[TritteTouff]

This just keeps getting weirder.

I buried the apples, like planned. Almost immediately circumstances forced me to get in touch with my Grandmother. If you will recall my grandmother is very psychic, predicted I would be born on her birthday, and she astral projects.

I now think the woman I met in the astral was my grandmother. The first clue was in the "Ivy Tea Pot" phone number which I was about to give her.

The second clue was this card I'm going to send her, soon, for "Our" birthday. It has nine roses on it, one for each of her children. Since nine is a Goddess number (3x3) I decided to add this poem about the Goddess: "Nine powers combined in me; Nine buds of the plant or tree; My finger are long and white; Like the ninth wave of the sea."

Leyla: She said Cypress women had long slender fingers. So, here we have roses, long white fingers, and an ivy tea pot.

Still - I was not sure.

I called my Grandmother. I hadn't in years. And she said some strange mysterious sounding things. (Like she always does.)

With gravity in her voice she said:
"You know we have a special bond, Leyla, you know that."
"I know we do. I know what you mean by that."
"I get these visitations from the dead."
"I know, Nanny, I get those too."
"You know I believe in reincarnation..."

And then we both fell silent.

Leyla: Then she handed me an ivy decorated teapot. She said it was mine. I have given it to her when I had been her grandmother, and she was returning it to me, now that I had reincarnated....It occurred to me that this was a womb symbol, the round bowl of the pot, and the ivy being like a family tree. It was gold paint, and very fine detail. The Adams family has nothing on us.

You know, I really wonder what all my Grandmother knows that I don't. I get the feeling there's a lot she's not telling me.

Then she told me we should not be separated. That I was beautiful and she loved me. That it was important that we never be separated again. "Don't you ever disappear like that again." Things don't work right, when we're not together...

It was a very, extremely, emotional phone call. Very powerful things were said. Vows of mutual devotion exchanged.


The Reunion of Demeter and Persephone

I felt strongly drawn to this image of Persephone being reunited with Demeter. Remember my troubles with being pursued by the god of death and the underworld, much like Persephone.

When Persephone and Demeter are reunited again, that is when earth can spring back to life at last. For so long as Demeter grieves for Persephone the earth is ...baron.

In my dream that night I saw the lines of an inverted triangle being drawn. I sat up.

Leyla: I went to see a reader...She said "You're going to get rid of him. You will find a way." Then she drew an inverted triangle on a sheet of paper and colored it in black. I looked up Demeter: Guess what her symbol is? De, the Delta, an inverted triangle, the door of the mysterious feminine.

Still no word on the identity of the mysterious undead elf.