November 2010
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Geeks Bearing Gifts
“I see today’s computer world as a nightmare honkytonk prison, noisy and colourful and wholly misbegotten. We must everywhere use ghastly menus designed by people with no sense of the human mind. We are imprisoned in applications that can be customized only in ways the designers alllow (in Unix, you had control, with access to the configuration files). We are in a Dark Ageof documents,...
July 2010
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June 2010
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The Kubrick Corner →
This website deals with exploring the works of Stanley Kubrick, one of the most widely praised yet continuously misunderstood film directors of the 20th century.
Homage to this enigmatic cinematic master also @ http://fuckyeahstanleykubrick.tumblr.com/
At the risk of being labelled and adjudged a snobbish culture-vulture, I confess to being a Kubrick fan - although it’s hard to express the...
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“Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the...”
– ~ Leonytne Price
meritocracies
“Open Source projects aren’t really democracies,” says Mullenweg who will be spending the next six to eight weeks working in Montreal so he can hang out at the local Jazzfest. “They’re more like meritocracies. So the people who are most passionate about something or most able to do the work tend to rise to the top and develop contextual authority.”
The Son of Gutenberg | The Big Money
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“The essence of spiritual practice is a search for truth that springs from love.”
– Thomas Merton (via sharanam) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Open hearts and open minds - vulnerable but real - antidote to illusion …
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Astrology as Profession (4)
· Read as many charts as possible with skilful craft and evolving method.
· Treat clients with respect and offer opinions with humility, giving them what they want, request, and are ready to hear - not what you think they need.
· Develop refined communication skills and deliver information in a straightforward manner devoid of jargon, cleverness, or vagueness.
· ...
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The Son of Gutenberg | The Big Money →
WordPress.com has become the 21st-century equivalent of Gutenberg’s printing press.
As the leading blogging software, WordPress is an essential tool in the transformation of media. WordPress.com hosts 11 million blogs pumping out the enthusiasms, opinions, and ideas of its authors to 256 million unique monthly users. Unlike social media giants Facebook and Twitter, WordPress doesn’t sport a...
May 2010
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April 2010
9 posts
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“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien (via heartmindspirit)
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Astrology as Profession (3)
• Master the fundamental principles of the Art, and be able to clearly distinguish and utilise its core concepts, including but not limited to: celestial/terrestrial; universal/particular; diurnal/nocturnal; primary/secondary motion; benefic/malefic; essential/accidental; dignity/debility; condition/disposition; aspects/reception; oriental/occidental; direct/retrograde; angularity; movement;...
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Benjamin Dykes, Medieval Astrologer - Latest... →
Here it is - hot from the presses of one of traditional astrology’s foremost translators. Nothing beats reading the original primary sources - that is if you’re genuinely serious about astrology and not just fooling around with empty modernisms and psychological quackery masquerading as the ancient art.
Check out Ben’s Learning materials as well.
Support the real thing!
Speechless by Bruce Cockburn →
Listening to track Elegy - simply beautiful and moving - one of the ways I like my music…. Bruce Cockburn: a guitar virtuoso with heart and soul, conscience and mind - a sentient, conscious being.
Splendid Nature Photography of Alexandre... →
“Warning : Most of the referenced works are in Latin or German. British and...”
– Digital International Astrology Library, DIAL, FIRST SET : before 1400, by Patrice Guinard
Astrology. CURA. →
The place to go for some serious astrology with an academic pedigree….
“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe...”
– Gluue - A blog about work, life, and internet apps. By Paste Interactive
Astrology as Profession (2)
Become well-versed in your proposed specialities and methods, eg therapy; psychology; business/finance; health; politics/sociology/history; education; philosophy/religious studies etc.
Build a worthy professional library for reference and solace.
Learn as much as possible from the wisdom and modus operandi of quality astrologers both past and present.
Make the effort to comprehend and...
