Nine of Pentacles (Coins)

Freed from uncertainty about your future, you can develop your talents and enjoy greater abundance.The card in the Self position reveals aspects of how you perceive yourself right now. The Nine of Coins in this position indicates liberation from survival fears, freedom from worry and uncertainty. The traditional image shows a person who has enough, is taken care of, whose needs are supported. The abundance she enjoys allows her the freedom to be herself and cultivate her natural talents and interests. This is a wonderfully optimistic card that says you are starting from a well-supported position. Somehow you have placed yourself in a flow of abundance. The question is "What are you going to do with this opportunity?"

NEW ADDRESS

Merry Christmas to you all, and all the best for 2007. For some time now I have been thinking of changing my URL for the site, as I am posting many different things, not just the Word of the Daye. Therefore, effective immediately, I have changed the URL to:

http://thedaye.blogspot.com

I think this is better, as the site is really just whatever I feel like posting. Hope to see you all soon.
Mark

My Christmas Present

I have always wanted a classic Kitchen Aid mixer like this. Just this fall I saw them in 'tangerine' for the first time, and decided that this is what I wanted, and David got it for me for Christmas. I will be baking alot more now!

General Meaning: What has traditionally been known as the Judgement card, sometimes entitled Resurrection, represents the great reunion that the ancients believed would happen once in every age. This was the time when souls are harvested and taken Home to their place of origin, outside the solar system. Then the World is seeded with a batch of new souls and the process starts over. From a modern point of view, this great reunion -- which includes every personality that you have ever been and every soul that you have done deep work with -- reunites to consciously complete the process. In a way, we symbolically celebrate this returning to center every year on our birthday. In personal terms, the Judgment cards points to freedom from inner conflicts, and so clear a channel, that the buried talents and gifts of past incarnations can come through an individual in this lifetime. This card counsels you to trust the process of opening yourself, because what emerges is of consistently high quality. You can effortlessly manifest as a multi-dimensional being, and assist in evoking that response from others. Visit: Tarot.com for more tarot info.

The Moon

Deck: Universal Waite

General Meaning: What has traditionally been known as the Moon card refers to a deep state of sensitivity and imaginative impressionability, developed within a womb of deep relaxation. Here we dream and go into trance, have visions and receive insights, wash in and out with the psychic tides, and experience deep mystical and/or terrifying realities beyond our ordinary senses. The full moon and/or eclipse cycle charted by the Magi (as in some of the earliest Moon card images) exemplify this as a mechanism that Nature uses to expand consciousness. The variants of the courtly lovers (representing skillful use of the sex force) or the man sleeping it off under the tree (use of drugs to alter consciousness) are also traditional avenues for tapping this primal force. Human interest in higher states propels us to the frontiers of consciousness, where we cannot always control what happens. The Moon card represents the ultimate test of a soul's integrity, where the membrane between self and the Unknown is removed, and the drop of individuality reenters the Ocean of Being. What transpires next is between a soul and its Maker.

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My Balcony Renovation...

Card of the Daye

General Meaning: The central theme of what is traditionally called the Wheel of Fortune card is cyclical change. The Wheel keeps on rolling, churning events in a ceaseless progression of ups and downs, either way freeing us from the past. No one can escape its cyclical action, which can feel somewhat terrifying -- no matter whether we are rising or falling. When one is balanced on top there is a moment of crystal clarity, but the only part of the Wheel not going up and down is the hub, which is your eternal Self, the Source of Freedom.

Every one of us will occupy all the points on the wheel at some time or another. The cycle of the wheel is its lesson -- and we can learn to take comfort in it (as we do when we celebrate our birthday). If you don't like the look of things right now, just wait -- things will change. Of course, if you do like the look of things right now, enjoy it while it lasts, because that will change too!

A Christmas Story Cingular Commercial

This is one of my favourite Christmas movies. I saw this commercial yesterday for the U.S. phone company, Cingular. I thought it was very well done, so here it is for you...

1981: Mystery disease kills homosexuals

A mysterious epidemic, which has been discovered in homosexual men, is causing increasing concern in the United States.
The unknown condition, which consists of two separate diseases - a form of pneumonia and skin cancer, has been found in 180 patients in 15 states since last July.
It has claimed around 75 lives so far in the US and up to 92% of the victims are homosexual men.
One death has been reported from the virus in London.
Although doctors have identified what appears to be a new disease, they have yet to devise a cure.
The epidemic is being investigated by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta.
The specialist unit has already discovered the causes of two other diseases, the toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaires' disease.

From the BBC ON THIS DAY. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY.

It seems surreal to read a report of 75 deaths in the United States, when now an estimated 28 million people around the world have died and millions are infected with HIV.

Another Waste Of Skin Dies!

Pinochet is dead.

Holiday Wallpaper

Here is my newest wallpaper.

You can create your own characters here: Southpark Character Creator.

Hints:

1. It is in the United States.

2. It is of a similar theme to the last POTD.

Coronation Street, Britain's longest-running television soap opera and its consistently highest-rating programme, was first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960 on ITV, where it continues to be scheduled.

Visit the official ITV Coronation Street Website here. *SPOILER ALERT* - If you watch Corrie on CBC, episodes are about six months behind ITV.

Military Paul

Report: Iraq police abduct gay men at gunpoint

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Ten gay men who were taken by the Iraqi police are feared to be dead, five from the activist group Iraqi LGBT, the group reported December 1. The activists were held at gunpoint while holding a secret meeting in the al-Shaab district of Baghdad on November 9, their Web site said.
Ali Hili, a gay Iraqi Muslim living in Britain, said that gays in Iraq have been the target of threats and executions. He was on the phone with the men during the abduction.
"Suddenly, there was a lot of noise and then the connection ended," he reported on Iraqi LGBT's Web site.
The site also reported that another man, Haydar Kamel, 35, was taken near his home in Sadr City. The alleged kidnappers are members of the Mahdi army, a militia loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr.
The other four men were employees of the gay-popular Jar al-Qamar barber shop in Baghdad's al-Karada district, said Tris Reid-Smith on the same site.
None of the men who have been abducted have been heard from since. It is assumed, the site said, that they are all dead.
Peter Tatchell, from Hili's group Outrage, said Iraqi LGBT has establishes a network of activists working in Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala, Hilla and Basra.
"These courageous activists are helping gay people on the run escape to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon," Tatchell said. "The world ignores the fate of gay Iraqis at its peril. Their fate today is the fate of all Iraqis tomorrow." (The Advocate)