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RE: Dilemma of a married person?

Lago, very good post. My father is a retired airline pilot, and was surrounded by beautiful women with great personalities all day long, sleeping in hotels across the country with the crews. He never cheated on my mother. (Yes, I know my father, and he'd never do that...he didn't take communion for years because he had a vasectomy to save her life, and that was birth control.) They always had an agreement that looking was a given part of being human, but touching was off-limits.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Another take on the Celtic tree astrology (never seen this one before, it breaks it down into very small sections), but it was accurate regarding me as a business person:

Privet

August 14 - 26

The white flowers of the common privet bloom as late as August and so this small tree was also associated with this time of the year. Wreaths and garlands made from privet bushes were used to decorate fields and springs during August in the hope of securing a plentiful harvest.

Those born in the Privet sign are practical and realistic regarding relationships. They never expect too much and are prepared to work towards a long and happy marriage. If a relationship fails, however, they are well prepared to move on, providing they know that the situation is really hopeless. Seldom holding grudges, the Privet person is always ready to forgive. They do not tend to make good business people, however, as they are not hard and ruthless enough to succeed. They do, however, make excellent teachers, trainers and advisors.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Btw, I just looked up my Native American one, and it's the salmon too. Not really surprised by that.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Not believing in it doesn't make it not true. Honestly, if you ever had your full natal chart done, it would amaze you with its accuracy, and you'd see where all the pieces that make you "you" originate.

Those daily horoscopes? Nope, too generic, and I pay no attention to them.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

In Celtic Lunar Astrology, I'm a Hazel tree, which also has the animal totem of the Salmon. That also provides a good insight to my personality, for I tend to swim against the stream, and will fight for what's right whether it's popular or not.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Compatible Zodiac Signs for Leo:
Sagittarius, Aries, Gemini, Libra

Incompatible Zodiac Signs for Leo:
Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces, Taurus, Cancer

Variable Zodiac Signs for Leo:
Leo and Aquarius

It's interesting because my late husband was a textbook Libra (though he hated it when I said it), and we got along very well. My best friend is a Virgo, but with a lot of Pisces and Libra in her chart, or she'd probably drive me batty. My younger son is a Capricorn, but with Aries rising, and we get along very well, and yet my older son is a Gemini with Scorpio rising, and we get along okay, but not like my younger son and I do.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Sadly, they're right about Water Rabbits not even realizing it's happening.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Gemini, Leo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius.

Incompatible: Taurus, Virgo, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces

Variable: Aries and Libra

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

The ones that don't must not read the placemats at Chinese restaurants.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Good morning, Summer! It took marrying two of them, and having an online romance with another, to set this one in stone for me. There's only one place it works between Scorpio and Leo, and that's not enough for a relationship.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

I disagree with you, Da. I believe that certain things are a given, but that most is based on choices along the way. We don't travel along this journey on a straight line, we encounter many forks along the way, and what we choose to do at those forks takes us along a certain path leading to another fork, and so on. Nothing is set in stone.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

WATER RABBIT Horoscope
Jan 29, 1903 to Feb 15, 1904
Jan 25, 1963 to Feb 12, 1964

Rabbit people love to play under the moonlight. Quite fanciful, they respond to the power and beauty of nature and are always being pulled one way and the other to examine what they find. They are the luckiest of all twelve signs! But, it's more a result of "the harder I work, the luckier I get" than taking crazy chances. They are cautious, conservative, bright, and have a good head for business. Supremely pleasant to have around, these affectionate, naturally shy peacemakers seldom ever lose their temper. They sometimes appear to be singing the blues because of a natural but short-lived tendency towards despondency. Rabbits always inspire deep admiration and trust.

High on a mountain bluff, the Water Rabbit enjoys the immensity of solitude. Like typical Rabbits, the Water Rabbit is quiet, but don't let this fool you. Water Rabbits are always STRONG silent types. Beneath the passive reserve lies a smoldering ember ready to enjoy life to the fullest extent possible. In solitude there is peace, spirit, nature, strength, music, and a strong philosophical current that keeps anchor in the soul of Water Rabbit. The Neon and Glitter People truly admire the Water Rabbits for their individuality, not unlike that of the lone rugged cowboy seen against jagged mountain peaks. Water Rabbits make friends easily, but have a tendency to be too trusting. Gullibility is not a safe trait to have! Water Rabbits are happy to find creative outlets through their very fulfilling careers. Their determination to rise to the top makes them well regarded in their fields. When it comes to making money, it's "easy come, easy go" - money just slips through their fingers and Rabbits gasp with bewilderment, "Where did it go?" Time to find a good financial advisor. "Easy come, easy go" is also the mantra of their love lives. Falling in love too easily leads to heartbreak. Once they learn to hold back and find true love, they throw away romantic interludes for love everlasting.


