This is how my dreams work, a recipe for reality cocktail:
1 dream offset by dimensional phenomena
shaken by a pinch or punch of reality
slightly stirred by neptunium heroic fantasy
a variety of mythic existentialism
= an Alchemical Vision ready for my tasting…mmmm…so sweet!
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Sometimes I remain innocent, naive or plain stupid to the truth. Truth that has no explanation or man-made definition.
My realities collide and dissolve from one point to the next dimension. I was born in this knowing (a girl child seeing the moving shadows in the dark) and yet I’ve struggled to become something other than what I was originally. The struggle was against the natural flow on some plane on many planes made one.
And since the waking world denied my permit (passport) of humanity or rather Divine Humanity, I drifted to the dream. But it’s more than that. Maybe I didn’t drift at all, but my emergence to this gateway of endless possibilities called the dream is the powerful transit between the worlds. This world and those that exists in the dream and factually beyond the dream. Recently, I’ve been provided with pieces to the puzzle that exists in my own cosmic blueprint that yell to my subconscious and waking world messages “This is real..pay attention..wake up..We’re here..remember we told you in that light we’d come back for you..Wake up daughter!” These are the pieces that reveal that there is no duality my Ancestors spoke through those Red Earth Sedona mountains. Sacred, Sacred Love for all eternity! “There is no duality in Peace!” They said my ancestors from the four corners. shoulder to shoulder, color to color, race to race, kingdom to kingdom, time through time they stood. We stood as one family. I have seen this many times. That kind of rainbow in the dream.
But in this Jaguar dream, the validation came. Maybe because I was at the crossroads and on the fence from reality. The reality that I must live (right now). So the messages of validation of the two worlds I think is separate by living out of the Divine Grace, barely alive and almost awakened.The tiny black cat walked toward the forest from the road of the church on Easter Sunday. The red truck was adorned with a bumper sticker that read “…Crossroads…” and I just screamed when I read it remembered the dream. I later learned that the college mascot was the Jaguars and just laughed. Wow! i thought.
This is gateway existing in the dream of life..Flowering DNA transmitting frequency from water to cells to soil to the heart where eyes meet the tribe of yesterday is now in the Universe within Me and You.
And All that I see exist somewhere right now somewhere else! This is what I’ve been told.
(Breathe Light Love Abundance and Truth from the Heart Soul!)
Ria Takharu
c. 4-2009. all rights reserved.
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From an Earlier Post:: Dreams of Printed Silk (Published on: Jan 17, 2009 @ 19:23):
From the corner of my eye, I see Phoenix’s white paws hit the floor and disappear under the wooden table. Within that second, I’m transported back to my morning dream. Dreams have always been my sacred messenger. A stage where the mystical takes on a limitless form of divine or profane communication. This dream was bizarre! I was in a rural area of the
Melanistic Jaguar (genus Puma) or (genus Panthera)
South with groups of African American women, men and children. Among the green hillsides were educational institutions and churches and several roads. I remember looking onward on the road where several other roads crossed in a black and red truck, in the passenger seat I told my friend where to go, what to look at and what move we should make on our journey.
On the sunlit road was an enormous black jaguar the size of five grown elephants chained by a white fire hose, the largest tree I had ever seen, and armies of fire department emergency units. People had never seen such a large animal and would often misjudge its reach and were eaten alive. We were all terrified by this gigantic panther.
Why would a huge panther be in the South among African Americans? We had gathered in the night for a church performance. A few more members were eaten because the glitter of their costumes bounced off the black night. Their rainbow stars looked like candy treats to the ferocious feline. I told my friends to turn their costumes inside out and we fled beneath the panther without notice. I seemed to be more terrified by its menacing presence and in the end there was a message written in the middle of the stage that read, “Brown Beer Woman, Show your Greatness to the World!” Then my son woke me up.
Was this a warning? A message for action? Again this creature has revealed some connection to me through visions and dreams. And it is my responsibility to take this dream message into the ‘real’ world stage and live out my destiny in this lifetime. –Ria Takharu (Daria Nefertiye Takharu), Jan. 17, 2009———————-
Dreams of Cats, Panthers
Looking up a dream book, the panther is said to signify, “lurking danger and enemies working to do you harm. It represents darkness, death, and rebirth. On a more positive note, panthers signify power, beauty and/or grace. ” callurl(“http://www.brilliantdreams.com/dream-dictionary/dream-dictionary-p.htm”);StartAdv2();
Panther History
A black panther is a black (melanistic) color variant of one of several species of larger cat which are often known by the term panther. “Panther” in North America is most commonly used for the cougar (genus Puma)[citation needed], in Latin America it is most often used to mean a jaguar and elsewhere in the world it usually refers to the leopard (both genus Panthera).
