New Year, New Born, New Dreams

New beginnings for 2014... my new Grand-son, Haydon was born today...he's a 8 plus pound beautiful addition to my family and company for his sister Harmony. Second son Christopher was very proud, resting in the hospital room with his tired wife, Samantha ♥
As I drove to the hospital to see Haydon for the first time, this time, I slowed down to pass a spot where cattle used to graze in a pasture a few miles opposite the site where I found the ancient pyramid two years ago...
I look into the field, just beyond where anyone has walked for years to look again at ye stone against the side of the hill...
Its covered with snow today. I want so badly to stop and walk to it...
My dreams are filled with herbs, ancient symbols and stones, waking me from my dreams to wonder. What was the word I saw in the mist? What symbol of beginnings, long forgotten even to my Native ancestors here now with me. I long for Spring, a strong man with a crow bar and the nerve to answer the prayer calling to me from the veil...

A Happy Happy New Year to YOU!

I'm in town today gathering up what need to make a meal for my family on New Year's day 2014.

Stopping to check my blogs I re-read my entries from the last few years, this time, realizing I do the same every year... visit family, entertain the same friends and cook something for the New Year's day dinner..

I love best my entry from 2011 and wanted to share again that call to nature with my friends : )
Wishing you all the best in 2014


"Its 7:40 am on January 1st, 2011...the sun is just peeking from behind the horizion.Theres a mist in the air that is cooling to the bareness of my arms... I look up at the lightning sky , as a crow calls the dawn behind me in the wood. I listen to the sounds of the forest around me starting to wake.Dew drops falling, ...the rustle of leaves as my dog sniffs the freshness of the ground. A New Beginning... I think to myself..."
~Beverly Wells-Pinkney

( A view from my 'old home' at Woodstock Road, Yarmouth County, NS)

Mr Rose's Garden - a poem

A poem wrote by myself for a presentation at the local Nova Scotia Art Gallery in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June of 2013

Four Seasons of Mr. Rose’s Garden

New beginnings merge from black earth

Spring air tastes delicious with dew

Mr. Rose smiles at growing flowers

Watching to procrastinate his heaven

Time passes Summer over paradise

Skies sing with the bee hive blessings

Deviously mixing cut grass with flower’s perfume

 An abundance impatiently waits

Autumn arrives twisting, spiraling down

Filling the garden with a mirage of leaves

The gardener watches each day fade

A reminder to pack his spade away

Winter bulbs sleep beneath snow

A blue twinge rises to icy foliage

Evergreen pines whisper in the wind

Blowing a drift across the walking path

Sleeping under Roses hide

Waiting to spring again

© Beverly Wells-Pinkney, All rights reserved.

Christmas Gifts

"Yes I believe in Santa. Every year he finds a way to remind me that its not the gift, but the Spirit of giving that counts."
~Beverly Wells-Pinkney

Again in time I am at the place of the Solstice, looking forward to the remaining darkness in the Light of the coming New Year. With the recent storms, family obligations, stocking up with goods for the winter months, I haven't been writing too much for this blog. My apologies...

I was  talking to a friend recently who told me she lost her earring while shopping. It was a special gift from her sister, so precious. She retraced her steps to a local book store to ask the matron if it had been found. While she spoke, she glanced down at a cup rack to see the end of the earring sticking out from underneath! She was very happy... I told her it was a sign of faith that she had found something so small lost in the middle of Christmas shopping ,for sure! I told her about my lost earring...I was standing at my dresser holding both earrings in one hand while trying to put one on. Suddenly I dropped one. I looked for 30 minutes for it on my rug, but never found it. I know its there, I can't see it, but it never went away totally. Some day I'll be stepping across to my bed and stick it into my toe. A act of faith also ♥

Have a Wonderful Holiday, everyone ♥

 

The Bible and the Zodiac

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the skies proclaim his handiwork.
Day after day they utter speech, and night after night they show knowledge.
They have no speech or language, no sound is heard from them.
Yet their sound has gone out through all the earth, and their utterances to the end of the earth. "
~Psalms 19:1-4

The Bible is filled with references to astrology and

 was widely accepted as truth in Biblical times.  Jesus himself made numerous references to astrology. "

 
"There shall be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars." - Jesus Christ, Luke 21:25

 

 

People have always believed in the study of the stars.The influence of the sun on the Earth certainly mades a pattern, so far as life on Earth was concerned - it shaped everything, or at least nourished everything - the sun to give life to it was represented God for eons to ancient peoples.

 

 

With the coming of the Sumerians was probably the oldest known language. About 3000 BC the Sumerians started using abbreviated pictograms by pressing a reed stylus into clay tablets. It is syllabic language which basically developed from simplified pictograms which became abstract. Many signs have multiple word and phonetic meanings so determinatives were used. The number of signs was later reduced to about 600. It is a very complex language.     

