tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40820720758522758142024-03-13T13:47:41.981-07:00The Tarot ExperienceLuis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-455631878005907912010-04-29T13:43:00.001-07:002010-04-29T14:00:52.891-07:00The mythology of Taurus (II): The Hierophant<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWF_nrTpL-wN8LpocuselDaTCXpExfXzaUs0M4HoYKLg2Q4uv4AYrXUdhj7TNA6VlLN822N_-_ci4gNF5sZJPlJzsYvC-s9yMn2kvB9Eh5kYeQwgOULvUXpQFKK5eWXeuzPvZgVe_iwOZn/s1600/mac-taylor-gary-sinise-1750624-1024-768.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf15UUda8YzhdbUNbdyy5K2Fuvo55R1WTvoR92oR7gN17HXoNfWE5ovE-vxT4KQxe2_c_bvYMMUQUy2p9n6N8fO6XClYjkow_X8SW-gLalsLGdRGOOvLZC2yj2zRgRPO4sRTo_ZkbL3DDb/s1600/matildedecanossa.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveP45v4l5goRlZOILFjZUmPwdJ5Hl-dGRz5zh_c_LivSB-cbSddtg-7lyLLpCjdZiT_2v-aiPoE-RQ6AGHz5LnoX5IDg259Anos3Z2Y2_81tkRcJiM_zCUfP2566SjV9jzQeaubVUAcP7/s1600/hierophantprague.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjveP45v4l5goRlZOILFjZUmPwdJ5Hl-dGRz5zh_c_LivSB-cbSddtg-7lyLLpCjdZiT_2v-aiPoE-RQ6AGHz5LnoX5IDg259Anos3Z2Y2_81tkRcJiM_zCUfP2566SjV9jzQeaubVUAcP7/s400/hierophantprague.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465664384744075362" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Aries </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/2010/03/aries-is-sign-of-fire-beginning-of.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">here</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/2010/03/arcana-emperor-aries.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">here</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> ).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Bull had its first installment </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/2010/04/mythology-of-taurus-i_23.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">here</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> This letter speaks of doctrines and educationIt can indicates orthodoxy, comformity to established ideas and codes of social behavior: "The Emperor" of Aries symbolizes the rules and institutions that enforce them, "The Hierophant" reflects our sense of obedience</span>.</span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Taurus does not want complications in his life of leisure.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They conform to a group, they adapt to the system and are committed to its causes.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Far from imposing its dominance as the rams the Bulls are more subtle: they put in others a sense of obedience.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That makes the "Hierophant" perfect to represent the Taurus.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But who is this guy?</span></span><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Hierophant</span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">"Hierophant" was the priest of the mysteries of the Eleusis, in ancient GreeceCalling it "the" Eleusis is an unfortunate legacy of poets like those who speak of "the" America: Eleusis is a Greek city.</span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The data we know: the ritual in Eleusis began around 1600 BC (the year it's not a sure thing at all, but having so little data it would be a shame to remove it) in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone; each year were held the Lesser Mysteries and every five years the Greater Mysteries and there was a basket and a sacred chest.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To enter the brotherhood it was enough not have been convicted of murder and "not be a barbarian", ie to speak Greek fluently.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Period and that’s it, anything else is speculation. Nothing, absolutely nothing was written about the mysteries of Eleusis by original participants or sources.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Comments of Plato and other philosophers allow thinking the mysteries were about linking the man with the gods but that’s guessing.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7NAS6MtnSErP6mTgHWisu-ly5nc0KBD7EMZR1zIEkqQj3dSUuwL-wlXuHzdWIZB6_3guJK-jaGS5WPc7dUpddpBdrf6O90L-CL0H4OmF81hNqiDtnqxvP4ZLKwyltwyeWjOmmc6bwi8-P/s400/gen_eleusis_demeter_temple.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465664377232738434" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 244px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That has been enough for "researchers" review "real" mysteries of Eleusis, invoking a scroll that only they have and have linked to the Gnostics.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The truth is that the knowledge compiled in Eleusis, effective or not, is lost forever.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">With the rise of Christianity the mysteries gradually lost importance until Emperor Theodosius I declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and the Eleusis temples were razed in 396 AD Until this day nobody has proven that neither the Gnostics, or the Copts, or Arians, or the Cathars, or anyone retained this knowledge but "Brotherhoods" are invoked now and then, which apparently have occasional hard times which force them to publish their secret books to raise funds.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Pontifex Maximus and the episode of Canossa</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The title of Pontifex Maximus is not </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Christian nor Catholic: Pontíficex Maximus was the head of the Roman religion.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Julius Caesar himself occupied the office when he designed the basis of our present calendar.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then the emperor took the title for himself; today is not clear whether the first pope who used the title was Damasus I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(336-384) or Leo I (440-461).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anyway, for nearly four centuries the popes were not pontifex.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When the seat of empire was moved from Rome to Byzantium the pope was left without protection and Leo III called for help which he got but brought a very complicated problem: was the Emperor, representing the civil authority, subject to the pope, representative of God? The problem remained unsolved for centuries creating a crisis which finally bursted out at </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Canossa.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The story is convoluted, but since is the turning point in the relations between the papacy and the empire (with its interesting metaphor of the Aries-Taurus relationship) I will try to summarize it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtgto6Z_Gz_pNXvYJGINHEOzdWohPPgfyywznu-C2JDePwUVrKZL8NdisRkI2ONUry3aqnUCu7HlR4ueXEDvw6JCiyLIzLqABbuYbPaWs2Siq0GxFvb3t9s05ww95R5WTiKl7dpgjI7vt/s400/henryivygregoriovii.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465664380321457362" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Pope Gregory VII was one of the great reformers of the church, he confronted shames as the vacant sees (abbeys that were given to nobles who didn’t pay one visit but had all the privileges of the nobility) or priests living with their mistresses.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And he decided to get back the appointment of bishops for the papacy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;">At that time the Holy Roman Emperor virtually appointed all bishops and even the pope, but taking advantage from the fact that Henry IV was still a child, church officials announced "in the Name of God" that the pope would be elected onwards by the cardinals, a practice that is dogma now but is not foundational of the church.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In that context, when pope try to take one further step and sought to recover the appointment of bishops, the Emperor Henry, who though young was no longer a child, said he didn’t recognize the authority of the pope and was excommunicated.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Big mistake. Huge: Henry lacked experience and above all, his nobles had desires to know how that of being emperor felt, so they seize the ocassion and rebelled against the emperor Henry, backed by the bishops.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Uh-oh, said Henry, who had to ask an audience with the pope.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf15UUda8YzhdbUNbdyy5K2Fuvo55R1WTvoR92oR7gN17HXoNfWE5ovE-vxT4KQxe2_c_bvYMMUQUy2p9n6N8fO6XClYjkow_X8SW-gLalsLGdRGOOvLZC2yj2zRgRPO4sRTo_ZkbL3DDb/s400/matildedecanossa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465664389661548194" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 359px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gregory chose not to have the audience in Rome, out of fear that Henry will take his army to the city, so Matilda of Tuscany lent Gregory her fortress of Canossa.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There they met in January 1077.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8N8B1NpmAuxSxjoaNQQpGbXRQO5j_O3b-bEUMHmdWl8PBy6oIAj2KVnSokJWlcznr2F4fVI9mBBkO5LGnN_U9uvmAf9n9q4o8vAW4GCACFuHI84hjN2vbmrgbHFzW3iCIJSQTYxqeyYWT/s400/enriqueivantecanossa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465664372236619362" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As the great books of demonology had not begun to be written, nobody had told the pope that pride and rejoice in humilliation is a deadly sin.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gregory forced Henry to stay three days before the gates of the fortress, wearing only a shirt, kneeling in the snow, on bread and water for fasting to give him Christian penance.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then he accepted the Emperor back into the church.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;">But the rebel german nobles would not lose their chance and continued in arms. When the rebels chose a king to replace Henry and civil war broke out Gregory remained neutral for years, hoping that both sides would weaken each other and thus strengthening the position of the papacy. As a result of that move he lost the trust of both parties made a fatal error and allied with the rebels after an important victory.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It turned out that Henry lost the next battle from a strategic point of view ... but the head of the rebels died.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gregory, anticipating a serious problem, made his third mistake in line upon which he would have time to reflect in prayer: he rushed to excommunicate Henry again, neglecting to see that he was no longer a boy but a general.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For Germans, this excommunication was pointless except within the secular agenda of the Pope, who was acting as a hostile power.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So the people surrounded Henry who took up arms, settled scores with Matilda of Tuscany and besieged Rome, where he tried to impose another pope.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gregory witnessed the looting of the city until he was rescued and was taken to Salerno where he died the following year, reflecting on the holy virtue of prudence.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Henry faced another civil war nearly 15 years later and was forced to abdicate, accusing him of appointing an antipope.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Yet even today is considered a hero by his people as the figure who held the national dignity.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;">I'm not saying that Henry was a native of Aries and Gregorio of Taurus, but from an archetypal point of view, Henry was synchronized with the strengths of the Aries "Emperor" while Gregorio lost sight of the Taurus "Hierophant": if Gregory had not been so volatile in their decisions, had not tried to play the game of power without an army, had proclaimed a clear opinion and had not counted on the weakness of a young king whom he had humbled, things had been different. As arcane also illustrates what happens when bulls commited themselves to a cause, in this case the Investiture Controversy, in which Gregory probably had the reason, but he allowed that reason to blind him.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The archetype.</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKKwZ0siQyaC3_0Wj8ipYWmTm1qbE-vdzruHwy3F3eQ8ZpaZf3NdfjgUnXp7T1IRXlwOlt7YumzesUP0Ib684C6KP9Ovm3KJzE1D4B30Iffz-pSJllIe4iDx178hEcBnk6Lc8URYYP8n6/s400/remains_of_the_day.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465665873971879186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anthony Hopkins as James Stevens in "The Remains of the Day"on novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This steward represents the essence of an England that disappears quickly.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">His strength and his tragedy is that everything (including his feelings, which remains tightly repressed) should be made according to the rules of that national tradition which was disappearing before the eyes of everybody.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiceQVlic3Ub7JJ8W0rAGM63u22va3jMPDv5_CS3eDlZLT0_3ADe5s0QSpaQQaq3GQP5EAsFfByPUDwgwMCy9vqY-1TVxgouyyNK48sqYmD_cF1QI3MUwrjv6IKqAAjFU2n6F2P6AeT019E/s400/obi-wan-kenobi-01-large.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465665864914507906" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This character experiences a curious metamorphosis over the entire series.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the first installment though presented as a "Hermit", its role and its meaning is to initiate the formation of Luke in the ways of the Force and jedism is ultimately a religion.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwA73F1RYcCA4xJNdIKGue_E0DbtzabQJJDQIagQScEPseTB4IlUKThxlVb-V6cwULSwz1MVJsHtP4cPUmIzemMD6tFasqVqq7zg0ixo8pIe4JzmDcS5dpBYxUFjkgBXVXyY5wAbxlDJXX/s400/tomhagenje3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465665878476793554" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;">Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen in The Godfather. The Corleone family consigliere is usually the one trying to stop wars (especially those who crave the brutal Sonny, the eldest son of Don Vito) remembering that this is business and the rules of the mafia.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWF_nrTpL-wN8LpocuselDaTCXpExfXzaUs0M4HoYKLg2Q4uv4AYrXUdhj7TNA6VlLN822N_-_ci4gNF5sZJPlJzsYvC-s9yMn2kvB9Eh5kYeQwgOULvUXpQFKK5eWXeuzPvZgVe_iwOZn/s400/mac-taylor-gary-sinise-1750624-1024-768.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465665861348082402" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;">Gary Sinise as Mac Taylor in CSI: New York. Rare is the chapter where you don’t hear him trying to stop the impulses of one of his subordinates to achieve results at all costs: only following the book, slowly but surely</span></div></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-57162238765222750682010-04-26T09:23:00.000-07:002010-04-26T10:05:48.280-07:00A course in magic rituals: prepare your body<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfUMT96Hwoi1Y5FVquyUTQBy2JzKNLN9T6scQePdtglMaFO-SoUyYArVBvgkLS9v4jNMHOO3G8OhjN4ZfVIidPMtwZwLCvpbDv_hmHTqXmGYxnd_Wakdhyks3ufS7AfZtIs2A-MTV98Hh/s1600/sea-salts.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-background:white;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Before we begin let’s remember: tarot is not a magical activity (<a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/2010/04/course-in-magic-rituals-introduction.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><b>lesson </b></span></a>1).</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi- background:white;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES; mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-background:white;mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As much as some readers pretend to wear a supernatural aura, tarot is a discipline with methods that require study and therefore is available to everybody.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi- background:white;mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES; mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some people, indeed, have an extraordinary ability to read the cards without having studied them formally or informally but that is a hyper developed intuition which</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi- mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">for some reason, unknown as is the case in most intuitions, is triggered by a deck. It is a special gift, but not magic.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Curiously, those who having that gift use it unscrupulously begin to lose it. I would like to say that is a divine punishment for acting improperly, but the truth is more prosaic: intuition requires concentration. When the magician diverts his energies to the farce, intuition doesn’t have enough fuel. If they do this long enough they’ll lose contact with their gift as the brain adapt to new requirements, such as making money and pose as the reincarnation of Merlin.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGoV1o7hzmM-Q_JrWMBQFaAGtvnulDWocgH-xkj2mGQPculsvgJzZ2R2fM0MpbgrcukHmfx650uQUolNmnPbf9zdCBAXqZGWLPbRAgU2n7TbVX5NYJHj8CovqGy5CdRcp56oqLXpTFjaI/s400/mario_power_tennis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464492222560053554" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 312px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Magic is a discipline like a sporting event, is the celebration of human capacities, the most extreme ones, the least used, but available to everybody since the main instrument is the body and everybody has one. And just like a tennis player can get a boost from hi-tech shoes, racket and even steroids if he wants to cheat, that will only give advantage over a similar opponent: if that opponent is an Olympic champion and the owner of the NASA racket is a weekend player then hi-tech is not a safe bet at all. So it doesn’t matter if you buy expensive oils by catalog, bring your candles from the Basilica of Lourdes and buy the robe wear by the hierophant of the Orphic mysteries three thousand years ago; if you don’t treat your body properly and prepare yourself for a major effort, which can lead you to exhaustion, I strongly advise you not to waste time or money in rituals.</span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To produce energy we need to be in the right physical condition. I don’t mean you have to join a gym (although in extreme cases it might be necessary) but watch your diet before and during the ritual.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKnTRMATgH__5JNx8mIZOsXRrag6kq2O41SUG5uIGOJPk3lIxRkY_cNyWlE7NhfKSWPUB9B2GTWn-7_wa1yQBhl9MmSG-4OCo6eS2t19yGkjmQXoZGELO2Ufqh5kQ4Re6nL8N872F-18h/s400/pyramid.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464492228772427250" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s no special scheme, all religions have been concerned about the food. Personally I have always wondered, why the same God who gives us the recipes needed to reach a happy eternal life also created animals which he put out out reach afterwards in spite being delicious meat rich in protein? It would be a lame and mean joke. Behind alimentary approvals and taboos there are historical and public health considerations (rather than divine, which enhance them in my eyes, because they give meaning to the prohibition different from to see if we can resist temptation) and a fundamental message: "Eat healthy."</span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is advisable to start preparing yourself a week before the ritual. No junk food, no alcohol and reduce the consumption of red meat without removing it completely form your diet (unless you are vegetarian), eating natural fruits and waive any drug unless it is included in a medical treatment: only if the pain prevents you from acting prefer these days tolerate a headache or use naturist substitutes instead of taking an aspirin. I'm not encouraging you to abandon modern medicine nor am I implying that there is something wrong with synthetic medicines, I’m simply saying the fewer foreign substances in your body the better. Now, psychotropic substances, synthetic or natural, must be banished these days unless there are medical or religious reasons and you are not using them as recreational substances. If you want to dodge this point invoking precedents like the Sibyl of Delphi and the priestesses of Kali be my guest but I kindly suggest you go to have these learned discussions elsewhere, with an opium pipe if you want to honor the shaolin deities, but you shouldn’t engage in a ritual.