Month: July 2012

For Those Near Lexington, KY – Tea leaf readings this Saturday at Lexington’s Mystical Paranormal Fair

Tea leaf readings this Saturday at Lexington’s Mystical Paranormal Fair

There will be tea leaf readings this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mystical Paranormal Fair in Lexington at 835 Porter Street.

The art of tea leaf reading is known as tasseography. Tasseography includes not just tea but coffee and wine sediments. This type of divination has been around since ancient times and have been said to have been born from the Middle East and the Orient due to the fat that this is where tea originated. The Middle East tends to read coffee grounds.

To read tea leaves is considered to be very complex and hard. It’s not just drinking a cup of tea and swishing out the extra and looking at symbols. There are traditions that determine how you collect the tea may have a meaning, how you prepare the tea and how you swirl all have different meanings to some readers.

The reader then swirls out the tea and reads the symbols. This is where it becomes complicated. But, many people spend most of their life learning this art as it is passed down from one generation to the other.

Tea Leaf reading is considered one of the more creative and classy way of telling the future. Women all over the world drink tea and throughout history have passed down the secret to other women. It was easily hidden when governments look for “witches”. This has even occurred recently in a few countries that consider any divination as evil.

So, the next time that you watch Harry Potter and Professor Trelawney teaches this in her divination class try and see what you see in the cups.

Tea Leaf Readings are $20.

If you would like more information please visit the website at www.mpfair.com.

Lighten Up – Fifty Sure-Fire Ways to Tell If Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Pagan

Fifty Sure-Fire Ways to Tell If Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Pagan

How many of the following does your neighbor exhibit?

1. Never puts garbage out on the curb…I mean, recycling and compost are fine, but you can take it too far!
2. You casually mention the moon’s phase, and s/he replies with the exact number of days, hours, and minutes of rising, position on horizon, and current angle of declination.
3. All the stray cats in the neighborhood congregate in her/his garden.
4. A screech-owl has chosen the lamppost outside her/his house as it’s favorite perch…just when it’s getting warm outside at night and you want to sleep with your windows open.
5. Doesn’t mow down the weeds in his/her garden and lawn…in fact, it sort of looks like s/he’s cultivating them!
6. The abundance of black garments drying on the clothesline out back.
7. Local kids whisper and stare as they pass his/her house, then start running if they spot movement in the house or yard.
8. Nobody trick-or-treats at his/her door–not since the year that his/her costume was scarier than any of theirs!
9. Footprints on the roof…and the trees near the house look as if they’ve been pruned for a flight-path!
10. S/he can’t make a sandwich without adding fresh herbs to it…and don’t accept that offer of a cup of tea unless you want something yellow-colored and smelling like flowers!
11. S/he never gets junk mail…you idly wonder why, and s/he confides that she just returns it to sender after writing something on it in strange curly script.
12. When you drop in for a chat, the coffee pot or tea kettle is already starting to perk.
13. Jehovah’s Witnesses never knock on his/her door anymore…not after the last time…
14. Keeps the local candle shop solvent.
15. Has a pond out back full of frogs…and you haven’t seen that pesky storm-window salesman in a while.
16. S/he’s always smiling peacefully!
17. Went to a Halloween costume party dressed normally, and won first prize!
18. Her/his house always smells like incense and herbs.
19. Has cats named Kali, Diana, Loki, and Pele.
20. Bumper-sticker on his/her car reads, “I brake for toads”.
21. Frequently gets questioned by the drug squad, who confiscate large amounts of dried green leaves and always return them with abject apologies after analysis!
22. At Christmas, it seems like half the garden is moved into the house.
23. Sometimes you hear the sounds of singing and drumming through the wall…if you look outside, it’s usually a full moon.
24. Was given a bodram or dumbek for her/his last birthday…and sometimes plays it outside at midnight…
25. You discover the “realistic resin” skull s/he affectionately calls “Ron” in the living room actually is real…and hadn’t you heard of an ex-lover named Ron?
26. You catch her/him washing a crystal ball along with the dishes.
27. S/he wears lots of silver jewelry, even when weeding or changing the oil in the car…
28. You knock on the door and s/he answers it wearing only a robe…you apologize for disturbing her/his shower, but notice her/his hair isn’t wet…
29. Tendency to hum or softly chant, especially while outside in the garden.
30. Has a tame robin that will eat from his/her hand in the garden…that can’t be normal.
31. Never catches a cold, despite a tendency to walk around barefoot often…even in the snow.
32. Doesn’t kill spiders…even the huge hairy ones that startle you when you’re in the tub.
33. Always listens to what you’re saying like s/he really cares.
34. Has lots of female friends that come around once or twice a month…when you ask what they’re up to, s/he tells you they just have cake and ale and a nice chat.
35. You catch him/her hugging a tree.
36. Owns a dinner set decorated with Celtic patterns or a “stars and moons” design.
37. Has a mail-order account with a semi-precious gems wholesaler.
38. The priest who lives around the corner always crosses himself when driving past her/his house.
39. Never watches television…but owns shelves full of books with black spines and silver lettering.
40. To your certain knowledge has never set foot in the local church…you’ve even heard rumors s/he’s been barred from it.
41. You ask to borrow a deck of cards for an impromptu evening of canasta, and there are 78 in the pack.
42. You’ve never known him/her to go to a physician.
43. When you chat, s/he gently maintains eye contact the whole time.
44. Expectant mothers are always visiting…also women who become expectant mothers a short time after visiting and leaving with bags full of herbs.
45. You ask for suggestions of nice walks in the area, and they all go by way of strange earth mounds, oak groves, and stone circles.
46. S/he only buys organic food…and you suspect vegetarian as well!
47. When you ask about vacation plans, you’re told about camping in yurts…or festivals with communal cabins.
48. There aren’t any clocks in the house…and most of the mirrors are black.
49. Has a statue of a dragon near the garden gate…calls it her/his “watch-dragon”.
50. Tells you s/he’s coming out of the broom closet, and installs a stained-glass pentagram window in the front door!

