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New MySpace Upgrade
2008-05-19 01:02:00
Well, since DovBear recently made design changes to his blog, I got in the mood to upgrade the look of my woefully neglected MySpace page. See my upgraded MySpace page here. I rarely visit MySpace, but at least the page looks somewhat tended now.I also moved my playlist on this blog. It was so scrunched in the sidebar. It has room to breathe as a "sticky post".Don't bother making design suggestions, because I probably wouldn't listen anyway. LOL.
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Sheydim In Beit HaBechirah
2008-05-17 18:27:00
?'? ????? ???"?Mab 13In contrast to today's earlier entry on the collapse at Angels Camp, here is an entry on sheydim (commonly, yet incorrectly, identified as demons).Excerpts from Magic Of The Ordinary: Recovering The Shamanic In Judaism (Gershon Winkler):The book of the Zohar, one of the most classical of the Jewish mystical texts, describes the sheydim as "half human, half angel" ... (beings who) dance between both the spirit world and the physical world ...who await their completion during Shabbat*."And the Source of Powers said: 'The earth should bring out of itself the Life Spirit ...", taught Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, "these are the sheydim, whose souls the Creator fashioned and whose bodies the Creator was about to form when the Settling Time (Shabbat) arrived ..."Jewish tradition recounts quite extensively how sheydim were invoked by people for evil or good.Although "demonized" by religious scripture and folklore, sheydim are also mentioned in more positive contexts. Shlomo...

Collapse At Angels Camp
2008-05-17 16:20:00
?'? ????? ???"?Mab 13Central Yo-Yo Pole Collapse s, Failing To Support RidersFoxnewsANGELS CAMP, Calif. ? A carnival ride at the annual fair celebrating the popular Calaveras County jumping frog contest collapsed Friday, injuring all 24 people aboard.Three were airlifted to hospitals in Modesto and Sacramento, but the extent of the injuries was not immediately known, said Sgt. Dave Seawell, a spokesman for the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department.Most of the riders were children, and all were injured, he said.The carnival ride, called the Yo-Yo, collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, about 80 miles southeast of Sacramento.The ride has metal arms, each with a seat at the end attached by a chain, that swing outward as the ride picks up speed. The arms rise and fall as they spin around a center pole, putting the seats horizontal to the ground.The pole apparently collapsed, causing the arms to crash back toward the center, said Den...
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??? - I Will Favor
2008-05-13 02:53:00
?' ????? ???"?Mab 9This morning, I had another waking vision. I saw the thin veil between realities pulled back, as the face of a neutral earth-toned creature peered around it's edge, with curiosity, looking at me.Today was gypsy day at work. Jars of fortune cookies were located at each of the three nursing stations. Walking by one, I picked up a fortune cookie for myself. The slip of paper once hidden in my cookie read, "someone is watching you from afar." Interesting.This evening's divination, consisting of one ogham letter, was performed under the waxing gibbous moon 59% (???) full during the planetary hour of Venus.Gort - the garden of growth, safe haven, sanctuary of peace, place of greenest pastures, abundance, blessings, rest and restoration, a current of happiness runs through it, color blue.Greenest of pastures and blue. Hmm. I also received my aqua aura crystal in the mail today. It's beautiful, like today.And He said: 'I will make all My goodness pass before thee, an...
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Forming Light & The Staff Of Gazing
2008-05-11 23:38:00
?' ????? ???"?Mab 7In a vision this morning right before waking, in the place between moments I beheld, as if the gaze of my "looking" was carving into a reality made of pure light. No light was removed from the original matrix of light, as the line of light I was seeing "carved" was formed.Instead, mountains made of light were pushed up and valleys also made of light were sunk low, by the act of carving and forming through beholding. The line formed by gazing was "connected" to a line I had carved into my magic staff before going to sleep last night! For a moment, I perceived with clarity the perfection with which the two were one - the carvings on my witch's staff and the astral double of those carvings imprinted into a matrix of pure light.It was an electrifying sight to behold.UpdatePerusing the blogosphere, I find this tidbit at Balashon:Degel ??? is an interesting word. Ask any Israeli - or any Hebrew speaker for that matter - and they will tell you that it means "flag". Tha...
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Pronouncing The Divine Name
2008-05-08 19:13:00
?' ????? ???"?Mab 4I recently received the following email inquiry from a reader whose name will not be mentioned unless he chooses to acknowledge it as his in a comment:Viewing and learning from different documents, conferences, meetings and websites, all people conclude that THE DIVINE NAME of G-D is only one, but how could a neophyte person and also a non-Jewish person know the real pronunciation of that sacred and holy name?The question is worthy of a published response, so this is my response to the reader's inquiry:The Divine Name is uniquely "pronounced" by each individual. To learn how it is pronounced within yourself, be faithful to your most true self. The more you discover who you really are and align your perspective in congruence with your discoveries, the closer you will come to learning how to "pronounce" (unfold into reality) the Divine Name as it is explicitly expressed through you.There are many, many Divine Names, but the question and my response concern the Div...