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfUMT96Hwoi1Y5FVquyUTQBy2JzKNLN9T6scQePdtglMaFO-SoUyYArVBvgkLS9v4jNMHOO3G8OhjN4ZfVIidPMtwZwLCvpbDv_hmHTqXmGYxnd_Wakdhyks3ufS7AfZtIs2A-MTV98Hh/s400/sea-salts.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464492242423833410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 375px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">During the twelve hours before the ritual do not eat refined sugar or refined flour; prefer whole wheat bread and honey. Do not smoke. Do not have sexual activity, including masturbation. A clarification is necessary here: this is not a moral prohibition and I am not implying that sex is bad in any way or that masturbation is sinful. Sex just release a major amount of physical energy you will need, so if you can refrain from sexual activity throughout the whole previous week, the better.</span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbGP7EXgyGejqHJL7fn0iRtaBxXbLvIGJDfucVE0mwBYuC9ZuIrjLFcMFGVJITL5uud-O3J_GayFKWRD4TDB-b_uOhMNn22qCDGcZNY8_rOaJpmu9r08KMaxf7n_JbdBBJzDss5KJ6KqXp/s400/Salt_Sea.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464492240101264114" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Your ritual begins with the bath the night before (or at dawn, unless otherwise specified) At that very moment your body, with all that it contains, becomes the instrument of your work. This bath is not a soap and water one; if you need a bath like that take it before. You will need some salts and herbs but sea salt suffice if you don’t have anything else. If possible use a tub where you can dip, if you do not have one do your preparations in a container that can be easily pulled over your head to pour the water.</span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpweeeX7ERy9xkvpnM__-3-PDalfSDn-RqX2iBNqyrwQOF-AjBtgdMzqgCe-2RexOCHre98p8UVZsRw7rxXEBTgj0g1vlqjxBF0ASfB7xvjdMvYYSe7jyzVOiJ6T3Lv8Fe23X5wEos7eSR/s400/bath_candles.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464492214523546082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If using a tub: as unpleasant as it seems, prefer cold water. Pour the sea salt into the tub and put the herbs and salts in thin cloth bags as an infusion (a bag for salts, another for herbs) and put them in hot water not boiling. When the vapors are released, pour the still hot water in the bathtub. If standing in the absence of a tub, you pour the contents of the container where you put the salts and herbs over yourself. While doing this think all the time about the objective you want to achieve with the work you’re starting.</span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Does the bath have some mystical power? Is the spirit of the sirens living in the sea salt? Well ... no. But is not less useful for that. The bath, the candles and oil and the whole preparations will notify your body, mind and brain that the next days there will be some minutes radically different from usual and they’re exempt from ordinary logic. It’s not enough that you believe it: you need to do things. In fact, it is easier to get results from the ritual by performing small acts with discipline even if you have doubts (there’s a difference between having doubts and being incredulous; if you’re are in the second type and are doing this to demonstrate it doesn’t work spare your time and money: it won’t, I’ll concede the point) than if you believe blindly but only do meditation, for as though your mind produce energy, and I use the term knowing it is inaccurate for lack of a better one, it needs the body to conduct it.</span></span></span></div><div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the next post we will discuss general accessories, if the series keeps interest. Then we’ll discuss time of day or times of the month or year more appropriate. And then we’ll be ready for some examples of rituals</span></span></span></span></span></div></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-59383557313836652662010-04-23T14:16:00.000-07:002010-04-23T14:27:51.550-07:00The mythology of Taurus (I)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yNbDbPwg0APiohuZkBSO-bbCe1Bcxhq9w3VpdTHGhuI7KXxwvNnGp3kLskYmIVUKWavXtCUhxUWTtIrFHp9A7pI8D8Un8De91ivBXo4cdLDUEQRtZ7bee8cqzaAluiKUjLlMTPyP2Sb4/s1600/taurusurania.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 366px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yNbDbPwg0APiohuZkBSO-bbCe1Bcxhq9w3VpdTHGhuI7KXxwvNnGp3kLskYmIVUKWavXtCUhxUWTtIrFHp9A7pI8D8Un8De91ivBXo4cdLDUEQRtZ7bee8cqzaAluiKUjLlMTPyP2Sb4/s400/taurusurania.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463447447247763666" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";font-size:11.0pt;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Leaving behind the baby</span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/2010/03/aries-is-sign-of-fire-beginning-of.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><b>Aries</b></span></a></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/2010/03/aries-is-sign-of-fire-beginning-of.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><b> </b></span></a></span></span></span><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">we now find a chubby smiling and happy child of one or two years, who hates change and although he has a lot of energy, has learned he can get things without putting much effort</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Taurus is solid and firm and rarely let anything affect his peace of mind: you can throw hot water at him, hit his chest and slide needles under his fingernails and Taurus will not move.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not an inch: once taken his position he quietly crosses his arms, sits on his heels, sigh... and to hell with you.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He rarely let anybody running over him.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bother him and he’ll turn his back on you hoping you get lost.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Push him and he will get more stubborn.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But when you put on his back that last blade of grass he’s not putting up with, the Bull will unleash a violent rage and charge against everybody and everything, whether or not is related to the cause of his anger.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Taurus is sensual, appreciate perfumes, good food, elegant and sober clothing, and when conquering he is not pursuing his preys, since he prefers to attract people to him.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And the best part is that often get away with it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Taurus is a bull, but what bull and how it became a Constellation?</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The bull of Mesopotamia</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmOmdm6m9NES4iVARCtHyvcg9N9W2AUca2_kxyH7J44iwGwlMWwwuqAYCMTpJy__rxWkgp_C0Pd-Esfgq7JRnIjJ6Mdy0Tut75cFFyE9g3OAQu6kpXzgHK6ebbpg_n_u_vMOTwTze7xq3s/s400/inanna.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463446782735094850" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The hero of the Sumerian civilization is Gilgamesh, who once had the not very good idea to reject the advances of the goddess Inanna. I do not know if Innana was particularly ugly but the Sumerians, with a twisted sense of humor, made her goddess of sexual love, fertility and war at the same time. Considering the unpredictability of a goddess with such diverse patronage, one understands that Gilgamesh had prefer to abstain</span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPSfLWCtfdWNQip1aepa3VPjhKya1f4c2yp_IVfpu5zKYtDh999dFV7TxP6-5DUfwHllm88nUW0ectGdR55RplDGscsJbHYvvUyL-DGuvyGQSuPzjGGpj5cm7msDus83ZH-h4PKVv0XaY/s400/gilgameshtoro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463446777622353362" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 308px; " /></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, even without being God, what makes a woman scorned?</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That’s it: gets revenge. And if you are a goddess you have special resources available, so she took the case to the assembly of gods and with their permission she borrowed from her sister, the queen of the underworld, her husband, the bull Gugalanna that made the earth tremble at every step.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Earthquake and everything, Gilgamesh dismembered the monster while Inanna watched from the walls of the holy city and the hero's faithful squire tore the insides of the divine bull and threatened Inanna to do the same to her if he reached her, which is why the gods killed him soon after: one is to win in a fight and another to threaten a goddess who had already suffered a rebuff.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The "European" bull</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-sW40W-fPq5s2058ClNhMzTTFBPRO0wMvksphQqNgAjGBh6QSOrz4-Q8KcYJtEy2GCC1wfDg1G8klOvUZM2pf3DXl0aZtprW__V14Xi_Yqt_PBNcjfQYHd6QOjWVtuPeizDdnLfN2ZLt/s400/raptodeeuropa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463446798664859954" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Europe was a Phoenician maiden, so beautiful that Zeus, king of the gods, fell in love with her.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Having the king of the gods falling in love with a mortal may sound like a great honor, but let’s say Zeus fell in love easily with anything and anybody, meaning he was shamelessly promiscuous, which degrades the honor a little.</span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Europe had a habit of going to the sea coast.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not far from her favorite spot the cattle of the king, his father, used to graze and one day a white bull of docile aspect separated from other animals: it was Zeus, determined to seduce the girl (let's be a little generous with words: "seduce" included kidnapping and rape)</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The girl, attracted by this beautiful animal, adorned his horns with flowers.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then he had the idea of sitting on its back.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who would seat on the back of an enormous bull just because it is pretty I do not know, but that </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">gives new meaning to the question of what the woman made to be raped: Zeus seized the opportunity to run, plunged into the sea and showing that one is god for something, he arrived to the island of Crete where he finally stopped.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Zeus abandoned her after she gave birth to his three children (the myths do not elaborate much on the logistics of these things: if Zeus spent three years with her, if they were triplets, if he came and went and specially if Zeus gave up his bull disguise, although he told her who he was) and Europe married the local king, which would adopt the children he had by Zeus, including Minos</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To prevent you to say that Zeus was a damn chauvinistic male, let’s remember he left Europe some gifts: a necklace made by Hephaestus, the god of metallurgy; Talos, a giant of bronze who was the first guardian of Crete, forged by the Cyclops, one-eyed giants that made the thunderbolts of Zeus; Laelaps, a hound who always caught his prey, and a javelin that never failed its target.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Considering it was a kidnap, one would say he didn’t behave so badly.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Cretan bull</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPrmqVUUCaP1hsi1K86L0D1mClBrieXcb84r6FKqWPGTtBb0FOrO-8HXImYr5P1h3p8ihxvhcJiaQgHCsuRtDYWmcQqusXYAK_W6Og7feV9Utj-CNtAsYExhtTOK8e1Q-DvdqifkheMMn/s400/minos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463446784851496962" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px; " /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The most famous ruler of Crete, author of its constitution and creator of their naval power was King Minos (not existed), which is not surprising, considering that his father, Zeus himself, taught trade and constitutional law.</span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To ensure his ascent to the throne over his brothers, who he was eager to banish, Minos asked Poseidon, god of the oceans and his uncle, to show Minos was his favorite by making a white bull come out of the sea so Minos can sacrifice the animal to the god.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Despite the absurdity of a god sending a superb land animal from the water so it can be killed in his honor, Poseidon accpeted.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The people were convinced, Minos could banish his brothers and reign... and decided that the animal was too beautiful to kill him, so he sacrificed to Poseidon a less pretty one.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is a comedy of errors already, but it got better when the god managed an extraordinary revenge by making queen Pasiphae fall in love with the bull.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2sL8xkSqbfnAxjV4MfWyG2O9oYy8r4W_7nloD9wG3XAzU_AaiZKz5Nq3cAN1gsryAbKnJGZ63eV767pu4Wanil1UKczHb0BfPjU-MRjhr4hipOKBk_1-6CFb_J7Y3U6BYw2QGME6y0CpO/s400/pasifae-jpeg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463446788915203330" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 232px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Considering that Minos was the son of another bull, maybe the queen, seeing her father in law, thought that stranger things had happened in that family.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So he called Daedalus, something like the scientist of the court, and asked him to invent something that would allow her to mate with the bull.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daedalus invented a kind of cow where Pasiphae came in to see if the bull idem her.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Things worked out smoothly so to speak and for such a love was born the Minotaur, a monster with human body and head of a bull who fed on human flesh and was confined in a maze, but that is a myth for another day (Minotaur's father, the white bull, was released and Hercules had to catch him, another myth for another day)</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><div><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The bull in the constellation is the Phoenician or Greek one, in both cases is the same group of stars for the Greeks knew the Sumerian astrology.</span></span><span style=" font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In any case, the Bull holds for those born under its sign its grandeur, the joy of living, the sensuality, the docility, the nobility and the quiet way of seeing things, in spite of knowing he has been born for slaughter</span></span></span></span></div></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-23106499929663647622010-04-19T13:01:00.000-07:002010-04-19T13:25:18.797-07:00Voyage to the magic: Cathedral of Chartres<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtVejmZ8FbE8WcivlR61UOa-eXu0V0gDNtHBLQhVNdplT6Uye3Seuv66misFLV15QMtlf-fbkd_G3_n0sYKpV7lEpLnthtj0qxDvWcXz4QW1-AH1ozEviD0y4-Z8TgTrXLVxflu7ASCdm/s1600/ChartresLab2.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnsUeTpvPAFUE5G9cniS2ubveKW6iWoC3L0bqNJz0v-szMclSDoFofT0eMMotyOqVext4m9AoCO-Nje2FhVPgxxPYsxDJL8wfb5-cvN5tzqiRbm6zc9nCYfmcqywJpLNSE5HcXjCl5sCe/s1600/virgo-constellation.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcsJTGiTCjHarFK1KSqMhK-UMbw962NSV5XvkqlBiHJ8mu6F7fuQqM9vGk5B3E0cpZe6HAHmAhChOpn7c2NZaxA6i-4QBFXvoiwy3_SJ3fFustdzEA4bmbeO4GZXNVvnYX5QOhzpgo5Bg/s1600/cathedral_cities.jpg"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj379OsqZCQJ56IE-HxVIzhyphenhyphengmrOp9X3R8z4Htd3kM0eA7pf-t0uwo6ndkrQNDI0EgnCK7kk1Ce420zSJ_cvb-kZuMShhn_GSOKeij_5EQtto-tFQNIP54-QkGzuA0Xfvxwz4BQYYhTz6Nc/s1600/france_eure_et_loir_chartres_bords_de_l_eure.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgjTrmAaWklcaEp-kOP1doODlcKrvYlLm9Iog1RNr4D5u-PNbvY2Yd2X75_6akGaCz1Zdey-NyK-JfVJ5fKkXp802ovlIZf0eWepF-pF1m1DeD-K7aShInN5topP4yIWsqeRfO4_aI0Cu/s1600/chartres_cathedral_023_martyrs_s_ttaylor.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscqr1Su146_7X-TzUS0uRkPqS2wSPjSZ__9Z9Z7AeszFQPTtxxy6LWZBDZ1tKXKCR4Zyzz5Pzk9YZx2ZXOM8wNcUlm663Em2d5CuKO5B_rPEHWjQWNZ8_IE_VNS3rAgx0Fgz_E4DnEVKW/s1600/chartrespan01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscqr1Su146_7X-TzUS0uRkPqS2wSPjSZ__9Z9Z7AeszFQPTtxxy6LWZBDZ1tKXKCR4Zyzz5Pzk9YZx2ZXOM8wNcUlm663Em2d5CuKO5B_rPEHWjQWNZ8_IE_VNS3rAgx0Fgz_E4DnEVKW/s400/chartrespan01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461944986659072690" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There is a small town some sixty miles southwest of Paris, Chartres, barely forty thousand inhabitants; around the Mediterranean there are thousands of similar villages. </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But Chartres... is something else.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is a town of which tons have been written about the mysteries of its cathedral</span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj379OsqZCQJ56IE-HxVIzhyphenhyphengmrOp9X3R8z4Htd3kM0eA7pf-t0uwo6ndkrQNDI0EgnCK7kk1Ce420zSJ_cvb-kZuMShhn_GSOKeij_5EQtto-tFQNIP54-QkGzuA0Xfvxwz4BQYYhTz6Nc/s400/france_eure_et_loir_chartres_bords_de_l_eure.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461944998036892578" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The first mystery of the Chartres Cathedral is the cathedral.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The town's name comes from Civitas Carnutum, city of Carnutes, “Carnutes” being a Celtic people in the heart of the Gaul’s portion independent of Rome, something like the Asterix comics.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That gives this place a long tradition of pagan Druids, with its colorful legends of astronomy, medicine and human sacrifices and, of course, one of the most important temples left in this place.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then a Christian temple was built upon the Celtic sanctuary.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">According to legend, Charlemagne gave the town a robe of the Virgin Mary and, when the temple caught fire, after three days emerged from the wreckage several monks carrying the Holy Shirt intact.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It was a miracle and to accommodate it, the church was rebuilt in the new Gothic style: a magnificent cathedral begun in 1195.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAgjTrmAaWklcaEp-kOP1doODlcKrvYlLm9Iog1RNr4D5u-PNbvY2Yd2X75_6akGaCz1Zdey-NyK-JfVJ5fKkXp802ovlIZf0eWepF-pF1m1DeD-K7aShInN5topP4yIWsqeRfO4_aI0Cu/s400/chartres_cathedral_023_martyrs_s_ttaylor.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461944988914394290" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And so the questions begin.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chartres Cathedral is a titan: it has the world's most voluminous vault, a maximum height of 377,3 ft. and the cruiser has 364 ft. (compared to 426,5 ft. of Notre Dame de Paris). It could accommodate 40,000 people snugly, the current population of Chartres, more capacity that many rock concerts.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The cathedral is visible six miles away, it was the first example of Gothic, and for some experts neither Notre Dame nor Cologne is the best example of this style, but Chartres.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The measurements of the cathedral are full of symbolism, to give a few: the 110.7 meters of the cruiser are related to the 1107 kilometers traveled by a point on the earth's crust over a year around the sun.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The mean measure used in the cathedral was the "elbow of chartres" which is the one hundred thousandth part of the parallel where the church stands.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And in the most famous phenomenon, on 21 June, the day of the summer solstice, Celtic sacred date, enter a stained glass window a ray of sunshine that illuminates a slab different from the others.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/16zh6zPlX98&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/16zh6zPlX98&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The truth is that ever since when Louis Charpentier in 1965 popularized the issue of the slab beam in a fun but not very rigorous book about Gothic art many questions have arised and the most curious one is: why nobody had thought of that before?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To build a building like that today would take a respectable amount of time.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now imagine building it in the thirteenth century in twenty-six years, with so much mathematics in its design.