Score:
1-10: Probably just a bit odd.
11-20: Might be a New Age hippy…harmless, maybe a little deluded.
21-30: Best not to offend her/him, just to be on the safe side.
31-40: Definitely something suspicious going on…stock up on your supply of Holy Water.
41-50: Get the kindling together–we’re going to have ourselves a burning!

– Andie Gilmour

Just for Fun – What Your Car Says About You

What Your Car Says About You

 

Young men drive Camaros, soccer moms drive minivans, and rich snobs drive Bentleys.  We usually associate a certain type of car with a certain type of person, but do  we really know who’s behind the wheel? After all, our perception of a car is  largely based on how it was marketed—Volvos for safety, Porsches for speed. But  it can be tough to decipher whether people buy a car because they think it will  make them out to be something they are or may not be, or because the same group  of people always buy the same type of car. That’s because  psychographics—grouping customers according to beliefs and attitudes and selling  them products to fit their group—is at play.

So what does your car say about you? What is that SUV driver really supposed  to be like? Here’s a clue.

Small Car: Prius, Honda Civic, Smart Car According to a  study by researchers at UC Davis,  small car drivers are more  pro-environmental and prefer higher density neighborhoods than drivers of others  types of cars. This isn’t surprising; if you live in a big city, it’s simply  easier to park with a small car and if you’re concerned about the environment,  you’ll want something that’s more fuel-efficient. Small car drivers, unlike  other categories of drivers, don’t necessarily see their cars as a ticket to  freedom. They aren’t workaholics or status seekers who try to display wealth.  They want to lessen their impact on the earth and have a reliable car—and  find a parking spot.

Mid-Sized Car: Chevrolet Sedan The authors of the study  found that “mid-sized car drivers have no distinct travel attitude, personality,  lifestyle, mobility, or travel-liking characteristics.” Ouch! Does that mean  they’re totally boring? Maybe, or maybe just pragmatic, or maybe they got their  cars as a hand-me-down. The owners were more likely to be female and homemakers;  they also had higher incomes.

If you’re driving an American-made sedan, you might belong to the group  psychographers call “belongers.” That’s those who need to belong to a group, are  very nationalistic, and don’t like change. The stereotype of this person is  someone who lives in an average town in the Midwest. When not driving a sedan,  they may also be in a U.S.-made pickup or station wagon.

Luxury Cars: Cadillac, Lexus Those who drive luxury cars  are—no surprise—status seekers; they also are more apt to drive long distances.  Men and older or retired people are more likely to drive luxury cars. In  particular, luxury car drivers are over-represented among highly-educated and  higher-income people.

In psychographic lingo, the “achievers”—profit-oriented workaholics who like  being independent—are also likely to drive luxury cars and/or sports cars.

Sports Cars: BMW, Porsches Those who are adventure  seekers (even if they never get out of the car) drive sports cars. They’re not  calm and are more likely than average to have a college degree. Surprisingly,  based on the cost of most sports cars, they were more likely to have lower  incomes. Some of these may fall into the category of “emulator”—younger,  financially unstable, low self-esteem people who buy flashy cars that aren’t  true sports or luxury cars to try to emulate achievers.

Minivan/Van In the study, minivan drivers tended to be  calm and weren’t loners. (Who would buy such a big car just for themselves?)  They enjoyed traveling in their car; they were more likely to live in the  suburbs, be females, homemakers, and aged forty-one to sixty-four, and surprise  surprise, have children.

Pickup In the study, pickup drivers don’t like  high-density living situations and are more likely to be dissatisfied with their  lives. They tend to be workaholics, have lower education, be full-time  employees, have service related jobs, and be middle-income.

SUV It’s not surprising that people who favored larger cars were less environmentally-minded. SUV drivers,  in particular, also liked to travel short distances in their cars. They were  more likely to be suburbanites, aged forty or younger. The drivers came from  larger households that were more likely to have children.

Not only might the type of car you drive say something about you, so does the  color. According to a survey done in Great Britain, certain colors indicate  certain personalities. Here are some generalities:

  • Black: aggressive personality, rebel
  • Silver: cool, calm, may be a loner
  • Green: reactive
  • Yellow: idealistic
  • Blue: introspective, reflective, and cautious
  • Red: someone who is full of energy and pizzazz
  • White: status seekers, gregarious
  • Cream: contained and controlled

Whether we choose cars for how we want others to perceive us, or if we are  simply concerned with price and function, what we drive can send some serious  messages.

 

Daily Feng Shui Tip for July 13 – ‘Collector Car Appreciation Day’

I can steer you in the right direction on ‘Collector Car Appreciation Day’ as we Feng Shui your car in order to keep good energy flowing inside as you drive along life’s highways. First, keep the car trash free. Clutter inside the car is not only distracting but it also drains away precious energy away. You want to keep those natural resources at their peak so your performances can be as well. Keeping small cotton balls with a few drops of peppermint essential oil and lemon will also lighten the energies inside the car. Other mystical ways to drive good energies into your vehicle is to hang a clear quartz crystal from the rear view mirror, keep a small statue of a sacred deity affixed to the dashboard or place six peacock feathers in the glove box. All of these adjustments are believed to bring cosmic protection and good Chi that can fill your personal tank with confidence and clarity. Remember, it’s never about the destination; it’s all about the good Chi of the transportation that gets you there!

By Ellen Whitehurst for Astrology.com