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Skip2468, I dedicate this to you...

hello all I am LOST IN SIBERIA at the moment oh goody!

Well not quite as I, obviously, can get to the net but not too much.
It's NOT snowing, I assure you! in fact it's +34 C so everybody is welcome to wonderful sunny and sandy Siberian beaches (ho, ho, ho, but this time I am serious).

Back end of July, love you all, enjoy the summer wherever you are.

Alex the Flying Frog (it''s a character from a Russian fairy tale, I love this funny brave adventurous frog, but that's another story. If you need it bedtime, just ask... ;-)

A magpie is not an unusual animal, really. There are lots of them that are coming into the garden cos they live somewhere close. But for the last three days or so one of them was coming really close and landing on the back of a garden chair which is at the porch, a bit more, and it would start flying into the house! I decided not to wait this time and have a look at what The Magpie might have to say:

http://www.sayahda.com/cyc3.html

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Related to the crow the magpie is an intelligent and adaptable bird. Ancient folklore associated with the magpie suggests that when two or more fly into ones life good fortune is coming soon. Since magpies are opportunists and seldom miss a chance to get something for nothing those with this medicine should pay attention to subtle omens that appear in their life then act accordingly so opportunities are not missed. The magpie asks us to wake up and be conscious in every area of our life.

Magpies are curious and have a reputation for steeling anything that they can carry away. They use whatever they find and teach us how to be resourceful. Magpie medicine people have the ability to succeed in life. Those with this totem are usually eclectic and able to draw on a variety of resources to assist them in their pursuits. Being able to adapt to different situations in a spontaneous way is one of the magpies strongest attributes. Those with this totem often find that their interests are varied which make master ship of any one thing difficult although not impossible.

Magpies are extremely vocal especially in groups. They help those with this medicine learn how to use their voice to attract attention, attain desired goals as well as acquire respect from others. This applies only if this medicine is developed sufficiently. Otherwise the voice and its expression may need improvement for positive results to be obtained. Proper communication is one of the lessons that needs to be learned by magpie medicine people .

The black and white coloring of the magpie associates them to the world of magic, prophecy and witchcraft. They know how to live within the light and the dark simultaneously and understand the pros and cons of both. Magic is symbolic of creation. Occult knowledge must be understood fully before it can be used in a beneficial way. Those with this totem have the opportunity of creating a new and better life for themselves once they develop their psychic gifts completely and use those gifts with pure intention and self less service. Past life ties regarding the misuse of magic are common amongst magpie medicine people. The gift of a new creation will be offered to you only when you are ready. When the magpie flies into your life, get ready, your about to embark into the world of opportunity.
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Mmmm, good fortune and opportunities are definitely welcome! "Pay attention to subtle omens..." ok, yes, ma'am!

All thru December, 2007 and a good part of January, 2008 I was seeing herons everywhere. In every turn of the road, in every field, in every brook there was a heron. They were definitely after me! I even wanted to blog it, and, what's more important, to have a look at Totem Animals to see what the message was, but for some reason I didn't. I did it now. Bummer, shall I ever learn!
http://www.sayahda.com/cyc.html

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The Heron:
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Understanding your personal rhythm and responding to it accordingly is imperative for those with this medicine.
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Those with this medicine have strong emotional natures. They feel things deeply and with passion. The challenge here is to keep passionate thoughts and feelings under control in order to maintain a balanced emotional nature. The advantage of this energy indicates the passion and ambition needed to complete tasks and accomplish goals.
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Herons stand out in their uniqueness and know how to take advantage of things and events for their own benefit. By observing the heron, its actions and its lack of action we learn how to perfect out personal flight through life. Herons hold a silent power, their grace, agility and majestic presence reflect balance. This balance is the gift they offer to all who choose to receive it.
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'Understanding your personal rhythm', 'keeping passionate thoughts and feelings under control', and, generally, 'balance' were definitely the name of the game during that period! If only I listened to the wise herons!

Ok, better late than never... If another unusual animal shows up I'll certainly consider what it has to say! (Unusual - I mean, not alley cats).

Recently I translated Earth Chakras Volume 1(Robert Coon) into Russian, and for me, some things do click!

