The Ides of March (March 15th)
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 9:06PM Stuart Wilde
Today (March 15th) is known as the Idea of March. People associate the day with dread but it is round backward as many things are (see below).
From Wikipedia: “In the Roman calendar March 15th is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BC, the story of which was famously dramatized in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar”.
Death of Caesar
“A certain soothsayer warned Caesar to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March which the Romans call the Ides, and when the day had come and Caesar was on his way to the senate-house, he greeted the seer with a jest and said: "The Ides of March has come", to which the seer replied: "Aye Caesar, but not gone". As the Senate convened, Caesar was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of senators who justified their tyranny on the grounds that they were preserving the Republic from Caesar's alleged monarchical ambitions”. (Wikipedia)
SW: The Ides of March are associated with dread “beware the Ides of March” because Shaekespear said so in his play. But like most things it is all backwards. Caesar was an evil tyrant, the head what became known as the First Reich (empire.) The Second Reich was Charlemagne and the Third Reich was Hitler. There were evil empires before his time like those of the pharaohs, but these three listed are the Reichs of the more modern era.
The death of a tyrant is not to be celebrated but one can see the wrath of Gaia in action as a blessing, and today is a good day to close off your feelings to anyone that has hurt you or treated you unjustly. Not by bumping them off or causing any harm but by using the Ides as a way of closing your feelings to that hurt and to that person once and for all. (sw)
Reader Comments (54)
I guess there is a point in spiritual development, where "moods" and harboring ill feelings for someone are nonexistent.
Thanks, Stu. I've totally embraced your idea of closing off my feelings toward any and all who have deliberately hurt me on life's journey, and I find it quite liberating. I now have a great reason to celebrate the Ides of March from this year forward. My burden has been lightened considerably. Again, thank you!
Dear Stu,
Being raised Catholic and all--forgiveness was easy for me. It took me many years to learn the lesson that to forgive does not mean I need to allow the same people in my life to treat me like a doormat. Yes, I did doormat for many years.
I am happy to just be happy and alive. I will use today as another good reason to continue the forgiveness feeling resonating and I hope all of those I hurt will forgive me for my lack at that time.
Sorry sorry love me love me.
Warm hugs,
Cheryl
the only weapons of the courageous are compassion, forgiveness and patience. not to say we should allow our selves to be walked over by hateful behaviour.
When we find a gentle radiance to blow through the actions of the past we close the door on the illusion of separation. Do we really want to hold onto something rotten in our core?
To heal these wounds is such a joy and more it opens up possibilities for gifts that could lie in store
Yes Stuart today feels like a good day to tie off and knot silver cords, accept responsibility and become more self reliant - stand in ones own Karma,
thank you for these teachins'
and love to you~
If Gaia is the Great Soul of our planet, why is she prone to revenge, when we are to eschew it? Would appreciate a clarification.
Nan
any insight for someone born on that day (march 15th)?
Stuart...I posted this in another article, but hope it's alright to post here again
Stuart.....thought you and the others here would be interested in these Youtube videos....
Very helpful in visualizing the thought 'bubbles' we blow to others........or even the words we speak.
"Cymaglyphs ....What does Sound look like"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkIxpuF43o&eurl=http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/buyrosslyn.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_wAVKac-U&eurl=http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/buyrosslyn.html
Love...James
thank you!
will do just that today
Gaia, as an Elemental entity , is not actually prone to "revenge" as we consider it so much as "action-reaction"...there were several large-scale elementals who were part of the 'reaction" action of hurling Hurricane Ike at the general vicinity of the oil rigs and refineries clustered around the Louisiana-Texas border of the Gulf of Mexico, and from pure chance I had asked them about what were they going to do before they did that and "got back" a strong sense of determination and a sense that they were working with the Balance...so that the actions of humans in destroying or damaging the ecosphere , the energy expended in that generalized destruction will eventually "demand" a Balancing of countering and-or reactive energies and very often these are directed by very strong Elemental energy entities.
In fact you could just as easily group all the strongest Elemental entities together as a Gaia-consciousness between them, although this planet and others each have their own independant energy and energy-'consciousness', with which it primarily communicates with others similar to itself and listens to the long, slow singing between all the stars. Our solar system's planet Jupiter has already saved all our buttskies when it intercepted a genuine planet-killer asteroid, broke it up and swallowed it into itself...so sometimes the planets actively assist one another where they can!
