Magic Monday
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$20 bill
Date: 2024-12-23 05:24 am (UTC)The next day, everything seemed to go reasonably well. It started with finding a $20bill on a floor in a cafe, turned out to be an extremely productive day, etc.
Anyway, when I found the $20, I decided to just return it to the cafe manager since it wasn't mine, but I had this nagging feeling that I shouldn't do that. For what it's worth, he told me that if he were in m place, he would've kept it, but he thanked me and put it in the tip jar.
Either way, the run of good luck ended after that day. The days since haven't really been bad, but just slightly unlucky in very mildly irritating ways.
Is this all in my mind/superstition, or did I really screw something up? If the latter, is there anything I can do to fix it?
As a aside, I realize that I may be asking something that is unanswerable by you, and that is fine--I guess I am only asking in case these events have an obvious explanation that is immediately clear to you.
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Date: 2024-12-23 05:50 pm (UTC)Once I found a pay packet on the ground with all the money in it and another time a wallet, so those were given to their rightful owners or handed in.
Re: $20 bill
Date: 2024-12-24 04:33 am (UTC)Is there anything I can do to make amends?
Or is there a way to apologize to a God (Saturn in this case) for being an ignoramus?
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Date: 2024-12-24 04:36 am (UTC)Re: $20 bill
Date: 2024-12-23 06:37 am (UTC)I have stayed far out from Saturn's way because I don't trust myself with him and he is not particularly dignified in my chart. My Saturn Return notoriously sucked and left me with some scars --but it worked very well of which I am grateful, even though I screamed all the way.
What sort of things would Saturn like to see incorporated into someone who will eventually have to work with him? For someone who is kind of short-sighted when it comes to his domain, that is.
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Date: 2024-12-23 03:52 pm (UTC)Re: $20 bill
Date: 2024-12-23 05:34 pm (UTC)The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus is sitting on my table right now, so I got that one covered well, thanks for that habit.
No wonder I had a hard time, out of those, I think I don't have any in any meaningful sense. I will get to work on them and start exercising them with intent. Thank you!
Re: $20 bill
Date: 2024-12-23 03:48 pm (UTC)Anyway, in the course of his journey he is brought in to the home of some very poor Tibetan peasants and given the most lavish hospitality they are capable of giving, and he is completely uncomfortable and unable to easily navigate the visit. His mentor, Naljorpa, tells him "this is common with you Americans. You know how to give, and you know how to take, but you have no idea at all of how to receive". It's one of two remarks in that book that has stayed with me.
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Date: 2024-12-24 04:27 am (UTC)https://youxube.com/watch?v=AN0sO0ec5Dk
By fluke, I have been doing it in sets of three, which was apparently fortuitous on my part, but definitely not intended. The only two directions I was given was to bathe beforehand and to never reduce the chant count until the last day (so if I choose to do sets of 6 tomorrow, I can't go back down to sets of 3 the following day, for example).
Your mileage may vary, but I think I've been getting some interesting results. I am not positive yet, but if something clear happens over the next couple of weeks, I'll post in case you or anyone else finds it helpful.
One thing I would like to stress is that I find this sort of exciting--I have read other people have "mystical" experiences in everyday life or while meditating or whatever, but have never really experienced much of them. This is very new to me, and extremely encouraging, even though I seem to have screwed up the first opportunity I was given (with the $20)
Orphic Hymn to Saturn
Date: 2024-12-23 11:29 pm (UTC)I deliberately wrote it in 12/8 to reflect the hours on a clock. I also deliberately wrote it to sound like church music.
Here is the hymn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0joyZL1svy8
Here is a sing & strum tutorial for the guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYdspmwkDb0
Here is the SATB choir arrangement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_dYTuRWTIo