How to celebrate your first Thanksgiving in the United States?

Because it is a secular, non-sectarian celebration, Thanksgiving is without a doubt the most celebrated day in the United States and perhaps the most important dinner of the year. But, for all those who study or are in the United States, this fourth Thursday of November, and for which it is the first Thanksgiving, it can be a totally foreign festival. Here are the five things to know before sitting down at the dinner table.

1. What are we celebrating?

Thanksgiving is a celebration that celebrates close family and friends as well as the fall harvest. At the heart of this holiday is a deep sense of gratitude. As the name suggests, this is a day to "give thanks".

2. The Thanksgiving story

In the absence of any historical consensus on the exact place or date of the first Thanksgiving meal on American soil, the celebration of this holiday is most often considered to have taken place in 1621, in the current city of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

4. What's on the Thanksgiving dinner menu?

Turkey

For most non-vegetarian families, turkey occupies a prominent place in the Thanksgiving feast. Whether roasted, smoked, pickled or fried, getting the perfect blend of crispy skin on the outside, and soft flesh inside, is an art.

Stuffing

Before baking turkey, stuff it with corn bread, onions, celery and dried bilberries. After a few hours cooking inside the turkey, this "joke", with sweet notes, will become deliciously tender and juicy.

Gravy Sauce

Once you have removed the turkey from the oven, it will be time for the gravy sauce. Prepared with leftover cooking juices in the bottom of a pan, this thick turkey gravy sauce can generously accompany almost any Thanksgiving meal.

Mashed potatoes

What other dish could accompany this sauce? Topped with a juicy meat gravy sauce, mashed potatoes is perhaps the most delicious (and hearty) dish on the Thanksgiving dinner menu.

5. Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday

After being wildly gorged on Thursday at Thanksgiving dinner, it's time to indulge in a frantic shopping spree on Black Friday. Considered the unofficial start of the holiday season, Black Friday is famous in the United States for its considerable discounts and the general hysteria it arouses from customers running from one store to another looking for best deals. Luckily, for all of us who do not like crowds, Cyber ​​Monday, its online equivalent, takes place on the following Monday.

Archangel Michael is the light of light, the blue air and the champion of God, one of the gods of the sun, the universal defender, the dragon driver, the head of the angel; Alpha and Omega, the dragon catches and forms a chaos. Genesis is a creative god in our corner. Michael's conscience lives in Vega.

Celebrate Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is originally a religious holiday to thank God for the abundance of crops and the generosity of nature. It is good, at least once a year, to stop to appreciate the food that makes us live and, by extension, the kindness we receive, beyond the daily troubles and rebuffs of life. And that's good, in Quebec, it's a holiday!

What to do with Thanksgiving?

The classic turkey of Thanksgiving. In several families, we meet for a dinner, whose star is undeniably the turkey. Of course, you can also turkey in a gourmet way, thanks to the small cuts now available on the market. But presenting a whole turkey, roasted in the oven for hours in its juice, is always the most beautiful effect. The traditions comfort!

A harvest festival. Head to the public market to enjoy the exuberance of nature. It is also the ideal time to put your crops in jars, visit a vineyard or a farm.

Plant our bulbs. If it was already planned for your autumn diary, why not do it on Thanksgiving Day?

Make fall leaves fall. Every Thanksgiving, the mountain calls me. This walk in the forest is my way of saying thank you to life. This ritual to which I am faithful helps me to deal with the necessary renunciations, to accept the cycles of life and the maturity that some projects require.

A small retreat in itself. Hands in the ground, we do not think about anything or we think about this saying: We harvest what we sow ... As exposed in The art of happiness of the Dalai Lama, we think about interdependence because we all depend on each other, whether we eat or what we wear.

Inaugurate a journal of gratitude. Write down the little comforts of the day, the little extras that put sunshine in your daily life. Very useful to cheer up during the "black moon" (as I call my bad days).

Thank someone who is important in your life. To close friends, I have already sent a small card symbolizing Noah's ark and its essential animals in pursuit of the species, indicating that they were necessary for the pursuit of my dreams. Invite a girlfriend or a colleague to lunch to thank her for what she brought you and, tell her!

Make others benefit from your talent and your luck . If you can afford it, send a donation to a charity or sign up for a barter club. After all, nowadays, the fruit of our work is not necessarily ... fruits and vegetables! Thus, you could share your talent with that of others.

Archangel Michael is the Light of Light, Blue Ray and God's champion. One of the sun gods, the universal defender, the driver of the dragon, the head of angels; Alpha and Omega, the dragon captures and forms chaos. Genesis is the creative god in our corner. Michael's consciousness lives in Vega.

