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I finally got my shinai up on campus. I also got my aikido Gi. w00p w00p. on my way back from aikido I saw the autumn equinox ritual that they did. I think I'm going to either do that or the catholic mass as my religious ritual paper. AGH AND I HAVE TO GIVE DR. RON A ROUGH OF THE GEORGIA TRIP PAPER! blah. I need a printer...eventually...
I wanna go to home depot with steve to get the plaster for the hole in the wall. Home depot rocks. anyway.
After aikido I saw the equinox ritual. it was really interesting. they called upon the four guardians of the four directions (ground of the north, fire of the south, wind from the east, water from the west.) it was overall very interesting and had a lot of ties to taoism and some of the other eastern religion/philosophies. Turns out the VP is also in the Pride club, a double whammy for those conservative christians. it really sucks that nobody's open-minded people. in my class is a farm girl from Iowa who says all the rituals she seees are "weird." she doesn't seem to comprehend that she herself can be seen as "weird" to anybody else she's talking about.
But the VP gave me a rune reading, and I found it fascinating how divinations and oracles work. (I had just seen a video on an african tribe that relies on oracles as a large part of their legal system, for example sticking two sticks into a termite pile and see which one is eaten, then deciding something on that. anyway, divinations (horoscopes, tarot, rune stones, etc.) I find interesting in that they aren't necessarily some sort of supernatural power (although such things are still somewhat open to me) but they help you look into yourself and the responses help you to bring something you're thinking about to light and formulate advice on it. The first rune told me that I was in a new place, new surroundings, etc. the second said somewhat similar things, but that i was uncomfortable with something. this being the fact that everybody has such different opinions than I do on things here. but it told me also to keep an open mind. the third was the most interesting to me. it was the stone of the spiritual warrior. This had some of the same principals as a martial artist or zen practitioner. it told me to remain steadfast in my opinions and to know the difference between guidance and flawed thinking. with a clear mind I would be able to see what my mind thought was right and what was wrong for me. It said to keep an open mind and to be aware that many things exist, but to know which is the right path to follow, etc. at least that's my paraphrasing a mixture of what the runes said and what he drew from them, and also what I drew from the explanations.
I wanna go to home depot with steve to get the plaster for the hole in the wall. Home depot rocks. anyway.
After aikido I saw the equinox ritual. it was really interesting. they called upon the four guardians of the four directions (ground of the north, fire of the south, wind from the east, water from the west.) it was overall very interesting and had a lot of ties to taoism and some of the other eastern religion/philosophies. Turns out the VP is also in the Pride club, a double whammy for those conservative christians. it really sucks that nobody's open-minded people. in my class is a farm girl from Iowa who says all the rituals she seees are "weird." she doesn't seem to comprehend that she herself can be seen as "weird" to anybody else she's talking about.
But the VP gave me a rune reading, and I found it fascinating how divinations and oracles work. (I had just seen a video on an african tribe that relies on oracles as a large part of their legal system, for example sticking two sticks into a termite pile and see which one is eaten, then deciding something on that. anyway, divinations (horoscopes, tarot, rune stones, etc.) I find interesting in that they aren't necessarily some sort of supernatural power (although such things are still somewhat open to me) but they help you look into yourself and the responses help you to bring something you're thinking about to light and formulate advice on it. The first rune told me that I was in a new place, new surroundings, etc. the second said somewhat similar things, but that i was uncomfortable with something. this being the fact that everybody has such different opinions than I do on things here. but it told me also to keep an open mind. the third was the most interesting to me. it was the stone of the spiritual warrior. This had some of the same principals as a martial artist or zen practitioner. it told me to remain steadfast in my opinions and to know the difference between guidance and flawed thinking. with a clear mind I would be able to see what my mind thought was right and what was wrong for me. It said to keep an open mind and to be aware that many things exist, but to know which is the right path to follow, etc. at least that's my paraphrasing a mixture of what the runes said and what he drew from them, and also what I drew from the explanations.