amber_lux's Journal: Skipping Time

Cloud Cover: 75%

Been neglecting my daily practice.

Still unemployed. Three interviews in three weeks. One call back from a company who had no idea what VOIP was. Job mandates a landline at home. That put an end to that job prospect.

Went to three street fairs/festivals, in the last three weeks. All were smaller than they were last year. All were much more "commercial" than in years past.

How "commercial"? Five years ago, the people running one of the events totally prohibited coke, pepsi, rc, etc. Sobe was the only soft drink allowed. This year, it was conspicious by its absence.

Whilst slightly more vendors were handing out free samples, nobody was giving away T Shirts this year. That did happen three or so years ago. Just before the dot com bust.

Kellogs was handing out free samples of a new breakfast cereal. Since I am on a medical diet that prohibits grains, I didn't try it out. The design on the front of the package implies strawberries are the major ingredient. Nice concept.

Another vendor was giving away samples of pomegranate juice. I have no idea who the vendor was. Their sample reminded me why I do not like processed juices. Juicing vegetables and fruit yourself makes a much better tasting beverage.

I was chided by my friends for eating so little. Some raw almonds, the freebie pomegranate juice, and two or three bananas during the afternoon, wandering through the fair. And some curly fries, which made me sick. [ Potatoes are prohibited on my diet. I had forgotten that, when I bought the fries.]

At one of the fairs, the only food that vendors had, that was acceptable for the diet I am on, was roasted asparagus. That vendor did not go to the other fairs.

At the fair I went to yesterday, I made a special effort to find something that I could eat. Skipping meat products --- I am a vegetarian -- left me with choices of roasted corn, which is a no no on the diet, curly fries, which is another no no, strawberry shortcake, which contains a plethora of items that are a no no, and candy floss, which is a distinct no no.

I'll go to the street fair during the summer solstice, and see if the food selection is any better.

There was a solar eclipse of the sun on 30 May. Which I slept through. I meant to watch it through one of the live cams.

It shouldn't have affected me, as I am far from the path of the eclipse. I have been somewhat more restless the last couple of days. Not sure whether or not that is due to the eclipse, or other factors.

I got an email today, stating that the moon had been sighted at 19.46H local time, in Tekoa . Which means that I have one reliable source for the start of a new lunar month. [ Last month they sent an email on the Sabbath, stating that the moon had not been sighted.]

It would have been more useful, had the Islamic list I am on, also sent an email stating either that the moon had, or had not been sighted. The solar eclipse does not count, in a new moon sighting.

The solstice is in three weeks. The middle of the season of growth. If I am working, I will make, a dedicate a new Oktogrammaton Board then.

An interesting thing about the YiJing and Tarot, is how differently they treat time. The YiJing has time either as a wheel, or a spiral. The Tarot has time as linear.

Despite their being more cards in a Tarot deck, than Gua in the YiJing, I see more granularity in the YiJing. Probably because I have spent much longer playing with the YiJing.

Neither system has anything like the Seth/Jane Robert's axiom: All Time is simultaneous.

Seth / Jane Roberts have an interesting spin on Reality. An individual constantly re-creates their own reality. I have come to the conclusion that that is correct. When I was last unemployed, I was hired, once I decided upon the company that I would work for. Two weeks later, I was attending their training session. The first one that they had had in two or three months, and two or so months before they planned to do so. This period of unemployment, all I have been able to come up with, is companies I do not want to work for, and positions that I do not want, on various grounds.

I will start doing Tarot Readings, and/or YiJing Consultations, to make ends meet.

Wind under Thy Wings

Amber