June 4, 2009

 It has been a difficult morning. I am trying to remain Stoic about it, but it is really difficult.

I have to start on the Meditation portion of my DP. So far, I see it as two fold. The Oracle Meditation, and the Virtues Meditation. I will be adding the Nature Meditation in due time.

For the Oracle Meditation, I figure that if i spend 1 week on each of the Greek Alphabet Oracle letters, and one week on each of the Major arcana in the Tarot, this gives me 49 weekly Meditations. I could do something like the visualizing exercise I once did for the Fool. It was quite moving. Trying that with the Greek Alphabet Orcale will be interesting. Is there a story I can use to tie them all together?

The second method will be the Virtues Meditation. I have about 11 months to complete this. If I spend the balance of June writing the introductory meditation (maybe 500 words). Then implement it in July while I re-write the Industry Meditation to better include the character stregths and the Stoics into the meditation.

Using this system, I could complete the entire series in a year, perhaps even publish it as a book through Lulu. With all of the footnotes, and an introduction. With worksheets in the back. Virtues based, not salesman based like the Greatest Salesman in the World.

Ok, on to the letter meditation. Start at the temple at Delphi. Good place to start meditation.

Spring up oh Well

So it's official, Pam and I are heading to Wellspring. This is a little weird for me, heading off to an unknown situation. But I and trying it out, stepping out there. Camping in May is like, well, camping in September. I.e. Risky and cold, but uncrowded.

We are likely bringing Erin along from the grove. Should be, might be, could be fun.

On another note, I came across someone on LiveJournal that has a pdf of Kerenyi's Apollo. Unfortunately the posts stating this are from 2007, so I am hoping that he/she is still checking the account and still has the pdf kicking around and is willing to share it. A lot of hope but other than spending 150ish, that is the only way I will be getting this 74 page booklet that originally sold for 8.50.