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tundrainafrica · 4 years ago

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Title: A Tale of Two Slaves (5/17)

Summary: “Soulmates don’t exist. Fate doesn’t exist. Everything is a choice.” At that moment, Levi could only watch as she made the choice for him.“

Reincarnation AU. Levi remembers everything from their past life. Hange doesn’t.

Note: Feedback is very much appreciated.

Other Chapters: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8

Link to cross-postings: AO3

The stitches on Levi’s knees had been removed long ago. A scab formed soon after though --- or to be specific--- a bunch of small scabs from the smaller wounds that had formed conglomerates on his knees.

Levi was tempted to pick at them. The nurse had mentioned something about infections and had explicitly ordered him not to do just that. His coach rode on that theory soon after and Levi found himself spending a good amount of energy just keeping up the self control.

Some had fallen in time but what remained where parts of the scab that were embedded more deeply into the wounds and the beginnings of ugly scars on both his knees.

Most days, he could ignore it. In fact, he had forgotten they existed for a good long while, especially when he had more important things occupying his mind: Hange’s research, school work and the upcoming track and field season.

The upcoming season was the biggest problem at hand. And that was the one problem that had brought the glaring wounds in his knees back to the spotlight. Levi had been too preoccupied with Hange to have even noticed that during the weeks following his injury, his coach had given him a lighter regimen.

It was late afternoon on Sunday, a few hours after he had arrived back on campus from Hange’s place. It was just him and his coach in the middle of the oval and his coach looked more than ready to whip Levi into shape.

They had just gotten the schedule for the season and their first event was the high jump. As expected, his coach had assigned him to that event. He was the record holder last year after all.

That was last year though. Levi thought to himself as he slowly got up after his eighth failed jump of the night. He was sure he was not out of shape. In fact, he always spent more time in the oval when they were on their off season. It wasn’t supposed to be so hard to reproduce the championship winning jumps he was lauded for being so consistent in.

That night, Levi could not clear it. He was shorter than most high jumpers and it was expected that naturally, he would not get a good height above the bar. He never did anyway, usually just missing the bar by a few centimeters or even millimeters. Regardless, he consistently cleared heights despite the lack of distance he was able to generate between him and the bar. And that consistency was the reason why Levi never considered the height a problem until it was right in front of him. He should have known though that if there were only a few millimeters separating him and the bar, then any small detail could be enough to throw him off.

His mind was racing when he considered the culprit. Was it the exhaustion that was slowly creeping into him? It shouldn’t have been that. Levi had found ways to work past it before. Was it the nervousness? The pressure? Then why had he performed so well before?

Levi went through the movements again, that time not focusing on how to clear the height but on the different sensations that coursed through his body. As he positioned himself to jump up right next to the bar, he picked it out. It manifested as dull pain at first, something he would barely have given a second thought to if it were any other day. As he launched himself up, it protested painfully the quick extension of his knee.

Was it the scab? Levi landed painfully on the bar that had dislodged from its place. That was definitely going to leave a bruise.

“You okay?”

Levi felt his coach’s hand on his arm as he was guided gently into a standing position..

“That’s enough for today.” His coach’s tone was light yet slow and careful. Levi sensed the disappointment in it.

As Levi went for his bag, he went through the different motions of walking a little more slowly, taking note of any restrictions in his movement. The main one turned out to be the scab, that would protest as he extended it. It was not too much of an issue when he was still going through the lighter drills. The two meter bar was his newest challenge and in a few weeks he needed to be able to clear it easily.

He had considered telling his coach about the wound, quickly shooting down the idea when he realized he would rather not lighten his training load soon with the first event of the season just a few weeks away.

That night in bed, he allowed himself a few minutes to look over the scab. It was brown and ugly. As he ran his hand through it, he was surprised to find out that although it was particularly thick, pushing it further aggravated the pain. Levi made a few experimental scratches on it before realizing that it was still too connected to the wound beneath. Not wanting to risk any infections though which the nurse and his coach had so conscientiously explained to him, Levi sat back on the bed and distracted himself browsing whatever was on his phone.

He did a quick google search on it. The scab should fall out eventually. He opened his messages on Instagram to see Hange had replied to the video he had sent with a video of her own.

Kostornaia Triple Axel.

I like Axels better

Levi ended up watching a video on basic figure skating jumps before even replying to Hange. For some reason, he didn’t want her to think he was ignorant.

Hange was right. The axel jump was impressive. The only figure skating jump with a forward take off. Levi found himself going through the mechanics the next morning when he was alone in the oval 30 minutes before training was supposed to start.

The jumps definitely required momentum from the glide, similar to the moment he would get running towards the bar before a high jump.

The axel is one of the hardest jumps in skating because it is difficult to get the rotations from a forward take off.

The force from the twist is generally a good source of momentum. Probably one of the reasons why most high jumpers jumped the way they did. In high jump events, jumping from a forward position was generally allowed but most high jumpers launched themselves from behind due to the higher amount of force that could be channeled from that. As a little experiment to placate his own curiosity, and maybe to even give Hange something to ponder on, Levi jumped forward, similarly to what he had seen in the axel video.

As expected, within a few seconds Levi was face down on the ground, next to the bar he had snagged on the way down.

The fall was as painful and probably a little more embarrassing than his own falls the night before, even with his coach watching then. Levi could not even imagine how ridiculous he looked.

At least no one was there to see him fall. Levi allowed himself a long look at the sky above him as he went through the movements in his head. He could easily just repeat the same jump. He eventually decided against it though as he realized it caused unnecessary pain, it was an injury risk and for sure it would be embarrassing if one of his teammates caught him in the act of reproducing a figure skating jump on the field. The forward take off was far from efficient but somehow it felt nostalgic. It felt inefficient yet intimate, an incompetent old friend.

In his dreams, Levi was taking off, flying forward in a similar pattern. It was a mixture of possibly cables and gas that had kept him afloat then. How exactly the gas and the cables work, he couldn't completely understand. For sure there was nothing similar where he lived, maybe the closest was a plane.

Either way, it was flying and Dream Hange and Real Hange were right. It was fun.

That burst of energy was what got him attempting the high jump again over the two meter bar he had set. He was aware of the whispers as the oval started to fill up with his own teammates.

He could not make out what they were saying but the confusion and possibly disappointment in their tones and in their whispers could only point to one thing. One glaring reality. Levi was unable to clear the two meter jump without dropping the bar.

He did it before. In fact he had cleared a 2.3 meter jump. That achievement was what broke a record and lead the team multiple collegiate championships in the first place.

That training, his coach had decided to focus on other athletes. Levi used that respite to focus on other events: the hurdles, the sprints. The whispers eventually died down as others went to focus on their own regimens. For a while, Levi wondered why he was self conscious in the first place. Before that, he had never really bothered with what everybody else was doing in training.

It's amazing. The amount of balance, core strength and body control to keep your body flexible enough not to hit the bar. The amount of leg strength needed to jump that high. You really must be superhuman.

His best event had always been the high jump. That was why Hange had wanted to work with him in the first place. As Levi reflected on it, he started to realize everyone being disappointed was a painful reminder that with his inability to break his previous records, he would also be disappointing Hange.

As usual, Levi stayed thirty minutes after practice to attempt the high jump multiple times, finding solace in the fact at least that everyone had left for their first classes that day. After failing every single time, Levi walked back to the bench. He deliberately put more weight on his right knee, a silent yet angry protest against the scab that had made it impossible to completely extend his knee.

He checked his phone. 8:30. His first class was at 10.

Below the time, he saw Hange had left a few messages, all pictures and links according to the banners on his phone. Levi went to settings and turned off the notifications.

A mini game and a well-deserved punishment for himself.

If I can’t meet her expectations, I won’t talk to her until the weekend.

That weekend was when they were slated to meet again. He had five days to jump it.

A Tale of Two Slaves

He didn’t last long.

By the next morning, Levi had given up already on leaving the notifications off. He ended up checking her messages anyway even with the notifications turned off. Declaring that move in particular redundant, Levi turned on notifications and read through all the messages Hange had sent.

They were links to different jumps, the lutz, the toe loop, the salchow, the axel, the loop and the flip. They all looked the same to Levi. The only one that looked any different was the axel he had tried in the oval a few days ago. The rest of the messages were just a long explanation on different figure skating jumps. It was a long rant, with too many terms that even Levi wasn’t aware of.

That was when Levi realized, she may be hard to forget but she was easy to ignore. Especially since he had better things to do than listen to her rant, like train or study.

Levi moved the goalposts of his little game. I’ll open Hange’s messages but I won’t reply until I clear the jump.

By Friday, things were starting to look a little more hopeful. The scab on his knee was starting to peel off. The skin underneath looked a little raw but not at all alarmingly discolored. As he prepared for training that night, he did a few experimental bounces and a few warm up stretches. The raw skin underneath was still resisting the stretches.

“Looks like your wound is looking a little better. You ready to show me your jump?” Greg spoke from behind him.

Was he even ready to jump? Although he had busied himself the past few days practicing it, it was far from something he would be ready to show his coach. In fact, he had not even cleared the two meters at all. As his mind raced for excuses or just the best possible answer to that question, Levi was also reminded of the dull aches and pains all over his body.

He had busied himself that week jumping six hours a day, three hours early in the morning and three hours at night. Exhaustion was something that he was easily able to brush off having grown up an athlete. Fatigue was a different story. Fatigue is a specter that haunts, no matter how healthy, well trained or toned its victim is.

Maybe that was where the hopefulness came from. His body had somehow gotten a little numb and insensible to aches and pains that when the scab had finally fallen enough, he had assumed he would be able to fully extend his leg when necessary. As he ran towards the bar and launched himself up in the air, the scar tissue underneath fought, pulling against his leg. The scar tissue was tight, it was taught and as Levi fell back on the cushion, the bar next to him, Levi could only slam his hand on the bar in frustration.

“Hey, if you’re having trouble we could lower the bar first.”

“No. I just need time to get used to it.” Levi said. A straight-up lie but at that point, Levi didn’t realize it himself.

He did not expect his next few jumps to be chaotic. The bar was falling down next to him more violently every time. A few times it rattled. One time it flew a few meters away. Levi only ever allowed himself a split second to watch the bar react to the force of his jumps before he mechanically got back up again.

His movements had to be mechanical. His head was spinning, his mind was racing. At that moment, he could have attributed his inability to clear it to anything. His stomach was turning. His legs were screaming, his body was aching from constantly hitting the cushion at full force.

He found himself having to catch his breath as he stepped back into the starting line. From his peripherals he could see Elijah running towards the adjacent bar. As soon as he jumped though, Levi had to look away. As guilty it made him feel, Levi still hoped he would hear the sound of metal on metal and the bar clattering on the ground.

Silence, the sound of a body hitting the cushion then cheers.

Levi glanced at the bar Elijah just cleared to see it was set at two meters as well. He found himself dashing towards his own bar before getting his bearings.

He had gone through the same positions for as long as he could remember. It should have been easy. Ironically, Levi found himself more self conscious about how he was supposed to be running as he pictured the speed and the movement at which Elijah had done it from his peripherals. Elijah was a foot taller than him and somehow he knew he had to compensate. He ran faster than necessary, jumped higher than necessary and he curled his body towards the ground at a more dangerous angle as he landed.

The last part was the most dangerous part of the jump.

“Levi!”

Levi only had a split second to react as his head was falling straight towards the ground at an alarming speed. The reflexes that had gotten him to every training and the intuition that had built over the years was enough though and Levi was able to curl his upper body forward, enough to avoid breaking his neck. The speed at which he fell on the cushion though and the way he had bounced and skidded violently on the cushion beneath him brought about an exploding pain on his back and for a second Levi actually thought he broke his back.

As much as he wanted to forget everything and focus on the sky above him, he knew he had to take stock of his injuries. That was the first time he had ever fallen like that. Hell, that was the first time he had ever feared the worse from an injury.

He tested them one by one. His legs were moving like they should. His arms too. Most importantly, there was no pain as he moved his neck from side to side. The pain was all over his back though and Levi was sure that at the least, he had bruised his back badly.

“You’re done for the day.”

“I can try one more.” How many times did he jump? Levi was sure at least not ten. He could have done at least twenty more.

“I said you’re done for the day.” His coach’s tone was something new, the sound of someone scrambling for authority and yet it succeeded.

Levi could not argue. As he walked painfully back to the bench he started to notice the crowd that had gathered next to his training area. He wondered how scary the fall must have looked for a crowd to have gathered nearby and for his coach to have spoken to him like that.

As he sat on the bench, the world started to spin. Levi rested his hand to his forehead only to realize his hand was shaking.

“Hey. Will you at least let me look over your bruises? I just want to make sure nothing is broken.”

Levi found himself fighting back tears. Her voice came as a pleasant surprise yet at the same time, it was the last thing he wanted to hear.

“Why are you here?”

"I just wanted to make sure you were still alive." Hange joked. "You didn't reply to any of my messages."

"I was busy."

"Looks like it."

She went behind him. Levi felt a shudder spider through him as she put her hands on his shoulders.

"Does it hurt?"

Levi could only shake his head. It wasn't pain. Was it surprise? Embarrassment? Either way, it was enough to make Levi sit up a little straighter.

“You cleared the bar at least," Hange said.

"I did?" If Levi wasn't too surprised at the sudden revelation, he probably would have noted the pain as Hange ran her hands around his upper back. At any rate, it was light enough that Levi completely forgot it as he focused on the untouched bar.The one he flew over only a second ago.

Levi allowed himself a small smile of satisfaction, small enough that if anyone saw it, he could easily pretend it never happened.

"Looks like there's nothing broken. But it feels like there's some bruising. Make sure to ice it."

"When I get back to the dorm," Levi answered. He stifled a wince as he felt her fingers climb up his shoulder.

"You have some friction burns around your upper back," Hange explained. "Hey, if you're not up to doing the tests tomorrow, it's fine."

"No, we're pushing through with tomorrow."

"But you're not looking so good. Something tells me that was the only jump you cleared this week."

Levi did not answer.

"Your movements were wilder, chaotic, uncoordinated. Not like the Levi who jumped in the championships." Her tone was playful but to Levi, it sounded like she was mocking him. "Maybe if you read my messages, it would help."

Levi unlocked his phone and opened her messages. He had cleared the jump at least and that was his prize.

"Do you see it?" Hange asked after a few minutes.

Hange's rant was long enough to make Levi's phone lag. Levi blacked out in frustration, not bothering to close read beyond what was right in front of him. A long winded list of the differences between skating jumps and why Hange liked the Axel in particular the best then the Lutz, then the Loop.

"Just say it."

