R.I.P Mrs. Lim

This happen too fast. I'm in shock. She was just diagnose not long ago. I was hoping the herbs can help her. I actually thought she will heal slowly. This is devastating. I remember how you help me and give light to me back then when I have problem. You were kind to me. I never expected this will pain me so much.

Goodbye Mrs.Lim. I'll miss you. Maybe God bless you on the other side.

Virgo and Tarot

The correlated Tarot Card for Virgo is The Hermit. Interesting.

http://www.mysticgames.com/articles/2010/09/163/the-hermit-virgo/

The Hermit represents a person who is a teacher of the true meaning of life and is also on a spiritual path. The Hermit stands alone and is isolated. He is cloaked in a gray (wisdom) robe, head down, eyes closed, looking within. He holds an illuminated lamp in his right hand held out and up to the sky, as if guiding him on a path. The light inside of the lamp is in the shape of a star. In his left hand, a golden staff is held representing intelligence. The Hermit lights the way for others who have lost their way. When this card appears in a reading, perhaps we need to shed light on a situation in order to heal. Since light casts shadows, it also encourages us to deal with contradictions within, including those of the shadow self. Virgo assimilates spiritual knowledge including the desire to serve.

When this card appears in a reading, critical thinking is blended with intuition. Good advice and pure intentions are indicated. You must persevere to achieve a particular goal. Look within for guidance. Introspection, attainment and realizing your purpose is possible.

Negatively, the appearance of The Hermit may imply you are being overly critical, obsessed with details and disorganized. There is a need to organize your thoughts and defer to a Higher Power.

http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/meanings/hermit.shtml

One of the important things about this card is that the Hermit is almost always shown on the move. He's never hiding away in his cave. Rather, he's out wandering, searching. This is apt for the restless mind of a Virgo, always gathering information, analyzing, making connections. Virgos are also known for being the skeptics of the zodiac. If anyone is going to stick a lantern into a dark place and take a good look at what's going on, it's a Virgo.

The above paragraph is kinda true for me.

The Disorganised Virgo

I recently went to a torat class and the conversation veered towards Virgo. The instructor said Virgo is an Earth sign and so they hate change. They like things to be as they are. That's why they have difficulty making decisions. So far so good. But, then, she came to this point.

Virgo people are very organised. They need everything to be in order and need great planning. If you are going to a holiday with them, you will need to give them 3 months notice for them to pack everything.

Haha, this is far from the truth is my case. I'm disorganised to a T. I don't make list, I don't keep account and log books and I don't always put things back to where it is. I just put things wherever it's handy. I also don't care what pen and paper I use as long as it can be used. I never write a diary until 2 years ago and gave up after a few pages. I'm starting to write again but, it's not very frequant.
I also don't plan for long. If going on a holiday, I most probably on start packing the night before. :P

Lastly, I'm bad at time management.

This is the most unVirgo part of me. :D

Excepts
http://www.astrology.com.au/astrology/12-signs-of-the-zodiac/virgo.html

Time is also important to you. So you like to make sure you use it well. It would be unusual to find a disorganised Virgo. Keeping a diary and making lists are a favourite pastime of yours. Of course having the right pen and paper to keep your lists is just as important so a favourite hangout for some Virgos is the local stationery supply store. It sounds a little weird sure, but you do need to have the right pen to write with!

Edward Jones - The boy who stole into Buckingham Palace 3 times

I first read about this boy in a book complication of strange but true stories. One of the stories was about a boy who stole into the Buckingham Palace 3 times. The book didn't say what happened to him after his 2nd conviction. So, I search google for the answers and found a wiki entry of him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones

This person is very fascinating. He was obviously intelligent, to be able to steal into Buckingham Palace 4 times (according to wikipedia, one time was undetected), with all the palace guard guarding it. But, his thinking was also abnormal. He didn't think like us normal folks. His fascination and addiction to the Buckingham Palace has no end. He just couldn't get away from the palace. What tied him so much to the palace? The glittery in it? The Queen?

He has a chance to earn a good living, first in the navy, then, in the music hall, but, he rejected both. He chose a life of mischieve. After he was caught loitering in the vicinity of the palace after his last conviction and sent to duty in a warship, he kept on attempting to leave the ship and come back to London. At last, he became a buglar and alcholic, and deported to Australia and became a town crier in Perth. What a life wasted. With such intelligence, he might be able to make it big and become a useful member of society. Even if he didn't make it big, he could have lead a decent life. But, he chose a life of crime. He could do better than a town crier with his intelligence. But, his temperament/personality failed him.

One can see to be sucessful, being smart is not the only criteria. The are also many other personal qualities that are needed. Having the right goal, persistance, discpline, and the will to succeed. Edward Jones actually has a lot of the criterias. He's persistant, and have great will. One thing he didn't have is the right aim/goal. His aim was just going into the Buckingham Palace again and again and again, which didn't benefit his life at all.

