Friday, January 15, 2010

Forecast and Faery Finder for 01/15/10

01-16-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit


According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is blue and the incense is patchouli. Today is the first quarter waxing moon in Aquarius and Apprentices’ Day.

FORECASTS:

Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.

Today’s Tarot Card is the Page of Cups: reduction. To reduce inner conflict you have to be rational about things.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
Your inner power is great. Tap into it and make a difference today.”

Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Catalyst: “The time is right. Start something new today.”

Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Epona’s Wild Daughter, Dorcha, is about and that is not a nice thing. In darkest part of the night, she brings our inner shadows to the surface and create nightmares that can bring depression and madness if we don’t find our way out of them and grow.

Today’s Lo Shu Number is 3 and the Element is Fire. The monkey finds conflict today but the Rat has ease. Today is an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, signing contracts and births but not for starting construction.

Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I let go of my concern about the future or regret about the past. I live every moment in the here and now. My mind opens up to a wonderful flow of creativity and every second of my life becomes new and exciting. This way I find joy, peace and freedom.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.

COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER

Someone just asked on a Yahoo Group, why can’t we just drop food and water and blanket a country with it after these disasters. There is absolutely no reason. People will get out of the way of falling food. People will find fallen food when they are starving. You don’t need to be precise. We drop whole tanks out of aircraft and land them with precision. We can drop a pallet of water and food. So why is everything stuck at the airport and the port waiting to coordinate dispersion? Gee, could it be to see how much we can reduce the right population while they wait for a truck to show up? You really have to be careful to send those trucks out to the “right” areas where your loyal supporters live. I wonder could it also be so the governments can set up sales, oops, I mean dispersion points? One thing I noticed in disasters in this country and state, you get help faster if you are in upscale, donating to a candidate neighborhoods. I think they figured that out in New Orleans, too. If you are a oldster in a trailer park in central Florida, well, do have your will laminated…it may be months before they get to your body.
Yes, they dug us out within a day after Wilma. Then again, the macho park department guys really wanted something to use their shiny new front loaders on and the local government knows that left to our own devices in this neighborhood, we will probably figure out how to blow something up. Actually some of my neighbors will do it fun. Digging us out is always a really good plan before we start taking things into our own hands and get really upset about having to do that. Most of us are armed. Heck, probably all of us are armed. J We have our own local gator and he doesn’t follow sports. This is why we have no ducks and no one is revealing where he lives. ;)
Boogaboo’s hormones washed out today and I had a twenty minute love-a-thon. He can really purr. I know my vet has a new assistant. Normally my males arrive home shaved. Boogaboo has a neat little circle shaved where his incisions are. It looks like a crop circle in a black wheat field. Okay, men, you can let go of your crotch now. Animals really have it on us. An incision that large would require stitches on us. He is completely healed today. Wow! I still have the tape on my incisions from the 1st week in November. I am also not touching them. They still hurt. He is sitting, licking, running and jumping. Generally, he back to being Boogaboo. Napoleon’s nose is still out of joint.
