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		<title>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Twin Flame? Twin flames, also called twin souls, are literally the other half of our soul. We each have only one twin, and generally after being split the two went their separate ways, incarnating over and over to gather human experience before coming back together. Ideally, this happens in both of their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mysticalparties.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/twin_flame1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-332" title="twin_flame" src="http://www.mysticalparties.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/twin_flame1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><strong>What is a Twin Flame?</strong></span></p>
<p>Twin flames,  also called twin souls, are literally the other half of our soul. We each have  only one twin, and generally after being split the two went their separate ways,  incarnating over and over to gather human experience before coming back  together. Ideally, this happens in both of their last lifetimes on the planet so  they can ascend together. So you probably haven&#8217;t had many lifetimes with your  twin.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Each twin is a  complete soul, not half a soul. It is their task to become more whole, balancing  their female and male sides, and ideally become enlightened, before reuniting  with their twin. This reunion is of two complete and whole beings. All other  relationships through all our lives could be said to be &#8220;practice&#8221; for the  twin,  the ultimate  relationship.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">What is a Soulmate?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Soulmates  are our soul family, the ones we do have many lifetimes and experiences with,  who help us grow and evolve, create and dissipate karma. According to ancient  wisdom, when the soul is &#8216;born&#8217; or descended from Source, it is created in a  group. The souls in this group are our soulmates, ones who are very like us in  frequency makeup. Then each of these souls is split into two, creating the twins.</span></p>
<p>A soulmate is someone you are close to at a soul level, and with whom you have had  many shared experiences in different lifetimes, in various kinds of  relationships &#8212; siblings, parent-child, best friend, as well as romantic  relationships. There is a deep love for each other, and a spiritual bond that  sets them apart from the superficiality of most other people in your life.  Conversations are generally deep, about personal growth and service to make the  world a better place. We can have many soulmates in our lives, and they come to  us to help us grow spiritually.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Have I Met My  Twin?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Twin Flame reunions  are the most fulfilling relationships we can enter into as humans, on all  levels. However, twin flame couples have been extremely rare on the planet, and  for good reasons, which will be described later.  Despite this, we are finding  that more and more twins are finding each other now, because of the acceleration  of spiritual transformation and opportunities for soul evolution we are all  experiencing. People are evolving and learning and healing at such a fast rate  that they are getting ready for their twins faster.  What used to take lifetimes  to learn and heal, people are now going through in years or even months.  This  is the astounding level of acceleration we and the planet are going through.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">When twins get  together, it is for some kind of spiritual service work. This is their primary  reason for finding each other, because through their union a huge birthing of  creative energy is released, to be used for their mission together. More and  more twins are attempting to get together now to help the planet and humanity  make a big shift forward in consciousness.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">However, many  of these attempts at reunion are unsuccessful because the individual people are  not quite ready for the intensity of a twin flame union. It is more intense than  any other union, and this intensity is at a soul level, not as much in the  physical or even emotional bodies. This doesn&#8217;t mean that there isn&#8217;t a good  attraction at those levels as well, but the strongest attraction is of spirit.  This is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a twin soul. Many people  think they have met their twin because the attraction is so intense, but it is a  karmic attraction, one of need or bodily desire rather than the Divine Love of  twins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Your chance of  meeting and staying with your twin depends on how evolved your soul is, and how  much of your baggage from this and past lives you have cleared. The biggest  reason twins have to separate after coming together is their individual  emotional baggage. Because in the presence of your twin, there can be nothing  between you, nothing blocking your closeness. This means that everything comes  up for healing that you haven&#8217;t previously healed. Everything!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">When twins  reunite, both of them experience an acceleration of their spiritual growth and  awakening. They get on the fast track of learning about esoteric wisdom and  experiencing other states of consciousness. They usually haven&#8217;t been together  all that often during their series of lives on the planet, and so their  backgrounds may be different. Yet, there is a closeness and similarities of  spirit that are almost uncanny, noticed in many ways, such as looking back at  yourself when you look at your mate, and a remembering of the distant past when  you first split up. Guidance is strong with these relationships, and usually one  or both have a good channel for communication with Spirit. Their connection is  telepathic, and hugging each other is like coming home for nourishment.</span></p>