Black leopards are reported from most densely forested areas in southwestern China, Myanmar, Assam and Nepal, from Travancore and other parts of southern India and are said to be common in Java and the southern part of the Malay Peninsula where they may be more numerous than spotted leopards. They are less common in tropical Africa, but have been reported from Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia), from the forests of Mount Kenya and from the Aberdares. One was recorded by Peter Turnbull-Kemp in the equatorial forest of Cameroon.
It is a myth that black leopards are often rejected by their mothers at an early age because of their color. In actuality, poor temperament has been bred into the captive strains as a side-effect of inbreeding and it is this poor temperament that leads to problems of maternal care in captivity. According to Funk and Wagnalls‘ Wildlife Encyclopedia, captive black leopards are less fertile than normal leopards, with average litter sizes of 1.8 and 2.1, respectively. This is likely due to inbreeding depression.
Indigenous Beliefs on the Panther, Jaguar, Leopard
The panther animal totem is a very powerful and protective presence. If you have this creature as your totem, you are blessed to have such a fierce and aggressive guardian with you.
The panther is a symbol of courage, valor and power. The panther has also sometimes associated with the sun, and solar vibrancy in some cultures (South American, & Central American).
Individuals with panther totem s are usually people who come into this world with a spiritual knowing – a deeper understanding of spiritual things. These people often are very intuitive, psychic, and many are artistically inclined.
Of all the panthers, the black panther has the greatest mysticism associated with it. It is a symbol of the mother, the dark moon and the power of the night. The black panther encourages us to understand the shadow powers available to us all, to acknowledge these powers and to eliminate our fears of the darkness.
When the black panther totem appears in your life, it is also a symbol of releasing your passions, and starting a new phase of your life. A phase in which you are discovering your desires, and living your dreams.
When the panther animal totem comes to us (whether it be in the form of images or real sightings) we must begin paying attention to the strength of our inner being – our internal fortitude, and the condition of our spiritual strength & valor. Panthers also beckon us to consider our darker side – analyze this side of ourselves and determine its motivation.
Panther Totems:
The Panther, Leopard or Jaguar is a very ancient and powerful totem.
It embodies aggressiveness and power but without solar influence.
A Black Panther’s power is lunar.
People with a Panther, Leopard or Jaguar totem have the ability to do
a variety of tasks at the same time.
They tend to be loners, very comfortable with themselves
and are often drawn to other solitary people.
You must learn to pace your work and not push too hard.
Women with Panther, Leopard or Jaguar totems
often find themselves raising their children alone,
whether it be through divorce or just circumstances of the job.
Panther, Leopard or Jaguar people can develop clairaudience,
the ability to hear communications from other forms of life or dimensions.
They should trust their thoughts and inner visions as they are based in reality.
A Panther, Leopard or Jaguar totems gives you a guide to help you on your path –
in the form of a real person – a mentor or teacher.
The Black Panther is endowed with great magic and power
and this power will increasingly be experienced.
Jaguars (Black Panthers) in Ancient Cultures: Mesoamerican Myth
- Main article: Jaguars in Mesoamerican culture
Were-jaguar votive axe, green jadeite, from the British Museum. Note the downturned mouth and the cleft head.
The Olmec carved distinctive human figures in stone, some of monumental size. Smaller items were carved from fine jade and jadeite, including many human figures with strong jaguar features. As the jaguar was an indigenous predator in the area, jaguar figures may visually represent an Olmec myth about the interaction of the jaguar or a jaguar spirit with human beings. Despite the large number of what are thought to be jaguar or were-jaguar images, it is not known whether the Olmec actually considered the jaguar or were-jaguar as a god or deity (as the Egyptians did with Anubis, for example).
The image of the jaguar is pervasive in later Maya inscriptions and the word B’alam, “jaguar”, is an element in the names of mythical heroes and some Maya rulers.
Aztec jaguar warrior, from the Codex Magliabechiano
The representation of jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures has a long history, with iconographic examples dating back to at least the mid-Formative period of Mesoamerican chronology. The jaguar (Panthera onca) is an animal with a prominent association and appearance in the cultures and belief systems of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican societies. Quick, agile, and powerful enough to take down the largest prey in the jungle, the jaguar is the largest of the big cats in the Americas, and one of the most efficient and aggressive predators. Endowed with a spotted coat and well adapted for the jungle, hunting either in the trees or water, making it one of the few felines tolerant of water, the jaguar was, and remains, revered among the indigenous Americans who reside closely with the jaguar.
