BetoBeto San, the Formless Specter- *K's blog contribution*

Hello all!

It's been a while since I've contributed to BlueMoonRizing, so I was very pleased to be asked to write a piece once again!


As you've probably guessed from the title of this post, this is another Japanese Yokai-themed feature. I was inspired to write this after walking home during one of the ever earlier darkening nights as winter closes in. Every little sound you hear is heightened, and usually we see nothing as we quickly hurry home....but what if there was something following us? What if you just couldn't see it?

BetoBeto San

BetoBeto San as imagined by manga artist Mizuki Shigeru

In Japan there is a legend that if you are walking home alone at night or down a lonely mountain road and you suddenly hear footsteps behind you that sound suspiciously like the sound of wooden sandals clacking on the ground, try not to be too alarmed. You've likely attracted the attention of BetoBeto-San, a harmless and slightly disturbing yokai.

The name beto beto (べとべと) can mean a few different things in Japanese, but generally the meaning refers to an onomatopoeia of the sound of footsteps ( beto beto beto...). A loose translation would be something like "Mr. Footsteps", which makes sense given this Yokai's nature.

Legends of this Yokai come mostly from Uda Gun in Nara prefecture, and from Shizuoka, where BetoBeto-San only travels the mountain roads.

BetoBeto-San likes to synchronize its walking with any targeted walker, trying to get closer and closer without being detected. The walker may feel very disconcerted, as they keep turning around only to discover there isn't anything behind them.

However, it is fairly simple to rid yourself of this Yokai once you suspect that you are being followed by one. Step to the side of the road and politely say, "After you BetoBeto-San" (In Nara, it is "Please BetoBeto-San, you go first"). When this formality has been observed, BetoBeto-San will accept your invitation and walk by, with the footsteps carrying on ahead and vanishing out of earshot. This usually means BetoBeto-San has gone on to find another person to follow, although there is one account of the Yokai not accepting the invitation to pass...

So the next time you are walking alone and hear a noise but can't seem to locate it, perhaps try asking BetoBeto-San if he would like to pass on by you into the night. It's worth a shot ;)

IS IT A BOY....OR A GIRL ?

This is just for fun..Boy baby? Girl baby?

If your pregnant, or if your friend is, you can try this and see if it works, (find out later)...lol

wands and swords for a boy baby👦

pentacles and cups a girl baby👧

I use the 5 card spread on this tarot generator site for this, if i don't feel like getting my cards out...

https://edifyingfellowship.org/wiki/Main_Page

Spiritual Forums

Spiritual Forums-Was poking around on the Internet and found an interesting site, so thought I'd pass it along...Pretty much everything over there, but takes maybe 1 day after registration to be able to post..They let you know by email when you are in.....

http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/index.php

Introduction to Rick Levine's-(Astrologer)- Patreon Programs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3WDVw9r0rs

Introduction to Rick Levine's Patreon Programs

https://www.patreon.com/ricklevine

ASTROLOGY AT ITS BEST ;)

TAROT READER PREDICTS TROUBLE AND A DEATH... FACE TO FACE (reading for a killer)

Interesting Story Here:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/26/tarot-card-reader-kept-murderer-talking-for-an-hour-while-waitin/

Tarot- A Free Mentorship Program

Hello,
If you want to learn Tarot from scratch, or you just need some help, then you should head over to Tarot Tea and Me site for for free mentoring...Here is the link: https://www.thetarotforum.com/

Summer Solstice happens on June 21, 2018.

