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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 3, 2012 at 1:36pm

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Personal and professional loyalties are important to you now. Even if it costs you severely, you're willing to live up to obligations and expectations. You're able to endure problems without complaint.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have strong beliefs that can become impassioned now. Stay calm, and don't let your fervency get so strong that people become afraid or turned off. Speak your mind but also be willing to listen and learn.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You're apt to state beliefs as facts. You put a lot of zeal into topics that are mostly theoretical, at least to you. You need to stick to what you know for sure and not overstate your thoughts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You prefer stability and predictability today, especially in relationships. You may tend to rely too much on others, though; you might not see that you're deferring too much and not taking enough initiative.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You're willing to suffer but many are lax and let situations slide into difficult times. Strive to get others live up to standards; be an example to them. Get people to see the importance of responsibility.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You dislike routines and programs but without them you are ineffective. You must pay attention to immediate details and act on them in order to achieve your end goals. Be alert to whether your attention is drifting and actions are inefficient.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You feel concerned about people's importance relative to you. You tread cautiously, sensing it's wise to appear unaggressive and non-threatening. You evaluate issues of power and personal influence carefully.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are drawn to situations that have an element of danger to them. You need to anticipate potential dangers carefully. For many, secrets are important features of the day and you want to uncover them or learn what others have revealed.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You're inclined to give more importance to others' ideas over your own. Many, however, must be mindful of any responsibility they may have to make decisions. You may be more comfortable soliciting honest opinions before making a directive.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You feel you need to do everything yourself but instead you must focus on getting tasks done efficiently. This probably means allowing or enlisting partnerships to share the labor. You must find ways to make the work to their advantage.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are serious, hard-working and determined today. You're willing to sacrifice personal pleasures to ensure that business is taken care of as soon as possible. You want to be able to have fun without nagging worries.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You desire success and advancemen, but you dislike direct competition. You want to simply do your best, come what may. You're willing to guide people through their difficult moments today. Don't go for the easy way out.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 3, 2012 at 1:36pm

"Once you have achieved this oneness, when you talk, God talks; when you act, God acts."

-- Chuck Ross, LAKOTA

In my innermost self, I know this to be true. I know of this oneness. The more I am free of doubt, jealousy, judgment, selfishness, anger, the closer I am to this oneness. When I am right with the Creator, nothing can touch me. When I am right with the Creator I always say the right things. When I am right with the Creator, my thoughts are always good. When I am right with the Creator, my actions are always good.

Great Spirit, remove from me those things that block me from You. Allow me this day to experience the oneness

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 2, 2012 at 9:27am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your concern over individual liberty is re-energized today. You're reminded how much freedom is being eroded. Many become aware of how much they've become disenfranchised or else how imminently they are next. You take steps to push back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your freedom of action is limited today. Frustration makes you lash out. Instead, analyze what's blocking you. Begin breaking the holds on you in small, careful ways. Recreate your situation beginning today; in a few years you'll be able to make a big change.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You're keenly sensitive to how old power structures are trying to hold on while social and technical progress promises to move beyond them. It's easier to decide your loyalties when you understand where the future is most likely headed.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Important changes occur today, affecting your career or status. Controversy surrounds you how and your personal and professional loyalties are tested to a decision-point. Do you decide for yourself or buckle to external pressure?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are open to opinions and ideas that seem radical, yet have been around for a long time. You seek a philosophic response to social, corporate and political ills. You seek new perspectives on liberty versus tyranny.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today, you want to live a non-ordinary life. You dislike the usual hubbub and want to get away and relax. You can rest in a park, meditate in seclusion, explore a side of yourself you usually have to set aside.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You must find friends among people whose ideas match yours. Some relationships are breaking up because of social or ideological divides, so you need more compatible matches. There causes in which you want to participate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You take an interest in a philosophy or religion that's outside the mainstream. A different, even countercultural, way of living seems attractive, For now, you want to believe; feasibility can be considered later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your restlessness is a sign that you have new interests developing. Don't act strange or erratic; instead, be introspective and bring to consciousness what new directions you're headed in.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You feel as though your settled routine is being upended. For many, the home life is in turmoil. This is a good day to acknowledge the difficulties and work creatively to make a shift in a positive direction.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You distrust old sources of information today. You're sensitive to propaganda and efforts to shade the truth. You want total honesty and you turn away from those who are deliberately not giving it to you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You retreat from the world and become absorbed into your own concerns. Insofar as you're interested in big issues, they are of a spiritual or abstract nature. You have difficulty accepting that social and physical shifts can affect your real life.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 2, 2012 at 9:26am