"I noticed when we did the preliminary testing that you get most of your power from your legs." Hange sat next to Levi and look pointedly at his legs. "You're lucky they're strong enough to carry you over the bar. When you're doing a two meter bar, and your legs are slightly injured though, I'm guessing a lot can throw you off. Especially since you generally don’t get much height over the bars when you clear them.

"What does this have to do with skating jumps?"

"If you read why I like the Axel so much as a jump you'd know." Hange looked at him expectantly.

Her eyes were like that of a two month old puppy and Levi felt utterly trapped. Trapped enough at least to read what she had sent him.

An axel jump requires one of the most complex coordinated movements. It's a forward facing jump with no support from a toe pick and little support from a backward rotation.

"So where do you get the power from?" Hange continued.

Levi tensed up. He hadn't noticed that Hange settled on the bench right next to him, having leaned close enough to look over his shoulder and at his phone.

"The hips. The arms. I actually just realized it yesterday but you don't utilize your arms much when you jump, or your hips when you twist. If you did, it could add more power to your jump. Maybe that could fix your jumping problem..."

"Maybe." Levi answered half heartedly, too occupied by the videos Hange had sent to even come up with something more responsive. He had heard what she said but had found it difficult to comprehend from explanation alone. It turned out he had needed something a little more visual and watching the Russian skater in a purple dress go smoothly through the motions of a triple axel made everything much clearer.

He was a track and field athlete and she was a figure skater. But somehow the basic movements were the same, pushing the hips back before thrusting them forward. Moving the hands back before jumping up. Those were the body equivalents of pulling back the leather pad a slingshot before letting go, to further amplify the force of the leg as it pushes the body up and into the air.

And Hange had picked up all the similarities without ever playing any of the sports. It was amazing but at the same time amusing.

"What do you think? Should we try it?" Hange asked.

Levi paused for a moment, taking stock of his situation. His legs were aching and his body was going numb from what could have been exhaustion. He was even starting to reconsider the preliminary tests scheduled for the next day. "We could try it next week." Levi suggested.

It was odd when Hange had stopped talking but Levi did not really think too much about it. That was until he looked up at her. Hange's face was frozen in awe and wonder, as if she was in a daydream. Her eyes were shining yet at the same time, concentrated on one particular object.

Levi only had to follow her line of sight to realize what it was. Picking it out among the crowd of students in the oval was easy. After all, all the athletes had their attention on Elijah who was already picking himself up from the cushion by the time Levi had followed her line of sight to that point.

The crowd exploded into applause. Levi looked back to see Hange was clapping herself, her eyes not moving from the center of the track.

Levi was quick to change his mind after seeing just that. "Hey, four eyes. Let's try it out after training."

It was not odd at all for Levi to stay after training. He was used to it. That night though, he had to sit back and wait for the field to clear before he went back to the place where his bar stood. He waited thirty minutes just in case.

Hange did not have to explain much. She helped polish his form but Levi had his own instinct and his own experience to fill in the gaps.

He did a few light test jumps with the bar set lower, taking note of the freedom of movement that came with the extra thrust of his hips and the extra burst of force which came with having his arm movements pull the jump further upwards.

"Just one jump," Hange said, a worried frown on her face.

He did not need to guess what Hange was seeing. His legs were aching and he was struggling to take deeper breaths.

Last jump of the night. Levi assured himself. He then promised his body one weekend off if he made it. He stood on the starting point again for a few seconds, starting long and hard at the bar set two feet high in front of him.

The arm movements and the hip twists were not unfamiliar. Just like the sensation of launching himself up in the air, the tightening of his muscles and the bending of his back to get over the bar, they were all muscle memory. Where exactly Levi had gotten it, he did not know. Either way, he had won championships with leg power alone. With a lack of opponents, there was no need to improve his technique and he had stuck to using his legs.

Somehow, Hange's suggestion had awakened a new facet of his muscle memory.

Levi ran towards the two meter high bar, making sure to take note of the sensation in his hips and the untapped power in his arm. He positioned himself to launch in the air and in that split second, he did not need to consider where the power came from. Running towards the bar had contributed its own share of momentum and as Levi positioned himself for the jump, his arms had gone mechanically behind his back for a second.

That's where the power is from. Levi realized. He jumped up and noted the thrust of his hip as he twisted himself to a position where his back would be facing the bar. That was where the power from the hips came into play.

Levi was flying. At the same time, he was speeding up.

It should have been a perfect jump. In fact Levi had made some good height between him and the bar below him. If he were going any slower and had the luxury to look to the side he could have seen Hange's look of awe, her mouth agape and her eyes shining in pure excitement.

Levi though had other thoughts. His body was too preoccupied with something else.

Only less than an hour ago, Levi had almost broken his neck with a jump of a much lower speed and a lower height. Although Levi had quickly forgotten it, his body remembered. And when he was a good two and a half feet up in there his body decided to remind him of that particular memory of less than an hour ago.

Suddenly, Levi was terrified. He found himself fighting for some kind of control mid air. The sound of crash of metal hitting flesh then an explosion of pain.

That pain could have been accompanied by another as Levi landed awkwardly on the cold hard ground of the track. Everything he had felt up there in the air though was overwhelming enough and Levi found himself unable to isolate the pain or even trace its origins.

With the little energy and control he could muster, Levi turned his head to look above him. He didn't break his neck at least.

The dark blue sky stretched out in all directions and somewhere above him, he heard the distant screaming from a voice he had come to know so well.

Levi! Can you hear me… I can't deal with this on my own. I'm gonna have to call for help.

#levihan #levi ackerman #hange zoe #levi x hange #levi x hanji

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thepavensiestyle · 4 years ago

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A Fighter is Born

A bright, sunny day would promise heat for a majority of the early morning. Seeping well into the later afternoon. An expansive sea in possession of rough blue waves would lap up against the sandy shore of a littered beach. The conditions were visible along the horizon as heat waves rose up to distort reality.

But well beyond this sunny patch of peace, the scenery had erupted in chaos. Nothing natural but rather manmade. An illegal sparring ring consisting a myriad of races that had ranged from humans and elves, to orcs and tauren. Though, there was more where that came from, a lot more. Horde and Alliance both coexisted in order to get a view of this popular event in Stranglethorn. Members of both factions assembled in a friendly clash of one mass for but a singular look at those that would be participating in the center ring.

The roar of a crowd sounds just as those already on the sparring grounds had first made contact. At first glance, they could be mistaken for gnomes or goblins. But on closer inspection, the fighters were made up of children. Whose ages ranged from 5 to 10 years old. Regardless of those circumstances, these particular fighters appeared well trained. They carried weapons like they’d had years of experience with them.

Although, deep underground, the sound of the crowd muffled.

The latch of one iron shackle sounded in a faint click as it clamped around the bared ankle of one such human boy. It wasn’t anything to hinder him in any way but it sure was tight. Tight enough to cause discomfort. “There, that’s to identify ya’.” Such was always Kleegal’s excuse on the matter. The well dressed Goblin stood roughly around the height of the 7 year old child, perhaps a few inches shorter.

The boy was not as well dressed as Kleegal. He wore no shoes on his feet, a patchy and faded shirt along with ripped shorts. Beside him, another Goblin had stood with a drink in hand. This one was a female, her blue hair dolled up nicely in a loose bun on the top of her head. She wore a lack of clothing as well, though not quite so roughed up as the child. “Make sure ya win for us, will ya’?” Was the first thing she’d said. Ena was always focused on the riches that had come from accomplishing such tasks.

“‘Ey, kid.” Kleegal spoke without regarding Ena for the moment. “Just rememba’, if ya’ lose, you ain’t gonna be allowed back inside for the night. Ya’ hear?” The male would look the boy in the eyes, pressing the threat by the slight tilt of his head. He receives no verbal response other than the light nod of the boy’s head. But he was acceptant of it all the same. “Good, good.”

From behind the Goblin couple, a door had seemed to swing open to allow for a brutish orc to enter with a child of his own. A child who was also of orc descent and had already been huge for his apparent age. Tall and buff by the looks of it, and staring at the human boy like he was fresh meat. “Ah! Karguk!” Kleegal announces before making his approach towards the burly Orc.

“We’re about to be called up.” The Orc had spoken in a deep and gruff voice. Complete with the intimidation to scare off a lion. A singular hand would shove the Orc child forwards, allowing him to stumble gracelessly into the room. “You’d better get the little-” Karguk looks over at the human child and grumbles. “-worm ready to lose.” The same hand used to shove his own child would be one to pat him on the shoulder. A gesture used to show off the prominent size differences between human and orc.

Kleegal would fall to a lean against one of the posts holding up the underground ceiling and laughs at Karguk. “He ain’t gonna lose! We trained him well enough!” This would be enough for Karguk to expel a gutterous series of laughter.

“And I have trained mine well.” Once again, he pats the Orc child’s shoulder. “I will see you in the stands, Goblin.” That would be when the giant Orc would turn around with the child in tow to leave the underground room. All the while, the remaining trio would stand by watching. Kleegal and Ena with sneers while the human child had nothing short of fear written across his features.

“Well!” Kleegal calls back out just as the door to the room closes. “He was peachy, wasn’t he, Ena?” Laughter commences, until the male was right back to confronting the child. “Johnny boy.” He finally called the child by his name. “You betta’ not lose this one. It’s gonna really put a stake in our career if ya’ do. So let’s do this!”

Out of the room Johnny had been ushered, and onto the sparring ring outside. The hot sun boring down upon everyone who’s attended. Though it seems the attendees had less of an issue to worry about. There’d been vendors going about selling drinks and snacks for the audience. Many overhangs gave the audience shelter from the merciless sun but standing in the very center would be open for all elements to view. The worst of the conditions being the sun of course. And with the ground being made entirely from sand, standing still for too long meant burning your feet, if you’d been unlucky enough not to wear shoes. Kleegal would only linger for a short time to mumble something towards the human child before he hurried away from the sandy center. Desperate enough to flee the harsh conditions.

“‘EY LOOK!” From the booming crowd, one voice stood out to them both. “Kleegal’s free laba’! AHAHA!” Then the Goblin’s voice would be drowned out by the loud crowd. Whistles and cheers would sing in an immense choir as voices filled up the entire audience. Though, Johnny and the orc child both stood together in silence, both peering up at the crowd of faces.

And above all of the sound of cheering, an echoed voice through what can only be described as a loudspeaker would manifest. Another Goblin’s voice. “Ladies and gentlemen! Here we have next on the docket, fightin’ for this swell 13th anniversary of the Black Sun Sparrin’ Ring! This time we got somethin’ a little different! We got a new competita’ with us! Ahaaa! Today will be the day to showcase a series of new faces overall, most of which should be bloody by the end of this! Now we will be featurin’ Yegoth! Also known as Beast! The mightiest orc boy in the land! Challengin’ against Lil’ John! Who we will call, Fish Food!” The name call would promote laughter amongst the crowd around them. “You all know the rule! First fighta’ dropped for 10 seconds is the losa’! Ladies and gentleman, are you ready?!” And with that, the promotion of louder cheers and whistles as the crowd would get pumped for the coming fight. “Alright! Let’s get ready to rumble~!” Shortly afterwards would be the sound of a loud bell that brought the fighting to its introduction. Which had only excited the crowd even more.

That was the same time Yegoth had started forwards, raising his hefty fists up in defense. He approaches Johnny rather quickly despite his immense size. While Johnny would stand by and simply watch to see exactly what was to come of the action. He’s seen fights like these go down but never has he been in the center ring doing the fighting. It wasn’t like the boy even knew how to fight but he braces all the same.

Yegoth would have been able to land the first hit, while Johnny had taken it like a champion. He emits a loud yelp as the force had sent the boy back several paces from where he’s first started. Already, the side of his face had bruised over and his head rattled by the impact. It was by some miracle he hadn’t fallen over into the sand but he straightened up in an instant.

Though, this had not seemed to be the end as Yegoth had once again recoiled a fist to land directly into Johnny’s nose just as the human boy turned to face his opponent. Immediately, blood would spurt from his nostrils and the impact this time had pushed Johnny to fall on his ass in the sand. The announcements would come up as this was witnessed. “And we got the first drop in not even two seconds of the intro! Will Fish Food get back up?! Help me count! 10! 9! 8!” He continued to count down while Johnny stayed seated, with the help of the crowd counting along with him.

Johnny would raise a hand to his bloody nose, barely listening to the sound of the numbers counting down. Although, it was just when the audience and announcer had reached ‘3’ that Johnny had slowly gotten back up. He was relentless despite his desperate desire to flee and leave the area. Not to mention the sudden nausea from the rattling of his brain with all the whiplashing as a result of the punches. Needless to say, he wanted to get out of there. But the only way out was to either win or lose. And losing only meant sullying his foster parent’s names. He didn’t want to do that.

So he pivots back and raises his arms up in a defensive posture this time, similarly to his opponent’s stance. Yegoth was big and tall but that might have just been an advantage for Johnny. He was small and more agile than his counterpart. The sight of Johnny’s positioning gave cause for Yegoth to sneer and smile with mockery. It was easy to note that the human child had no idea what he was doing and to the orc, it might be the only thing he needs to best him. Use his lack of coordination against him.

At first, Yegoth had sprinted towards Johnny and feints a punch in his direction. During such an action, Johnny would raise his arms up to cover much of his face but when no impact was made, he instead felt the real punch to his uncovered stomach. He let out a wheezing breath and was quick to drop his arms to protect his stomach, now leaving his face uncovered for yet another punch to his bloodied nose.

The blow was enough to send him backwards a few steps at first before flopping on his back in a heap onto the sandy dunes. Curling up into fetal position, Johnny would make no move to actually stand back up. Despite the daunting sound of the crowd and announcer counting from 10 to 0. He wanted to throw up in that moment but he held his breath so as not to allow for any spew of chunks to leave his empty stomach. Vomiting would only add insult to injury for both the loss and the obvious tears in his eyes.

