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Mikladalur’s Kópakonan on the Faroe Islands

Published January 14, 2023 by tindertender

Selkies are a variation on the mermaid concept in Scottish, Irish, Icelandic and Faroese folklore. They live in the sea as seals, but can shed their seal hide to become human on land. If their seal skin is hidden or stolen, they are unable to return to the sea.

This 9 ft bronze and stainless steel statue of Kópakonan (The Seal Wife) was created by Hans Pauli Olsen and was installed in the Mikladalur Harbor on Kalsoy, one of the Faroe Islands, on August 1st, 2014. map

Mermaid (Seal Wife) on Faroe Islands
Kopakonan (The Seal Wife) in Mikladalur on Kalsoy, Faroe Islands. Photo © Marita Gulklett.
The statue commemorates myths about selkies and in particular two well known myths about the Seal Wife on the Faroe Islands.

Selkie stories are traditionally romantic tragedies, with the Selkie in most stories returning to the sea after several years as a Seal Wife to a human, leaving behind the husband and children.

One well known story is about a beautiful Selkie trapped by a fisherman on the island of Kalsoy, who hides her seal skin while she is on land one night. Trapped, she becomes his wife and they have 2 children. One day however, he goes fishing and she finds her seal skin hidden in a chest in their home. She escapes back to her Selkie family after ensuring the children are cared for until the fisherman’s return.

She leaves behind a message to not follow her and to not harm her Selkie family. The fishermen however ignore the warning and end up killing both her Selkie husband and Selkie children.

In revenge she curses the men of the island to die in frequent accidents until as many have perished as can link arms around the whole island.

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HOW TO RESPECT YOURSELF

Published January 12, 2023 by tindertender

(1) Stop looking for who is not looking for you.

(2) Stop begging.

(3) Stop saying more than is necessary.

(4) When people disrespect you, confront them immediately.

(5) Don’t eat other people’s food more than they eat yours.

(6) Reduce how you visit some people, especially if they don’t reciprocate it.

(7) Invest in yourself. Make yourself happy.

(😎 Stop entertaining gossip about other people.

(9) Think before you talk. 80% of how people value you is what comes out of your mouth.

(10) Always look your best. Dress the way you should be addressed.

(11) Be an achiever. Get busy with your goals.

(12) Respect your time.

(13) Don’t stay in a relationship where you don’t feel respected and valued. Walk away.

(14) Learn to spend money on yourself. That’s how people will learn to spend on you.

(15) Be scarce sometimes.

(16) Be a giver more than a receiver.

(17) Don’t go where you are not invited. And when invited don’t overstay your welcome.

(18) Treat people exactly the way they deserve.

(19) Except they owe you money, two call attempts is enough. If they value you they will call you back.

(20) Be good at what you do.

~ Author Unknown

Message from White Eagle, Hopi Indigenous from 2020

Published January 8, 2023 by tindertender

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This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and a hole.

The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is yours.

If you repent from the problem and consume the news 24/7, with low energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, you will fall into the hole.

But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you’ll get through the portal.

Take care of your homes, take care of your body.
Connect to your spiritual House.

When you take care of yourself, you take care of everything else.

Don’t lose the spiritual dimension of this crisis; have the eagle’s view above and see the whole; see wider.

There is a social demand in this crisis, but there is also a spiritual demand – both go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism.

But without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and meaninglessness.

Were you prepared to go through this crisis. Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.
Discover the resistance of indigenous and African peoples; we have always been, and continue to be, exterminated.

But we still haven’t stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and having fun.

Don’t feel guilty for being happy during this difficult time.

Being sad and down doesn’t help at all.

You help if good things are coming out of the Universe now.

It is joy that we resist.

Also, when the storm passes, each of you will be very important in rebuilding this new world.

You must be healthy and strong

And for that, there is no other way than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright vibration.

This has nothing to do with alienation.

It’s a strategy of the resistance.

In shamanism, there is a rite of passage called the quest of vision.

You spend a few days alone in the forest, no water, no food, no protection.

When you walk through that portal, you get a new view of the world, because you faced your fears, your difficulties.

This is what you are being asked:
Allow yourself to use this time to perform your vision search rituals.

What world do you want to build for yourself?

For now, this is what you can do: serenity in the storm.

Keep calm and pray every day. Establish a routine to meet the sacred every day.

Good things flow; what you manifest now is what matters most.

And sing, dance, resist through art, joy, faith and love.

~ White Eagle

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The Human Bioform

Published January 1, 2023 by tindertender

Or that somehow the designer, the Creator, needs puny men called scientists to “fix” it.

Spaceman

Published December 30, 2022 by tindertender

One of my new favorites. I’m getting off work early, then I’m going to dance like a wild woman to this album!!!

Prayer to Break Cycles

Published December 29, 2022 by tindertender

I now close the unfinished stories, unresolved situations, and poorly digested past experiences.

I put an end, a enough, a much needed limit on what no longer makes sense in my life.

I agree to complete this phase of my life freeing myself from everything that tied me to the old and the outdated.

May my past experiences not bring me the weight of pain, but wisdom to guide my steps.

May I never remain in what constrains, suffocates or limits me.

May I know how to let go of everything that is unproductive, that I be open to the new!

