quarta-feira, janeiro 26, 2011

John Denver

You fill up my senses...



You fill up my senses
like a night in the forest
like the mountains in springtime,
like a walk in the rain
like a storm in the desert,
like a sleepy blue ocean
you fill up my senses,
come fill me again.

Come let me love you,
let me give my life to you
let me drown in your laughter,
let me die in your arms
let me lay down beside you,
let me always be with you
come let me love you,
come love me again.

(instrumental)



You fill up my senses
like a night in the forest
like the mountains in springtime,
like a walk in the rain
like a storm in the desert,
like a sleepy blue ocean
you fill up my senses,
come fill me again.

Versão instrumental, linda:

segunda-feira, janeiro 24, 2011

Artigos sobre Escrita (en)

(DEAN KOONTZ Answers Your Questions)
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977035786

"I don't do a written draft. I work only on the computer and I do one page at a time. I work on a page 20, 30, 40 drafts, whatever it takes, before I move on to the next page. That way I feel that I've done as much as I can on that page and have left nothing to correct later. So that when I get a draft done, it has had so much reworking during the course of it that I don't need to go back and revisit things. I do this because I operate with a lot of self doubt and my way of handling the self doubt is to rework a page until I've got it as smooth as I can get it and then to move on."
(Tenho de experimentar este método um dia.)

"I don't use outlines at all. I stopped using outlines with a book called Strangers many years ago. Interestingly, that was my first hard cover best seller. I operate only with a hook, an idea, a premise. Call it what you will. And from that point, the story begins and I don't have much of an idea of where it is going. Crucial to me isn't the plot. Crucial to me are the characters and if the characters interest me in the first couple of chapters, then the plot is going to take care of itself because the characters will drive it places I never saw it coming."

"And in truth, when you give yourself over to whatever talent you have, and you let it work, and you give your characters free will, it does become as if they are independent people from you. Something magical occurs and you are along for the ride."

"So I just trust them. I trust the characters and that's where the plot comes from."

(Parte II):
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977036750


How-To:
http://www.margielawson.com/index.php/margies-blog/84-elizabeth-lyon

(How to Make Your Novel a Page Turner)
http://writersdigest.com/article/how-to-make-your-novel-a-page-turner/

(Top Ten Things I Know About Rewriting)
http://www.murderati.com/blog/2010/4/10/top-ten-things-i-know-about-rewriting.html

(The Greatest Strength of a Writer: Willpower)
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/04/greatest-strength-of-writer-willpower.html

(Three things every writer should know)
http://magicalwords.net/lucienne-diver/three-things-every-writer-should-know-to-maintain-what’s-left-of-their-sanity/#comments

terça-feira, janeiro 18, 2011

Engravidada por um homem morto

Isto é esquisito demais!

[Edit: parece que a história é no gozo, não é real. Bolas, que pena.] 


"A 38 year old female mortuary worker is being held on $250,000 bond after becoming pregnant by one of her clients-a dead man. The alleged crime took place at the Mourning Glory Mortuary just outside of Lexington, Missouri. Police have charged Felicity Marmaduke with desecration of the dead and necrophilia.

According to a statement made to police by Marmaduke, the alleged victim experienced a post mortem erection while being bathed. Being alone, Marmaduke straddled the dead man and proceeded have sex with him. Much to her surprise, the alleged victim came to orgasm after several minutes. A few weeks later, Marmaduke had a positive pregnancy test while receiving a routine medical exam. Upon telling her doctor the circumstances leading to the conception, the police were notified. Marmaduke was arrested without incident at her dilapidated trailer home a few blocks from the mortuary.

In a bizarre twist, Marmaduke plans to sue the dead man’s estate for child support."

Link: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/67tPBZ/www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=524

domingo, janeiro 16, 2011

Astrologia

Comentário que coloquei no Blog Cova do Urso, em resposta a este post.

Estes astrónomos dão-me uma raiva às vezes. Cientistas a sério passam a ser pseudo-cientistas (na minha perspectiva) quando não tratam a astrologia com o mesmo método com que supostamente tratam "assuntos sérios". É difícil por vezes ficar de boca calada e não lhes chamar idiotas, mas sei que ignorá-los é o melhor caminho. Os cães ladram e a caravana passa.
O seu artigo explica muito bem toda esta "recente polémica".
Não sei quando é que a astrologia voltará a recuperar a reverência com que era encarada em outros tempos, tempos remotos e... "pouco civilizados"? Muita gente tem pela a astrologia o tipo de, humm, vá lá, afecto que se tem secretamente pela miúda (ou rapaz) feio da escola. Não sei se me faço entender. Desde que seja um segredo bem guardado, desde que os outros não lhe conheçam este Pecado - então está tudo bem. É quase (ou pior) semelhante a dizer que se acredita em Ovnis.