Though once again, one thought would stand out against the others. The thing Kleegal had once said before he entered the sparring stage. About his career and all, Johnny did not want to be responsible for his losses. So again, the boy would force himself back to a stand just as the crowd and announcer made it to ‘2’. “TWO! And Fish Food is relentless! Second time! Could this be his charm?!” The announcer shouted loud, again urging the crowd to laugh and roar in cheer. At that moment, Johnny’s ears had started to ring. Head pounding and heart thumping hard against his chest. His blue eyes locked down on his opponent much like a predator to its prey; just as the orc had begun to lunge for Johnny once again. Time would gradually begin to move in slow motion to a point of stoppage and just before Yegoth was able to close the gap with Johnny, the human would duck down to let the orc’s fist soar past him as he swung it. Unknown to Johnny, something seemed to have gotten over him. How was he able to commit to these actions with no training at all? In the next instance, none of that seemed to matter as the 7 year old straightened back up to land a heavy blow to the side of Yegoth’s face during his recovery. The momentum from the orc’s punch preventing him from defending his person for a time and so the fist would land. The attack was enough to rattle Yegoth but not completely deter him; he was mostly caught off guard by it. How Fish Food suddenly had the prowess to fight against Beast. When Yegoth pivots back towards Johnny to follow up with an attack, the human had suddenly dropped in a crouch to the sand and collected a handful of it in order to throw it in his opponent’s eyes. Giving cause for a loud yell from the orc to manifest before his hands had risen up to try to clear up the grainy mixture that blinded him. It was in that moment, Johnny would take to attacking every aspect of the orc’s person. Punches and kicks would land on the entirety of his body and it was when Johnny kicked the other in the groin that Yegoth dropped. Sand filled eyes wetting with tears in a desperate attempt to get them cleared up enough to see. Both of his green hands struggled to rub away the countless grains that were stuck under the small crevices and sockets. But in the end, it was for naught. The poor boy was down and laying on his side in the sand while Johnny awaited for a response. Blue eyes rage filled and boring down on Yegoth like he was the enemy of this arena. He had half a mind to continue brutalizing the boy but he does no such thing. This time, the announcements and the count down from 10 was music to Johnny’s ears. With no prominent move from the Orc to stand back up, he could manage a smug grin up until the 0 mark was struck and the audience both cheered and booed in one chorus of excitement and disappointment. Regardless of it, Johnny turns about in the hot sand to raise his scrawny arms up in celebration. “We have our winna’! An unlikely fighta’! JOHNNY BOY! The Unda’dog who was able to pull through!” The announcements would continue but Johnny tuned it out, smiling throughout. All he could think about was sleeping in a nice bed back home.

#WoW RP #Fighter #OC Story #IC Story

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Lunar Recap

How it started. How it’s going. How it ended for the last lunar cycle of 2020.

This lunar cycle began with the New Moon on Jan. 12, 2021 @ 11:01 PM CT (Jan. 13 @ 05:01 UTC). It was the 13th Moon of 2020 according to the lunar calendar. And it ended Feb. 11, 2021, just before the 1st Moon of 2021! Happy Lunar New Year 2021, Year of the Ox!

South Korean Court Orders Japan to Compensate Women Forced into Sex Slavery

Colorado AG Opens Grand Jury Probe of Police Killing of Elijah McClain

Guantánamo Bay Prison Starts 20th Year of Indefinite Detentions

Pfizer to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Output as WHO Warns of Vaccination Inequality

Lawmakers Catch COVID-19 After Sheltering in Room Where GOP Reps Refused Masks

FBI Warns of “Armed Protests” in All 50 States and at Biden’s Inauguration

Tomorrow is Sun conjunct Pluto. Something that’s been lurking in the shadows bout to jump out. Might be pretty big, but there’s also the individual personal experience of this event and might feel more like an early Full Moon for you.

House to Impeach Trump as GOP Shows Signs of Backing Removal

Well this is dumb. Sun conjunct Pluto?

The $3,000-a-month toilet for the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner Secret Service detail

I also remembered/realized how much I really love Anna Sui designs since I was a kid which is pretty random to pop up on my radar, but this woman gets that all I want is sparkly heart shaped objects in lacquered black and flowy hippie dresses

Trump Tells Aides Not to Pay Giuliani’s Legal Fees as Bid to Overturn Election Fails

All I know is talking about dreams and discussing them with others makes you feel better. The tarot angle is there to shed some light on what the dream is actually telling you.

Joe Biden Unveils $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus and Economic Relief Package

ICE’s Acting Director Resigns After Two Weeks on Job

Found out today the woman at the car mechanic I've been faithfully taking my car to for the past two years can speak to the dead and had some messages for me from my dad who passed in October-

Intuitive guided tarot card pull.

Waxing crescent into Aries Monday, January 18, 2021 at 1:06 AM CT Today’s Astro x Tarot forecast valid for the next 24 hours: Feelings are flaring up for you to make a statement, a very zippy move or a quick decision about someone or something.

So long as you remain flexible and agile, whatever you choose to do with them will work to your advantage. If you decide not to impose hyper-agility into your decision making rn, then kudos to you! You’ve gained practice points in self-control experience.

More Than 760,000 Pounds of Hot Pockets Recalled

‘I Answered the Call of My President’: Rioters Say Trump Urged Them On

Raphael Warnock and the Legacy of Racial Tyranny

The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny

Whoa, I was like a cycle early on celebrating the lunar new year! I’ve been a month into the future for a week now. My bad! I apologize for any confusion.

I was thinking that the soul's law of attraction is probably pretty unstoppable even concerning partners, so like, if someone didn't love you back then it's not some mistake or human misunderstanding that you or they need to fix.

To find one's soulmate looks something like 2 souls flying towards each other from opposite ends of the galaxy to join their physical selves together in a collision force so brutal you're stuck like that and if that's not what yours looks like then maybe that ain't your soulmate?

All the men going to jail for their poop smearing Capitol rioting have online dating profiles and that’s reason no. 2 I do not date online! Reason no. 1 is ain’t nobody cute on there.

The Witch’s Myth: The true story of the crane husband

Where are your witch stars, Circe and Hekate, located? Their location can explain your relationship to witchcraft. Circe is in my 1st house influencing my outer appearances and Hekate is conjunct Jupiter influencing my domestic style and home to be distinctively witchy.

Sun into Aquarius Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 2:33 PM CT Here is your Sun into Aquarius forecast effective for the next several weeks of Aquarius season.

Down to earth and grounded is our most qualified position to receive everything we need and use everything we receive. This is the reality of ourselves, the human condition.

We love reality based reality.

Get ready for reality-grounded White House press briefings

Why do people believe the lies they’re fed? Because those lies are designed to be more palatable than reality. Lies offer a quick easy patch, but what you’ve gotta ask yourself is are those lies actually designed to support the flow of all things into your life?

~* First Quarter Jan. 20 3:02 PM CT (21:02 UTC) *~

Biden and Harris Attend Memorial to Honor 400,000+ COVID-19 Victims in U.S. on Eve of Inauguration

Steve Bannon Among Final Trump Pardons and Commutations

Trump Admin Declares Multiculturalism Is “Not Who America Is” as WH Releases Racist, Revisionist Report

4,000+ Columbia Students Back Largest-Ever Tuition Strike

Today, whatever you’re doing or are wishing to become will be to the benefit of this unifying, love-aligned uprising.

Joe Biden Sworn In as 46th President of the United States, Ending Trump Era

Good inauguration Astro climate this morning feels like. #BidenHarrisInauguration

“What has shaken the U.S. population so badly, this assault on the Capitol yesterday, is really nothing by comparison to what U.S. operations have done in Latin America, in Asia, in Africa, in the Middle East, to other democratic movements and elected governments over the years.”

Progress towards wholeness can’t be made until we own up to the roles we’ve played in the past.

Read the full text of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem ‘The Hill We Climb’

When did politics get so vibrant and fashionably uplifting? Please and thank you! #Inauguration2021

The two of wands says to review your options, do your research, crunch the numbers, imagine the outcomes, but there’s no need to force making a choice if you don’t have to. Buy yourself some time and let the plans for a resolution find you, not the other way around.

Donald Trump Leaves Office and Washington, D.C., Threatens “We Will Be Back”

Watchdogs Demand Transparency as Corporations Pour Millions into Biden-Harris Inauguration

Senate Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley over Jan. 6 Insurrection

Federal Forces Arrest Ex-Marine for Beating Officer with a Hockey Stick During Capitol Riots

It’s Friday and it just feels good to be alive, a socialist and calling Bernie Sanders cute on Inauguration Day week! What a difference a pandemic makes.

Instacart Lays Off 2,000 Workers, Including Group Who Started Company’s First Union

Mars square Jupiter January 23, 2021 @ 1:49 AM CT (7:49 GMT) Someone wants you to know that you are ready to conquer your perceived limits to arrive at expansion in your thoughts, feelings, emotions and understanding today.

Waxing gibbous into Cancer January 25, 2021 @ 12:51 PM CT (18:51 GMT) It’s a supportive Moon for dreaming for mental health and well being. Begin a dream journal or review your latest dreams, reflecting on them for a few minutes today.

You are opening yourself up to an emotional practice that includes care for yourself in ways no one else (besides you and your connection to the Moon) can provide.

And too my Tarot Dream Readings are open if you would like guidance or support on a particular dream. See my pinned tweet for how it works.

When one’s soul is allowed to lead one’s life, working in the dark shadows, the invisible silence, the soul’s manifesting results are way more lasting and way more powerful than egocentric anything.

Good morning, self! A reminder my ego has never done a thing for me my soul can’t do better.

National Guard Deployment at U.S. Capitol Becomes COVID-19 Superspreader Event

Russia Violently Cracks Down on Protesters Calling for Release of Alexei Navalny

Trump Plotted to Oust Acting AG, Use DOJ to Force Georgia to Overturn Election Results

Hunts Point Market Workers in the Bronx Win Wage Increase After Week-Long Strike

This mourning brooch is a mindful way to mark the death of a loved one while paying tribute to the impact it has had on you. Bring back this Victorian trend!

Veteran Talk Show Host Larry King Dies After Hospitalization for COVID-19

Hank Aaron, Who Overcame Racist Barriers to Become Home Run Record-Holder, Dies at 86

We don’t give our bodies or our intuition enough attention and nourishment a lot of the time, so today’s the day we practice finding and sitting quietly with our inner voice.

~* Full Moon Jan. 28 1:17 PM CT (19:17 UTC) *~

House Delivers Article of Impeachment to Senate, Triggering Trump’s Second Trial

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani for Lying About 2020 Election

President Biden Increases U.S. Vaccination Goal to 150 Million Shots in 100 Days

President Biden Reverses Trump’s Transgender Military Service Ban

Biden Restores Plan to Feature Abolitionist Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill

Value is further added the more you mint your words with a most whole and complete love. Love is the greatest asset we can let appreciate in our lifetimes.

This Full Moon tomorrow sends a flash point that reminds you to circulate this wealth because it’s the greatest emotional gift we can bestow upon our loved ones, family, friends, neighbors, elders, members of our community, etc.

Venus conjunct Pluto in Capricorn January 28, 2021 @ 10:18 AM CT (16:18 GMT) Going through your day today uncovers a forgotten desire or creative goal. You find yourself asking something like: Remember when I wanted to become a pastry chef?

Although you decided to pursue a different course, take a moment to focus on and honor this memory when it arrives and then release it. What did you become instead and why?

45 Senate Republicans Back Dismissal of Trump Impeachment Trial

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Supported Violence Against Pelosi and Others in 2018 Facebook Posts

Taking the time to recognize and honor your past desires gives the respect these memories deserve and it integrates them into the whole wider scene of the individual, both shadow and light on your path builds confidence in your steps, confidence in yourself.

You are who you are for a reason.

Had no idea how literal this grassroots King of Pentacles card was gonna materialize today, but here it is folks! When a subreddit takes down a hedge fund!

Leader of Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, Was a Government Informer

U.S. Freezes Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Reviews Deal with UAE Made Under Trump Admin

Poland Enacts Near-Total Ban on Abortions, Triggering More Protests

Honduras Locks In Total Ban on Abortions, Attacks Marriage Equality

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts Parkland Survivor David Hogg in Newly Resurfaced Video

The stock market this morning: Sh*t! Normal working class people read the market and figured out the game! Time to change the rules again. Let’s write it in ancient Babylonian hieroglyphs this time. They’ll never figure that sh*t out.

A message crucial to promote the awareness of your personal role in the collective will become evident over the next three weeks. You will come to ask yourself, What am I doing with my life?

If you aren’t familiar or comfortable with seeking your inner journey, then the greatest clue I can offer you at the start is to become open to the invisible world within you. How you learn to relate to it is completely personal and uniquely your own

Speaking in more concrete terms the next few weeks may manifest a life event for you where you must apply both logic and feeling in order to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion concerning an interpersonal relationship or the question what am I doing with my life?

This Mercury retrograde should be a cinch, but during it don’t buy tech if you don’t have to. And remember to triple check communication before hitting send. If you arrive at conflict be quick to apologize and say no more until tomorrow

President Biden Expands Affordable Care Act Enrollment Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

House Speaker Blasts GOP for Assigning Racist Conspiracy Theorist to House Education Committee

Lawmakers Demand Probe into Trading App Robinhood After It Blocked Stock Sales That Hurt Hedge Funds

Pioneering African American Actor Cicely Tyson, Winner of Two Emmys, Dies at 96

Sun in Aquarius square Mars in Taurus February 1, 2021 @ 4:33 AM CT (10:33 GMT) The warrior’s edge has melted away and now you can take the scenic route through a field of wildflowers and mushrooms instead of blasting your way through a hillside of obstacles.

This energy catalyzes a scene that supports growth through varied experiences and it encourages everyone to seek their own way to resolutions, conclusions and understandings that are uniquely their own. Searching out your own way illuminates a strategic aspect of your purpose.

Happy Venus in Aquarius! The idea to refresh your wardrobe, hairstyle or redecorating by public opinion can be too hard to ignore under this influence. Your personal style will be influenced by the collective for the duration.

Burmese Military Stage Coup, Detain Aung San Suu Kyi

FBI Uncovers Evidence Jan. 6 Attack Was Premeditated as More Far-Right Rioters Face Charges

Trump Faces More Businesses-Related Woes as His Legal Team Departs a Week Before Impeachment Trial

It’s only the 21st day of the lunar cycle and already we’ve gone from the end of a rotten presidential era to the people’s revolution of the stock market, ok? And this moon ain’t even finished yet!

~* Last Quarter Feb. 4 11:38 AM CT (17:38 UTC) *~

U.S. Tops 26 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Shots, Surpassing Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

Moon Last Quarter in Scorpio February 4, 2021 @ 11:38 AM CT (17:38 UTC) A time for Descending, settling, closure, receiving compliments for doing a good job. Prime time for tying of loose ends and wrapping up unfinished business.

Democrats Say Trump “Singularly Responsible” for Jan. 6 Insurrection in Impeachment Brief

With consciousness humans are able to transcend the unconscious and reconfigure our relationship to it.

Though we can transcend the unconscious through viewing ourselves objectively, we are still apart of the the unconscious. Those rules still apply to us even as we contemplate their logic.

Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO After Amassing Huge Personal Fortune

Amazon to Pay Contract Drivers $61.7 Million After FTC Probe Finds It Stole Tips to Pay Wages

Republican Leader Won’t Punish Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over Racist and Violent Rhetoric

Prosecutors Seek Rearrest of Kyle Rittenhouse, Wisconsin Teen Charged with Killing 2 Protesters

Sometimes the right thing to do is protect your one actual valuable thing not by defending it, but closing up all the channels the valuable thing is being attacked from the outside. Sometimes you just gotta block, delete or remove your account and move on with/to what's good.