Sumerians had stories similar to those in Genesis which tells about the creation of the world and man at times before civilization began.They used a square in practical astronomy to keep track of stars.

 

 

Astrology in the Bible has been theorized by many people. Over the centuries, ancient peoples observed the movements of the celestial bodies, personified them and created stories about them; this could mean the biblical authors might have also personified the stars, by then writing them in the language in the Bible.
Based on the many thousands of years of observation by the ancients, the sun was seen as a symbol of spirit because it rises and sinks. The sun was the “soul of the world”, signifying immortality, as it is continuously resurrected after “dying” or setting.
Astrology dates before written history, and there is evidence of it all around the globe. If the gods lived in heaven, it was natural for priests to look to heaven for signs to what the king had to know to please them. Egypt has star charts that go as far back as 4,200 BCE. Other early forms of astrology came from Babylonia, Assyria and Egypt.

“That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once; mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of Tiamat; all that is chaos, infinite and eternal. And yet, it's somehow the bringing to order of this chaos which perhaps has always disturbed me most. The constellations, in their way, almost bring into sharper focus the immensity and insanity of it all - monsters and giants brought to life in all their gigantic monstrosity; Orion and Hercules striding across the sky, limbs reaching for light years, only to be dwarfed by the likes of Draco, Pegasus, or Ursa Major. Then bigger still - Cetus, Eridanus, Ophiuchus, and Hydra, spanning nearly the whole of a hemisphere, sunk below the equator in that weird underworld of obscure southern formations. You try to take them in - the neck cranes, the eyes roll, and the mind boggles until this debilitating sense of inverted vertigo overcomes you...”

― Mark X., Citations: A Brief Anthology
 

The Zodiac- Bible in the Stars

A Time to Remember

 

(Photo: Canadian soldiers returning from the front at the Somme in 1916.)

 

 

 

 As November 11 approaches, I take time to think about those who died for us to have a free Canada, were we and our children may live safe and have a chance to prosper. It hasn't really been given 'free of charge'. There were many who lost 'everything'  so it can be so today.

I never met my Great Great Uncle Pte John William Wells. He lived at the turn of the 19th century. He moved to Nova Scotia with his family in early 1900's. When a call came to go fight for freedom, he returned to NFL as a volunteer for the Canadian Army Service Corps. He became part of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment along with 12000 Newfoundland service men joined. He died at the Battle of Somme in France on September 16,1916. Sadly, none of those men or their families who gave their all were decorated for their service. I want him to know I'm proud of what he did for me, so I will attend a Remembrance day service on Monday, and cry, like always ,when the bugle calls.

 

Photo: Newfoundland soldiers in St. John's Road support trench before their attack at Beaumont-Hamel. July 1, 1916. Courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL NA-3105), St. John's, Newfoundland.

 

note- photo's and some info from The Battle of Somme 

Vampires and the Bible

As its Halloween and we are all thinking of the spookier side of life, I thought I would post some bible verses about the 'un-seen'.

Bible Verses About Vampires

Bible Verses About Vampires from the King James Version

 link-What the bible says about vampires

Proverbs 30:14 - [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.

Leviticus 17:10-14 - And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. (Read More...)

Revelation 16:6 - For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Deuteronomy 12:23 - Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

Joel 1:6 - For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Revelation 9:8 - And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.

Acts 15:28-29 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; (Read More...)

Revelation 17:6 - And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

1 Chronicles 11:19 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

Proverbs 30:13 - [There is] a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Deuteronomy 32:17 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Psalms 10:11 - He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].

John 6:53-58         
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ...

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Thanks for reading and
a Happy Halloween and a Blessed All Saints Day ☼

Note: Because of questions asked on my Face Book page about Jesus quote from John 6:53-58, I will remark that I DONOT believe he was a vampire. What most people don't understand is that in the time of Jesus, the Jewish people (and most others) practiced sacrifice as part of their worship. Being a Jewish Rabbi, Jesus wanted to stop this act and this is what he was referring to when he made this remark. If you've read the New Testament, you will know he threw practitioners out of the temple for selling doves and other birds that were sacrificed for 'favours from God". He didn't want blood (or a death) sacrifice anymore. He referred to himself as the final sacrifice at the last supper. Bread and new wine was used to represent his flesh & blood .He was scrutinized for this, betrayed and killed by this own people.... and by the way, the Catholics were the first Christians to practice what Jesus did. Others followed, and then changed the 'practice' again because they didn't want certain sacraments preformed, like the act of confession, vocations which were mandatory at one time and even baptism by some Christians. Personally I think Jesus was right when he made one commandment, "Love others as I have loved you." ~John 13:34. It covers everything...