Sabbat Consciousness
2008-05-02 02:31:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 28In follow-up to my previous entry, In The Current Of An Epiphany, I note that the Sabbat fire festival called Beltaine is traditionally observed tonight, and astrologically observed May 4 in my location. Veronica Cummer in her new book Sorgitzak, writes of Sabbat consciousness:The Sabbats in ancient times were as much altered states of consciousness as they were celebrations tied to a particular place or season. The powers that were called upon and raised were as much within each Witch as they were in the sacred hilltops or the secluded valleys or forests where the rites took place, for we are all filled with webs of energy in much the same manner as the Earth. To work with one is to work with the other, as the inner reflects the outer and the outer reflects the inner.In this way, when we activate those webs inside us, we also activate them in the Earth. We spin into physical being the patterns of energy brought down ... To be clear, Witches of old entered i...
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In The Current Of An Epiphany
2008-05-01 23:45:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 27This evening's Beltaine and Yom HaShoah Hebrew and Ogham letter tarot reading was performed under the waning crescent moon 17% full, during the planetary hour of Venus. Three Hebrew letters and 1 Ogham letter were ritually chosen with a Beltaine flame lighting my altar.???, a shoresh meaning to ridicule as strange [1].When Israel came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; The shoresh ??? is used in the above phrase from Tehillim, leading one to understand that the state of expanded consciousness called "the house of Jacob" is directly derived from the experience of being ridiculed for being "strange" and different. The house of Jacob also refers specifically to the female experience corresponding to the Jacob state of consciousness.Following the Hebrew letters, came the fid ailm. This ogham letter has the following meanings [2]:*inception*loudest of groanings*cry of birth and death, where birth and death are one*celestial...
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Sentinels Of Chashmal & Smoke Signals MiSinai
2008-04-27 18:36:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 23I dreamt.I wanted to go to a warehouse in the midsouth of downtown Danville to get some of my belongings out of storage. A masculine voiceless Voice with me silently spoke, telling me not to go through the business section of downtown Danville, but to "go around" near the edge of the city, through the southeastern corner which ran by the cemetery beside the VA (??), to get to the warehouse. The voiceless Voice warned me of a Nazi gathering happening in downtown Danville and provided me with an alternate route to go to get to my belongings. I immediately knew the essential and specific content of his transmitted communication without the need of any words to articulate the message. The words which describe the content of the message are my words.As the voiceless Voice was silently speaking my traveling instructions, I saw giant living forms set in an "encircling line" at periodic distances like sentinels, facing away from me, looking out, like solid dark shad...
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Circuits Of Fire
2008-04-27 03:45:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 23Motzi Shabbat Hebrew letter tarot reading performed under the waning gibbous moon 65% full during the planetary hour of the moon.The 3 letters:? ? ?of seven (?) full circles of fire (?? 360 degrees, moznayim) cast
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Springtime Witcheries
2008-04-26 21:49:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 22I still love my long black skirts, but spring is arrived, and with it has arrived a taste for color in artful witchy designs. Consequently, I'm adding some dangerously divine clothing items to my wardrobe as shown on Craftwork Of A Jewitch. Many of the unique witchwear items I have purchased for myself and feature on my blog can be purchased by other witches (see my new witchwear links section on Craftwork Of A Jewitch). If you like these witchy designs and would like to choose something similar for yourself, visit my witchwear links.My newest acquisitions:Earth Fire EleganceEarth Witch
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Gwenn Is Born!
2008-04-23 03:55:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 19My sixth grandchild, my first granddaughter, Gwenn, arrived in this world at 7:01 pm April 22, weighing in at 8.0 pounds, 21.5 inches long, perfect in every way.