What if we wake up one day and COVID has disappeared, like poof! It vanished into thin air? Maybe it’s the moon opposed to Uranus that’s got me wishing wild problem solvers would pop up overnight.

Poll Reveals 25% of U.S. Adults Plan to Gather at Super Bowl Watch Parties

VP Harris Casts Tie-Breaking Vote to Move Ahead with Democratic COVID Relief Bill

House Removes Marjorie Taylor Greene from Committees over Violent, Bigoted Rhetoric

Smartmatic Sues Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell for Election-Related Lies

I unfollowed some lawmakers this morning after feeling second hand anxiety over the handling of their interpersonal conflicts. Realized they were me on IG two years ago and I’ve moved on since. Can relate, but don’t wanna relive, thanks!

I just want to let y’all know that I’m coping w insufficient candle syndrome & will be studying the art & science of candle making to save myself potentially hundreds of thousands of $$ by making my own delicious smelling coconut wax babies in diy terra cotta flower pots.

Wyoming GOP Censures Rep. Liz Cheney for Backing Trump’s Impeachment

Mass Protests Continue in Burma Opposing Military Coup, Removal of Aung San Suu Kyi

You may tell others like it is today, but hopefully this inspires you to check in with yourself and be honest/come clean about something you've been overlooking.

Indian Farmworkers Blockade Roads as Mass Protests Show No Sign of Slowing Down

Black Sheriff’s Deputy in Louisiana Dies by Suicide After Condemning Police Violence and Racism

Amazon Workers in Alabama Begin Historic Vote on Unionization

Second Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump Opens in the Senate

Georgia’s Secretary of State to Probe Trump’s Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

Mercury square Mars February 10, 2021 @ 6:14 AM CT (12:14 UTC) Still talking about talking, it’s also Dark Moon time to shape or let a habit form. This practice can come from breaking free of outdated relationships with yourself or with others in order to spur growth.

Dreamed Jungkook was correcting my pronunciation of Korean last night. I’m sorry! I’ll try harder to take this lesson seriously

Senate Votes to Proceed with Impeachment as Managers Present Harrowing Video of Jan. 6 Insurrection

Gov’t to Send Vaccines to Community Health Centers as U.S. Continues Ramping Up Vaccinations

WHO Team Confirms COVID-19 of Animal Origin; Ghana Shuts Parliament After Outbreak Infects Lawmakers

Journalists Decry Raid on Progressive Indian News Site NewsClick

U.S. to Pursue Extradition of Julian Assange as Press Freedom Groups Warn of Dangerous Precede

Fossil Fuel Pollution Causes One in Five Global Deaths

Four Louisiana Officers Arrested over Police Brutality Cases and Other Misconduct

Two NYT Journalists Exit Paper Following Revelations of Improper Conduct

Venus conjunct Jupiter February 11, 2021 @ 8:59 AM CT (14:59 UTC) Receive the overflow of creativity into your life. Welcome it even if you aren’t sure what to do with it. Write down project ideas if you don’t have the energy to start on them now. You can work on them later.

I'm cool with double masking, but a lot of folks still aren't even doing the one :|

“The Inciter-in-Chief”: Democrats Accuse Trump of Being “Singularly Responsible” for Insurrection

U.S. COVID Death Toll Tops 471,000; Half of All Deaths Occurred Since Nov. 1

Saudi Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul Released After 1,001 Days in Prison

Biden Administration to Continue Trump-Era Policy of Turning Away Asylum Seekers at Southern Border

Sen. Bernie Sanders Grills Neera Tanden, Biden’s Pick to Head OMB

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “According to The Washington Post, since 2014, the Center for American Progress has received roughly $5.5 million from Walmart, a company that pays its workers starvation wages; $900,000 from the Bank of America; $550,000 from JPMorgan Chase; $550,000 from Amazon; $200,000 from Wells Fargo; $800,000 from Facebook; and up to $1.4 million from Google. In other words, CAP has received money from some of the most powerful special interests in our country. How will your relationship with those very powerful special interests impact your decision-making if you are appointed to be the head of OMB?”

Neera Tanden: “Senator, I thank you for that question. It will have zero impact on my — on my decision-making.”

#lunar #news #headlines #tweets

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FEBRUARY

Week 3rd to 9th’s Celestial Forecast

Sorry again for the lateness but with Imbolc last week amongst other shenanigans I have been really pre-occupied.

This week brings some powerful romantic energy. If this isn't what you are looking for in life, it's ok cause this energy can also be channeled through goal-getting/goal-achieving fire power. The transits really build up towards the full moon in Leo at the end of the week which lines up with other aspects and planets that demand for some EMOTIONAL and DRAMATIC release especially in matters of the heart. In a way prepare for some love magic whether you like it or not cause if you aren't interested in attracting romance, the Venus/Chiron in Aries conjunct along with the full moon in leo (trining mars in fiery sagittarius) and Juno in Rx at the end of this week is going to demand you to look inside yourself and figure out how to heal your heart and let love in anyway, whether that be self love or romantic love or community love, you will be LOVED!!! Love is coming for you and that's a threat!!

Notes: the time is set to UTC and I post primarily for a witch group in London so the weeks weirdly start on Mondays here and end on Sundays.

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3rd

Venus (Pisces) sextile Saturn (Capricorn) Mercury enters Pisces Moon VOC at 11:27-11:29AM Moon enters Gemini

Energy: As mercury moves into Pisces, this mercurial cycle will bring a phase of gentle communication, colorful day dreams, emotional thoughts and romance. As Venus sextiles Saturn the desire for long term partnership will strengthen. If you and a partner was struck by the hardships of last week's transits then today would be a great time to find resolve. With the moon in Gemini pairing with mercury in pisces, the two may create the desire to satisfy our curiosity with exploring the artistic or sensual world or analyze our inner emotions.

Recommended Magic: crafting love spell ingredients, binural beats meditation, tarot cards to explore our emotional body, sweetening spells towards anyone causing you issues.

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4th

Moon in Gemini

Energy: A lot of yesterday's influences will be carried on to today. This is a time for peace making, yet if establishing harmony doesn't apply for you, then it's a time to explore your future dreams and entertain the ways to get there. If you celebrate Imbolc, then 3 days ago you would have set intentions for goals that you would want to have sprouted in spring. Winter is still a time of rest but the celestial transits are in favor for you to seek out what you want and have your seeds sprout. With the moon waxing in Gemini before it grows into the full moon, it's a time of hastening when our minds will feel enticed to collect info on various information that we could channel into collecting info that can help us achieve future goals. Use this time wisely to give more base to the fantasies you wish to materialize.

Recommended Magic: Researching magic and filling your grimoire, sweetening spells, researching topics that might correlate with your future plans or any magic you wish to study, brainstorming spells to release on the full moon.

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5th

Mercury Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus Moon VOC 2:19-7:03PM Moon enters Cancer

Energy: This is a fantastic time for divination and shadow work. With Mercury sextiling Uranus the harmonic energy between the planet of the mind and the planet of surprises, innovation and change will bring a day of heightened psychic talents, future-oriented thinking, open-mindedness and epiphanies that may come from dreams or flashes of insight. Seeing things from a new point of view may help in solving lingering problems or finding your way after steering from your path. With the moon in Cancer it's a great time to turn inward emotionally to see if you may be harboring any emotional blockages. In the time between Imbolc to Ostara is a time for cleansing, clearing and sowing so if you feel like you are blocked in getting the motivation or means to align yourself to your future goals then it's a time to self reflect and undo any inner blocks. For most of the afternoon to evening the moon will be void of course so it's perfect to have a moment to look within and not be too active.

Recommended Magic: Divination, trance meditation, cleansing one's energy, studying new magic topics, adding to one's grimoire

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6th

Moon in Cancer

Energy: With the moon resting in it's home sign, it gives a need for peace, healing and home affairs. This is a good time to get in touch with our emotional side and find what motivates us. This is a great time to journal and write down desires we wish to see fulfilled as in a few days the moon will be full and it will be ideal to release our intentions then. This is also a good day to clean the home, your personal space, your altar and cleanse yourself energetically. Self care is favored on this transit and you should treat yourself to rest and what makes you feel loved.

Recommended Magic: anything cottage/home magic related, cleansing the space, kitchen magic, self care rituals, bath magic, journaling, planning full moon spells, divination

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7th

Venus enters Aries Moon VOC 3:43-10:44PM Moon in Leo

Energy: Today will feel fiery, dramatic and sexual as the planet of love, partnerships and harmony renews it's cycle in dynamic Aries. Coupled with mercury in romantic Pisces and the moon in Leo, we start off Venus's new monthly cycle with strong dramatic desires for passion and connection. Venus in Aries brings spontaneous and direct love. The chase is exciting under this fiery influence and winning the heart feels like conquest. With the build up of the previous romantically-inclined transits along with Valentines Day only being a week away, expect to see friends and acquaintances suddenly stricken with crushes or new romantic connections being made. If this is NOT the energy you want to kindle for yourself it's fine as you can either use this to make spell ingredients or use Venus's fiery desirey placement in Aries as a boost towards your creative projects or applying towards goals in your future.

Recommended Magic: Love attraction spells (avoid the void of course hours, wait preferably until the moon is in Leo), Glamour magic to attract love, making spell ingredients for love attraction (this could work well coupled with kitchen magic if you like to make treats like chocolate or baked goods, also good for other crafts like making love spell candles etc.)

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8th

Moon in Leo

- Full moon phase begins but not complete opposition yet - Better to do moon spells now since it will transition tomorrow VOC

Energy: Tonight (and please make note that it will be TONIGHT, tomorrow evening the moon is VOC and will enter virgo at 11:39pm UTC and Juno goes retrograde in Libra and Venus conjuncts Chiron in Aries lol so not great for love magic,) is a GREAT DAY to do love spells. Dream up that desired partner, anoint yourself in floral oils, send that energy out into the world. Even if you don't want a partner, if you want some positive attention your way whether it be praise, people noticing you for your talents, (I am thinking of these examples as I have a chunk of witch friends who are performers/freelancers) then that magic would benefit you as well. Attraction magic to find people that can help boost you towards your goals can work well now too. Using the element of fire in your spell casting could give a nice boost with Venus in Aries and the full moon in Leo.

Recommended Magic: Fire magic, candle attraction magic, sex magic, making glamour oils, soap potions for boosting charm or allure, positive attention attraction magic _______________________

9th

Full moon in Leo (7:33AM UTC) Moon Leo trines Mars in Sagittarius Moon VOC 4:08pm-11:39pm Moon enters Virgo at 11:39pm Juno retrogrades begins (in Libra) Venus conjunct Chiron in Aries

Energy: The morning (well morning if you are in the U.K. This may be very early morning or late evening if you are in the states) will be fantastic to taking the steps towards your goals as the energy of the Full Moon in Leo trining Mars in Sagittarius will give you the courage and initiative to make the first move and take the lead!! Take initiative this morning, this would be a better time to take actions to manifest your dreams instead of doing passive meditative spell work. There will be three powerful planets in fiery signs which is the Moon in Leo, Mars in Sagittarius and Venus in Aries which will also make bold moves for you to get in touch with your sexual side and share your passionate desires. This moon is in favor of unions of the goal-getting kind and of the romantic and sexual kind.

Though it seems some of the romantic and sexual aspects of yesterday are carried on to today it's also met with some DRAMATIC and INTENSE AF obstacles. With Venus conjunct Chiron the two energies will combine to expose any deep seated love wounds and may seek to aggressively (with the aries placements) and dramatically (amplified with the full moon in Leo) CRACK open your heart and through some tears shedding may flood out any unresolved, unreconciled, unhealed parts buried deep within your heart. ONTOP of that there is Juno retrograding in Libra that will begin a period of deep inner reflection that may highlight all the previous mistakes we've made in relationships or any love affair and if we act rashly on this full moon in those matters we may be faced harshly again with our mistakes.

If you worked to find a desirable union amplified by these transits but on the climax of the full moon it all goes wrong, the BEST thing to do is not to be so disappointed and act out (there's a lot of fire in the air so its normal to feel like you want to explode a bit- also it's too soon for a spell like that to work and reap positive results, just wait a bit though Venus in Aries may want it to work RIGHT NOW.) With the moon VOC for most of the day it's a good day to reflect on what may not be working out in your love life or doing shadow work to heal parts of your broken heart. If you used the previous transits to attract love, this day will be helpful to try to turn inward and heal parts of yourself that could be causing unintentional blockages from future romantic partners. By the next cycle you could have cleared out the way that could allow someone special into your life and learn from past mistakes to not repeat them again.

Recommended Magic: self love healing, shadow work, love divination/tarot, taking action towards your goals, release through fire magic,

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gduncan969 · 4 years ago

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What is Truth?

John 18:38 “Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews,..”

I don’t remember much from my high-school English classes but something that has been stuck in my mind for over 60 years is an essay by Charles Lamb (“Elia” for all you crossword crazies) on truth which began with these words: “What is truth? said Pilate, and would not wait for an answer?” It has always intrigued me as to why Pilate didn’t wait for the answer because if he had, he would have discovered that truth is not a subject for discussion but the very Person he was talking to—Jesus Christ, the way, the truth and the life. Lately, the one word in the English language that is being bludgeoned to an unrecognizable mush of its former self is the word “truth”. What is truth in today’s woke world and how does it relate to our sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others?

An article recently appeared in the National Post written by Bruce Pardy, professor of law at Queen’s University, titled “Apocalyptic Science”. As a scientist myself, I was curious to know what kind of science he was referring to that warranted the description as “apocalyptic”, a biblical term referring to the cataclysmic chaos that will occur at the end of the world. Was it the science behind atomic weapons or biological weapons or man-made viruses or nerve agents like the one that almost killed the Russian dissident recently? Surely, these could be described as apocalyptic science but unfortunately it was something even worse, something that alone explains the madness of our present, confused culture, something that has been given the very harmless-sounding name of “Critical Theory” which most of us have never heard of. Pardy writes, “Few people are familiar with Critical Theory and its related doctrines, yet these ideas today drive government policies and shape public attitudes...The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia but its visceral disgust with itself. A growing proportion of people—in universities, the media, politics and corporate structures now reject the premises on which their own thriving societies are built.” The doctrine behind Critical Theory “is to condemn cultural norms, tear down existing orders and transform society”. Now, doesn’t that sound awfully similar to the doctrine of the Christian Church whose aim, as some might describe it, is to condemn cultural (worldly) traditions, tear down Satanic strongholds and transform society from its evil ways with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. On that basis, Critical Theory doesn’t sound all that bad and may even be good so we Christians shouldn’t be concerned, right? The opposite is true! At the top of the list in Critical Theory is the doctrine that there is no absolute truth, that all truth is both subjective and relative, especially when your truth disagrees with my truth because my truth is the real truth and it says your truth is based on your outdated cultural norms and scientific experiments which themselves are corrupted by the biases you inherited from the corrupt society you were raised in. These biases include your inherent racial predjudices that have made you the racist you are and so you must repent and make amends to those you have unwittingly wronged and you must join the rest of us woke folk in our mission to tear down these cultural norms and replace them with social justice for all.

