Blue Neptune, Aleister Crowley’s rice, past lives, witches and aliens
Posted By Psyche On Saturday, November 13, 2010 @ 9:00 am In Occulture,Saturday Signal | 8 Comments
[1]Ok, so once upon a time some jerks decided to demote Pluto to a “dwarf planet”, then they tried to amend it to a “plutoid”, because they thought it was smaller than the new thing they discovered – Eris.1 [2]
Turns out they were wrong and Pluto is actually larger than Eris [3], though it has less mass. Take that, International Astronomical Union of Jerks. I’m lookin’ at you Mike Brown – aka plutokiller [4].2 [5]
In light of the controversy Space.com [6] has a poll asking if Pluto’s planet status be revisited [7]. The answer is obviously YES. Cast your votes now, people. This is serious business.3 [8]
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Saturday Signal, so a lot of linkage has been piling up. For your reading pleasure I present the following signal:
- A friend has launched a new blog, Blue Flame Magick [9], which promises [10] to “discuss topics related to the occult, magick, spiritually” and other important topics. For an opener check out “Neptune: Deception and Dissolution [11]“, a personal meditation and reflection on the Neptune and “Means, Ends, and Manifestation [12]“, discussing why understanding your goals is important to fulfilling them.
- Over on Coilhouse [13], guest blogger S. Elizabeth dug up the recipe for Riz Aleister Crowley [14]. Crowley was famous for his spicy curries, and this is his recipe for the accompanying rice. Eat what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
- Gordon White at Rune Soup [15] has perfectly captured why “Your Past Life is Overrated [16]“. Read it. Integrate it. Move on.
- Jason Miller interviewed Frater Dugpanath [17] of the Esoteric Order of Dagon for Strategic Sorcery [18]. Who knew that Buddhism and the Cthulhu Mythos had so much in common?
- There’s a five minute video on witchcraft [19] on the Guardian.co.uk [20]. It contains brief interviews with Christina Oakley-Harrington of Treadwell’s [21], as well as Ellie Hughes and Tomas d’Aradia. They demonstrate incense and candle magick for the muggle masses. It’s kind of sweet.
And ’cause it’s been so long, some noise:
- Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing [22] reports that the “Pope’s astronomer would be pleased to baptize an alien ‘no matter how many tentacles it has [23]‘”. How…progressive?
As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious [24] tag it “ahrfoundation [25]” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!
Footnotes:
Article printed from ahrfoundation.org: http://ahrfoundation.org
URL to article: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/
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[1] Image: http://ahrfoundation.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/saturday-signal-ahrfoundation.png
[2] 1: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/#footnote_0_2475
[3] Pluto is actually larger than Eris: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=is-pluto-the-biggest-dwarf-planet-a-2010-11-08
[4] plutokiller: http://twitter.com/plutokiller
[5] 2: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/#footnote_1_2475
[6] Space.com: http://space.com
[7] Pluto’s planet status be revisited: http://www.space.com/common/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=27043&start=0
[8] 3: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/#footnote_2_2475
[9] Blue Flame Magick: http://blueflamemagick.wordpress.com
[10] which promises: http://blueflamemagick.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/welcome-to-blue-flame-magick/
[11] Neptune: Deception and Dissolution: http://blueflamemagick.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/neptune-deception-and-dissolution/
[12] Means, Ends, and Manifestation: http://blueflamemagick.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/magick-means-ends-and-manifestation/
[13] Coilhouse: http://coilhouse.net
[14] Riz Aleister Crowley: http://coilhouse.net/2010/10/mr-crowleys-rice
[15] Rune Soup: http://runesoup.com
[16] Your Past Life is Overrated: http://runesoup.com/2010/11/your-past-life-is-overrated
[17] interviewed Frater Dugpanath: http://strategicsorcery.blogspot.com/2010/10/interview-with-dugpanath.html
[18] Strategic Sorcery: http://strategicsorcery.blogspot.com
[19] five minute video on witchcraft: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2010/oct/31/halloween-pagan-witchcraft-video
[20] Guardian.co.uk: http://www.guardian.co.uk
[21] Treadwell’s: http://www.treadwells-london.com/
[22] BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net
[23] Pope’s astronomer would be pleased to baptize an alien ‘no matter how many tentacles it has: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/17/popes-astronomer-wou.html
[24] delicious: http://delicious.com/
[25] ahrfoundation: http://delicious.com/tag/ahrfoundation
[26] back: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/#identifier_0_2475
[27] back: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/#identifier_1_2475
[28] Ges: http://blueflamemagick.wordpress.com/
[29] back: http://ahrfoundation.org/2010/11/13/blue-neptune-past-lives-aleister-crowleys-rice-witches-and-aliens/#identifier_2_2475
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