Solar Eclipse–New Moon in Scorpio on October 23rd, 2014

“As I want’d to bestow mankind a boundless benefaction, I give them my dithyrambs. I place them in the hands of the poët of Isoline, the first and greatest satyr that lives today-and not only today …” Dionysos

Thanks, Howdy. I appreciate your comments. I did a bit of research, and there’s more I’d like to say, with regards to my own reasons for asking the initial question… but not this evening. I’ll need a little time to recharge, because I’ve been exploring…

The bald facts: hair loss could be the first sign you have heart disease

By JEREMY LAURANCE
11:34 PM BST, Wednesday 03 April 2013

Losing your hair could be the first visible sign of heart disease – but only if it is from the top of your head.

A review of studies involving almost 40,000 men has found that those with male pattern baldness – losing hair from the crown of their head – had up to a 70 cent increased risk of heart disease. The younger they were when they lost their hair and the greater the extent of their baldness, the higher their risk…

6 Surprising Heart Disease Warning Signs

Loss of hair is more than an issue of appearance — it may mean loss of circulation, according to a correlation between top rear head balding and cardiovascular disease described in a recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Dr. Alvarez says lack of circulation to the hair follicles may be related to heart circulation, although other factors may play a role in the connection…

Hair Loss and Heart Disease

Jan. 23, 2000 (Los Angeles) — Baldness may be more than just a cosmetic indignity: it could be a marker of heart disease risk, especially in men with other risk factors such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

Heart attacks, chest pain due to blocked arteries (called angina), and the need for balloon angioplasty or bypass surgery all are forms of heart disease, the researchers explained.

In men with high cholesterol and severe baldness at the vertex, or crown of the head, heart disease risk was increased nearly threefold compared to men who had high cholesterol but were not bald, senior author JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, tells WebMD.

High blood pressure was associated with an 80% increase in heart disease risk if the men were also bald. Mild and moderate vertex baldness were also associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but to a lesser extent. Frontal baldness — a receding hairline — had little relationship to heart disease. “To our knowledge, this is the first large-scale study showing a relationship between a specific pattern of baldness and heart-disease risk,” Manson says. The researchers, in addition, saw that the men with more severe hair loss developed more heart disease during the 11 years they were watched than men with only mild to moderate hair loss, suggesting a link between the degree of hair loss and heart disease risk.

The biological link between hair loss and heart disease could involve elevated levels of male hormones, says Manson, an endocrinologist and chief of preventive medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The scalp has a higher density of male-hormone receptors, and high levels of hormones such as testosterone are associated with an increased risk of hardening of the arteries and blood clotting. Although this study did not include women, Manson says that true male-pattern baldness in women, which is associated with an increase in male hormones, has been linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, and abnormal cholesterol, all of which raise the risk of heart disease. She cautions, however, that this finding has not been well studied.

Health Discovery
What Your Hair May Say About Your Heart

“Having a bad hair day” may have a new, more serious meaning. An Israeli-Canadian study has found that high levels of a stress hormone in hair samples could be a significant predictor of a heart attack.

Your hair may indicate if you’re at risk of having a heart attack.

The study’s findings are important because they use a biological marker to show a direct link between chronic stress and heart disease. Stressors, such as marital or financial troubles, have been linked to heart disease, but doctors could only rely on subjective questionnaires to determine people’s stress levels. This study looked at a more objective, measurable sign — the level of cortisol, a hormone released during stress — that shows up in the hair shaft.

Measuring cortisol levels in hair also can indicate how long a person has been stressed, says Gideon Koren, one of the study’s authors and a toxicologist at the University of Western Ontario. Cortisol, which is secreted by the adrenal glands, also shows up in urine and saliva, but that only shows stress at the moment of measurement — not over long periods of time.

“Hair grows about one centimeter [a fraction of an inch] a month, so if we take a hair sample six centimeters [2.6 inches] long, we can measure the cortisol level and determine stress levels for the past six months,” Koren says. This is critical, he adds, “because what kills is chronic stress.”

