When people picture the symbol of medicine, they often imagine a staff with snakes wrapped around it. However, it’s important...
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When people picture the symbol of medicine, they often imagine a staff with snakes wrapped around it. However, it’s important...
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Amber is one of the world’s oldest and most valuable gems, a “Gold of the Sea” produced by light and life, maintained by time, and washed up on the shores for humanity, a symbol of beauty, protection, and rebirth. It has been depicted as drops of the sun, tears of the gods, hardened honey, and sunlight solidifying, and it is as sought after today as it was in the most ancient cultures, having been used as far back as the Stone Age for its pleasing warmth of color, value in adornment, and magical and medicinal properties. Amber is an organic...
Orisha (also spelled Orisa and Orishas) are supernatural beings in the Yoruba religion of West Africa that are often referred to as deities, despite the fact that they are actually emanations or avatars of the ultimate entity, Olodumare. Their number is typically stated as 400 + 1 as a form of abbreviation for “without number” or “innumerable.” Belief in the Orishas is estimated to have developed between 500 and 300 BCE, but it is most likely considerably older, as archaeological evidence supports this date and many West African sites remain unexcavated. According to Yoruba religion, Olodumare is too vast for...
Long ago, when the sun hung lower in the sky and animals still conversed like kin, a cunning jackal roamed the dry grasslands. His golden-brown coat blended with the brittle grass. His eyes—sharp, amber, and always calculating—scanned the horizon for food. But drought had come to the land. The rivers had turned to cracked beds of earth, and the trees stood like skeletons in the sun. Prey was scarce, and the jackal’s ribs pressed tightly against his skin. Hunger had turned his stomach into a growling drum. One morning, as the jackal slinked through the savanna, he heard an odd...
THE FEAR OF CRITICISM It is difficult, if not impossible, to identify how man gained this basic dread, but one thing is certain: he has it in a well-developed form. Some believe that this fear first appeared in man’s consciousness around the time that politics emerged. Others say it can be dated back to the inaugural gathering of a female organization known as a “Woman’s Club.” Another school of humorists attributes the origin to the contents of the Holy Bible, whose chapters are rife with scathing and harsh criticism. If the latter claim is right and people who take literally...
Tarot astrology is a system in which a reading of tarot deck cards can help you get through difficult times by reflecting on your history, present, and future. Because each card corresponds to a planet, element, or astrological sign, tarot is strongly linked to astrology. Tarot cards are used for divination, which is sometimes referred to as fortune-telling. Many psychologists, however, have utilized them as well, believing that the cards encourage patients to explore their feelings about themselves. This is accomplished by using the subconscious mind. Let’s say you’re aware that things at work aren’t going well, but you refuse...
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