Don't leave me...well, you know....

[icewolf]

Swiped from noncalorsedumor, and quite unexpected.

You are the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

What Tarot Card are You?
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And a bit less portentiously...

I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

In other, less quizzish, news, I have finally found a church! Yay! I've felt like a spiritual Goldilocks the past few years, sporadically trying out this church and that. This one is too big and cold. That one's too casual. (When you stop to cheerfully chat with someone in the first pew on your way back from getting ashes on Ash Wednesday, yes, that's too casual. At least for me.) I really enjoyed going to Catholic U.'s Sunday 4 PM masses, but it's just too far to be feasible.

So, today is Ascension Thursday, a holy day of obligation, whatever the Archdiocese of Baltimore says. (Like most dioceses in the US, Baltimore allows the too-busy faithful to fulfill their obligation on the nearest Sunday. Which is all fine and convenient and all, but then what's the point of the obligation? Totally a rant for another day.) Anyway, trying to be a good kid, I found an 8 AM mass about a mile away at St. Elizabeth of Hungary. I got up and out of the house by 7:30 (albeit in sweats) and walked to the church.

The locked church.

But a ha! There is a sign on one of the side doors. "8 AM Mass at the Friary @ 2638 Baltimore St."

So I backtracked across the street and found the friary, which is basically one of the row houses that line Patterson Park. The door was open and the screen door unlocked, which would have drawn me in even if I hadn't spent my entire childhood running around rectories.

Ho-LEE cow. It's been five hours since I wrote that last sentence. Housemate got turned around in Baltimore and I had to drive her to DC for an interview. Think good thoughts, everyone.

Anyway, the mass went nicely and the priests at St. Elizabeth's are all nice, so I think I've finally found a church. Yay.

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I'm mean to lions...

[tazira.livejournal.com]

oh, *this* is surprising.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.

The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

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Re: oh, *this* is surprising.

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

That's right; this is Obligation Season, with Ascension, Peter & Paul, and Corpus Christi in quick succession.

Re: oh, *this* is surprising.

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

You left out a biggie: Pentecost. But that always falls on a Sunday, thanks to being ten days after Ascension. Pentacost, Peter & Paul and Corpus Christi are Big Days, but not actually Days of Obligation.

The Holy Days of Obligation are January 1 (Solemnity of the Blessed Mother), First Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox (Easter), Forty days after Easter (Ascension of Our Lord), August 15 (Assumption of the Blessed Mother), November 1 (All Saints), December 8 (Immaculate Conception of Mary), and December 25 (Christmas).

*Reviews list*

Yeah. There was a rumor John Paul II was going to add Mary to the Trinity. (No, I have no idea what that would have made it: a quadrinity?) We really ought to suck it up and admit we're a bunch of goddess-worshiping pagans (said the woman whose confirmation saint is actually a Christianization of the Irish goddess of home, hearth, forge, and poetry).

Re: oh, *this* is surprising.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Corpus Christi, like Epiphany, got transferred to a nearby Sunday; this was standardized across the US just after Vatican II, though the obligation for the specific days had been dropped by 1884. (Some dioceses transferred them to Sunday back then, others just dropped the obligation.)

St. Joseph and SS. Peter+Paul are on the Canon 1246 list but had been dropped by US bishops *before* 1884.

Ascension is transferred to 7 Easter in some ecclesiastical provinces of the USA. I haven't found a website with a definitive list of which provinces do and which don't.

Mary Mother of God, Assumption, and All Saints are not obligatory in years when they fall on Saturday or Monday. In addition, when Dec. 8th falls on Sunday (2 Advent) Immaculate Conception is transferred to Monday December 9th and is not obligatory.

So the only solemnity which is *always* celebrated on the same day throughout the entire USA and is *always* obligatory regardless of what day of the week it falls on... appears to be Christmas.

That's a new one.

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