### birth:

Reincarnation
* also claims to insure justice.
* concept that perceives an evolution of the soul on a physical plane.
* ensure a continuous advance in the successive races of men.
* false belief.
* form of works salvation.
* is an intermediate state, but resurrection is an ultimate states.
* is an opportunity to evolve through many personalities
  - reach a goal
  - ancient belief prevalent among most people on the earth
  - based on karma
  - believed to explain suffering and karma
  - change
  - embodiment
  - facts
  - in no way compatible with the Christian faith
  - like changing one's clothes
* is one of the few articles of faith which is utterly incompatible with bigotry
  - most wide-spread of Wiccan beliefs
  - part of somebody else's worldview
  - portrayed in a lively depiction of souls dancing out of their bodies
  - seen as the process of repeated chances to rediscover true life
  - similar to the concept of a resurrected body
* is simply the continuance of life
  - end of one spiritual state and the beginning of the next
* is the belief that an individual human soul passes through a succession of lives
  - law of return, of evolution in action, and karma is the cause of that return
  - means of personal growth and learning
  - mystifying of DNA genetic reality
  - path to soul development
  - replication of the self-concept
  - to be reborn as another individual, usually someone different from the one before
* limits the recycling to humans.
* means that one has had and can have more than one life.
* portal to spirit.
* principle that transcends both science and religion.
* relates only to the body.
* seeks to provide the ultimate answer for understanding suffering and injustice.
* therefore is an accepted part of the Wiccan faith.
* universal system of checks and balances.

Transmigration
* are reincarnation.
* includes the possibility that a soul can be born into the body of an animal.
* is driven by chemoattractants, a process known as diapedesis
  - rooted in Jewish traditions, but have universal aspects as well

Twin birth
* are common in good habitat range
  - rare
  - relatively rare in humans and vary in frequency with the ethnic group
  - the norm, and all family members help rear the infants
* can occur, but are rare.
* occur on rare occasions.

### birth | vaginal birth:

Active birth
* is an attitude of mind.
* vaginal birth

Natural childbirth
* has different meanings to everyone.
* is also, in most cases, easier and shorter than medicated births
  - an ideal for a natural process
  - birth with little or no use of painkilling drugs

### bits:

Snaffle
* are bits.
* can have many kinds of mouthpieces and cheek ring styles.
* tend to encourage a horse to travel with a low head and a stretched neck.

Bitterness
* comes from tannins extracted from grape skins, stems and seeds, and from barrel aging.
* common flaw, as is starchiness, a raw flour taste.
* decreases with frost, and varies from variety to variety.
* develops when plants are subjected to stressful growing conditions.
* disappears in older leaves after a frost.
* force of destruction and bondage.
* heavy load that gains weight with time.
* is almost always a negative in wine
  - an attitude that refuses to forgive offenses
  - angry resentment
  - cause of bitterness
  - characterized by an unforgiving spirit and negative, critical attitudes
  - hatred
  - loss, frozen in resentment
  - the result of powerlessness in the face of anger
* kills faith in the one source of true, undying help and compassion.
* movement of displeasure seated in the soul.
* natural characteristic of dandelion.
* plant with a disease.
* plays a big part in anger and rage.
* root that has defiled many.
* spreads and infects others.
* taste that can be quite polarizing.

### bitterness:

Envy
* gives birth to hatred and animosity.
* is bitterness
  - mortal sin
* plays a part in spreading rumors.