Sep 2, 1666:
Great Fire of London begins

In the early morning hours, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses filled with combustibles and a strong easterly wind transformed the blaze into an inferno. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on September 6, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died.

The Great Fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. London of 1666 was a city of medieval houses made mostly of oak timber. Some of the poorer houses had walls covered with tar, which kept out the rain but made the structures more vulnerable to fire. Streets were narrow, houses were crowded together, and the firefighting methods of the day consisted of neighborhood bucket brigades armed with pails of water and primitive hand pumps. Citizens were instructed to check their homes for possible dangers, but there were many instances of carelessness.

So it was on the evening of September 1, 1666, when Thomas Farrinor, the king's baker, failed to properly extinguish his oven. He went to bed, and sometime around midnight sparks from the smoldering embers ignited firewood lying beside the oven. Before long, his house was in flames. Farrinor managed to escape with his family and a servant out an upstairs window, but a bakery assistant died in the flames--the first victim.

Sparks from Farrinor's bakery leapt across the street and set fire to straw and fodder in the stables of the Star Inn. From the Inn, the fire spread to Thames Street, where riverfront warehouses were packed full with flammable materials such as tallow for candles, lamp oil, spirits, and coal. These stores lit aflame or exploded, transforming the fire into an uncontrollable blaze. Bucket-bearing locals abandoned their futile efforts at firefighting and rushed home to evacuate their families and save their valuables.

It had been a hot, dry summer, and a strong wind further encouraged the flames. As the conflagration grew, city authorities struggled to tear down buildings and create a firebreak, but the flames repeatedly overtook them before they could complete their work. People fled into the Thames River dragging their possessions, and the homeless took refuge in the hills on the outskirts of London. Light from the Great Fire could be seen 30 miles away. On September 5, the fire slackened, and on September 6 it was brought under control. That evening, flames again burst forth in the Temple (the legal district), but the explosion of buildings with gunpowder extinguished the flames.

The Great Fire of London engulfed 13,000 houses, nearly 90 churches, and scores of public buildings. The old St. Paul's Cathedral was destroyed, as were many other historic landmarks. As estimated 100,000 people were left homeless. Within days, King Charles II set about rebuilding his capital. The great architect Sir Christopher Wren designed a new St. Paul's Cathedral with dozens of smaller new churches ranged around it like satellites. To prevent future fires, most new houses were built of brick or stone and separated by thicker walls. Narrow alleyways were forbidden and streets were made wider. Permanent fire departments, however, did not become a fixture in London until well into the 18th century.

In the 1670s, a memorial column commemorating the Great Fire of London was erected near the source of the calamity. Known as the Memorial, it was probably designed by the architect Robert Hooke, though some sources credit Christopher Wren. The column stands 202 feet above the pavement and features sculpture and engravings that tell the story of the conflagration.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 2, 2012 at 9:25am

"I remember Dawson (No Horse) said, 'Once you say your prayers, don't worry about them. If you worry about them, they'll just fade away.'"

-- Chuck Ross, LAKOTA

Today I need to remember You are everywhere. I need to remember how much You love me. I need to know, Grandfathers, that You are always listening. Today I need to know how much You care. Today I will remember the advice of the Elders. "Say your prayers and then don't worry - know that the Great One has heard you." It's so much easier to do this, Grandfather, when I feel connected to You.

My Creator, allow me this day to feel your presence. Let me walk the path of life today and talk to You many times. Give me faith, my Grandfather

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 2, 2012 at 9:25am

Sep 2, 31 B.C.:
The Battle of Actium

At the Battle of Actium, off the western coast of Greece, Roman leader Octavian wins a decisive victory against the forces of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Before their forces suffered final defeat, Antony and Cleopatra broke though the enemy lines and fled to Egypt, where they would commit suicide the following year.

