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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 28, 2012 at 10:43am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is an excellent day for being in social situations, meeting people, networking and communicating. Keep records of the people you meet so that you can contact them later as the need or desire arises.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You stay quiet so you can listen, observe and learn. There is a lot going on that you either don't understand or disapprove of. You need time to gather your thoughts and choose the right words.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your attention is on ensuring you have access to important resources. This can be materials, information or money. Create or expand on whatever store of assets you can get.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your reputation is on the line today. It's important to behave with dignity and not get rattled. Unexpected events demand the right mix of adaptability and the ability take command of the situation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are forced to consider the right relationship between success and ethics. Unethical behavior could get short-term gain but eventual ruin. Playing fair puts you behind for now but allows you to build a sound reputation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are dissatisfied with conventional wisdom. You are willing to go off the beaten track to find alternatives. You're interested in systems of thought that encompass more then what's been established. You like what's strange.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You dislike contradicting people today. People may think that you're agreeing with them when you're really not expressing your true thoughts. You need to introduce new and challenging ideas into the conversation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can provide work and service for some extra cash today. Don't turn down offers to be paid for your expertise. Some may be in the position to advertise themselves to get customers.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You want meaningful relationships today. Some may find themselves interpreting intentions from one person to another. You promote good feelings, communication and understanding.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You aren't loyal to anyone or anything except your ideas. You can go off in your own world now. As long as you genuinely produce an original work or move forward on a discovery, it is time well spent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may have the wrong ideas about what people expect of you. You may be trying to live up to expectations that don't really exist except in your imagination. Instead, live up to your own intentions and standards.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You make a substantial change in your approach to personal success. If you've been cautious, you take a daring leap. If you've been trying various approaches, then you take a more careful, considered approach.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 28, 2012 at 10:42am

"Indians living close to nature and nature's ruler are not living in darkness."

-- Walking Buffalo, STONEY

There are many Indian people who are living according to nature and according to ceremony and culture. They may not have a lot of material things, but that doesn't mean they are not successful. What is success anyway? Can success be measured by material things? What is it we are really chasing anyway? The Elders say that what everyone really wants is to be happy and have a peaceful mind. Material things by themselves do not bring happiness and peace of mind. Only spiritual things bring happiness. When we live a spiritual life we will not have darkness. Instead, we will be happy.

Great Spirit, today, let me walk the Red Road

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 27, 2012 at 11:02am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You need variety today. You can't be tied down to just one friend today. You can accommodate many people and many types of personalities. In fact, you need them in order to stay interested and motivated.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You seek approval but it's probable you don't really need it. Follow your own path now. Expect that you won't be included in some clique but you can eventually find the companions you really fit in with.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are very intent on your own goals. You want the cooperation of others but may be blind to how much they need you. You need to reach a balance between self-empowerment and cooperation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You enjoy wide acceptance and friendship today. People are inclined to do you favors and if so it's your responsibility to make good on them and to be grateful. In turn, provide opportunities for others -- and not just your friends.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You dislike having set solutions and procedures today. You want to be free to explore what else is available, what else you can do. Something may not have worked for somebody else but maybe it's just right for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You take an imaginative view of things. You can see past how things are and think to what may be possible, whether or not you can see how this might actually be done. You save that step for later or for others to do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's important to stay enthusiastic and engaged. Some may become jaded or too intellectually objective to become emotionally involved. Advance your own interests instead of becoming detached.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You feel a strong interest in others' stories and predicaments. You should stay engaged if you can provide active help or can provide useful leads. Otherwise, don't get pulled into the drama to no purpose.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People and their personal dramas seem like the best part of life now. You have a personal touchy that lets people open up and tell all. It's important that you can provide referrals of your own bit of wisdom.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Business partners are valuable for success today. There is a good chance of successful conclusions of deals at this end of the week. You are left with a generally optimistic outlook now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You feel creative if you can engage in banter and joking. You're not feeling sufficient emotions in depth to be able to give or take a serious insult. You enjoy a free exchange of emotions and excitement.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's very important that you be honest to a fault today and look for signs of deception in others. If someone is trying to convince you, then be suspicious. Insist on time to get information independently.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 27, 2012 at 11:02am

"The law is that all life is equal in the Great Creation, and we, the Human Beings, are charged with the responsibility, each in our generation, to work for the continuation of life."

-- Traditional Circle of Elders

Every generation is accountable to leave the environment in healthy order for the next generation. Every generation is accountable to teach the next generation how to live in harmony and to understand the Laws. We need to ask ourselves, "What are we teaching the next generation?". Each individual is directly accountable.