October 2018 Full Moon, Venus in the Scorpio

Full Moon, October 2018: Venus Retrograde in Scorpio

TOUT VA BIEN DANS LE MEILLEUR DES MONDES, ALL IS GOOD IN THE BEST OF WORLDS

In 1971, towards the end of October, I said: ‘The end of October is always bad. Something terrible always happens.” Four decades later, with a lot more awareness, hard spiritual work and more sense of responsibility, I can finally breeze and smile, even at the end of October.

My wish is that the Planet and humankind in general could feel and say the same thing: we have understood our lessons and are now ready for a brand-new world, although it does not look like it. We are still unravelling the murder of Mr. Khashoggi, commanded by the Saudi elite and ‘crown prince’. Whether or not the dissident journalist and activist was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, or promoting democracy across the Arab world, no leader, no country should have the right to practice or order torture and decapitation. Now, how will President Trump, and all other political and economic leaders react? Who will have the courage to stand up and refuse the ongoing comedy?

Concomitantly, Sotheby’s and the international art market discuss the true identity of Bansky; Art market: smile and sip a new glass of champagne, while your last acquisition self-destruct: “When a Banksy painting “self-destructed” after selling at auction for £1.04 million ($1.4 million) last week, it looked like the perfect stunt.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/banksy-video-reveals-shredded-artwork-stunt-did-not-go-as-planned/ar-BBOxhcK?ocid=spartanntp

“I believe that we are puppets – we are puppets with perception, with awareness; sometimes we can see the strings and perhaps, our awareness is the first step in our liberation” Dialog, movie Experimenter, Doctor Stanley Milgram, a Yale Professor who studied human response to orders and choices (why did people accept to make others suffer, for instance during WWI).

How long is the world continue to accept being ruled by corruption, idiocy, genocides and murder? It is time to for the population to stop envying and begging for a space on the international stage (look at me, vote for me). It is time to take a stand, in any possible way: protect the Earth, save energy, refuse to consume, refuse technology, ban the old-boys-clubs and drunk fraternities (and sororities), refuse murders by decapitation and without a trial. Whether or not Khasoggi was part of the Muslim Brotherhood, we are in the 21st century and no one should be allowed to order torture and murder because he is in a position of power. This is gruesome and disgusting. The United States should not continue selling arms to a band of regime based on a consensus of ‘caution, reservation and deception’ where torture and dismemberment are the norm.

“The question now is not whether the Saudis’ latest explanation for Jamal Khashoggi’s death is credible, but whom do they think they’re fooling. In the autocratic world of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, what common people think is irrelevant; what matters is whether throwing his hit men under the bus is enough to satisfy President Trump” or any other so called-human being. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/opinion/saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-prince-mohammed.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Venus retrograde in Scorpio

How can we link the ongoing events with the stars’ energies? “Venus retrograde prompts a more critical re-evaluation and reassessment. The transit can also prompt an exploration the shadow side of desire, i.e. addiction, obsession, self undermining, destructiveness, jealousy, hidden agendas, abuse of power, sexuality, betrayal, violence.

To paraphrase Mick Jagger: “You can’t always get what you want” – but like it or not, you’ll certainly get what you need from this transit. Watch for the transit to peel back layers, to expose what you need to know. Ultimately, the journey through the dark is meant to turn up the light.

Venus in Scorpio lifts the veil so you can better see what is of value. Dilemma and hard choices are in the mix. Through the start of December, Venus works through a skipped step (evolutionary astrology) or at the bendings (classical astrology term) relationship with the karmic axis. This is suggestive of running up against it yet again, of facing a threshold that has not yet been successfully surpassed.” https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/month-ahead-horoscopes-october-2018-2/

Classical astrologers emphasize again on personal feelings, love, etc; a a full moon in the Taurus is the sign of an emotional-self searching for stability. Joined/conjunct with Uranus, the unpredictable, we have upsetting uncertainty or unexpected love affairs. This is still baby-nicy talk. If we consider the dance executed by Venus and Mars over a few weeks, there is much more to learn. Venus, the goddess of love and harmony, is in detriment in the Scorpio. Also, Scorpio is co-ruled by Mars, the god of war, trigger of violence.

“Venus rules those things that we’re attracted to – whether it’s a person, a piece of food or an integral value. On the flip side then she also rules what we don’t like. In forward motion, Venus does her best to smooth things over, to make good, to see the positives. But in retrograde motion and especially in Scorpio, she is likely to become more vehement about what she doesn’t like. Venus will for all of us, reveal something of where we too have been making good rather than dealing with what we don’t like.”