@ 2007-08-14 – 18:13:32
This is the picture of a special belt for belly dance.
My brother brought it for me from Turkey 2 years ago.
So i went to a belly dance school :-)
That was really great.
Tomorrow i am flying to Turkey to have rest for 2 weeks.
This is my first trip abroad. With a new digital cam :-)
My things are not yet packed. I feel tired and sleepy but still I would like to tell you about my trip :-)
Bless my trip dearest freinds!
I will miss you!
HUGS!!!
@ 2007-08-03 – 16:09:55
"August 3, 2007
Powerful Self-Promotion
Virgo Daily Horoscope
Today you may be feeling forceful enough to embark on the journey of self-promotion. Often the process of promoting our work, idea, or cause means ⌠selling■ ourselves≈presenting ourselves in a way that is attractive to our intended audience. We need to portray ourselves in a way that accurately and positively represents the product or service we want to gain attention for. At the same time, when we send out a focused, directed beam of our own light and envision it hitting the intended target, creating the outcome we seek, we can feel powerful. Since you are harnessing the energy of the day today, you combine it with your own confidence to become truly potent as you promote yourself to the world around you.
Some people have a natural ability for self-promotion and promoting products and can even support items with which they feel no personal connection. We can harness that same ability and make it even more powerful when we believe in what we are promoting, and we express our belief sincerely. When you talk about how something makes you feel and you look into the eyes of the people you▓re speaking with, they can get a sense of what it means to you and feel the energy you are putting into it. Today when you seek to promote yourself to others, you harness the universe▓s power to convey a feeling that with your personal energy makes you irrestistible."
Great! This is what I have been thinking about for sevral weeks already!
@ 2007-08-01 – 19:59:34
Rumi was born on the 30th of September in 1207.
Upon a proposal by Culture and Tourism Ministry of Turkey, the year 2007 was proposed as the "International Rumi Year" to UNESCO, but has not yet been confirmed. This is intended for the commemoration of Rumi's 800th birthday anniversary and will be celebrated all over the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalal_ad-Din_Muhammad_Rumi#Life
@ 2007-08-01 – 19:47:42
We are as the Flute
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.
From: Teachings of Rumi Translated E.M.Whinfield
Biography of Rumi
Jalalud'din Rumi is one of the world’s most revered mystical poets. During his lifetime he produced a prolific range of inspiring and devotional poetry which encapsulates the sufi's experience of union with the divine. These timeless classics have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, as Rumi has become one of our most popular poets. Although Rumi was a Sufi and a great scholar of the Qu’ran his appeal reaches across religious and social divisions. Even during his lifetime he was noted for his cosmopolitan outlook. His funeral, which lasted 40 days, was attended by Muslims, Jews, Persians, Christians and Greeks.
Rumi was born in 1207, in what is now know as Afghanistan. It was a period of remarkable social and political turbulence. The 13th Century was the era of the crusades; also the area where Rumi lived was under constant threat of Mongol invasion. The great upheavals Rumi faced during his life is said to have influenced much of his poetry.
Rumi met many of the great Sufi poets. For example, as a young boy he met the Sufi Master, Attar. Attar is said to have commented about Rumi.
"There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it."
However the most important turning point in Rumi’s life was when he met the wandering dervish Sham al- Din. Sham was eccentric and unorthodox, but was filled with heart - felt devotion, that sometimes he couldn’t contain. Sham appeared to be quite different to the respectable and prestigious scholar, (as Rumi was at that point.) However Rumi saw in Sham a divine presence. This meeting and their close mystical relationship was instrumental in awakening Rumi’s latent spirituality and intense devotion. It was at this point Rumi abandoned his academic career and began to write his mystical poetry.
Rumi’s poetry is wide ranging and encompasses many different ideas but behind all the poetry the essential theme was the longing and searching for the union with the divine. Rumi was himself a great mystic. His outpourings of poetry were a reflection of his own inner consciousness. Ironically Rumi said that no words could adequately explain the experience of mystical union. Yet his words are inspiring signposts which point towards the divine.
In his poetry Rumi frequently uses imagery which may be unexpected. For example although Islam forbids alcohol, he often describes the sensation of being “drunk and intoxicated with ecstasy for his beloved." Here drunk implies the bliss of the divine consciousness. Love is a frequent subject of Rumi's poems, descriptions of seeming romantic love is an illusion to the all encompassing pure, divine love. Metaphors such as this are common to other Sufi poets such as Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, and Attar.