( It Didn't save Gaia for us, we're just invisible mites on Her skin... :)
Thank God Stuart...I resonate with all that you are saying. I thank you so much for trying, and I'm sure in vain, to help each and every one of us. I feel your pain and I am loving you for what you are doing. Lots and lots of love to you.
FYI.. I have found that when i wear a good pair of cotton socks to bed, the gouhls cannot access my dreamstate...love love love and more love.
kdc
Thanks Stuart,
Forgiveness seems to require an expanded perception, great wisdom and inner peace.
I pray for these today and to soften into allowing the Tao to have me ever more fully. This is my everyday prayer really and brings many tears for cleansing.
Thanks so much for your writings. They've helped me, especially this latest book. Not sure if the 6% thing is real or a device and it doesn't matter much. Either way it's a great wake up call. Blessings!!!!!
one thing i am struggling with - that all evil meets a bigger evil up ahead - although that is reassuring, & may well mean gordon brown has a shock in store........but most of us also want to believe in a less devilish world, so the fact that all these evils (small, big, even bigger) exist is somehow incongruent to that (maybe slightly naive) desire.
as usual, it is probably just my logical mind chattering......every new level of understanding seems to open another pandoras box
Hi Stu:
I don't talk much but I feel a need to write to you to tell you a quick story. I know that you just wrote about the 15th of March and all tha is associated with it...well my birthday is the 14th of march, and my friend girl just took me to dinner at a place in philly called bistro romano...right there on the wall to the downstairs part of the restaurant where all of the elite were gathered, was a painting of a great Godess...I was seated in a very beautiful spot to be able to look upon this Godess...now I do not know whether she was good or bad, but I do know that she was a powerfull being..and she was very beautiful too. Anyway Stu, I'll probably never get to meet you, but if your ever in the philly area...120 lombard street...take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks again for what you are doing. I appreciate it more than I know how to say.
kdc
part two of what is almost a rant ;-)
surely the queen of england & the royal family need to meet their bigger evil quite soon ? flying to washington dc last december, the pilot announced that the 20 minute or so delay we experienced was due to a member of the royal family using a helicopter between windsor/heathrow - must have held up a few thousand people i'd say......how they can get away with that in the 21st century is amazing
for one who doesn't speak too much...i find myself speaking too much...perhaps obomber is the fourth reich...yes...no ...perhaps...a monumental fraud maybe? me thinks so.
Love signal:: music, Solfeggio frequency, sacred geometry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CvZ6MzMX0
Dear Stuie - I have a question,
I received shoes with leather on them as a gift.
I did not kill the animal, and I'm a little wary to wear the shoes.
Is it okay to wear leather?
Sincerely,
MK
"God I choose to sacrafice and give all these things that you have shown me over to you and I ask you to purge them from me 'as far as the east is from the west'.
I trust you by faith to cleanse,sanctify me, and heal me by the washing of the water of your word. I receive by faith, your forgiveness of my sins, your renewing of my mind, and your healing of my soul. I trust you, God, to change my feelings and my emotions to align with the choices I have made and to make me genuine.
My faith is in your faithfulness God, I love you."
I had a hard time cleaning out a recent batch of bitterness over the last 6 months. Every time I started to think a number of " I lovingly release you" type sentiments- and "besides it is partly my fault, I accept that" etc my thinking got derailed and I ended up feeling miserable and self righteous. It was like aiming for Rome and ending up in the Antarctic or something. Alot of prayer, a lot of diary entries. Finally I returned to doing a type of qi gong called Spring Forest, which I've found very effective over the years. Seems to move the energy up and out. There's lots of sideways moves too (thinking of how we need to move sideways) and a sort of rub down which maybe disconnects a few ghouls. Feels as though the bitterness has finally departed. Now feel very grateful and highly recommend.
oh, a reptilian website robertringer.com/money-and-power.html
From Robert Ringer
A Little Game of Old Maid, Part VII
(The content of this series of articles has been taken from my 1982 book "Civilization." Today, we finally get to the most important kind of investment: Capital Guarantees. Following is what I had to say about that subject in 1982.)
Capital Guarantees
Contrary to what most people ─ particularly speculators - would like to believe, the only way to virtually guarantee the protection of your capital against the destruction of paper currency is to convert it to real money. That's right, instead of fooling around with "investments," just use your bogus paper money to buy the real thing.
What is "real money"? In theory, just about anything of value can be used as money. In today's Poland, for example, tobacco and alcohol are readily accepted as money; i.e., you can buy other goods and services with them. They are accepted as a medium of exchange, whereas everyone knows that the zloty, the government's mandated paper money, has no intrinsic value.
