Family Gathering post and a NEW Blue Star Yahoo group...

The Family Gathering was *extremely* important to me and I am going to write several posts about it. But first, I must finish my FG field notes. Since I have to turn almost immediately to dissertation revision, I need to get my insights, descriptions and impressions of the gathering down in my hand o'write journal so that after I have defended, I can come back and mine the rich lessons that I encountered there without fear of forgetting anything critically important. And since my brain is almost totally full and has even been leaking a little bit since Sunday morning, I need to complete that soon!

So far, I'm just up to an account of Thursday evening, so I'll have to do some field notes over lunch at Sapporo's in a few minutes with the company of some good sushi.

But there is one *important announcement* that should happen now:

Keith has set up a Yahoo group for Blue Star people interested in aromatic issues of all kinds---using essential oils, making incenses, exploring aromatic herbs, blending, locating good sources and playing in stinky stuff.

All Blue Star folks who are interested in this sort of thing and/or who might want to go in together to buy aromatic materials at wholesale prices should consider signing on.

The lovely Keith has established this list with blinding speed and efficiency, and has named it, very appropriately...

stinkybs

If you are interested in joining this Yahoo list, please submit your email address to me or to him and we will add you.

Thank you, Keith, for setting this up! Happy (excellent smelling) dance, happy (remarkably aromatic) dance...

Stinkybs info from Keith and Yahoo...

Description of the group:
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Essential oils "club" that grew out of discussion with Sabrina, where
we will talk about where we get quality oils and how to get them at
better prices, and whatever the hell else we wanna talk about. :-)


Important information about the stinkybs group
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stinkybs@yahoogroups.com

* To leave the group, you can unsubscribe by replying to this message,
or by sending an email to:
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* To learn more about the stinkybs group, please visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stinkybs

Blue Star mini-meme

What are *your* Blue Star Path of Power Sub-Specialties?

1. Answer this post with a brief comment noting our common foci/areas of overlapping interest
2. Copy this meme and paste into your own LJ, removing my answers
3. Substitute your own answers so that the Blue Star/pagan community can pester you for new knowledge,
advice and petition for collaborative exchanges in your areas of specialty or interest.

Herbology - Aromatics, organic container gardening with herbs

Ritual - ROPs, transformational ritual, partnering exercises for ritual officiants (Seaweed and Ocean, hand bonding exercise learned from LJ user and working partner Oaktavia)

Trance and Meditation - Channeling Spirit, Thinging, Mindfulness Meditation, Joybreath

Psychic Development - healing therapeutics and diagnostics, eg., Reiki, High Sense Perception work, pendulum work, magic

Divination - Tarot

Love - loving kindness meditation, dharma classes, developing bhodicitta, differentiation work, journaling

Music and Dance - fire circle dancing/drum dancing, trance dancing

Astral Projection - do not practice unless poked repeatedly with a sharp stick ,
or in a circle led by a Priest/ess conducting an astral projection exercise