Yeah, keeping the tone of what's non-negotiable or what's

[Kind of Blue]

flexible enough to work with but focusing on what you do want are so true. No hitting, no slapping were definitely on my list. Sometimes I think that I should have included no Messy Marvin while I was at it :rofl:

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1. WHOOPS! I did it again. Wrongly posted. Please ignore.

I was responding to Journalgrrl 's "Ever had a dream so sweet, it made you depressed?" :blush: :blush::blush:

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2. I just don't know what I do to cause this to happened again.

I reply to a post but it ends up as an OP. Then I try to rectify it making it worse. I'm sorry, Journalgrrl to create a mess in your OP. :blush:

[Shallah Kali]

3. Blame it on Mercury Rx

Shallah, wondering if the Mercury was ever associated in any culture with a trickster god/goddess

[Silver Gaia]

4. Well, actually yes. Mercury himself is often seen as a trickster,

especially in his Greek form, Hermes. ;)

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6. I just thought he was a messenger god. I'll have to investigate

his Greek form and tell him to knock it off already :)

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5. I dont' know, Shallah, but that trickster is always poking

fun at me. By the way, what is the Mercury Rx? I had a similar incident on the computer while working yesterday.

[Shallah Kali]

7. Mercury is retrograde right now moving backward from our Earthly point of view

and many people find their electronic devices and general comunnication skills go on the fritz. bigtime. Like the past day I have had one heck of a time spelling even little words and I am getting darned sick of going back to correct my spelling. :banghead:

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8. Ah, now it makes sense. Thanks, Shallah and Joolz.

Looked him up in his trickster aspect and found this at http://southerncrossreview.org/18/trickster.htm Transformation of the Trickster, even in my culture under the name Esu-Elegbara, "a figure of double duality, of unreconciled opposites, living in harmony... 'the epitome of paradox' (30) with the “capacity to reproduce himself ad infinitum.” I'm having a talk with him in a minute.

"In this archetypal form, the culture heroes called tricksters have been widely discussed and analyzed: two representative and thorough studies, for example, are Paul Rodin’s The Trickster (1956), which focuses on the trickster in the Winnebago myth cycle, and Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World (1998), which examines tricksters from a wide variety of cultures and discusses their effects on the modern artistic imagination. There seems to be fairly general agreement about the characteristics or properties of these tricky beings. According to Radin, for example, “Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes others and who is always duped himself. . . . He possesses no values, moral or social, is at the mercy of his passions and appetites, yet through his actions all values come into being” (xxiii). Carl Jung, in an appendix in Radin’s volume, says further, “Trickster is both subhuman and superhuman, a bestial and divine being, whose most alarming characteristic is his unconsciousness."

[JanusAscending]

11. I'm just lazy.....

I used to go back, but spell check is easier(too bad they don't check for grammer too!)

[conscious evolution]

9. Here is a drum rythym

that will chase away the trickster.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8271551341895532413
It is a West African drum song called Linjin.

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10. Believe it or not - I've been having audio problems.

Thanks, Conscious Evolution for the link. I have a strong belief in coincidences and synchronicity, so think I'll leave Hermes aka Esu-Elegbara alone for a while :)
I know I need new speakers but, my goodness, why now? :crazy: