A Celebration of Lilacs

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One of nature’s long-lived symbols of spring, lilacs bring fragrance, beauty, and nostalgia to every landscape they adorn.

Beloved by bees and butterflies, a quality cover for birds and wildlife, and one of the most cherished blooms in America, the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) embodies everything we love about sweet, old-fashioned flowers. After all, is there any other fragrance that says “spring” as emphatically as the glorious scent of the lilac?

Lilacs are an intrinsic part of our collective horticultural heritage. The glory of their annual blooms may seem fleeting, but the longevity of the shrubs is what establishes them as a permanent fixture in our gardens and memories. These long-lived shrubs can survive for decades or even centuries, handed down through the generations. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, grew lilacs at Monticello beginning in 1771; a small group of these original lilacs is said to still grow on…

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Lāʻau Lāpaʻau || The Plant Medicine Summit March 18-22, 2019

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Free Online Event
The Plant Medicine Summit
March 18-22, 2019

Plant Medicine Summit 2019

In our fast-paced culture, we’re becoming increasingly disconnected from nature.

And in doing so, we’re losing touch with our symbiotic relationship with the plant kingdom… a vast life-giving resource for healing our bodies, balancing our emotions, and awakening our consciousness.

Our environment is suffering too. As a result of our failure to recognize our biological and spiritual connection with the natural world, destructive agricultural practices, and climate change are destroying the Earth’s ecosystems.

However, as you’ll discover during the eye-opening sessions in The Plant Medicine Summit, by honoring plants as our sacred evolutionary allies, we have great potential to heal not only ourselves but our beautiful planet as well.

Esteemed speakers joining for this life-changing, 5-day event include our host, David Crow, plus, Mark Blumenthal, K.P. Khalsa, Lupo Passero, Pam Fischer, Sara Crow, Nicholas Schnell, and many others.

Here’s just a small…

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Card of the Day – 4 of Cups – Thursday, March 4, 2019

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This card is so very well timed today, for this current Mercury Retrograde, which began at 29° Pisces (the end of the end – the last degree of the last sign), has been pushing you to review the things in your life that need repair, or elimination, so as to enter the next part of your journey as a truly fresh start.  The 4 of Cups is a card of assessment, different than the assessment associated with the 7 of Pentacles, whereas, here you have likely grown weary with the status quo, and need to look things over to decide what you like, and what you do not.

Even if you do seize the opportunity to review some things today, dependent upon your time zone, you may be faced with a void-of-course Gemini Moon, occupying your daylight hours.  Do not make any decisions of importance, unless you are pressured as…

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Daily Words of the Buddha for March 14, 2019

Pāli Word a Day for March 14, 2019 — upādānanirodhā — upādāna + nirodha = clinging, attachment, grasping + destruction, cessation, annihilation, a synonym for nibbāna

Appamādo amatapadaṃ.
Pamādo maccuno padaṃ.
Appamattā na mīyanti.
Ye pamattā yathā matā.

Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless.
Heedlessness is the path to death.
The heedful die not.
The heedless are as if dead already.

Dhammapada 2.21
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita

Current Events || Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes

After two trials described by Amnesty International as “grossly unfair,” Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, wh […]

Source: Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes

Lāʻau Lāpaʻau || Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Green Coffee Bean Extract

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Coffee (Coffea arabica, Rubiaceae) beans are used in many cultures across the globe to brew the popular caffeinated beverage. Caffeine and coffee have been linked with reduced incidence of metabolic syndrome and diabetes, lower serum triglycerides, better athletic performance, and improved memory and attention. Other than caffeine, antioxidant compounds such as chlorogenic acids (CGA) may underlie coffee’s benefits, as some studies report similar results for decaffeinated coffee. Among coffee CGAs, 5-CQA comprises about 35% of CGAs in roasted coffee and 56-62% in green coffee beans. One serving of coffee provides 20-675 mg CGAs, depending on the type of roast, preparation, serving size, and many other factors.

CGAs, like most polyphenolic compounds, are not well absorbed in the human body but are broken down or metabolized to smaller units in the gut. Coffee CGAs are differentially absorbed and/or metabolized in humans, with large individual variation. It has been suggested…

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Card of the Day – The Star – Wednesday, March 13, 2019

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It has been a while since we have seen this card, and, in spite of Mercury Retrograde, it still has much to offer. Much like today’s aspect between the Sun and Jupiter, the Star card denotes optimism, which, for many, has been in short supply in recent days. The Sun will also be aspecting with Pluto, adding a sense of determination to the mix; determination and optimism are a pretty hefty combo to beat.

