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Cheshbon HaNefesh & The Secrets Of Time
2008-03-22 19:29:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 16At the cusp of the tenth zodiac house, the House of National Soul, rests the zenith of the natal chart known as Midheaven (Medium Coeli, MC). Midheaven, situated above the place of birth, is the superconscious point connecting the incarnating life-force to it's mission goals for the particular lifetime into which it is evolving. In my sidereal natal chart, Midheaven is set in Taurus (Shor).The mazal of Taurus (corresponding to the power of the letter vav) contains the pristine and rectified spiritual origin of the nefesh soul and brings out into purposeful revelation:radiance and lightthe powers of contemplation, introspection and calculationnatural healingmastering the secrets of timethe power to connect and interrelate all elements within creationThus, the "national" origin of my nefesh is represented by the Hebrew letter vav and my introspective Torah is a radiant, light-filled, healing, masterful, connectively creative vav-Torah.
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Eishet Chayil Of The House Of Zayin
2008-03-22 18:02:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 16There are two astrologically significant points in the seventh House of Zayin in my sidereal natal chart. They are, like Betzalel and Ohaliov, artistic talent in partnership with the Divine:Venus - kaf (?), the power to actualize potential and manifest rectified Will.Chiron - ????, artistic molder, from the shoresh ??? meaning to purify, repair and correct; the ability to rectify Will; from which is derived the word ???, meaning to be molded, to mold - in other words "chiron" brings down the ability to mold (purify and form) and be molded into (actualize) one's messianic spark, represented by nun-sofit.The House of Zayin in my natal chart is in Aquarius (Dlee, ?), which brings out the ability to draw Divinity into manifest revelation.The configuration of the seventh house offers insight into the Divine "I" as a helpmate to the personal "self" as described in the first house of the zodiac.

Categories Of Ignorance
2008-03-22 15:56:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 16Kabbalah teaches there are four categories of ignorance. They are passive ignorance, active ignorance, essential ignorance, and enlightened ignorance.Passive ignorance is easy to understand and easy to come by. It's what fills a person's head after a lifetime spent in front of a television set. It is the inevitable and automatic outcome of doing nothing with one's mind.The passively ignorant do not care to understand anything.Active ignorance is commonly mistaken for knowledge, so that although we imagine that we go to school in order to fill our heads with wisdom, we are really there to exchange one type of ignorance for another. Active ignorance is particularly deceptive because it parades in academic (or religious) trappings. Moreover, it often reflects immense scholarly effort and occasionally, true creative brilliance. It is, nonetheless, false, and its effects are as pernicious as those of passive ignorance.The actively ignorant think they compre...
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Stones Of Memory
2008-03-22 02:23:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 16My astrological sun sign using the tropical zodiac is Capricorn. However, the more accurate sidereal zodiac used by astronomers is the zodiac I have been using to interpret my natal birth chart. Using the sidereal zodiac, my astrological sun sign is Sagittarius.In my sidereal natal chart, there are 4 planets under the encircling embrace of Sagittarius (?), the sidereal sun sign of my birth. They are, in order:Jupiter - tav (?)Sun - dalet (?)Saturn - reish (?)Mercury - pei (?)The inner two planets, the Sun and Saturn (dweller, ??), are surrounded by Jupiter and Mercury (middle ear, ??). Significantly, the inner stone (dar, ??) called dweller establishes Malchut, and the satellite stone (socharet, ??) called middle ear establishes Binah. Together, they form the stones of memory.
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Purim Stones - Selection & Clarity
2008-03-21 01:49:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 15Just in time for Purim! I received the tumbled garnet stone, garnet earrings, and the garnet and onyx pendant I ordered a few days ago in the mail this afternoon. Garnet is my birthstone.Happy Purim!Related Walking On Fire Entries:Disasters That Never HappenedThe Contest That Never HappenedConsciousness Without DeathUp From The GraveHoly Holy Holy HostThe Holy Serpent & Creating The FutureScepter Of Selection Other Related Articles:Almog & CoralThe Pur Of PurimGarnet, The Pomegranate Stone Of Seven SpeciesOnyx, The Stone Of Clarity
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Light Of The Land
2008-03-20 22:21:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 14Today is Ostara (Alban Eilir), the Sabbat fire festival marking the vernal equinox, which fell at 12:48 AM this morning in my time zone. Ostara celebrates the light of the land (aur ha-aretz), the astronomical first day of spring and renewal.Aurora Borealis, The Northern Light s
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My Grandson The Prizewinning Author
2008-03-19 23:20:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 13I just received good news! My 8-year old eldest grandson Tyler won first place in our city's Young Author s contest, which included contestants from all area schools. His prizewinning story is titled Harry And Sam.American novelist, film screenwriter and poet William Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature and two Pulitzer Prizes, is Tyler's kin through my mother's mother's father's ancestral line.Mazel tov to my grandson Tyler!
