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Baz Auckland
02:14 / 02.05.03
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Pueblo. It's actually not really celebrated in Mexico. It's more of an American holiday. They celebrate because it's actually one of the few times the Mexicans won a battle! (I'm not being silly. They really don't have the best record at fighting other countries. Civil Wars are their specialties.)

I've had a LOT of 23s abounding the last 2 days. Is it a May Day thingie? Every magazine at work was issue#23 or had '23 great workouts' and the such on the covers, I just gave someone $.23 change before leaving work, a marine under investigation for war crimes is from the 23rd battalion, today the 23rd person died of SARS in Toronto...

(and oddly enough, I couldn't find a thread on '23s'. I know there have been some...)
 
 
penitentvandal
10:42 / 04.05.03
(salmon = fish = christ; brie = cow = brahman).

LOL - Subtle magickal references in throwaway dialogue - I am being written by GM! (though I do get the feeling there should be some more Mozza references. I'm sure they'll turn up at some point).

Not much to add except my predicted severe hangover came on Saturday, not Monday, and was a nightmare; this was after a night out when I learned that an ex-archaeologist mate of mine once met Terence Mckenna, and on which I had to deploy a little combat logomancy to shut up some fool who was making absurd statements about poetry.

Yesterday I had rather an odd (but extremely enjoyable) experience involving my HGA, and was plunged into a strange hallucinatory dreamscape in which I remember seeing a very square, serious scientist telling a newsreader that, without a doubt, time ends in 2012. And there's nothing we can do about it.

Make of that what you will...
 
 
000
18:47 / 04.05.03
Tzaddi:

"I know this year we have Return of the King..."

Correction: Return of the Queen. Her name can also be a double M or W depending from which view you look at it - Get It?

They are doubting our capability to handle the next shift. Whenever portals are opened, they are closed immediately again. But someone has been telling them to go ahead, if not now, it will mean the road will be unnecessarily harsh for everyone of the good. Get it? There are some who are telling them to not doubt, because it is imperative.

Sorry to code my message to you, but for now it is necessary. PM me if you understand.
 
 
Vadrice
20:30 / 04.05.03
tra la... it's May!
The lusty month of MAY.

I'll be at the center of the Universe tomorrow.
Let you know if I see anything.

Anyone want to lend me a laptop with a wireless connection for the day?

~cute face of give me expensive things for poor reason~
 
 
--
02:38 / 05.05.03
I think by Return of the King he meant the next LOTR film...
 
 
the Fool
06:08 / 05.05.03
Return of the Queen. Her name can also be a double M or W

It's Miss Moneypenny!!! I knew it!!!!
 
 
000
14:41 / 05.05.03
Okay...

Before...

Later... Pt II.
 
 
Who's your Tzaddi?
18:08 / 05.05.03
≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞

Indeed.

I was referencing "LOTR3" - especially the irony of the "2 Towers"

On the other hand, ~BC~, I would like to hear more by way of PM, but yes, I am aware of the female aspect manifesting "The Final Heh of the IHVH" The Daughter of the Mighty ones. The Daughter who is ste upon her Mother's throne and awakens the King.The double M is correct: Crowley writes this code M++++M

Please do send more info, let's comapare NOTS

≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞≡∞
 
 
FinderWolf
18:25 / 05.05.03
So here it is - the fated day. I had some cool little things happen to me last night, but nothing too unusual today. What's happening with all you Lithers out there on this 5/5/03?
 
 
The Falcon
18:49 / 05.05.03
Fuck all.
 
 
penitentvandal
18:54 / 05.05.03
I think I stopped a hailstorm by screaming, which was quite good because I was out cycling and not kitted out for cold weather at the time.

Had quite an odd weekend in general, too. Did some mad-as-shit rituals, an extremely sexy invocation on saturday and a seriously bugfuck evocation yesterday. I was lying on my bed going off on one like Mr Six after the Harlequinade when I was done.

I like being written by Morrison.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
19:17 / 05.05.03
My day was written by Womans Weekly, I cleaned the sty a bit and did a lot of writing (for me). Pretty good really. No shit-trolls attacked me in any way or anything. I feel gypped!

Still, Chrome's warning was vague enough that something bad could still happen between now and the end of the universe, so he shouldn't feel too discouraged yet.
 
 
Seth
22:21 / 05.05.03
My day: dim sum for lunch (is my family discussing me in Cantonese paranoia), Mexican in the evening. Three episodes of DS9, soon to be four. Organising accommodation in Scotland, falling a little more in love with my wife with each passing hour. Giving NLP course details to my Pops. Chatting about X-Men 2 and Spirited Away with the whole fam. Nothing staggering in the news media. Steel guitar in my soul.
 
 
the Fool
22:43 / 05.05.03
On the other side of the world its tomorrow. May 5 was a normal work day with lots of work to do.

I made something pretty in the evening though. I'll post it later...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:47 / 05.05.03
I dunno... I've cheated Death twice in the last two days (really. He had his beady eyes on me). I feel lucky (and grateful to whatever saved me) but I'm not gonna tempt the fucker.
 
 
Olulabelle
23:36 / 05.05.03
Actually cheated Death? Congrats, you obviously did better than some of the Discworld characters...
 
 
gravitybitch
01:03 / 06.05.03
I dunno... I've cheated Death twice in the last two days (really. He had his beady eyes on me). I feel lucky (and grateful to whatever saved me) but I'm not gonna tempt the fucker.