Did you see the original movie about the PODS? The original was much better. I found George heating the cat food cans on the space heater last night. He claimed the food comes out easier. I think the cats have replaced him with a cat slave pod person. I mean, we never really saw the aliens in that movie. How do we know they weren’t cats?
Frequently people think I am paranoid. I don’t think I am paranoid enough. When this digital TV thing started, I said it was nothing more than a ploy by the cable and satellite companies to make us pay for TV. People laughed. Then the newspapers went broke. Well, there is now a move afoot to totally eliminate free local antennae TV. Do you still think I am paranoid? Gee, that sure will make it easy to control the flow of information….
We were missed by a piece of junk by 80,000 miles. It was at least 30 feet in size. No one has seen anything wrong with this picture but then again Jersey Shores is still on TV. Watching a bunch of future alcoholics trying to get laid to produce another generation of brain damaged voters doesn’t bode well for the country‘s collective IQ. Now, let me make a few suggestions about what is wrong with the piece of space junk. Thirty feet is about 3 van witches, my commercial Ford van. That is bigger than most entire communications satellites. We put space junk, which is new junk at the time, into orbit. The orbit gradually decays and it burns up, we hope, on the way to the surface of the planet. Unless NW Airlines was putting this thing into orbit, how did it get 80,000 miles away flying through the solar system? Whose space junk is this? As far as I know, no one on this planet has the capability to put something that big and heavy beyond the gravitational field of this planet wandering through space. As far as I know, no one down here is missing anything that big and far out. Where did it come from??? This is why you really need to stop worrying about who is going to replace Simon WTF as a judge and start worrying about who is running the country and maybe NASA.
Second happening and I have deliberately waited months on telling you this because I don’t want the person who accidentally let it slip, to get caught. Some of us have been saying the vapor trails are making us sick. If I go out, my sinuses act up, I get nauseous and a headache, all I have to do is look up to find the reason. I can be feeling perfectly good, get sick, look up and there is one starting. I have spent my life around airports and military aircraft. My father was even hired once to try and figure out how to eliminate the vapor trail on military jets. You really don’t want the enemy seeing where you came from and where you are going with a big old white line across the sky. It makes you a really big target. Vapor trails evaporate within 5 seconds but these sure don’t. Well, a certain weatherman was pointing out the skies were perfectly clear with not a single cloud anywhere. The problem was the white stripes across the Florida map and he realized what he said must really sound stupid in light of that fact. So, he quickly said..”Oh, those aren’t clouds. The military is conducting exercises and dropping “particles” that react with the radar. Yes they were, in those perfectly straight grid lines we have all come to know and love as vapor trails now happily exhibited on a weather map on local antennae TV. Particles of what I wonder and even more, I wonder why. We spent billions developing stealth aircraft that radar doesn’t see. Heck, we depend more on satellite feed to track aircraft in military situations than radar. Why would we be messing with radar? It is so low tech yesterday. Perhaps messing with radar is just secondary to the real purpose as of yet: unknown. Meanwhile, I shall place some antacids and aspirin in the Vanwitch.

