The Gates of Horn

I have had the great pleasure, as a Reiki Master in two lineages, of helping quite a few dozens of students of magick into the realm of energy healing through the Usui Reiki ladder, from the First Degree through Master Teacher. Many of you who read this blog are involved in metaphysics, magick or healing, or combinations of the three. Those who are just entering the Reiki realm after encountering various magickal modalities may not have realized how their new talent can help their old ways.

Here we are again a couple of days from the Easter season. Easter Day this time is the same for both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, which doesn’t happen all that often. The stores are filling up with Easter Bunnies, Easter cards and Easter Eggs, trying hard to be a bigger commercial success than the other less than stellar season of Christmas that was also a takeover of a very ancient, pagan, religious event.

Since this is St. Patrick's Day a little whimsy is allowed, maybe even expected. This is a copy of correspondence between the usual boneheaded bureaucracy that many of us deal with in various ways, and someone who gave them MUCH better than the menacing threats they dumped on him. Sorry I couldn't include the photos. I don't know how. But the letters tell it all.

Read right through the letter from the state first.

Recently I was in my favorite coffee house Richton Perk in Richton Park, IL
( See the posting ‘Douglas Discovers Coffee, updated 2/13/2009 for its story). All the regulars have their own custom hand lettered mug with their name on the side and the date of their becoming a regular on the bottom, with their number since the first mug was made. To everyone’s surprise and delight a long lost customer, number 12 of the regulars came in with his beautiful cousin, on the exact anniversary, March 12th on the bottom of her mug.