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Every day is a Day when you're friends with Catholics

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Honing Your Tarot Questions

Tarot is a fantastic tool for reflection and insight, but it's not meant to answer every type of question with equal clarity. Some questions are just more helpful than others once you really get into the medium. Here are some simple suggestions on how to get the most out of your more basic questions in a way that's more helpful.

How will X go for me? -> What do I need to get the most success out of X?

What does X think of me? -> What is the energy like between us currently? What can I do to improve it, should I want to?

Should I choose X or Y? -> What will X and Y each ask of me? What rewards and challenges will I face in either direction?

Past/Present/Future -> What aspect of my past is most relevant to my present? What energy am I currently exuding? Where is that leading me?

Basically, you want questions that put the power back in the querent's hands to act upon the reading. Things that help you make a more informed decision rather than just being told the answer.

I also like adding at least one card in every spread I do which answers the question, "What do I need to focus on right now? What is the very next step?" Just to add some practical advice.

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baby capybara named Tupi via san antonio zoo

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mama

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Redraw for mother's day 👉👈

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The Mother of God

Among the saints a special position belongs to the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom Orthodox reverence as the most exalted among God's creatures, 'more honourable than the cherubim and incomparably more glorious than the seraphim'. Note that we have termed her 'most exalted among God's creatures': Orthodox, like Roman Catholics, venerate or honour the Mother of God, but in no sense do the members of either Church regard her as a fourth person of the Trinity, nor do they assign to her the worship due to God alone. In Greek theology the distinction is very clearly marked: there is a special word, latreia, reserved for the worship of God, while for the veneration of the Virgin entirely different terms are employed (duleia, hyperduleia, proskynesis).

In Orthodox services Mary is often mentioned, and on each occasion she is usually given her full title: 'Our All-Holy, immaculate, most blessed and glorified Lady, Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary'. Here are included the three chief epithets applied to Our Lady by the Orthodox Church: Theotokos (Mother of God), Aeiparthenos (Ever-Virgin), and Panagia (All-Holy). The first of these titles was assigned to her by the third Ecumenical Council (Ephesus, 431), the second by the fifth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople, 553). The title Panagia, although never a subject of dogmatic definition, is accepted and used by all Orthodox.

The appellation Theotokos is of particular importance, for it provides the key to the Orthodox cult of the Virgin. We honour Mary because she is the Mother of our God. We do not venerate her in isolation, but because of her relation to Christ. Thus the reverence shown to Mary, so far from eclipsing the worship of God, has exactly the opposite effect: the more we esteem Mary, the more vivid is our awareness of the majesty of her Son, for it is precisely on account of the Son that we venerate the Mother.

-- Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church

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Emolga so it could be either way but I like Emolga so just let it fry me.

spin this wheel of all the pokemon. you now have to fight this pokemon. just you and it, bare-knuckle

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Nobody told me my twitch streams weren't posting. Here we go!

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We're back from errands! Starting the night with solo REPO and then maybe a game demo!

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see him schmoove

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Let's look for Ku together!

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Ready for some delicious syrup made from grape hyacinth (muscari) flowers?! LET’S GO.

Ingredients:

1 cup grape hyacinth flowers

1 cup water

2 cups sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions:

Wash the flowers (we REALLY don’t want bugs in our syrup).

Add the flowers to a mason jar or other heat-safe container. Pour 1 cup boiling water over the flowers and let infuse for 1-2 hours (no longer or it can turn bitter!)

Strain the flowers and add the infusion to a pot along with the sugar and lemon juice.

Simmer over medium heat, until the sugar is completely dissolved.

At this point, your syrup is technically done. BUT if you want it to be thicker, you can continue simmering, stirring occasionally, until it’s to your liking.

Remove from heat and pour into a sterilized mason jar. At this point you can either 1) Store your syrup in the fridge if you plan to use it soon, or 2) Water bath can it for long term storage.

YOU DID A SYRUP! This can be used to make lemonade, mixed into cocktails, poured over ice cream. . . you do you!!

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It’s our pleasure to inform you all that it is indeed Fidough Friday

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It is once again Fidough Friday (ft. Sprigatito)

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