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We are talking about an army of carpenters, masons, wheelwrights, sculptors, painters, glassmakers and put in the mix food, accommodation, families etc.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All other cathedrals were built over literally centuries; Chartres never lacked money or labor.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All this in a town that had absolutely nothing and a population of barely five thousand souls; even putting all the people in the cathedral it still looked empty.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Why such an effort in this place, while Paris had to stop his church for lack of money, having comparable relics and much more political importance?</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Why bring to this remote place the best minds from far away lands to raise such a monument, where no taxes nor nobility would pay for it?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here are the Templars. And the constellation Virgo</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lets burst the balloon of the most famous mystery, the summer solstice.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The fuss is because the level of medieval mathematics made it almost impossible such an accurate calculation and therefore some kind of superior intelligence (aliens are a favorite) must be involved.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On the one hand, the Druids built Stonehenge thousands of years before Christ and that pile of stone makes more interesting things than calculating the summer solstice (if you say Stonehenge itself was built by aliens I’ll have to ask for proof).</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">most important is that the stained glass and the slab of Charpentier’s story were set in 1705, not in the original building, when astronomy was far more developed. But the rest of the mathematics of Chartres, while less spectacular, is more challenging.</span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, here are the Templars.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those bankers-monks-warriors were the patrons of the cathedral.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">According to legend, in their excavations at the Temple of Solomon they found the remains of the Ark of the Covenant, the tablets of the Ten Commandments or something like that and learned the "perfect" measures the divine mind used: in other words, measures used by God when he created the world.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Without going that far, the church was built in Chartres because there was the Temple of the Carnutes.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What has to do a Christian church with the Celtics?</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The modern interpretation says the church built its temples in places of heathen worship trying to reduce the negative reaction of peoples determined to protect their ancient customs so the christianization would be easier. There’s something of that, but in this case is not the whole explanation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s a constellation with a curious history: Virgo.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Most civilizations linked it to the "Great Mother" provider of food and fertility.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is true for Celts, Egyptians and Greeks, the latter being the ones who bequeathed the constellation to us in the zodiac.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While other constellations changed their names or configuration, Virgo remained unabated.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnsUeTpvPAFUE5G9cniS2ubveKW6iWoC3L0bqNJz0v-szMclSDoFofT0eMMotyOqVext4m9AoCO-Nje2FhVPgxxPYsxDJL8wfb5-cvN5tzqiRbm6zc9nCYfmcqywJpLNSE5HcXjCl5sCe/s400/virgo-constellation.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461946259259053730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:Georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The truth is the Templars did not want a Christian church, in the strict sense, but Marian.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And they wanted it in Chartres because the Celts had their temples located so they mimic exactly on land (or at least as much as the topography and the Roman legions allowed) Virgo settings.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Paris was doing its job already, Reims was the site of coronation of kings ... if the Templars wanted to replicate the star map they would have to do the work at Chartres, that god forsaken town.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And they undertook the task with its endless coffers.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:Georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:Georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtVejmZ8FbE8WcivlR61UOa-eXu0V0gDNtHBLQhVNdplT6Uye3Seuv66misFLV15QMtlf-fbkd_G3_n0sYKpV7lEpLnthtj0qxDvWcXz4QW1-AH1ozEviD0y4-Z8TgTrXLVxflu7ASCdm/s400/ChartresLab2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461947055001140994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 378px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); font-family:Georgia;"><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><strong><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Why was it important to reproduce the cosmic map?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here again comes in the legend for nobody knows for sure.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The idea is found in an ancient mystical text: "As it is above, so it is below" and there are similar configurations of buildings in Egypt or Persia or India and the Templars surely knew.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The most well-worn argument is that there are underground energy currents in the earth and these buildings stimulate them, just like acupuncture needles would do, but it has also benn said they were on points marking portals to hell or airfields for angels (now UFO).</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What is clear is that the work was done and it is impossible to consider it a coincidence when comparing the astronomical maps and layout of cathedrals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In a future post, if you find this interesting, we talk about the iconography of the Ark in the Cathedral, the holy well and its mysterious labyrinth of penance</span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-12530793417405066962010-04-16T13:17:00.000-07:002010-04-16T13:42:51.724-07:00A course in magic rituals: rituals & divinity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrzT6sUFk3ntsAAF0BbYCYEzMF3PEw_Rd63IyTf9vvtky6ZqxrwWPXSulweYus4-hEMM4HT6gHzaunlwDWoXAiC6gs7Zdk7_jaW1W6jJYj98pecGQADSxfFRpqiktageJEOEIDIjNDbMi/s1600/tools.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrzT6sUFk3ntsAAF0BbYCYEzMF3PEw_Rd63IyTf9vvtky6ZqxrwWPXSulweYus4-hEMM4HT6gHzaunlwDWoXAiC6gs7Zdk7_jaW1W6jJYj98pecGQADSxfFRpqiktageJEOEIDIjNDbMi/s400/tools.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460837604125160946" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Are certain accessories required to do a magical ritual? The answer is long and must be handled with care and therefore, as always in these things is "it depends"</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Accessories play a very important role not quite well understood: making visible the ritual, make it accessible to our senses, facilitate our participation. But as the name says: they are </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">accessories</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> to the ritual, the ritual is what matters and in turn the ritual is the way to tune into our underlying capabilities, which are the real important issue.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ieUmAFbHxtb9bqlEuch_Ax4fOtGTjYQ4ubh9q_qIJsmyhJnkqiNnT11E9mMxmqrR71QKeOkR3DYeMrD91SZE_AJrCEMDh5udSHbZnq5APgOOOTGQY8qN7rHn19pRgVFGaD-KJZiEBhN6/s400/mind-power1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460837600074388018" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 336px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">God, that which the reader believes in, or the universe or Mother Earth or cosmic powers or evolution, whatever you choose, gave each person unique and unrepeatable gifts: a body and mind. Some people include a third gift, a spirit, but at least the first two are out of discussion, we all accept them perhaps with different definitions. I do not want to get into the “spirit” discussion and I’ll leave his beliefs to each one, so let’s accept the first two; whether we've received them from a conscious entity or a blind force, we've got to use those gifts.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Daily life makes difficult for us to learn how to use our gifts: the mind is bombed all the time with contradictory information, knowledge changes rapidly and is increasingly uncertain and the time to stop and think is getting extremely scarce. In turn, the body is subjected to the aggression of an impossible ideal of beauty and pursuing pleasures that leave us empty. I do not want to be sanctimonious, surely somebody may have a good time that way, that's not my point, but the fact that noise and frenzy prevent us from hearing our inner voice.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOQVG_u1np5RlJ3KgOKE9kVphyVJxmqF65n29kNOn88QyxeWli8b3Bx2-Mzq6WjclMbD2inhNYniEDgmsVXApb6HSyMWvYTFxTSEblNWSbqoqjtgcb2oZ9ZLBkb-L7mRKvu2uNmv4xoT4/s400/innervoice.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460837593031409250" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rituals amplify this inner voice and tune yourself with transcendent truths; rituals are </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">means</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> although those who officiate them love to turn them into an end. The Christian Mass is a ritual, it should never be more important than Christ. The prayer facing Mecca is a ritual, it shouldn’t be more important than Allah. Like bathing in the Ganges, the worship of the woods, the Bar Mitzvah. When the importance of priesthood and rituals surpass that of the divinity and that of the relationship of each parishioner with that divinity, that religion, whichever it is, becomes ill and dangerous.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I confess I’m a deist, which would have costed me excommunication (maybe still, I do not know) The deist prefers to be wrong in good faith and trying to make a good deed rather than trying to adhere to rules that do not understand. He believes that God, defined as you want It and summarized in that word, is above human institutions, so the deist looks for guidance in all religions and apprecitate and listen to them all but not always obey them. The deist takes the universe as his country, the humanity as his church and ethics as his faith.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In this context we’ll talk about rituals. I’m not inviting anyone to become a deist like myself; in order to be consistent what is useful to someone is automatically good to me. If a person has chosen to be attached to the book of a religion, his church and its precepts, wonderful. But my intention is not to convince you of anything, I assume you've decided to make your explorations, even if you reject them once tested.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The ritual itself is not magic, the magic lives in each practitioner. The goal of a ritual is to have your energy focused. From a biological standpoint, what you do in a ritual is create brain connections to accomplish something or solve a problem.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZIDl8Wb1va0&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZIDl8Wb1va0&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Remember the Dumbo's magic feather? In the story, crows convince the big-eared elephant that he could fly if he held a magic pen with his trunk. Of course, the feather is all too common from the tail of one of the crows: what is magical is Dumbo’s determination to move his ears so vigorously that he flies. While flying he loses the feather and begin to fall, but the crows insist he can fly without it ... and he do it. That must be the dream of every honest magician: to find the feather for each practitioner and then watch him fly without dependence.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, some accesories are appropriate in certain rituals to ensure the proper state of mind, the "tuning" but not giving the word the meaning the authors of supermarket give to it. They are not covered by some strange physical force, neither an electromagnetic radiation, these accessories don’t have a genius like Aladdin’s living inside and all you have to do is make a wish. What we </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">do</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> with them will notify our body, our brain "Ssssshhh...”, the’ll say at the beginning of the ritual, “these are those weird ten minutes the boss is having, attention… get to work!"And that body, that soul, that spirit if you want to include it (or our reserves of strength of will) mobilize towards your goal.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobx3QUiPEhGTfOM1Bun4-hKyX3Qhr1QVNTrfrPC8p2L9YTpdG9WmMsXXtl9-aUCqQJTXeRMThQ4lZ3sr55sYyzHAFwAzEFyYPn4NfdmIpPE5zZkpGZyy_HO7IHdDbV31Z0ztc_d60Ts7O/s400/ritual.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460837601262113410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Do the rituals work always? No, but I can say I've seen them working more than 90% of the time. There are multiple reasons which prevent them form working well, we will see many. But what I can say is that it's more possible to get what one wants by concentrating forces to achieve it (and acting accordingly, as we will faith can move mountains, but rarely by telekinesis: you must apply to move them) that by letting things just run as it is easier to earn a raffle buying a ticket than not.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The common element to all ritual is the preparation bath, which includes water and salts (hopefully make by the practitioner) and oils (easier to buy from a good provider; some advise the practicioner should do them but it is difficult and expensive and without any gain beyond the caprice). Is this somehow magical metaphysics? If the question refers to some supernatural power in the water or salts, no. But if the combination solve the problem, it was your will, the water or the salts or other implements of the ritual? The answer is: all of them, is a sinergy.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Robert Oppenheimer had a story: he hung a horseshoe on the door of his house for good luck and when his physical friends mocked him for believing in omens, he replied: "The good thing is that I have been told these things work without thinking more than a few seconds on them. So I put mine"</span></span></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family:Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some ritual use pricks, candles, dolls (white magic, no voodoo, there is confusion between voodoo and Santeria which we’ll deal with) and it is important to consider the day of the week, moon phase or time day. That's what we will see in upcoming posts ... if the series are successful!</span></span></span></span></div></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-25295814395119979162010-04-12T07:51:00.000-07:002010-04-12T09:02:42.994-07:00A course in magic rituals: Introduction<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHkFdOuhSU1HAUh-PXLIGm_uEyRxzZOmwUv4skZ6pna1bwwEYsroNY70pAbqbGJFBROaSYKkMXvSITLOIgK1U3nqu220c2q9nHsLR7XXkRh-OhDf_huE_9rFWqecsaGXleYJcmwimOaRu/s1600/whitemagic1920_xthumb.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCA1GvAM4Sa_NNcPQmdfF9bRNAkr2EOvCJ8H6aFnuECR_Bzsrxm0JUUhK16ExLvpf_uwNAS076jwthGslP6jQUDq6fIkQKfxX582vfPstK7lvM-aarCBhXnK9LsH_vOnXGtCUeAZmoAMjH/s1600/wizard.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To learn about esoterism in general and magic rituals in particular we need to make a difference between divination and magic; within divination between determinism and forecasts and within magic between black magic and white magic or "sympathetic"</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCA1GvAM4Sa_NNcPQmdfF9bRNAkr2EOvCJ8H6aFnuECR_Bzsrxm0JUUhK16ExLvpf_uwNAS076jwthGslP6jQUDq6fIkQKfxX582vfPstK7lvM-aarCBhXnK9LsH_vOnXGtCUeAZmoAMjH/s400/wizard.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459280001278666850" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Popular beliefs hold that magic promises to transfer unknown energy to the hands of the practitioner so he makes things happen, which is a true with many reservations, so in this series of posts I will use my definition of "magic", because most people don’t find it shocking and it covers the main of those reservations: magic is the artistic method to make changes occur in accordance with the will of the practicioner. The definition implies: (1) there is no need to be a witch (neither Jewish nor Buddhist nor Sufi) to practice magic because magic is an art, not a religion, (2) it is not necessary to have specific religious beliefs and magic is not opposed to any, (3) is a method and as such is charged with rituals, (4) a basic component is the will of the practitioner.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ioFtKd3gX3E&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ioFtKd3gX3E&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Magic is an art not a science and should be accepted that way. Just as there is no guarantee that a painter produces a work worthy of DaVinci using the same tools, there is no guarantee that a magician repeats again and again the same results. Yet being an art does not mean </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">magic does not develop its own methods, although called them rituals. Are rituals an irrational belief? Look at the preparations for a surgery, or at the manuals and handbooks in your office which someone will call"the Bible” or how we sing the national anthem before a sporting event. Take a look at your bench of tools, check how packed a suitcase, look on your way to exercise or even the way to pick up a date on a Friday night and you’ll see your life is full of little rituals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3T_dyDsa_g-f27QLU0MwVwQbL6L13mjE4DDtlpFwpJybozAZczJesa6b6kr6VgyiUDksxo68zkeLCxp-1qE4mQN6-_nhnWitpxjWsbHUPrzuOwbImjaeJS9TJQxjFZRo9Ku4E2rTsZtl/s400/Isaac+Newton.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459279962061405202" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Many great minds had no problem accepting his magical thinking. If <a href="http://www.brilliantdreams.com/product/famous-dreams.htm"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">August Kekule</span></b></a></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">had believed that interpreting dreams is demonic we would not know the structure of benzene. <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7042.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><b>Wolfgang Pauli</b></span></a>, Nobel physics, researched parapsychology and attributed to magical thinking the discovery of the principle that earned him the award. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">Isaac Newton</span></b></a> did not investigate physical, but alchemy. Albert Einstein began to think of relativity when he imagined himself riding a thunderbolt.</span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ah, that's creativity but no magic, claim his followers resisting that word. So back to the definition: the quoted scientists and others like them applied themselves to solve a problem and developed their own methods. Once the problem was solved they became titans of thought and </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the scientists who followed them, not dissimilar to the parishioners of a church, said they have enormous powers. Magical ones...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not true!, will cry their self-appointed defenders. "They used established scientific principles." These principles were set once the work was done, but the scientific community don’t like to be reminded the usual first rewards of these giants were the laughs of their colleagues. In the world there must be leaders and followers and our vocabulary betrays our mythical thinking: visionaries, monsters, prophets we call the leaders. If the principles are the same (and are) and are available (they are) then why so few people make paramount findings? I say for them the magic worked and they hadn’t had problem with the word: they choose a problem and focused their will to deliver a solution away from the established knowledge.