This year summer solstice happens on June 21, 2018.
The name for the festival of the Summer Solstice in Druidry is Alban Hefin, which means 'The Light of the Shore'. Druidry has a great respect and reverence for places that are 'in between' worlds. The seashore is one such place, where the three realms of Earth, Sea and Sky meet. There is great power in places such as these. It is the time of greatest light when the Solar God is crowned by the Goddess as the King of Summer. It also brings some sadness because from now until Alban Arthan, the Sun's strength is declining and we have entered the waning year. For some this is the time of the Dark Twin, or Holly King, who is born and will take his crown at Alban Arthan. Of all the festivals Druidry is mostly associated with Alban Hefin. The wonderful white-robed figures filmed at the dawn rituals at Stonehenge are testament to this. However, to many Druids it is the turning seasons and the cycle of life, death and rebirth - reflected in the Wheel of the Year in its completeness - which are significant.-https://www.druidry.org/

Card of the Day-Page of Cups Reversed Rx

Page of Cups reversed Rx-If you are having a creative block, getting out in nature might help...

7(seven) of Cups-Card of The Day

Feeling overwhelmed? Pick just a few of the things that are on your plate, and work through them one by one....

Cinco de Mayo

5 (Five) of Wands Reversed-CARD OF THE DAY- MAY 1, 2018

Five of Wands Rx-Conflict is over, so time to work on goals...

CARD OF THE DAY-THE KNIGHT OF SWORDS

The Knight of Swords by brighnasa

Message-Look out, here comes the Knight of Swords with a message!!! If you are sensitive, this message could feel harsh. 

Shadow Ghosts

Shadow Ghosts-

2016 was a bad year for my family. We lost a son (who was my nephew) and a Dad (my big brother). I had not seen either of them for 7 years, due to one of those family fall outs that can occur. Something kept urging me to make peace with them both, which I did by emailing my nephew and eventually visiting my big Bro.  I discovered that during those 7 years one of them had been really ill, and the other had acquired a nasty habit. Even though my Nephew had sort of beat his illness, six months later he died in a crash. Four months later my big bro, his Dad, died from his nasty habit. He hid this habit so well that if his neighbors hadn’t had told me, I would never have known.

I have another brother and I had fallen out with him too, but he started exchanging the Happy Birthdays and Merry Christmas e-mails recently. In one email he told me he was sensing our older brother “D” around him, and seeing shadows.  I thought he meant things were reminding him of "D". On "D”'s birthday I told my brother to toast a coffee to him, as it would have been his 69th birthday ("D" loved coffee). My living brother said, “I’m still seeing shadows," which was when I realised it was likely something more. Here is how he described it:

"Ok, it usually happens when I'm working on a project usually in the morning and always on my right side. I'm left handed. The shadow is always long, and I believe dark with clear or white areas within it. The top part is leaning forward and is equal to my height 6ft, or a bit taller with the bottom falling behind and down, maybe two or three feet like a lightning bolt. It all happens in a second. I'm not certain but I think its four or five times now since New Year’s".

I asked about the lighting in his workshop and he said this:

“My work shop has florescent lighting and is closed in to keep the heat in. That makes the place dark in the corners when the lights are on, and unless the sun is out its dim.”

 I have never heard of shadow ghosts before. Ghosts, yes, sensing a presence, yes.

I have sensed spirit around me before. Sometimes like static electricity, or just a vibe like someone’s there, but you can’t see them.

My two brothers were close in an odd way, and the older one "D" used to tease to the point of driving you crazy. My first thoughts were that this shadow ghost was my older brother "D". Big brother fits the bill of the blurb below:

“Shadow ghosts could also be people who are suffering from earthly addictions and need to fulfil their lusts; or people who feel helpless and hopeless; or people who are searching for family or friends; or even people who are trapped in trauma that occurred to them and are still living in the year and day that their bodies died. The reasons could be many when one considers what causes earthbound spirits to stay here among people in physical bodies, so we must consider shadow ghosts as people who are in some form of trauma and need assistance in moving on and continuing their life journey.”-angelsghosts.com

Ok, so now what do we do? I asked a Psychic acquaintance Natasha if she had heard of shadow ghosts and this is what she said:

“Yes, I have, but you need to distinguish between shadows and light spirits”

She also said if he has something to his form, like color, or dots, or white, then its good, he is ok. I didn’t ask more about that part, but I should have...I really wanted to go see this for myself, but this brother lives far from me. Natasha said I could help my big bro "D” move on...remotely! I have never done anything like that before, but I was game. I was to get 2 chairs facing each other for a sister to brother spirit chat, and get him moving on to the light, and over to deceased family waiting on the other side that love him. I was to invite his guides and my guides to be here to assist, and this part I added in respect: My big brother loved coffee, so I made a cup of coffee for him, and he also loved Blues music (I only had BB King Christmas CD) but I put it on.