A Challenge

A Challenge

Yes, I am offering a challenge. Haiti is predominantly a Christian Country no matter what the Pat Robinsons of the world are trying to tell you.
Now, I want to see if all you sign waving screaming people at the abortion clinics can put your signs down and stop whining over a cluster of cells and get your little minds and wallets involved in helping the thousands of orphaned, living children in Haiti wandering the streets and laying in gutters with broken bones. They aren’t as lovable as cluster of cells, but they need the help more. They are here. They are living. They are hungry. They are hurt. They are crying.
I want to see if all you teaming masses of mercenaries, I mean Missionaries, can turn on your godless hierarchy, refuse the boxes of bibles and demand they send you to Haiti with medical supplies and food. Yes folks, the local Evangelics are planning a massive strike into Haiti for recruits. Saving souls is more important than saving lives. They are lighter, don’t complain and can’t be counted.
This is a chance, born of death, pain and suffering, to right a long time wrong. Now, let me tell you why I am offering this challenge and looking to see if one person has the guts to stand up to these leaders who are more interested in converts which equal more money and publicity than alleviating human suffering. Will you stand up to a government whose powerful are calculating how much the companies contributing to their campaigns can make off this tragedy? Do you know the credit card and bank executives getting those million dollar bonuses are making at least 3% off every donation you make to your charity? Yes, they get 3% in processing fees, more in many cases because charities are considered risky businesses and pay more for processing. That includes Paypal folks! I am a merchant. I know how much they take. Even your debit card costs to process, often way more than a credit card. Are you beginning to see why everything costs so much?
Wrap your head around this one. The Golden Globe awards give out goodie bags to celebs, who are already in the millionaire/billionaire category, attending the awards. They really need them. I just copied this off the Extra Web Site: the bag contains $15,000.00 worth of junk and a trip to Antigua. The estimated actual value is 35,000.00 according to another news service. They really need more jewelry, perfume and dust catchers. Turn the plane ticket in and trade it for a ticket for a doctor to get to Haiti. Buy some food and water with the $15,000.00 dollars. Are you not embarrassed to even touch that bag?
My father, standing in a town where the primary business was the manufacture and sale of children’s coffins, was trying to explain he really couldn’t do anything for the line of children with bellies so bloated with tape worms they wouldn’t make it to the next month, as he pried open a crate of what was thought to be food trucked in from an American church, only to find it stuffed full of bibles, each with a heart felt message inscribed from the donor who paid around twenty five dollars (make that at least 150 in today’s economy) for a 3.00 bible delivered by the relative of minister in the USA at a hefty profit to a town of starving people, all written in English. The bad news is the only person in the town who spoke English was my father and he was no Christian. Those bibles made nice fuel for fires when they found something to cook. They thought he could cure those children because he was an American and we are after all: gods. Did you see those poor Haitians looking at the reporter saying, “America help us.” They actually think we can.
Shift to another country, running security at an airport without all those modern conveniences like X-rays, when he noticed the missionaries’ suitcase weighed 50 pounds which is awful heavy for clothes. At that point, the nuns leaving were also stopped and everyone had their suitcases opened. The only clothes in those suitcases were being used to wrap the gold artifacts being smuggled out. You should have heard the American consulate screaming it was against the rules to search the luggage of Religious Missionaries, Pastors and Catholic Church officers. I can’t print the answer they got but it did involve the word god several times and some impossible references about where to put the complaint.
Switch the scene to me laying on the ground after a bullet missed my head by one inch and two more hit around me. A little note, if you are going to be a sniper, never fire three times. You will be located in minutes. We pulled him out of the bell tower of the Catholic church nicely armed with an American made sniper rifle. Nice work shooting 7 year old children, if you can get it. Next time, aim for one that isn’t psychic and really fast on her feet. Of course, he isn’t around. It’s not nice or very smart to piss off a father who carries a gun. Sorry about the priests, but it was hard to believe he concealed a rifle in a pair of pants and a shirt. Stick to the immaculate conception story next time. It is easier to believe.
Try rolling into town and being invited to dinner by the grossly overweight town priest and his nemesis the Baptist minister at the other end of the block. Take a look at three kinds of meat, bowls of fresh vegetables and lavish deserts being laid out for you when you just saw people barely surviving, children bloated with hunger and old people dying because they simply were no longer useful. Seems in lieu of being able to donate money, everyone in town delivered what ever food they could to the local church so their souls could be saved. Well, at least the two maids and the cook were eating well there. By the way, they quickly decided they would rather have their bodies saved and hungry people can get real mean.
Try living in a world when you keep a pillow beside your bed at night so when they start shooting you can just roll off the bed and go back to sleep. Shock: a lot of people still do live in that world and they don’t have the luxury of a pillow and a concrete block wall to stop the bullets. How about a world where anyone wearing a uniform is probably the enemy? How about a world where you can be dragged out of your home in the middle of the night and if you are lucky, shot in the head in the street. If you aren’t, you have several hours or days of torture until you die. You learn to sleep with a gun under your pillow with your hand on it real fast, oh and by the way, it is really lumpy.