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Our understanding of magic and its relationship with us and the universe has improved so use that knowledge. Magic is not better the more ancient it is, that thought is what makes the magic seems a relic. Sure, it’s great if you learn from greeks, assyrian or egyptians if you can avoid charlatans, but even so egyptian magic is not powerful just because it’s egyptian!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLvjQa-vq1Up-aD1EpIp8_FZsysCCN0d09jHW2wCNU-625BfbsOdXQyvbkznRmq0bIBnbTGYdwtIulnmoI4lu7T81wA9dxYWKEu75TQxulOnOW_pOKVOlpZcDopghQ6MctkMOiiIdYRXR/s400/artes+adivinatorias.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459279959748204274" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Part of the magic is not to intervene directly in the physical world, just collect information, while staying there is divination; if you want to do things in the real world, it's magic strictly speaking.</span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, within divination, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">determinism</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> assumes that a person's life is written from start to finish and instruments such as tarot are to peek some pages ahead. Most twentieth-century tarot scholars oppose the idea and the principle of Heissenberg makes it impossible. This principle says that a researcher (the consultant) is part of the investigation and he affects and changes it. This means the consultant in the present is not a different person from the consultant in the future and as soon as he knows his future that will affect and change the composition of probabilities of that future. On a more personal note, I have chosen to believe that I am master of my fate and I can build my life as I please, believe otherwise would rob me what the magic has given to me, responsibility.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In he </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">forecast</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the consultant takes an in-depth look at his present and sees the development of things from that position. He doesn’t like it? He can make the necessary changes. This brings forward a very particular version of fate when the consultant wants a different result without any change, which is impossible.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwlo1AfBl6jdqtuWztf80tATVDXA0ix9Fuzc85tcNhtNgLV2QB1LFTDDH0lUETNliDCnGJDZjc-kkkbaDYDoTPMonOnlTU3rmyraqs6qlWUnDjOE9VuldlvqUhtV8TKdGg5I5MYTDOqNqX/s400/aquelarre.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459279950174102754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This in terms of divination. Now magic. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Black magic</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> intrudes on the free will of another person and even if the intentions are the purest. Black Magic is not black for ethical reasons but because it brings energy from an external entity to the practitioner to accomplish something, instead of committing his own resources and will. All religions have that clear when asked the applicant to provide some input of his own instead of waiting for a divine manifestation (have faith, yes, but also do something by yourself is the crystal clear message in most sacred books). Whether it is angelic, demonic, pagan or santeria or any other sort, if the practicioner wants to invoke an energy external to himself to achieve his goals and get it to deny the will of another person it is black magic, even if used to heal someone.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHkFdOuhSU1HAUh-PXLIGm_uEyRxzZOmwUv4skZ6pna1bwwEYsroNY70pAbqbGJFBROaSYKkMXvSITLOIgK1U3nqu220c2q9nHsLR7XXkRh-OhDf_huE_9rFWqecsaGXleYJcmwimOaRu/s400/whitemagic1920_xthumb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459281263394893138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">White magic</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> or sympathetic magic combines need and desire of the individual. Few would deny that we have an inner energy that once (and correctly) mobilized accomplish extraordinary achievements for its owner. White magic not endorse metaphysical powers to certain items, its rites focus the energy of the applicant in a more efficient way: any tool that helps the applicant to achieve this focus is appropriate; conversely any ritual that makes him feel uncomfortable and collides with his beliefs should be changed or abandoned. A magician must take pains to guarantee a petitioner won’t become dependent on the magician or the rituals; the petitioner must never ask anything that refuses anybody free will nor expect an outcome that does not cost effort: magic is not the negation of effort, is the capitalization of the effort.</span></span></div> <span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the next post in the series we’ll start to see the elements of the rituals</span></span></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-60486742746741557662010-04-08T12:09:00.000-07:002010-04-08T12:20:18.265-07:00Arcana of the week<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><div style="text-align: center;">These forecasts and predictions are made using tarot cards and astrological charts. They correspond to the week from Wed April 7th to Tue April 13th </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language: ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div>Aries</b></span></span><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b> </b>will have a hectic week, with a lot of irons in the fire and many issues running at the same time. While the rams normally respond to these situations with excessive force and energy tending to make things worse, this week they will choose the relaxed approach of the two of pentacles to address their agendas one at a time. In the process they will discover two things: an adaptative aptitude seldom used and, above all, that despite much pressure they’ll be having fun while eliminating one by one things from their to-</span></span><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">do list</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>Taurus </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Most of the time we live in a bag of so-called "normality" and the practical and down-to-earth Bulls greatly appreciate it. But bubbling below there are terrifying things we do not understand: just think how vulnerable we become in the dark, even in a familiar terrain. That’s the Moon: experiencing fear, feel that our inner demons are free, ideas become unrealistic, energy has no direction. It is a week of unrest, most signs have an ordeal while taking a stroll by the other side of life with this unnerving but necessary arcane. Remember: while you’re there it's all about breathing, calm down...</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gemini</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> people are intuitive and resourceful but their span of attention is not something to bet on, so the eight of pentacles is both a blessing and a task. As a blessing, this week they will be laying a foundation to reap rich rewards in time. As a task... well, to say the universe gives nothing away for free is a truism, the Twins should apply fully this week, taking courses to increase their knowledge and mastery of their craft and show painstakingly attention to detail. The powers of focusing of the Twins may not be strong, but that makes the fruit promised by the effort more significant in a medium-term.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Cancer</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: the crabs are a sign dedicated to contemplation, share the characteristics of their erotic and sensual water element and their desire for security can become an engine of prosperity, all of which are very suitable for their arcane of the week, the Empress. These are days of extravagant abundance, appreciate beauty and pamper yourself as much as you can. Days of having a deeper contact with nature, to fully experience your senses. For a change, put aside your shyness and your desire for security and welcome days of emotional and material abundance, the card says you’re entitle to it all this week.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Leo</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: The lions are the most solar sign of all, they feed on sunlight as Superman gets his powers from the yellow sun. This sign would love to live in perpetual summer holiday, with everything that it implies: parade, parties, swimming, tanning and light and outrageous enjoyment so they can admire everything good that life has to offer and they can show themselves to be admired by everybody. The Sun, of course, brings exactly that: this week are are days of winning a new level of understanding of life and its realities, to achieve pre-eminence, experience the grandeur and, above all, be happy with life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Virgo</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: Some scholars say that Pisces is the most erotic sign of all but the most complete lovers are Virgo, so The lovers fits them beautifully and these natives will do the most of his card: to establish links, empathize with others. These are days of extreme and the most pleasurable sexual activity. But also days that outside the personal and emotional sphere will demand to strongly set personal values and defend them, to choose between right and wrong and hold your ground dearly for that choice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Libra</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">: These are not easy days for the Scales, but there is a time for everything in life, even for 5 of pentacles. Their desire for justice make the Scales to defend unpopular positions and take other people's problems as their own. Often this champion attitude work well, sometimes not, this week is the latter and several of your fights have come to take their toll. These are days of material deprivation, lack of support and a general feeling of loneliness. Possibly this will be reflected in poor health, either because among all the things falling upon you there is a disease or simply because you somaticize so much distress. But this is not a long lasting arcane as and its lessons are valuable.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Scorpio: </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The 5 of swords screams one word: selfishness. The thing is it has two sides: either you're defining your interests too narrowly, or someone that should include you in his thinks only of himself. This is a difficult card for all kind of relationships, being emotional, working or any other kind; it talks about somebody sacrificing integrity to achieve goals. Do not give in to that temptation, no goal is so valuable to betray yourself and what you think.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sagittarius: </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On the one hand, the six of swords brings to the Centaurs a vague sense of sadness and dissatisfaction extremely hard to locate but one that taints every color in daily life in cloudly gray. It is not a very comfortable situation for anyone, much less for these joyful sign, but it's part of life experience. The good news is that this feeling also announces recovery, trauma left behind, healing and feelings that things have improved after some recent difficult encounters. Now you’re a in your way for great things.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Capricorn: </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It’s kind of funny to see a most prudent sign as the goats under the influence of such a hurricane like the Knight of Wands, but it’s always a mistake to forget the powerful forces beneath the detached behavior of capricorn. The card promises furious energy in the projects you have undertaken at your workplace. However, pour that energy in doses: do not let so much force to become ephemeral and if things do not go well at the first time then you're disappointed. It is a wonderful boost, but remember your career is a long term; if you put all your strength in one goal in one try you better have a sure bet. And there’s no such a thing.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Aquarius: </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">this is a revolutionary sign, somehow determined to break the rules, but is also familiar, they highly value the peace and domestic experience. That is exactly what brings you 10 cups this week. These are days to reaffirm the commitment and the bond, share places or events with your dearest ones, those who in everyday life are called "family." So is a happy day, to feel in harmony, to feel well and in general the opportunity to enjoy the good fortune of having the life you have.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Pisces: </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the jack of cups brings to this sign the beginning of a cycle whose results are scheduled in some time but is very well aspected. As usual with the jacks, this week does not happen much... but they allow many things happen in time. Pisces will enjoy days of deep tenderness and romance and, at work, to have ideas that have yet to improve much, but will become important projects. "Name of the game now? Perseverance</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This week belong to</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Cancer, Leo and Virgo</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The sign that sychronizes the best its features with its task this week</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Pisces and Leo</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s a natural partnership this week between</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Geminis and Capricorn, though is a rather ackward alliance for the roles are reversed: this week Gemni will be the focused, prudent and detail-orinted and Capricorn the impatient and forceful. Both of them should use this week to learn a lot about the other and themselves.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s a natural partnership this week between </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Aquarius and Pisces, both of them dtermined to enjoy their emotional life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s a natural partnership this week between</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Gemini and Sagittarius; both of them ar looking for ways to fulfill their possibilities, yet they’re in different moods, so they’ll have to be patient to each other.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s opposition this week between </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Capricorn and Pisces. Capricorn wants the results of their project now, they think they’re ready and Pisces are in a very calmed mood, waiting for something.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s opposition this week between </span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Taurus and Cancer. For nothing special, just because Taurus happens to have the arcane of Cancer this week and that always creates some trouble among those concerned.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There’s opposition this week between</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Taurus and Leo. The Moon and The Sun. Is there anything left to say?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Deal with caution this week</span></span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> with Scorpio. They want their agendas completed, they’ll have it and have no consideration for anybody else.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <b><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Do not leave alone this week</span></span></b><span style=" font-family:Georgia;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:ES;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language: AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Libra. They need to feel support, they need their friends right at their side, even if they’re unable to see them right now.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-88661177195029034352010-04-06T12:44:00.000-07:002010-04-06T13:27:20.168-07:00Practical readings. Anette<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK8Dcw21N4BJfKsJCjmzdNe3EAMB0XsvIR35EkSiqPSf1bTMPi0Wfn0wALk-wD1f0_rLrE-LSryq7y6xpHWBn8p70mXlMGIBWHCdt2vUUzob_LKPqpkhn8_fftPQ-EXmYdBY23JGJSzRcC/s1600/IB.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK8Dcw21N4BJfKsJCjmzdNe3EAMB0XsvIR35EkSiqPSf1bTMPi0Wfn0wALk-wD1f0_rLrE-LSryq7y6xpHWBn8p70mXlMGIBWHCdt2vUUzob_LKPqpkhn8_fftPQ-EXmYdBY23JGJSzRcC/s400/IB.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457123457001146322" /></a><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><i>Another reading of Luis Felipe Tenorio and Tarot Experience, from Columbia. </i></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><i>This reading corresponds to a person who asked a precise question, selected its own cards and authorized to have it post in this blog and it’s proposed only as an example and discussion topic.</i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><i> </i></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><i>The procedure for asking questions is at </i></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3366FF;"><i><a href="http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/p/readings-for-free.html">http://tarotexperience.blogspot.com/p/readings-for-free.html</a> I invite you to read other articles and examples in this blog and share the experience</i></span></span></span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span><span class="google-src-text"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This consultant asks me</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> for her relationship with his current partner.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Your cards, Justice, 10 of wands, Strength (reversed)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I begin by saying that this reading is fairly rare, the kind that one is surprised of coming across with.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">First, there have been an on-going debate literally for a century about the right place of the justice and strength in the sequence of arcana: in many decks they trade places and historical precedence reasons apart there’re vigorous reasons to defend each alternative.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On the other hand, the sequence of numbers is nearly perfect (8/10/11 whatever the place you assign to Justice & Strength).</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And finally, it is remarkably notorious that what separates these two arcane is precisely the 10 of wands.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Well, after the academic pedant part (but hey! It’s really such a striking reading... anyway!) come down to business.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Justice at foundation is usually a bell that you do not want to hear: it’s asking if we didn’t allow to be taken to a situation we don’t like and now we do not know how to get out.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Justice is a card that always reminds us that the worst betrayal is the one we make to ourselves, and if in the name of love, of the future or the relationship you withstand the unbearable and tolerate the intolerable, now you have what you deserve .</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">From there we go to the central position, 10 of wands, a card full of worries, sadness and lovingly devoted to collect and sort out every day all the reasons to explain why things won’t work out.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That, which is an attitude problem, is not to say these problems are invented, of course they exist.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And so we arrive to The Strength in the outcome: an invitation to patience, to subtlety and the idea of giving now to win later. Accept your part in the problems the relationship is facing but demand your partner do the same, be easy like a judo fighter and remember: you can’t do whatever it takes to save a relationship, at some point you have to draw the line. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The promise of the tarot: there are certain life lessons that are horrible, especially those related to look at ourselves and see what has been our role in a situation. This is one of those, but what you're playing clearly (two major arcana in three cards is a trascendent message), is not just the relationship, but your future, your happiness and your ability to relate with a partner in a way that makes you happy.