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Disasters That Never Happened
2008-03-18 12:58:00
?'? ???? ?' ???"?Raven 12I dreamt all night last night of tragedies, both personal and global, that never happened. At one point in the night, before I realized that these were things that could have but didn't happen, I woke up crying, tossing and turning before finally falling back asleep to dream more.I came to realize that these were things that never happened, and thus were not going to happen, because, of the personal things I was shown, all except one was of real events in my life over several decades ago that could have, but didn't result in the tragedy I saw. The only other personal event I was shown revolved around a current concern of mine - I was shown the tragic outcome. Consequently, as all the other tragic outcomes didn't happen, neither will this situation that I am concerned about have a tragic outcome. And neither will the global disaster I was shown - it too, isn't going to happen.I am so tired this morning.
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In The News: Searchers Look For The Pit
2008-03-16 19:07:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 10Ohmygosh. Correspondences to the pit uncovered in my shabbat morning vision and the incense compound entries from yesterday are right on top of "the news" today. CNN reports:Searchers Find Possible Graves At Manson CompoundMarch 16, 2008DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) -- Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago.Results of just-completed follow-up (investigative forensic) tests suggest bodies could indeed be lying beneath the parched ground. The test findings -- described in detail to The Associated Press, which had accompanied the site search -- conclude there are two likely clandestine grave sites at Barker Ranch, and one additional site that merits further investigation.Afterward, Daniel Larson took up his part of the investigation. The head of the archaeology department at California State Uni...
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The Contest That Never Happened
2008-03-16 16:55:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 10I dreamt.A jousting match had been set up between the two "warring" factions of the kingdom to decide the singular united fate of the kingdom. Each side sent it's undefeated hero.I saw the dark knight holding his uniquely long jousting stick which glistened with radiant sparks of light at his side as he rode upon his dark steed into the place where the jousting match had been set up. He had never been defeated and was without a doubt that he would win this joust with the opposition's hero.Then, I was no longer watching him, I was upon my own light steed. With my equally uniquely long jousting stick which glistened with radiant sparks of light at my side, I rode up to the place where the jousting match had been set up. I had never been defeated and I knew without a doubt that I wouldn't be in this match either.I watched him watch her as she rode up to the place after he had already arrived. He saw her as a woman robed in light. He wasn't even going to tr...
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Consciousness Without Death
2008-03-16 01:28:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 10In Unblemished Mitzvah, I wrote that my soul is watered by a treasure of the hidden world, namely that known as Ein (???), meaning "nothing" or "without". Ein is the state of nothing which precedes conscious awareness of Ein Sof (??? ???, Without End). Conscious awareness of Ein Sof is known as Ein Sof Aur (??? ??? ???), the Light of Ein Sof.This shabbat morning, before I wrote the entry, Unblemished Mitzvah, I had a waking vision of resurrection, as described in a subsequent entry, Up From The Grave.Between Ein and Aur, between nothing and conscious awareness, in the name Ein Sof Aur, is the word Sof. Sof is usually translated as "end". Interestingly, another translation of "sof" is "death". Thus, a literal translation of Ein Sof Aur is "without death awareness". In other words, Ein Sof Aur is conscious awareness experienced within a state without death.Thus, my writings today have gone from Ein (Unblemished Mitzvah and Holy Holy Holy Host) to Ein Sof (Up ...
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Up From The Grave
2008-03-16 00:23:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 10As I was waking up this shabbat morning, I had the most strikingly clear vision. I was hovering over the the surface of the earth looking down into a pit-like place which had been dug. It looked like a grave that had been opened up through aeons of time. The shadowy place was so essentially peaceful and reverberated with an embracing accumulation of many ancient, ancient days. The earth in which the pit had been dug had the smell of timeless eternity. I can't describe the excited tranquility that ran through me as I looked down into the dug pit of the earth to see ...... an ancient box, like a sarcophagus. On it's dark lid was deeply inscribed a large pentacle of protection and identification. The sight was electrifying!I came awake as the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I felt I had touched a beautiful secret and was participating in a resurrection of that contained within the box.
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Holy Holy Holy Host
2008-03-15 19:39:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 9Tzav, Pakod, Meumah - Holy , Holy, HolyIn Unblemished Mitzvah I brought down the idea that the vulnerability of meumah to blemish (mum) is neutralized by the presence of tzav (command of mobilization), and that materiality neutralized of potential blemish is actualized through the endless action pakod. Remembering.Interestingly, as mentioned in the earlier entry, meumah and tzav each have a gematria of 92. The digit sum of 92 is 11. Eleven is the number of Temple incense spices corresponding to the rectification of Tohu (the state from which the vessels may shatter and become seemingly disconnected from Wholeness), the elevation of Tohu back into the realm of Holiness, and the "distillation and transformation of all corporeality and physicality into supernal luminescence."Torah instructs us not to duplicate the Temple incense compound for personal use, lest s/he be "cut off" (shattered and seemingly disconnected). In other words, the duplication of meumah imp...
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Unblemished Mitzvah
2008-03-15 17:52:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 9In Treasure From The Hidden World, in analysis of my natal birth chart, I wrote that the "water" flowing through my soul is an unblemished flowing treasure of the hidden world; that is, Consciousness flows through me as it existed before the shattering of the vessels which occurred in the world of Beriyah, the first world of nature "distinct" or apparently "separate" from the Divine. In other words, the heavens and the earth declare and testify my individuality to be a clear conduit for Divine Awareness, a realized tzelem of the Divine Above Nature, a ?????? of flawlessly lucid clarity.In kabbalah, the unblemished hidden world is known as the world of nothing (ein, ???), as opposed to the revealed world of something (meumah, ?????). The Torah story of the akeidah (binding of Yitzchak) informs us that "meumah" is the source of spiritual blemish (a mum).Meumah has a gematria of 92. Interestingly, there are 92 naturally occurring elements in nature, the world o...

Dreaming Of The Future
2008-03-15 02:14:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 9A young Iraqi girl dreams of life.Iraqi Teen In Baghdad: I Will Have A Future March 14, 2008BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "When a bomb blows or something explodes, you know, I just keep on sitting here. I don't move."Those are the words of Wurud, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. She points out a window to the large coils of barbed wire snaking along the outer wall of the protected Green Zone where she lives with her family.Wurud is haunted by what's happening in her homeland, but she is also remarkably resilient and wise beyond her years."Whatever place I am in, I will have a future," she says emphatically.May it be so. Amen
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Seder, Seidr
2008-03-14 23:09:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 8A seder is a kabbalistic (shamanic) ritual practiced by some mystics. One ritual seder is typically communal.A seidr (alternatively spelled, seidhr) is a shamanic (kabbalistic) ritual practiced by some witches. One seid ritual is typically communal.Both seder and seidr are "orders" or "arrangements" of praxis, the action of free human beings.

Thousands Celebrate The Massacre Of Schoolchildren
2008-03-14 01:28:00
Unbelievable!? Israel's Channel 10 News reports on the celebrations that took place in Gaza when news came of the murder of Israeli Yeshiva students.
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Yeshiva Massacre
2008-03-13 23:15:00
I fail to understand how any civilized person can be "happy" about the violent deaths of children.
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Protected Treasure
2008-03-12 23:56:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 6Last week, before the recent terrorist attack in Jerusalem and the murder of Eve Carson, I wrote of a "treasure from the hidden world" which I discovered in my astrological natal chart. In Celtic folklore and many other cultural traditions, like the Golem of Jewish tradition, Gnomes are elemental earth spirits who guard hidden treasure. Gnomes would thus be earth elementals in charge of guarding and protecting my treasure of the hidden world.Following the recent Jerusalem massacre and the murder of Eve Carson, yesterday Foxnews reported on sightings of a "Gnome" in South America:Gnome Caught on Video 'Stalking' Streets of Argentina TownTuesday, March 11, 2008A town in South America is living in fear after several sightings of a 'creepy gnome' that locals claim stalks the streets at night, The Sun reports.The little person ? who wears a pointy hat and has a distinctive sideways walk ? was caught on video last week by a terrified group of youngsters.Teenag...