Imagine being burned in every place on your body with a red hot poker until no one can even place a straight pin on your body without touching a burn. The man’s brother was suspected of being a member of the resistance since he had disappeared. Unfortunately, the American supported military had forgotten they drug him out of the house and shot him two weeks earlier. You can blame it on bad book keeping.
Imagine having the chief of police tell you to close your eyes and hold out your hands, he was a surprise for you. The surprise is your husband’s eyeballs and he was alive when they removed them. Let’s see you calm that woman down with Reiki.
Welcome to the world I grew up in. I hope you never have to visit it. But I fear, your innocence is now gone. Mine left me before I was six years old so celebrate the years you had it. The world is now on your doorstep and it will probably kick the door down instead of knocking. These are not isolated incidents of my youth, they happen every day in this world, today, NOW. This is millions of people’s reality on a daily basis. They will wake up to it tomorrow. Now do you understand me a little better? This was my world for a long time and no, I am not going back. I did my best. The same people or their clones are still in power, still being supported by us, their governments propped up by us. Nothing has changed. Maybe you can do better.
Now, let me give you some practical suggestions and maybe someone is listening. Canada is sending a team to assess the damage. According to Obama, we need a coordinated effort with the Haitian government. WAKE UP! Coordinated effort means how much can the police and the military sell these supplies for. They need guards to venture out of the airport. Who has the guns? Let me give you a hint and maybe you can apply some of your American Idol brain cells to it. It will not be the people in the streets. So who are the relief workers afraid of? Gee, do you think that might have something to do with how many people risk their lives to get here every week? Wonder who they are afraid of…..Same people???
We drop entire tanks by parachute to exact targets with no problem at all. Do you have any idea how many tons a tank weighs and how big it is? Is there any reason we can’t drop food and water the same way right after one of these disasters? Heck, Costco already has it nicely wrapped on pallets. Go buy a few. The military has warehouses full of parachutes they sell yearly as surplus. Blanket the area with food and water. So what if a few bottles break. No one on the ground is going to complain or sue you. I can buy gigantic generators, ready for transport right now for pennies on the dollar off the military web page. Buy a couple and drop them. Who cares where they land. Trust me, people will get to them. Do you have any idea how much surplus is going to the dump right now that could be used? Full meals, water, medical supplies are just sitting there. They may be out of date, but believe me, those meals look like ambrosia when you are starving and you really can’t get that much sicker. You are dying anyway. They are willing to take a chance on out of date meals.
After the quakes in Brazil, we developed a system for delivering food. You could not land because the people were so hungry they would tear the plane apart trying to get to the food. So, we used old prop planes like C46’s and Conairs, outfitted them with extra fuel tanks so they would not have to land in the affected area. Then we installed harnesses in the cargo area to attach the men to so they couldn’t fall out of the plane. We opened the doors and did what is called a touch and go. You come in for a landing, touch down and take off without actually landing. The plane is moving relatively slow for the middle part. We opened the cargo doors and just shoved the food on pallets out the door. Stuff broke and people were eating the food off the tarmac and scooping it up in their hands and running. By the time the plane circled for the second touch and go, the run way was clean. It took two touch and goes to empty the plane and fly off. This worked well in areas where the landing strips were damaged or too short. We didn’t even use parachutes. The governments were livid and even threatened to shoot the planes down. They did shoot at the planes coming in for a landing but those guys are really bad shots. They never hit anything vital. They were also shooting at the people trying to grab the food as the soldiers came out in jeeps to grab the food to sell it in town. Welcome to Brazil. Such a lovely country. Those pilots knew how to fly under radar back then so we laughed. Hey, we used to dump guns, ammo and explosives using the same techniques and they never got us. Some of those pilots still have licenses or at least, they can still fly. Simply blanket the country with food and water in such a way there is too much for any single force to grab. Yup, the soldiers got some of the food, but the people got more. Trust me, it would be cheaper to send every man, woman and child a check for a 100.00, more than they see in a year, than to send in the military with one missile. Give everyone guns. That will be real surprise for the local warlord next time he rolls into the village. Just give women the right to inherit property and a gun while explaining how easily they go off when you are cleaning them. No foul if you accidentally shoot your husband. The Taliban will be history in a week. Every species knows the female is more deadly than the male and she will protect her young. Yes, that is playing dirty and that people is how you win. Feed, arm, educate and level the playing field. The third world will be a democratic, prosperous area in a few years. But, we don’t want to win this war, do we? Where would we get cheap junk to buy at the dollar store so we can fill the landfill up with it and make huge profits for the Wartmarts of this country? It might infringe on your next episode of Jersey Shores or WTF it is called. I know, it is way too much of a sacrifice. Watching future alcoholics trolling for sex and fighting is way more fun than watching people starve. After all, they will be producing our next generation of brain damaged voters so let’s vote them on the Island.
If you figure out how and why you are being manipulated by these shows don’t bother emailing me because I will probably have died of old age by then.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Forecast and Faery Finder for 01/15/10