In the study, published last month in the journal Stress, researchers took 3-centimeter hair samples from 56 male heart attack patients admitted to the Meir Medical Center in Israel. Hair samples were also taken from a control group, hospitalized for reasons other than a heart attack. The two groups did not differ significantly in terms of diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking and family history of heart disease.

After accounting for the known risk factors, the researchers found that hair cortisol content was an even stronger predictor of heart attack than cholesterol level or body weight. “Hair cortisol levels were significantly higher in the [heart attack] group” than in the control group, the study noted.

The study’s authors acknowledge that the sample size — 112 adults — was relatively small, but Koren says the group is working on doing a larger study. “We would like to come up with a set of cortisol numbers for physicians to look at” that would indicate whether a person may be at risk for a heart attack. Although cortisol readings wouldn’t replace traditional heart disease markers, like cholesterol, genetics and blood sugar, it would give doctors an additional tool in determining risk.

“It could also provide us with a means to address other stress-related conditions, like ability to get pregnant and longevity of life,” Koren adds. “It could also help people realize that they need to decrease the stress in their life.

Lao Tzu and Confucius

The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse
By Thomas Michael

There is no disembodied, mystical vision in the Neiye. The heart, named as the physical seat of the Dao, cannot be detached from the body in the same way as the spirit spoken of by mystics can be set free…

…For the person who obtains the Dao, the pores are effused with it, the hair is saturated with it, and within the chest cavity there is nothing lost.

Fool Turtle is just a projection of my mind
I refer to myself as to a friend because
I’d like to know myself better.

>>>”Be careful what you wish for…”
>>>Oh, indeed. In fact, that very phrase passed
>>>through my mind before I sat down with the eclipse…

If the universe chooses to respond to a request and it decides to fulfill it, you don’t get choose HOW it delivers it to you. In fact, often it will force you to change in ways you are not prepared for. 🙂

If and when I love that and accept that sometimes there are no way to know the inknown. It’s a relationship… And it is very funny sometimes, even–or, especially when–you cry or listen to Heavy Metal music… Lol… Which I actually haven’t lately, but Gojira is sometimes good for me.

>>>This thread, and your comments, have helped me
>>>out more than you could know, psychic though Scorpio may be.

I have FOUR Scorpios in my chart, so I know Scorpio quite well.

It’s also because I am slightly “intuitive” (which has only gotten stronger over the years via my Healing Tao practice). I’m guessing that you don’t need any extra verification for this part? 😉

I don’t know, what are you sensing? Nope, no confirmation needed for my sense of what you’re sensing. :/)

>>>Please don’t sugar-coat things for me unless your heart says otherwise.

I haven’t, as you asked me not to.
But there is also a place of respect to where you have to allow others to evolve in their own time. To do otherwise is an inappropriate crossing-of-boundaries. When you are ready to share how things relate to your own life, share. Until then, I’ll simply be silent to allow you the space for your own evolution.

You said it better than I had, before. XD

It’s all the same (yes/no?) with infinitely different flavors, yes/no?
Qi,

Strange, sexy, Fool

>>>Please don’t sugar-coat things for me unless your heart says otherwise.

“I haven’t, as you asked me not to.
But there is also a place of respect to where you have to allow others to evolve in their own time. To do otherwise is an inappropriate crossing-of-boundaries. When you are ready to share how things relate to your own life, share. Until then, I’ll simply be silent to allow you the space for your own evolution.”

I only read a little bit of that. I’m enjoying a new sensation and pulsation of myself: it’s good to be honest because what else can one hope to know and accept and or or love

This includes not hiding one’s unique personality as the ones who see it best would also know that it’s there, even if cloaked. The question is, what does one need as if it were love beyond conception? And what does that say about the 5 shen?

…

What are the differences between an over-active or under-active organ, in general? For instance, what if earth were over-active, Metal next most so, and fire were underactive?

The title refers to a subtle joke in the post: one small question?

Not sure why metal is Caps. Went with it.

I hope you enjoy your day,

FT

Poetry by Rumi@flutopedia.com

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Jalalu’ddin Rumi, Maulana) was a 13th century Persian poet, musician, and founder of the Mevlevi order / Whirling Dervishes of Sufi tradition. Many of his poems of great beauty and insight work well with the Native American flute.