</span></span></span> <span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-35685389596202358412010-04-05T13:19:00.000-07:002010-04-05T13:48:05.540-07:00Magic books: Necronomicon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidIEUQaQ5lG3BWqaEBbnT8rPn4Ew9RlE63QVwFQcIFcgkgNPy1B4ZCpGZHGeFHRJ656Rs5Tp8WjdoE8jJNB1-13ZXxY4OPRdW7-dFa89EtSGg0Mr9AJzXvL_g56ASf4Nm00tYmH4B2ZN4X/s1600/necronomicon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidIEUQaQ5lG3BWqaEBbnT8rPn4Ew9RlE63QVwFQcIFcgkgNPy1B4ZCpGZHGeFHRJ656Rs5Tp8WjdoE8jJNB1-13ZXxY4OPRdW7-dFa89EtSGg0Mr9AJzXvL_g56ASf4Nm00tYmH4B2ZN4X/s400/necronomicon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456756142489071298" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; ">Today I tell the story of a curious item: a no-book, the only name I could came up with for a book that having never existed is more famous than many actually published. There are people looking for it right now in old bookstores, ghettos, archeological sites or something, dear friends of mine claim to have it in their bookshelves (but have not gathered the strength to read it) and they will jump to my throat for saying it is fictional and yet, for me that is its glory: to be part of a basic and classic library of the occult being imaginary. The book is the Necronomicon by the "mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, who did not exist either.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br />Jorge Luis Borges said he was lazy and preferred to review the books from his imagination than actually write them. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a writer not as honored as Borges but maybe more influential (at least for horror and fantasy literature there is no argument) neither reviewed nor wrote the text, but created a world that made it possible and through that path the book went into the real world.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSkSg22Ca8Lq1VKNwY4sXf7BYCsS09KhAvs2AvpiBHcs2x2JBKU2BfZLlNVGyDXHOE3_tj6A0Koe47jJYZW2DIHr474jJ5eoWcAPFSwmVBvp9gI8ebGrq8qTqULxAxtb9qapvl3QczT0Dh/s400/lovecraft.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456756124357544962" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 382px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Lovecraft's mother, a hysterical old woman, convinced him that the world was a horrible and that they have British ancestry (quite unlikely) so she raised him with the rigor of those who believe themselves to be aristocrats and demand to preserve imaginary traditions. In adolescence the future author locked himself in his berdroom day and night, completely alone. He called the American Revolution "the schism of 1776," immigrants "that Mongoloid horde " and the eighteenth century his favorite era. He was an atheist, he longed for the British colonialism, progress terrified him ... but he loved letters like the aristocrats of the eighteenth century and so the myths Ctulhu emerged from the contributions of his correspondents in their letters or their own stories.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4VEsVynMH0riHWA8mq0gTmJItltO3pkeAcZQ1dTmY8nLJ_wdkcJBcX4UH-pA93X8uo09bTBdrCxuDSJnrfJ9mLzj5STAFt9Qc7cbWIuXUe49TU-kPNALsE-hN1LNP_eU4Hbrv5Q9KfviK/s400/cthulhu-6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456756118879678146" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Ctulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, extraterrestrial gods, nameless entities confined to this planet for some unknown blasphemy. Every now and then ordinary people, unable to see beyond what our limited intelligence is entitled to, come across with disastrous results with worshipers of the Great Old Ones who live at war with the Elder Gods. All these cults (or the ruins of their sanctuaries) are practiced by degraded races in Lovecraft's native region, New England, among some other places around the world and across America, like Arabia, China, Antarctica or Lousiana.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br />Lovecraft was not any hermit but one gifted with a particular skill at portraying his environment. The struggle between the blasphemous Great Old Ones against the not necessarily well-meaning Elder gods re-edit the myth of the fallen angels. Lovecraft have the old devils to wear modern garments without abandoning the ancient terrors. But his success was to build a real space where that could really happen.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2R-gvlzEVcSYQkrb6J36_ORIkXeTo1MREaixu7Alj1h08lrcplXqjgKhdszhqmKRIcuXC_L4k1Mdq0ClVWoFn-izaTfN7lRkTkD9ogLqxmOmYoyDRnpMWfUESeepgf-uxhKZ7SXqmy-rs/s400/Miskatonic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456756138005686130" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; ">Lovecraft's universe is a detailed picture of the New England countryside. Embeded in his nostalgia for a lost golden age he takes what he can to replace the ruined castle on a steep mountain and makes an ivy-walled house represent it; the traditional american town is turned into a place with low ceilings and derelict buildings everywhere and a maze of basements. And he takes Harvard and Brown universities, the latter in his native Providence, and fuse them into Miskatonic University based in the city that would summarize the region, Arkham, which is with another name a town with a tradition of occultism, witchcraft and ancestral rites: Salem.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br />At that point Lovecraft already had four things for his mythology: gods, city, rituals and the closest thing to a church you could find in the mind of an atheist, a university. The only thing left was the sacred books, among which the Necronomicon began to be mentioned over and over again modifying the device of Borges, for Lovecraft not even reviewed the text, but just gave clues and finally left a posthumous history of it (ironically the Argentina’ author wrote a devastating review of the stories of the American acusing him to have produced a degeneration of the terror literature from Borges beloved Poe, a review Lovecraft himself certainly would have signed without thinking) </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kEvdXSYXa9kNyUlhzbI_ARb9sAItpq2cZ1Ugfsutvzngde3Kv9Lx_3pynIBcQrw9aMbNM9YkcRepfkGQXD7CQynFe266AE9yC7sGHbQIW6Q8rTGtqKv1fMpBRXwbkXO5YV4XH8IY1e-M/s400/abdul.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456756102783157218" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">There are copies of the Necronomicon at Miskatonic University, the British Museum, the National Library in Paris, the University of Buenos Aires and private collectors. It has at least 751 pages bound in scraps of leather and iron guards. Its original name would be Al Azif (in Arabic "Azif" means "strange sound of the wind" but Lovecraft did not seem to find that translation scary enough and came forward with "sound at night that is indistinguishable from the wind and it’s produced by insects imitating the howling of demons" .) Its author was a Yemeni, Abdul Alhazred, who wrote in Damascus after visiting Babylon and Memphis before his strange death in 738, seemingly devoured by a demon. The book is divided into four parts and explains the rituals to contact the Great Old Ones, won fame in secret circles and was translated into Greek at Constantinople in 950 by Theodoro Philetas, who gave it its current name and means "image of law the dead”. For his " terrible experiments " Philetas was burnt by patriarch Michael (who really existed) in 1050, then the book was translated into Latin by Oalus Worm (there was someone with that that name but the years do not match), then Pope Gregory IX banned it in 1232 and secret editions from the Latin version were made in Germany (fifteenth century) Italy (s. XVI) and Spain (XVII century).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br />If telling the story like that give you the feeling that at least something like the Necronomicon must have existed, if not the book itself, imagine the effect of seeing it in its natural habitat, the complex world of the Lovecraft myths.The author spent his last years saying, yelling, screaming the book did not exist, but things were already beyond control.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br />Some have taken advantage of the fame of the book to actually write it, the most famous is the Simon's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-31st-Anniversary-Simon/dp/0892541466/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270500381&sr=1-1"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">Necronomicon</span></b></a>, published in 1980. The book is barely related to the work of Lovecraft, but it shows knowledge of Sumerian mythology and rituals from peoples opposed to the Hebrew people of the Bible, which increases its credibility: never out of print, it has sold nearly a million copies and is the text which undid the border between reality and fiction for ever (and it’s the one two of my friends have and I, a coward, only dare to prick their fantasy from here so they can’t use the book either to cast a spell on me or to beat me with it). The most recent mention was in Sam Reimi film Evil Dead which states that it is a leather-bound book written in human blood (in some way the story was perfected out of the film and the book ended up in the Vatican)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i>I couldn't give credit to that poster of Miskatonic since I found it at directory with no references. Some other artwork like that at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://www.cold-moon.com/images/Motivators/Horror/">http://www.cold-moon.com/images/Motivators/Horror/</a></span></i></span></span></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-57584772264208540122010-03-31T12:44:00.000-07:002010-03-31T13:08:53.378-07:00Voyage to the magic. Mount Athos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR-WjLZV39NWB2Xadk05j2xlEwtsZidSapnghN54uFiu8t5iy8GN-uSYXT6Bi4JIge4wXfsDniycGhKNGPKgiDeGpUfb6vEdR3WZClFeLFcIPnKKguSiPrK9fIMNmvcjh9JIe4fPpBVJ3/s1600/schody.jpeg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmDJru2j8C3FvI1ZxCEbWWKRQDe6PvqveletUEFubYTTJ_vdbBGKuht9JMJBzd1svjECEpBXj8lrWmvIXeojnaYThxHnqBRcbluNjLbhSXw96kxr4PD6MZQ7Q-Xpa-Q998JL6_pDJlYta/s1600/mount-athos-3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmDJru2j8C3FvI1ZxCEbWWKRQDe6PvqveletUEFubYTTJ_vdbBGKuht9JMJBzd1svjECEpBXj8lrWmvIXeojnaYThxHnqBRcbluNjLbhSXw96kxr4PD6MZQ7Q-Xpa-Q998JL6_pDJlYta/s400/mount-athos-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454887445111505794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Today’s destination is not exactly a voyage to magic, since it is one of the fiercest defenders of christian faith worldwide. It is a little republic of which few have heard of, with special status in the EU, the agreement of the euro has not arrived, the time is measured with a Julian calendar, the one used from Julius Caesar to the Renaissance: they weren’t prone at all to accept the "modern" Gregorian calendar (it already has over 500 years) but agreed to "review" the Julian in 1923, reconciling the civil and religious calendars until 2800, when they’ll have to make a new arrangement. It has an autonomous government formed by monks, so it is the only theocracy in the West; women are forbidden to cross its borders;it is a namesake of one of the three musketeers, it is patrimony of humanity; the treasures and relics it keeps outperform by far the Vatican vaults and and it is estimated that to make an inventory of them in a project funded by UNESCO will take about twenty years: ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mount Athos.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">The Three Musketeers in Dumas’ story were Athos, Porthos and Aramis (the pun that the three musketeers are four is nonsense: the musketeers are three in this book, only at the very end their archenemy, Cardinal Richelieu, makes D'Artagnan a musketeer; the rest of the novel he’s an applicant). In one scene one of them is arrested and having his name asked for his only answer is "Athos". The perplexed policeman says, "That's not a person's name, is a mountain." </span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR-WjLZV39NWB2Xadk05j2xlEwtsZidSapnghN54uFiu8t5iy8GN-uSYXT6Bi4JIge4wXfsDniycGhKNGPKgiDeGpUfb6vEdR3WZClFeLFcIPnKKguSiPrK9fIMNmvcjh9JIe4fPpBVJ3/s1600/schody.jpeg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR-WjLZV39NWB2Xadk05j2xlEwtsZidSapnghN54uFiu8t5iy8GN-uSYXT6Bi4JIge4wXfsDniycGhKNGPKgiDeGpUfb6vEdR3WZClFeLFcIPnKKguSiPrK9fIMNmvcjh9JIe4fPpBVJ3/s400/schody.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454887452934420770" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Mount Athos is a mountain north of the Halkidiki peninsula in Greece, which is closed by this mountain and the access to the site is by boat. Those who get dizzy sailing can consider to make a mule tour for 2-3 days, if they get the necessary permits. And women are not allowed. Hotels that receive tourists were intended for visitors to have a glimpse of the comforts they’d have as hermits, meaning there’s none. But free at least: no tourism is promoted but the visitor is considered a pilgrim. Now, if you want to make a donation, it would not hurt your case if you want to come back...<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxsGyEgkmDHmXklzJNWEVKERXFEhk5cjGgoW_AK93delvl94708kHSWDy6d70F_FYJY354N63euRifp0sGSk_PVvwntxKuSNQpo0b35y9vO6_I2oMdehGHvjajGnDJAk_qxfZc_QbLOe4/s1600/MAPA+MONASTERIOS.PNG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxsGyEgkmDHmXklzJNWEVKERXFEhk5cjGgoW_AK93delvl94708kHSWDy6d70F_FYJY354N63euRifp0sGSk_PVvwntxKuSNQpo0b35y9vO6_I2oMdehGHvjajGnDJAk_qxfZc_QbLOe4/s400/MAPA+MONASTERIOS.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454887427448816210" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The country's name comes from the mountain which separates the country from the continent. At 2.033 meters the mountain was considered the highest in the world in ancient times, higher than Mount Olympus, but it was so far away from everything that the gods did not like the idea of living there. The geographer Strabo said that the whole world was visible from the top and Sophocles said that the shadow of the mountain reached the market square in Mirina, some forty miles away. Believe it or not, this last statement is true: in the winter solstice the shadow extends that much.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CSQF42A1jOs&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CSQF42A1jOs&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Athos was the name of one of the giants that rebeled against the Olympian gods. Here we must separate two different cycles: the Titanomachy and Gigantomachy. The Disney version of Hercules tells the story but has confused the two cycles. The first was when the Titans led by Cronos rebeled against his father Uranus and expelled him from power, leaving Cronos as chief god.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">In time Cronos would be dethroned by his son, Zeus and it is after Zeus had prevailed and imposed his government that the Gigantomachy begins. Gaia, mother of the Titans, is furious because she helped Zeus beat Cronos so he release her children (Cronos siblings) from Tartarus, where their treachorous brother has them imprisoned. But once he won the war Zeus forgot his promise and let Gaia’s children locked up in the same place. Gaia cross the country recruiting the giants, who were born with armor, spear and sword from the blood of Uranus after the first war. I do not know what the blood of Uranus was made of to produce children who were born sword in hand, but Gaia doesn’t care: she wants them to attack Olympus, overthrow the Olympians led by the traitor of her grandson and reinstate the Titans. So those seen in the Disney film should not be called Titans but giants. The hero who repelled the attack (as shown in the film) is Hercules.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">The general of the rebellion is Alcineus, a guy so big and dumb, that knowing he had secured immortality as long as he didn’t leave his homeland, agree to get into a fight that is not his far from his land, following a lady who is not his mom. And of course, Hercules killed him. </span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />His right hand was Athos and the origin of the mountain has three explanations in mythology: it was the dirt the Olympic gods threw at him in the war to kill him. Two: he was a warrior so magnificent, that the gods in spite of his rebellious deeds created the mountain as a memorial. Three: an intermediate, the mountain was the tombstone Poseidon, an extremely ill-tempered god, made to bury his bastard and rebellious but beloved son.<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gqt_gmbKE8g&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gqt_gmbKE8g&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">The peninsula was the scene of the first mentioned work of nautical engineering in history. The issue is that the place was, and remains, very stormy and full of raging waters so every sailor was terrified to cross it. So when King Xerxes invaded Greece (the bad guy in <span style="font-style: italic;">300</span>) instead of surrounding the peninsula ordered a canal to move his fleet through land. According to Herodotus, twelve thousand men worked three years under the whip to open a canal one mile and something long. There is no trace of that work and there is heated debate whether or not such a thing ever happened, but in any case is the grandfather of the Panama Canal and the first work of its class mentioned in history.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZK2jm3n2Icwtpbc4ESHQ7TyXqqUwmpYyR6HQy7LqtOTx-D5lfPxi8lEAyleTRo-wdjOpy3jgM_17fFibJSrMuch_tNWP51KKjJ1hOMiAit3P-7FObecD4PsjKldCbfMKEd5SUD0e_8iv/s1600/monastery-of-zograf.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZK2jm3n2Icwtpbc4ESHQ7TyXqqUwmpYyR6HQy7LqtOTx-D5lfPxi8lEAyleTRo-wdjOpy3jgM_17fFibJSrMuch_tNWP51KKjJ1hOMiAit3P-7FObecD4PsjKldCbfMKEd5SUD0e_8iv/s400/monastery-of-zograf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454887440574850130" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Curiously enough Mount Athos ban the visit of women (although it’s sheltered them as a refugee camp) yet is one of the main shrines of the Virgin Mary in the world. Because its inaccessibility prevents the place to become a pilgrimage center, it does not have the reputation of Loreto, Fatima or Lourdes, but no other place has more literature and artwork related to the Lady. I don’t say it for religious purposes but to remark the irony (a place where the women are banned has a woman as its patron).<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">According to legend, Mary left Palestine with John the Evangelist whom Christ entrusted her (it was the same journey, fortunately for the Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown, in which Mary Magdalene went to southern France to give birth to the son of Jesus) . As I said, the place was famous for its climate and the storm pushed the virgin and the evangelist there. All pagan statues said "Look! It’s the mother of God. Let’s say hi!” Unfortunately the stone statues are not very agile and the moment they jump from their pedestals just broke into pieces. Mary, seeing the beauty of the place, asked his son to give it to her as a garden.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-MJB-dWNqs5WJhfxR2iSfhcjstQdytVNS0yhBnfFKSInrwZctHUaHixLrXZqAA2sYr3pk8DQK-C08vFi-SpaZNuPojDW47GW7Zd5y9HTzDmaLrnCWiUxSEaQd7Rte2U04pLzzvpRZhSX9/s1600/greece_mount_athos.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-MJB-dWNqs5WJhfxR2iSfhcjstQdytVNS0yhBnfFKSInrwZctHUaHixLrXZqAA2sYr3pk8DQK-C08vFi-SpaZNuPojDW47GW7Zd5y9HTzDmaLrnCWiUxSEaQd7Rte2U04pLzzvpRZhSX9/s400/greece_mount_athos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454887418156331858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Mount Athos has twenty monasteries, there is no place on earth with highest density of religious buildings, is the last physical remain in the world of the Middle Ages. The site invites the mysticism as few and therefore without natural resources and geostrategic position has been at the confluence of all kinds of struggles between Catholics and Orthodox, Greeks and Turks, Christians and Muslims, Russians and Westerners. Just for what it represents as mystical value, but of course, the only ritual to be held here, in spite of the neopagan to love this place (without monasteries included) is the mass of the Greek Orthodox rite, something that is expected all visitors listen to at least once a day</span></span>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-16412843381440535512010-03-22T10:06:00.000-07:002010-03-22T11:15:57.794-07:00Arcana. The emperor & Aries<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisM9Dd8Avb2qexMXkOrCEOgHhcFXOO1j3ytZjhsX6n3PLtRNy4dZT7jLdJ4hZtDGBHTNtAecD4PiiTqUB_YejAksNWJD_XggL65qVYebZWHxZlL_xPCUoODDTh5LlgLzDzgARfZSuM8kPF/s1600-h/napoleon-bonaparte.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPouaKRbJB96n0EOvC6979r-wAMeS4SjD5-pancA1rXIUgUSVT2wHxv-5LCK5fXLE_3X7pSdH26o0LaiyJrOqK-xcwd1tFFzf1fc7YLKkjxybgGULNIKCm2gY6piYItQsHZPvDhASBNlH/s1600-h/lempereur-the-emperor.