With the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., Rome fell into civil war. To end the fighting, a coalition--the Second Triumvirate--was formed by three of the strongest belligerents. The triumvirate was made up of Octavian, Caesar's great-nephew and chosen heir; Mark Antony, a powerful general; and Lepidus, a Roman statesman. The empire was divided among the three, and Antony took up the administration of the eastern provinces. Upon arriving in Asia Minor, he summoned Queen Cleopatra to answer charges that she had aided his enemies. Cleopatra, ruler of Egypt since 51 B.C., had once been Julius Caesar's lover and had borne him a child, who she named Caesarion, meaning "little Caesar."

Cleopatra sought to seduce Antony as she had Caesar before him, and in 41 B.C. arrived at Tarsus on a magnificent river barge, dressed as Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Successful in her efforts, Antony returned with her to Alexandria, where they spent the winter in debauchery. In 40 B.C., Antony returned to Rome and married Octavian's sister Octavia in an effort to mend his increasingly strained relationship with Octavian. The triumvirate, however, continued to deteriorate. In 37 B.C. Antony separated from Octavia and traveled to the East, arranging for Cleopatra to join him in Syria. In their time apart, Cleopatra had borne him twins, a son and a daughter. According to Octavian's propagandists, the lovers were then married, which violated the Roman law restricting Romans from marrying foreigners.

Antony's disastrous military campaign against Parthia in 36 B.C. further reduced his prestige, but in 34 B.C. he was more successful against Armenia. To celebrate the victory, he staged a triumphal procession through the streets of Alexandria, in which Antony and Cleopatra sat on golden thrones, and their children were given imposing royal titles. Many in Rome, spurred on by Octavian, interpreted the spectacle as a sign that Antony intended to deliver the Roman Empire into alien hands.

After several more years of tension and propaganda attacks, Octavian declared war against Cleopatra, and therefore Antony, in 31 B.C. Enemies of Octavian rallied to Antony's side, but Octavian's brilliant military commanders gained early successes against his forces. On September 2, 31 B.C., their fleets clashed at Actium in Greece. After heavy fighting, Cleopatra broke from the engagement and set course for Egypt with 60 of her ships. Antony then broke through the enemy line and followed her. The disheartened fleet that remained surrendered to Octavian. One week later, Antony's land forces surrendered.

Although they had suffered a decisive defeat, it was nearly a year before Octavian reached Alexandria and again defeated Antony. In the aftermath of the battle, Cleopatra took refuge in the mausoleum she had had built for herself. Antony, informed that Cleopatra was dead, stabbed himself with his sword. Before he died, another messenger arrived, saying Cleopatra still lived. Antony was carried to Cleopatra's retreat, where he died after bidding her to make her peace with Octavian. When the triumphant Roman arrived, she attempted to seduce him, but he resisted her charms. Rather than fall under Octavian's domination, Cleopatra committed suicide on August 30, 31 B.C., possibly by means of an asp, a poisonous Egyptian serpent and symbol of divine royalty.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 1, 2012 at 9:36am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your mind tends to be frantic today. You must take extra care to relax, perhaps through meditation. Take control of your mind and don't be overwhelmed to too much or by worries and distractions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You become aware of ways in which you are disadvantaged. In some way, you are behind others, lacking in what they have. That's how you view it but the real issue is being happy with what you have and getting what you need.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Expect disappointments today. Promises aren't kept, through carelessness or force of unforeseen circumstances. Don't build up hope too much and have a backup plan in place in case a failure occurs.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You enjoy taking on a teaching role today. You love to impart your knowledge on to others and to see people become more skilled and self-confident. You feel enlivened and more youthful around younger people or those eager to learn.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You need to be brutally honest with yourself today. You may need a friend who can burst your illusions. When you paint a rosy picture, you are almost certainly ignoring something important that contradicts it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Be extremely careful about whom you choose as associates today. You're liable to accept people as they come but they may not always have your best interests at heart. Be sure to protect yourself and your reputation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have to struggle against one unfortunate event after another. You try to make things turn out right, even when it seems they don't want to. Your imagination is overblown; it's best to stick with what you can see.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can find yourself over your head today; expectations were quite different. It's important to get explicit descriptions of what's involved before committing. Your imagination fills in the gaps and interprets abstract nouns.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You face the expectations of others and tend to fall short. You can feel embarrassed now. You're challenged to move out of your fantasies and stick closer to the world as it is.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You're prone to unrealistic plans and imaginings today. A hobby or intellectual interest can seem odd to others; don't let it occupy your attention when there are more important and immediate tasks needing work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Watch your finances carefully. Don't follow through on any ideas you may have had recently, especially involving money or investments. Wait a few more days until you can evaluate your situation and options more clearly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While you want to be agreeable and accommodating, this may not always be wise. It's important to think for yourself and to steer others away from a bad course of action.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on September 1, 2012 at 9:35am