I allow myself to flow with life, changes and transformations.

I put an end to all the pain that I had not overcome, all the emotional disappointments that I have suffered, all the scarcity that I have experienced, all the physical and emotional woes, and all the woes that have bound me in the past.

In the name of my Holy Presence I Am, I decree that all knots, all misunderstandings and all discrepancies be broken now.

I now break all old, unpleasant and challenging cycles.

I am aware that I have served my purpose for these cycles, and that they have served their purpose for me as well.

I move on with learning and maturing ready for the new cycle that begins.

I accept endings and open myself to the blessings of new beginnings, to all the love, to all the health, to all the abundance and prosperity that await me.

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I Live in Heaven on Earth

Published December 29, 2022 by tindertender

I am not merely speaking of the geography of where I live, though it is smashingly beautiful
I live in Heaven on Earth because that is what my heart wants and has always wanted, and that is where it has always been.

It’s not that I don’t see the shadows or haven’t played in them, I see them, I use them to reflect and refract to assist my channel of light in becoming even more radiant.

I designed it that way.

I live in Heaven on Earth, every moment of every day.

Every smiling face that looks back at me contains it.
Every blade of grass, every sparkle on every leaf on every tree, the animals, the humans, all of nature, the rocks, the ocean, the mountains – all of consciousness contains Heaven on Earth.

I didn’t always know that I lived in Heaven on Earth, sometimes I forgot how to focus as I walked through my own tunnels of darkness.

But the Light, it was always there, the Light at the end of the tunnel, beckoning me, reminding me.

I live in Heaven on Earth and it really is not a place, it is a state of being and I love knowing that.

The Seraphim live closest to God, they love to look into God’s face, into the radiant effulgent light.
I imagine myself as one of the Seraphim and I cannot take my eyes off of God.

Him her me she you they us.

We are Heaven on Earth, not because we deserve it, though we do, but because we choose it.

I choose to see it, live in it, grow it, light it up.
I choose Heaven on Earth

As we turn this corner, the end of a year, the end of a cycle, Heaven on Earth is there too, around the corner but also here now.

We are just moving deeper and deeper into her splendor.

The sun the moon the stars the planets the galaxies the universe the multiverse the Om-niverse.
ALL here now in my Heaven on Earth.

And I am grateful as tears pour down my face speaking to the Joy that is bursting from my Heart.

Thank you each and everyone for helping me to choose again, to remember, to know that I can
Live in Heaven on Earth.
CSR

Image: Heaven’s Bridge from paintwithdiamonds.com. Not entirely sure of the artist.

Who’s That Lady?!

Published December 29, 2022 by tindertender

Formidable

If you describe something or someone as formidable, you mean that you feel slightly frightened by them because they are “very great, or impressive”.

There’s talk going around about a worthy opponent. Wonder who she is? 😊

Who’s that lady? (Who’s that lady?)
Beautiful lady, lady, yeah (who’s that lady?)
Lovely lady (who’s that lady?)
Real fine lady (who’s that lady?)

Hear me callin’ out to you
‘Cause that’s all that I can do
Your eyes tell me to pursue
But you say, “Look, yeah, but don’t touch, baby”
No, no, no, don’t touch

Who’s that lady? (Who’s that lady?)
Sexy lady, oh (who’s that lady?)
Beautiful lady (who’s that lady?)
Real fine lady (who’s that lady?)

I would dance upon a string
Any gifts she’d wanna bring
I would give her anything
If she would just do what I say
Come around my way, baby
Shine my way

Who’s that lady? (Who’s that lady?)
Beautiful lady, lady, lady (who’s that lady?)
Lovely lady (who’s that lady?)
Real, real fine lady (who’s that lady?)

I would love to take her home
But her heart is made of stone
Gotta keep on keepin’ on
If I don’t, she’ll do me wrong
She’ll do me wrong, yeah

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: O’Kelly Isley / Ronald Isley / Rudolph Isley

That Lady, Parts 1 & 2 lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Massacre of Innocence

Published December 29, 2022 by tindertender

Abortion isn’t about a woman’s right to choose.
It’s about stopping fresh challengers coming in to thwart the satanic dominance of this realm.

Minds are so twisted with manipulation and programming they cannot see it.

In the Bible it is said some king killed off all the babies because he was afraid of the challenger arising.

Same shit, different day.

And The Great Mother Said …

Published December 27, 2022 by tindertender

Come my child and give me all that you are.

I am not afraid of your strength and darkness,
of your fear and pain.

Give me your tears.

They will be my rushing rivers and roaring oceans.
Give me your rage.

It will erupt into my molten volcanoes and rolling thunder.

Give me your tired spirit. I will lay it to rest in my soft meadows. Give me your hopes and dreams.

I will plant a field of sunflowers and arch rainbows in the sky.

You are not too much for me.

My arms and heart welcome your true fullness.

There is room in my world for all of you, all that you are.

I will cradle you in the boughs of my ancient redwoods and the valleys of my gentle rolling hills.

My soft winds will sing you lullabies and soothe your burdened heart.

Release your deep pain.

You are not alone and you have never been alone.

~ Linda Reuther, “Homecoming”

Art by Lucy Campbell
http://www.lupiart.com
SHE On The Tip Of Her Tongue

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