Full Moon Dreamboard- Full Buck Moon

The Full Buck Moon asks: “What are your most powerful dreams? Who are you when you are powerful?”
Another dreamboard to share with you all.  With the lioness and the swordswoman, I am a fighter.  I recycle the power I am given, back into the earth, into others and into my work .  I believe in the truth of equality for all people.  At my most powerful, I am a woman of grace and wisdom as well as whimsy and courage.  But during that growth and maturity into becoming that powerful  person, I must remain me.  Thus the rawr face in the middle.  I've been drawing that thing as my symbol for years. XD

Full Strawberry Moon Dreamboard

Please click on it for it's full splendor.  This month's dream board, Jamie of http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/ asks "What would I love to delight in this month?"  


Well... strawberries, for one thing.  Or rather, fruit in general.  I also notice a lot of texture on this board.    Jamie also make a point to say to dream without censorship.  That is the tortoise right there.  Not only do I love turtles and tortoises, but look at the symbolism.  Symbolism!  That strawberry is almost as big as that tortoise, but still it goes right for it without hesitation.  


Something I noticed while putting this dreamboard together.  I always want it a specific size.  That is a lot easier when cutting out pictures, but I make mine on the computer.  So this time around I made the board fit the pictures, not the other way around.


By the way... isn't the bee marvelous? >w<

Countdown to Party Time!


On the nineteenth of June I will be turning 21.  For most that is a big birthday since here in the States that is our legal drinking age.  Not so much for me.  I've always had a negative reaction when it comes to drinking.  I've been working on socializing myself to having those around me drinking, but I'm still a bit wary of partaking in it myself. 

Anyway... I will be doing a countdown until my birthday.  Lost of stuff to do.  My eldest sister turns 24 on the 15th.  Then on the 16th will be her bridal shower.  I should be posting stuff about the gifts I'm making her and hopefully some pictures.

So the first of June has come and gone already.  I've been busy with necessary pruning.  The plants in the house have been getting a touch too long.  I trimmed the ivy plant Fred and another hanging plant of unknown origin.  Then I cut a large part of the rosemary, as some of the leaves were blocking the way for future growth of the whole plant.  I also cut back the thyme a bit. 


And then there was the outside garden.  The chamomile had taken over.  So I pulled out a few plants (We had at least six large plants in our little five by two garden!) and trimmed most of them WAY down.  The flowers were going to seed and the last thing we need is MORE chamomile.  They were also choking the parsley, which was also trying to seed itself.  I cut those seed heads off to encourage further leaf growth.  I intend to compost the plants and cuttings that I'm not drying.


Speaking of drying, I suppose I do that strangely.  Most articles tell you to hang the plant upside-down to dry.  I'll do that with sage bundles and parsley, but not with thyme, rosemary, or chamomile.  With those I like to pick the leaves off and dry them in my mortars.  I have a few of them so I can dry multiple herbs at one time.  I also like having to physically turn the leaves for them to dry properly.  It gives me an extra chance to imbue them with energy.

Psychology Carp Part 2-The Keirsey Temperament Sorter

 The Keirsey Temperament sorter is a personality tool.  Much like the aforementioned Enneagram, it splits different people into certain groups.  There are four key groups that combine to make your four-letter personality type.  You can take the test here.
http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/instruments2.aspx?partid=0

The first possible letters are E or I.  Extrovert or Introvert.  Sounds easy enough to guess, right?  Not necessarily.  It can be easy for an extrovert in a family of introverts to adapt to the people around them and vise-versa for introverts.  My mother is an extrovert, but the rest of us here at home are introverted.  That, and she does the mom thing where she takes care of everyone else first, so she doesn't get her social needs met. So take the test and see (but trying to guess first can be fun and surprising)


The second choice of letters are S and N for Sensing and Intuiting.  An S is more of a here and now, concrete thinker.  They prefer hard data and facts.  An N is a dreamer of the future.  They like imagining and possibilities.


The third set of letters are T and F.  Are you a Thinker or a Feeler?  Hopefully both, but which are you more so?  Here's a question that puts it into perspective: Which do you value more, logic or sympathy?  I, being a Thinker for this portion, prefer logic to sympathy.  Neither are wrong.  Just different.