{big toothy grin}

Well, I'm still looking at you kind of cross-eyed... better watch yourself, "freedom-fighter!"
{still grinning}
 
 
the Fool
03:15 / 06.05.03
last nights workings...

  
 
FinderWolf
19:08 / 06.05.03
That is beautiful, Fool. Is it a sigil you charged on the night of May 5?

Nothing much happened with my May 5 except I became increasingly annoying with these fruit flies/gnats that have started to buzz all over my kitchen, and I ended up in a psuedo-argument with my roomate about the best means to get rid of them. The main lesson for me last night was "chill out, relinquish attempts to control your environment and let chaos reign."
 
 
Who's your Tzaddi?
19:28 / 06.05.03
Her name can also be a double M or W depending from which view you look at it - Get It?

(smiles with evil glee...)



My 93rd post!
 
 
Salamander
20:07 / 06.05.03
I had to work a double overtime shift may 5, that sucked, does that count?
 
 
Quantum
15:01 / 07.05.03
I travelled, hung out with some friends, ate some philosopher's stone magic mushrooms, nothing bad happened except I got bitten by midges.
Maybe the big event was midge based? Is the insect intelligence trying to tell us something?
I did see rainbow sanskrit written in the sky, but I couldn't decipher it, and that usually happens on shrooms so I don't think it was a warning...
 
 
penitentvandal
17:37 / 07.05.03
I was thinking about insects this morning. There seem to be a lot of them in the adverts: Geordie ants in the sponsor bits on Celeb Survivor, Mexican insects in the new Pringles advert, and coming into school today I saw a stylized, cartoony kid/ant thing on an advert for the BBC Bytesize internet revision service. (hmm, kids wi' ant heeds - where have we seen that before?)

I'm also seeing a lot of flies & shit about, but - bear this in mind - it is the beginning of summer hence better weather for flies.

Saw a greenfly on the bus today, too. Greenflies are kind of a good luck insect for me.

So my answer to the 'is it the insect loa' question would have to be....(drum roll)......................

Maybe.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:30 / 07.05.03
I'll buy the insect loa theory! I seem to have decreased the gnats'/flies' presence in my apartment but there are still a few around. And when I swat them, they seem to have some red blood in them. Are they biting me while I sleep? I don't like to kill any kind of animals, but any insect that's out for my blood is fair game for me to kill in my book.

I've been thinking of trying to deal with this insect problem through magickal means. Magickal extermination? Or just magickally getting them to leave my space and be on good terms with 'em? What does this have to do with the May 5 shift, if anything? I really don't know... and like VV said, it is summer, hence more flies, bugs, mosquitos, etc.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:32 / 07.05.03
Come to think of it, they are filming SPIDER-MAN 2 in the building where I'm temping...and I've been thinking of maybe summoning some spiders to chow down on and drive away the gnats/fruit flies. Any connection? Who knows? This might be the first time in all my posts where I truly feel I'm contributing to the dreaded THREAD ROT....
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:48 / 07.05.03
I slept through the apocalypse again? Bollocks...

Somebody wake me up before November, y'hear?
 
 
penitentvandal
18:03 / 08.05.03
Let me quote from the sacred Booke of Summers...

Summers, 6.15 - 'Apocalypse: we've all been there/The same old trips - why should we care?'
 
 
osymandus
20:23 / 08.05.03
Dont worry it was just Asmodel getting up for a glass of water , shes gone back to bed now !
 
 
LVX23
05:41 / 09.05.03
It struck me that April 10th 1904 was probably a pretty average day for most folks, yet Crowley received the last of the Book of the Law on that day. Definite buterfly effect there for sure. Or how many were aware of the events in Nevada on July 16, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was detonated? Maybe every day the future of our planet is shaped by the minutest of incidents perhaps known to only a handful of individuals...

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One."

And as the black, then gray, atomic cloud pushed higher above Point Zero, another line--"I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds"--came to him from the same scripture.
 
 
Quantum
13:46 / 09.05.03
Good point- we'll have to wait and see, maybe only in hindsight will we discover what is happening now. Oppenheimer was Siva that day, maybe somebody is being Kali today. This is the age of Iron (attack on Iran imminent I suspect)
 
 
FinderWolf
16:27 / 09.05.03
I've felt a little negative/chaotic sort of vibe to my life since May 5, but I'm not sure if it's just the usual wave that comes and goes of stress/issues/challenges of life.
 
 
penitentvandal
18:46 / 10.05.03
My experiences so far this month have been generally positive, and even the negative ones have been interesting. There's been some weird, headfuck, confusing stuff, but so far the balance of things is turning out for the best. I've done some really cool spells, some ace invocations, my divinatory skill and general perception seem to have been enhanced, and I've learned some really mind-blowing stuff about myself and the reality I inhabit of late.

My shoelaces seem to be coming undone a lot more, tho'.
 
 
abscissa
21:23 / 12.05.03
gather the hints
prepare to know
learn by "sucking"
do not drown
 
 
Ganesh
21:37 / 12.05.03
That advice "sucks".
 
 
Who's your Tzaddi?
22:26 / 12.05.03
gather the hints
prepare to know
learn by "sucking"
do not drown

Sucks? On the contrary Elephant head. Learn by "sucking" (I think) refers to the idea of "Instinct" or "Blind Force" - much like an infant when you place something to it's lips.

Whoa.
 
  

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