On May 5, 12:38=A0pm, litsoh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 3, 2:46 pm, Ed Augusts <edaugu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Breastfeeding and Motherhood are deeply involved with the Moon.
=A0Since=
> > ancient times, although Venus was reckoned the planet of femininity,
> > the Moon has been the symbol of motherhood, the nurturing side of
> > life, and infancy itself.
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> > And what a beautiful Moon THIS morning, a tiny waning crescent rising
> > in the east around 5:00 a.m.! =A0That means the New Moon is coming in
> > just a day or two, =A0eh? =A0 Why? Because the Moonrise preceded the
> > Sunrise, that's why! =A0In another day or two they'll be "together"
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> > the power of their gravity, and whatever else is going on up there,
> > will affect us more powerfully. =A0Don't forget to plant those alfalfa
> > sprouts or moon-maddened mushrooms or whatever else you're planting!
> > Don't forget about the cycles of nature, lest nature forget about
> > you! =A0Come to think of it, that's what we've been TRYING to do, as a
> > species, for thousands of years... =A0to live outside nature and its
> > cycles.. and how silly of humans to try to do so! =A0 The ancient
> > religions certainly coordinated their rituals and practices with the
> > cycles of nature.. and, this being the case, =A0it may be good to know
> > what the Moon is up to, =A0no? =A0What if the Moon was up to something
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> > nobody clued you in about it? =A0Did you know that I have the
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> > =A0 C U R R E N T =A0 =A0 M =A0 O =A0 O =A0N =A0 =A0 =A0I =A0 M =A0 A
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=A0 G =A0E =A0 =A0 r i g h
> > t =A0 =A0o n =A0 =A0 m y =A0 =A0 s i t e ?
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> > YES!! =A0If you ever want a quick answer to the Moon's daily
> > disposition, go to the ASTRO-BIO page of my website, By special
> > arrangement with the Cow that Jumped over the Moon, and (I think) the
> > Federal Moon Observatory of Maui, which is perched precariously at the
> > moon-most edge of the dormant volcano Haleakala, =A0I have the
> > astronomical information about the current moon! =A0 =A0Actually, all
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> > have is the MOST RUDIMENTARY lunar info, just a VISUAL of the CURRENT
> > MOON! =A0 It isn't astrological but at least it's astronomical!
> > Visiting my site to see it FOR FREE saves you a download from the
> > capitalistic purveyors of this item, (if you 'click' on the moon-image
> > that's what you get -- a sales promotion!). =A0But now that you know
> > that, you don't have to 'click' on it at all.
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> > And at my site you GET IT FREE, EVERY TIME, ANY TIME... Just visit:
>
> [commercial web site advertisement snipped]
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> > which takes you to my BOOKS page, but
> > instead of hangin' there, =A0go to the right hand margin and 'click'
> > onto the "ASTRO-BIO" page... =A0it's right on top! =A0 =A0Looking
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> > DARK right now because there's just a tiny little crescent, it looks
> > terrific when it is nearly Full and you can see the craters and
> > "seas!" =A0Use it to "time" your crop plantings, any hopeful, at times
> > pathetically silly RITUALS, possible fertility of livestock and
> > lovers, best times to go fi****ng, the incoming tide on the Bay of
> > Fundy, (which is a good thing to know if your toddlers are wading out
> > in the mud, or you're clamming or building a boat), and so forth!
> > -------Ed
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> Or, if you'd like to see the current lunar image without wading
> through Edvins' commercial web site, just click here:
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> http://aa.usno.navy.mil/idltemp/current_moon.php
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> "Above all other thins, I am a writer." -- Edvins Augusts- Hide quoted
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Hmmmm, Two things! I take exception to quotes out-of-context,
especially since I'm almost sure that wasn't me who wrote that. Please
let me explain!
(1), I don't claim my typing is perfect or even near-perfect, but I
don't think I would have typed "thins" when I meant to type "things".
I was proofreading and editing for Joint Publications Research
Services in the Federal Government in the mid-1970's, and years later,
for George Litho, a big San Francisco printing company, so my typos
really are few and far between. (C'mon! You have to admit that!) And
even while I was still in college, in my spare time I spent a couple
of years by editing and typing manuscripts for Prof. Emeritus William
Hermanns, Einstein's friend, (who appears as the 'go between' for
re****ters interviewing Einstein and later reproduced in the 1955 'In
Memoriam' issue in Life Magazine),
(2) What you might or might not know is that dozens of FAKE MESSAGES
with my full name "Edvins" (which I very seldom use) were posted to
several USENET groups in the 2000--2004 period, by avowed enemies like
the notorious Cujo, Der Coach, and others. If you look at the full
headers on those messages you will see they were not the same as the
headers of the REAL messages I was posting at that very same time, and
what those SPOOFS did is post dozens of stupid, witless, messages and
made them look as if it was me that posted them. Messages about my
affections for my chihuahua, my mother, or my daydreams abou "ponies",
silly and stupid and lame things that nobody but an idiot would think
I really would have posted on the Internet!
Now, as for your dislike of MY mild-mannered marketing strategy, or
perhaps ANY marketing strategy, I don't know your personal situation,
perhaps you've never written a book that you were proud of and wished
other people would have a look at it. Or, maybe you inherited such a
great amount of wealth that you have "risen above" the very notion of
'earning a living?' Or, perhaps you are living in a socialist
paradise and can thus afford to be so dismissive about the capitalism
with a small "c" that I'm practicing when I write, publish and try to
sell me own book titles, short story collections, etc? Well, even if
you are a non-writer, plutocrat or socialist, you should still keep
in mind there are other folks who may feel differently, folks like me
who fall into a combination of two 'cl*****': (a) CREATOR, An author
and/or inventor of things like books and services. Hey, even
professors in their ivy-towered bastions have to publish or perish.,
even scientists sometimes "come up with something new", and (b)
MERCHANT. Yes, unless you've got a government grant, a rich wife, a
cushy job of some kind where somebody else is footing the bill, you
may fall into a category where selling a product or service is
mandatory for obtaining the means for survival. I wish I didn't have
to be an active merchant of any kind, that's why I came out with my
recent paperbacks, so they would stand a chance of selling themselves
on the open market, with me giving just the slightest little push, by
providing a forum here or there where they can be glimpsed and
popularized.
I don't know what your particular niche is, but I will gladly grant
you your niche, but hopefully you will grant me mine. Or, even if you
won't grant me a niche, please do look back on messages from the
2000--2004 period when I had so many enemies on the web, (skeptics who
still assume every astrologer is a con-man of some kind, and with whom
I fought tooth and nail about the very legitimacy of astrology) with a
more skeptical eye about "Edvins Augusts" posts, because I know of at
least three dozen messages that were written by some malicious
spoofer, and "credited" to my author****p... And, anyway! I have
written more than twenty books, yes, they are about a variety of
subjects, they are not all spiritual flights, by any means, but on the
other hand, I am not peddling Viagra or designer luggage, I'm not
selling round-trip tickets to Mumbai or Shanghai or London.
So I am concerned that you are so dismissive and negative about my
occasional attempts to direct readers to my various sites, such as my
cool Google site: .http://groups.google.com/group/BOOK-ADVENTURES-
with-Ed-Augusts , or my Yahoo Astrology site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group=
/ASTRO_PSYCHIC/
Can you explain more about that, please? Is it personal? Or
generic?
Best, ------Ed
http://www.edaugusts.com
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