We are ONE, and we CAN make a difference!

We are ONE, and we CAN make a difference!

Monday, March 23, 2009

13 Monkey/Chuen


Greetings on this day of 13 (Ascension), Monkey/CHUEN (Weaver of Time)

Galactic Tone 13
13 assists us to go to the next higher step, propels us to try something new or to try again. Thirteen energy takes us over the next mountain just to see what is there and carries the last success to the newest effort.

Monkey/CHUEN
Monkey/CHUEN is known to the Maya as the Weaver or Weaver of Time. Monkey takes ideas as threads of vines and weaves them into the fabric of our reality. New patterns or inventions are also woven into our lives by Monkey. Amiable, intelligent, generous and a jack of all trades, Monkey's innocent curiosity leads to artistic expression and constructive solutions. Many monkeys become highly respected merchants or speakers. They love performing practical jokes and crave attention, so much so that they may over-act or play the fool to get the spotlight. Monkeys have a short attention span and find it difficult tostay with anything long enough to master it.

Together, 13 Monkey/CHUEN brings completion or greater insight to intentions that were put forth as we begun this Galactic Week under the sign of the Storm/CAUAC, 13 days ago, and help us to clarify and refine new intentions and directions as we will begin the new Galactic Week’s cycle tomorrow. Today is a good day to begin anything new in life.

2009 Spring Equinox Celebration
It was my pleasure to join with fellow Mayan Day Keepers to celebrate the 2009 Spring Equinox in Colorado. Our teacher, Jose Jaramillo, led us in Sacred Fire Ceremony in the tradition of the Maya as passed down by his teacher, Don Alejandro - leader of the Mayan Council in Guatemala. Mayan Day Keepers around the globe joined in the spirit of lak'ech to celebrate this equinox, as well as welcoming in the Mayan New Year - March 21, 2009. Jaramillo's teaching at this event included a showing of his documentary film, Between 2 Worlds, which provides a foundation for greater understanding of the "time of nature" versus the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was put forward by man for the primary interest of controlling commerce, and this documentary reveals how it has influenced our materialistic views of life that have separated us from our true Source of spiritual evolution. To learn more about Jose Jaramillo, and to learn more about this documentary, visit http://www.inbetween2worlds.com/.

The new year offers us a special opportunity to put forth our intentions for the Mayan New Year!
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Love in a Recipe - Mom's Chocolate Sheet Cake

One of the things I love about my Mom, is that everyone who enters the door is offered something wonderful from her kitchen - this is my favorite thing. This is seriously one of the best recipes in my entire collection - the fastest and BEST chocolate cake you will ever lay hands on. You just can't screw this up!

Mom's Chocolate Sheet Cake

The Cake...
2 Cups Flour
2 Cups Sugar
1 Stick Butter
5 Tablespoons Hershey's Cocoa
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 Cup Water
1 Teaspoon Soda
1/2 Cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 Cup Oil

First - preheat the oven to 400 degrees (that is not a typo).
Get a big sauce pan, you are going to mix the batter in there. Melt the butter with the oil, water, and cocoa and bring to a boil. Take off the stove immediately, and add all the dry ingredients, EXCEPT THE SODA. Dissolve the soda in the 1/2 Cup of Buttermilk, then add this, the eggs, and vanilla and mix till smooth. Pour batter into a sheet cake pan - those big pans that are a little deeper than a cookie sheet. (I line mine with parchment paper, or grease and dust it with flour.) Bake for 20 minutes ONLY, or until it springs back.

The frosting...
You are going to use the same saucepan, so rinse and start over for the frosting. This doesn't take long, and you pour it over the cake while it is still hot - only 5 minutes out of the oven... so I usually start this about 5 minutes BEFORE the cake is done.

1 Stick Butter
5 Tablespoons Hershey's Cocoa
1/3 Cup Buttermilk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 Box (2 1/2 Cups) Powdered Sugar
1/2 Cup chopped pecans (optional)

Melt the butter with the cocoa til well dissolved. Add the buttermilk and vanilla - mix. Add the powdered sugar and keep this on a low burner... just to keep it from setting while you are mixing. By now, your cake should be out of the oven - add the nuts if you want them in the frosting - then pour this over the cake. (The frosting sets up like a homemade MMMMM fudge and holds all the moisture in the cake... will stay moist for days like that.)

OMG - Never baked this for ANYONE that they didn't go ape over it. You can leave out the cinnamon, though just a tad is unrecognizable - just "something" good people can't quite put their finger on. TRY IT.

I'm packing boxes for my move, and just couldn't bear the thought of not being able to find this recipe that I love so much. Hope you enjoy it. AND THANK YOU MOM!