Does this sound familiar to you as you watch the rioters tearing down everything in sight? Does it explain the insanity of the black lives matter movement and the defund the police movement? Does it explain why governments around the world have decreed the Church as non-essential while “taking a knee” in support of perceived racial injustice and turning a blind eye to the quarantine-defying, property-burning protests occurring in many major cities? Are you getting the picture that Critical Theory is all about destroying the society we grew up in, a society based on the Judeo-Christian understanding of good and evil and one that supports the scientific method of enquiry where theory guides and experiment decides what is true? More importantly, are you aware of how pervasive these ideas now are in government, in academia, in institutions and in large corporations?

Magormissabib

Magormissabib is the name God gave to Passhur the priest who had imprisoned Jeremiah the prophet for using what today would be called “hate speech” against all the other prophets (Jeremiah 20:3). Jeremiah’s truth from God was that Israel would be defeated and go into captivity in Babylon but all the other prophets-for-hire were saying the opposite, that Israel would win the battle against her enemies. The name Passhur means “liberty by tearing down restrictions” while magormissabib means “abject terror all around”. God’s warning to Passhur applies to all today who have embraced the doctrines of Critical Theory which is failing miserably to produce the liberty and social justice it intends and instead is creating a society terrified by the very things it has sought to amend whether climate change, viruses, political correctness, governments, financial security, or any number of other issues such as sexuality, gender identity, marriage definition, etc. If you want evidence of this outcome just ask yourself what words and topics you grew up with as normal discourse among friends that you are now afraid to speak of openly for fear of being branded a bigot or even fined and imprisoned under hate-speech laws. So many words have had their meanings corrupted from something good to something evil, it has left us hesitant to even mention them. Freddie Flintstone may have had a “gay old time” but in today’s culture a gay old time carries a whole new meaning which must be accepted and approved of under threat of law if we speak out against the practice of it. Being brought to meet someone’s “husband” does not guarantee you will be meeting a man and even if it is a man, you must first check to ensure he presents himself as a man and not a woman. In this port-modern age, one little word that has been wiped from memory and from much of the Church is the word “sin”, perhaps because Critical Theory is so afraid of its power to convict that it must pretend the word does not exist and therefore must be scrubbed from all discourse but the bible has a great deal to say about sin and more so, about its one and only remedy.

Ultimately, any theory that says there is no absolute truth is really saying there is no God. To admit that our governments, institutions, schools and universities have swallowed the lies of Critical Theory is to admit that truth—and the God who is Truth—has been rejected by the post-modern world we now live in. What must be our response as believers in Jesus Christ? Jesus told us “You will know the truth and the truth will make you free” (John 8:32) and we know the truth because we know Him who has given us the “Spirit of truth” (John 14:17) so that we will not be deceived. Therefore, firstly, we needn’t worry about the effects of Critical Theory on us because “the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him” (1 John 2:27). However, its effects on others who do not know the Lord and on those within the Church who are asleep is already being manifested in the major leaps we are seeing in violent crime, abortions, suicides, drug addiction, divorces and family breakdowns and I believe the Lord is warning His Church to waken up and ensure we have sufficient oil on hand to keep our lamps burning through the days that lie before us. This morning I read through chapter 4 of the book of Amos and it is definitely not one of my favorite chapters because it describes what happens when God’s people refuse to be corrected and turn from their wicked ways and it is not a pretty picture. We are entering a time when God is shaking His Church from its slumber to meet head on the devastation created by this backslide into materialism, humanism, hedonism and all the other ‘isms’ out there that replace God with some made-up human counterfeit with a nice-sounding name. It is a time to seek the Lord for wisdom in how to live through the times that lie ahead and get ready for the end-times harvest He is preparing us to gather.

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Navigating The Aquarius Full Moon With Angelic Guidance

By Edith Boyer-Telmer

Dear Friends, today we are collectively experiencing this years Aquarius Full Moon in 22 degree and 24 minutes of this fixed air sign. It is a joyful influence that its bringing us and lots of energy for liberation is in the air. The angelic realms have send their advice in angelic number sequences to help us navigate the current energy field. DON’T FORGET TO ALSO SIGN UP RIGHT HERE, on the right sidebar of my homepage, to get angelic advice delivered into your mailbox every morning!

Here are the angelic number sequences transmitted: Angel Number 1133:

Angel Number 1133 is a powerful message to give our fears, doubts and worries to the angels and the Ascended Masters so that they can be transmuted and healed on our behalf. It tells us, that we are fully prepared in every way to fulfill our soul mission and divine destiny, and to make another big step forward on our personal path. It’s a sign to trust that the angels support us completely and surround us with love and protection at all times. The angelic realms and the universal energies are working for our highest good on the new direction our collective is taking!! The Number 1133 is also an invitation to develop the courage we need to fully step into our personal authentic expression, so we can live our life with enthusiasm and optimism. Living life with joy, passion and purpose will manifest our true desires.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. Steve Jobs

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. Leo Burnett

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. Ken Robinson

Angel Number 2727:

is caring the harmonizing powers to balance our divine masculine and divine feminine energies. It is an encouragement to balance the guidance of our intuition, with wise decisions for our everyday life. Our soul mission and collective desires are ready to be brought into co-operative creation. 2727 is a message of positive news and channeled information to come. Listen to the whisper of the winds of change, which in a New York minute can transform all our negative thought pattern into the foundation for a positive future.

Who is She? She is your power, your feminine source. Big Mama. The Goddess. The Great Mystery. The web-weaver. The life force. The first time, the twentieth time you may not recognize her. Or pretend not to hear. As she fills your body with ripples of terror and delight. But when she calls you will know you’ve been called. Then it is up to you to decide if you will answer. Lucy H. Pearce

In our lifetime, wouldn’t it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions? Dave Davidson

I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself. Ludwig von Zinzendorf

Angel Number 3355:

The vibration of the number 3 represents an entrance to the realms of the Ascended Mastersand their loving support system. It is also the number of the divine feminine, a playful, joyful, spontaneous and humorous energy field, doubled in intensity. This in combination with the multi-dimensional possibilities and chances of the number five (also doubled in impact), can provide a beautiful playground for new thoughts and creations. Its also a promise, that as long as we listen to the signs and directions we receive from the other world, the now rapidly occurring changes in our lives will lead us to truly fulfilling our life purpose. Stay centered in self-love, inner peace and mental clarity, and all your coming manifestations will lead to even more divine blessings for you.

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That’s how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can’t be done. There’s always a solution, even if it’s weird. Maureen Johnson

I have never received a heavenly dispatch. Rather, I have found that divine guidance often comes as a result of taking steps of faith. Greg Laurie

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen

Dear Ones, I hope you all are feeling well aligned with the current Aquarius Full Moon energies. May you feel the call to reach for the freedom you seek and bring your best forward to support the community you live in! Love and Angelic Blessings! Edith

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ladyslounge-blog-blog · 6 years ago

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Is there such thing as too much Self Care?

It wasn't even 7:00pm and I literally couldn't keep my eyes open. I had chills even though the thermometer read 16 degrees Celsius in the house. What? Oh, yes I know, the BBC weather guide says that the "recommended temperature is 21 degrees Celsius (69.8 degrees Farenheit), but you may be more comfortable at a higher temperature. If the temperature falls below 16 degrees Celsius (60.8 degrees Farenheit), the elderly especially could be at risk of suffering from hypothermia, heart attack or a stroke" but my girlfriend assures me that "It is weird that you're cold because it's SO HOT in here!" but... I'm sure it was just the fatigue causing my lips to turn blue. "Don't slip into a hypothermic coma fall asleep," I kept nagging myself, "or you'll be up at 3:00am". I scrolled webMd - Does Fatigue give you chills? answer: you must be fighting a serious infection, have a high fever and/or have contracted an exotic parasite and/or flesh eating disease. and Google, Why am I so cold?

It's true... I do get itchy a lot. I forgot about that. I felt less alone, while violently and repeatedly snapping myself out of nodding off. I perused articles about circulatory disfunction, natural remedies and self-care routines.

Problem solved. Along with my desperation to stay awake, as it was finally 8:00pm, a perfectly reasonable time to retire for the evening, according to whoever this is:

I was so excited yet serene, and more than ready to melt right into the blankets, but had promised myself earlier that day that today was the day I would reinstate my elaborate bedtime ritual; Brushing and flossing all of my teeth, followed by a face cleansing, exfoliating, toning and moisturizing routine, 5 minutes of bedtime yoga and a 10 minute meditation. I got up, ran to the bathroom, shivering uncontrollably. I frantically waved my toothbrush in the basic vicinity of my face, grazing at least 3 of my front teeth, and raced back to the bed. I wormed my way back in between the sheets. "Good job Jen. You're nailing it. Way to win" I whispered, and let my heavy eye lids fall closed, "God this feels amazing..." into the pillow case, as I felt the muscles in my body start to relax one by one. And then start tensing up again two by two. Nocturnal anxiety started to set in and the chills got worse. I tossed, turned, puffed, plumped and punched the pillows. I turned the light on and off and then back on. I heard the banshee start wailing in the hallway; a half soaked catnip rat hanging from the side of her mouth, along with half her forked (long story) tongue. I tried to to ignore it. I wrapped a pillow around my head, plugged my ears and rocked back and forth humming. Nothing could muffle the sound of her shrieking. I threw the blankets off and chased her down the hall. "I'm sorry but I need to sleep Phoebe, mommy loves you but so tired, so so tired..." I crawled back into bed, soggy plush rodent in hand, and resume thrashing about wildly. "Shhhh Jen, calm. Deep calm. Gratitude brings grace, grace brings calm. Remember the self care articles, remember the night time routine and the gratitude, grace and calm. Breathe." "I don't remember" I argued defiantly with myself, I picked up my phone and flicked through my browser history. Ah... yes, the beautiful layout, the serene wordpress theme, the blogger who has her shit so together she has morning routines and afternoon routines and printable to-do lists with exotic fonts and bullet points. Whatever it is she does, I'm going to do it right now. I don't even care that it's 10:00pm. I'm doing it, let's go! Let's Go for a walk Work on my blog for an hour Watch a few episodes of a TV show Have a lil’ snack and some tea Write tomorrow’s to-do list Meditate for 10 minutes Read for 30 minutes Okay wait. Go for a walk... even if that's only 20 minutes + the hour of blog writing + a few episodes of a show (let's say they're only half an hour long, that's 1 1/2 hours) + a little snack (20 minutes?) Tomorrow's To-Do List (10 minutes?) + Meditate for 10 minutes + Read for 30 minutes... Where are you going with your 4 HOUR BEDTIME ROUTINE LADY!!!!! Half the blog posts I wrote from other self-loving power-house care-fo-yo-self gurus said be in bed by 8:00pm! I'm going to have to start getting ready for bed at 4:00 in the afternoon! I don't even get home from work until between 8:00-9:00pm some days. And the nights when I have a set at the Comedy Club, even later. I mean how am I supposed to adskljfasahfglaaaaaaaaahhhg... I think that's about where sleep finally kicked off and the night sweats kicked in. I'm all for self-care. I clearly need it if I'm going to survive in this society, with its wildly stressful expectations on me like being grateful, graceful AND calm, manifesting a good credit score an organized wallet, and paying my rent every single month. Not to mention the physical strain of having to wash, exfoliate, tone and moisturize my face before bed; to say nothing of doing all of that while trying to keep my blood circulating in this igloo of a house that I live in! 16 degrees Celsius people!!! All ranting aside, I'm wide open to all and any tips, suggestions, success stories and even don't-dos (like ripping half your eyebrow off with a charcoal mask - yay! Spa night!) so share people, dish! What works for you? How do you keep balanced in this crazy world during these crazy times? Read the full article

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Hey there, welcome back! Today we’re going to talk about everyone’s favorite Saturday morning Grandpa...or I guess Uncle would be more accurate...that’s right..we’re finally going to dive into the Sagely Wisdom of Uncle Iroh and the immense spiritual knowledge that he teaches the main characters….and us in the process...so sit back, grab a Tsungi horn, heat some Jasmine Tea, and one more thing before we get started, on the subject of Wisdom - we do a live event every full moon, every month called the Wisdom Moons. The next one is coming up soon! Use the link below to see how you can join our live event. I hope to see you there!

For those of you who haven’t seen the show, Iroh is the oldest main character that we follow actively through the series.... and is pretty much your Lao Tzu or Mystical Buddha kind of guy. He was a general of the Fire Nation and one of its greatest warriors, having the title “The Dragon of the West,” laying siege to the Earth Capital, but retired after his son Lu Ten was killed in action, and he became disillusioned with the war effort. When we first meet him though, Iroh is introduced as the uncle of Zuko, and acts as a father figure to him, as well as a moral compass, giving him great advice -which Zuko often ignores…..and accompanies him on his hunt for the Avatar, slowly teaching him to accept his true nature and become more in balance with himself.

Despite his fire nation origin, though.. he’s not a bad guy...in fact, he’s probably one of the beating moral hearts of the show, who -in stark contrast to Zuko, is easygoing, friendly, and dryly good-humored….let’s face it, aside from Sokka, he’s probably at the top of the list for most peoples favorite characters growing up. Exceptionally… when I’m old and grey, I want to be just like Iroh… and Gandalf… and Dumbledoor anyways right from episode 1, we see Iroh’s greatest virtue and wisdom...patience. Iroh doesn’t have it easy on the show, for, in the beginning, Zuko treats him pretty poorly, ignoring his advice and shouting at him a fair bit. Yet Iroh is there for him, no matter what, as he understands the importance of family and being there for the people who matter, undoubtedly coming from his son's loss.

As the series progressed and he got more screen time, we started to see his actions' real wisdom, but season 1 set his groundwork up as embodying patience, serenity, and mindfulness. Unlike most of the fire nation, he’s a man who sees beauty in the most superficial aspects of life, treating his self-imposed exile almost like an extended vacation to see the world. As Colin Mchannan points out...Iroh is a great man, sure, but what makes him truly wise and believable is his journey. He didn’t start as a mystical Buddha with life all figured out. He was broken….having lost the thing that mattered most to him -his child, and it defined him. The best part, though, and the ultimate lesson, is that Iroh let it define him in the best way. He could have been bitter and angry, but he instead chose to live the remainder of his life to the fullest in an attempt to avoid the mistakes and regrets from his earlier life….