All major Mesoamerican civilizations prominently featured a jaguar god, and for many, such as the Olmec, the jaguar was an integral part of shamanism (Miller & Taube, p. 103).
Feathered Jaguar
Many people identify Quetzalcoatl, the prophet and messenger of peace, as the feathered serpent (bird-serpent) but in reality, Quetzalcoatl, known to the Mayan’s as Cuculcan (Kukulcan), was a combination of three animals—jaguar, serpent and bird. This representation of a jaguar’s face and fangs, a serpent body that is feathered, reveals the elemental forces (jaguar-earth, serpent-water, bird-air) in action achieving accession to spirit-fire. This teaching revealed the secret knowledge necessary to achieve Quetzalcoatlhood—In this body, in this life.
Cats in Mythology: Tigers, Cats, Jaguars, Panthers
Tigers in Mythology
- In China, the tiger is Lord of the Land Animals.
- Chang Tao-ling, the first Pope of popular Taoism, rides a tiger.
- The Chinese god of wealth and gamblers, and the goddess of the wind, both ride tigers.
- The tiger represents Orion (the constellation) in Chinese legend.
- In Japan, the tiger was said to live a thousand years, and was adopted as an emblem of the warrior class.
- In Malaysia, Sumatra, and Java, there are myths of “were-tigers,” considered friendly except in Malaysian myths.
- The Batek tribe of Malaysia names Raja Yah as the mystical king of tigers.
- In India, Durga rides a tiger, and Siva is often shown wearing a tiger skin.
- In Thailand, if several people were suspected of committing the same serious crime, they were all thrown into a pit with a tiger. The one killed by the tiger was guilty.
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East African Ancient Egyptian Mythology: The Cat in Ancient Religious Practice
The name for cat in Egypt was Mau which meant ‘too see, seer” the great cat behind the sun, the pupil of the cat’s eye. The moon of cat was the eye of the sun, because it reflected the solar light, and because the eye gives back the image in its mirror. In the form of the Goddess Pasht, the cat keeps watch for the sun, with her paw holding down and bruising the serpent of darkness called the eternal enemy. ..” (305, Blavatsky, Emblem and Symbol Differ).
Stones for Healing
Cat’s Eye, Chrysoberyl
Like the eye of a sleek feline predator, the chrysoberyl cat’s eye winks at the astonished observer – a real miracle of Nature! That’s why only this attractive gemstone has the right to the short, fitting name of “cat’s eye”. This gem is really something special with its narrow, bright band of light on a shimmering golden background, which seems to glide magically across the surface when the stone is moved.
From a mineralogical point of view, chrysoberyls are aluminium oxide containing beryllium, and thus actually have little in common with the beryls, which belong to the silicate family. The popular chrysoberyls come in many nuances between lemon and greenish yellow, and in honey colours and shades from mint green to brownish green, and are mostly found in the gemstone deposits of Brazil, Sri Lanka or East Africa.
Protection and positive energy
Since ancient times, chrysoberyl has been regarded as a gemstone which protects its wearer and keeps disaster at bay. The cat’s eye most of all is seen as a particularly effective protective stone and talisman. On account of its golden tones, chrysoberyl is often also associated with wealth – and this idea is certainly not without foundation, since in its most beautiful form as a high-quality cat’s eye it is up among the gemstones of the luxury class.
Discipline and self-control are the qualities mainly associated with chrysoberyl in modern gemstone therapy. Chrysoberyls are said to promote concentration and the ability to learn, and to enable the wearer to think clearly and far-sightedly. Thanks to the secret power of the chrysoberyl, negative thoughts are said to be transformed into positive energy. And these positive qualities are said to be even more marked with a chrysoberyl cat’s eye. However, chrysoberyl is also regarded as a gemstone which promotes tolerance and harmony, and it is one of the lucky stones for those born under the sign of Leo.
The magical eye of the cat
Chrysoberyl cat’s eyes are genuine rarities which are found only in a few deposits in the world, together with other varieties of chrysoberyl. One can hardly imagine that a gemstone could wink like the eye of a cat in such a remarkably genuine way. Is it magic, or Nature? And apart from that, what is it that causes this irresistibly beautiful show of light?
The chrysoberyl, with its hues ranging from honey-coloured to mint green, is a popular gemstone, and one which is esteemed by connoisseurs and gemstone lovers the world over.
