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The nerves in my hands have been causing some pain since morning. These are particularly bad days when nothing seems good. Everything gloomy. And today is the worst. Feeling depressed for a while. I wish things weren't this way.

Hopefully today everything gets sorted out somehow. Today is the action day. I need to take things slow now. I am trying to fix my leg with warm compress. It hurts like hell. I have got so much work to get done. Going anywhere is not without risk. I see everyone wearing a mask. Feels like we are living in alien space.

I'm looking forward to bigger changes in the coming few months. Starting today I just pray and pray that the next few days be good. I have been going through a difficult time this last few months and this month is nothing new.. Today is the height of my frustration. Plus my noisy neighbors are extremely irritating. It's been loud noise since last night. I really need to get going. The coronavirus scare has screwed me up so bad, I don't wish to go anywhere. I even canceled my event last week. I am scared to even go to the hospital but I have had a leg injury since the last week and I really wanted to visit a doctor this week. My family that stays in the US just called me and told me to not go anywhere at this time. Not even the hospital. That makes sense because it's the hospitals that have the greatest risks with patients coming in for screening. So sad. I feel so anxious over this coronavirus thing.

This thread is one of those that can go on forever without a resolution. I do eat meat but sometimes I feel guilty about it. Can't explain it.

Omg this thread is so packed with information. I love that. Wish all threads were like this. I might use some of the information on here in my journal if any of you guys don't mind.

Gotta use these from now. I need to do a complete recap and restructuring.... I need a good break..... And chocolate.

That's awesome

You are welcome. Glad to know that she isn't like that. Yeah my ex boyfriend was a severe case of narcissistic personality disorder. If you guys can work things out then it would be great because getting a twin flame is a rare phenomenon. I hope everything works out for the best for you guys.

@Harikrishnan yea it's cool. I thought the guys here would really downarrow me. Apart from a few disparaging comments {hinting that I could be a slut to deserve the harassment} everything went pretty fine. But then again this is online. Offline situations are always much worse. Also this is a spirituality website so many the good Indian guys hang out here hahaha. But in reality in India, only a handful of Indian men have respectful attitude towards women. Most everyday men are very perverted and disrespectful to the extreme. You would need to be a woman to experience that.

@Arcangelo hehehe if I used a gun, I'd be in jail. India is not that simple. I know what you're saying about Christianity and the Bible. But this is also true that compared to Hindu culture the Christian culture treats women better. I have no idea how Hindu culture evolved to treat women badly but ancient Hinduism was about protecting women. Probably misogynistic men changed the scripture and the culture to suit their needs.

You know when Indian men will wake up? I'll tell you. When the international media will point fingers to the Indian man and ask "what are you doing exactly to protect the women of your country?" In that moment the Indian man will feel pressured to wake up and change his mentality towards women.

@Parththakkar12 sorry for breaking your bubble but women are not responsible for creating this. They don't want this. That's why they are fighting against it. Now with more awareness and western interference it is possible for women of India to fight. Also there is support from Indian government and international organizations and it is really helping Indian women. Plus there is a good antidote to Indian men.... It's called social media. Now the whole world can see what's happening in India. Indian men can no longer hide their women hating culture. The cat is out of the bag. This wouldn't have been possible 50 years ago with no internet and no social media. Back then it was very easy for an Indian man to rape or burn a woman or stone her and get away with it. Because who is there to see? Now technology is making it possible for the cultures to get exposed the world over. Now India must have answers to the world if something bad happens to women in India. So the government is going to scramble to save face and do something strong to protect women in the future. This situation will not last forever thanks to international media, social media, internet, journalism, feminism, and most importantly technology and globalization. The sins of a culture will not remain hidden for too long. Also praises to all Indian women for fighting so hard and pushing against the evil patriarchy for paving the way to freedom for women. We have come very far in terms of education and employment. It's the Indian woman's forever struggle to fight the stupid system created by Indian men to oppress them. But karma has its way to work. Feminism will grow in India. I hope it grows bigger and stronger to fight evil oppressive regimes created by men. And in a country like India, Feminism is very much needed. It's a boon. A blessing. Eventually Indian women will get freedom and liberation from the terror of the patriarchy. It will happen. So don't worry. Indian women deserve all the freedom and opportunity and love and justice like all women around the world. Have a nice day.

This one is good for sterium

I will use the word sterium to describe aesthetics and artistry and imagination, creativity and appeal. That's a good word. So basically sterium consists of Erysterium Iggleshius Fleridysus

Right now I got 6 tarot cards ready for my De La Luna tarot deck. They are good. Also purchased a tarot box. But finding it difficult to keep my tarot sets in the box. Somehow they are not fitting in it.