My Creator, teach me inter-generational responsibility

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 27, 2012 at 10:59am

Apr 27, 1521:
Magellan killed in the Philippines

After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines. Earlier in the month, his ships had dropped anchor at the Philippine island of Cebu, and Magellan met with the local chief, who after converting to Christianity persuaded the Europeans to assist him in conquering a rival tribe on the neighboring island of Mactan. In the subsequent fighting, Magellan was hit by a poisoned arrow and left to die by his retreating comrades.

Magellan, a Portuguese noble, fought for his country against the Muslim domination of the Indian Ocean and Morocco. He participated in a number of key battles and in 1514 asked Portugal's King Manuel for an increase in his pension. The king refused, having heard unfounded rumors of improper conduct on Magellan's part after a siege in Morocco. In 1516, Magellan again made the request and the king again refused, so Magellan went to Spain in 1517 to offer his services to King Charles I, later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

In 1494, Portugal and Spain, at the prompting of Pope Alexander VI, settled disputes over newly discovered lands in America and elsewhere by dividing the world into two spheres of influence. A line of demarcation was agreed to in the Atlantic Ocean--all new discoveries west of the line were to be Spanish, and all to the east Portuguese. Thus, South and Central America became dominated by the Spanish, with the exception of Brazil, which was discovered by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500 and was somewhat east of the demarcation line. Other Portuguese discoveries in the early 16th century, such as the Moluccas Islands--the Spice Islands of Indonesia--made the Spanish jealous.

To King Charles, Magellan proposed sailing west, finding a strait through the Americas, and then continuing west to the Moluccas, which would prove that the Spice Islands lay west of the demarcation line and thus in the Spanish sphere. Magellan knew that the world was round but underestimated its size, thinking that the Moluccas must be situated just west of the American continent, not on the other side of a great uncharted ocean. The king accepted the plan, and on September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain in command of five ships and 270 men.

Magellan sailed to West Africa and then to Brazil, where he searched the South American coast for a strait that would take him to the Pacific. He searched the Rio de la Plata, a large estuary south of Brazil, for a way through; failing, he continued south along the coast of Patagonia. At the end of March 1520, the expedition set up winter quarter at Port St. Julian. On Easter day at midnight, the Spanish captains mutinied against their Portuguese captain, but Magellan crushed the revolt, executing one of the captains and leaving another ashore when his ship left St. Julian in August.

On October 21, he finally discovered the strait he had been seeking. The Strait of Magellan, as it became known, is located near the tip of South America, separating Tierra del Fuego and the continental mainland. Only three ships entered the passage; one had been wrecked and another deserted. It took 38 days to navigate the treacherous strait, and when ocean was sighted at the other end Magellan wept with joy. He was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic. His fleet accomplished the westward crossing of the ocean in 99 days, crossing waters so strangely calm that the ocean was named "Pacific," from the Latin word pacificus, meaning "tranquil." By the end, the men were out of food and chewed the leather parts of their gear to keep themselves alive. On March 6, 1521, the expedition landed at the island of Guam. Ten days later, they reached the Philippines--they were only about 400 miles from the Spice Islands.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 27, 2012 at 10:45am

Apr 27, 4977 B.C.:
Universe is created, according to Kepler

On this day in 4977 B.C., the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets.

Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Germany. As a university student, he studied the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' theories of planetary ordering. Copernicus (1473-1543) believed that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system, a theory that contradicted the prevailing view of the era that the sun revolved around the earth.

In 1600, Kepler went to Prague to work for Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the imperial mathematician to Rudolf II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Kepler's main project was to investigate the orbit of Mars. When Brahe died the following year, Kepler took over his job and inherited Brahe's extensive collection of astronomy data, which had been painstakingly observed by the naked eye. Over the next decade, Kepler learned about the work of Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), who had invented a telescope with which he discovered lunar mountains and craters, the largest four satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, among other things. Kepler corresponded with Galileo and eventually obtained a telescope of his own and improved upon the design. In 1609, Kepler published the first two of his three laws of planetary motion, which held that planets move around the sun in ellipses, not circles (as had been widely believed up to that time), and that planets speed up as they approach the sun and slow down as they move away. In 1619, he produced his third law, which used mathematic principles to relate the time a planet takes to orbit the sun to the average distance of the planet from the sun.