01-15-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit


According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is rose and the incense is vanilla. Today is the New Moon and the actual birthday of Martin Luther King, not the fake holiday one.

Today is the solar eclipse. If you want to know if it is visible and how visible where you are there is an excellent animation at this website:
http://shadowandsubstance.com/


FORECASTS:

Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.

Today’s Tarot Card is the Ten of Cups: accomplishment. Right at the moment of success, we often find ourselves bereft and alone. You may have to eat crow but it is time to return to the people you have stepped on, forgotten and hurt because only those relationships can fill the void you now feel. New relationships will be built on a shifting foundation until you fix the old ones.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It will hard to honor your true feelings about things as you apt to just try to keep the peace.

Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
The Cat’s Out of the Bag: “Oops! Quick thinking needed.”

Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Old G. Hobyah, the Hobgoblin is around today, blowing our fears out of proportion and generally giving us ulcers. Sit down and look at things rationally.

Today’s Lo Shu Number is TWO and the Element is Wood. The Sheep finds conflict today but the Monkey has ease. Today is not an auspicious day for haircuts, medical procedures, signing contracts, gambling, starting construction or births.

Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I let go of all my preconceived ideas. I look at life and people around me in a new, open and accepting way. I am being divinely guided in a spirit of harmony and good judgment.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.

COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER

How on earth anyone on this planet can look at the pictures coming out of Haiti and make these statements I simply cannot conceive?
http://www.newser.com/story/78228/rush-limbaugh-dont-donate-to-haiti-victims.html
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/note.php?note_id=251090058871&id=47380727943&ref=mf

Rev. Pat Robinson blames the earthquake in Haiti on the Haitians making a pact with the Devil to free themselves from the French. Old Rush, the drug addict, Limbaugh tells his followers not to donate to Haitian relief efforts. Now, not being a Christian I cannot in good conscience request these two things stop referring to themselves as a member of my religion, however as a human being I think I can speak for a lot of people in asking them to please excuse themselves from membership in any organic species on the planet. Gentlemen, you definitely are not human beings or any animal species I am familiar with. What you are, I do not know, but next time I run into Hitler, I’ll ask his species.
The frightening news today is about the cause of the earthquake. Scientists have been warning that this was overdue to happen. It is due to the movement of plates that encircle the west side (Pacific) of Guatemala down to Costa Rica where it crosses the isthmus into the Caribbean, follows the coast two thirds of the way down Venezuela, circles the Windward islands around to the north side of the Dominican Republic/Haiti and crosses the straight between them and Cuba on the south side, cutting through the Cayman Islands and cutting back through at Belize. The shelf edge that has been moving is right at Port-au-Prince, the epicenter of the quake. Now, take a look at the Pacific side of this fault and the Ring of Fire in the Pacific and you will figure out real fast why you should be concerned if you are on the west coast.
Geologists have been sounding the alarm for quite some time in the Caribbean and no one was listening.
Anyone on the West Coast want to play attention? Few buildings, no matter how good your building codes, survive a 7+ quake. The estimated death toll in San Francisco, should it be hit with one like this, is in the thousands and at least 150,000 buildings would be uninhabitable…which is geospeak for flattened. Then again, the super volcano under Yellowstone could erupt and get all of you except me cause I am in one of the few safe zones. My momma didn’t raise dumb kids. I am here for a reason. Hurricanes I can deal with easily. However, when the ground moves or molten rock heads my way………
Mr. B looked at his sister, little Fiona the sexy, and seemed to have a really puzzled look on his face. It was as though he was sure there was something he was supposed to do, wanted to do, but couldn’t remember. I told him that the good drugs at the vet cause memory loss and it has nothing to do with the fact he can’t sit today. Meanwhile, Boogaboo wants to know when his Facebook page will be up because he has fans. He is not content to share mine. Napoleon suggested a way to make money when George is laid off is to rent his sister, Purdy von Sweets, out as a mouser and sell Boogaboo. Well, that was scenario number one, but I can pretty much guarantee every scenario ended with selling Boogaboo. How dare he take Napoleon’s spotlight at the vet’s office! Poor Boogaboo really doesn’t care because he still can’t sit comfortably. Let’s just say he was really well endowed which makes for a larger incision and more pain.
The plants are outside getting solar powered, the temperature is a balmy 66 and this weekend we may even hit 80, a temperature I never thought I would be glad see. The interesting news is I found a lizard egg in the living room and transported it outside with the plants, so one lizard was kept warm. My Datura bloomed today so it survived the freeze in tact and healthy! I have a picture for those of you on networks with that capacity.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Forecast and Faery Finder for 01/14/09