It's not that easy. Society is not created only by women but also by men. Just because I get empowered doesn't mean anything. What about women who can't be empowered. This is a fallacy. This is like saying that the destiny of a woman in her own hands, a covert way of placing blame on her. So if she is not able to get justice, will you say that she is unempowered? This is a social issue that needs participation of both women and men. A woman cannot fight 100 men trying to gangrape her. If the justice system is against her, she cannot do much. Men also have to fight for women and that's called showing respect to women, not just sitting and watching passively women fighting for themselves. In what kind of society, men just stay silent and don't bother to protect a woman. Is that a good society? A society needs both men and women and both have a role to play. So safety of women is not just a woman's concern. Only a selfish person will imply that. An empathetic man will want justice for women and he will actively participate in that. There are many women who can't get Empowered, example mentally disabled women. Girls who are only 5 years old. You can't expect a 5 year old to be empowered. This is not about woman's empowerment. This is men taking action to save their society and taking action against sociopathic men and helping women to get justice and cooperating them to create a healthy society.

Let's not bring religion here and compare two Devils and decide which one is a lesser devil. It is laughable to say one woman is more oppressed than another woman. Basically both women are oppressed. It's important for the men to be educated on how to respect women and their basic human rights and treat them as a human being. Oppression of women is a serious matter. Whether it is caused by religion or not is not even relevant. Women need to be liberated not oppressed. A sick hateful society that wants absolute control on women tries to oppress her by making rules and rituals and by threatening her safety and by judging her and shaming her when she tries to fight back Our country has a long way to go in learning to respect a woman's basic rights of safety and freedom

It's still way better than how Indians treat women. The treatment of women in India is appalling. If you think Christianity doesn't treat women better then look at western society, what do you see? Do you see women in the kitchen? Do you see women fully dressed and fully covered from head to toe? Do you see women not having boyfriends? Do you see women not getting abortion? The answer is No. Western women and basically Christian women do whatever they want and they have the full freedom to do what they want and the men respect their choices, not like Indian men. If an Indian woman tried to be liberated she will be called a slut or a feminist or a bad woman and men like you might defend her rape by saying that she is not respectfully dressed. Christianity might have many dogmas but in reality it is a religion that offers greatest respect, freedom and love to women. It doesn't degrade them. That's the reason why western women feel free. All the dogmas in Christianity are only in books but not in real life. Hinduism is completely opposite. All the good things about worshipping and respecting women are only in books and movies but not in real life. Huge difference. If men in India really respected women so much then I wouldn't be facing so much harassment in my daily life from Indian men. Learn to accept reality. Just because you are not an Indian woman, you can't deny an Indian woman's claim or prove her wrong First be in her shoes and feel what she goes through. If you have empathy and care and understanding for Indian women you would want rape to stop and you would not be worried about what a woman wears because it's her body and her right and her freedom to wear what she wants. Get out of that sick patriarchal mentality. That's what Indian men need to do. They need to start respecting women instead of treating them as property that they can abuse and control.

This is perfectly true. Indian male mentality is one of the sickest in the world and there is complete lack of respect for women. It's a horror show. It is justified by the culture they have, the culture created by the patriarchal men and the religion created by the same men. Both are designed to degrade women. This is the main reason why I left Hinduism and turned towards Christianity. The religious beliefs about women in Hinduism is like mental sickness. It's terrible. All sorts of atrocities against women are justified in this religion. Hinduism has some great concepts for spiritual growth but when it comes to women, hinduism is very hateful. Indian history is bloody red with atrocities against women but it's carefully hidden from the world because the men don't want to feel responsible. They use the word "slut" to shame a woman and justify her rape. They even dissect a rapist's mentality rationalizing his behavior saying that he did it to punish the woman. Rape is not a punishment, it's a crime. It's a crime commited against women by sociopathic men who know that they will get away with it. They are not punishing the woman and the woman is not a slut, however an Indian man will try to make you believe that it's the woman who was not respectfully dressed and the man had to punish her, which is so illogical and absurd and is victim blaming and victim shaming. The government of India had to take strict action and enforce rules to stop all sorts of cultural atrocities against women including Sati(Suttle-burning of a woman who lost her husband by telling her to jump in the funeral pyre) and dowry (a woman would be burned alive if her family didn't give enough dowry to satisfy the husband's parents) and female infanticide basically female child genocide (killing of a female child because she was considered a burden and the family wanted a son instead of a daughter), amniotic fluid testing to carry out abortions of female babies and list goes on and on... The government of India has done a good job (not a great job) but nevertheless the government has helped control and stop a lot of the hateful evil practices and rituals carried out against women in the name of patriarchal tradition, culture and religion. Indian women are still fighting strong against this evil patriarchy. Maybe it will take some time but hopefully it will happen where an Indian woman will not have to worry about living in constant terror or harassment and rape or any other atrocity.