"Everyone has a song. God gives us each a song. That's how we know who we are. Our song tells us who we are."

-- Charlie Knight, UTE

As we start to walk the Red Road and as we develop ourselves as Warriors, a song will come to us. This song is given to each of us from the Great Spirit. Whenever we sing this song, we will receive courage and strength, not only for ourselves but if we sing this song for others, it will also help them. The song will give us power and make us feel really good. The song will make us see life in a sacred way. If you don't have your song yet, ask the Creator in prayer if He will give you your song. With the song comes a responsibility - the responsibility to act and conduct oneself as a Warrior according to your song.

Oh my Creator, let me live my song. Let my song honor Your way of life. Let me sing my song each day. At the end of today, let my song tell people who I am. I am a beautiful child of the Creator

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 31, 2012 at 8:40am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You feel inhibited today and tend to be unable to act on your will or feelings. It takes a dedicated effort to climb out of your situation and become socially active, and to participate in community events.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your overriding priority is providing for the family. Some may see this as working longer than usual, others as spending quality time at home. You struggle to strike the right balance between present and future needs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You bring the workweek to a successful close if you are willing to push yourself. The downside is the risk of being perceived as neglecting your family. Decide who most needs your presence.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You reach a point where you can teach others what you know. As you have been taught, pass skills and knowledge on to others. Your efforts can be a labor of love, almost devoid of ulterior motives.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It's important to remember your ultimate purpose today. You're good at paying attention to details but also you are easily distracted. Finish what you start; you're apt to move on before completing tasks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You're prone to act in ways that make you stand out. People gather around you and you feel like you're at the center of their attention. You're sensitive about whether you're rewarded or punished for excellence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's important to avoid feeling self-pity today. Count your blessings; good health or loving family may be among them. Your mood is such that you're more aware of what you don't have, so look around and see what you do have.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You want to be friendly and helpful today and it would be good to extend this beyond the family. Donations to, or volunteering for, a charity would be an excellent way to reach out and benefit the general public.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is strong pressure to decide between work and family. Your heart will tell you which is more important. The place you find love and acceptance is where you can find help when most needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stay in touch with friends and family, especially those who are far away. Breaking news can reach you from afar. Cultivate curiosity and ask questions so you understand what's happening.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are feeling ambitious but may lack staying power to establish credentials. Don't alienate friends or potential allies. You have to be flexible and let others have their way sometimes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep in mind the importance people have for you. You can be feeling a bit edgy but don't snap at them. Go out of your way to be easy-going and accommodating and the situation will turn around.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on August 31, 2012 at 8:39am

"Our Creator makes available to us all that we need. It is an honor to go out and gather it. We must remember to say 'Thank You.' It is honorable to give away, to show our gratitude... and to let the children see this."

-- Barney Bush, SHAWNEE

So many times we forget to say "thank You" to the Creator. He made for us an abundant universe. He built the Mother Earth to reproduce plenty of everything. It is an honor to be a part of the Great Spirit's world. The Creator always gives us what we need. When we are given things, we should be willing to share it with others. Whenever we give to others, this makes us feel good inside. The more we give, the better we feel. The better we feel, the more we want to give. We need to teach this to our children. The children learn by our behavior.

My Creator, thank you for today. Thank you for the sun. Thank you for the earth. Thank you for my life. Thank you for....

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