November 2011
20 posts
# 295....Quincy Jones Everything Must Change →
1974 album Body Heat Vocals Benard Ighner
“# 293….He prays to the genius of the place and to Earth, the first gods,...”
– Virgil
# 292....Place As Strategic Asset
Today, with the manifestation of the world’s Global Positioning Satellites GPS, a major emphasis has been placed upon accurate measure of the Earth’s places. The coordinate system has been in place a solid 200 plus years and all is in order. Or is it?
Years ago, at the time of the Harmonic Convergence (1987), there was, in the air, a message, that reached my ear. It spoke of a great failing of...
“# 291…..Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the...”
– Erica Jong, U.S. writer, 1942 -
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/erica-jong-whos-nearly-70-would-like.html
# 290....Feeling For Place
Like Dorothy, there is an affinity we all sense for a particular place at a particular time. This affinity is qualitative and comes across as anecdotal in the sharing. How can we articulate our affinity for a specific place in ways that can be better appreciated and empowering for another person?
Perhaps this special affinity was by design. Maybe our ‘special’ appreciation and perception of...
“# 289….There Is No Place Like Home!”
– Wizard of Oz ~ 1900
# 288....Place
At the core of astrology is a ‘notion’ we English speakers call place, points measured within a fixed coordinate system that serves as a baseline; and against this coordinate system we track changes (the Sun and Moon’s passages through the system), which we experience as time.
Consciousness of place is instilled in every aspiring astrologer. We English speakers acknowledge place as...
# 279....NASA releases stunning images of Earth →
“From its orbit 460 kilometres (286 miles) above Earth the crew onboard the ISS turned on the cameras and recorded images as it raced above the planet, travelling at nearly 28,000 km (17,000 miles) per hour.”