Secret tip Learn to flirt. Women like that. It tickles their funny bone. Once she begins to giggle, you got her.

@Annoynymous yea that is true. I remember when I once wore a skirt to my office. It was the first time I wore a skirt. It was my birthday. Probably 2 years ago. And the guy at the office kept turning around and staring at my legs and making me very uncomfortable. He would constantly drop things on the floor just to look under my skirt. I really wanted to go home as soon as possible but I was tired of all the men staring and shaming me. I hurriedly got into my car and went home and didn't step out of the car till I reached close to the elevator. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life. After that I switched back to my jeans and T shirt and never wore a skirt again...

Two other issues that Indian women face in the country are Acid attacks... A lot of them happen and the blame is usually placed on the woman. Men make statements like "it's her character, she deserved it" tons of victim blaming if the victim is a woman. Violence as a result of a rejection - its very frequent in India that if a woman rejects a guy (even a random guy) it immediately results in violence and murder. It's as though a lot of Indian men cannot take rejection fairly. They justify it with violence. India is a great place for spirituality. But when it comes to the treatment of women, it is in the dark ages.

There is awareness in India about the unsafe situation of women to the point that I have also turned off my social media to Indian men. I have faced ton of sexual harassment on buses, on the streets and even at my office. It is sick. But only awareness is not enough. India is a deeply male dominated patriarchal society. I don't want to demonize Indian men because there are lots of Indian men who are good. But it's a fact that women suffer horribly in terms of sexual assault and rape almost on a daily basis and the world doesn't recognize it since the political parties in India try to hide it. Indian men cry victim whereas the real victim is the women. I know I will get down arrowed for this statement. It takes an enormous courage for an Indian woman to even open up about the situation. I had decided to open a thread about rape in India but there are lot of Indian guys on the forum so I decided not to out of fear of being objected and demonized. The demonization of women in India is intense almost to the point of Dehumanization. Any woman who wants to speak up is easily called and branded a feminist and put away. I cannot even talk about it in public because if I did I will face serious consequences like physical violence. Here is a link that describes the situation that happened to an Indian woman who decided to fight against rape by starting a campaign called "Shame the rapist" and the moment she did it, her car was vandalized and she received death threats. It's that serious. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN0LA2FA20150206 The fact that I'm responding to this thread is in itself a courageous move. Most Indian girls wouldn't talk about it out of shame and fear instilled in them by the patriarchal society. You will also observe a remarkable phenomenon online. You see a lot of Indian men but you see very few Indian women. That's because Indian men are notorious at chasing off Indian women out of the online space. Most Indian women are scared to upload personal details about their location as a result. I never tell people online the city I live in. Because there is the ever present threat of being stalking by Indian men online. Indian women are just told to disappear by their family in order to have some basic protection because the law doesn't protect women enough. So if I complained about a stalker to the police, they will tell me that it's my fault that I allowed it or just tell me to suck it up. I'm kinda glad you brought it up. The most common question that most Indian men ask me regularly is "where do you live?" "which city do you come from?" and I always remember to avoid that question and never answer it. For security reasons. But like I said awareness is not a solution because Indian women are well aware of the problem. And so are men. It's the law that needs to be strict towards bad behavior of men. There needs to be proper punishment and enforcement of laws and rules and make sure that victims of assault, rape and harassment get justice.

3 new words to be used in the De La Luna tarot deck. One is fleridysus And the other is erysterium And the other one is Iggleshius Both represent the artistic aesthetic appeal of spirituality and mysticism. Fleridysus represents the floral and beauty related aesthetic appeal. Erysterium represents still objects and food related aesthetic appeal. Iggleshius - the therapeutic artistic aesthetic appeal associated with images of nature and such that promote relaxation and calm and beauty and love, joy, healing, pleasantness, peace, restoration, positivity.

The De La Luna or De Luna tarot deck will be an evolving deck with numerous guidance pointers continuously added to the deck as the deck evolves over time. How to do match the column with the deck Column 1 - situation You are tempted to spend money on something Column 2 - a card picked out of the heap A card that says "save money now for a free tomorrow" That's how you match the column and get a resolution for your situation. Over time and insightful work, these resolutions will be more accurate and streamlined to be a perfect fit to any situation. It's best if the Luna guidance cards come with messages related to them like a reference chart or with messages on the card itself along with the card name.