My handpainted picture to put on the wall.

Butter and drink recipe

I think these would make great things to give out in group rituals or feasts.  I think it's also something the Gods would love to try, even if it is out of their local cuisine fare.  Try it.

Tea steamer

Steam a cup of milk(or however much) try using organic, as it is creamier.  Add in a tea bag of formossan oohlong and some turbinado sugar or sugar in the raw as it is called, or you can use honey.  Steep and sip and enjoy.

Also had this yummy butter at an Irish pub.

You take whipped cream butter(I think they used unsalted) add honey and brandy.  OMG it was orgamsic.

Food and offering

I've been pondering.  Why do we stick to what the Gods supposedly ate in the past?  Cream and berries and honey for fey, Tuatha De Danaan and Celtic, interspersed with some meat foods.  Greek for Greek Gods? Why don't we branch out, using our UPG?

This pondering brought to you by fa la la latte.  I bought one today and took a sip and went mmmmmmmm. To which I got poked by the Morrigan, make me one.  Ok, I can do that.  Eggnog and espresso make the Fa La La Latte.  Simple even if it is not traditional.

If we humans like to explore other cuisines, why would the Gods not want to do so as well?  Ask them.  I think the only God I know that has some food taboos would be Asherah, and mostly she is hesitant about pork.  Other then that, I don't know of any of the Gods that have a food taboo or go Kosher.

Loki I know, likes many different foods.  He isn't afraid to try new things.  You also don't need to feed him copious amounts of hard liquor.  Though I am getting poked to try making some mead sometime in the near future.

As I type this, I see my cat drinking my left over oohlong tea.  smh.  I'm also getting poked to give Loki, Morrigan, and Cernunnos and The Goddess some apple cider.

Subjective vs Objective.

This post is the catalyst for this post.  http://blacklightmetaphysics.com/2013/11/03/days-of-the-dead/#comment-2366  Interesting take on past life, and the lessons we need to learn to heal old wounds.  I may very well have to consider doing so as well.

Though there are some things in his post that I want to address.  When we receive stuff via past life regression, we should look at the filter from whence it comes.  Objectivity is hard to maintain, and our own personal crap will influence stuff.  Whoever is providing the info, yeah spiritual who ha's have biases too, also have a stake in how it is presented.  So, write it down, but look at who is giving it to you, to see how much salt needs to be applied.

How was the regression done?  Does it resonate with you, why or why not?  What resonates with you? Why?(Socratic questioning helps here)  I personally would give more salt to guided meditation in past life regression then other ways.

Ok, now that you got through all that, deal with the emotions.  We are human, not Data a sentient Android. Shit is gonna make us feel stuff.  Process. Try not to yell or blame or make rushed judgements until you have processed the emotions.

Ok lets take his post and go with lesson time.

1. Guided meditation, so while the person who guided it was being ridden, you HAVE to take biases and the human filter into account.  What is their political bent?  How do they feel about war and politics and other stuff.?  How has that influenced your regression?

2. He feels betrayed and is pissed and is now in a crisis of faith.  But he isn't letting himself grieve.  He is making decisions a little too rashly, mind you they are mature, but still he needs time to ponder and sort and grieve and see how much truth is really there.  He's also not taking into account the emotions of this life and how it may be bleeding over into the vision. (See the emotions of the Grandmother) Greek  Maxim Know thyself helps.  Use it and grieve.  Logic helps in the grieving too.  Use it.  Ask yourself questions and go with it, write it down, blog, do art, it helps in figuring out why you feel this way, and helps in dealing.

3.He is blaming the Gods.  He's studies the history of this time period.  So, it shouldn't be that hard to figure out which General he was and figure out how true this is.  If it's just a lesson story, learn the lesson, but why get bent out of shape over something that didn't occur, why internalize the emotional baggage?  An analogy, if this is the guided meditation version of Eat, Pray, Love, ok get sad, but don't get so emotionally vested in the movie that you decide to abandon all trappings of a "square life"(to be snarky about a previous post) that you decide to become a world wide Hippy.  Yes if it calls to you and you can do it.  But let a little pragmatism in your life flourish too.

4. Ok he is blaming the Gods and not those, that did the deeds, in the past life(we haven't established how true it is). Why is this shit Jupiter and Mars fault and not the Senators?  Dude was a General, dude played politics, dude should know how the damn game is played, dude needs to also take responsibility for not thinking about shit ahead of time.

