*~* Flamingo medicine*~*
Flamingos can teach you how to filter out things from your life, and discard the ones that you do not benefit from and keep those that help and heal your heart. This ability is aided by the Malachim, a group of healing Angels who work under the guidance of the archangel Raphael. Flamingo people sometimes have Raphael as their guardian angel.Flamingo is often the totem to people who use psychometry –the ability to sense things through the touching of objects.
Flamingo people do not like to be alone and are usually in company of others. Those with Flamingo medicine are flirtatious. Flamingo signals a time of cleansing and filtering to find out what nourishes and heals the heart. Flamingo shows you how to follow your heart in your life. The Flamingo is a bird with many faces. They live in large flocks and are hardly ever seen solitary. Living in large groups gives them a sense of
security and protection. Those with this medicine feel comfortable and safe in groups. They have difficulty being alone or on their own. Mostly they are followers and not leaders and need to pay attention to what they are following and make sure that it honors their personal truth. Their pink
Color is caused by a food they eat which contains carotene. Without this food in their diet their feathers turn white. The ability to change colors
Gives them the magical properties that are associated with illusion and shape shifting. Those who hold this medicine have the ability to appear to be what they are not. This ability serves as a disguise when appropriate and allows them to slide in and out of situations gracefully. The word Flamingo comes from the Latin word flame. The Egyptians revered the flamingo as a living embodiment of the sun God Ra. Due to the fact that the eye of the flamingo is larger than its brain they are associated with clear sightedness. Flamingos see exceptionally great but because of the smallness of their brain they are not always able to interpret the things they see accurately. This is one reason why they live in groups, relying on one another and work with group consciousness rather individual awareness.
Although people with flamingo medicine have psychic abilities they need to strengthen the reasoning powers of the mind using their logic and intuition before making decisions and remember to weigh all sides of a situation before taking action. Flamingos have a long life span. They are social birds and are very vocal. They are extremely sensitive to loud noises and chaotic
Situations and will flee from them instantaneously. They teach us how to follow suit and not engage in situations that are detrimental to us on any level. They breed for life and are faithful partners. They have the longest migration of other birds. Those with this totem are dedicated to their choices, loyal to their causes and have a tendency to go further than most others to accomplish their goals.
Flamingos can teach you how to filter out things from your life, and discard the ones that you do not benefit from and keep those that help and heal your heart. This ability is aided by the Malachim, a group of healing Angels who work under the guidance of the archangel Raphael. Flamingo people sometimes have Raphael as their guardian angel.Flamingo is often the totem to people who use psychometry –the ability to sense things through the touching of objects.
Flamingo people do not like to be alone and are usually in company of others. Those with Flamingo medicine are flirtatious. Flamingo signals a time of cleansing and filtering to find out what nourishes and heals the heart. Flamingo shows you how to follow your heart in your life. The Flamingo is a bird with many faces. They live in large flocks and are hardly ever seen solitary. Living in large groups gives them a sense of
security and protection. Those with this medicine feel comfortable and safe in groups. They have difficulty being alone or on their own. Mostly they are followers and not leaders and need to pay attention to what they are following and make sure that it honors their personal truth. Their pink
Color is caused by a food they eat which contains carotene. Without this food in their diet their feathers turn white. The ability to change colors
Gives them the magical properties that are associated with illusion and shape shifting. Those who hold this medicine have the ability to appear to be what they are not. This ability serves as a disguise when appropriate and allows them to slide in and out of situations gracefully. The word Flamingo comes from the Latin word flame. The Egyptians revered the flamingo as a living embodiment of the sun God Ra. Due to the fact that the eye of the flamingo is larger than its brain they are associated with clear sightedness. Flamingos see exceptionally great but because of the smallness of their brain they are not always able to interpret the things they see accurately. This is one reason why they live in groups, relying on one another and work with group consciousness rather individual awareness.
Although people with flamingo medicine have psychic abilities they need to strengthen the reasoning powers of the mind using their logic and intuition before making decisions and remember to weigh all sides of a situation before taking action. Flamingos have a long life span. They are social birds and are very vocal. They are extremely sensitive to loud noises and chaotic
Situations and will flee from them instantaneously. They teach us how to follow suit and not engage in situations that are detrimental to us on any level. They breed for life and are faithful partners. They have the longest migration of other birds. Those with this totem are dedicated to their choices, loyal to their causes and have a tendency to go further than most others to accomplish their goals.
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though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died
If music be the food of love [see note, left, about this verse + its opening]
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed
~ these are the missing verses that we not recorded because they were advised that they wouldn't get air time if the song was too long.
Suzen - Calgary, AB, Canada
Suzen, Calgary, AB, Canada
A Whiter Shade of Pale is used in the opening credits.
The film also uses a live Bob Dylan and The Band version of Like A Rolling Stone as the song which the tortured artist Lionel uses as a backbeat as he paints.
