Water

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Pondering
I sat for a while and thought about the comments a couple of posts above, cups and pentacles, wheels and wands. Knowing nothing about these matters I decided to put it away and look again later as it seems to be symbology in a form I am not familiar with. The effect however must have stuck for a few minutes because I opened the book in front of me on ancient Egypt, the first thing I saw was a large picture of a symbol called the Eye of Ra.

Considering recent discussions on this board it now has a new angle to it, for me.
embedded torus, possibly a double
convex
concave
triarcuate

[Griffin]

Rose and Merlin –

A good combo. Great to have you back, Merlin. Smooth air and aether, indeed. I’m in a holding pattern again, but finally on the runway as I continue to work slowly but steadily on the book. Nearer, ever nearer -- although I’m no longer making predictions, at least on this.

I’m having my site converted to a blog-web format so that I can edit it easily myself once it’s all in place. Interesting how things have come together to be able to accomplish this. Still, I'm dependent on other schedules. Once done, though, I’ll start putting up a few free access chapters and then -- finally! --the e-book. The tortoise eventually gets there, and might even take the race from the white rabbit when he times out. As the gryphon and Linda say, “What Fun!”

Speaking of signs, Rose. Merlin’s seven or eight months come near to next year’s returning of your Metal Tiger year in the great Tiger re-cycling shuffle of the five elements. Returning, returning. As the ancients knew, it’s all about timing and cycles. It could be a strong and eventful year for you from that perspective too.

Yes, the sound of music -- the Music of the Spheres.

As ever, cycling along the yellow brick road and the twists and turns of the rabbit hole,

Griffin

[Merlin]

Oh Rose,

I was going to give you a detailed reading on my cards from the other week but when I went to post, I couldn't find the original, I see there was a problem here.

In reading this forum I see so many images of individuals from my past. I remember sitting in a development meeting at Piasecki once as a young engineer and we were going round and round with all these ideas and theories. After about an hour of this, an old engineer who was about in his seventies stood up. Now you have to understand that this was in the fifties, this man saw the beginning of Aviation in his lifetime as a young man. Anyway, he arose at the end of the table and everyone got quiet. I remember this to this day, he cleared his throat and chuckled as he looked around the table. He called us a bunch of political engineers. We would rather sit and talk all our theories and ideas and haven't a clue how to go about proving them. Build a model and put it in the wind tunnel, devise an experiment but do something other than talk for all your words are nothing more than an echo in this room. With that, he turned and walked out. I never forgot that. I remember telling T that story and he chuckled, he held up his hand and said " you have to build sooner or later" - with his missing finger. He continued saying that he would rather be in the lab proving a theory than anywhere else and then I remember saying "anywhere"? Can't remember the answer.

I am reminded of a young man, anyone under the age of 75 to me is young, who is doing just that.

I joined the other forum Rose, time to leave this board room.

Merlin

merlin:lee

[rose]

Oh Merlin,

I know all about political engineers. i have been given job assignments that were taken out of the hands of potlitical engineers precisely because they spent months talking and not doing. But they sure SOUNDED good, and their solutions, had they ever figured out what they might be, would probably have been far more elegant than mine.

I look forward to picking up our conversations again over in the Quonset Hut.

rose