Kepler's research was slow to gain widespread traction during his lifetime, but it later served as a key influence on the English mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) and his law of gravitational force. Additionally, Kepler did important work in the fields of optics, including demonstrating how the human eye works, and math. He died on November 15, 1630, in Regensberg, Germany. As for Kepler's calculation about the universe's birthday, scientists in the 20th century developed the Big Bang theory, which showed that his calculations were off by about 13.7 billion years.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 26, 2012 at 10:57am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A safe a secure place can seem confining. You want to explore and be on your own. It's important to remember that you need a place you can reliably return to so don't ruin people's attitudes toward you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is an edgy quality disrupting your desire for tranquility. You have to defend your ability to retain quietude and studiousness. Deal with disruptions firmly but non-aggressively.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have ingenious but controversial ideas today. Expect to have a lot of disputes and discussions over how to proceed. Finances are a source of worry, as you try to find the best way to handle investments and earnings.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You start out thinking you have all the answers but you are quickly challenged by everyone's human realities. There are many unexpected twists and turns so your policies need major revisions to cope.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Everything you do should be above board today. Underhanded methods and secret alliances only set you up for continued hiding. If you can't put it in public and be proud of it, then don't do it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You feel that it's hard to assert yourself now. Women, particularly, feel oppressed by men and must find ways to oppose domination or otherwise find ways to go around the forces that offend them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are seeking a different way today. The standard, canned choices manufactured for you are now clearly seen to be false. There are true alternatives out there and you go on the lookout for them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is a good day to listen and learn. Everyone needs to understanding with each other. However, women generally will find men difficult to deal with, as the latter are prone to behave harshly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is a lot of confusion and discontent today. You have to deal with a lot of different and conflicting desires and opinions. It's hard to pin anyone down on anything definite. Minds change -- a lot.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You want a lot of leeway for yourself. Perhaps this is spurred by someone who is over-controlling. Someone isn't being nice to you so you may begin looking for more congenial companionship.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is tension in the air today. A situation isn't to your liking and you may be looking for the right time to bolt. If you have doubts, consider you have the perfect right to seek a congenial environment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a hard time convincing people of your abilities or sincerity. You're blocked by others' doubts or hostility. You're challenged to find the right strategy so that you can be taken seriously.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 26, 2012 at 10:57am

"If those bad words come, I let them come in one ear and go out the other. I never let them come out of my mouth. If a bad word comes in your ear and then comes out of your mouth, it will go someplace and hurt somebody. If I did that, that hurt would come back twice as hard on me."

-- Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA

What do we do with temptations when they come? What do we do when we hear gossip? What do we do when we hear bad things? If we hear these things and pass them on we will not only hurt the other person, but we will do harm to ourselves. We must be careful not to hurt others. Whatever we sow we will simultaneously reap for ourselves. We must be accountable for our own actions.

Great Spirit, today, let no words come from my lips that would hurt another.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 25, 2012 at 11:03am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You're very self-assured today. A direction having been decided, you can take charge and administer others into the program. It is hard for you to question the decisions of authorities.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You're in a work crunch today. Time is of the essence as a deadline becomes obvious. You must get down to business, keep to a schedule and leave out personal pleasures so everything gets done perfectly and on time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A new adventure gets you attention and you may try to get others to follow you into it. You can shift between being emotional and being cautious and calculating. At best your impulses are risky but your actions on them are sensible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You take a strong interest in a matter that is of little concern to others. You find that you have to do all the work yourself so don't rely on anyone else to help or go along with you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your stay in contact with a small set of important friends today. There is a narrow range of vital interests today and you give full attention to them. You have little patience for distractions or trivia.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You're extremely reliable today. Being aware of incompleteness, you pursue inquiries until you have all the answers that allow a situation to make sense. You can cover all the angles if you remain inquisitive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You learn through difficulties and hardships today. You get valuable hands-on experience now and what happens today leaves valuable lessons that stay with you for a long time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are very introspective today. Your efforts at reform are best applied to yourself now. Don't try to change others or society except insofar as you impact people by your example and behavior.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You can bring calm to a changing situation. You can show people how to deal with change instead of being flustered or frightened. You value orderly procedures and seek to impose them whenever necessary.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are all work and no play today. While you're liable to have a strong wish to be adventurous and romantic, this is easily buried under the press of obligations that must be taken care of.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Recognizing that undisciplined effort is unproductive, you seek to understand what has already been discovered to be true. You must research prior findings from reliable and reputable investigators.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You face up to certain personal faults that are holding you back. Many can benefit from self-directed change through affirmations or hypnosis. Focus on issues of procrastination, bad self-image or guilt.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on April 25, 2012 at 11:02am

"In some mysterious and wonderful way you are part of everything, Nephew. And in that same mysterious and wonderful way, everything is a part of you."

-- Nippawanock, ARAPAHOE

In order to experience this, we must be aware of how limited our senses are — eyes, ears touch, smell, taste. These senses help us to function in the Seen World. What we see is interpreted by our minds and put inside our belief system, and this can become our reality. But there also exists an Unseen World. In this world we experience connectedness; we experience the mystery; and we experience another whole point of view. If we pay attention to both the Unseen World and the Seen World, our belief systems will print in our mind a new and wonderful reality. We will see and know we are a part of everything.

Great Spirit, today, give me the knowledge to know this mystery

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