Rumi's poetry is so widely appreciated because it has the capacity to uplift our own consciouness. Reading the words of Rumi can awaken in ourselves, our own spiritual self.
Biography copyright: Richard Pettinger (http://www.writespirit.net/spiritual_poets/rumi/biography-of-rumi/)
@ 2007-08-01 – 06:32:13
My Elvish name is Nessa Faelivrin
What is your's?
http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/
Hobbit names are here: http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/
I am Ruby Proudfoot of Standelf as a hobbit :-)
Funny :-)
@ 2007-08-01 – 06:27:27
Lughnasadh
August 1st
Fire Festival
Lughnasadh is the first in the trilogy of harvest festivals. It marks the beginning of the harvest season, and the decline of Summer into Winter.
Also known as:Lunasa (meaning August), Lughnasaad, Lughnasa(Celtic),First Harvest, August Eve, Feast of Cardenas, Feast of Bread, Tailltean Games(Irish), Teltain Cornucopia(Strega), Ceresalia(Ancient Roman) Harvest Home, Thingtide(Teutonic), Lammas(Christian). Laa Luanys, Elembious, Festival of Green Corn (Native American). It is the turning point of the earth's life cycle. Festivities and rituals typically center around the assurance of a bountiful harvest season and the celebration of the harvest cycle. A bountiful harvest insured the safe passage of the tribe through the upcoming winter months. The gathering of bilberries is an ancient ritual symbolizing the success of the Lughnasadh rituals.. If the bilberries were bountiful the crops would be, also.
Lughnasadh is the festival in honor of Lugh, the Irish God. Lugh, God of All Skills, is known as the "Bright or Shining One", He is associated with both the Sun and agricultural fertility. Lleu, Lugh's equivalent in Britain and Wales, is the son of Arianrhod, Goddess of the Stars and Reincarnation.
Games of athletic prowess are played in honor of Lugh. The games are said to be funeral games for Lugh and, in some traditions, his foster mother, who is honored at this festival because she died while preparing the fields for planting. More about the games below, under 'customs'.
Many grains, seeds, herbs and fruits can be harvested and dried at this time for later use through the remaining year. Corn is one of the vital crops harvested now, and in some areas the sacrifice of the corn king is performed. Death and rebirth are apart of the cycle Lugh journeys through in his mating with the Goddess, during the waning year. The Goddess oversees the festival in her Triple guise as Macha. She presides in her warrior aspect, the crow who sits on the battlefields awaiting the dead. She is the Crone, Maiden and Mother, Anu, Banba, and Macha, who conveys the dead into the realm of the deceased. Macha is forced, while heavy with child, to race against the King of Ulster's horses. She wins the race and gives birth to twins, and cursed the men of Ulster with the pain of labor when they most need their strength. She becomes the Queen of Ulster through battle for seven years. Her fortress in Ulster is known as the Emain Macha and its otherworldly form known as Emania, the moon Goddess' realm of death.
Lughnasadh is a time of bounty, celebration, and hopes for an abundant harvest season. We celebrate the bounty of our own life's harvest, the work we have done in and within our own lives as well as in our community. We understand and acknowledge the need for successes in both the physical and spiritual realms. For without success and a fruitful harvest we will not have the staples we need to continue our work on all levels. Our religion is one of service, not sacrifice. For there is no service in sacrifice, and no sacrifice in service. We need to fill our own cups and when our cups runneth over, we can't help but splash those around us with the life giving waters.
For we as members of the Universe and children of the Mother expect to share in the benevolence of Her Love. For ours is the Mother, who nurtures and Loves Her children, sharing her bounty. Prosperity is not amassing and hoarding a great profusion of assets. Prosperity is having more than what is essential and never having less than we desire. We understand the abundance and magnanimity of the Universe and celebrate, recognize, and honor this.
http://www.geocities.com/lavenderwater37/holidays/lammas.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lughnasadh
… Cast the circle in your usual manner, and do ablutions. (Bless and consecrate all participants.)
HPS: As the wheel turns yet another notch, we gather with those we love to celebrate the first harvest. We celebrate the Corn Mother and the God of the Grain. This is a time of abundance and a time we will reap what we have sown. (call in the watchtowers)
East - Water
All Hail to Thee, Guardian of the Watchtower of the East, the powers of water. The rivers and streams that nourished the harvest, fed our emotions, and helped to ripen all that we are about to reap. Let us drink deeply of the honesty of our friendships. We, the Children of the Harvest invite you to join our Sabbat. So Mote It Be.
More about the ritual it:
http://www.ladybridget.com/r/augr001.html
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