I personally think he might have slight autism. One of the characteristic of autism is consistancy and persistant. Like if the person put something one a table and arrange in certain way, the thing will always have to be put there and arrage in that way. He wouldn't rest until it did. Him going to the Buckingham place again and again reminds me of this. He also reminds me of the 'spiderman' who likes to scale tall building despite being arrested again and again.

I guess it's not all bad. If he has chosen to live decently, his name might not be remembered until and got an entry in Oxford Dictionary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8705942.stm

Vision Mountain Card for Today

http://www.visionmountain.com/game/reading4_11.html

FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN

Aphorism:
“One thing I know and that is that I know nothing.” -Socrates

Process:
Even though every situation is comprised of millions of bits of information, the human intellect is capable of being aware of little more than a dozen of those bits! Therefore it is not only a waste of time to try to figure your way out of a difficulty; it is demoralising and discouraging to try to do so. Even if you find an answer, it is unlikely that it will be the answer, simply because you are relying on your limited intellect rather than the voice of your heart your intuition to guide you through the labyrinth that problems tend to create. The biggest lie your ego tells you is that you should know what to do in the face of any difficulty. This puts negative stress on you and further interferes with your heart s desire to guide you. Why not just admit that you don t know?

Guidance:
It is not possible for you to see even 1% of all the influences that comprise your present difficulty, so analysing the situation and trying to figure out how and why it happened, and what you should do about it is futile. Instead, accept that you do not know what this is about, but trust that it is part of your purpose and mission in life. Relax in the I don t know. Feel the stress of having to find the solution gradually dissolve into the peace of trust. You will not be in the emptiness long before the light of your True Self joins you there and gives you the guidance regarding what step you could take. At times that step will be enough to take you beyond the problem. Sometimes, however you will take the step and then rest in the I don t know again. In those cases discipline is required, but this is because what awaits you beyond this type of problem is a profoundly life transforming experience. So release all expectations of how long you will have to stay in the unknown and recognise it as the most important classroom in your life. Eventually you will find yourself truly free, because you will be free from everything that you think you know. Only then can you know the TRUTH.

Thoughts from 'What on Earth Happened?'

Nearly finished reading the book 'What on Earth Happened?' After reading the part on how the Western nations destroyed the cultures of other nations, I feel a sense of disgust and irony.

These white people went to Africa, Australia, America etc, drove the original inhabitants from their land, captured them as forced labourers and slaves, destroyed their culture and religion. Some even went so far as to forcefully took the children of aboriginals from their parents as 'ward of the state', put them in orphanages and internment camps, and raised them as agricutural laborers and forbade them to speak any other language other than English. These white conquerers intent to systematically eradicate the aborigins' culture. They plundered the resources from these lands to fatten their own country, to support their rich lifestyle. By the time these colonial nations gain independance, their resourced have been depleted and exhausted, and they are left in an economically disadvantaged state, leaving them to struggle for a living. Now, these middle to upper class whites, who live in an economically superior nation, living in the lap of luxuries and have time to think about spirituality, went back to these aboriginal people, learn their shamanic skills, declare themselves shamans and come back as gurus holding workshops.

What irony.

They were the one who destroyed these cultures and they are the one who now want to learn back these cultures, these sacred and 'superior' knowledge for the advancement of their spirituality.

It's also ironic that when these ex-colony started to embrace modernisation, abandoning their culture, the whites want to preserve them. These group of of people (mostly antropologists I guess) , who has now learn to appreciate heritage and variety in cultures, went to the aboriginal tribes, stayed with them to study their cultures, do documentaries and do preservations work.

What irony.

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But, no matter what, I think it's a good thing for them to want to preserve these cultures now, to let people know more about these cultures. But, I hope they don't commercialise it and bastardise it and turn it into another money-making tool (these are usually done by the spiritual gurus type).

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These colonisation brought a lot of injustices. Many original inhabitants suffered due to these colonisation, their dignity was stripped. They could the tribe leaders, respected members of their tribe and family. But, was turned into forced laborers and slaves, be a second class citizens in their own land, some treated worse than animals. Such cruelty. (No wonder some blacks still have chips on their shoulders. Their ancestors really suffered greate injustice, cruelty and indignities). But at the same time, these colonisation brought modernisation to these nations. If left untouched and undisturbed, they might still be living the way they live thousands years ago without advancement. So, what is right and wrong? Colonisation, invasion brought a lot of devastation, but, at the same time also allow the spreading of knowledge, which lead to more developement of science. Colonisation and trades brought new animals and plants to a nation and made it more colourful. Countries become multination and multiculture.

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Is this all meant to be? Now, the world seems to be facing this dilemma/struggle. At least, from my POV.

Maintanance of culture identity vs globalisation.

Multi-culture multi-religion vs new world order.

I prefer the former.

Assumption

Everyone makes assumption. I agree I made a lot of assumptions, jumping to conclusions quickly. I must improved on this. Need to lot of work on it.

But, why am I the only one at fault? Everyone makes assumptions. As long as you are human, you will make assumption. But, it seems people are allowed to make assumption of me and has biases against me, but, I'm not allowed to do the same in return.

At least, I can see my own fault. But, others just continue pointing their fingers at other and blind to their own fault.

Sigh.