Welcome to the Eleventh House of Thoth 5. We’re glad that you could make it here! Do check out the other Eleventh House of Thoth groups on the other networks. Something struck me a little while ago. Do you know what the Eleventh house is astrologically? It’s Aquarius. Aquarius rules the 11th House. In the Tarot it is the #17 Trump; the Star. Uncle Al said that “Tzaddi is not the Star.” He was partially right, partially wrong on that one. Ellen Cannon Reed said in her book The Goddess and the Tree (the name of one of our other groups, coming soon to this network.) “Tzaddi is the Stars.” I agree with that. It just doesn’t make sense to have path 28 be the Emperor, Heh. This is a controversy that has raged on ever since Uncle Al first uttered that statement. But then ol’ Uncle loved to stir up controversy. What do you folks say? Do you agree or disagree with Uncle Al? Do you agree with me and Ellen Cannon Reed? Do you agree with Stephen that Tzaddi is the Star? Why do you feel the way you do? Please post here your thoughts on the subject.
I feel especially close to that because I am an Aquarius, and my significator is the Star. The Star represents meditation, contemplation, and concentration. That’s what Stephen says, but what I say about the Star is that it’s what you aspire to, what you Will to attain in your incarnation. So another hairpull begins. A hairpull is Druidspeak for a spirited discussion. By the way, Ellen Cannon Reed is dead. She died a few years ago of cancer. She left a big hole in Jewish Wiccan tradition. There are others who are both Qabalistic and Wiccan. Since her death, we haven’t seen anyone who has come out having done the kind of research she did. I think that Uncle Al and Ellen Cannon Reed are probably even now having a hairpull themselves about where they stand on the subject.
I went out to get a drink, and besides the drink brought in a putty, because we were stymied about what direction this post should take. Right away the putty energy stimulated an inspiration for a theme. Let’s talk about Bast. She has several names: Bubastis, Pasht, Pa-Bast, and Pi-Beseth. She is sometimes seen as a subset of Hathor the cow-headed goddess of fertility, in which case she was also a goddess of childbirth. But I see her as a separate goddess in her own right. She is at times confused with Sekhmet the lioness headed goddess. Stephen invokes her when cats are missing, sick, or if there is a cat he hasn’t seen for a long time, it seems to help the situation. One of the reasons that we love the Khemetic tradition so much is that cats had such high status in ancient Egypt. They were worshipped as deities, and have never forgotten it. So it’s because of Bast that we love ancient Egypt. Many putties in the putty conspiracy want to bring back this worship of putties. This is their main agenda.
I’m in favor of this because I have my own agenda. Bast also rules over women’s sensuality. Bawdy women singing bawdy songs. I’m all in favor of that. For one thing, it’s like the putties in that it’s funny, and anytime you laugh, it lowers the stress level, and thus your blood pressure, and other health factors. It’s slightly off-topic, but it reminds me of the time that the Japanese Sun-Goddess Amaterasu was depressed and angry, hiding in her cave until this other Japanese Goddess, who appears as an older woman, lifted up the skirts of her kimonos and sang bawdy songs until Amaterasu laughed and came our of her cave to better enjoy the show. What was the name of that other Japanese goddess anyway? Please post here if you know the name. One of my favorite Pagan songs is “My Heretic Heart is my Authority.” I just love to hear Glenn Turner sing it. It isn’t especially bawdy, but it’s guaranteed to rile up any nearby jesoids. But if you like bawdy songs, you can’t do better than “Roll Me Over”. It’s a collection of songs “that should not be sung.” I love them all. There’s all the naughty songs that your high school or college friends taught you when you were wasted. My favorite is still the “Jolly Tinker,” which, by the way, was featured in the original “Wickerman,” which makes the remake look sick and pallid by comparison.. For one thing, there’s no music.
One of the things we want to do with this group. We will post all we know about a certain Khemetic deity and today’s appropriately enough was Bast. For example did you know that not only was she the cat goddess, and of childbirth but also a war goddess and protectress of cities, protecting her cities from its enemies? She was more or less mild, but when riled would transform into Pasht the lion headed goddess with solar disk and uraeus. Her sacred instrument was the sistrum. She was also the goddess of music and musicians. The uraeus serpent with the solar disk had many Khemetic scholars identify her as an earth goddess (see what I said about her association with Hathor above). According to the amazing Gertrude Jobes, her chief seats of worship were Bubastis and Memphis. GJ also does not see Bast as having connection with Maat the goddess of justice, or Sekhmet.
Donald Tyson in his Secrets of the Necronomicon, has Bast as the High Priestess: Trump #2. In fact, he uses Bast in all the other Trump cards in the background of the action. I am reminded of a painting of a young woman in a wig and rather transparent skirt worn low on the hips playing a lyre, and another young woman wearing her hair in a ponytail who is nude except for a hip band and collar playing a flute. I’m sure you’ve all seen it. It’s a rather famous painting. Actually I think the one in the pony tail is me in an earlier incarnation.
