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		<title>Weekdays Explored &#8211; Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiw for tea, and tea for Tiw. We&#8217;re already at the midway point of the week (not in the above illustration, as theAbysmal Calendar is misaligned with the Gregorian week until Dec 22nd 2012). Tuesday is associated with our friend Mars. There is much to think about in our relationship with the red planet, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2587&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekdays Explored &#8211; Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mooning like a Lunatic over the Moon. Monday has become one of the most dreaded days of the week (take that Friday the 13th!). Why don&#8217;t blue Mondays occur once in a blue Moon? Good tides and tidings to our capricious, delicious satellite of green cheese (maybe a blue cheese gone off), as it dances [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2571&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekdays Explored ~ Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheAbysmal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sun, Sunday and observation of that big glowing ball in the sky. Continuing on our little look or two at the planets (in ancient terms, we call the sun a star, but so it goes, it still gets its own day) that define our weekdays. Saturn, that dark, distant piece of work is in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2558&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekdays Explored ~ Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheAbysmal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Day of Saturn, Nastier Castrator. Taking a look at our weekdays, and the planets for which they stand. Not in every culture, but in a good many of them. Considering these are the 7 ancient planets (sun, moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn), all of which are visible from earth with the naked eye [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2522&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reformulating Western Astrology (updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheAbysmal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[13 Constellations on the ecliptic &#8211; why not 13 signs of the zodiac? Never one to leave well enough alone, I&#8217;ve been playing with the zodiac (moreso in terms of its more superficial qualities. Several thousands of years of development are not reformed overnight). First, we have the reintroduction of Ophiuchus, the 13th sign of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2542&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magnetic North</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News of the world from the magnetosphere. A couple of geomagnetic articles in the news of late. Just thought that aurora watchers might want to head out to the darker reaches to gawk at the celestial show. This particular sunspot cycle was relatively inactive at its start, but has since become increasingly active. There are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2489&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the life of the Arctic in the dreams of one of its travellers. Arctic Dreams &#8211; Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986)  by Barry Lopez Chapters 2, 3 and 4 deal with particular species native to the Arctic, and although Lopez&#8217;s writing is excellent, his attitude sympathetic and humble, and his observations fascinating, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2491&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riffing on Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reforming Calendars, Culture and the Fundamentals. This is your brain on music Rhythm &#38; Time Light Health Rhythm There&#8217;s always a different way to look at the familiar. Such is the spirit in which play and experimentation overlap. Perceiving the commonplace with a new eye, a new ear, a new mind. This is the stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2484&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Chinese New Year &#8211; 新年快樂</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating renewal of the moon with 1 billion plus&#8230; Today begins the Year of the Black Water Dragon 壬辰 The Chinese soli-lunar calendar is a complex system that may prove a bit overwhelming, as it has very little in common with the Gregorian calendar with which most people reading this in English are familiar. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2410&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Time Do You Spend in Front of a Computer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Far too much. Go play in the snow. That&#8217;s how it&#8217;s done. 334 Days to Dec 21st 2012 Filed under: 12~XIV, countdown<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theabysmal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=260799&amp;post=2476&amp;subd=theabysmal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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