This page provides a few of his poems. Most translations are by Coleman Barks.

Where Everything is Music

We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and if the whole world’s harp
should burn up,
there will still be hidden instruments
playing, playing

This singing art
is sea foam.
The graceful movements
come from a pearl
somewhere
on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like spindrift
and the edge of driftwood
along the beach
wanting, wanting

They derive from a slow
and powerful root
that we cannot see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window
in the center of your chest,
and let the spirits fly
in and out!

— Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Jalalu’ddin Rumi, Maulana), 13th century Persian poet, founder of Mevlevi order / Whirling Dervishes of Sufi tradition. Tanslation by Coleman Barks.

The Reed Flute’s Song

This poem is the opening of the prologue of Book 1 of Mathnawi ([mahs-nah-vee], also spelled Masnavi) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Jalalu’ddin Rumi, 1207-1273). Rūmī is also known as Maulana, so this is often titled Mathnawi of Maulana.

The Mathnawi is a six-volume epic poem with over 25,000 lines ([Harmless 2008], page 180). It is written in a lyrical, rhythmic, poetic version of Persian, but the poetic style does not translate well into English with the same force and power as the original manuscript. One of the most cited original sources for the Mathnawi is a manuscript dated 1278 CE (677 A.H.) ([Nicholson 1930]). See also [Papan-Matin 2003] and [Amjad 2007].

Many translations of this poem have been made. Here is an early English translation by E. H. Whinfield ([Whinfield 1898]). It was originally published as one long poem with about seven words on each line. This version has been re-arranged to read like a book:

Hearken to the reed flute, how it complains, lamenting its banishment from its home: “Ever since they tore me from my osier bed, my plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears. I burst my breast, striving to give vent to sighs, and to express the pangs of my yearning for my home. He who abides far away from his home is ever longing for the day he shall return. My wailing is heard in every throng, in concert with them that rejoice and them that weep. Each interprets my notes in harmony with his own feelings, but not one fathoms the secrets of my heart. My secrets are not alien from my plaintive notes, yet they are not manifest to the sensual eye and ear. Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, yet no man hath ever seen a soul.” This plaint of the flute is fire, not mere air. Let him who lacks this fire be accounted dead!

‘Tis the fire of love that inspires the flute, ’tis the ferment of love that possesses the wine. The flute is the confidant of all unhappy lovers; yes, its strains lay bare my inmost secrets. Who hath seen a poison and an antidote like the flute? Who hath seen a sympathetic consoler like the flute? The flute tells the tale of love’s bloodstained path, it recounts the story of Majnun’s love toils. None is privy to these feelings save one distracted, as ear inclines to the whispers of the tongue. Through grief my days are as labour and sorrow, my days move on, hand in hand with anguish. Yet, though my days vanish thus, ’tis no matter, do thou abide, O incomparable pure one!
Here is a version of the same Rūmī poem, excerpted from a translation by Coleman Barks and John Moyne in The Essential Rumi ([Barks 2004], pages 17–20). This poem can also be found in [Khan-HI 1993]:

Listen to the story told by the reed,
of being separated.

“Since I was cut from the reedbed,
I have made this crying sound.

Anyone apart from someone he loves
understands what I say.

Anyone pulled from a source
longs to go back.

At any gathering I am there,
mingling in the laughing and grieving,

a friend to each, but few
will hear the secrets hidden

within the notes. No ears for that.
Body flowing out of spirit,

spirit up from body: no concealing
that mixing. But it’s not given us

to see the soul. The reed flute
is fire, not wind. Be that empty.”

Hear the love fire tangled
in the reed notes, as bewilderment

melts into wine. The reed is a friend
to all who want the fabric torn

and drawn away. The reed is hurt
and salve combining. Intimacy

and longing for intimacy, one
song. A disastrous surrender

and a fine love, together. The one
who secretly hears this is senseless.

A tongue has one customer, the ear.
A sugarcane flute has such effect

because it was able to make sugar
in the reedbed. The sound it makes

is for everyone. Days full of wanting,
let them go by without worrying

that they do. Stay where you are
inside sure a pure, hollow note.