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Clear Point Astrospeak In The News
2008-03-11 00:06:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 5This post is about what may be two more examples of psi synchronicities of some of my writings (and dreams, as well) with subsequent news events. I don't know why or how this is happening, but the coincidences are too many to ignore. So, I document a few that I identify. There are other examples that are undocumented because, quite frankly, there are too many examples and I don't want to document them all. I have other things I'd rather blog. Now, even little things in my life like the new clear crystal point pendulum necklace delivered to me in the mail on Saturday that I wore for the first time to work on Sunday "made the news" that very evening on Sunday - Foxnews ran an article - Ice, Ice Baby - about a rare and flawless 72-carat diamond with an anticipated worth of $15 million dollars soon to be auctioned off by Sotheby's. Of course, I paid $7.99 for my crystal, but that's not the point - the point is - my crystal pendulum pendant looks and is cut ...
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Throne Of Shechinah
2008-03-09 01:10:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIThere are five stellia (Yods, each with a gematria of 10, for a total of 50) in my natal chart.Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Sat: 26Sag21Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21Stellium with Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21Stellium with Plu: 13Leo42 and Nod: 14Leo43 and Asc: 15Leo44Related entry - Shechinah & The Mystery Of Zero

The Thirty-Seventh Tzadi
2008-03-09 00:31:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIGrand Trine with Ven: 10Aqu16 and Mar: 10Gem54 and Nep: 16Lib49A Grand Trine aspect configuration is found in the Air signs (Aquarius, Gemini and Libra) of my natal chart. A Grand Trine is where:Three planets in Trine aspect (120 degrees) to each other, form a triangle around the circle of the chart. Looks like an "equilateral triangle." The planets are typically in signs that have the same element. Generally, an easy-flowing energy, often indicating natural talent in the element involved.Libra - ?, with a gematria of 30Gemini - ?, with a gematria of 7Aquarius - ?, with a gematria of 90The total gematria of the Hebrew letters representing my Grand Trine is 127, the number of years in the life of Sarah and represents a very special lamedvavnik.

Echad, The Cradle Of Creativity
2008-03-08 23:16:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IICradle from Mar: 10Gem54 to Plu: 13Leo42 to Nep: 16Lib49 to Jup: 21Sag47In my natal chart, there is an astrological aspect called a Cradle. A Cradle is:An aspect configuration consisting of two planets in an opposition aspect. There are two more planets, each forming a trine aspect to one side of the opposition and a sextile to the other.In effect, there are two Wedge configurations. In a Wedge, the apex planet (that trines and sextiles the opposed planets) provides a release or relief point for the stress of the opposition. The apex planet can be a source of great creativity.Specifically in my natal chart, the apical planets are Pluto/Geut and Neptune:Pluto/Malchut - Geut (????), with a gematria of 410, digit sum 5Neptune, 17 times the mass of Earth - Yesod, tov (???), gematria 17, digit sum 8The sum of the digit sums which describe the source of the creativity springing forth from my Cradle is 13, Echad (???).
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Eve Cries For Her Children
2008-03-08 21:33:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIMurderer Struck Eve In The TempleSaturday, March 8, 2008CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? North Carolina police on Saturday released two ATM surveillance pictures of a "person of interest" in the case of a slain university student and said it appeared to be a random killing.Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran, speaking at a news conference, described the pictures as "our biggest break so far" in the investigation into the death of Unversity of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson.Police found Carson's body shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday, after two callers to 911 reported hearing several gun shots. One of the callers also heard a woman scream as the shots were fired.Detectives said Carson was killed by a shot from a handgun to her right temple, and until late Friday appeared to have few solid leads.Carson's death struck hard at North Carolina, where she was prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholar and leader who invited all incoming ...
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Manifest Harmony Of Opposites
2008-03-08 20:48:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIT-Square from Mid: 12Tau27 to Ven: 10Aqu16 and Plu: 13Leo42The opposites on the T-Square in my natal chart are:Venus (Aqu) Opp [Leo] Pluto - app 3:26' - power: 11.46In other words, the energy of Venus in Aquarius is a helpmate to the energy of Retrograde Pluto/Geut in Leo.On Venus in Aquarius and 7th House: This person's creativity, tendencies for affection and calmness, and relationship needs is progressive, erratic, revolutionary, idealistic, humanitarian, inventive, and desires individuality.On Retrograde Pluto in Leo and 1st House: This person's destiny, and capacity to transform the self and the outer world is proud, gregarious, dramatic, dignified, and desires self expression. Most often this manifests in an independent, backward, introverted manner, and in the area of life dealing with establishment of personal identity.The "opposing" energies of Venus in Aquarius and Retrograde Pluto/Geut in Leo are clearly in manifest harmony ...
