Saturday, August 22, 2009

Destiny Kin: White Self-Existing Wizard

White Wizard is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.

White Wizard is the Magician, whose powers are activated by wisdom that emanates from the heart. Such wisdom is not the intellectual understanding known in Western culture; it is the wisdom that comes from an alignment of mind and heart. An open, trusting heart is a refined tool of perception. Allowing yourself to 'not know' opens the door of the mind to a deeper understanding of the universe.

White Wizard asks you to fully utilize this aligned mind to participate in magic.White Wizard invites you to step into self-empowerment. Empowerment comes from self-acceptance, integrity, and commitment to your evolution. Self-empowerment is not to be found outside oneself. Anything outside that brings you empowerment also has a divine foundation within you. If you feel a need for the approval of others, look to self-empowerment. When you feel effectively engaged, doing what gives you joy, your energy naturally expands to inlcude more of who you are, and magic flows synchronistically into your life. Claim your alignment with the highest wisdom. Call forth divine action in all that you do!

Align your own will with divine will and your Essence Self. Be transparent, innocently allowing magic to come through you rather than needing to create it. Open to heart-knowing and limitless possibilties.

White Wizard is a tool of the light, a conduit for the work of Spirit. A wise magician is spontaneous and transparent, allowing magic to come in rather than trying to control it or make it happen. A magician dances the dance of love through offering gifts of freedom to others. This is real magic. Freed from the need to use power to manipulate or control, a magician uses wisdom to manifest liberation and love.

The harmonic wisdom of White Wizard is melody, the progression of signle tones within a composition. White Wizard symbolizes the sacred journey of your individual life. As a harmonic magician, you are a novel yet universal container for the expression of the Divine. While you play the melody of your journey's spirit song, the Creator provides the harmony.

Melody is to music what story line is to story. Utilize the elements you have chosen for exploration in your life - your gifts, talents, abilities, motivations, circumstances, and the other characters in your play. Orchestrate the most interesting and growth-engendering story line from this combination of possibilities. Understand that you are the player and the played in the melody in your life.

Your Tone is Tone 4 - Self-Existing

Order, definition, discrimination, natural cycles, meaningful alignment.Four is the ray of measure, the alignment with natural cycles. It is the square, the base of the pyramid, the solid foundation that unifies the lines of directional force. Four is the diamond asking you to utilize tools of discrimination.Now is the time to manifest your dream or vision. Look to natural logic, order and definition - these gifts support the whisperings of your creative spirit.

You are the architect who manifests your dreams! Open the door and call forth the sacred Four. You are being brought into meaningful alignment, bringing healing into this cycle of your life.The four directions offer you assistance in understanding universal physical laws. Use measure as a tool of consciousness to mold time, form and space. Now is the time to focus, to connect tangibly with the undefined. Take your ideas and give them discipline and form. Develop the ability to discriminate without creating separation or judgement. Channel your creative energy constructively, generating the power for practical manifestation!

Taken from: http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/M_white_se_wizard.html


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Pizza Bases

A few people have asked for a quick pizza base recipe I found recently.

Makes 2 bases - small to medium in size.

Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
8g sachet dried instant yeast
1/2 teaspoon caster sugar
3/4 cup warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil
good pinch salt

Method:
- Sift the flour
- Add yeast, sugar and salt
- Mix in water and oil in a seperate bowl and then add to flour mix
- Remove wedding ring
- Mix with hands until it all comes together
- Place on a floured surface and knead for 8 minutes (or until it is elastic and springs back when you poke at it.)
- Cut in half and roll into a ball.
- Rest on bench for 15-30 minutes.
- Roll onto a floured board or pizza stone or whatever.
- Top with all your old favourites.
- Cook in an oven at the hottest possible temp, pizza oven, on a stone or whatever floats your boat.

Note: If you are using a Pizzamaker Pizza Oven the temp needs to be on the cooler side when you first pop the pizza in.


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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Getting to Know Each Other - a mememe thing from Leah.

1. Did you want to get up this morning?
Yes. I was actually out the door at 5:45am this morning and off to a Nia class before dawn!

2. How do you like your steak?
Medium rare

3. What was the last movie you saw, and what grade would you give it?
At the movies... Disgrace with John Malkovich. Oh man... that movie was a downer and a half! Give it a C-. It was worth watching, but only just.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
Currently it would be a toss up between True Blood and Dead Like Me.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be, and would you have servants?
Anywhere in Asia. Servants? Probably not but maybe a cleaning lady. Sheesh! I would have that here if I could!

6. What did you have for breakfast?
Coffee + banana bread

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
I really love most Asian foods.

8. What foods do you dislike?
Deep fried.

9. Least Favorite Place you have to dine at, because your mate/friend likes it?
Anything takeaway like Macdonalds or KFC or Hungry Jacks (aka Burger King)

10. Favorite dressing?
Balsamic or red wine vinegar.

11.What kind of vehicle do you drive and is it junky inside?
10 year old Toyota Corrolla. Its pretty messy inside, but not too bad overall. Lots of scratches from the previous owner.

12. What are your favorite clothes?
Gym pants, tank or tee and a tie top.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Portland Oregon.

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full ?
At the moment 1/2 empty.

15. When would you want to retire?
As soon as I have kidlettes to keep me busy.

16. Favorite time of day?
Early morning, just before dawn - when I get up in time!

17. Where were you born?
Ipswich, Queensland.

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Soccer or - embarrased to admit this - cheerleading.

19. What is your least favorite household chore?
All of them! But probably dusting.

20. Person you expect to tag you back first?
Don't want to pressure anyone!

21. If you could be an animal, what would you be?
A cat - man Max has a charmed life.

22. Do you like spam? The food?
Never eaten it - although maybe as a kid with my Grandma...

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Morning - I get cranky and sleepy early.

24. Do you have any pets?
Max the wonder cat.

25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?
Nope.

26. What did you want to be when you were little?
A social worker.

27. What is your best childhood memory?
Sleeping with my head on my mothers lap and feet on my Dad's in the front bench seat of our old Falcon.

28. Are you a cat or dog person?
Thought I was a dog person, but I love my cat.

29. What age do you think marriage should be legal?
18 or so.

30. Always wear your seat belt?
Its illegal to not wear it!

31. Been in a car accident?
Yep - wrote off my first car.

32. Any pet peeves?
People talking to me like I don't have a brain...

33. Favorite Pizza Toppings?
Lamb, zuchini, fetta, tomato and spinach.

34. Favorite Flower?
Peonies.

35. Favorite ice cream?
Caramel turtle from Baskin and Robbins.

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Anything vietnamese - quick, healthy and yummy!

37. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
None - got it first go. Short skirt worked a treat! hahahah! If only!

38. From whom did you get your last email?
Facebook.

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
I hate my credit card and try to never use it... So nowhere really. If it was one I didn't have to pay off? Ummm... Myer department store so I could buy something from everywhere.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
Me? Spontaneous? You have to be kidding!

41. Like your job?
Most days.

42. Like your coworkers?
Its what keeps me coming back each and every day.

43. What was your favorite vacation?
Vietnam with Mark or Laos with Andrew. They were both pretty awesome.

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
My husband. Malaysian food for his birthday. It wasn't that good.

45. What are you listening to right now?
Max meowing and the train going by.

46. What is your favorite color?
Red, red and more red.

47. How many tattoos do you have?
One.


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