The last possible letters are J and P for Judging and Perceiving.  Judging people go into things with a plan or preconceived notion of how things are going to be.  Perceiving folks take things as they come and adapt.  I'm making J's sound bad I know, but there are pros and cons to any possible outcome.  Plus, I'm a J myself, so don't worry too much if you end up being one too.


I happen to be an INTJ.  An introverted, intuitive, thinking, judging person.  According to the test I am a Mastermind (XD)  No problem with that.  I used to be an INTP when I was younger.  It is said that your outcome may change sometime during your life, but rarely more than one letter.  So I hope you take the test and have fun learning about yourselves.  If you do take it, leave me a comment and let me know what you got! 

Full Flower Moon Dreamboard

Jamie asks us "Who are you in full bloom?"  My simple answer is colorful.  A perfect combination of class and whimsy, beauty and freedom.  All of the things on this board are things I love and/or aspire to be more like, because hey... who doesn't need more glitter in their life?  The flower is a mountain laurel.  I identify with the peacock and his feathers' color palette, most likely because they are jewel tones.  I simply love the clothes and accessories here.  Eastern paper-style fan and parasol, an Indian sari (again with saturated jewel-tones), and a cute little cloche hat.  The dancer is less for the dress (which is fabulous) and more for the style of dance.  Flamenco dancing is beautiful.  And finally I have a frond of a fern.  Not only because it fits with the growth of this month's theme but frond is just a fun word to say.  Seriously.  Say it out loud.  Frond. 

Psychology Carp (Part 1)

No, that is not a typo... I thought it was funny.  Anyway!  This segment is sort of psychology based, but also numerology based.  First I want to talk about the Enneagram.  This is a system of nine personality types.  I first learned about this from a self-help book my mother owns. 


As I said, there are nine types.  1:The Reformer.  2:The Helper.  3:The Achiever.  4:The Individualist. 5:The Investigator.  6:The Loyalist.  7:The Enthusiast.  8:The Challenger.  9:The Peacemaker.


These names may change depending on the book you read, the website you go to, or the test you take.  There are a few tests on the website I get my information from.  That can be found at the following website: http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/  You don't have to take the test.  I found out my number from simply reading about the different types.  You may find you feel some resistance to your true number.  I know I did.


I am a One.  I could go on and on about being number one or being first.  But that doesn't really matter.  I learned quite a bit about myself by reading about the One.  I am a perfectionist.  I didn't know that.  A vast majority of my anger comes from my need to change things for the better, as a reformer.  In the paragraphs on ones from the aforementioned site, the talk of ones being "highly self-controlled, even rigid".  This describes how I am quite well.  


All numbers on the enneagram are connected.  What's good for one is bad for another.  I would highly suggest taking a look at the website and seeing what you find.  It's even more helpful when others look at it to see what they are.  Don't try to gauge what others' numbers are... it can cause arguments.  But when you find your number and someone else finds theirs, it can help you better understand how the other thinks, feels, and expresses themselves.

Religious Tolerance and the Past Mistakes of OTHERS

Sorry for the white against red if it hurts people's eyes.  This is a pin I saw on pinterest today.  Things like this bother me.  I could understand that this would make an Atheist not like Christianity itself, but to laugh at those who practice it is, I feel, misguided.  It isn't nerve to complain when this Christian person has done nothing to deserve being laughed at, save believing in God and Jesus Christ.  It is not right to hold the past over the heads of future generations.  By that logic, Americans should still be annoyed at the British because of the tyranny before the American Revolution.  Southern Americans and Northern Americans would still dislike each other because of the Civil War.  African Americans would feel that all Caucasian people would not be trustworthy and only out to hurt them.  I am a Pagan, and proud of that fact.  People who were Pagan in the past were mistreated, but they also mistreated others.  Just like Caucasians have enslaved and murdered people just because of race.  I am NOT prejudiced about religious belief or skin color or gender or social status.  People need to base their judgments of others based on their character, how they act.  NOT on what groups they belong to.  If someone who is Islamic kills any one, don't blame it on the Islamic faith.  Blame it on the person.  Religion is not inherently bad.  Religion is belief.  Belief does not start war, actions do.  PEOPLE are the one who make those actions.  So for the "holy wars" I don't blame Christianity, I blame those people who were too ignorant to think for themselves and realized that murder and torture are BAD THINGS.


Okay.  Text block over.  I felt this was necessary.