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Many western systems have tried to link tarot (the 22 major arcana), astrology, and kabbalah; this system has been called</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Qabalah and is different from the Kaballah with the latter being one of the many sources of the former. Some people say Qabalah is a much better system; other people say Kaballah is the real thing and Qabalah is a sorry placebo. I don’t want to enter that debate now, I just want to explore some of the correspondences because I find them useful.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></i></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The last part of each post will show examples that in my concept illustrates the sign/arcane correspondence. Some of them will be historical figures, many will be take from fiction. They are picked up as </span></i></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">archetypical </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">examples with no care if they have their birthday in the sign in the case of the historical figures.</span></i></span></span></span></i></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-style: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPouaKRbJB96n0EOvC6979r-wAMeS4SjD5-pancA1rXIUgUSVT2wHxv-5LCK5fXLE_3X7pSdH26o0LaiyJrOqK-xcwd1tFFzf1fc7YLKkjxybgGULNIKCm2gY6piYItQsHZPvDhASBNlH/s1600-h/lempereur-the-emperor.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPouaKRbJB96n0EOvC6979r-wAMeS4SjD5-pancA1rXIUgUSVT2wHxv-5LCK5fXLE_3X7pSdH26o0LaiyJrOqK-xcwd1tFFzf1fc7YLKkjxybgGULNIKCm2gY6piYItQsHZPvDhASBNlH/s400/lempereur-the-emperor.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451522168134814082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></i></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There’s common agreement that </span></span><a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://luisftenorio.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/zodiaco-la-mitologia-de-aries-i/&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhjDdmL-JsjiPb3QAZMRzME6L7N2Bg"><span style="color:#909D73;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Aries</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> correspond</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">to the arcane number 4, "The Emperor", which is odd: Aries are the zodiac infants and "The Emperor" is the patriarch of arcana.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Why choose to link them?</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Because usually the Emperor, to become one, both in history as in myth, had to deploy virtues of Aries.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And to keep the defects at bay because once in the throne a major danger was the temptation to behave like a spoiled brat...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The card</span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisM9Dd8Avb2qexMXkOrCEOgHhcFXOO1j3ytZjhsX6n3PLtRNy4dZT7jLdJ4hZtDGBHTNtAecD4PiiTqUB_YejAksNWJD_XggL65qVYebZWHxZlL_xPCUoODDTh5LlgLzDzgARfZSuM8kPF/s400/napoleon-bonaparte.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451522175075778386" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></strong></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">From an archetypal point of view it makes sense to make this arcane the fourth, but the designers of the deck did not even know the word “archetype”, let alone making a design following its meaning. So granted: using archetypes is an anachronism, but one that I find useful to introduce sense in the jungle of meanings and combinations of the cards. The first five arcana form a "court" where"The Magician" and "High Priestess" would be his advisors/Seers (maybe "The Magician" also represents the military), "The Empress" his wife and "The Hyerophant" represents the sustenance of the church.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhzIBtmcG-NDcH-Vw0K2mjUQWjAGbCxWv3FdxmubQvG2GUHjwJZPXvdm4rEYlw5ocBFyhfyVPeJtk0M1Jb1_VBBDX-MGkmR1JDjc8QrjKO-XP7enNzalNtvNAInDdfTEIFpNJnI7rKghR/s400/emperadores.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451522161559704194" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Except themed tarot decks (feminists, animals etc.). "The Emperor" is an older crowned man on a throne, his costumes let have a glimpse of an armor.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He usually has a scepter, which represents its ability to enforce its wishes, and a globe that shows his worldly / global power.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Many decks include in this card head or ram's horns and an eagle, the symbol of the Holy Roman Empire.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Another feature is that the throne is made of stone (in some cases it </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">is</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> a stone) located in some desert.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The card speaks of a king, a patriarch, a ruler, a tribal chief who is not in the office for dancing, dresses or palaces.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He seems to be in colonizing campaign.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This is very important in the symbol of "The Emperor": he is more a ruler who keeps order in a colony that is being formed, a new settlement that requires control and monitoring.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The Emperor" symbolizes </span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">civilization</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> with all the good and evil</span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although “The Emperor” is the Freudian Father, he requires some characteristics of a child to perform his tasks, for if he spends too much time thinking over he would not undertake his campaigns.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We already said that Aries is the infant of the zodiac: as “The Emperor” Aries is full of enthusiasm, stubbornness, energy and aggressiveness.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He is direct, hates deception and in general is so easy to resist as a battering ram. Unfortunately, as baby may also be impatient, demanding and controlling.</span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"The Emperor” is the boss of the kings of the minor arcana and summarize them.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He represents the peoples and the institutions that create, organize, defend, maintain and proclaim the structures that guarantee freedom, order and creativity through the common memory.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The emperor is "the boss", "the man”, “the system” that guarantees the empire of the law because of his control over the repressive apparatus and the imposition of values he never let come into question.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">His energy is dedicated to one goal: the search for peace and stability so his people can grow and develop:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><em><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">his</span></span></span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">peace.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30RDaGFsrsE70ozKsdPPLih9V5fwaYeWcYFnJCfO63JWPOheTh8ZKWNLlhO1jrhFAIanLjm-w9l-gJUOZxeXAfIAZWd5I2KikM8HsY7TIubpAtEfYLv1sjMkV-Vg6LKj6MRdJWFMnwkks/s400/czar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451522156836558178" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In readings this archetype speaks of authority, either to exercise it or to suffer it.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He is responsible for validating but not care to be validated: he provides guidance and recognize the merits of others.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Denotes logic, willpower, mental organization and the ability to think on a large scale a future plan.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And above all, is an archetype of success: "The Emperor" will not be satisfied with nothing less than total success on his terms, at whatever cost.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">While all the archetypes need checks and balances to enhance their performance, “The Emperor” needs them to be conatined, not enhanced.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xm8wLd8zgXEzePRV5mqeLplRs6kDvn3j0WukzsJPHAVGsZpUh1rhjEuPHWKSJY0_epUmE6QXHGTQWCptse2-2AV1x0GWlkOQTnJjyOmx2-tToVg2qx4ngyFo2fJa61SamGebuERElQN_/s400/augustus_.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451522148380687602" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the West the notion of empire comes from ancient Rome, where ironically there was no similar title.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Neither "Caesar" nor "Augustus" nor "Imperator" was what we now mean by “Emperor”.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The ancient Rome loved its republican traditions and hated the monarchy (Julius Caesar was assassinated for wanting to become "King of Rome") so they ended up with a man with absolute power while retaining the forms of a republic.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Throughout history, the archetype is recognized: empires come from power vacuums in chaos.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">With the promise of order and peace from a leader who seems strong everybody bow thinking that’s the lesser of two evils.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Be a dynastic empire (China) or an elected one by an elite (Rome, the Aztecs) or legitimized by their connections with God (Byzantium) all empires are held together by a promise of peace born out of order.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If history has taught us anything, it is an empire is magnificent in the hands of someone capable but a tragedy in the hands of an incompetent.</span></span></span></span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Archetype<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Examples of “The Emperor”, besides the obvious are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Professor Francis Xavier and Magneto,</span></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/psP-AdlDFR8&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/psP-AdlDFR8&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Leaders of both factions of the X-Men, each controlling in his own way his group, each convinced he is right without compromise.</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although the writers strive to distinguish the "good guy" and "bad one" they are not that different.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in "The Godfather":</span></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BIMx_giMeNA&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BIMx_giMeNA&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Not only is the head of his family but the great leader of the entire New York underworld.</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The film chronicles the rise of his crown prince and the attacks don Vito must suffer from those who aspire to his throne.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus "Lost":</span></span></span></strong><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EaQPdxMMLm4&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EaQPdxMMLm4&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although this is a difficult character, Linus is the absolute leader of “the Others” and from that leadership the island society is born, where the word of Linus is final.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">His relationship with the newcomers apart (and the mysterious Dharma Initiative) Linus is the emperor of the inhabitants of the island and behaves ruthlessly with the strength that gives this post.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><strong><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brain in "Pinky and the Brain"</span></span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iJPFSNu_QNs&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iJPFSNu_QNs&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although a cartoon The Brain is a megalomaniac mouse who has the fixity of a wild emperor with unusual but definitely wasted gifts.</span></span></span></span></p> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uh8KVG8j68I&hl=es_ES&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uh8KVG8j68I&hl=es_ES&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></span><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Finally, the father of Palpatine from Star Wars, recognized by the George Lucas himself as the emperor par excellence of the twentieth century. Many of his features survive in some characters even though the current generation has not heard of Ming the Merciless, Flash Gordon's arch-enemy, the most popular science fiction character in the first half of the twentieth century. He has had several editions (the last for 2007-2008 by Sci-Fi Channel, when he resembled Saddam Hussein), the soundtrack was made by Queen for the 1980 film, the best rock band of all time ... Granted, not their best song, but what can I do? Is the one useful for the post!</span></span></span></span></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-66451207281443006562010-03-19T12:19:00.001-07:002010-03-19T12:31:12.229-07:00Haunted Places. Hampton Court Palace<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_B4G9SkmIuhyP-bVzHnCQaww08Hbwo2I8CVTW1p0_dmLrYT6SmBCEk7GqjAQEA35YJLES4DvTe4vNfTHXRdYBzTG3Z23ixZtlzCZ-LTdxB-S_qawieiGlWr3F-8LeX6caQqi3sMiWWpLp/s1600-h/The-Great-Staircase-At-Hampton-Court-Palace-From-Pyne$27s-$27royal-Residences$27-Engraved-By-Richard-Reeve-$28b.1780$29-Published-In-1819.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2hR9CaLFeCmMRrprRnb2ELB1XyJwlTszkG1v3GRgzByTWxv1w5H-7-nY9oJzGZTTWOOwPEQJQoBVhJ9TJ67kQAFEeDA6C3kDpga0XJA-ucXBZf8JxLumSsEYmgn8wlScWpJBVZHQ4A16/s1600-h/MainEntrance3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2hR9CaLFeCmMRrprRnb2ELB1XyJwlTszkG1v3GRgzByTWxv1w5H-7-nY9oJzGZTTWOOwPEQJQoBVhJ9TJ67kQAFEeDA6C3kDpga0XJA-ucXBZf8JxLumSsEYmgn8wlScWpJBVZHQ4A16/s400/MainEntrance3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427045524980402" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">If there is a place to imagine a ghost walking around is a castle.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although there are some across Europe, the imagination tends to place them in England, Germany and northern France.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Among all the English castles there is one particular... home of the ghost that could be the most famous around the world.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To meet the ghost we need to go to Hampton Court and to know who are the contenders for the title of being the ghost, we need to go to 1509, when at age 17 Henry VIII was crowned king of England.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Henry wasn’t supposed to rule, but his brother, Arthur.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Fortunately it did not happen because the movies could no longer speak of "the" King Arthur, but "one" of kings Arthur, which is not the material blockbusters are made of.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The boys father, Henry VII, wanted an alliance with Spain, so he arranged the marriage of his son Arthur to Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Catherine, born in 1485 was two years older than Arthur.</span></span></span></span></span></div><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLz035aoXYcg30XCKEJb-YxJdVq0EQkTMz2JYgFGkh48pg4pZ9PQz-xX-djK-XubMU9lENATGe1_wu7d2ebR3DUgWW_AaCXOL1xHyi-SU5qkCcjjNPK_rw2DgBFchEcEt2nV6ExNLNgJAL/s400/henry+viii.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427037581146626" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Arthur died at age fifteen.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Henry, raised to enter the clergy, with a background in theology that many regret later, found himself first in line of succession.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And his father, determined to maintain the alliance with Spain, compeled the new future king to engage to with his brother's widow.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Turns out they needed a dispensation from the Pope: Leviticus says that if a man marries his brother's wife, that marriage will not have children, something extremely serious for a royal dynasty.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although Catherine swore that the marriage had never been consummated it was decided to obtain the dispensation, and Catherine's mother, Queen Elizabeth, ordered Spanish troops in Italy to take a little walk through Rome to explain to His Holiness that the issue was in a hurry and, if anything, the generals could expect the bull... With fully armored soldiers…</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Two questions that are not mine (but maybe I'm changing the wording a little) but from the protagonists of this tale.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">First, how the Pope can approve something that is contrary to Scripture?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He’s the </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">administrator</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> of Scripture, he can’t change it through his concepts as though it was the constitution of a third-world country.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And second, what kind of guy was the prince, who at 14 years was left in the bridal chamber with a woman of 17 and not consummated the marriage?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By training the monarch Henry VIII was the most Renaissance monarch of his time, the guy that any girl would want to date today: great dancer (granted, not reggaeton, but surely he had stood out at it if that had been the case), a magnificent conversationalist, intelligent, poet, musician and writer and sportsman .</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On the other hand, a very conscious brat of the meaning of absolute power who seized and beheaded the most unpopular ministers of his father two days after his coronation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The first acquisitions of a long and brilliant collection of heads.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To be king at 17 with a women of 23 may seem the dream of many who today fall in love with the chics of the senior courses.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="google-src-text"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But time passes… </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In 1525 he was 36 and the queen 42, when the life expectancy was around 50.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And one of the ladies of the queen, Anne Boleyn, struted around the castle, twenty exquisite years old and skilled in the "French caress", whatever that is.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9h7qVRmHD8HDW3C73YV0AdRouHZViVMxd4_dB4idYNpZrilNXGkxTitSlfC6kNq73FZWbyqUqsIbHPMM0pm2DILlOpJGmGN0YsFXb1MrpCxrOWeARyzqw56U5ZhIKogRSPVaklj4eYxuh/s400/wolsey.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427209755799522" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To make the story short, the king fell in love with Anna and asked Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, his chancellor, arrange divorce from Catherine.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Problem: Catherine was the aunt of King Carlos I of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, the most powerful man in the world.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And as grandma Isabela had done, Carlos sent his army to Rome to ask the pope, out of curiosity, if he was signing the document that turned his aunt into convent material.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The pope, open to the explanations given by Charles mercenaries, did not sign the divorce, but neither denied it, because he wasn’t fighting Henry.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wolsey could not secure a divorce and his enemies rallied around the girlfriend of King and used her to embitter him.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They insist that the cardinal was an incompetent, that he was delaying the appointment of His Majesty with true love ... Henry ended up accusing Wolsey of treason, the previous step to bring his head to the collection.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wolsey, determined not to please him, died before.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And since the pope refuse the divorce, Henry declared himself head of the english church and asked his bishops if they would also deny him a divorce, much as Charles had asked the pope.