1. Communication centre. Is there any other problem we talk about these days more than about the communication problem? Hardly. So, where's the communication centre? The Middle East! The poor chakra has been being battered for centuries, can it be the reason why there is so much misunderstanding in the world? By the way, Babylon is in that region, too. The prophets have been trying their best but too many words were falling on stony ground... Maybe we all should do some reiki and wish the poor communication centre to get well so that the divine word could be heard loud and clear on this planet?

2. Sexual centre - South America! Well, well, well... passion crime, soap operas... but I don't want to go too far, just look at the way they dance there!

3. The centre of Beauty and Immortality - Mount Fuji, Japan. Is there any other people in the world that have Cherry Blossom Admiration celebrations and The Autumn Full Moon Contemplation festivals? The Centre of Beauty - Japan. Definitely.

To me, it does ring the bell. For more information you are welcome to have a look at http://www.earthchakras.org/

(don't worry, it's in English, not in Russian )

Here I am sitting on the porch and watching the clouds that for all they try don't materialize into the rain... and then suddenly something small comes flying from the neighbour's garden, bounces off the path and ploffs into the pool. Erm?

My first thought: "Is it some unexpected gift?"

There I go to see what has dropped into the garden, literally, out of blue - and find a walnut. Floating in the pool.

I look into the neighbour's garden - nobody. Walnut trees? Nope, not that I can see. Erm... a bird flying over and accidentally dropping the walnut - with almost a scientific precision - on the garden wall which is about 4 inch wide? Well, that's probably the only logical explanation to that. Scientific precision, or pure luck, but I got the walnut! (should I do the jig, I wonder?)

Now... a walnut. A walnut flower is "the remedy for changes" in Bach's flower remedies. There is also a Russian expression "a nut of knowledge" - meaning, if you want to get to the heart of the matter you've got to break thru some barriers - a shell, in this case.

Hm... interesting...

All theories on flying walnuts are welcome!

Hello all

I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me and we all could use more calm in our lives.

By following the simple advice I heard on a Medical TV show, I have finally found inner peace.

A Doctor proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.

So I looked around my house to see things I started and hadn't finished and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of vocka, the last of the whisky, hic, a pockage of Prunglies, tha mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a bax a cholates.

Yu haf no idr who gud I fel.

Peas sen dis orn to dem yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece!

(That reminds me of the "Back in the USSR" tune... gosh, no!
No, The Blogland has nothing to do with the USSR, thanks goodness )

My blogging is in an inverse proportion to my work. The more work - the less blog, and the other way around.

But I am still on this planet, and glad to have some respite!

Cheers to all

I was in my parent's apartment kitchen all frantic because there was some party about to start, people were about to arrive and I was nowhere near. Then my grandma who is actually long gone appeared, and then the other people start coming in. My uncles - and their daughter who died years ago. When she was here she was a street type, but in my dream she is looked like a real lady, very elegant. I thought "what a change, she got better after she died".

Then some cousins or nieces (whose? mine?) show up and come to me with hugs and kisses saying "Thank you ever so much, you really helped me" - and I have no idea what was that great favour I apparently did to them, and, in fact, who they were, but I was just saying "Oh, I am glad it turned out well..." Then more people come, and somebody comments on the draught of air from my bedroom. I go there - and apart from my ex and somebody's (mine?) "cousin" see even more people (where did they have come from??), between them a kid who died some years ago, too. I ask him where he came from then - did he climb down a rope from his fifth floor or just jumped directly from the sky with a parachute? He starts explaining, and then I see that his brother is there, too, and think "It's not this kid but his brother who got killed in some gang fight". In the end I get tired and say: "Oh, look, I don't know who of you is dead and who is alive, and I am not sure it matters. But would you please help me to close this window because the draught is bothering people?" And the three of us do it somehow.

And then a full blown fiesta was going on, and it didn't matter anymore - alive, dead, undead, not very dead, not really alive... who cares! nobody really knew anybody, but everybody was partying.

The feeling? It was like being inside of some Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel.

this was supposed to be "a little 20-minute walk!" Gosh! Turned out nice actually...