In fact, in "Tales of Ba Sing Se" (one of the best episodes ever…), it’s suggested in that section where he sings Little Soldier Boy that some of that great optimism and generosity that he’s known so well for are a form of post-traumatic growth coming from the loss of his son. Like the waterbenders, he embraces the concept of flow and learns to move with the tide of life rather than stay stagnant and bitter.

Speaking of Waterbenders, this brings us to some of his best attributes that countless people have learned from…..his quotes...of everything, he’s probably best known for his words of wisdom as he freely advises most of the characters throughout the series. One passage, in particular, is often brought up as one of his best. When teaching Zuko in season 2 about lightning bending, Iroh explains that “It’s important to draw wisdom from many places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.” Adhering to this philosophy eventually led him to develop a lightning bending -a technique never before seen, by studying the push and pull of water bending. Equally, he tries to convince Zuko that understanding Earth bending is just as important when he's fire turning to develop a real understanding of the element...which amazingly, Zuko then carries on to Aang during his training later on..

One of the best parts of Season 3 is when we learn that Iroh lied about killing the last Dragon to protect the ancient Dragon Masters Ren and Shaw, and even be their student. Through his compassion, he drove his firebending powers from vitality, heart, and life force rather than from rage as most of his contemporary firebenders did, thereby gaining a power none of them had.

For us, wisdom is essentially the same when applied to any aspect of life. Suppose you learn about something from only one source. In that case, you’ll pick up all the biases and influences from that source and never form your own opinion...but if instead, you look in different places for the inherent wisdom, you’ll end up a much more whole and balanced individual. I think Iroh’s insight here stems from his understanding of the four nations as balancers of each other. See, his nature and the course of his life have brought him to a philosophy that embraces peacefulness, harmony, and mutual understanding rather than conflict….but what’s more, it seems like he would much rather see the four nations live in mutual peace as opposed to single fire nation rule, as each one brings something unique to the table

While people often compare him to a Budhha like figure, I think a much better comparison is Budhai, the Chinese monk who’s often depicted as the fat or laughing Buddha, rather than Sidhurtta himself. Ironically, despite his carefree and detached attitude, he is something of a hedonist in his old age. He likes subtle pleasures, fancy tea, and seems to focus his life much more on relaxation and fun than he does on helping Zuko find Aang or engage in his nation’s nationalistic war. He often flirts with loads of girls in the series and is called handsome a couple of times! And he loves it….maybe he watched our recent episode on materialism and took it to heart…. Or maybe it’s a natural result of his earlier years conquesting, his soul is liberated from war, and all he wants now is to be jolly.

Ironically though, despite his focus on pleasure and relaxation, he does remark in season 1 that “the best tea tastes delicious whether it comes in a porcelain pot or a tin cup,” implying that it’s what’s nurtured inside that truly matters…..but he does accidentally poison himself with a flower in that episode too...sooo...you win some and lose some I guess.

The point is, like the kids of Avatar, he doesn’t take himself too seriously and takes the time to take “moments of quiet” in the face of a decision…..I was joking last time about him being a big kid. Still, the more I look at him, he kind of is…..and it’s excellent...while many of the series' notable characters were maturing throughout the show. Of course, there’s the 14-year-old warlord to boot, Iroh was already a "changed man" who already suffered tremendous loss and "matured" through that it…reminding us that “Failure is simply a chance to start over anew, this time only wiser.” Even when opening his tea shop, he points out that “There’s nothing wrong with a life of peace and prosperity,” advising Zuko to abandon his quest for honor….but even then, he never forces him because it has to be Zuko's decision to understand that on his own

Speaking of starting things, remember earlier how we explained that Iroh liked to draw wisdom from all the elements rather than just fire? A couple of fans have pointed out that his attitude towards tea is the perfect example of this. While Iroh’s love of tea is often played for laughs, there’s an underlying meaning and purpose -and to some extent, lesson, behind his passion for jasmine and ginseng tea that’s not often talked about.

To make an outstanding cuppa tea, all four of the bending elements are required. You need clay for the teapots and cups or the leaves from the ground, the water for the substance, Fire to heat the Tea, and the air to blow on the hot tea to cool it so you can drink it (even if you leave it out to cool naturally, it would get cold and taste worse). If you take one element out, the tea is either impossible to make or worse without it.. Iroh knew this, just as he knew that the only way to defeat the Fire Nation was for all four elements to work together. When on the boat to Ba Sing Se, Iroh gets a cold cup of tea and heats it with fire breath to the perfect temperature -all the while accidentally revealing to Jet that he’s a fire bender…

Iroh learned several things by watching other bending tribes. He knew that understanding others was the only way to be whole. Tea, then, is a physical manifestation of these teachings. On the surface, Iroh’s love of tea could be viewed as nothing more than a simple character trait, but it also serves as a representation of his spirituality and calming nature. In the context of achieving harmony and balance among the four nations, it's a lesson on the value of tolerance, balance, and listening that Uncle Iroh passed on to Zuko. And while this theory is just Reddit headcanon, it's a deep and meaningful way to look at Iroh's love of tea in a new light….he didn’t enjoy any old cup, only one that was truly and fully balanced with all the elements working together in unison

But the beautiful thing about Iroh is that he also can stand for the intensity of the fiery element and knows precisely how and when to use it. He rarely exhibits such power; one example is when he yells at Zuko under Lake Laogai.

Play clip: It's time for you to look inward and start asking yourself the big question: who are you, and what do YOU want?!

And that’s when he’s delivering compassionate wisdom with intensity! He also liberates all of Ba Sing Se at the very end of the series, after a getting ripped in jail montage, and shows exactly why they called him the Dragon of the West. All in all, Iroh’s philosophy of flow is undoubtedly inspired by Taoist values and helps to bring profound spiritual wisdom to a younger audience. If you haven’t seen it yet, I would recommend wholeheartedly going and checking out the series...even just for him alone….I could have written this entire video made up of just his quotes, and it would be equally as great...so I think Iroh is a modern-day ascended master. Even his bending forms are influenced by Southern Shaolin, Dragon, and Form-intention styles of Kung-Fu, all of which match his personality pretty well.

Interestingly, Kaci Ferrell pointed out in reviews that after the season 2 episode of Legend of Korra where Iroh appeared to her in the spirit world, Korra became a much more likable character with the fans because she took Iroh’s wisdom on board…..even in death he’s bringing the fandom together! So with that, thanks so much for watching! We’ll leave a link to some of Iroh’s best quotes and snippets of wisdom below so you can check them out, but otherwise, totally go and watch ATLA cause there’s so much more wisdom hidden inside it...and always remember, above all else…….that being sick of tea is like being sick of breathing. Toodles!

Sources:

The Lost Scrolls: Fire, page 159 of The Lost Scrolls Collection.

Director: Ethan Spaulding; Writer: Elizabeth Welch Ehasz (April 7, 2006). "Return to Omashu." Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 3

Ferrell, Kaci (November 9, 2013). "The Legend of Korra season 2 episode 10 review: A New Spiritual Age". Den of Geek.

McMahon, Colin (March 28, 2014). "The Wisdom to Be Learned from Uncle Iroh." The Red Rings of Redemption.

Director: Giancarlo Volpe; Writers: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko (2006-09-15). "The Drill." Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 13. Nickelodeon.