</span></span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Slr-VBFsbSdXkjW5q1OROciLXyI7UIO8mULw2DkstzQvuiTSOvrxy6x9fzGvHeagCKqqVW4-E5US_t25x5e2YOgSofsxAmQH56-KzAINfNhUZep8crINjtyjjY7MO1pi3OyUxAV7F2i1/s400/Hampton-Court-Palace-420x0.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427027625889842" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Some years later Anne Boleyn would share the fate of Catherine, but adding decapitation to divorce.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Then came Jane Seymour.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here a caveat is needed: Henry didn’t do everything he did only because he was a really mad fly (also) but because it alarmed him not to leave a male heir.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jane gave him his only son, the future Edward VI, but she died in childbirth.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And then, thinking that collect wives was as much fun as collect heads, Henry married three more times.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And here we have to take a break.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;margin-left:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_B4G9SkmIuhyP-bVzHnCQaww08Hbwo2I8CVTW1p0_dmLrYT6SmBCEk7GqjAQEA35YJLES4DvTe4vNfTHXRdYBzTG3Z23ixZtlzCZ-LTdxB-S_qawieiGlWr3F-8LeX6caQqi3sMiWWpLp/s400/The-Great-Staircase-At-Hampton-Court-Palace-From-Pyne$27s-$27royal-Residences$27-Engraved-By-Richard-Reeve-$28b.1780$29-Published-In-1819.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427203263788658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">Wolsey built Hampton Court Palace, a building so magnificent that royal visitors stayed there. When Cardinal fell from grace he gave the great palace to the king, the monarch was delighted with a most luxurious home than any royal palace, but not enough to forgive the cardinal.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxMfQeiLBnxN3FsRB6qQKpTKdwMwahenOABGXV8_DMYRclr-tHKKLrjcARuB3fSllsSWDLUnfvlkiXOCKtRlXKfmN7zeVZjKNM4-9yvhZRqVuVjq0MbzTWeIahtu4h8H8fF3eF9F8krPq/s400/hamptonghostL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427035879584546" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Now, jump forward in time.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This palace is the building with resident ghost more persistent in the English mind.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">However, in 2003, things got more complicated with the she-ghost.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For it seems it is a woman.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The palace is open to the public and on 19 December 2003 the alarms rang like hell; the guides were away, the cameras at the entrances had not recorded the entry of anyone dressed is such a peculiar way ... but now the CCTV showed a woman dressed in Tudor style coming through some inside door with no other camera catching her anywhere else. In other words, she come from nowhere and return to that very place, according to CCTV</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As diffuse as it is, is the the image of a person.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Now, a ghost?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDG6zwLfQK8tMxV4pYT0NAZ1yio7FGleFPtEQZS3XNydjVp60rmf7pYEsjhqC0F1MY0RbGiFLsC0rnZqkT6dHPFbwGo_dMYguq69HbSB1S-BB8LgPaMqAwIMhnh1Apr8W6VyiVoiJLDrGz/s400/hampton_court_palace_garden_570_jpg_600x.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450427025289022082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="google-src-text"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I leave to every reader beliefs to answer i</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">f it is a ghost or is not, but if it is who is it?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Three contenders: the first, Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry and second beheaded.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He was ordered house arrest in Hampton Court and one day she tried to plead for mercy to the king but the guards prevented her.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The other, Jane Seymour, who died giving birth.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The last one, Sibell Penn, nursemaid of Prince Edward.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She was buried in Hampton Court, but when the chapel was moved his bones were "disturbed".</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In 1829, during the renovation, workers followed the noises the ghost made, they knocked down a wall and found a spinning wheel like that of Penn.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The last possibility is Wosley cardinal himself, but that is extreme cruelty.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="google-src-text"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">El hombre siendo cardenal si tuvo amantes, con las que procreó dos hijos.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The man was Cardinal and had lovers with whom fathered two children.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He was cunning, treacherous and perhaps robbed the royal treasury.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But cross-dressing</span></span>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-53905310997095076172010-03-17T09:13:00.000-07:002010-03-17T09:23:39.981-07:00Those tricky court cards<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qs1hBJNOUGkL2YowS2rKUY35iHZI5ugvyOleTJI7SrrkBqxQIGdNOpHzLxDvH2ho5rdY98yTYNw8069zwB1t2n6EiaHEfkzxi1XFlOOVDuMQJLIRG1FJCyCiZWHW6dcw3VutoLl99870/s1600-h/Tarot__King_Of_Swords_by_blood4thine.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449638219562229730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 287px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qs1hBJNOUGkL2YowS2rKUY35iHZI5ugvyOleTJI7SrrkBqxQIGdNOpHzLxDvH2ho5rdY98yTYNw8069zwB1t2n6EiaHEfkzxi1XFlOOVDuMQJLIRG1FJCyCiZWHW6dcw3VutoLl99870/s400/Tarot__King_Of_Swords_by_blood4thine.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Traditionally the Court Cards represent the people who influence, participate and interact in the consultant’s life. But although that is often the case, these cards may represent the consultant himself. The art is deciding if the cards are talking about a different person or about the consultant. </div><br /><div>There are many considerations with the court cards and only practice and meditation, over time, can say in a specific situation which aspect of these cards you’re dealing with. All the readers getting a hard time with them should get comfort in the fact that that the Court cards are the most tricky and difficult, and any honest reader with years of experience will tell you that he still feared them and, often, errors in reading, in retrospect, are related to one of these cards. </div><br /><div>Let's start with the basics: a serious reader probably already knows that kings do not represent men and queens women. If so, it would be very serious to have the king of wands in the position of "dreams, fantasies, expectations" of a fully heterosexual male! It's at the same time a little easier and harder than that: all real human being has masculine and feminine characteristics. </div><br /><div>I was taught this way: imagine the suits as four nations, with its royal court governing them. Every nation has its values. Thus, wands are a dynamic, entrepreneurial, voracious, manly but little prone to plan nation, while the swords are a intellectual, unemotional country and governed by a strict code that must be met no matter how painful. </div><br /><div>Now two of these countries are "male": wands and swords, while two are "female" cups and pentacles (some say male are wands and pentacles and female cups and swords). That means that the kings of swords and wands are "hypermasculine" and feel comfortable with his role, while those of pentacles, and especially of cups, does not find any joy in the post. Same with the queens: those of cups and pentacles manage the feelings of his office better than those of wands and swords. </div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449637378256946018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpyMNxdsEIEv-xndlk-84Up4QclWTbFR_Y30crFnbkkTjBwhX5JmHEd1k0UrzWxOHqaAJSaqG6xgxCICnzIpCTEwT3Dxk0T93c2qklY3m_EKRfbn4gA7_7ll20E41HplvPvhUvviSNaxKT/s400/kcups.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>The king is mature and masculine. It is a doer and his focus is on external events. He shows authority and domain in areas of his suit. His style is strong and direct. He is interested in results. A king is a ruler responsible for the welfare of his "nation", his suit: his court and his subjects demand from him to be the best of all them and so he is the culmination and realization of the vocation of the suit. The kings represent success but also responsibility. </div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449638036773358514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 239px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4uyeFmLVN7S1k4cOmV2DV1DZd9jBnKe7rHB5vIyFeebeQPJOb1r9zYK_QcnIJXxt7D-z5kFpdBxRMb3Qz1-amwUw8_O0MQd10tYfj4UmmaLv0e-VA8ogackdVp7L4oOcungpSLcyo863/s400/Wands_Queen.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>The queen is mature and feminine. She feels and lives the characteristics of his suit rather than show them. Her focus is inward, her style relaxed (the queen of wands is usually an exception). She is associated with feelings and relationships and is more interested in the process than the outcome without being weak or inactive. </div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449637393212253394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDo2kuJ904oK-Tm0zO_WwRhPztsDWQNi7P1uApXzQWKH2KyDhTGZY2DU6mUIip6tNUwCgxTMyYj1-S799GMNuP3bAtKMYfsn-5UlHZFWOI-ibtL_9IYBEwayf42NmI73UJOyq5TjxcCHoE/s400/rwood-prince-of-swords.jpg" border="0" /> The knight is immature and male. Future king, his keyword is movement, the difference is the speed at which moves each of the knights in his suit. This is a teenager who can not express himself balanced and swings from one extreme to another of his suit. OK, he's somewhat prone to excess but also honest and trustworthy (which can not always be said of the King, master of realpolitik) and his energy is admirable.<br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449637413716849506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yd7PU3DihyvBncgNczMvt2axW_zZAD353wYEceVPb3w7oCkWHQ15BRyDp2fxYunuTXFQ4ZZULky8cXhCAetVEiNzZOhdhD7nvCgnkNm70pZTb06PJeW__N3IlB6OTmHiC0Idt8X6Q9i-/s400/tarot-pg-pentacles-it-pct.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>Finally the jack is immature female. She is a young and playful gal and acts with pleasure and abandonment. She never worry about the consequences. As the lowest card the jack always represents a promise and offers company for starting a project. But since she is mainle a student is generally more enthusiastic than knowledgeable and hopefully she’d get help from more experienced and determined cards. </div><br /><div>Now, how to differentiate when one of these cards refer to the consultant and when a different person? </div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449637365531816162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 388px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOP85IOGixx3FUWBdIiHq-g-LkX2946-OtKSYFcLhtfCAyj6s95pol6XxeGIoG4xNWqiU3OOAr1_Lp0_PLgPre0jy_22eA2uVwIWSkbNVYAZDGOwiSD5t6CLSVgi2GYNQuIuAnrTYtpX1Z/s400/CELTIC+CROSS.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>My first advice: use a reading with defined positions, such as the <span style="color:#000099;"><strong><a href="http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/D-cel.html">Celtic Cross</a></strong></span>. There are workshops that talk about “intuitive tarot”, but that is harder than it sounds. In general, while accepting exceptions, most of those who offer those workshops assume (sadly sometimes rightly) that people do not have time or desire to learn the meaning of each card and its changes by position. So they say "indulge in your intuition, abandon yourself, bond with the One" and keep their market open. </div><br /><div>Well, that works with some cards ... yet do not with the Court cards, which is at the root of the frustration of many people with the Courtiers. Take a book, a workshop, read a conference, visit a site for " intuitive tarot " or one that offers automated readings and you’ll see how quickly they pass over these precise cards. Because the number of considerations and shades is too much for the intuition works efficiently alone. And although we all like to believe us psychic, and perhaps we are, a workshop of 30 hours on creativity, intución, lateral thinking of whatever the name is not going to make you a shaolin monk. </div><br /><div>That's my advice: start learning to work with specific questions using spreads where each position means something established. This can give you important clues, at least in some positions: one queen in fifth, eighth or tenth position in a Celtic Cross reading for a man almost always represent a woman in his life. And a king in first place almost always be representing the male client (and the other way around if the consultant is a woman, of course). For starters is pretty enough and that can help you develop your intuition for general readings.</div><br /><div>In a spread of defined positions is easier to understand how two or more court cards are related (a king of wands with a knight of cups is an evolution or a regression depending of the order they show up, collaboration between both or lack of it) and besides it is easier to help the consultant understand what happens in his life: knight of cups in past position and jack of wands in future may show that the consultant is committing an immense energy in some aspects of his life without accomplishing anything and it’s his “fault”. Often the consultant's future has more to do with his handling of his energy than external events, and that management is more clearly tracked of checking the court cards.</div><br /><div>Another point: on a reading of any kind, general or specific questions, check if several court cards are present: the court cards always combine. Yet we’re back to the same point, the combination makes sense only if each position has a previously assigned meaning, and even in general readings, big ones, using the whole deck at the same time if that’s your thing, positions must mean something: the spread is the syntaxis of tarot. </div><br /><div>My final advise, do not be afraid to ask. If the consultant went to you wanting to see Merlin in person performing, I suggest tell him to go back from whence he came, unless you are a showman as some Criss Angel's, but in that case you probably hadn’t reached this point of the post. In my opinion a reading session should look like therapy: when you the reader need some orientation, ask. Nine out of ten consultants will appreciate the honesty and the candor and the opportunity to speak. And that's not cheating: it is to remember that ultimately this is an exercise in communication</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-65197932965201563842010-03-11T07:18:00.000-08:002010-03-11T07:35:40.299-08:00Legends & myths. The werewolf<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1Px_GXy6BKMqiFMz-kUUGH2SsjeIqtK_IscO1nW0tj4U582HXiFqCN_xEq1_Zim6w4URmkvTFtuNFgiVrjMV9ExCTMMUxFjdTPpGlBeWLMcGVBevWJc6e6Cqyf0W1jKHPt4aBnUdJPWn/s1600-h/Werwolf.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvx0nvKn-aIsiu0kLKOtsezFpIH9EDsIvzSDRuLmTisRB-SiihZ-VjVDFQlgMBuc6J7K5ZHKpm8YlCYIAf7mJuKqJtVzzpfOAmfzM1SgrXicnh0oFIDf9Wq2gmnkx1lF6KLYYpEyJZdjeW/s1600-h/LSU_slut.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji8IqYU1UXl_BV1pm9ab-e2erxrWCD0IN23ftlkZ6zn71hmj5bBstUUBfbXbY4u6D0ieK5RK8SF4yEgm95-JE5S4a6ptiBChWCgRERWtrv2KxD7fv4urvU34JL0O-DiLFwNaAOm1Rs0B9/s1600-h/chimmey.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji8IqYU1UXl_BV1pm9ab-e2erxrWCD0IN23ftlkZ6zn71hmj5bBstUUBfbXbY4u6D0ieK5RK8SF4yEgm95-JE5S4a6ptiBChWCgRERWtrv2KxD7fv4urvU34JL0O-DiLFwNaAOm1Rs0B9/s400/chimmey.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447397698387222050" /></a><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A friend of mine has taken Gothic style to the big leagues: he believes that vampires live among us and has done everything to look like one, from sharpen her teeth to make blood pacts of eternal love with every boyfriend she’s got to the point that now her hand looks like a map. Now, since vampires exist for sure, she reasons, that means their archenemies the werewolves also exist. She quoted me her sources with the loudest voice: Anne Rice </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Interview with the vampire),</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the movie </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Underworld</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Twilight</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> saga.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Zs_Tpe2KqyHRvQYDttbV-xeF-geRnfS6xsZJ0d0C9z5jU8A30HA8lqT5tt-RYATlyqXspLL4mEvOoZI8sC2-z7iOuyDI6TQ8ZP1o_LZfAzklMfdmj6FheXU_RHvE6mNRC8LtauXNy8un/s1600-h/weretiger65qy1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Zs_Tpe2KqyHRvQYDttbV-xeF-geRnfS6xsZJ0d0C9z5jU8A30HA8lqT5tt-RYATlyqXspLL4mEvOoZI8sC2-z7iOuyDI6TQ8ZP1o_LZfAzklMfdmj6FheXU_RHvE6mNRC8LtauXNy8un/s400/weretiger65qy1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447397723436633026" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The basics: no one knows where does the myth of the werewolf come from or what try to explain. According to some anthropologists, in different variants werewolves are the most widespread myth worldwide. In places with no wolves peoples resorted to werehyena (Africa), weretiger (India) and werejaguar (America). My friend hasn’t been able to explain me if hatred of vampires for other species includes the wereocelot, but I suspect a positive answer. It has been said that the myth tries to explain serial murders, diseases such as porphyria, mass poisoning with LSD-like fungi and even that is nostalgia for the price man has paid for civilization: the abandonment of his instincts and the disconnection from a basic sense of pleasure. No explanation is satisfactory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The most popular version of the werewolf today (the one my friend vampire stalks in the streets of a place as unlikely as Bogota) comes from Germanic mythology, reissued by nineteenth-century literature and cinema of the early twentieth century. The most common elements: the werewolf is always a lycanthrop, that is, his condition is hereditary or due to the bite of another werewolf. It is anthropomorphic: bipedal, with a monstruous human face vaguely like Michael Jackson’s (on </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thriller,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> I mean) Only a silver bullet can kill him and the moon seems to have something to do with the whole issue. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTnQScOC6wPDrGwExF9eoCVVAoM6-_9xGiu_vRw1yuNSK4SEMkXpM427AMTMyZIq-EmQ8HeX19PNz0qsX-Yw3WSg7omN9IuAODLMEN1mEBY1O3GGazcJKzuNTAZrTnnXzX8JUToyyMdM3/s400/lycaon_turned_into_wolf-goltzius-1589.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447397717576209490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lets go to the pieces: there are were-animals all over the world, in cultures with no contact between them and long before any folklore of northern Europe. The first registered werewolf is Lycaon, son of Pelagius and Melibea and first king of Arcadia. For some reason this guy, father of fifty sons, decided to invite Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, to lunch. Cool, but the idea became deliciously brilliant when Lycaon decides to play a joke on his guest and served one of his sons as lunch (the king’s, not the god’s, for that it would not have been funny at all).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Let's see ... If I invite a deity to eat at my house, and he sits at my table, I would not be in the mood for jokes. As a matter of fact, I’d be deadly serious and ready to make profound questions about heaven or angels or the trinitarian question or something, trying not to look like a moron. And if I made an occasional pun, I’m sure I wouldn’t cross the line with a joke as bad as serve the flesh of my son to my guest; my grandmother called these experiments in humor "flirt with the devil". Anyway, Zeus realized what happened and proceeded to turn Lycaon into a wolf (his name is now synonymous with an African wild dog) and killed with his thunderbolts all his offspring. What do the Greeks wanted to show by including in the slaughter the brothers of the deceased boy, I do not know, but Greek myths did not sell well if they neglected to include gallons of blood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ovid's</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Metamorphoses</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> also talks about werewolves in Arcadia, where seems to be the producing plant. And the Greek Herodotus told that all Neuried tribe, who lived in what is now southern Poland, turned into wolves every nine years. Arcadia was so dangerous that even with no fault at all you can end up as a werewolf: Pliny the Elder told the story of a man who hung his clothes in the branches of a tree and jumped into a lake; when he reached the other side surprise! He came out from the lake as a wolf and he was told told that if he let go nine years without attacking any human he could swim back and regain his form. And his clothes, I suppose</span></span><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color:#29303B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1Px_GXy6BKMqiFMz-kUUGH2SsjeIqtK_IscO1nW0tj4U582HXiFqCN_xEq1_Zim6w4URmkvTFtuNFgiVrjMV9ExCTMMUxFjdTPpGlBeWLMcGVBevWJc6e6Cqyf0W1jKHPt4aBnUdJPWn/s1600-h/Werwolf.