01-14-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit


According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is green and the incense is clove. Today is the fourth quarter waning moon in Capricorn and the French Feast of the Ass. I am not touching that one with a 50 foot pole!



FORECASTS:

Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.

Today’s Tarot Card is the Sun: organization. This card indicates it is time to thoroughly reorganize your goals. Eliminate negativity and focus on your goal. There is no time to lose.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
Rise above your problems. Some times you not only have to think out of the box but get out of the box and take a really good look at where you are.

Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Aristocat: “Classy and understated, you’ll attract many admirers.”

Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
Death makes another appearance today reminding us that some things are ending so new things can begin.

Today’s Lo Shu Number is 1 and the Element is Wood. The horse finds conflict today but the Rabbit has ease. Well, this rabbit is on her way to an ulcer. Today is an auspicious day for haircuts but not for signing contracts or births. Increase your wealth by displaying a Flaming Magic Wheel in the South. You may need it to keep warm, anyway.

Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I let go of my past and the part of others.
I forgive totally and unconditionally.
I stop all the dramas now and fill my life with playfulness, humor and joy, whatever the circumstances.
I celebrate life.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.

COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER

If you are able, donate what you can to help Haiti. It is a shame a country that improvised is hit by something like this.
The boys are home from their snip and tuck. Boogaboo charmed every female in the office and has new fan club members. He is going to give Napoleon a run for his money. They are recovering and playing the suffering card to the hilt. After all these years, they should know Mommy is not falling for that. However, they know they can hit George up. The girls have their appointments scheduled the first week in February when their human also has all her checkups for skin cancer scheduled. We can commiserate.
Life is not as bad for us as it is for the 90 of the remaining 150 workers in Boca where George works. However, everyone was told the facility will close in December. Some people will get the chance to relocate to TX and the rest will just be laid off in trickles over the next few months. George has been with them for 30 years. Of course, if you relocate to TX there is no guarantee you will have a job there in 6 months either. To say we are up in the air and circling the toilet is an understatement. George qualifies for Medicare the end of August but I am still way too young and have over 6 years to go. It has not been a good year and I am not out of the woods with the skin cancer yet. I don’t think I have to say I am a little down tonight. I think the new corporate motto is: work hard, be loyal and we will screw you eventually.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Forecast and Faery Finder for 01/13/10

01-13-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
Plant information
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit


According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is brown and the incense is Bay Laurel. Today is the fourth quarter waning Moon in Capricorn and the Norwegian Twentieth Day.

FORECASTS:

Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.

Today’s Tarot Card is Death: transformation. This card seldom signifies physical death unless the other cards around it show illness or accident. However, even physical death is just a transformation. Something ends and out of its ashes comes something new.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
Today is too busy to take the time to look inside yourself but maybe that is exactly what you should do so you can figure out how you got so over extended. Hey, there is the line at store, the line at the red light and always the bathroom break for this introspection. There is time.

Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Fat Cat: “Be generous; share your abundance with others.”

Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
G. Hobyah is scurrying around. He is a hobgoblin. He is the thing under the bed and in the closet. He is the shadow that scares you and the branch scraping the side of the house. He is all your fears. He is also a really little fellow, just like all your fears really are. Turn on the light, put some cookies out and invite him to sit beside the fire with you and talk things over.

Today’s Lo Shu Number is 6 and the Element is Water. The Snake finds conflict today but the Rooster has ease. Today is an auspicious day for starting construction and births.


Today’s Message from the Universe is: “Humility is now in my heart, opening the door to wisdom, true power and peace.
I now allow the love, peace and simplicity of my Soul to shine through.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.


COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER

If you have suffered plant damage from the week of freezing temperatures, do not cut your plants back unless you are dealing with orchids. Because they are highly susceptible to fungus infection, you need to get the mushy black areas off quickly, disinfect and keep them warm and semidry. Other plants actually cut off the hurt areas themselves and you have no idea what is still living and what is dead by looking, yet. Leaves will fall of their accord and you can easily rake them up. Branches may sprout new growth as soon as it gets warm. Now, if they sprout new growth and we have another of these freeze spells, they will be goners for the most part, so plan on how you are going to cover and protect them now. You can always replace all your sheets during the January white sales and have plenty of plant covers. Remember, the coldest month tends to be February! Put simply, what you think is dead may be living and what you think is living may yet die so there is no point in going on a pruning frenzy until you know in a couple of weeks what you are dealing with. Cutting back too soon can cause the plant to send out premature growth which may kill them. For bulb and tuber plants, they will come up again. Try to keep them drier than normal for a couple of weeks until you are sure the weather is going to stay warm. As soon as they get warm and wet, they are going to try to sprout and that can be a death sentence if another cold spell hits too soon and it wouldn’t have to be a freeze. Elephant ears are cold hardy. Caladiums are not cold hardy. That is why they dig them up every year in zones 8 and 9. Down here, we don’t have to worry. The iguanas already ate them all.
I am totally thankful for the wooden fence totally around my house and the huge trees. I suffered no damage at all. My Datura will even be blooming in a couple of days. She didn’t even loose her bud, but I did have her covered. Tomorrow I will be outside, after taking the boys to their vet appointment, working in my yard to get the container garden ready. Guess I need to pick up some concrete stones on the way back to sit the boxes on. The veggies are ready to be put outside in their bigger boxes so they can begin growing again.
I always get the boneless pork loins when they come on sale at Costco. They are tricky to cook and one mistake and they are dry and cat food. Tonight I sliced them into ¼ inch strips and soaked them in barbecue sauce for an hour. Then I cooked them in a pot, covered, for 1.5 hours in enough barbecue sauce to cover and to say they are delicious is an understatement. Paired with some cinnamon apples and raw tomato, they made a wonderful dinner. They are tender! Anyway, George is taking the rest of the pot for lunch tomorrow. I have learned the secret to tough meat is to cut it into strips, marinade and cook slowly in a covered pan. Most anything becomes edible after that treatment. The cats are not happy.
Yes, tomorrow Boogaboo and Mr. B will get their operations. They had their last meal of the day and George will bring the carrier home later tonight. They know something is up. The last week I have started calling the Horndog One and Horndog Two. Boogaboo got the number one distinction. That tiny little Fiona came into season and their teenage hormones kicked into high gear. She is no bigger than a three month old cat. She and Flame are next on the vet list though I have no idea how he is going to spay this tiny little kitty who is laying in my lap purring. She is SOOOOOO cute! Okay, enough cat bragging for one night.
Every time I succeed in spilling cat food juice all over my hands, the phone rings, the computer beeps and my personal favorite, I absolutely must run to the bathroom right NOW. Never does this event occur when there is plenty of time to wash my hands.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Forecast and Faery Finder for 01/12/10

01-12-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit

Still in frost and freeze warning. It is supposed to end tomorrow night in the 40’s.


According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is black and the incense is geranium. Today is the fourth quarter waning Moon in Sagittarius and Revolution Day in Tanzania.

FORECASTS:

Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.

Today’s Tarot Card is the Eight of Swords: curtailment. When everything you planned seems to be going down the tubes it is time to consider that your original assessment of the situation may have been very wrong. Take a second look.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
It is kind of hard to see the magic of nature today but there is magic even in ice.

Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Cat’s Eye: “Open that inner eye. You’ll see what’s really happening.”

Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Journeyman arrives today to remind us that sometimes the beginning of our journey is a leap of faith even thought we have prepared for it all our lives.

Today’s Lo Shu Number is 5 and the Element is Water. The Dragon finds conflict today but the Ox and Tiger have ease. Today is not an auspicious day for haircuts, doctor’s visits, signing contracts, gambling, starting construction or births.