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16 OCT 2019 – MORNING (ENGLISH) NITHYANANDA SATSANG POWERFUL COGNITIONS I WILL EXPLAIN THE SPACE IN WHICH PARAMASHIVA IS SITTING. MEDITATE ON THIS DEFINITION, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE PARAMASHIVA IN YOUR INNER SPACE. *IT IS THE SPACE WHERE MATTER BECOMES ENERGY, ENERGY BECOMES MATTER WITHOUT ANY EFFORT “JUST BY WILL” - “SANKALPA MATRENA”. IT IS THE SPACE WHERE JUST BY WILL, THE MATTER BECOMING ENERGY, ENERGY BECOMING MATTER, ANTIMATTER GETTING CREATED OR GETTING NULLIFIED OR CANCELLING EACH OTHER OR DISSOLVING INTO THAT ENERGY AGAIN, THE BIG BANGS, BLACK HOLES AND BRAHMANDAS GET CREATED, AND SOMETHING MORE WHICH I AM NOT ABLE TO VERBALISE, HAPPEN, WITHOUT ANY EFFORT, JUST BY SANKALPA. *NITHYATVA IS THE SPACE OF ETERNITY WHERE PARAMASHIVA IS SEATED. THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DIMENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE. THAT SPACE IS KAILAASA. IT IS INTENSELY HOT LIKE BILLIONS OF SUNS AND INTENSELY COLD LIKE BILLIONS OF MOONS. *CHANDRA IS PORTRAYED AS EMBODIMENT OF COOL SPACE IN HINDU TRADITION. SURYA IS DESCRIBED AS SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF EXTREME HEAT PHENOMENA. KOTI SURYA, CRORES OF SUN’S HEAT AND KOTI CHANDRA - CRORES OF MOON’S COOLNESS PUT TOGETHER IS THE SPACE OF NITHYATVA. *YOU MAY ASK, “WHAT AM I GOING TO GAIN BY KNOWING ABOUT NITHYATVA?” WHAT YOU BELIEVE AS FOUNDATION OF LIFE MATTERS. IF YOU BELIEVE CURRENCY IS LIFE, THAT WILL BE THE INSPIRATION FOR YOU TO RUN. IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE NITYATVA SPACE EVEN IN YOUR COGNITION, YOU WILL HAVE SUCH INSPIRATION ABOUT LIFE. YOU WILL GET THE REAL PRASADA OF KALABHAIRAVA! *REAL PRASADA OF KALABHAIRAVA IS NOT JUST MAHAKALI OR KALABHAIRAVA PROTECTING YOU OR DESTROYING ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO ABUSE YOU, ACCUSE YOU. REAL PRASADA IS TO MAKE YOU REALISE THERE IS NO INJUSTICE OR WRONG THAT CAN BE DONE TO YOU, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY PROTECTED! *BIGGEST BOON MAHAKALABHAIRAVA AND MAHAKALI GAVE ME IS THEY MADE ME REALISE “I AM AT THEIR FEET AND I AM PROTECTED FOREVER AND NO INJUSTICE CAN BE DONE IN THE PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE, THEY ARE THERE WITH ME.” THIS IS THE GREATEST BLESSING I RECEIVED FROM THEM. *MAHAKALABHAIRAVA AND MAHAKALI ARE WITH ME, PROTECTING AND DESTROYING THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO ABUSE, ATTACK, ASSASSINATE. DOING ALL THAT IS ONE THING. BUT INTERNALLY , THEY HAVE GIVEN ME THIS EXTREMELY POWERFUL STRENGTH. THAT IS THE GREATEST BLESSING YOU CAN RECEIVE FROM MAHAKALABHAIRAVA AND MAHAKALI. *YOU CAN CHECK WHETHER YOU HAVE THEIR BLESSINGS OR NOT. WHEN YOU HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF MAHAKALI AND MAHAKALABHAIRAVA, FIRST THING THEY WILL MAKE YOU EXPERIENCE IS, THAT YOU CANNOT BE VIOLATED. YOU ARE PROTECTED FOREVER. I GOT THAT BLESSING FROM THEM. THE STRONG INTERNAL POWERFUL COGNITION THAT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE INJUSTICE IS POSSIBLE. ANYBODY TRIES TO ATTACK ME OR ABUSE ME OR MY SANGHA, THEY WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF BY MAHAKALI AND KALABHAIRAVA. EVEN MY INNER SPACE IS SO POWERFULLY ESTABLISHED IN THAT TRUTH. *WHEN PEOPLE ASKED ME, “HOW CAN KALABHAIRAVA ALLOW YOUR BODY TO BE POISONED?” I TOLD THEM TO KEEP QUIET. I TOLD THEM, “WHEN HE TELLS ME HIS LARGER PLAN I WILL TELL YOU.” *20 YEARS BEFORE WHEN I STARTED THIS SANGHA, THERE WERE SOME GUYS ABUSING, ACCUSING AND STARTED THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN. WHEN I LOOK BACK, THEY ARE STILL DOING SMEAR CAMPAIGN ON SOMEONE ELSE. THAT IS THEIR LIFE. I DID NOT LOSE ANYTHING. BUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ATE THAT SHIT, THEY MISSED ME. NOW THEY ARE FRUSTRATED, CRYING THAT THEY MISSED SWAMIJI BECAUSE THIS FELLOW TOLD ALL THE LIES, ABUSALS, FALSE ALLEGATIONS TO US. *IN WAR, WEAK LOSES, POWERFUL WINS. IN SMEAR CAMPAIGN, PERSON WHO IS STABLE WINS. THE ONE WHO ATE ALL THE SHIT, THE STUPIDITY, FALSE ALLEGATIONS, LIES, RUMOURS - THEY LOSE. IN SMEAR CAMPAIGN, CONSUMERS LOSE. THAT IS THE WORST THING. *IN WAR, ATLEAST THERE IS LOGIC. WHO GOT INTO THE WAR LOST THE WAR. BUT IN SMEAR CAMPAIGN, WHO DOES THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN IS NOT THE LOSER, BUT WHO EATS THAT SHIT IS A LOSER. SO BE CAREFUL, DO NOT EAT THE POISON SPREAD BY ABUSERS! DO NOT ALLOW THE GURU ABUSE, SANGHA ABUSE AND SHIVA ABUSE. DO NOT ALLOW ALL OF THAT. IF YOU ALLOW THE POISON YOU ARE THE LOSER. *THESE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT SACRED SECRETS FROM KAILAASA. THE BIGGEST BLESSING FROM MAHAKALI AND MAHAKALABHAIRAVA IS EXTREME INTERNAL STABILITY. WHEN I REMEMBER MAHAKALABHAIRAVA AND MAHAKALI, THE JOY, THE SECURITY I FEEL, NOT ONLY I DON’T QUESTION OR DOUBT KALABHAIRAVA’S PLAN. I KNOW: KALABHAIRAVA IS EXTREMELY JUST AND WHATEVER HE DOES IS GOOD. LET’S ENJOY IT! THAT EXTREME STRENGTH IS THE GREATEST BLESSING OF KALABHAIRAVA. *HE ACTUALLY AND FACTUALLY PROTECTS AND ACTUALLY AND FACTUALLY DESTROYS WHO TRIES TO ACCUSE, ABUSE, ASSASSINATE. BUT THE GREATEST BLESSING IS THE STABILITY INSIDE. *WHEN I FED GANESHA, HE ATE THE FOOD, IS ACTUAL AND FACTUAL. BUT MORE THAN HE ATE THE FOOD, THE KIND OF STRENGTH HE GAVE ME, I HAD THE BREAKTHROUGH AND HAD A DIRECT ACCESS TO KAILAASA FROM THAT DAY! THE SPACE OF KAILAASA GOT CONNECTED TO ME! THE STRENGTH OF THE EXISTENCE, THE “IS”NESS OF MAHAGANAPATI… THAT I KNOW HE EXISTS. I KNOW YOU EXIST AND I BOW DOWN TO YOU. I JUST KNOW - NOW KAILAASA IS OPEN TO ME. FROM THAT SPACE, I CALL, “DURGA, COME!” , “SHIVA, COME!” THAT IS THE WAY I INVOKE ALL OF THEM DURING ANY MANDALA PROCESS OR PRANA PRATISHTHA! *FIRST, GANAPATI OPENED THE DOOR OF KAILAASA TO ME THROUGH NITHYATVA, MEANS SHOWING HE EXISTS. ALL OF YOU PRAY TO GANAPATHI, VERY EASILY HE WILL SHOW NITHYATVA TO US. HE IS THE LORD OF NITHYATVA. *WHEN I SEE ALL THESE KIDS LISTEN TO THESE STORIES, I AM SO HAPPY BECAUSE THAT IS THE AGE I HEARD ALL THESE STORIES AND INTERNALISED. THE KIDS’ BRAIN CAN SIMPLY OPEN UP THE SPACE OF KAILAASA! *ALL THE RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL KIDS, I AM INITIATING YOU GUYS. TODAY YOU HEARD THE GANAPATI EATING STORY. THAT IS THE EXPERIENCE WHEN THE FIRST TIME NITHYATVA OPENED OPENED TO ME. *THIS PRINCIPLE OF NITHYATVA, WHERE MATTER BECOMES ENERGY, ENERGY BECOMES MATTER, WHERE MATTER BECOMES ANTIMATTER AND ANTIMATTER BECOMES MATTER, OR MATTER AND ANTIMATTER GETTING NULLIFIED, CANCELLING EACH OTHER OR DISSOLVING INTO THAT ENERGY AGAIN, ALL THAT BECOMES “ICHA MATRA”, “SANKALPA MATRA” - “CASUAL WILL” IS ALL THAT IS REQUIRED, NOTHING ELSE. WHERE ENERGY JUST BECOME THE PLANETS, SUNS AND MOONS BY WILL. *GANESHA ATE THE FOOD IS FACTUAL AND ACTUAL ONE. BUT HE OPENED THE KAILAASA SPACE OF NITYATVA IN ME IS REAL BLESSING! BECAUSE, AFTER THAT, I GOT INTO IDEA OF “DID GANESHA REALLY EAT?” I TOOK THE FOOD FROM MY HOME AND RAN TO MY GRANDFATHER’S HOUSE. THAT GANESHA ALSO ATE! I RAN TO MY FATHER’S ELDER BROTHER’S HOUSE. THAT GANESHA ALSO ATE. I RAN TO ANOTHER TENANT FAMILY, OUR DISTANT RELATIVES’ HOUSE. THAT GANESHA ALSO ATE! ONLY THEN I CAME TO CONCLUSION ABOUT THE SPACE GANAPATI HAS OPENED IN ME! *TODAY I AM GIVING THIS INITIATION TO ALL OF YOU. *WHAT IS NITHYATVA? EVEN IF YOU INTELLECTUALLY REPEAT THIS IN YOUR INNER SPACE IT IS OK BECAUSE I GIVE YOU THIS AS INITIATION WITH THE BLESSINGS OF MAHA GANAPATI. *GANAPATI NOT ONLY GAVE HIS PERMISSION BUT JUST NOW HE GAVE THE COMMITMENT THAT ALL OF YOU WATCHING THE SATSANG - IF YOU FEED, HE WILL EAT, DRINK AND SHOW YOU THE GLIMPSE OF NITHYATVA! *ALL OF YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO SEE THE MIRACLE TODAY! ALL OF YOU WHO ATTENDED THE SATSANG TODAY, YOU ARE BLESSED. WHEN YOU SEE GANAPATI EATING, ALL YOUR SELF-DOUBT, SELF-HATRED, SELF-DENIAL, SELF-DESTRUCTION WILL SHAKE AND THE ECSTATIC GANAPATI WILL START MANIFESTING AND GIVING YOU THE GLIMPSE OF NITHYATVA. *MEDITATE ON THAT SPACE AND PRAY TO MAHA GANAPATI: “MY GURU NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM JUST NOW BLESSED ME THAT YOU BLESSED HIM THAT YOU WILL EAT OR DRINK WHATEVER I OFFER. PLEASE EAT AND DRINK WHATEVER I OFFER.” AND OFFER. REQUEST HIM, “PLEASE GIVE ME THE NITHYATVA SPACE AS A BOON. GIVE ME THAT AS A BLESSING. *TAKE THE MILK IN SPOON OR CONCH. KEEP IT NEAR HIM AND FEED HIM. I AM NOT LYING. I AM NOT GIVING SOME FALSE PROMISES. I AM INITIATING YOU INTO THE POWERFUL PROCESS OF MAKING YOU EXPERIENCE POWERFUL COGNITIONS AND POWERS. I HAVE SEEN IN MY LIFE: HE HAS DONE THIS GREAT THING IN ME, HE WILL DO IT FOR YOU. *WITH ALL THE STRENGTH OF MY INTEGRITY, BECAUSE YOU ARE INTEGRATED TO ME. I GIVE YOU THIS WITH ALL MY LOVE. BECAUSE GANAPATI BLESSED AND GAVE PERMISSION TO INITIATE. TODAY, IT IS GOING TO BE SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION. THOUSANDS OF PLACES GANESHA IS GOING TO EAT AND DRINK. LET’S HAVE GANESHA UTSAVA TODAY. HE IS NOT ONLY GOING TO EAT AND DRINK .BUT HE IS GOING TO GIVE YOU GLIMPSE OF EXPERIENCE. *“MAHAGANAPATI PARAMPORULE” ARE THE EXACT WORDS I HEARD FROM THE PERSON TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE. HIS NAME IS SELVA GANAPATI. I WAS A 3-YEAR OLD BABY WHEN HE WAS GIVING THE LECTURE ON HOW NAMBIANDAR NAMBI GAVE FOOD TO GANAPATI AND GANAPATI ATE. WHEN I INVOKED GANESHA, THIS IS THE EXACT WORDS I USED, “MAHAGANAPATI PARAMPORULE”. HE WILL NOT ONLY EAT AND DRINK WHAT YOU GIVE, HE WILL GIVE YOU THE PRASADA OF EXPERIENCE OF NITHYATVA. *NITHYATVA - THE SPACE WHERE MATTER BECOME ENERGY, ENERGY BECOME MATTER. MATTER AND ANTIMATTER NULLIFY EACH OTHER AND BECOME ENERGY, THAT SPACE IS NITHYATVA. THAT IS THE SPACE OF KAILAASA. THAT IS THE ETERNAL SPACE FROM WHICH WE ALL COME, INTO WHICH WE ALL GO BACK. WHEN YOU ARE ABLE TO INVOKE THAT SPACE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU ACHIEVE ALL THE BEST THINGS IN YOUR LIFE. I WANT ALL OF YOU TO MEDITATE ON THIS TODAY. WHEN GANESHA ATE THE FOOD, HE OPENED THAT SPACE IN ME. TODAY, YOU PRAY. MEDITATE ON THAT SPACE AND ASK GANESHA TO OPEN THAT SPACE FOR YOU BY ACCEPTING THE FOOD OR MILK YOU OFFER TO HIM. *TODAY IS GOING TO BE A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION! IN THOUSANDS OF PLACES. GANESHA IS GOING TO EAT AND DRINK! SHARE AND CELEBRATE IN SOCIAL MEDIA. LET US HAVE GANAPATI UTSAVA TODAY! *NOW WITH THIS, COME ON, SIT STRAIGHT AND MEDITATE ON THE NITHYATVA. CHANT MAHAVAKYA. INVOKE GANAPATI. DO ALL THE THREE. DO ONE BY ONE BECAUSE YOUR MIND WILL MOVE EVERYWHERE. LET YOUR MIND MOVE BETWEEN THESE THREE THINGS AND PRAY TO GANAPATI INTENSELY TO GIVE YOU THE EXPERIENCE OF NITHYATVA INTENSELY. #Nithyananda #NithyanandaSatsangh https://ift.tt/2qdWbOp

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Let Us Give You the Keys To Building Wealth, While Slashing Debt And Living The Lifestyle You Deserve

“It’s all about changing how you think about money, how you feel about money, and most importantly, how you act with your money! No matter what country you live in, no matter what currency you use, wealth is not earned; wealth is created! Building wealth is all about mindset. “

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As Zig Ziglar says: You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

How do we help other people get what they want in life?

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Slashing debt:

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Ten Keys to Becoming a successful Entrepreneur

Be comfortable with taking risk-no risk, no reward

Be independent/trust your eternal guiding system

Develop creative ideas because everything begins with an idea

Prepare for high stress tolerance/Rome wasn’t built in a day

Be prepared that no one will support your idea in the beginning

Develop thick skin and a strong will to win/winners never quit & quitters never win

Conduct needed research and do your due diligence

Define your target market/fine your niche

Know your competition

Define your USP-Unique Selling Proposition/what sets you apart from your competition

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Tithing is good because you give ten percent of your income to your religious organization or save ten percent toward your retirement. Philanthropy is great because you can create enough wealth and actually be socially conscious and start your own non-profit or donate to an existing non-profit and help serve a much larger amount of people. Like the billionaires who signed the giving pledge that was started by Warren Buffet, and Bill & Melinda Gates. They pledged to give away at least one half of their billions to a cause dear to their hearts that would help make this world a better place.

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Warren Buffet stills lives in the same exact house that he was raised in, while other high income earners, millionaires and billionaires live a 5-star lavish lifestyle with every bell and whistle at their disposal. You do have a choice as long as your income can support your lifestyle!

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MORNING STEW #6

A number of significant topics today beginning with my yesterday and then into the world. I generally share the topics in some sort of order. On a day like this it would add an hour to the blog. No time today. I have been at it 2.5 hours gathering the information. Started at 6:30. Need to be done by 11.

So I present you with a Morning Stew. Number 6.

Cath scan time yesterday in the hospital. My appointment was for 1. Did not get taken till 2:30. Thought they were taking another look at my aortic stenosis. Nurse told me order sheet indicated aortic aneurysm. Bothered me. I have known for several years about the aneurysm. Do not think about it. Now it is back in my thought process.

Had to fast for the Cath scan. Was hungry following the test. Back to Harpoon Harry’s. Wednesday is Thanksgiving turkey day. I enjoyed a complete turkey meal.

When last in friday, I forgot to tip the waitress. Embarrassing. First thing I did when I arrived yesterday was to find her and give her a $5 bill. She was grateful, but said she actually did not remember me nor that I failed to tip her.

Whatever, I have made a friend for life.

The waitress actually waiting on me was Allana. European born, she has been in the U.S. 30 years. Twenty seven in Aspen. The last 3 in Key West. Knows how to pick her spots to live!

The time sitting around the hospital waiting for the Cath scan gave me time to finish Becoming Michelle Obama. I enjoyed reading it. Recommend you read it.

Nothing fantastic about the book. It is merely the step by step progression of Michelle’s life from her birth in South Chicago to retirement now following the White House. A modest work. Personal. Like Barrack still leaves his dirty socks on the floor.

Today, a haircut at noon with Lori. Lunch. The Farmers Market at Bayview Park for a special bread and tomatoes that are softer than the rocks available at Publix.

I am looking forward to this evening. Dinner at the home of Larry and Cindy. A couple I have visited with 2 years in a row at the Chart Room. They are from Ontario, Canada. Have a second home on the golf course.

Cindy is cooking.

I have a special affinity to Cindy. She is a loyal blog follower.

I will not be appearing with Laurie Thibault this afternoon on her radio show. Traffic is so heavy this time of year that I would be late for dinner. Tune in however. Laurie needs no help. A born natural for radio. Station 107.5 FM, WGAY FM.

Sex and the Catholic Church. Back in the limelight. Today the beginning of a conference of Bishops. A Sex Abuse Prevention Summit at the Vatican. Pope Francis presiding.

The problem an open wound.

The issues will center around gay priests, secret rules, and the abuse of nuns.

A dynamite conference in the making!

Trump has nominated Jeffrey Rosen to be Deputy Attorney General. He will be the #2 person in the Justice Department.

His only connection to the law is that he is a Harvard law grad. Never worked in criminal prosecution. No police background of any kind.

Why? Of what value will he be? I fear another Trump step in trying to destroy the Department of Justice.

Tired last night. Watched Syracuse/Louisville at 7 from home. Syracuse won decisively 69-49.

A great game!

Next #1 Duke on saturday at the Carrier Dome. Syracuse beat Duke 2 weeks ago on Duke’s home court. Duke was #1 at the time, also.

There is a gluttony overtaking college sports.

I watched part of the Duke/North Carolina game following the Syracuse one. Obama was there. No seats available. A huge sell out.

Certain seats were going for $2,600 each. Super Bowl prices. It was announced that 4 seats at the Syracuse/Duke game saturday will be selling for $3,500 each.

College ball? Professional ball?

There is a drive underway to pay college athletes. In addition to free tuition, room and board. The argument is they are making their schools rich.

The day is coming. Very soon. I don’t like it. Something wrong with paying college athletes especially after they are getting a free ride to a college education.

Iran recently publicly hung a 31 year old man for being gay. Seventy one countries have criminalized homosexuality. Eight of them call for the death penalty.

In Iran, gays as young as 9 can be put to death. And they are.

Lesbians included.

Now comes Donald Trump to lead the battle to end the criminalization of homosexuality across the globe. Announced yesterday. He says he will launch a campaign and lead the cause.

Something irregular here. Trump goes out of his way in the U.S. to do whatever he can to hurt the gay community. He is anti LGBT. His most recent action to prevent transgenders from being in the military.

Hypocrisy? You better believe it.

I can remember John L. Lewis. He was a big man in union work in the 1930’s through 1950’s. A huge man with bushy eyebrows.He was CEO of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and President of the United Mine Workers.

An autocrat in his work. Tough guy similar to Trump. A liar, also. He was described during his time as the most experienced truth-twisting wind bag ever produced in the U.S.