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1Px_GXy6BKMqiFMz-kUUGH2SsjeIqtK_IscO1nW0tj4U582HXiFqCN_xEq1_Zim6w4URmkvTFtuNFgiVrjMV9ExCTMMUxFjdTPpGlBeWLMcGVBevWJc6e6Cqyf0W1jKHPt4aBnUdJPWn/s400/Werwolf.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447399422088393010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The implication is clear: there’s no need to involve another werewolf to become one. In fact, in traditional myths, this condition comes from a divine curse, delivered </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ex oficio</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> by God or through the intervention of a saint: a Welsh king was turned into a wolf by St. Patrick after the king refused to convert (to Christianity, not a wolf, which was mandatory after the curse of the saint). I wonder how many missionaries today wouldn’t use this power very happily if they had it. Until the fourteenth century there is no tale of lycanthropy, ie, a werewolf who makes another with a bite or scratch. The usual ways to become one of these creatures were to wear a belt (or the whole skin) made of leather of wolf, drink water from a footstep of a werewolf in the woods or drinking a beer chanting certain spell.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5EWJj18B5QnOGrUVdG-1XMzWFrfQXb2g0sYVeagj86XNgNkjahD_G37J1xODWa6iF40M4G0B93CvAAunvH0RTWSTzG-vKJrqulqH7rAqDRg3yb5xlE6yexm1B3apqOkIpUelJWrMEffS/s1600-h/wolfy.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5EWJj18B5QnOGrUVdG-1XMzWFrfQXb2g0sYVeagj86XNgNkjahD_G37J1xODWa6iF40M4G0B93CvAAunvH0RTWSTzG-vKJrqulqH7rAqDRg3yb5xlE6yexm1B3apqOkIpUelJWrMEffS/s400/wolfy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447397727703299522" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Zs_Tpe2KqyHRvQYDttbV-xeF-geRnfS6xsZJ0d0C9z5jU8A30HA8lqT5tt-RYATlyqXspLL4mEvOoZI8sC2-z7iOuyDI6TQ8ZP1o_LZfAzklMfdmj6FheXU_RHvE6mNRC8LtauXNy8un/s1600-h/weretiger65qy1.jpg"></a></span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And the other implication: the mythical werewolf is more wolf than man. That is, one turned into a beast bigger, faster, more evil, stronger than any wolf ... but wolf. Quadruped. With muzzle. With bushy tail. A werewolf didn’t walk upright, neither had grasping hands. The humanoid werewolf was basically a creation of the horror genre.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In traditional stories (and the documentation my friend got in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Underworld)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the lycanthrop becomes wolf at will: not only he doesn’t need moon but if he wants he converts himself (painfully: imagine your jaws stretching to form a snout) at ten in the morning while waiting for the bus. In general, how to kill the werewolf was more blunt than a silver bullet: a stick. Although according to stories from the thirteenth century a silver stick was occasionally included in the beating and since progress never stops, the stick became a bullet as soon as it was possible. What any gunsmith will tell you is that it is impossible to make a bullet with silver 100% pure: it will deform at the very moment it is shooted. But apparently, those like my friend think it is rather that the art is lost or today gunsmiths are incompetent people who barely can make air-ground missiles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The feelings of the orthodox and mainstream thinking towards these creatures are ambivalent unlike vampires, who are always considered creatures of darkness. Gubernatis</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">’ Zoological Mythology</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> , for example, told about a pack of werewolves who smashed some monks for holding heretical opinions. These ambivalent feelings allowed a man accused of witchcraft to use the legal defense that he and a group of friends were werewolves, yes, made pacts with the devil, yes, but with permission of the angels so they can go down to hell to fight the demons. This defense led the judge to have him whipped for idolatrous, which isn’t nice but better than dying scorched.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left: 0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvx0nvKn-aIsiu0kLKOtsezFpIH9EDsIvzSDRuLmTisRB-SiihZ-VjVDFQlgMBuc6J7K5ZHKpm8YlCYIAf7mJuKqJtVzzpfOAmfzM1SgrXicnh0oFIDf9Wq2gmnkx1lF6KLYYpEyJZdjeW/s400/LSU_slut.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447397706398989186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 380px; " /></span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">An aside: Shakira has recently used a Colombian expression to name one of her songs "she-wolf", which is the derisive and pejorative way to refer to certain female specimens, very generous to display attributes already quite generous with plunging necklines, tight minis and stiletto boots. The origin of the saying is medieval and Italian: families would make their children look after the herds. Many sheperds were teenagers and every now and then sold under the counter a sheep to pay a brothel and then report to his parents the sheep as taken by the wolf. The parents (specially the father) knew the truth, having passed themselves by this kind of initiation into adulthood and they accepted it as a sort of occupational cost calling it "the portion of the wolf". The she-wolf, more precisely</span></span></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-23671514646417466872010-03-06T16:54:00.000-08:002010-03-06T17:13:53.405-08:00Zodiac. The Mythology of Aries (I)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnDqPN5LWmojqPyLA2PnSbEdiI6TxYKlWLd2XxmkL7NCWFYYd1a-ni9HJGuE3b4oiiOGmxwM0Z44XJbgvoFEdcMvluKdTx13a4VBsaJw5JApI0tH0kZMW02QfsvdSEGjH8gCtaKsra7YW/s1600-h/deucaliondiluviometamorfosis.jpeg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNcFFprybl7bhedA4RtqfrBqY6SR6orv15kLrBsiYNxMeY2oWTHUF3Xzhz3mnDJYZgvLUbRaji1w-kWOysd8cv4aZccodhKJnZfTj3KHrR1uWXHl3Y13pvHcA_Kkd9irFBQWjruWtcOJ-/s1600-h/ariescarnero.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNcFFprybl7bhedA4RtqfrBqY6SR6orv15kLrBsiYNxMeY2oWTHUF3Xzhz3mnDJYZgvLUbRaji1w-kWOysd8cv4aZccodhKJnZfTj3KHrR1uWXHl3Y13pvHcA_Kkd9irFBQWjruWtcOJ-/s400/ariescarnero.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445689276773625570" /></a><br /><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Aries is a sign of fire, the beginning of the cycle and so they are the babies of the zodiac. Injustice makes the natives of this sign sick and not for a second they restrain themselves form expressing their opinions to their girlfriend, a colleague, their boss or a Mafia padrino. They are sorry afterwards? Perhaps, but caution is not their thing. Just like a baby, an Aries lives absorbed in his needs: what he wants he wants right now and has no problem calling at four in the morning whoever may solve those needs. Now, is a baby selfish? Not exactly: he gives away his smiles, his faces, his feelings and all he has, much or little depends from your point of view, to those who meet their expectations. Aries is extremely naïve but direct to the point of bluntness, and utterly incapable of resentment: in a fight he can burn your house down but half an hour later he has forgotten everything and assumes that you, too ... though the house is now ashes.</span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Aries is represented by the ram, but what ram and how he ended up being a constellation?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnDqPN5LWmojqPyLA2PnSbEdiI6TxYKlWLd2XxmkL7NCWFYYd1a-ni9HJGuE3b4oiiOGmxwM0Z44XJbgvoFEdcMvluKdTx13a4VBsaJw5JApI0tH0kZMW02QfsvdSEGjH8gCtaKsra7YW/s400/deucaliondiluviometamorfosis.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445689405639416338" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></span></span></p><div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The Flood, by </span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">the</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> Greeks</span></span></b></span></div> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Athamas was the king of Orchomenus, a city in Boeotia, one of the richest and most fertile regions of Greece, located southeast of the country. There were born glories of the Greek literature and history such as Hesiod and Pindar, but generally the rest of the country considered the locals rather idiotic.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCWPR-nabhl-0lFxAi9udt4FuJ9LhHUm5mRdqioKXGPOYiP5frYfvJEt-yJ-Yap4JmC6UEfuKu36HvseJxgO6y-14fmEYYasvaBVFfDS96zyZGjG-IPlOFub3178SX1ysrHIP4XN7tMPx/s400/rubensdeucalion-y-pirra.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445690054261020930" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px; " /></span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Athamas great-grandfather is a version of one of the most repeated myths among all civilizations: grandpa Deucalion was king of Thessaly and was considered the most righteous man in the world, in a world that despised the gods since the men learned to dominate the fire. Since he respected the gods, Deucalion was chosen by them to save himself and his wife from the flood that Zeus sent to destroy humanity. Deucalion sailed in a boat with his wife and the animals on his farm for nine days and finally stranded on Mount Parnassus, where they left the boat and went to repopulate the earth (which seems exhausting, yes, but it is not as you imagine: Deucalion and his wife threw stones that became people).</span></span></div> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The first man born after the Flood was Helenus, founder of the Hellenic race, which is the fancy name of the ancient Greeks. One of his sons was Aeolus, namesake of the king of the winds, which in turn was the father of Athamas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">There is no wrath like a woman scorned<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Athamas, mortal, married a goddess, the one of the clouds: the beautiful Nephele. By her he had two sons, Frixo, the rain that falls, and Helle, the vivid light. And here, as in most of these myths that seem written to show how stupid a man can be, Athamas had an excellent idea: to repudiate his wife and remarried to Ino, a mortal. Somehow the guy believed the move would turn out well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Nephele, a deity, wasn’t amused by the joke at all, so she left the region in a fury. Meanwhile Ino wanted the throne for her children so she intrigued to kill their stepchildren, the offspring of Nephele, which was made easier for her when Nephele sent a terrible drought to the region, in view of which Ino persuaded Athamas to sacrifice to Zeus the twins to appease the god. Athamas, insecure, consulted an oracle but Ino bribed the messengers to persuade them to say that the oracle ordered the slaughter: It’s hard to imagine a more repeated cliché for a stepmother, but I suppose she was a very original character at that time the myth was written. Given that only three generations ago the Athamas family had known firsthand the wrath of Zeus, the king was determined to avoid a massacre among his people, this time by means exactly the opposite that grandpa Deucalion had faced, so Athamas decided to accommodate such advice reluctantly</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyPYG6cSg8ZvSdBxCEhlDQLxGyNAXeKjgFuVdL6OarbsUSmpw2Wi9eO_wfxMAL9vRXwESTRUbVnmmMgkAc8vS0hi1uUzRorTB2MPqFXuKjslfBk3BJnlNWFXpfru11VfILAyWnfO486Szu/s400/phrixos_und_helle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445690500718350802" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></span></p><div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></b></div><div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The Golden </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Fleece</span></span></span></b></div> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Nephele appeared in dreams to their children and told them the vehicle to escape their fate: the ram Chrysomallos, another subject from an illustrious lineage (in Greek myths not even animals willingly accept to being a nobody). Chrysomallos was the son of Poseidon, god of the sea. The god turned himself into a ram in order to seduce the nymph Teophane, but first he had the decency to turn her into a sheep and take her to an island of sheeps, which seems the most bizarre harem of history. From this encounter was born a winged ram with golden wool, Chrysomallos, which somehow ended up in the hands of Apollo, who gave it to Nephele. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The ram picked Frixo and Helle up, but she fell and drowned and that’s why the Greek coast is called Hellespont Sea. Anyway the ram continued with Frixo to Colchis, across the Black Sea (in Georgia today). What did Frixo do? What the devil does to whom serves him well: he killed the magical ram to give the golden fleece to the local king (his future father in law) who hung the fleece of a tree and put a dragon to take care of it. One generation later, Argos, son of Frixo took part in the expedition of the Argonauts to retrieve the fleece, I’ll tell the myth in some other post. And so the ram of Aries, which ended as a constellation by its heroic, if somewhat thankless, role in this rescue is Chrysomallos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The natives from Aries, like the ram that sponsors them from the sky, is noble to the borders of sacrifice, determined to fulfill the missions he accepts (not conferred upon him: he doesn’t feel committed to anything until he say "yes"), resolved to arise again whenever he falls, and almost totally unable to tell a lie, though he can build the most complicated and convoluted fantasies.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcCS7JrnKmF6oHmN71OV86DeutMYahYrz06ba9IqM9Xjk46QDGhXTPjJTlFWdQJqJTXHKNsEOu44E-nrCHGvyQw_2KwzlVDEFl_CTkxItizJDP4ZQcgWU5Ce_a49h55ketR5dUpVvoaCGp/s400/athamasasesinaaleandro.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445691032211789874" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></span></span></p><div><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Not everyone was happy: the gods drove Athamas mad and and he killed one of his sons with Ino, forcing her to jump into the sea with her other son in order to save him; there they were rescued by the nymphs.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Strangely, from a jealous bitch and infanticide became a kind deity who protected sailors during storms.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">And Athamas died in poverty and seeking the hospitality of the beasts</span></span></span></div>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082072075852275814.post-22390970557043580902010-02-28T14:33:00.000-08:002010-02-28T14:35:56.735-08:00The "yes/no" questions and tarot<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:inherit;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At the very beginning of my trip with tarot, I learned the pitfalls of these kind of questions. I accept that my teacher and mentor did his best to keep me away from this swamp and I did not pay attention and insisted in those “quickie” questions. The truth is that whoever asks a dycotomic or bipolar question (the sort that only accept “Yes/No” for an answer) is not acting out of consideration for the time of the reader and because it is a “quick” one, but because he wants the ultimate answer, that that seems definitive: some event will happen, yes or no? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:inherit;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lets examine the usual mechanisms for bipolar readings. It is done counting how many reversed cards show up in a spread, or by setting the number of cards you must take from the deck without getting a "negative” one. In the first method, you set the number of cards (always odd, usually 5 or 7) and that number is drawn from the whole deck of cards. If you get more than half inverted, the answer is no (3 among 5 cards, for example); otherwise is yes. In the second method you must use only major arcana, and previously established which cards are negative, (the usual suspects being "The Devil", "Death", “The Tower”, "The Moon", "The Emperor" and "The Hanged Man") In this method the number of cards you must withdraw the deck is usually five: if you withdraw them without getting any of the negative ones, you had a positive response. There are a lot of mathematical variants of these methods (for example, giving double value to the center card, or to some major arcana if they show up in the spread), but basically the methods to confront this kind of questions are these. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:inherit;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That's it! The truth (MY truth, at least), and I keep insisting on this, there is no such thing as fate, things are not written in advance, much less so strongly you can summarize them in “yes/no”. But even if so, to exempt the tarot of statistics requires more than magical thinking which, of course, use to have great hatred to the numbers. I believe in a collective unconscious, in individual/universe synchronicity and if you press me maybe, just maybe, I would concede something like the Akashic records, for those of my readers who likes teosophy. But these two methods are anything but oracular. It would be exactly the same if we used the phone book, open at random and if the name we come across starts with a consonant the answer is yes. The deck itself, the very deck you, me and John Doe use, is not mystical. Mystical are its principles, its concepts, but any deck, no matter how much we love it, is cardboard and ink made and therefore is subject to the same statistics laws that rules anything else. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:inherit;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In all honesty, the Gypsies, who developed and preserved much of tarot as divination tool, must be exonerated from these rather tricky methods which are, believe or not, an adaptation and heritage from the Christian consultations to the Bible. This method is simple: you ask a question, open the Book at random and read a verse. Most of the times is a phrase to ponder about (which is progress) but if the verse includes "yes" or "no", no matter the context, the answer is given. Since the tool is the Bible, Christians who use this practice don’t see any resemblance with cartomancy, but the underlying mechanism is identical to the methods of bipolar questions: none of them have any consideration for mathematics, a discipline that God seems to have in high esteem and usually don’t trespass its rules.<br /><br /></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:inherit;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The answers in "yes or no" questions may be the longest ones. If the consultant said "come on, is quickie" you know you’ll need twenty minutes just for that question and then there will be questions of deepening. And beyond the time, what the consultant actually is doing is handing the responsibility of his decision to the reader through the deck. He doesn’t want to think, he doesn’t want even a tip. He wants the security of a divine commandment, being God, destiny or any other entity of his choice. On top of that, there’s not one positive or negative letter itself. If he wanted to hear the nuances, the consultant may find an answer like "Yes, it is going to work. And remember: beware of your wishes, for you may get them... " <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:inherit;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ES;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are no such thing as things that "yes or no" are going to happen. Show me a successful example of these predictions and I'll show you a person who took the necessary decisions to get things turned out well. What there are is roads open, meaning possibilities and consequences</span></span></span></span>Luis Felipe Tenoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11351215114157692095noreply@blogger.com0