Healing Properties
Natural Cat’s Eye(chrysoberyl) is a stone of good fortune and good luck. It is said to bring serenity and happiness, along with optimism and generosity. It is used in emotional crystal healing to bring forgiveness, balanced emtions, and self-esteem. Cat’s eye can enhance creativity and kindness. It is also a stone of protection. Physically, cat’s eye is used in crystal healing for kidneys, pancreas, liver, lymph nodes, spleen, and leukemia issues.
Wearing the Cat’s Eye: The Indian Ketu Stone
Ketu’s sign of the zodiac is Pisces. But in reality it is the sign of Jupiter which is also shared by Ketu. The gem of the planet Ketu is Cat’s eye. Cat’s eye is found in many colours. Cats eye has white lines over it and looks similar to the eye of a cat. Cat’s eye gemstone is found in India, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Brazil, China, Russia & Burma. Cat’s eye is found in yellow, black, dark or smoky-green, and white. The only thing common to all shades is the band of light moving across the stone, the chatoyance. A gem having a white band of light is supposed to be best. Cat’s-eye shines like the eye of a cat in darkness, but it does not shine in total darkness.
The people who get victim of Saturn, Rahu and Ketu are much profited by it. The cat’s eye gemstone should be worn when there are obstacles in business, fear of accidents and despair in life. The wearing of cat’s eye gemstone brings strength, brightness, bravery, pleasure, bliss, prosperity and off springs. Cat’s eye gemstone not only saves a man from his enemy but brings victory over the enemy also. Cat’s eye gemstone is also said that it destroys sorrow, poverty, diseases and calamities and saves from evil spirits, hidden enemies and royal punishment. Lost money is found again and stays long by wearing cat’s eye gemstone.
Mantra: “Om Kaim Ketave Namah”, it should be worn in the middle finger of the right hand.
The Ancient Healing Properties of Jade
Jadeite
Since at least 2950 BC, jade has been treasured in China as the royal gemstone. Jade is a bridge between the spiritual and the material world. The Chinese character for jade, yu , resembles a capital I with a line across the middle: the top represents the heavens, the bottom the earth, and the center section, mankind. To this day, many people believe that jade will protect them from harm.
Jade was thought to preserve the body after death and can be found in emperors’ tombs from thousands of years ago. One tomb contained an entire suit made out of jade, to assure the physical immortality of its owner.
In Central America, the Olmecs, the Mayans, and the Toltecs also treasured jade and used it for carvings and masks. The Aztecs instituted a tax in jade, which unfortunately led to the recycling of many earlier artworks.
The Portuguese, who brought home jade pieces from their settlement in Canton, China, called jade piedre de ilharga , or stone of the loins, because they believed it to be strong medicine for kidney ailments. Jade objects brought back to Spain from the new world were called by the Spanish version of this phrase piedra de hijada . This became the French ejade and then, finally, jade.
The ancient jade of China was what we today call nephrite jade: an amphibolite mineral. Today it is jadeite jade that is considered the real jade, commanding prices much higher than nephrite because it comes in much more vivid green colors and finer translucency. Jadeite jade is much rarer than nephrite: almost all the jadeite on the market comes from Burma.
Jadeite jade is most treasured for its vivid greens, but it also comes in lavender, pink, yellow, and white. The Emerald Buddha, the sacred image that is enshrined at Wat Phra Kaeo in Bangkok, Thailand, is actually beautiful emerald-green jadeite. Nephrite is found in less intense dark spinach greens, white, browns, and black.
While jadeite is mined today primarily in Myanmar, small quantities can be found in Guatemala. Although neolithic jadeite axes were found in Europe, it is not known where this prehistoric jadeite was mined, although it is possible that the material came from a deposit in the Alps. Nephrite is mined in Canada, Australia, the United States, and Taiwan.
Jade (General, All types)
Jade is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues. So, of course, it can attract and enhance love of all kinds. It is also a stone of fidelity and generosity. It is also considered to be good for the physical heart and for emotional balance and stability. Jade is also very helpful as a stone of abundance. Physically, jade is used to heal lung problems, kidney problems, immune system weakness, PTSD, and nervous system overwork.
Jade, Nephrite
Nephrite jade is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues, and all love relationships. It is also considered to be good for emotional balance and stability. Jade of all kinds is a very protective stone and is particularly good protection for children, against illness, and for psychic protection. It has energetic clearing properties, and is useful to keep with other stones. Physically, nephrite jade is used in the crystal healing of the physical heart, and kidney problems.
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