Deck: Dark Goddess Tarot
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Sat Apr 17 21:19:22 EDT 2021


Today's Card
0 Fool ~ Sheela Na Gig (Reversed)

British Spirit of Warning and Invitation

Dare to come back to where you began.

Sheela Na Gigs are grotesque, sexual, female figures carved in medieval churches and castles in Great Britain and Ireland. The figures vary from place to place, but all show an old woman squatting and pulling apart her vulva, an odd and shocking figure to see in a church. Sheela Na Gig may appear starved, with ribs showing on her torso. She may be bald and scarred. Or she may be coiffed, plump, and large breasted. Some Sheelas are monstrous and intimidating, while others are quite cheerful. Whether inviting or confrontational, her image is open and immediate. Yet her meaning remains mysterious and contradictory. For every explanation of her appearance, exceptions are found. Sheela Na Gig evades an easy definition. Instead she provides the opportunity to perceive another way.

Recognizable in all her forms is her open vulva. Her sexuality is up front and extravagant, and she is occasionally accompanied by a rampant male figure. In a time when the majority of people were illiterate, her absurd and often distorted appearance over church doorways is taken to be a warning against the sin of lust. Yet she also appears in secular buildings as well as in places within a church that no human can readily see.

Some say her appearance relates her to gargoyles and grotesques and their function of protection. She is set above doors and windows to prevent evil from entering. Irish folk tradition has it that devils cannot bear the sight of a vulva and can be kept away by a woman lifting her skirts.

Sexuality, protection, and also fertility, although Sheela Na Gig is a crone whose time of physical birthing has passed. None of her figures are associated with an infant or child. Yet, into modern days, the vulva of a Sheela is rubbed by women wanting to conceive, and her help in conceiving is reported in the news. She is the doorway by which all humanity enters this inexplicable world.

When Sheela Na Gig appears:

Enter into a new opportunity with trust but not blindness. Open everything, including your eyes. Don’t see only what you already know.

Allow knowledge to arise in unexpected ways, like an underground stream welling up from forgotten places, like flowers that burst with the sudden scent of memory, like remnants of clothing from who you were before you crossed the threshold here. Do not analyze these offerings; taste them.

Release expectation and judgment of others, for this world owes you nothing but the everything it has already given. Return to innocence to get on with life as it is. Strike a foolish pose and smile at yourself. Rub yourself for luck. Live fresh in this moment, whether you must cry or laugh or fart.

Release shame. Release the judgments from others you have turned and heaped upon yourself. Let go of the labels. Everyone is flawed and strange, and so what? Be unique. Be yourself. Be new now.



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This Hairless Mexican Dog Has a Storied, Ancient Past

With a history going back more than 3,500 years, the xoloitzcuintli dog played a significant role in Precolumbian life.

BY KRISTIN ROMEY

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 22, 2017

To the ancient Aztec and Maya, man's best friend was also a hairless, ugly-cute healer, occasional food source, and, most importantly, guide to the Underworld.

Sometimes known as the Mexican Hairless dog, the xoloitzcuintli (pronounced "show-low-itz-QUEENT-ly") gets its name from two words in the language of the Aztecs: Xolotl, the god of lightning and death, and itzcuintli, or dog. According to Aztec belief, the Dog of Xolotl was created by the god to guard the living and guide the souls of the dead through the dangers of Mictlán, the Underworld.

One of the most ancient dog breeds of the Americas, researchers believe the ancestors of the xoloitzcuintli (or 'xolo' for short) accompanied the earliest migrants from Asia and had developed into the breed seen today by at least 3,500 years ago. The xolo's hairlessness (save for a tuft or two of hair on top of the head or on the tail) is the result of a genetic mutation that is also responsible for the dog's lack of premolars. This distinctive dental trait makes identifying the remains of xolos in archaeological contexts relatively easy.

Ceramic vessels in the shape of xolo dogs are frequently found in 2,000-year-old tombs in western Mexico.

Xolos appear in ancient Mesoamerican art often with pointed ears and wrinkly skin to indicate their hairlessness. The most frequent depictions take the form of small ceramic vessels known as Colima Dogs for the modern state in western Mexico where they are commonly found. In Colima and the neighboring states of Nayarit and Jalsico, archaeologists estimate that more than 75 percent of burials from the Preclassic period (ca. 300 B.C to A.D. 300) contain these vessels, which may have served as symbolic dog guides to help the soul of the dead travel through the Underworld.

These hairless canines also caught the eye of European chroniclers such as Christopher Columbus and the 16th-century Spanish missionary Bernadino de Sahagún, who describes how the Aztecs would tuck xolos in blankets at night to keep them warm. The dogs' fur-free bodies also serve as excellent heat conductors, making them a kind of ancient hot-water bottle for the ill and the elderly. "They know when you're sick," observes Kay Lawson, a 20-year xolo breeder and past president of the Xoloitzcuintli Club of America. "They zero right in to where it hurts."

The xoloitzcuintli was nearly eaten into extinction by hungry Spanish settlers.

Along with turkeys, xolos were one of the only domesticated animals eaten by ancient Mesoamericans. The conquistadors developed such an appetite for the convenient canine protein source when they arrived in the New World that they nearly ate the xoloitzcuintli into oblivion, says archaeologist Marc Thompson, director of the Tijeras Pueblo Museum.

By the time the xolo was officially recognized in Mexico in 1956, the breed was nearly extinct. Today, however, these ancient dogs are experiencing a revival, especially among people who are allergic to their furry counterparts. But they're not for everyone, Lawson warns.

"You really have to be thinking [with xolos] all the time," she says. "They open doors, they open crates. This is a primitive dog. They're extremely intelligent."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/hairless-dog-mexico-xolo-xoloitzcuintli-Aztec

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The Military Origins of Facebook (Part One) by Whitney Webb

4/19/21 by The Capital Conspiracies

https://anchor.fm/the-capital-conspiracies/episodes/The-Military-Origins-of-Facebook-Part-One-by-Whitney-Webb-ev81i2

Episode: https://anchor.fm/s/38782764/podcast/play/31769602/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2021-3-19%2F472a703b-915e-fe3d-ea52-31872c82d294.mp3

PART ONE. As Facebook further enmeshes itself in our lives and our government's surveillance state, a look at the company's origins reveals funding from an intelligence asset, and a startlingly similar DARPA-run surveillance program that was officially ended the same day as Facebook's launch. Find the original reporting here and please support Whitney Webb: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook

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Physicists Build a Quantum Bit That Can Search for Dark Matter https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-build-a-quantum-bit-that-can-search-for-dark-matter/

**BIg part of this is black magic/energy work so >>> Ladies, shield and protect your wombs / stargates!!!

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