Holiday debuggery

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for reading. Here's wishing you the very merriest of holidays. We'll see you next year!

"...[R]emember we're an Open System. Coming and going is part of how we'll Spread The Word. None of this hiding out in the compound bullshit. That's for those who are waiting for Jesus or Hale-Bopp or what/who/fucking/ever to come and 'take them away'.

No End Times around here, babe. The Wheel keeps Turning and we have to do the Work ourselves, Blessed Be!!"

Obama now says he didn't campaign on the public option. The Google says he did, a lot.

Best Wishes to all of you,
Love,
Dirty Ol' Uncle Nebs

"They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself." ~Andy Warhol

The First Valence: The Creatrix is The Source of All

The Goddess is The Divine as Feminine and The Female as Divine. Her Triple Energy is The Core of Human Existence: Spiritual Energy, Sexual Energy, and Creative Energy, all three inextricably intertwined, all three Feminine Energies. These Energetic Vibrations are The Basis of Creation, The Foundation of All. And Energy can only be Transformed, never destroyed.

[This is about The Goddess]

The Second Valence: The Pentavalent Is An Adaptive Metaphysical Operating System

Majick is a Meta-Physical Technology that can be enhanced by, and is ultimately reconcilable with, Patriarchal Science, and it is the duty of all Her Practitioners to study both Disciplines and work toward their reconciliation and integration, tempered by the awareness that they cannot yet know how said reconciliation shall ultimately manifest.

[This is about the Discipline of Majick]

The Third Valence: Women Must Reclaim All That Is Theirs

A New Matriarchy is to be founded. Without exception, all that once belonged to The Goddess must be reclaimed. Without exception, all that once belonged to Women must be reclaimed. The Masculine Qualities of The Race are to be reclaimed and reintegrated by Women. The birth of Daughters is preferred over the birth of sons.

[This is about Reclaiming]

The Fourth Valence: The Creatrix Has Many Aspects

The Goddess reveals Herself in Many Aspects. All of Her Aspects are to be honored. All of Her Aspects are to be considered paramount. Any 'god' is to be 'consort' and equal only in regard to an individual Aspect of The Goddess, never to The Goddess Herself. In each of Her Aspects, Priestesses shall aways have precedence. Priesthoods are always to be discouraged.

[This is about a Sisterhood of Goddesses for a Sisterhood of Women]

The Fifth Valence: The Pentavalence is The Community Of The Five Valences

"The Pentavalence" is all of Her Practitioners who gather under these Precepts as Solitaries, Covens, Groves, Arrays, and Cults, each honoring and worshiping which of Her Aspects they shall choose, in the manner they shall choose, consistent with the Precepts of "The Pentavalent". We may individually call ourselves "Witch" or "Practitioner", but, all together, we are "The Pentavalence": The Community of The Five Valences and our common goal is the establishment of a New Matriarchy.

[This is about creating Community]

All together this is about Goddess Majick Reclaiming Sisterhood Community

• 08:04 @MajoratWH Haha, because they wouldn't want to tout this one! www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1408 #
• 16:37 @allahpundit I don't care either. What's achieved by waiting? The optics of the Dem moves were worse Monday at 1am. #
• 22:34 The Netflix Top 100 mystifies me. "Crash" is the number 1 rental? Huh? #

( Girls are still at risk this Christmas as 'cutters' are flown in from abroad to perform the illegal procedure here )

~I had a D'OH! moment as I was laying down to take a nap a few hours ago. I realized that nowhere in The Pentavalent itself does it actually mention the goal of establishing a New Matriarchy. Yes, I could hear E snickering at me off wherever it is She hangs out.

It is certainly implicit within The Pentavalent and quite seriously explicit throughout The Explanation, relentlessly so. But that is how the Mind works; we 'hear' what we think, but often do not actually express it clearly to others, or sometimes, even to ourselves.

So, I napped and then when I awoke, I spoke with E about the matter and we added the eighteen words that corrected that...'oversight', and in the two places it seemed most suited to such an amendment. I have underlined them below, though only for purposes of this post.

The Third Valence: Women Must Reclaim All That Is Theirs
A New Matriarchy is to be founded. Without exception, all that once belonged to The Goddess must be reclaimed. Without exception, all that once belonged to Women must be reclaimed. The Masculine Qualities of The Race are to be reclaimed and reintegrated by Women. The birth of Daughters is preferred over the birth of sons.

The Fifth Valence: The Pentavalence is The Community Of The Five Valences
"The Pentavalence" is all of Her Practitioners who gather under these precepts as Solitaries, Covens, Groves, Arrays, and Cults, each honoring and worshiping which of Her Aspects they shall choose, in the manner they shall choose, consistent with the precepts of "The Pentavalent". We may individually call ourselves by different titles, "Witch", “Shaman”, "Practitioner", but, all together, we are "The Pentavalence": The Community of The Five Valences and our common goal is the establishment of a New Matriarchy.

Now I have to go back through all of the various places The Pentavalent is posted and do the edit. But, hey, I could I have had this revelation after the book version was published. Oy...lol

...doing triple duty as a 'Random'...

~Got up while still tired...now that I'm fed, supplemented, and medicated, I'm ready for a nap..but gonna set my alarm for 9 cause I gotta run up to Albertson's for a few things..