OMG, that's the first time I've read about what it means to be a Water Rabbit...and it's pretty darned accurate. (Much more so than just "rabbit".)

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

You share the same birthday as my best friend, except for the year. She's a little older than you.

RE: Do you believe star sign match?

Yes, I do. There is one sun sign I avoid at all costs now, and that's Scorpio...experience has been a great teacher. I also avoid fellow Leos because they're usually too arrogant. But I look deeper than just the sun sign. If they know their time of birth, I look at the whole chart.

RE: scare or tattoo

Good one, Boban!

RE: scare or tattoo

This is why I never get names tattooed. On the Sun/Moon, which is the Lord/Lady, I have the flowers for their birth months to represent my sons, but I didn't even tattoo their names.

I'd do a cover up. A good artist will do it well.

To my fellow widows and widowers...

I can understand that feeling, Bruno. It's what made me pause.

It's not an easy thing to break such an association...and I'm still not sure if I can, even in friendship.

RE: What was Jesus Christ's middle name ?

There's more if you follow the link, but I know if it gets too long here, people won't read it all.

But enjoy, those who are curious.

RE: What was Jesus Christ's middle name ?

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It may be thought that the story of a virgin birth is too wonderful to have been invented merely to show that a misunderstood prophecy had been fulfilled, and that so miraculous a doctrine could not, without some basis of fact, suddenly be created by any brain, however fertile. But a study of ancient literature discloses the fact that myths of virgin births were part of many if not of all the surrounding pagan religions in the place where, and at the time when, Christianity arose.

"The gods have lived on earth in the likeness of men" was a common saying among ancient pagans, and supernatural events were believed in as explanations of the god's arrival upon earth in human guise.

About two thousand years before the Christian era Mut-em-ua, the virgin Queen of Egypt, was said to have given birth to the Pharaoh Amenkept (or Amenophis) III, who built the temple of Luxor, on the walls of which were represented:-

1. The Annunciation: the god Taht announcing to the virgin Queen that she is about to become a mother.

2. The Immaculate Conception: the god Kneph (the Holy Spirit) mystically impregnating the virgin by holding a cross, the symbol of life, to her mouth.

3. The Birth of the Man-god.

4. The Adoration of the newly born infant by gods and men, including three kings (or Magi ?), who are offering him gifts. In this sculpture the cross again appears as a symbol.

In another Egyptian temple, one dedicated to Hathor, at Denderah, one of the chambers was called "The Hall of the Child in his Cradle"; and in a painting which was once on the walls of that temple, and is now in Paris, we can see represented the Holy Virgin Mother with her Divine Child in her arms. The temple and the painting are undoubtedly pre-Christian.

Thus we find that long before the Christian era there were already pictured in pagan places of worship virgin mothers and their divine children, and that such pictures included scenes of an Annunciation, an Incarnation, and a Birth and Adoration, just as the Gospels written in the second century A.D. describe them, and that these events were in some way connected with the God Taht, who was identified by Gnostics with the Logos.

And, besides these myths about Mut-em-ua and Hathor, many other origins of a virgin birth story can be traced in Egypt.

Horus was said to be the parthenogenetic child of the Virgin Mother, Isis. In the catacombs of Rome black statues of this Egyptian divine Mother and Infant still survive from the early Christian worship of the Virgin and Child to which they were converted. In these the Virgin Mary is represented as a black regress, and often with the face veiled in the true Isis fashion. When Christianity absorbed the pagan myths and rites it adopted also the pagan statues, and renamed them as saints, or even as apostles.

Statues of the goddess Isis with the child Horus in her arms were common in Egypt, and were exported to all neighbouring and to many remote countries, where they are still to be found with new names attached to them-Christian in Europe, Buddhist in Turkestan, Taoist in China and Japan. Figures of the virgin Isis do duty as representations of Mary, of Hariti, of Kuan-Yin, of Kwannon, and of other virgin mothers of gods.

