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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article ,   
    David Dalton  wrote:   
      
   > In article <0001HW.29792EC6000628D770000A23738F@88.198.57.247>,   
   >  David Dalton  wrote:   
   >   
   > > As I note on the "Key features of my cycles" subpage of my   
   > > Salmon on the Thorns webpage, some parallels between   
   > > me and Harry Potter are:   
   > >   
   > > 1. we were both orphaned at an early age, and also one feature   
   > > of all buddhas is that their mothers died when they were very   
   > > young, which is true of me,   
   > >   
   > > 2. Harry Potter has a lightning scar, and three of my waning   
   > > crescent highs (which Taliesin referred to as the inspirations   
   > > of Ceridwen) were preceded by clear sky lightning, which   
   > > I speculate was due to solar activity affecting the ionosphere,   
   > >   
   > > 3. we both wear glasses, though I discarded mine before my   
   > > sun stare of September 5, 1991, which meant that the focus   
   > > formed off my retina,   
   > >   
   > > 4. If I recall correctly, Harry Potter's schooling at Hogwarts   
   > > took place over seven years. This is similar to the common   
   > > seven years of low/forsaken/wilderness/working years of   
   > > avatar types such as me. For example, Amergin refers   
   > > to himself as a "stag of seven tines", and Fionn tastes the   
   > > Salmon of Wisdon that Fiinegas catches after seven years   
   > > of trying, and the Buddha reaches awakening/enlightenment   
   > > after seven years (28 to 35) of ascetic years. However   
   > > some figures including Jacob and Rama and Glooskap   
   > > went 14 years. And one avatar type, a humpback whale   
   > > of about 4000 years ago, went 18 years (7 years plus a   
   > > sunspot cycle). I am at almost 27 years now (since I have   
   > > a global region) and hope that I don't have to wait until   
   > > 7 years plus two sunspot cycles.   
   >   
   > I am at 27.5 years as of earlier today.   
      
   And that rounds up to 28, which is twice the 14 and   
   four times the 7, but I still think that I might   
   have to wait until 29  (7 plus 2*11, or 18+11).   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;   
   This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;   
   Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)