Mystic Witch Music Playlist
2008-04-21 03:06:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 16I've added my Mystic Witch playlist of music to my sidebar. Enjoy some beautiful music as you read my blog!There are 27 tracks on Mystic Witch.Mystic Witch can be found here in fuller view at Walking On Fire at LiveJournal.
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Coarse Grains Of Redemptive Blessing
2008-04-19 18:15:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 15In follow up to Transformative Pesach Prophecy, several elucidating ideas emerge from Ceridwen's cauldron of transformative prophecy.Pesach-Beltaine ConnectionPesach Sheni is May 19 (Iyar 14, corresponding to the time we count the 30th day of the Omer) and astrological Beltaine (Beltaine Sheni) is May 4 (Annwyn 30) this year of 5768. Consequently, both Pesach Sheni and Beltaine Sheni come together through a "time" value of 30.Ceridwen is associated in Celtic witchcraft with Beltaine. Yet, Ceridwen delivered to me a prophecy associated with Pesach. Taken together, Ceridwen represents for me stepping above the time of both, transcendently joining together Pesach and Beltaine.As a lunar goddess, Ceridwen is linked with blessings bestowed through Yesod into Malchut. Pesach Rishon this year is April 20 (Nissan 15). The full moon of the witches' month of Annwyn is called the Drawing Down The Moon full moon, also on April 20 (Annwyn 16), suggesting a time through...
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Transformative Pesach Prophecy
2008-04-19 00:28:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 14I woke up in the middle of the night last night with a vision imprinted upon my mind. In the vision, I was sitting at my office desk working on all the extra work that has been put upon me recently (which, by the way, I am successfully making my way through this immense sea of work). Ceridwen, the archetypal Celtic goddess of prophecy and transformation, walked through the doorway into my office. She had a look of controlled anger about her, as if she was restraining herself mightily against some injustice. She also had a halo, like the one she wears in my bronze statue of her cauldron and she (shown, click to enlarge). With Ceridwen's appearance, came the words "warning" and "the writers" (?-??????).The two messages were one essential communication, each message corresponding to the communication on a different perceptual level."Warning" was telepathic and completely encompassing and encircling, like Ceridwen's halo. It was non-local, yet focused sufficie...
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Pesach 5768. Out Of The Broom Closet.
2008-04-16 02:51:00
?'? ????? ???"?Annwyn 12I openly wore a pentacle at work today.Later, having dinner this evening with my parents, my father came right out and asked me between bites, "Are you studying to be a witch?""Actually, I am, " I said, "I'm a Jewish witch. A kabbalist, a shaman ...""What's that?" my father asked regarding the latter descriptor."You know ... a mystic ...""Oh, you mean, a witch," he said with a small chuckle, then the conversation went on to other topics.My children have all known for quite some time now that I am a Jewitch. But, I've never actually straight up informed my parents of my interest in combining witchcraft with Judaism.I am totally out of the broom closet!I have indeed been liberated this Pesach .
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The Solitary Scorpion
2008-04-13 02:43:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 9In follow-up to my previous entry, Inside Out To Divine Consciousness, some interesting symbolic insights on the nature of the humble and solitary scorpion (who has a kotz in its tail, as do each of each the letters of ???):A summary of symbol meaning/associations for the Scorpion are as follows:TransitionDeath/DyingSexControlSo litary/Being AloneTreacheryPassionProtectionDefensiven essA potent message the Scorpion chooses to express is that of protection and/or isolation. In fact, they themselves are quite solitary - part of the reason why they symbolize the solitary.The Scorpion will mate in an exotic, dance of passion and control. The Scorpion sex dance is one of beauty, control, and calculation.Defensiveness/control/protect ion is evident in the Scorpion's appearance - which seems to say "Do not trifle with me." One look at this magnificent creature says "back off!" does it not?As another symbol of protection - we can consider the poisonous tip of the scorpi...

Inside Out To Divine Consciousness
2008-04-12 02:07:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 8Encoding critical actions to Divine Consciousness , as described more explicitly in The Epiphany, turned inside out, ??? is the Divine Name ???.The 3-flamed letter shin (?) corresponds to the active collapse of created consciousness (of Beriyah, Yetzirah and Assiyah) into the point at the base of the letter. Thus, shin corresponds to the actions of consciousness corresponding to this portion of my poem (The Epiphany):allmythoughtsvavfeelingsvavques tionsvavanswersvavmeaningsbecoming beingmashing together, collapsing into my gutthena silenceThe letter yod (?) is not a mere point. Rather, the letter yod is a point with a little tail that curls around, as if it is turning inside out. Thus, the letter yod corresponds to that which breaks through into the silence as described in this portion of The Epiphany:cutting the bursting emptiness, wheneternity into a split mo-mentpercolatingthena rush ofa whirlwindbursting fullmore than I couldever understanding at oncecoming...
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Dilug Sh'lo b'Hadraga
2008-04-10 02:01:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 6Googling "dilug" for some clue as to the significance of the quantum jump in consciousness I experienced during dinner Monday (see Dilug At Dinner), I found an interesting connection of my "dilug" (which was a quantized as opposed to a gradual energetic increase) to the observance of Pesach.At Chabadtalk, I found this on Pesach Sheni and dilug:See the muga maamor Lehavin Inyan Pesach Sheni, 5738, 2nd paragraph of ois beis.After explaining that the dilug of Pesach Sheni is both a dilug from a higher place (than Pesach), and the dilug itself is also greater, the Rebbe confronts your issue:Quote:According to this it is possible to connect the explanation above that Pesach Sheni is a higher level, which comes after the preparation of the avodah of Pesach Rishon, with the inyan that Pesach Sheni as it is b'pashtus, that it is a tikkun and hashlama for someone that didn't bring a korban Pesach. Because this that Pesach Sheni fixes and repays the lack that resulted...