This is similar to having a Wish Card, but, I prefer to call it a promise card. When the Stars align, the Universe does indeed have your back. I do not expect everyone to feel as though today is a bright spot, after all, Mercury, currently retrograde in Pisces, may leave some feeling just the opposite. If your current experience is not lifting your spirit in any way today, note that it is only energy, and…

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Daily Words of the Buddha for March 13, 2019

Pāli Word a Day for March 13, 2019 — ñāyassa — of the truth, path of truth, right way

Uṭṭhahatha! nisīdatha!
Daḷhaṃ sikkhatha santiyā.
Mā vo pamatte viññāya,
maccurājā amohayittha vasānuge.

Rouse yourself! Sit up!
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Do not let the king of death, seeing you are careless,
lead you astray and dominate you.

Sutta Nipāta 2.334
The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipāta, translated by John D. Ireland

Astrology notes of the day Gemini Moon

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March 12 Moon enters GEMINI @ 8:48 am PDT/ 11:48 am EDT/ 3:48 am GMT

We are into the double talking, very mental oriented days of indecision, with Moon in Gemini and especially with Mercury Retrograde. There may be much rear view mirroring.

Gemini Moon conjunct Algol with  Mercury Retrograde in Pisces sextile will be played out by someone projecting something onto someone and chewing their head off.

Moon sextiles Chiron in Aries which can make defensive shields rise quickly

Goddess asteroid JUNO in GEMINI @ 11+ degrees opposes CERES in Sagittarius

These two Goddesses of Juno feminine genius/ the perfect wife archetype and the Great Mother conflate each other in communicating, from opposing sides, intellectual smarts with nurturing through inspirational philosophies, justice and truth.  Makes for inspiring conversations. Listen to what they would be saying to each other. 

Ceres in Sagittarius is sextile Venus in Aquarius

Ceres is conjunct…

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Veggie Foodstyles || So You Say You Hate Cabbage #1 – Vanishing Oven Roasted Lemon Garlic Herb Cabbage

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Or, maybe you do like cabbage but your family constantly tells you they hate it. And they probably do. At least the boil-until-all-integrity-is-gone variety that most people serve up this time of year. This recipe is a real crowd pleaser and will have your family chuffing down cabbage way past St. Patty’s Day.

IMG_3975Vanishing Oven Roasted Lemon Garlic Herb Cabbage
One large head of cabbage (any color)
Olive Oil
6 cloves garlic, minced
zest of one lemon
leaves from several sprigs of fresh thyme
leaves from 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Kosher salt
black pepper
¼ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Cut cabbage into 1 inch slices. Quarter the slices, trying to keep them in-tact as best you can. Transfer slices to a colander (again trying to keep roughly in-tact). Rinse. Let air dry several minutes.

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Drizzle olive oil on the bottom of a 10”x15”…

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Music and Spirituality || John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles what any musician will recognize as the “Circle of Fifths,” but incorporates Coltrane’s own innovations.   […]

Read article here:  http://www.openculture.com/2017/04/the-tone-circle-john-coltrane-drew-to-illustrate-the-theory-behind-his-most-famous-compositions-1967.html?fbclid=IwAR2M07DvJA47YpPwjwSTUgkJ8ax-epkRB8KtcQLQBIf26lbP2jIL8wVAJXQ

Musings …

EVERYTHING DOESN’T MATTER…Even though it does matter.

What is existence?…

Electrical impulses allow every Atomic cell in existence to communicate with one another.
These cells exchange information across an infinite spectrum of possibility.

Whatever information is collated amongst a faction of cells is known as a WEB of information.

These “webs” of information magnetically arrange themselves into electrical pulses of code & this code is what forms matter as we know it.

This electromagnetic universal web of code operates on a sine & wavelength amplitude and the highway for this amplitude is what we know as, light, sound & vibration or FREQUENCY.

At the core of all existence, this is all that really exists…
THIS IS THE SOURCE OF ALL CREATION – GOD

In every cell, every body, every web, every domain, every realm, every dimension, every universe, every multiverse, every thought, everything in existence is simply natural CODE subconsciously agreed on by the collective…

We humans in this realm use tools like the sciences, mathematics, language, art & music as aids to help us de-code the universal CODE as it exists within ourselves & in this realm.

Now, because everything in existence is code, that means there is an infinite number of possibilities to any given reality at any given time.

This is where the laws of existence come in…
UNIVERSAL & NATURAL laws…
Without these laws, there would be no order.
These laws give everything a time, place & structure.

In other words we can only create or destroy matter within the confines of universal & natural laws within any given space & time.