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T-Square & The Time Of Mashiach
2008-03-08 20:31:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIT-Square from Mid: 12Tau27 to Ven: 10Aqu16 and Plu: 13Leo42The above code describes the T-Square found within my natal chart. On the T-Square phenomenon of astrology, holistic health consultant Dr. Loretta Standley writes:A T-Square or T-Cross is when two planets are in opposition aspect to each other (180 degrees) and both making a square aspect of (90 degrees) to a third planet. It's an isosceles triangle!Both square and opposition aspects are supposed to be stressful aspects, which can panic the neophytes in astrology when they see they have a T-Square in their natal chart. This is a frequent chart aspect in most successful people. Most successful people can tell you that their success has had its ups and downs, yet they keep moving toward their intended goal. T-Squares give a person experience, wisdom and character.Therefore, you will more than likely see T-Square's in the natal charts of CEO's, leaders, famous or creative people b...
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Temple In Time
2008-03-08 17:28:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar III was born at the 8th hour, fifty and six minutes of the night as it is commonly reckoned in time (8:56 PM).Related writings:A Mystery Of The PardesShechinah & The Mystery Of ZeroHoly Serpent & Creating The FutureEpiphany
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Tides Of Rectified Awareness
2008-03-08 16:36:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIIn Holy Serpent & Creating The Future, I gave Pluto the Hebrew name Geut. Following that, I wrote, regarding the astrological point in the first house of my natal chart, that the North Node participates in the process of attaining messianic consciousness:North Node - Rosh Ha-Teli (??? ????), head of the serpent, with a total gematria of 946, a reduced gematria of 19 (Chavah, ???), and a final digit sum of 1 (echad ???). Thus, the Chavah archetype mediates transformation of serpent consciousness into the consciousness of Echad.We can understand then the importance of the rectification of Chavah consciousness. In my own life, my Hebrew name Elishaba, reflects this tikkun (allowing tiding movement between the created awareness of Chavah and the Divine awareness of Elishaba). Chavah corresponds to low tide (shiflut). Elishaba corresponds to high tide (geut).On my Hebrew name Elishaba, from Walking On Fire, Poetry In MotionElishaba, Dark B...
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The Holy Serpent & Creating The Future
2008-03-08 01:16:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 2Rosh Chodesh Adar IIIn follow-up to Soul Of Shomer Shabbat, the final 4 of the 8 Elemental Fire astrological points in my natal chart concentrate in the first zodiac house (the house of personality/purpose). The 4 points are:Uranus/Hod - Tam (??), with a gematria of 440, digit sum 8Pluto/Malchut - Geut (????), with a gematria of 410, digit sum 5According to the Gra configuration of the Tree of Life, the channel connecting Hod/Uranus and Malchut/Pluto is kuf (?), the letter of kedushah (holiness). With a gematria of 100 (digit sum 1), it connects together 8 + 5 = 13. This is a holy 13, the hand (yad, 13 + 1) of holiness.North Node - Rosh Ha-Teli (??? ????), head of the serpent, with a total gematria of 946, a reduced gematria of 19 (Chavah, ???), and a final digit sum of 1 (echad ???). Thus, the Chavah archetype mediates transformation of serpent consciousness into the consciousness of Echad.Ascendant/Leo - Tet (?), with a gematria of 9, the vessel of peace.A...
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Torah Temimah
2008-03-07 02:27:00
?' ???? ?' ???"?Raven 1More on my natal birth chart.There are 4 astrological points in the zodiac houses corresponding to the element of Air. They are:Neptune, 17 times the mass of Earth - yesod, tov (???), gematria 17Venus - kaf (?), gematria 20Chiron, meaning "the healing hand" - yad (??), gematria 14Mars - gimel (?), gematria 3The total gematria of the one Air element is 54, the gematria of Dan, and the number of parashiyot in the entire Torah . I was born in a city named Danville during the month of Tevet.