Dilug At Dinner
2008-04-09 01:27:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 5Yesterday, as I was eating dinner, for a few simple startling moments in time, a strange alteration of consciousness silently occurred. No one noticed, but I definitely felt it. For those few moments between bites of food, even as others were conversing, the entire psycho-physical world "jumped" to a higher state of being, feeling less dense, as if gravity had decreased it's pull on materiality, and "brighter", as if the fabric of all spacetime was crisper, clearer and without obstruction. Even my physical body felt as if it had the strength and lightness of a small child, full of easy vigor.My consciousness settled back after the initial "grand" jump into a higher energy level than before the jump had happened - sort of like a few steps forward and one step back, with a net gain. This experience of consciousness felt to me like an electron must feel when it jumps from from one quantum energy level to another - that is how it felt - quantum in nature.I've ...
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Reyah - A Friend Like Me
2008-04-07 02:25:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 3In follow-up to my Craftwork entry, Another Like Me, I've found a word to describe the kind of witchy-friend I am looking for - a reyah (????) meaning a "close friend" of the same soul-stuff. Given the complexity of my soul, such a witchy companion may be hard to find around here. But, I can't, won't believe that no other like me exists. Somewhere out there is a reyah for me.
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Asnat Bat Dinah & The Malach Michael
2008-04-06 20:31:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 2Interestingly, in follow up to both Michael And Me and Muvhak, there is precedent for the malach Michael "coming down" to a female. It is to Asnat, the daughter of Dinah and the granddaughter of Yaakov.The Eishet Chayil website writes on Asnat:Yaakov however, would not let them kill this child. He took a piece of metal and engraved on it the Divine name and the according to Tzedah LaDerech, the following words " Whoever marries this girl should know that his children will be descendants of Jacob." He placed it on a chain and put it around the child's neck. He then left her in the field under a bush. It is for this reason that she was named Asnath, from the Hebrew word "Seneh" which means bush. Chazal explain that the Malach Michael came down, took to the child ...Somewhat similarly, Michael "came down" to me. Also interesting within the midrashic account, is the information that Dinah, Asnat's mother, was six years old when she was "kidnapped". I was six yea...

Muvhak
2008-04-06 19:37:00
?' ????? ???"?Annwyn 2In follow up to the entry, Michael And Me about a shabbat dream from a week ago, two items in the news today of events which occurred this most recent past shabbat, link all together to the concept of the birth of messianic consciousness:Teacher & Student Do Not Come Down Safe & SoundFoxnews, Sunday, April 6, 2008LONGMONT, Colo. ? A skydiving instructor and his student died Saturday after a fall while doing a tandem jump over Vance Brand Municipal Airport, airport manager Tim Barth said."Everything was normal. The parachute was fine," said Barth, who went to the scene after the accident. Barth said that about 100 feet from the ground, the instructor made a turn to land, with the wind behind him. About 50 feet from the ground, he made another turn but was going too fast and was too steep, Barth said.Moses DiesCNN, Sunday, April 6, 2008LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and ...

Michael And Me
2008-03-30 01:27:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 24I dreamt.Very simply, giants were on the prowl, looking for Michael . But the giants couldn't find him, because Michael came down, safe and sound with me.I woke up.??????? ?????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ?????????, ??????? ???-?????? ???????, ????????? ??? ?????, ?????? ???-????????? ???????? ????? ??? ????? ??????; ??????? ?????? ???????? ???????, ????-?????????? ??????? ?????????.