A very eerie thing happened, it played 2 songs and skipped to song 4 called "Christmas in Heaven", then the CD skipped to 13 and just ended. I said he needed to move into the light, I blew out the candles I had on to signal it was time.

So far as I know, no more shadow spirit at other brother’s home...

Two nights after I helped my brother "D" move on to the light, I had an odd dream about him, and I rarely remember dreams...

In my dream someone gave him a ride on a bicycle to a crossroads on a hill, then he got off and said,"Thank you very much, see you sometime soon"...Then he started off down one fork of the road... (he looked in deep thought)..He was wearing kind of a pale plaid shirt with short sleeves, and khaki colored pants. It was so vivid...I take that as a sign too.

So there it is, crash course in "shadow ghosts 101"...

*I'd like to thank Natasha Rosewood-(Psychic), for helping me figure out what to do...If you should ever need this kind of help you can contact her here at her website: http://www.natasharosewood.com/

*Natasha has written some great books, and you can see those on Amazon.ca https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-J.-Rosewood/e/B00JNTHXA4

PS/The shadow ghost above is not a picture from our story and is from wordpress.

💖 Also I would like to dedicate this story to my brother "D" and his son "S", they are missed on this plane💖

Welcome to Spring :)

Tuesday March 20th marks the first day of Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere,  Yayyy :)

At Stonehenge in the U.K. they might be drinking dandelion and burdock cordials to cleanse the blood, which is a good tonic after winter. Time for spring- cleaning !
*At Stonehenge inside the circle, they may witness the sun rising, with Druid Ceremony and festivities. As with all the other key festivals of the year, there are both Pagan and Christian associations with the Spring Equinox. To Pagans, this is the time of the ancient Saxon goddess, Eostre, who stands for new beginnings and fertility. 

Misty Stonehenge

CARD OF THE DAY- EIGHT(8) OF WANDS

Card of the Day-Things happening too fast? Don't panic!

Card Of The Day-4 Four Of Pentacles

Lesson: Run your money, don't let it run you.

BLACK OPAL

A Beauty



 Black Opal -  Opal with a dark body colour, usually black or dark gray, deep blue or green; the deep body colour makes the iridescent play of colour strikingly different from light Opals. The majority of Black Opals come from Australia and are the most famous and sought after Opals in the world. Black Opal is considered to be extremely lucky and the most uplifting of the Opals, bringing Light into the aura. It eases distress and dissolves depression and hopelessness, helping one face their darkest fears and to release that which is holding one back. Linking the root and crown chakras, Black Opal connects one’s highest spiritual aspirations with one’s physical body, making it a powerful magnifier of intention and manifestation. It is a protective stone for deep inner work, soul retrieval or past-life recall, and can be used for “gazing” into the past, present or future. It is highly prised as a power stone for magic ritual and can be used for “reading eyes” in order to scry the truthfulness or intent of a person. Black Opal is a Storm element stone of death and re-birth, and utilises Fire energy.  

 In southern Mexico they sell black Opals made into little turtles.

Valentine LOVE spread

3 card LOVE spread:

example


3 card Love Spread:

1st card is the querent (represents you )

2nd card is your sweetheart (or other term)..

3rd card is what is going on between you two💔💖

Super-blue-blood-moon-eclipse-2018-JAN. 31

COMING TO A SKY NEAR YOU !