We humans of this time & place currently only use between 8% and 15% of our full DNA potential. Which means we are only able to decode 8 – 15% of space, time & matter in this reality.

This percentage of DNA potential is what we call consciousness.

The more DNA potential (consciousness) we unlock or awaken, the more clearer we begin to decode the WEB reality of this existence we call life on earth & even beyond.

In essence, everything in existence does not actually matter because matter is simply coded energy manifest in current space & time.

However, paradoxically, everything in existence also does matter because we, as conscious beings find ourselves here in this matrix web of space, time & matter.

We are all a part of this web.
We are in it (life) and we are on it (Earth)

In leymans terms, this web is simply a game.

The game of life is very much like playing hide & seek or snakes & ladders.

The aim of the game is for us to individually and collectively find ourselves.
The more we seek from what is hidden within, the more we unlock conscious DNA, from within.

Ultimately, the goal of the game is to find & unlock enough of yourself, so you can move on to YOUR next stage.

The more DNA we unlock the more options we give ourselves within the game.
We transmute from being played to becoming players.

We open new doors not just here & now but also beyond what our tiny 8 – 15% conscious understanding can fathom.

However, we must be cautious.
Not everyone who unlocks new cells of DNA will use this wisely.

Some will use this knowledge & power to control, destroy & conquer those who haven’t caught up with the game…

But…there are others will use this knowledge and power to empower, create & build themselves & those around them, not just here & now but also BEYOND.

With great knowledge comes great responsibility.

It’s time for us to open our eyes – ALL THREE eyes.

The eyes will only see when the pupil is ready.

Vision 2020 & beyond.

Ultimately, there is nothing to fear or be confused about because nothing matters.

But if it does matter to you, all the answers you NEED (not want) are coded everywhere around you & it’s FREE…

All you need to do is pay attention, open your mind, eyes & heart and be prepared to learn, unlearn & relearn.

If this makes no sense to you, it’s because this is not your space or time…ignore it & move on.

But, if this does make any sense to you…
Hi there🙂💫

Wellness || Children Should Be Outside for 4-6 Hours Every Day

Let me begin by saying we are not outside for 4-6 hours everyday.  We aim for 4-6 hours outside at least three to four times a week (a little more in the nicer months and a little less in the worse ones).  I first came across this time recommendation in the works of Charlotte Mason, a classical English educator who lived at the turn of the 20th century.  […]

Source: Children Should Be Outside for 4-6 Hours Every Day

Health and Diet || You are not gluten intolerant, you are glyphosate intolerant

Study blames Roundup herbicide for gluten intolerance and celiac disease epidemic. “Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now suffers from it,” researchers wrote in a meta-analysis of nearly 300 studies. “Here, we propose that glyphosate, the active […]

Source: You are not gluten intolerant, you are glyphosate intolerant

Card of the Day – Page of Wands – Tuesday, March 12, 2019

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Good news, positive news, is possible today. The Page of Wands always brings excitement whenever he is in the neighborhood. This card is an indicator of new beginnings, but with Mercury retrograde, not today.

The Sun is interacting with Pluto and Jupiter tomorrow. This can be felt ahead of time, and if you have been anxious or irritated, even miserable, let yourself get to the other side of these aspects. If you did not feel this way, I might be worried for the need for change is strong. This Page wishes to take action in a passionate, creative manner, but somehow things right now do not seem to show a direction. Be patient with yourself.

See you here tomorrow!

Source:  Sawyer’s Path Tarot

This card was last seen February 2, 2019

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No-Knead Artisan Breads

 

NO-KNEAD CRUSTY ARTISAN BREAD

One of my most reader-tested and approved recipes! This crusty, fluffy artisan bread needs only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes to come together… you won’t believe how easy and delicious it is!

No-Knead Crusty Artisan Bread – My most reader-loved recipe! This crusty, fluffy artisan bread needs only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes. | thecomfortofcooking.com

I have something amazing to share with you today! I mean, you’ve seen artisan bread before but you’ve probably never seen it as easily made as this! I’d say this is one part recipe, one part magic trick… it’s just incredible. You’ve gotta trust me.

No-Knead Crusty Artisan Bread – My most reader-loved recipe! This crusty, fluffy artisan bread needs only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes. | thecomfortofcooking.com

The beautiful, crusty and fluffy bread that results from just four ingredients will knock your socks off! All it takes is flour, salt, yeast and water, all mixed up in a bowl and set to rest for 8-24 hours. Sounds like a lifetime, I know, but waiting is the only difficult part of this recipe.  […]

Recipe and instructions:  http://www.thecomfortofcooking.com/2013/04/no-knead-crusty-artisan-bread.html