And these were not the only pre-Christian statuettes and engravings of divine mothers and children. On very ancient Athenian coins such figures were stamped. Among the oldest relics of Carthage, of Cyprus, and of Assyria figures of a divine mother and her babe-god are found. Such figures were known under a great variety of names to the followers of various sects; the mothers as Venus, Juno, Mother-Earth, Fortune, etc., and the children as Hercules, Dionysos, Jove, Wealth, etc. In India similar figures are not uncommon, many of them representing Devaki with the babe Krishna at her breast, others representing various less well-known Indian divinities.

RE: What was Jesus Christ's middle name ?

I do believe you're correct, Wonder. I knew you'd love that post, despite its typos.

And interestingly, Horus is one of the many virgin birth stories that precedes the one of the Christ child's birth.

To my fellow widows and widowers...

But Sassy, I might just take a walk there this week. Thank you.

To my fellow widows and widowers...

I don't need a pic of him there...he's there. It's where I scattered his ashes, too. And it's the cave where we handfasted, and a trail we spent a lot of time on...and when I go there, I still feel close to him. Last time, there was a little grey and white finch that stayed near me the entire time, flitting amongst the rocks that stand up in the water, and even resting at times inside the cave itself, finding purchase on the rock shelf. I believe that was him. It's part of why it's my special place now, and although I'll take a special man there to show it to him some day, I love to go there alone, and always will. A part of him is very attached there still.

Besides, all of the pics of him are up in a box in the attic, and I'm not ready to bring it down yet to look at them. I still see him clearly enough in my mind's eye.

RE: What was Jesus Christ's middle name ?

Just to present another possibility.

RE: What was Jesus Christ's middle name ?

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Etymology

The expression dates to at least the late 19th century, although according to Mark Twain it was already old in 1850.

Using the name of Jesus Christ as an oath has been common for many centuries, but the precise origins of the letter H in the expression Jesus H. Christ are obscure. While many explanations have been proposed, some serious and many humorous, the most widely accepted derivation is from the divine monogram of Christian symbolism. The symbol, derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus (??s???), is transliterated IHS, IHC, JHS or JHC. Since the transliteration IHS gave rise to the backronym Iesus Hominum Salvator (Latin for "Jesus savior of men"), it is plausible that JHC similarly led to Jesus Hansel Christ. (Smith 1994, pp. 332-3)

To my fellow widows and widowers...

Thank you, Bentlee. I think I should have stuck with my original title for this thread: What's in a name?

I've never seen this topic discussed before, so the input from all is interesting. And we do associate a certain name with a certain person, and all of the things that remind us of them.

It's still a bit of a strange feeling to receive mail from someone who signs that name, and to see it in my private email box now. The echoes still ring.

To my fellow widows and widowers...

Ah, now that one belongs to my last ex, and would be hard for me to get past because of all of the negative connotations still associated with it for me.

And no, I'll never love my late husband any less. He'll always hold a special place in my heart.

To my fellow widows and widowers...

Welcome to CS, Rob. I'm sorry for your loss, that's a long time together. And congratulations on finding love again.

I'm testing this out as a friendship, and will see how I feel. If the echoes stop after a while, then I know for the future that it won't be a barricade. Everything happens for a reason, and for some reason it's time to put the pain and longing attached to this name behind me if at all possible, and have another association with it, even if it's just a friend. Perhaps the Universe has provided the final key to my healing process. Or, the Universe has decided to show me that this will not heal. One or the other.

RE: Do Men Consider Women Over 40 All Washed Up?

You're healthy and young for your age, though, HL! I had to go look at your profile to verify your age...seriously, you don't look it.

You'll find the one. Have faith.

RE: Full moon stories anyone ?

For me, it's the energy. Probably for you too.

To my fellow widows and widowers...

Thank you, Searcher. And welcome to CS. That is truly ironic about the names, and very good that you two got past it, but I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.

I have discovered one thing...this isn't as big of a dilemma this time around as I thought. On the site I met him at, "single" and "available" are the only two options, and I didn't realize what "available" meant there until just a while ago...and, not having paid attention to his profile in the past couple of days, didn't realize that "available" is what his status is. He's only seeking friendship because he is in a good, stable relationship.

But, it did make me think about an issue I hadn't considered before, and through this thread gave another a chance to ponder it as well. And it raised an interesting issue I don't think has been discussed before, or if it has it was before my time on here, so it's been a while. And it's been very informative and thought-provoking.

Oh, and yes, I am seeing how the friendship goes, because it will tell me whether or not I could ever date someone with that name. If I can't be friends with him because of it, I couldn't date anyone with it either.

Everything happens for a reason.