Today’s Message from the Universe is: “I have nothing to fear. Divine Love and Wisdom are now in action and produce wonderful results.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.


COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER

I swear I cannot think straight in this cold. My brain has froze. I am using the laptop for heat. The cats are very cuddly and not moving very much once they establish a little ball and get their tail over their nose. Life is quiet. Tomorrow will be better. I didn’t get much sleep last night and I am over tired today. The earthquakes have been bothering my legs at night.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Forecast for 011110


01-11-10
Forecast and Faery Finder
By Janice Scott-Reeder and the Bitwit

It’s 43 degrees. There was frost in Columbia ruining most of the rose crop so expect a shortage of roses for Valentine‘s Day. The country that is. Will this never end????

According to Llewellyn’s Magical Almanac, today’s color is ivory and the incense is sage. Today is the fourth quarter waning Moon in Sagittarius. Today is the Roman Carmentalia.


FORECASTS:

Deck: Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea.

Today’s Tarot Card is the Three of Swords: desolation. Feeling totally abandoned today is an excellent time to seek out those areas of your life that just aren’t working any more and come up with a plan.

Deck: Healing with the Fairies.
The Faeries say:
You are not going to feel much like moving today but if you don’t, you will stiffen up.

Today’s Cat Comfort Card is:
Cat’s Twenty Two: “Feeling trapped? Think laterally and the answer will come.”

Deck: The Fairies’ Oracle by Brian Froud & Jessica MacBeth
Today’s Faery Finder is on the lookout for:
The Oak Men are not exactly about today because as dryads, they are rooted to their trees. They live in the darkest, deepest part of the oldest forests both botanical and of our minds. At first, they are pretty scary, but they are also very wise. If you approach them with the proper reverence, they will tell you how to escape the woods you have wandered into, literally and mentally figuratively.

Today’s Lo Shu Number is 4 and the Element is Metal. The Rabbit finds conflict today but the Horse has ease. There are no correspondences for today.

Today’s Message from the Universe is: “If I persevere and keep faith in my ultimate success, no power on earth can prevent it. Go protects and supports me in all my endeavors.” Annie Marquier creating a world of peace one thought at a time.


COMMENTARIES BY JANICE SCOTT-REEDER

It is true, there is nothing worse or more pitiful than a Floridian suddenly exposed to long term cold weather when they are not paying enormous amounts of money to do so. I have decided I never want to see the seasons change. I never want to see the snow fall. You can keep all your white holidays, except the yearly January White Sale. The cats and I are tropical babies.
I know everyone thinks they have the smartest, cutest, most wonderful cat in the Universe and you do. However, Napoleon is exceptional. He shows forethought, planning and downright Machiavellian tendencies. George tends to stick his head in the door and tell me the coffee is ready in the morning. Naturally, a gaggle of cats knocks him four ways for Sunday and lands in bed with me where Napoleon has been napping all night, snuggly and warm on my, er his, foam bed topper. Immediately he jumps up and runs to the highest point in the room and begins to croon to them until they are all jumping and running and kicking the crappola out of me and I have to slowly make my way to the door to get them out. He will have them all gathered at the door, feet moving in place on tender hooks, awaiting the opportunity to spill into the rest of the house with him as leader. I open the door, he jumps sideways, they all exit and he runs back, jumps on the stand and takes a bath while I limp back to bed awaiting the aspirin to take effect on my joints. While that is percolating through my system, he crawls back into bed with me for another 18 hour nap. We don’t call him Nappie for nothing. The other cats have another name for him.
I started Jayne Ann Krentz’s new Arcane Society Dreamlight Trilogy, “Fired Up” last night and I am hooked by chapter two. If you are psychic or interested in psychics, you have to read the Arcane Society novels. I am really thrilled this one will end in the future on a planet I have come to love and anticipate each novel from: Harmony. I love the fuzz balls and can’t wait until we learn what they really are.
Anyone, besides me, notice today’s date looks like machine language code? 011110 Wonder what it means? Wonder if it could really mess up a program?