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Number, that is. As opposed to rib, or Optimus. I’ve been blogging here for seven (7!) years. A lot of that has been utter crap, a waste of electricity and brainspace – me being nervously, self-consciously cute or perky or snarky or overwrought – but there are a few things here and there I look back on and wonder… what the fuck I was thinking? So much of what’s happened since September of 2000 has barely been mentioned here, as I’ve always been very conscious of what I’ve put out there and about whom. But scanning the posts I wrote during some fairly difficult times, I’m pretty sure I could have spent more time writing what I really was thinking without compromising anybody else’s privacy. What a fine and funky line to walk. Think I’ll be doing a lot more paring down of my old posts. Nobody really cares what color my aura was in August of 2003 – there is no posterity for which to preserve that tidbit. Pictures of my dogs, on the other hand, the world cannot live without.

Not for lack of anything better to post, but just because – found at Keziah Hill’s blog:

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

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