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/910725/Super-blue-blood-moon-eclipse-2018-supermoon-spiritual-meaning

Sliders-People that interfere with electronics

Rather than redo or type some of this out, I thought I would pass this interesting article along about sliders...from Spiritual Unite

http://www.spiritualunite.com/articles/signs-you-are-a-person-whose-energy-naturally-interferes-with-electronics/

Great Pyramid of Giza: An iron throne made of meteorites newly discovered in void?

Researchers have used non-invasive scanning techniques to peer inside the pyramid and reveal its hidden internal structure, but they have been puzzled by the function of the hidden void. Now, Giulio Magli, a professor of archaeoastronomy at the Politecnico di Milano, has proposed one of the first hypotheses for what lies inside the mysterious space. He has suggested that it may hide an iron throne made from metal harvested from meteorites. The pyramid, which was built around 2560 BC during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, "is one of the largest and most complex monuments in the history of architecture," said Magli. As an archaeoastronomist he studies how ancient peoples understood the sky and what role it played in their culture. His findings are outlined in a pre-print online journal arXiv.org. They have not been peer-reviewed.

Magli argued that it was unlikely that the void was the result of sloppy building, as some have suggested. The extreme care exhibited in the pyramid's design goes against that theory, he explained."Further, the void cannot be interpreted – as proposed by some Egyptologists - as a chamber devoted to relieve weight from the roof of the Great Gallery."Thus, there must be a solid reason for its existence, and this reason must be deeply connected with the Egyptian funerary religion-quote:Giulio Magli", which says that the pharaoh's afterlife lay among the stars.""All in all, if the void cannot be attributed either to chance or to structural reasons, its presence must be functional to the scope of the pyramid: the tomb of the Pharaoh, built to assure its eternal afterlife.

Star gate

One highly speculative explanation for this, according to Magli, lies in the Ancient Egyptian funerary religion outlined in the so-called Pyramid Texts. It is written in these religious tracts that once dead, "the pharaoh, before reaching the stars of the north, will have to pass the gates of the sky and sit on his throne of iron.Within the pyramid, there are four narrow shafts which all point towards the stars. Two of these open out on to the facades of the monument, while the other two end at small, mysterious doors. The south-facing door has been investigated numerous times, with little success, while the north-facing door is still sealed. Magli said that these doors were the "gates of the sky" mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and that the north-facing door might well lead into the newly discovered void, within which there will be a throne. According to what we know of the throne of Khufu's mother, Queen Hetepheres, this throne may be made of wood but covered in sheets of metal. The reference in the Pyramid Texts suggests this metal could be iron.

Iron harvested from meteorites:

Researchers know that the Egyptians produced valuable objects from rare iron harvested from meteorites - for example King Tutankhamun's dagger - centuries before Iron Age metalworkers learned how to smelt iron from the Earth's crust.

King Tuts dagger

Magli said his hypothesis could be proven if the unexplored northern shaft was investigated to see if it leads into a room inside the big void. The void is at least 30 metres long and is situated above the Grand Gallery – a steeply slanted passageway which connects two other chambers, the Queen's Chamber and the King's Chamber. At 146 metres high, the pyramid was the tallest building in the world until the 19th Century, and is still one of the largest man-made structures on the planet.- Aristos Georgiou

CARD OF THE DAY - THE ACE OF WANDS

The Ace Of Wands says...."GO FOR IT !

Amethyst news-quick blurb

Pretty stuff!

Catholic bishops wore Amethyst in a ring to protect from mystical intoxication. Kissing the ring kept others from similar mystical intoxication and kept them grounded in spiritual thought. 

Amethyst stimulates the Third Eye, Crown and Etheric Chakras enhancing cognitive perception as well as accelerating the development of intuitive and psychic ability.

It is a stone of comfort for those grieving the loss of a loved one.

Amethyst protects against psychic attack, paranormal harm or ill-wishing, and returns the energy back to the universe after being transformed into positive, loving energy. To increase this power and attract good luck, draw an image of the sun and the crescent moon over an Amethyst in lavender incense smoke...