If you wanted to retire away from politics, Britannia would have been a better location and less likely to be bugged by senators. Because who the hell wants to travel that far into the outer reaches of the Roman Empire? Saying it aint fair, is bullshit, especially when if you were a General, you know good damn well, how hard these guys play for power.  If you don't want to play, then take care to get yourself out of the line of fire.  It aint Jupiters fault you didn't think this through and thought people were gonna be honorable with you and leave you alone?  It is being naive.  (Again who's cultural bias is showing, that is having him have these emotions?  Americans? In fact I'd even say it is a very modern American cultural bias and not the Generals of Rome)

5.Now lets look at the bigger tapestry.  Ok so you wanted to be let alone but Mars and Jupiter were poking you.  You don't know if you can trust them to keep to their promise of happiness.  They gave you opportunities at happiness. Expecting them to protect you from the harsh realities of life is a bit much.(Mind you we all do that. I've had times of I've worked for you why the hell is this shit happening to me too)  What did you honestly expect them to do?

If you had listened to them and gotten into politics, would you still have had your wife, or more time?  This is the lesson of looking at the tapestry of possibilities and looking at chess and the various outcomes.  Maybe they were poking you for a reason other then, you make a good general.  Maybe they saw shit and you were the best candidate and that yes you could be happyish.  Have you explored the realm of which door did you pick and what would have happened had you went that route?

6. Ok you wanted peace, quiet and a contented life.  Well, the Gods have a responsibility to more than just you.  Do they have the right to nag the shit out of you, if the choice is you, vs say the asshat Nero?  Where does their responsibility lie?  Have you looked at the larger picture here and tried to work out why the hell they were poking you?  Why?

By the by.  I am no means advocating blindly do whatever it is the Gods are poking you to do.  Ask questions.  Realize you have choices.  Also realize it is hard and almost impossible to see the hard picture. Something I'd also like to throw out, if we aren't the same people we were 20 years ago, why are the Gods always unchanging?

Lego fairy house

I saw this on facebook.  It inspired me to try something similar with my son, to put in the grove for a fairy house.  I realize it's made of man made stuff, HOWEVER, it's lego's and my son is autistic.  Plus lego's inspire dreams and whimsy, so I think they would love it.

http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=10112

Now I have to go get some lego's for him to do this and have him place it there.  After work, I'll head off to ebay.

Chicken, lemon sauce, cream cheesy pasta recipe thing for the grove

I could have made this more cleaned up, but the first time was going to be family style.  The next time will use the optional ingredients to make it more FANCY.  But family style is imp, to me.  The Gods and the spirits aren't high mucky mucks to me, they are part of the family.  I just realized this a week ago, so haven't really had much time to flesh it out more then that.  

Total UPG for me.

I went grocery shopping the other day.  Got some chicken breasts on rib bone, figured I'd do something with them over pasta.  Went to the egg area to get stuff to make bread pudding, saw Italian cream cheese stuff and was poked, make me something like that with the chicken, and the lemon butter sauce too, went ok.  This is the recipe result, will make it again next time I shop but it will be better.  The lemon butter had burnt bits, cause my autistic son was helping my daughter cook.

Chicken breasts
www.kraftrecipes.com/philadelphia/all-products.aspx  I used the italian herb one
www.landolakes.com/product/SauteExpress.aspx  You can make your own, from scratch but this is cheaper and just as good
Knorr chicken stock condensed stuff.(size of a quarter of butter, has the flavor of chicken stock but I have more space for it, then I did regular chicken stock and I don't have to worry about it going bad.)  You can use your own chicken stock or the stuff in a quart container.
Tri color pasta
Carrots
onions

optional

garlic
white wine
thyme
pepper
marjaram

Ok you brown the chicken breasts, do it in regular oil, we used the lemon pepper and it burnt, due to having the chicken put up to high.  When the chicken is browned, add the onions and sliced up carrots, sautee those.  Put back the chicken and add the lemon butter sauce.  Add on top the cream cheese, let it melt, then add in the chicken stock thingy with water, or regular chicken stock.  Here is where you can put in the wine(for more of a gourmand flavor plus antioxidants.) and garlic and more spices.

Serve over tri colored pasta.