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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

9 Reed/BEN

Greetings on this day 9 (patience) Reed/BEN (guiding light for family and home)

Galactic Tone 9
The energy of 9 is about getting a better perspective of the big picture. With the energy of 9, plans or patterns begin to come to completion. Patience and perseverance found in the bigger picture are strong or there is great suffering for the lack thereof. A completion of cycles of action is all-important to nine.

Reed/BEN
Reed/BEN represents spiritual essence, protectors and guiding light for family and home. Reed/BEN persons are competent speakers who take up a cause. Very tough and analytical, they endeavor to bring peace, harmony and order to all of their relations. Reeds are very often put to the test. Although Reeds need a lot of appreciation. This day encourages us to consider flexibility in our views and frame our communications to make our point without hitting others over the head with it.

COLOR: Red (East)
You may also look at the aspects of any Day Keeper based on its color. Red represents the East, the direction of the rising Sun and the source of our inspiration. Red represents fire energy and also rebirth. Red provides a feeling of surprise or mystery when experienced by those with birth/destiny Day Keeper suns represented by the color Yellow; support and comfort for White Day Keeper signs, challenge/strength for Blue Day Keeper signs; and a feeling of affinity with other Red Day Keeper signs.

Together the energy of 9 Reed/BEN encourages us through patience and perseverance to bring further completion to our plans in view of the bigger picture, to bring peace and harmony to family, home and all our relations. A good day to bless and repair your home.

GREEN KIN: 113
The Kin number of the day is similar to the Julian date on the Gregorian calendar. This is the 113 day of the 260 day Mayan year, and one of the 52 “portal days” for activation. Portal days are time cycle intersections that help facilitate the receptivity of cosmic knowledge. Within the grid of the Tzolk’in that uses the mathematics of 28, portal days connect us to the cycles of the moon through mathematics. This calendar “grid” resembles the strands of our DNA.

On portal days, we feel the effect of two powerful cycles at once. We find that cosmic remembrance is clearer and very activated on these days. We also find major events happen on portal days. This green day cycle accelerates as we are now entering the center of the 260-day Mayan year, with Green (portal days) occurring daily from kin day 106 through 115.

In lak’ech
Debra Malmos/Jaguar Woman (9-Eagle)

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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!