Possessed brass testicles. He called a coal strike during World War II.

I mention Lewis today because on this day in 1940 he was a guest at the Casa Marina.

Cemetery stroll sunday. The Key West Cemetery. The history of our island carved into the stones. Always a crowd. Reservations required. Three starting times 9:30 to 10:10. A $20 donation requested.

I love the cemetery. One of the best stones reads: “I Told You I Was Sick.”

Washington Post columnist Reuben Navarrette in a recent article wrote about Trump, El Paso, and his lies.

Trump was in El Paso this past week pushing the border wall/barrier, whatever it is called. He claimed El Paso had one of the highest crime rates in the U.S. till a wall was built on their border. The problem is El Paso was never a high crime city. Before, during or after the wall was built.

Typical Trump exaggeration, lie.

Navarrette wrote that Trump “…..since his days selling real estate in Manhattan, has never let the truth interfere with a good pitch. The PT Barnum of Fifth Avenue used to attempt to convince people that the Trump Tower had ten more floors than it really did.”

He continued, “Trump doesn’t just sell steak, or the sizzle. He can get by with just selling you the thought of a steak. That’s a gift folks.”

It’s the nature of the beast, folks!

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Paul Hasan has been arrested. A white supremacist interested in terrorist attacks. Leading them himself. Against the U.S. government.

His intent to kill members of Congress and the media. As part of a purpose to create a white homeland. Among those designated for elimination were Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Joe Scarborough, and John Podesta.

In a draft of an e-mail authorities recovered, Hasan wrote: “Much blood will have to be spilled to get whitey off the couch.”

The U.S. worries about terrorism coming at us from the Middle East. We fail to have any significant concern with the terrorism on our shores lying in silence ready to attack. Our efforts must be directed at them also.

I end with Karl Marx. Author of the Communist Manifesto. Written in collaboration with Frederich Engels. Published this day in 1848.

The Manifesto was slow to take hold. However by 1950, half the world’s population lived under Communism.

Marx’s closing words in the Manifest set forth marching orders for those to become his followers: “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite.”

Enjoy your day!

MORNING STEW #6 was originally published on Key West Lou

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Eagles Players Dispute Philly Voice Story Describing Carson Wentz as “Selfish” and “Uncompromising”

Joe Santoliquito, coming in hot on MLK Day.

The long-time local sports writer dropped a Philly Voice story this morning citing anonymous sources in describing Carson Wentz as a “selfish” and “uncompromising” player. Joe says Voice spoke with “more than a half dozen players, plus other sources close to the team” over the past two months.

I have been judged as the most pragmatic and reasonable Crossing Broad writer, therefore I’ve been assigned the reactionary piece to Joe’s piece.

Let’s go through the story and pull some excerpts to analyze.

Writes Joe:

Whereas some circles blamed the Eagles’ offensive failures on new offensive coordinator Mike Groh, numerous sources in and around the NFL and Eagles said they thought Wentz may have been the root of the Eagles’ offensive problems. Groh is a “good coach,” who was “bullied” by Wentz, according to sources. The problem with the offense this past season shouldn’t lie with Groh, it should “lie with Wentz,” they said.

Yeah? Well I could see that happening. Groh was a first-year offensive coordinator who worked with the wide receivers in 2017, so this was his first season directly interacting with Wentz. If Frank Reich and John DeFilippo were veteran coaches, you could understand how they might assert more control over a then-25-year-old quarterback. Joe touches on that a few paragraphs later.

One thing is certain: Every one of our sources said the same things almost verbatim about the relationship between Wentz and Nick Foles: “They love each other, they respect each other and they support each other.”

But while the sentiment in the Eagles’ locker room is that Foles is “universally loved,” Wentz isn’t.

I found it interesting that Chris Long and Fletcher Cox created that Nick Foles shrine. You could theorize that they love the dude because of the Super Bowl run last year, sure. It certainly seemed like the team had really positive things to say about Nick when he took over for Carson, but I don’t know if that equates to them disliking Carson. It’s not like being “pro-Nick” automatically means that you’re “anti-Carson.” You could simply enjoy playing with one guy more than the other guy while enjoying both as people and players.

More after the jump:

Numerous sources confirmed Wentz was once verbally attacked by a highly respected teammate for not being “a team guy.”

“Carson Wentz’s biggest enemy is Carson Wentz,” one source said. “He’s had his ass kissed his whole life, and sometimes acts like he’s won 10 Super Bowls, when he hasn’t played in, let alone won, a playoff game yet. Everyone around him wants good things for him. He did more thinking on the field than he did playing (in 2018). You don’t have to be a brain surgeon or a football expert to see how differently this team plays and reacts with one guy as opposed to the other.”

I can see the reasoning here. Wentz has been a #1 guy his entire life. He didn’t have to sit behind another quarterback as a rookie. Sam Bradford was shipped out to allow Carson to be a starter in his first NFL year. And it’s certainly true that it’s a different team with Nick in the game.

According to multiple sources, Wentz tended to “complicate” the offense. He didn’t let it come organically, as Foles did. According to one source, Wentz could “complicate 2+2.”

Reich and DeFilippo stressed to Wentz the importance of sticking with the play that was called — a completed pass was there waiting. When Wentz deviated from that, it was sometimes met with bad consequences, like an interception or a sack. When Wentz trusted what Reich and DeFilippo called, it led to an MVP-like season that produced an Eagles’ single-season franchise record 33 touchdown passes and an 11-2 record in 13 games.

This can never really be proven because there are too many variables, but you could certainly go through every down he’s ever played and look for pre-snap reads and audibles. You can look for instances where he pulled the ball out during RPOs. You could look at the amount of times he tried to force the ball to one receiver and you could time how long he held onto the ball.

I think it was pretty apparent that Foles was smoother at going through his reads and taking what the defense gave him. Lane Johnson said himself that the ball was coming out quicker with Nick playing QB.

Wentz’s proclivity for playing “favorites” manifested itself in targeting Ertz, who went on to catch a single-season NFL-record 116 passes for a tight end. Over the 11 games Wentz played, he went to Ertz 106 times (an average of 9.6 targets per game), while Alshon Jeffery was targeted 74 times (7.4 targets per game) and Nelson Agholor 60 times (5.4 targets per game). Sources added, without any great revelation, that Jordan Matthews is an Eagle because “of his buddy Wentz.”

I did a story on this. The results showed that Wentz threw to Alshon Jeffery more often than Foles did. I think we all kind of concluded that Nick was more willing to target Alshon on contested downfield and/or jump ball type of passes, because he trusted him to go up and make those plays while perhaps Carson did not.

But Nick Foles still threw at Ertz frequently.

Here are those numbers:

That’s 65 total targets over 7 games, so 9.2 targets per game. That’s a difference of 0.4 in how much each quarterback targeted Zach Ertz this season. You’d have to go through film and look at distances and air yards and see how each QB specifically used the #1 tight end.

The subjects interviewed for this story gave the impression that Wentz changed after his injury. With Foles more than likely gone next season and nothing but open space ahead to rehab and spend a full training camp as QB1, there seems to be a good chance he’ll be his dynamic self again — both on the gridiron and with his teammates.

“He has to return to who ‘Carson Wentz’ is,” a source told PhillyVoice. “That comes with relaxing and not forcing things. It also comes with being able to take constructive criticism. He has to learn that it’s not always about him and that’s partly what hurt this team this year. We know what type of player he can be, and who he normally is. He needs to realize it’s the Philadelphia Eagles not the Philadelphia Carsons.

Sure.

I can’t imagine tearing my ACL and then watching another guy go on and win the Super Bowl. Of course you’re frustrated. Of course you want to work your ass off to get back to full health, get back on the field, and prove that you can do what your backup did. That’s natural competitive DNA that should exist in pretty much every single player. Stefen Wisniewski, another devout Christian guy, was unhappy and complained when he got benched earlier this season.

For what it’s worth, and this might be burying the lede, but several Eagles came out on social media to dispute the allegations made by the anonymous sources:

Reading through this Carson Wentz thing and as a leader on this team none of that is true Carson is a great teammate and great player we are all behind him 100% he’s our guy and will come back and prove the world wrong. If you got a problem feel free to @ me I’ll respond

— fletcher cox (@fcoxx_91) January 21, 2019

And Brandon Brooks:

What my guy @fcoxx_91 said!!! pic.twitter.com/DpRr39ZcEI

— Brandon Brooks (@bbrooks_79) January 21, 2019

And now Lane Johnson:

Whoever wrote that article needs to check their "sources". #fakenews

Carson has been and is our leader and our QB. Y'all know where to find me if you have any issues.#flyeaglesfly

— Lane Johnson (@LaneJohnson65) January 21, 2019

And regarding Joe specifically, he’s a freelancer who writes for several different outlets. He publishes things for Voice and for CBS 3 as well, and he used to come in and do the Sports Zone show that I produced on Sunday night. He dabbles in different sports and could probably be described as a jack of all trades.

Some people went back and pulled some previous things he said/wrote about Wentz to see if there were any conclusions to draw, any particular “bias” towards one guy over the other.

Here are some findings via “Patrick” on Twitter:

Relevant context: The author from today’s bombshell report on Wentz has had some… strong opinions on Wentz in the past. pic.twitter.com/ZlFPVIH7NJ

— Patrick (@pmc1423) January 21, 2019

Right, so you can reach your own conclusions with this story. Go read the Voice piece and see how you feel. I’m sure we’ll get a few more responses from teammates.

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A kicker’s failure became eternally significant

After last weekend’s divisional round, the Chiefs, Rams, Patriots, and Saints are the last four of the NFL’s thirty-two teams still in this year’s playoffs. The combined population of their cities equals 1.57 percent of the US population.

In other words, as pro football fans go, there are far more losers than winners this morning.

In our “winning isn’t everything–it’s the only thing” culture, this is tough for those of us who live in Dallas and other losing cities to wake up to. But we can learn an important life lesson from the player who epitomized losing this season.

A kick that defied all odds

Cody Parkey is a kicker for the Chicago Bears. He set an NFL rookie scoring record in 2014 and was named to the Pro Bowl in 2015. Earlier this season, he was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance against the Vikings.

In the first round of this year’s playoffs, his Chicago Bears played last year’s Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. At the end of the game, the Bears were poised to win as Parkey lined up a forty-three-yard field goal. He had already kicked three field goals in the game. His fourth was right down the middle, but the Eagles had called time out just before the play began.

When the game resumed, Parkey’s kick struck the left upright of the goalpost. Then, defying all odds, it struck the crossbar. Then it fell backwards to the ground. The Bears lost.

The team and their fans were devastated. Only later did they learn that an Eagles player got a hand on the ball, deflecting the kick.

But by that time, the narrative was set: Parkey had failed.

“Football is what I do. It’s not who I am.”

Last week, Cody Parkey was interviewed by the Today show. The hosts asked him how he was handling the disappointment of his missed kick.

Parkey told them, “I feel worse than anybody about missing that kick because I wanted to make it more than anybody.” He admitted, “I let the fans, my teammates, and the whole organization down.”

But throughout the interview, he manifested a remarkable serenity that his circumstances could not justify. He explained its source: “Football is what I do. It’s not who I am.”

He added that he has tried “through good or bad, to give praise to the Higher Power, to the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

Savannah Guthrie said to him: “You’re the classiest of class acts. You went in there in the locker room [and] answered every question from reporters.” She added: “I think they should have MHP–Most Honorable Player. You really showed what you’re made of.”

Cody Parkey’s witness on the Today show planted seeds of God’s word and hope in souls across our country. In one interview, his temporary failure became eternally significant.

Faith in adversity proves two facts

After Clemson defeated Alabama to win the college football national title last Monday, head coach Dabo Swinney told reporters, “All the credit–all the glory–goes to the good Lord.” His outspoken faith was on display yet again as he used his national platform to honor Jesus.

Of course, our skeptical culture is not surprised when we thank God for our victories. When we trust and glorify him in our failures, however, our witness is especially powerful.

Faith in adversity proves two facts:

One: We love God for who he is, not just for what he does for us.

When Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar threatened to throw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into a fiery furnace if they would not worship his golden idol, they told him: “Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king” (Daniel 3:17).

Note what comes next: “But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up” (v. 18). They would serve God, whether he did what they hoped he would do or not. Faith in adversity shows that we have not a transactional religion but a transformational relationship with our Father. We love God because he is worthy of our love, even if his will is not ours.

Two: Faith sustains us in the hard times, not just the good times.

Habakkuk testified: “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:17-18).

The prophet described devastation in every dimension of his agrarian world. In a crisis with no food in the present and no provision for the future, he would still rejoice in his Lord. Such worship shows a skeptical culture that our faith is relevant to every challenge we face.

“The only love that won’t disappoint you”

Name your greatest problem today. It could be physical pain, financial difficulty, or personal disappointment.

Now reframe it as your greatest opportunity to influence your post-Christian culture today.

If you ask Jesus to redeem your suffering for his glory and your good, he will. This is because he loves you with a love that redeems all it touches.

Tim Keller: “The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or on how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.”

Cody Parkey said football is “not who I am.” Do you know who you are?

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A kicker’s failure became eternally significant

In other words, as pro football fans go, there are far more losers than winners this morning.

A kick that defied all odds

When the game resumed, Parkey’s kick struck the left upright of the goalpost. Then, defying all odds, it struck the crossbar. Then it fell backwards to the ground. The Bears lost.

The team and their fans were devastated. Only later did they learn that an Eagles player got a hand on the ball, deflecting the kick.

But by that time, the narrative was set: Parkey had failed.

“Football is what I do. It’s not who I am.”

Last week, Cody Parkey was interviewed by the Today show. The hosts asked him how he was handling the disappointment of his missed kick.

But throughout the interview, he manifested a remarkable serenity that his circumstances could not justify. He explained its source: “Football is what I do. It’s not who I am.”

He added that he has tried “through good or bad, to give praise to the Higher Power, to the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

Cody Parkey’s witness on the Today show planted seeds of God’s word and hope in souls across our country. In one interview, his temporary failure became eternally significant.

Faith in adversity proves two facts

Of course, our skeptical culture is not surprised when we thank God for our victories. When we trust and glorify him in our failures, however, our witness is especially powerful.

Faith in adversity proves two facts:

One: We love God for who he is, not just for what he does for us.

Two: Faith sustains us in the hard times, not just the good times.

“The only love that won’t disappoint you”

Name your greatest problem today. It could be physical pain, financial difficulty, or personal disappointment.

Now reframe it as your greatest opportunity to influence your post-Christian culture today.

If you ask Jesus to redeem your suffering for his glory and your good, he will. This is because he loves you with a love that redeems all it touches.

Cody Parkey said football is “not who I am.” Do you know who you are?

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