<h6><a title="Twin Flames" href="http://www.soulevolution.org/twinflames/twinflames.htm" target="_blank">Source</a></h6>
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		<title>Jelly Jigglin’ Jack O&#8217;Lanterns</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your little goblins will love these! Prepare and set your favourite colour jelly according to packet instructions. Once the jelly is set, cut into small cubes. Cut the tops off navel oranges and use a sharp spoon to carve out the insides of the orange (like a pumpkin, but smaller and much quicker!) Carve little [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mysticalparties.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/jelly_oranges.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-301" title="jelly_oranges" src="http://www.mysticalparties.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/jelly_oranges.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Your little goblins will love these!</p>
<p>Prepare and set your favourite colour jelly according to packet instructions.</p>
<p>Once the jelly is set, cut into small cubes.</p>
<p>Cut the tops  off navel oranges and use a sharp spoon to carve out the insides of  the orange (like a pumpkin, but smaller and much quicker!)</p>
<p>Carve little jack o&#8217;lantern faces into the individual  oranges.</p>
<p>Once finished, fill each orange with your jelly cubes and  replace the orange top.</p>
<p>Happy Halloween! Mwahahahaha <img src='http://www.mysticalparties.com.au/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Halloween Really All About?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;ve bought body part lollies for the children, you&#8217;ve cooked and frozen ahead a delicious pumpkin soup, you&#8217;ve picked out your scary costume and you&#8217;re looking forward to the best party ever, but what&#8217;s Halloween really all about? How did Halloween start? Halloween has its roots in an ancient Celtic celebration associated with All [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-34 alignleft" title="Pumpkin" src="http://mysticalparties.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Pumpkin1-150x150.jpg" alt="Pumpkin" width="150" height="150" />So, you&#8217;ve bought body part lollies for the children, you&#8217;ve cooked and frozen ahead a delicious pumpkin soup, you&#8217;ve picked out your scary costume and you&#8217;re looking forward to the best party ever, but what&#8217;s Halloween really all about?</p>
<p><strong>How did Halloween start?</strong></p>
<p>Halloween has its roots in an ancient Celtic celebration associated with All Saints&#8217; Day, which falls on 1 November, so the night before became known as “All Hallows’ Eve”, eventually contracting to Hallowe’en.  (Hallow is old English for ‘holy person’ or ‘saint’.)</p>
<p><strong>How did we start celebrating it like we do today?</strong></p>
<p>Irish migrants carried versions of the tradition to North America during Ireland&#8217;s Great Famine of the 1840s. They had established Halloween activities such as bobbing for apples, as the festival was also a celebration of the end of harvest.</p>
<p><strong>How did the pumpkin head come about?</strong></p>
<p>The ancient Celts would place a skeleton on their windowsill to represent the departed. These lanterns were first carved from a turnip. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body, containing the spirit and the knowledge, the Celts used the &#8220;head&#8221; of the vegetable to frighten off the embodiment of superstitions.</p>
<p>The jack-o&#8217;-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a farmer who tricked the devil into climbing a tree and trapped him by carving a cross into the tree trunk. In revenge, the devil placed a curse on Jack, condemning him to forever wander the earth at night with just a candle in a hollowed turnip. The use of pumpkins began in North America as pumpkins are more readily available and much larger, making them easier to carve than turnips.</p>
<p><strong>How is it celebrated round the world?</strong></p>
<p>‘Halloween’ on 31 October is celebrated predominantly in North America and the British Isles, with ‘trick or treating’, jack-o’-lanterns, fancy-dress costumes and so on. In Roman Catholic countries throughout Europe, and the Philippines and Mexico, All Saint&#8217;s Day is observed instead. On this day offerings are made, and people light candles in cemeteries in honour of the dead.</p>
<h6><span style="color: #cc99ff;"><a class="alignleft" title="How Did Halloween Start?" href="http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/did-you-know/how-did-halloween-start,370,AR.html" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a></span></h6>
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