Thanks Gary
On April 14, 2009, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" won the Times Online (UK newspaper) poll for "Most played songs in public places over the last 75 years," beating Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and The Every Brothers... See:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6088116.ece
I didn't discover this song until I was in high school in the late Seventies but I learned to play the intro chords on my little Hammond organ, and just hearing them "casts my memory back there, Lord..."
The lyrics to make sense , if you know what the other two verses are (see http://www.procolharum.com/w/w9901.htm if you want to know)
To Dave, Enumclaw, WA. I don't think they ever recorded all 4 verses (Gary Brooker has been known to play it occasionally). That said there is a recording of 3 verses. You can find it on a DVD called "Live at the Union Chapel."
- Air on the G string: 2nd mvt (AIR) from SUITE no 3 in D major, BWV 1068
- Sleepers, Awake: SCHUBLER CHORAL no 1 "Wachet auf" BWV 645 (not the intro, but the Choral tune)
This Choral was also used for the Cantata BWV 140.
The beginning of AWSoP is similar (tune and harmony) to these BACH's works.
Jean* -Montréal
--Also, I think the line(s) in "Ode to Billy Joe" that James in Ocala was asking about wasn't that one, but the one that goes, "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge / And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin off the Tallahatchie bridge." This line has been speculated about since 1967 when the song hit the airwaves. If you go to that song's page here on songfacts, you'll find tons and tons of comments just about this part of the song. My hunch is that if a member of PH told an interviewer that there was a clue to this mystery in AWSoP, then he was just having some fun with the interviewer. And with all of us, who will now go poring through the lyrics looking for that clue!
Layla, Van Buren, AR--you are blessed with the name of perhaps the greatest rock song ever, and it's a beautiful name, besides. That song and the folksong, "Darcy Farrow" (w/m Steve Gillette, popularized by Ian&Sylvia), are responsible for the naming of countless girls born in the 60's and 70's. I knew a couple, Chuck and Lisa, who were friends of my kid sister, college age in 1972, who named their daughter Layla, because Chuck was a rock musician and was absolutely in love with that song.
Finally, as an amateur astronomer, it occurs to me lately, and it's probably sheer coincidence, but "Procol Harum" sounds an awful lot like the correct Latin pronunciation of the largest of the lunar maria (those dark patches on the moon), Oceanus Procellarum ("pro-kuh-lah-rum"); it means Ocean of Storms. Gee, am I swift? It only took me 40 years to notice that. So if the band took its name from a friend's cat, was that friend an astronomer?
Jim
The line in "Ode to Billyjoe" is " The day billyjoe Mcallister jumped off the Talahatchy brige"
To: Jak in Seattle: This song came long before the disco era....
jim
First off, it's a disco scene. They were dancing and the crowd wanted more, so they were showing off. They were getting a buzz on because the room got hotter, and the waiter brought them a whole tray, probably because everyone bought them drinks in appreciation for their show-off dancing (typical of the disco era).
The guy was playing his percentages with one of the vestal "virgins", who were apparently were on vacation, and figured he would get "lucky" with one of them. It's apparent they were all pretty drunk by then.
So it was a little later, when the Miller beer told it's tale, her face was burst just ghostly and she puked all over the place, and that's your "whiter shade of pale".
Now I do love the haunting melody though, because I have a Hammond B-3 and have performed that number on stage many times. But please get real about the lyrics.
I think Fisher deserves only 33% of copyright to the single. Hope Booker wins the appeal against him, to be honest.
Btw, the Annie Lennox version is OK (he says damning it with faint praise) but I've heard a new one lately from a soon to be released album from Celine Dion called Songs Of Mass Destruction. It is the best cover version I've ever heard. Give it a go.
She's incredible!
Check out her songs. "Harem" "Phantom of the Opera" "Time to Say Good Bye" Album, "La Luna"
Despite popular belief, Robin Trower wasn't the guitarist on this song. Along with Gary Brooker, Trower formed The Paramounts in the early 60s. The band broke up and Brooker formed PH. Trower joined about a year or so later.
The band had a few other hits, most notably "Conquistador," a great song. Most people wouldn't recognize the song by its title, some may recall it if they heard it. The song was released in 1972 as a live song with the band backed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and reached No. 5 in the US. It was originally on the band's debut album and didn't chart.
Upon reaching his destination, he would remain lying on the back seat, saying he had to hear it a few more times before getting out of the car....
on a side note, i once did an assemblage based on this song and my misunderstanding of it as a child. "one of sixteen vestal virgins" became "one of sixteen DISCO virgins"
sweeter than that B3 organ solo. If you want a
terrific version, check out Jack Mack and the
Heartattack.
-The Kid,Gonzales,La
(1)She said "I'm home on shore leave"
Though in truth we were at sea
So I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying "You must be the mermaid who took Neptune for a ride"
But she smiled at me so sadly
That my anger straightway died.
(2)If music be the food of love
Then laughter is it's queen
And likewise if behind is in front
Then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then was cardboard
Seemed to slip right through my head
So we crash-dived straight quickly
And attacked the ocean bed.
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