Every thirst gets satisfied except
that of these fish, the mystics,

who swim a vast ocean of grace
still somehow longing for it!

No one lives in that without
being nourished every day.

But if someone doesn’t want to hear
the song of the reed flute,

it’s best to cut conversation
short, say good-bye, and leave.

I felt like reading, maybe a poem, afterwards (above), which… Well, it’s interesting… I consider that perhaps metal music is a limited quantity of enjoyable poison to fight poison with. Integrating acceptance of polarities. This song of theirs is mostly gentle singing and hushed instruments, but the heart of a star and the heart of a fetus explode into life from death…

Gojira – an official video for Born in Winter from the album Le Enfant Sauvage

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The left hand is “unclean” according to a widespread religious practice involving not using the right hand for tasks such as touching one’s genitals. Holding hands becomes impossible with lefts made taboo. Left hand paths… I use both hands, and appreciate their unique skillsets and expressions. Drawings made with my left hand exclusively have a very different mood and appearance….

Let me tell you:

When I was a boy, I played with barbies with the girls and trucks with boys; I read books for boys and books for girls. I sewed doll clothes and made dollhouses for my sisters; and for my brother, suits of armor out of stiff thick industrial paper. You can see where this is going?

It’s complicated, and it’s an important issue, not just for me, but for everyone… I’ve been exploring sexuality through my male and female aspects for a while. I’ve fallen in love and lust with both women and men, and I’m angry…

One time I was walking and some guys came past on the sidewalk. They said, “Hey, faggot!” and I smiled, quite sincerely (surprised myself) and said, “Hi, guys!” Sometimes the only enemy is judgement: I didn’t care, and it actually cheered me up. It’s about self-judgement, yes, but it’s also about remembering that if not judging others, then others cannot distract from the bittersweet nature of life as I have come to enjoy: drink the vinegar with a smile, like Lao Tzu in that painting with Buddha and Confucius….

Consider: a faggot is a piece of kindling.

Now, about homosexuality:

Left-handers aren’t just poor: 6 daily struggles of being a leftie
Ellen Stewart for Metro.co.uk
Wednesday 3 Dec 2014 3:47 pm

Cruel Harvard scientists today dealt yet another blow to left-handed people, with a study that proved left-handed people are likely to be poorer than right-handed people.

As if we needed yet another poke in the eye from the world’s right-handers.

Professor Joshua Goodman said we ‘exhibit economically and statistically significant human capital deficits relative to righties.’

Translation: we’re poorer.

‘Left-handed individuals show consistently lower cognitive skills and higher rates of mental and behavioural disabilities,’ he said, just to rub salt in the wound. With his right hand.

Translation: we’ve got all SORTS of problems.

While lefties can count Leonardo Da Vinci, Spike Lee, Jimi Hendrix and, perhaps most importantly, Drew Barrymore in their ranks, there’s no denying being left-handed is a daily struggle. Here’s why.

MORE: 10 left-handed people who prove that lefties aren’t ALL failures

1. Ring binders

In the same vein as spiral notepads this office stationery is the leftie kryptonite.

2. Pens

Aside from the biro pens are the devil. Trying to write anything with an inky pen will end in a page full of smudges and a stained hand. Also note, ballpoints are meant to be pulled not pushed so jar when in the grip of a left-hander.

3. Scissors

Left-handed scissors designed for special leftie use are arguably harder to cut with than the standard right-handed version. The solution? Teach yourself how to use the regular pair.

4. Dying sooner

Righties live longer and there’s no way of getting around that fact. It’s science.

5. Anger problems

Previous studies, including a 2012 paper published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, have shown lefties are more prone to negative and angry thoughts.

It’s probably down to the frustration at being sentenced to live in a world designed for the right-handed.

6. Ned Flanders

Ever wondered why lefties have such a bad rep? Their most famous spokesperson is ‘Stupid Flanders’.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, there is a whole wave of Christians who believe, ‘There is much evidence that… people who have chosen to use Satan’s hand… will burn in hell for all eternity.’

So, on this day dedicated to those few, eternally damned lefties in the world, spare a thought for their strife.

And maybe lodge a petition with your bank to get rid of those pens on strings, because they’re evil too.