March 2010
30 posts
“In the sky, there is no distinction between East & West; people create...”
– (via laplumeabelle) (via yourwonderingmind) (via stonedsharpie) (via whisperingwillow)
On cultural relativity and epistemological veracity…. is anything “real”??
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“In a vast field
late at night
three mathematicians lay
charting the sky
with...”
– Everyman, Dallas Clayton (via amelioratic & rememo) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Very good question indeed!!
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Classical Origin & Traditional Use of Aspects
Deborah Houlding is the web mistress of the Skyscript site.
This article is a clear introduction to this key astrological concept and its underlying philosophy, history and principles.
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“The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the...”
– Manly P. Hall in The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter … than you and I; and...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via ageofreason) (via quote-book) (via whisperingwillow)
Plato’s retreat & the king of swing. Now there’s another definition of laptop and hard drive from a bygone era.
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Astrology as Profession (1)
The following ideas are distinctly personal views, directly expressed, pertaining to western horoscopic astrology and its currently evolving practise. While nothing here could be claimed as particularly original, it is a succinct summation of the state of my own beliefs and understandings gained over the years to this point. Without doubt, astrology is challenging to master, and will never reveal...
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up...”
– Plato (via dxo) (via adamquinn) (via ontologicalterrorist) (via isaac-lonetree) (via other-stuff) (via whisperingwillow)
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“…perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it,...”
– Plato (via heartmindspirit)
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“I am the father and mother of all things; I plant myself upon my own nature, and...”
– Bhagavad-Gita (via heartmindspirit) (via paganbuddha) (via whisperingwillow)
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WatchFlorence and the Machine
My friend Wayne turned me on to this one…
Upbeat talented youth…. anthem on the radio waves
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Introduction to Hellenistic Astrology →
What are the sources and origins of Astrology? Can we gain useful knowledge and perhaps decide some of the persistent questions that have dogged modern Western Astrology? Astrologer and philosopher Steven Birchfield looks at these issues in this, the first of a series on Hellenistic Astrology.
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Hi from the Astrology Project! Intensive March 30
For the interest of all lovers of the Art: With Mars finally moving forward again the year is finally under way and inevitably building momentum slowly but surely. At the project we have been dourly enduring our familiar friend, the rock and the hard place that is Saturn sqr Pluto, which was a prominent feature of this year’s Aries ingress chart. While we grin and bear it, there is also...
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Neronian Astrological Charts →
An informative exposition of Nero’s birth chart and associated predictions with a focus on traditional method.
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Early Medieval Astrological Glyphs →
The early use of the glyphs which represent the signs of the zodiac, planets and other astrological or astronomical phenonema can be traced to 10th or 11th century manuscripts. The Hellenistic astrologers (up through late antiquity) typically wrote out the names of the signs and planets or abbreviated them. This period did use glyphs for the Sun and the Moon, but there is little surviving evidence...
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The System of Hermes →
Robert Schmidt’s excellent translations and materials for the study of ancient astrology. This is the motherlode of the real thing….
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Tweetage Wasteland - Confessions of an Internet... →
My name is Dave Pell — internet addict, early adopter and insider. I use, build, read, write and live the web. Here I will provide a critical look at some of the issues, psychological and social, that we should consider as we click our way into this evolving world.
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Letters of Note: The most beautiful death →
Brave New World novelist Aldous Huxley was diagnosed with cancer in 1960, at which point his health slowly began to deteriorate. On his deathbed in November of 1963, just as he was passing away, Aldous - a man who for many years had been fascinated with the effects of psychedelic drugs since being introduced to mescaline in 1953 - asked his wife Laura to administer him with LSD. She agreed. The...
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Video Interview Stephen Fry,... →
Fry raves about mobile tech…. makes you question your own views and opinions on this geeky but seminal matter
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ACT Astrology - Astrological Dialogue →
Some of the most intelligent and well informed astrological discussion on the web. By astrologers - For astrologers.