Pelo menos na sociedade ocidental somos apenas ridicularizados. Ou tratados como atrasados mentais. Noutras sociedades é proibido e há quem morra por isso (lembra-me o caso de um astrólogo que estava preso num país do médio-oriente, já não sei qual, e o Estado queria matá-lo. Por causa da astrologia. Não sei se morreu, se ainda está vivo).

Na verdade até prefiro que seja este o estatuto actual da arte, porque quando for começada a ser levada a sério... estamos tramados. Mil e uma regulamentações vão aparecer, aposto. E depois, adivinho, só a poderá praticar quem tiver uma Licença. Passada por uma Ordem Competente. Vai ser igual a ser médico e advogado. A longo prazo não penso que isso servirá a Astrologia. Logo se verá. Penso também que vai começar a haver profundas transformações nesta matéria quando Plutão entrar em Aquário (2024?).


O que eu gostava mesmo de saber (procurei e não encontrei), era a data de nascimento deste senhor, desta inteligentíssima e sapiente criatura.

On the “new” astrological sign: Ophiuchus

"Since astronomer Parke Kunkle dropped his little bombshell on NBC News this week that changes in the Earth’s alignment had created a 13th zodiac sign called Ophiuchus, I’ve been deluged with questions from perplexed folks. Has my sun sign really changed? What the heck is Ophiuchus, and how do you pronounce it anyway?

Ophiuchus (O-fee-uh-kus), the Serpent Holder, has been known to astrologers since ancient times. His toe touches the ecliptic (the path of the 12 major constellations) though the bulk of the Serpent Holder lies above the other constellations. If you were practicing sidereal astrology (as do the Vedic astrologers of India) in which the planets are located by constellation, it could conceivably make sense to include Ophiuchus.

But in Western astrology, we locate planets based on the seasons, not the constellations. About 4000 years ago, when on the first day of Spring the Sun was in the constellation of Aries, the two systems coincided. Now, because of precession (the slow wobble of the Earth on its axis), the Sun enters the Spring equinox in the sign of Aries but the constellation of Pisces. The systems are now approximately 23 degrees apart. Therefore, unless you were born very late in the sign, your Sun sign indeed shifts backwards in the sidereal system. A Virgo becoming a Leo? Unthinkable! Yet in the Vedic system, it makes sense."

Link: http://astroalchemy.com/blog.php

sexta-feira, janeiro 14, 2011

ASTROLOGIA KARMICA

Saturno en las Casas:

http://www.mtastrol.com/karmica/saencas.htm

Júpiter en Acuario

É o meu.

"En estos nativos se produce una exaltación de los valores humanistas y filantrópicos. Aquí encontraremos a personas que fomentan grandes programas de naturaleza filantrópica o que trabajan por un mundo mejor. Es una posición que da una personalidad teñida de altos ideales, pero que al mismo tiempo es también sociable y extrovertida. Estos nativos conciben grandes planes, avanzados proyectos e ideas llenas de originalidad. Suelen ser reformadores y renovadores, personas de mente ingeniosa o inventiva, que anhelan destruir las viejas y anquilosadas estructuras mundanales o espirituales, para sustituirlas por una nueva realidad -Miguel Ángel, Tycho Brahe, Marie Curie, Helena Blavatsky, Einstein). A pesar de su carácter jovial y abierto, en ellos la cabeza domina al corazón y su alma necesita sentirse libre, por eso tienden al desapego, y a elevarse por encima de las emociones. Poseen en general una mente avanzada, ya sea en el ámbito social, intelectual, espiritual o artístico, por ello se arriesgan y miran hacia el futuro, siendo el camino que suele llevarlos al éxito o al reconocimiento. De naturaleza anticonvencional y amantes de la libertad, pero al mismo tiempo flexibles y de mentalidad tolerante, estas personas son puristas o radicales en sus convicciones, pero respetuosos y tolerantes con las ideas de los demás. Sienten amor por la ciencia y por los avancesde la técnica, poseen asimismo una mentalidad científica. Se interesan por la aeronáutica, la astronomía, la astrología, tienen amplitud de miras y no hacen distinciones entre razas, clases sociales o religiones. Otros ejemplos de personajes con Júpiter en Acuario son: Isabel la Católica, Fernando el Católico, Juan de Austria, César Borgia, León X, Kant, Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Giscard D´Estaing, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Jane Fonda y Juan Carlos I."

Link: http://blogdesegundoruiz.blogspot.com/2011/01/jupiter-en-acuario.html

Foto

Può darsi che "porti fortuna"!...

