings lived in a perfect place. Our perfect city was protected from the world at large, where the dinosaurs and other dangerous beasts lived, by a bubble-like energy field which surrounded our city. Our every need was effortlessly met. We lived in a perfect world.

We were protected, because living within our bubble-city, the creatures who lived outside our bubble-city just had no desire to come over to the part of the world where our bubble-city was located. The dinosaurs and other creatures stayed in the east. They had no desire to explore. If there was food there, they stayed. There was plenty of food where they lived. Our bubble-city was in the west.

There was one law which kept intact the bubble-like field which separated our perfect city in the world from the place where the dinosaurs and other beasts lived. There was only one law which separated our perfect city from the creaturely world of the dinosaurs - the world where the dinosaurs and the other creatures who didn't desire to know us - from we who lived in a perfect world. There was one law which separated our safe perfect world from the dangerous world of the creatures who didn't desire to know us.

We lived in a perfect world where all of our needs were effortlessly met. One of us desired to know what the dangerous world of the dinosaurs and other creatures was like. One of us desired to experience the world outside the bubble. One of us broke the one law which kept the bubble intact. The bubble evaporated and our city was exposed, becoming fully existent within the creaturely world of the dinosaurs.

Our city was no longer safely separated from the world of the dinosaurs and the other creatures. Some of the creatures, who before had not desired to know us, now desired to know us. These creatures came from the east toward our city. They came into our city and acted on their desire to know us.

We live in a perfect world. And now, so do all the creatures of the world.

I woke up.

An Ancient Book Of Shadows

כ״ג בסיון תש"ע
Mab 24

Commentary on Sh'lach from Garden of the Dark Moon Jubilee - An Ancient Book of Shadows.

Tzaraat, The Mystery Under The Skin

כ״ג בסיון תש"ע
Mab 24

Last night I dreamt.

Too normal.

Something like in the television series V, there were aliens among us with a plan to infiltrate and destroy humanity. Though the V aliens and the aliens in my dream were of the same intent - to destroy humanity - there was a critical difference between them, and it had to do with what was under the skin.

Unlike the aliens in V, the aliens in my dream weren't like us only skin deep. The aliens in the tv series are completely alien underneath the human skin they grow and cover themselves with to look like us on the surface. Underneath their skin, the V aliens are completely reptilian.

In my dream, alien intelligences infiltrated and infected human bodies. Once a human body was infected by an alien intelligence, it completely took over that body - the human being once in it was no longer there, but driven out. The human body completely became an avatar of the alien. The avatar body of the alien was completely human - there was no way one human could tell if another humanoid being was human or alien by just looking at it or through any medical, surgical or radiologic procedure. Either a human being or an alien being could inhabit any particular human body. The aliens looked so normal, too normal perhaps. Real human beings are just not normal. None of us are normal really, we are all flawed in some special, distinguishing way. There was nothing biologically to distinguish the aliens from us, either on the surface of their skin, in their DNA, or in their internal structure - for their bodies were human bodies emptied of the human being.

But, sometimes a human being would come to suspect that another person in his or her group might actually be an alien intelligence. There was nothing he or she could put their finger on - the person was obviously normal, but there was also something just under the surface, something not obvious, something just not normal about the person. The person seemed just a bit too normal to be a real human being. Real human beings are not really completely normal. We are all missing at least a few screws somewhere.

The Mystery of Tzaraat

When a human suspected that another might be an alien intelligence, the suspected person was brought into a special room hidden in a special place. The room was a hidden scientific laboratory set up by humanity in which an antidote to the alien infection was sought. There was also a special seeing device in the room through which it could be visualized (like a near-infrared or ultrasound device helps locate veins for vascular access) if the suspected humanoid brought to the attention of the scientific team in the room was an alien or a human being.

The scientific team leader looked at the suspect standing in the special place. If the humanoid was alien, the leader could see just under the skin thin white patches. These thin white patches scattered underneath the skin were visualized by the leader as patches of dense, highly concentrated areas of energy swirling so fast that to anyone else, they were invisible (like electrons in an electron cloud). The white patches were pancaked like a thin flat white electron cloud of vibrating energy underneath the surface of the alien humanoid's skin.

Kehunah

Humans could not be distinguished from the aliens sent to destroy us by the appearance of our skin, genetically or by the internal constitution of the body. It was only by the presence or absence of these thin white patches of vibrating energy just underneath the skin that human beings could be distinguished from the alien intelligences infiltrating to destroy us.

I saw the white patches under the suspect's skin. He was an alien with an intent to destroy us.

I woke up, wondering what we were going to do now that we had that knowledge and had made a clear distinction. Being human beings, what would we do now?