Don’t forget to rate me when you call me on KEEN 1-800-275-5336. Ask for Teiweth ShadowDancer ext.#03877627 and don’t forget to rate me after the reading. Also read my blog, both on KEEN and on Blogger. I’m on Adsense now, so please click on the ads with my blogs. Stephen is still waiting. He’ll probably find out he’s on tomorrow (today, if you’re reading this on Monday, October 26th). Do read his blogs on Blogger too. I’ll be participating in NaNoWrimo again. This year I’ll be working on a novel I’ve already started: La Voisin is the story of Catherine Deschayes Monvoisin, a 17th century French Witch, who was executed in 1680 for diabolism and witchcraft.
And of course you know that Isaac Bonewits is in the hospital with colonic cysts. Yesterday he should have gotten them removed. We’re hoping that he came through with flying colors and is recuperating well.
Yahoo has been revamped completely. I got the new Yahoo toolbar, and added a bunch of our stuff to it. The new Yahoo has retooled both the toolbar and the home page, where you can add your own stuff. Also Yahoo has improved its messenger in the video talk aspect. We are still dissatisfied with their policy of deleting certain groups after just 6 weeks of inactivity. It would be ok if they were even handed about it, but they seem to only delete certain groups, while others they leave alone. For this reason, and because of their draconian categorization process, we will not be putting any more groups on Yahoo. Google has also revamped their toolbar and googletalk.
Do not do business with IMVU. The new management of IMVU is a bunch of right-wing Republican Puritans who are utterly anti-Pagan, anti-women and anti-sex. I had my bank disallow IMVU from deducting money from my checking account. Fully 40% of the people on IMVU are Pagans. If all the Pagans left, we might not put the network out of business, but we could definitely make it feel the pinch. I think that even the Pag-Symps would leave after the Pagans left, especially the ones interested in cybersex. Charles, the new CEO is a conservative Baptist, who has no business running a network like IMVU. In the name of “making the Internet safe for kids”, he and his henchmen are making IMVU no fun for anyone. I feel that having an age restricted section is protection enough for the little nippers, and that adults should have a section where they are totally free to do as they will. Stephen is furious, but I am indifferent. IMVU was nothing to me but an exercise in frustration that I spent way too much money and time on. I think it’s a waste of time and money, but Stephen lives most of his life on IMVU, and so is really bummed out by these developments. They have blocked out all the cool body enhancements and furniture Stephen got from Twinkle so they can’t be seen by anyone but him. IMVU is being investigated by: the FBI, Better Business Bureau, FCC, and FTC for its fraudulent and unethical business dealings. If you have any fraud complaints, contact the FBI Fraud division and the Better Business Bureau. .
I have just joined Stephen on KEEN. I still have a few kinks to iron out before I am a full-fledged reader, but I think that by next weekend I will be. I am also doing readings. I charge $15 for a fifteen minute reading. I got a webcam, and a mic/headset, so will be able to do readings on Yahoo and Windows Live as soon as they get hooked up. I am hunting for a publisher, since FireDrake’s Weyr unfortunately got closed down. I also need to get on Skype. If you can talk me through getting on Skype you get a reading. Readings and classes are our currency. I am also helping Stephen promote our friend Walter Rhoads’ art, their art gallery Gallery 14 and Julie’s tax service. I’m doing everything to raise money except sex. I refuse to get involved in porn, and I don’t have a very sexy voice.
Stephen wants to thank all of you for calling him at (land-line) 916-455-2267 or
(cell) 916-612-2504 and ordering either a divination reading or a class for just $31.95. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or Skype, it’s almost like being here. For the reading, you got to choose a deck, method, or tool from a vast array of decks/methods/tools. For the class, you got to choose from a myriad of topics in the vast area of magick. Some of you couldn’t decide between a reading and a class, and so for just $59.90 you knew you could have both.a reading and a class; how perfect is that? You can have a reading then in the class find out how he did it. Or you can have two classes, or two readings as long as they are on two separate and different topics/questions. And thank you too for using and spreading around his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. You told your friends, relatives, in-laws, neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, teachers, kids’ teachers, fellow parents in your PTA, bus drivers, beauticians, and anyone else we might have left out. If you know of any other categories I may have omitted , do tell me. We would like to have other sites where we can have our groups.
So basically what we want is some action from you people. We want your feedback. We know we can always count on Dylan to give feedback, but he’s a partner in this venture. How about the rest of you? This is supposed to be a cooperative effort here. For those of you who are on Red Light, Stephen is doing readings for the cost of 10 rays, and classes for 20 rays. Red Light is a network that is more liberal than IMVU has become, since that Charles guy took over.
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