Lover you should have come over


Lover you should have come over, originally uploaded by Ally Jade.

Que gira.

Life update

Not much to say...
Bebo chá branco. Antes já bebi uma bicazinha com adoçante. Andei uns meses valentes a portar-me Mal, a comer o que não devia. No momento em que abandonei os bolinhos perdi logo peso. Agora só tenho de continuar assim, sem tocar nos bolinhos (pampilhos, pastéis de nata, babás, oh, os babás...!).

Ah, quanto aos signos - não há nenhum 13º signo, é tudo treta, não acreditem.

/Dunya out

quarta-feira, janeiro 12, 2011

MAPA DRACÓNICO

Só um aparte:

- tenho o meu Sol natal a 16º46 Leão
- o Jake Gillenhaal tem o seu Sol Dracónico a 16º45'55 Leão

Estão conjuntos a 13 segundos (primeiro é graus, depois é minutos, depois é segundos).

É a minha Alma Gémea! (É que nem é Possível qualquer outra explicação mais racional...!)
Só pode ser esta e mais nenhuma... lol.

/Dunya out

Astrologia Dracónica

Que estou a acahar cada vez mais interessantíssima.

""
THE DRACONIC CHART
Soul Mates and Blood Links
by Pamela Rowe, LPMAFA, FMFAA

How many times as astrologers, have we counselled clients reliving similar disastrous relationships to those experienced in their formative years -- settling for familiarity, rather than initiating a reprogramming experience? Positive and negative astrological links shared with relatives are projected into adult relationships in a repetitious manner. This same theme of familiarity can apply to happy, productive relationships. Is fate after all, stronger than free will?

When the likely astrological links between two people are not found in the natal, progressed or directed charts, we look further afield. The Draconic chart provides pivotal information regarding the soul's purpose. The Draconic chart in relation to parent and child and between siblings, has been a source of fascination to me for years. Members of the Australian Academy of Astrology & Cosmobiology Research Group have also researched the Draconic chart as a key topic. We have concluded that the Draconic chart can be categorised as karmic, spiritual and unconscious, with possible connections to reincarnation. It pinpoints those we draw close to us in our lifetimes, to resolve unconscious issues , which in turn connects to our state of physical and emotional health. It speaks less of free will than the basic natal chart.

Through our Draconic chart we can discover how others are acutely, albeit subconsciously, aware of our soul's purpose and act accordingly -- opening life's doors and sometimes slamming them in our face. It traces where we came from (test it with parents and grandparent's charts) and where we are going (compare it with the charts of your children and soul mates). Links will be found by comparing Natal and Draconic charts, plus Draconic and Draconic. Draconic charts are also quite sensitve to transits, so compare the Draconic chart with transits of important events.

The Draconic chart highlights the importance of the 0-degrees Aries point. The distance between the natal Northern Moon Nodes or Dragon's Head and 0-degrees Aries is the adjustment increment used to convert the natal chart to its Draconic counterpart. The natal North Moon Node (ascending node) becomes 0-degrees Aries of the Draconic chart, or 'draconic equinox' and other planets and points are adjusted accordingly. English astrologer Pamela Crane is well known for her work on Draconic astrology. Pamela uses the True Moon Nodes in preference to the Mean Moon Nodes in her calculations. The difference in the resultant Draconic charts is small, but enough for me to continue to research both. In some cases the Draconic Mean Moon Node chart produces tighter, more relevant aspects.

The Draconic chart may have been overlooked because natal house placements and planetary aspects remain unaltered -- however, the zodiacal degrees can be strikingly different.

The Northern Moon Nodes in the charts of relatives and soul mates is as potentially variable as its distance from 0-degrees Aries. When adjustments are made for the Draconic chart you may be surprised at the new zodiacal links which did not exist in the natal charts -- new clues as to life's learning curve through these important people. In the case of those born with the Northern Moon Nodes at 0-degrees Aries, the natal chart is also the Draconic chart -- suggesting a person directly in touch with their soul's purpose. I would be most interested in the spiritual journey of any reader who has the Northern Moon Nodes at 0-degrees Aries.

Solar Fire and Winstar Plus software provide ready calculation of the Draconic chart. For those without this facility, the simplest and most accurate method is to convert all natal cusps and planets into their absolute zodiac positions (0-Aries=0°, 0 Taurus=30°, etc) and add the increment (distance between the natal true moon nodes and 0-degrees Aries) to each position. If answer over 360°, deduct 360

There are many more draconic links in this family tree. These few mainly involve the personal points of Natal and Draconic Ascendant, Midheaven, Sun and Moon.

