Month: June 2019

Card of the Day – Queen of Swords – Sunday, June 2, 2019

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Well, well. There must be a New Moon nearby! The Queen of Swords has a habit of being in the vicinity of New Moons, and tomorrow’s New Moon in Gemini is no exception. Normally, she is in b*tch mode and everyone needs to get out of her way. That is not to say that the Gemini New Moon will not not stir someone’s pot, bringing out the cranky, critical, ill-mannered lot, who seem prevalent when the Moon is in darkness. Keep your eye out for them, and try not to be one of them.

However, I strongly feel that this Queen of Swords, being of Air energy, rather signifies her more positive attributes at this time. Today we have a Gemini Moon, Sun, and Mercury, so I suspect our Queen is mentally prepared for the day and ready to put life in order to officially get the month of June…

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The Summer Solstice is less than three weeks away!

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The Summer Solstice approaches!  Ready?

The Summer Solstice is known in contemporary Neo-Paganism as Litha or Midsummer. Neo-Pagan religion often marks this as the moment the sun god meets his death, though sometimes that event is reserved for the cross-quarter in August or the autumnal equinox in September.    A bunch of ritual and celebrations ideas can be found here,

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Daily Words of the Buddha for June 02, 2019

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Pāli Word a Day for June 02, 2019 — vipāka — fruit, fruition, product, mostly it is used as ‘result, effect, consequence (of ones action)’, either as good & meritorious (kusala) or bad & detrimental (akusala)

Atītaṃ nānvāgameyya,
nappaṭikaṅkhe anāgataṃ;
yadatītaṃ pahīnaṃ taṃ,
appattañca anāgataṃ
Listen: http://host.pariyatti.org/dwob/majjhima_nikaya_3_272.mp3

The past should not be followed after,
and the future not desired;
what is past is dead and gone,
and the future is yet to come.

Majjhima Nikāya 3.272
http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/s0203m.mul3.xml#para272
Gemstones of the Good Dhamma, compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika

Daily Words of the Buddha for June 01, 2019

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Pāli Word a Day for June 1, 2019 — pamoda— delight, joy

Upanīyati jīvitamappamāyu.
Jarūpanītassa na santi tāṇā.
Etaṃ bhayaṃ maraṇe pekkhamāno,
lokāmisaṃ pajahe santipekkho.

Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span.
For one swept to old age no shelters exist.
Perceiving this danger in death,
one should drop the world’s bait and look for peace.

Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.100
Translated from Pāli by Thanissaro Bhikkhu