But tobacco and alcohol, while commanding a certain amount of respect as mediums of exchange, are far from the best forms of money. Tobacco can decompose, liquor bottles can break, and both of them are cumbersome to use when making purchases. These are just a few of the many reasons why tobacco and alcohol, while superior to paper, are vastly inferior to other kinds of money.
If you are at all tuned in to the so called hard money movement, you have heard many times that gold and silver are by far the best forms of money. In my opinion, they constitute the only true Capital Guarantees in existence. (For the sake of brevity, I will for the most part restrict my discussion to gold, but most of what I have to say is also applicable to silver. Gold is a slightly more desirable money than silver, one of the chief reasons being its greater scarcity.)
So much has been written about gold over the past several years that it might seem as though a discussion of it here would be unnecessary. I wish that were true, but, with all due respect to the many brilliant "hard money" writers who have covered gold extensively, I feel that their readers are still missing the most important point.
It's not the technical information imparted by these writers that has been in error; rarely has that been the case. The error lies in their lack of emphasis on the crux of the issue. In fact, increasingly over the past couple of years, many of these newsletter writers have been totally ignoring the crux of the gold issue.
What particularly disturbs me is that many so called goldbugs of yesteryear have now deserted ship. It makes one wonder if they ever really understood the real reasons for buying gold in the first place.
It has become chic in hard money circles to say that gold was a good investment at $35 an ounce, but that the days of the big profits are long since gone. All I can tell you is that if you allow yourself to be influenced by such talk, you will greatly increase your chances of ending up holding the Old Maid.
If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do - if ever there was an area in which to do the opposite of that which causes failure - that area is the purchasing of gold. But first a little background:
The United States government, in an incredible display of stupidity, has seemingly found endless ways to squander its gold supplies. Back in 1949, the United States Treasury boasted an all time high of 700 million ounces of the yellow metal. As of the writing of this book, that figure is estimated to be down to 250 - 350 million ounces.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the government was losing gold to foreign countries by the carload - about 436 million ounces all told. The governments of those foreign countries, for some strange reason, wanted gold instead of paper dollars, so they rushed to redeem their U.S. currency at a furious pace.
That all ended on August 15, 1971, when President Nixon declared that the United States would no longer allow foreign governments to redeem their paper receipts (i.e., "dollars") for real money (i.e., gold). In other words, the United States admitted (in doublespeak, of course) that it was bankrupt. Its actions announced to the world, once and for all, that its paper money was a lie.
In Part VIII, we'll take a look at how the U.S. Government followed up this lie by violating the Rule of Holes, which says: If you've dug a deep hole for yourself, the first step toward getting out of it is to stop digging. Instead, as one would expect of any government, it just kept right on digging.
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Today's Reflections:
Today, twenty-seven years later, I stand on everything I said above. Unbacked paper is still a lie, and gold and silver are still real money. I guess you could say they are fiscal axioms.
Robert Ringer
A Little Game of Old Maid, Part VIII
From Robert Ringer
(The content of this series of articles has been taken from my 1982 book "Civilization." Today, we continue with our examination of real money. Following is what I had to say about that subject in 1982.)
It is interesting to note that the government, in an attempt to demonstrate that it no longer considered gold to be money, finally allowed U.S. citizens to own the metal beginning on December 31, 1974. The ensuing meteoric rise in the price of gold was, of course, a source of great embarrassment to the fiat money printers in Washington.
Refusing to be upstaged, the government then proceeded to contemptuously dump gold in the open market in an effort to depress the price and to demonstrate to gold speculators, once and for all, that the paper dollar was king. But, alas, the king had no clothes. The dollar all but turned pink from embarrassment. The more gold the bureaucrats auctioned, the more the price of gold rose.
What these tactics have amounted to is an ongoing attempt on the part of Uncle Sam to demonetize gold. To his dismay, however, these clumsy attacks have instead hastened the day of gold's demonetization of paper money. What the marketplace has been telling the government is: "We like you and all that, but, if it's all the same to you, we'd just as soon keep the gold and let you keep the paper. No hard feelings, of course."
The Galbraithian blushes are still to be found all over Washington, yet Washington's contempt for gold grows greater each day. (While temporary downturns in the paper money price of gold never fail to prompt a chorus of "I told you so's" from pa per money advocates, their joy is always short lived - and their long term dismay is a certainty.)