THE DRACONIC ASCENDANT
The natal Ascendant describes how others perceive us in a physical sense, the silent message we project through our physical image. THE DRACONIC ASCENDANT is our intuitive identity, certain hereditary factors and the unique qualities we pass on through reproduction and spiritual teaching. For further information consider the decanate of the Draconic Ascendant (eg 28°26' Libra on the Draconic Ascendant is in its 3rd decan, incorporating a Gemini/Mercury influence to the Libran energies).

THE DRACONIC MIDHEAVEN
The natal Midheaven depicts our ego expression, career, worldy status, parent figures and mentors. The Draconic Midheaven speaks more of super-consciousness, the soul's divine quest, vocation as distinct from occupation.

Astrologers already familiar with house meanings, aspects and primarily the interpretation of their own natal chart, will liken the experience of interpreting their Draconic chart to that of bumping into an old friend. This is probably due to the emergence in the Draconic chart of astrological degrees synonymous with old friends, foes and soul mates.

BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY
The Draconic and Natal combinations of popular British Royal family members is a virtual goldmine of information. The charts used are Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Prince William and Prince Henry. Synastry buffs will discover many more links than I have space to mention. Once again the personal points of Sun, Moon, Ascendant and Midheaven provide pivotal information on hereditary and karmic history."

"Even by sticking to basics and comparing the zodiacal degrees between the draconic/draconic and draconic/natal charts of different individuals, the remarkable links formed for respective life journeys cannot be overlooked. Because our spiritual development requires us to meet the challenge of relationships rather than evade them, the Draconic chart provides new information as to who we are likely to attract in order to make the progress we spiritually crave.

©Pamela Rowe
January 2001.
(Published in the FAA Journal March 2001)"

Link: http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/013104.html

"His research found that when comparing the nativities of family members, there were exact conjunctions between the Tropical Zodiac planets in one chart with the Draconic Zodiac positions in the second chart. The premise here is that an ongoing soul contract exists between parents, children and siblings who reincarnate into the same family system from lifetime to lifetime. This Zodiac is lunar based, thus relating to the karma of ancestral blood lines." (link)

Há conjunções e ligações entre o meu mapa e os mapas dos meus pais, por exemplo (natais e darcónicos). É muito interessante. A minha mãe tem o Sol natal em Virgem, mas no mapa dracónico está a 15º Leão! Ora o meu Sol natal está a 16º Leão...

"Because the Draconic, Tropical or Sidereal Zodiac calculations only change the signs and degrees of the Sun, Moon and planets in any given chart, while the horoscopic gestalt, or pattern, remains identical, how can the astrologer describe to the client the differences between his or her various nativities? In some cases, for example, this could be accomplished by the astrologer explaining to a client how her Tropical Venus in Scorpio would produce painful losses in relationship that are evolving her personality and character; while at the same time her Sidereal Venus in Libra shows that on a soul level, she has a deep, innate understanding of how her karma is being balanced by going through these relational endings during the current lifetime."

"And from Sepharial’s translation of La Volasfera for this 13th degree of Capricorn, we find further evidence of the Dalai-Lama’s Christ Consciousness: A tripod with flames of fire issuing from a brazier (a metal container that holds burning coals or charcoal).

“This is the index of a nature that is aspiring and active, disposed to lead a life of adventure and hazard, but honourable in the pursuit of lofty ambitions. He may become attached to the military service, or in some other form will be a representative of the fiery and devouring element. He has a restless and aspiring nature, such as will impel to action upon a wide scale. He will travel and explore, lighting up dark places and devastating ancient sites in the quest of new food for the mind. Chastity and purity of life will mark him as of singular temperament, and his efforts will thereby become concentrated and highly successful. Alive to all the higher ambitions of this world, he will nevertheless be zealous in the conquest of worlds that are beyond normal ken. He may be an ambassador, consul, spiritual researcher, or explorer. It is a degree of ASPIRATION.”"

(© 2005 Robert P. Blaschke)

Interessante porque, no meu mapa dracónico, eu tenho o Urano a 12º Capricórnio...

Bom, fico por aqui.

/Dunya out

domingo, janeiro 09, 2011

Update: milwordy

Feitas cerca de 6000 palavras desde o dia 1 de Janeiro de 2011.

Hoje ainda não escrevi.

Tentarei fazer um update todos os Domingos.

sábado, janeiro 08, 2011

Carlos Castro: morte. Uma análise mínima (astrológica)

Nasceu a 5 de Outubro de 1945, em Angola, Mocâmedes. Sem hora (Bolas - quase apostaria de que devia ter algo de Capricórnio. Talvez o signo ascendente, quem sabe.)

