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[note: This article is in no way meant to debunk past life memories, so much as it is meant to address a potential problem with remembering and offer a sane and rational way of approaching and accepting the real stuff.]

Some of this is from the Torah, some from rabbinical commentary, some from oral tradition, and probably a number of inaccuracies caused by my fuzzy memory on the subject (PLEASE feel free to set me straight if you know this better than me). Please bear in mind that this is not necessarily my take on the whole thing, just the story as I recall it. Here's the gist:

Magpie's essay on the septagram is an incredible one. It was well thought out and researched. However, at her urging I decided to present another view of the septagram... this one intensely personal.

Forget Schoolhouse Rock: three isn't the magic number, seven is. Seven is one of the most widely recognized "lucky numbers", and comes into play with a fair amount of things, both magical and mundane... for example:

Full D. sylvanus taxonomy is as follows:
Species: sylvanus
Genus: Dannan
Family: Faeidae
Infraorder: Catarrhini
Order: Primates.

It's rather simple, actually. When the Crone is coming to fruition in the waning dark of the Moon, you must create a black waxen image of your computer with wick for lighting, or black candle if you're not artistic. Upon it with your Burin, which can be found at various stores throughout the Internet, inscribe these words, "I desire to leave this list list", along with the Tattwa for the Element of Fire, representing freedom, change and destruction , the Elder Futhark rune of Thurisaz, representing freedom in movement, the masculine in action and destruction of obstacles, and the Ogham symbol for Birch, representing new beginnings, purification and changes. You'll need a banishing incense of your choice and two lodestones. Cast circle, yadda, yadda, yadda, dress waxen computer image or candle and place on pentacle, light.

[Written by Tiernan and Robin. Taken from the TNO archives, Issue #1, October 1995. ]

1. Are people spooked when you walked up behind them and they never heard you coming?
2. You are always the first one to hear something in the distance (ie: aproaching car, person, storm...)
3. You can smell a troll for miles and miles and miles...
4. You couldn't care less about gun control as long as they don't outlaw bows.
5. You think "Lord what fools these mortals be" should be in Bartletts Quotes.
6. You are frequently offered 'Santa's Helper' jobs at Christmas without an interview.
7. Your best friends are nymphs, pixies, and fairies.
8. You think trees are a great place to live, and holes in the ground are for worms and hobbits.
9. Your friends cat, who hates EVERYONE including your friend, loves you.
10. You HATE ear jokes
11. You catch yourself referring to David Bowie as 'cousin'
12. The only iron you care to work with is the one that takes the wrinkles out of your clothes.
13. You can smell what kind of mood the people around you are in.
14. You HATE plastic.
15. You LOVE mushrooms.
16. You can be spun around at night with a blindfold on and you stop spinning pointing to true North every time.
17. You find yourself arguing that Vulcans and Romulans are your long lost cousins with a Trek fan.
18. Almost no-one understands your sense of humor
19. Trolls stress you out.
20. You have pet dragons.
21. You would rather listen to bird songs than the radio.
22. You can sleep on the floor, ground or a wood waterbed, but not a metal frame bed.
23. Orcs are the cousins you don't talk about.
24. You have a fascination with edged weapons.
25. Most of your clothing has ties and laces instead of buttons and zippers.

Back in the very late 70's and very early 80's, when I was first getting into the New Age thing, it seemed to me at least with regard to the people I came in contact with that the spiritualist/new age movement was about working toward enlightenment. Methods for doing that inner work became very popular, such as TM, yoga, Zen... at least in S. Cal where I grew up (and lived most of my life). The focus seemed to me to be very much on the fact that you had to find your own inner way, that there were tools to help you do that but they were intended to be just that: tools, not crutches.