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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   January 28, 2026. To get UTC/GMT add 3.5 hours.   
   (Sarah McLachlan’s birthday/Eve of the 30th anniversary of   
   the start of my low or working years/Eve of Freethinkers Day)   
      
   John Matthews, in his book Taliesin... quotes:   
      
   Seven years your right, under a flagstone, in a quagmire,   
   Without food, without taste, but the thirst you ever torturing,   
   The law of the judges your lesson, and prayer your language:   
   And if you like to return   
   You will be, for a time, a Druid, perhaps.   
   (Ancient Irish Poem)   
      
   And of course the seven years are the same as those associated   
   with Amergin (stag of seven tines) and Fionn (seven years fishing   
   for the Salmon on Wisdom) and Cu Chulainn (seven years as   
   hound to the smith) and Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer. I have   
   divined that the above poem was written by the author of the Tain and   
   the originator of the myth of Cu Chulainn, but such divination has been   
   unreliable for me. Also Taliesin’s poems don’t mention seven years but   
   do mention seven score muses, which in lunar months is an 11 year   
   sunspot cycle, from which I infer that his low/working years were seven   
   years, since my low/working years started a bit more than four years   
   after my sun stare/naked thorn hill climb/blue rose vision.   
      
   In my case I thought I would have 29 years, the common 7 plus   
   two 11 year sunspot cycles, but as of tomorrow morning it   
   will be 30 years. I hope that that is because the current   
   sunspot cycle is lasting longer than the usual 11 years and   
   that I won’t have to go 36 years (Jesus’s 3 plus three 11 year   
   sunspot cycles). But indeed I would like to return.   
      
   In any case, my latest mystic global new age onset attempt,   
   which I described on alt.religion.druid, STALLED last night   
   while I slept. Once agin there has been a FULL RESET,   
   with no changes required other than in timing.   
      
   Sunset here will be at 4:55 p.m. according to timeanddate.com   
   and 4:56 p.m. according to Environment Canada, and I will   
   begin a new attempt at 4:56 p.m., but effects, if it works,   
   may not be noticeable for a few hours after that. I hope   
   it will be complete by dawn on the morning of January 29   
   other than ongoing physical evolution (with youthening and healing).   
      
   Followup-To set to alt.religion.druid so check there if you   
   are interested, which I deem more likely if you notice   
   effects, such as improved sexual compatibility.   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And now the angry morning; Gives the early signs of warning; You must   
   face alone the plans you make; Decisions they will try to break” (S.McL.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)