Confiscation of gold is the only weapon left for the government, and you can count on just that at some future date. Which is all the more reason for you to own gold. If the government is so intent on taking it away from you, you had better make certain that you have it - and that you keep it away from them. You're going to need it to survive. Above all else in your long term planning, don't blow this one.
Obviously, if gold were as worthless as government and establishment economists would like you to believe it is, South Africa wouldn't be producing 700 tons of it each year. And the Soviet Union 200 to 500 tons.
Even the United States produces about thirty tons annually. Someone-lots of someones - must be awfully interested in owning gold. And those someones go far beyond dentists, jewelry makers, and industrial users. Yet you are constantly discouraged, usually by subtle putdowns, from buying gold.
What is it about gold that makes it so special? You've undoubtedly read about its unique characteristics many times. It is portable, easily and precisely divisible by weight, durable, consistent in quality (while not technically inert, it is extremely stable), easily identifiable, and, perhaps most important of all, scarce enough so that it cannot be obtained in great quantities without considerable effort.
As a result of these characteristics, governments throughout the centuries have never found it necessary to force people to use gold as money. People know that gold is money. It has evolved as money through the process of supply and demand, notwithstanding paper money's greater convenience as a medium of exchange. The primary reason for gold's evolution into the world's most accepted form of money is that, in addition to being a medium of exchange, it is also a store of value.
There is no question that paper money, as a medium of exchange, has made modern society possible. It is by far the most convenient money ever invented. But as a store of value, it is considerably inferior to baseball trading cards. The latter can only be counterfeited illegally; paper money can be counterfeited legally - in unlimited quantities.
Though a paper dollar will buy only about 5 percent of what it could purchase in 1940, an ounce of gold will still buy about the same amount of products and services that it did forty, fifty, or even one hundred years ago. To understand this, you must think of money as an IOU. It's a way of storing wealth that you do not wish to use right now. Gold accomplishes this objective more effectively than any other commodity; paper accomplishes it the worst.
Because of this, you can no longer use paper currency to store what you've earned. The printing presses will destroy it just as surely as if someone had set fire to it, which is precisely why politicians exhort you to "save" it. If they can convince you to keep your savings in the form of paper, they can quietly extract those savings from you through their printing presses (i.e., decrease its value through monetary inflation).
Is it any wonder that politicians hate gold? Gold, in effect, acts as a lie detector. If the United States dollar were 100 percent tied to gold (any other kind of gold standard would be merely cosmetic - and meaningless), it would be like asking Tip O'Neill each day, "Tip, you sneaky old buzzard, have you tried to steal anyone's hard earned money today?"
If Tip replied, "Golly, no. I'd never do a thing like that," the gold alarm would sound, loud and clear, for everyone to hear. The gold standard would tell the public that sly old Tip had tried to slide one by them once again - that he had voted for a bill that called for handing out newly printed paper money to people who are not producing products or services that other people are voluntarily willing to pay for. The gold alarm would have caught him red handed.
You may conclude that Tip O'Neill is not a big advocate of the gold standard. Nor, with a few notable exceptions, is any other individual now in public office. And it is precisely this refusal on the part of the government to acknowledge gold as money that has hastened the destruction of its own fiat currency.
In Part IX of this series, we'll take a look at whether it is theoretically possible to have an unbacked paper currency that can be trusted by the general populace.
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Today's Reflections:
It is noteworthy how, for decades, government officials and academics poked fun at the thought of people wanting to own gold, ridiculing the idea of using gold as money as an antiquated concept.
Now, twenty-seven years after I wrote the above (as gold teases the $1,000 mark), interest in gold ownership is increasing daily as it becomes ever more obvious that the Obama depression (dictatorship?) will last many years into the future.
Robert Ringer
gonna bury 10K CH Gold in Shasta Forest
... Mimi will never find it he he he he he /
Dearest Stuart, and readers,
I took an aya journey yesterday the 15th. Aya took me on a very gentle journey and took my stored pain and baggage and transmuted it, allowing it to flow into the earth to be transformed.
much love Frances.
Always amused by our need to number things, place values on specific days. The planet spins around, and we call it a day, the planet revolves around the sun and we call it a year. The universe cares little for our perception of time, the sun and moon dont care whether it is sunday or saturday.
For me each day is the same, another oportunity to witness the beauty placed before us, too bad most people miss it worrying about what they will do on the weekend, or where they will have lunch. stop and smell the roses, love to you all.