Foundation Of The Fire
2008-03-27 00:04:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 20Another tragic apopsi connection of my writings to immediate news events. This time it is of Monday evening's entry, The Witch's Room (which describes my altar as built upon a foundation of books) with this morning's 3-building fire downtown in my hometown, where the "foundation" of the fire was a bookstore. When the fire event was described to me, the actual words the person used were - "the foundation of the fire was in the bookstore."Bookstore Blaze Engulfs BusinessesMarch 26, 2008DANVILLE ? The sky above downtown Danville was filled with smoke this morning as firefighters battled a blaze at Danville Bookworld at 109 N. Vermilion St. The fire also destroyed Briars and Brambles at 105 N. Vermilion St.Fire fighters got the call about 10:17 a.m., and the building was fully engulfed when they arrived.At first, there were concerns that someone was inside the building, but those concerns were dismissed after a search. Medix was called to the scene, although...
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Beit Zayin - BenZion
2008-03-26 02:05:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 20Baruch dayyan emet. ???? ???? ???Another tragic link of my writing to immediate news events. This time, it is of my early afternoon entry Eishet Chayil Of The House Of Zayin to a tragic motor vehicle accident which happened that very same night, reported the next day in Vos Iz Neias and today in Jewish And Breaking News:Jewish Philanthropist Rabbi Benzion Dunner Dies In CrashA prominent member of Britain's Jewish community was killed in a two-car smash on the Spur Road at the weekend.Wealthy philanthropist Rabbi Benzion Dunner died instantly when his 175,000 Pound Bentley Arnage was in collision with a Toyota Celica on the south-bound carriageway, around one-and-a-half miles from the Ashley Heath roundabout.News of the 45-year-old's tragic death was immediately posted on Jewish websites and, in accordance with the religion, his funeral was held within 24 hours.Rabbi Dunner, from Golders Green in London, is believed to have been on his way to an event at ...

In A Good Heart, Find Good Peace
2008-03-23 21:35:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 17In my natal chart, Neptune is found in Libra which itself is in the third House of Communication where the future is brought together and molded.In Torah Temimah it was shown that Neptune corresponds to tov (???) meaning good.Libra corresponds to the Hebrew letter lamed (?). Lamed is mystically associated with the heart of Chavah, in which rests a protected place for peace to unfold. What kind of peace? Good peace, like the good heart (Neptune in Libra) which brings it together, molds and gives birth to it.
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True Witnesses
2008-03-23 18:17:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 17Experience (Heart, Soul)I became a living experiencing acting intelligence (??? Chavah, 19),Space (Teli, Universe)brought down through the ninth astrological sign of the zodiac (Sagittarius), into beingTime (Cycle, Year)with ten, during the tenth month of the Hebrew calendar (Tevet).A proof of this, true witnesses in the Universe, Year, Souland a rule of twelve (??), and seven and three:set in the Teli, the Cycle, and the Heart.Sefer Yetzirah 6:1
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Perfectly And Abundantly Made
2008-03-23 15:30:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 17Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not elevenUnderstand with Wisdom, be Wise with Understanding ...??? ?????? ?????, ??? ??? ???, ??? ??? ???-??????? ????? ???? ?????Sefer Yetzirah 1:4The moon (?) is in Virgo (?) in the second House of Acquisition of the zodiac in my sidereal natal chart. What does this ?? mean? It literally means "with ten". With ten what, exactly? There is "nothing" to tell me what "ten" ?? is referring to. Wait, I understand now! I remember the words "ten sefirot of nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven" that I am made with.The word for "ten" in the above excerpt from Sefer Yetzirah is ???. The shoresh ??? means "enriching", "being abundant", and "complete unit".The word for "nine" in the above excerpt is ???. The shoresh ??? means "decrease" and "less than a complete unit".The word for "eleven" in the above excerpt is ???-????. Here is where the vessels may become shattered. ??? is the feminine form of "o...
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Aiming High
2008-03-22 21:05:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 16With all the high-sounding posts about messianic consciousness and Divine Awareness, some people may think I'm crazy and would like to knock me off my witchy "high horse". Actually, I'm not crazy, I'm just clearly a sidereal Sagittarius who aims high! I am the witchy high horse I sit on. LOL.Fundamentals of Sagittarius:Element: Fire (?), eternal SourceQuality: Mutable (yechidah), soul of self-sacrifice able to reveal messianic TorahRuling Planet: Jupiter (?), shabbat consciousnessSymbol: Archer & Bow (?), hishtavut/equinimity and Divine BlessingKeywords: Adventurous, Enthusiastic, Freedom-Loving, Spontaneous
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