Assim à primeira vista reparei no seguinte (em termos de mapa astrológico):

- o eclipse do início de Janeiro, a 13º Capricórnio fez quadratura ao seu Mercúrio natal a 14º Balança e ao seu Marte natal a 15º Caranguejo.
- também (o dito eclipse) fez um trígono ao seu Vénus natal a 13º Virgem.

Vénus = relacionamento, amor; Marte = agressão física; Mercúrio = por um jovem (alegadamente).

Esta Vénus natal está em quadratura com o seu Urano natal (em gémeos). Foi um choque, foi muito rápido, foi muito violento. E novamente confirma (o alegado) ataque feito por alguém jovem porque Urano natal está em Gémeos (relacionado com a juventude).

Mapa progredido: tem o Sol progredido a 17º Sagitário, oposto a Urano natal a 17º Gémeos. Outra indicação de violência, proveniente de alguém mais novo (Gémeos) durante uma viagem ou no estrangeiro (Sol prog. em Sagitário). Novamente reitero: alegadamente. Não sei, não estava lá, não vi.

Quíron (dor) em Arco Solar está a 15º Sagitário, oposto a Urano progredido a 15º Gémeos. Dor violenta, rápida, chocante. Sem dó, nem piedade.

Outra indicação: Plutão em Arco Solar está a 16º55´ Balança - a 28 ' (minutos - menos de meio grau) de concluir um trígono exacto ao seu Urano natal (será que a morte foi rápida?). Plutão é o "planeta da morte" (e da transformação - entre outras coisas).

Como não sei a hora não sei dizer qual o signo ascendente. Desconfio que ou Marte ou Mercúrio são regentes da casa 8 (a casa da morte). Ou isso ou algum deles está nessa casa, no mapa natal.

Urano - muito presente também. Ou regente da casa 6 ou quem sabe regente da casa 1...

Detesto não saber a hora.

Na mitologia qual foi o Deus que foi castrado? Penso que Urano, correcto?
Possibilidades, então: Urano pode reger ou a casa 1 (corpo físico), ou a casa 6 (saúde) ou a casa 4 (lar, família, raízes - no entanto a casa 4 também está relacionada com a morte, com a Passagem Final. Penso que um dos significados dessa casa é Fim da Vida. Penso).

Se alguém souber a hora Exacta do nascimento de Carlos Castro, por favor, diga-mo. Agradeceria imenso.

sexta-feira, janeiro 07, 2011

Lisboa



http://lisboasos.blogspot.com/

Não sei se é este o blog, mas há uns anos deparei-me ou com um blog ou com um site em que se fazia sistematicamente o levantamento (com fotos) dos prédios e casas abandonados na cidade de Lisboa. Edifícios lindíssimos, numa decadência a raiar a beleza. Beleza efémera - porque vão acabar por cair.

Alguém sabe que blog ou site é esse?

The Dawn Chorus!


The Dawn Chorus!, originally uploaded by adrians_art.

Fire...

Bridal (ExploreD)


Bridal (ExploreD), originally uploaded by ashikcmc.

quarta-feira, janeiro 05, 2011

Ruy Belo: mas que sei eu

(E agora, um poema.)





Mas que sei eu das folhas no outono
ao vento vorazmente arremessadas
quando eu passo pelas madrugadas
tal como passaria qualquer dono?



Eu sei que é vão o vento e lento o sono
e acabam coisas mal principiadas
no ínvio precipício das geadas
que pressinto no meu fundo abandono



Nenhum súbito súbdito lamenta
a dor de assim passar que me atormenta
e me ergue no ar como outra folha



qualquer. Mas eu que sei destas manhãs?
As coisas vêm vão e são tão vãs
como este olhar que ignoro que me olha

Ruy Belo

segunda-feira, janeiro 03, 2011

Self-publishing? Ebooks

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/01/response-to-richard-curtis.html

Estava a pensar fazer isto, mas não sei se o farei ou não...

Ainda tenho de reflectir mais.

Seria uma opção viável para publicar a continuação do Sr. Bentley.

Quem é que compraria um livro em formato digital? E qual seria o tecto máximo, em termos de preço, aceitável?

Tragédias

Houve uma tragédia no meu bairro, morreu um bebé. A minha mãe contou-me a história toda. Eu não conheço ninguém, não sei nada do que se passa no sítio onde vivo. Quem é quem, quem está com quem, quem deixou quem. Não sei Nada.

domingo, janeiro 02, 2011

Fairport Harbor Lighthouse and Ice Formations

The Angel of Sin


The Angel of Sin, originally uploaded by JolsAriella.