I wondered what the common feeling was (if there is such a thing!) about aligning your rituals to the world around you. Specifically, orienting your altar to your geography.

I live in northern Virginia, so for me it is very natural to think about the sea to the southeast and the land/mountains to the southwest. Of course, that is the opposite of the traditional orientation. Still, it justy doesn't feel right to me to set up my altar any other way.

How do people feel about creating an alignment that is in tune with your physical location, rather than sticking to the more traditional directions?

Many thanks!

Jim

Tags: ritual
Current Mood: thoughtful

This is the ritual that was done for Arlen on August 15/16, 2008 in Everett, Washington. It is given to the CR community by its authors in the hope that it will serve others who are preparing to go into harm's way, and the communities that support them in these troubled times.

( Warrior Consecration Ritual )

Tags: cr, ritual

Kind of a random question:
While there is a plethora (well, comparatively speaking) of information on the Insular Celts, and the Gauls, there seems to be very little in the way of information on the lesser known Celtic peoples, such as the Celtiberians and the Galatians. 
How much do we really know about the non-Gaulish Continental Celts? 

Current Mood: curious about obscurities

I've never seen the video for this song before.

This is hillarious

Development Goals and Basic Accounts

Last week we updated our development goals for 2008. Generally we noted a number of cool enhancements and investments to LiveJournal that we are working on, including improved search, usability, and site development.

We also wanted to let you know how we hope to accomplish all these things, and how we plan on paying for them. In order to accomplish our stated goals for this year and beyond, we need to increase the revenue gained from both groups of LiveJournal accounts: paid subscription accounts and ad-supported accounts.

As of August 28th, all users will be able to choose to downgrade their account to Basic through their Manage Account page. Additionally, we will start showing advertising to visitors who are not logged in to LiveJournal when they are looking at Basic Account journals and communities.

Basic Account users themselves will not see ads on any Basic journal or community while they are logged in to their account. If you want more information about this, take a look at our new post on lj_2008 where we outline our reasoning.

Indian Flash Fiction Contest

In other news, we are excited to tell you we've launched "Quick Tales" LiveJournal's first initiative for users in India, in celebration of India Independence day, August 15th. "Quick Tales" is a flash fiction writing contest in which we're partnering with Caferati.com, one of India's largest online literary communites. The contest's winners will receive some great prizes and it is open to anyone with a mailing address in India. We hope that users with an interest in Indian writing or just India will watch LiveJournal's india_writing community. That's where the finalists and winners will be announced, so keep an eye on it towards the end of September! If you're in India then enter the contest - if your story is slick and quick (under 500 words) then you could be the lucky winner!

Meanwhile, back at LiveJournal Inc.

We have updated and redesigned our corporate site. The goal of the redesign was twofold: first, to update the look and feel (Dystopia users will appreciate it!); second, we want to provide a destination for prospective employees, partners, and members of the press where they can access important information about the company. Kudos to our design team.

Tags: books
Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Scarlatti - Sonata K.47

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