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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Here In Newfoundland tomorrow, February 17, will be Pancake Day,   
   traditionally a time to use up the supply of eggs, butter, and milk   
   before Lent. Also there is a tradition of putting items in the batter   
   which when discovered were supposed to tell you something about   
   your future (e.g. who you might marry, with a nail meaning a   
   carpenter). Hopefully people ate their pancakes carefully and   
   didn’t swallow any nails, buttons, coins, etc. :-)   
      
   From another post by me:   
      
   February 17 will be Raven new moon (as in the Haida   
   creation legend of Raven and the First Men), Lunar New Year   
   (also known as Chinese New Year), a significant birthday in   
   my family, Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day (and   
   the eve of Ash Wednesday), and an Annular Solar Eclipse,   
   or Ring of Fire, though it won’t be visible up north. It is   
   also the new/dark moon which falls just before the start   
   of Ramadan (which depends on the sighting of the earliest   
   waxing crescent). So I hope that my global new age onset   
   mystic activation sequence will work then, though I am trying   
   a little advance workings tonight, 12 hours before the   
   exact time of new/dark moon.   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “I gave my love a golden feather; I gave my love a heart of stone; When you   
   find a golden feather it means you’ll never lose your way back home”(RR)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)