Our Bell internet modem bit the dust on Wednesday, so we had to revert to a boxset of DVDs that we’d never opened before. For three nights, we laughed ourselves silly with seasons one to three of the BBC show. It’s clever slapstick, wordplay and homilies from the master comedic writer Brendan O’Carroll.
He got the family involved. It became the best business venture for them all. Here’s a sampling of the mayhem involved:
(If you read the subtitles, they hardly ever match the spoken words.) Here’s the gag reel from season 1:
Season 2 gag reel:
There are plenty more outtakes on YouTube, so have fun finding them there.
Don’t mind the swearing. That’s really part of the humour.
Hopefully, I’ve waited a respectful amount of time, since her death last year. With the state of affairs in the world, it seems appropriate to examine her life and death, now.
This timing is considered excellent since it was taken from her birth certificate. There are two inconjuncts, linking Jupiter with the Midheaven and Venus with Neptune. These might prove to be the reasons why worldwide media interest may have been both a blessing and a curse.
Whoever decided to place her on the world stage would not have know that having both the Sun and Moon in Leo in the 1st House (of Personality) as well as the Ascendant in that sign would have made her a fierce opponent She has warrior vibes.
Her collision with a bus took place on March 30, 2025. I’m assuming that the accident took place in the same vicinity of her home. I set the clock for noon, to see what the energies were for that day. Jupiter conjunct a Gemini Ascendant may be coincidental. The Sun and Moon are 10° apart. In the morning they would have been closer together; in the afternoon, further apart. Mercury and Neptune are almost exactly conjunct @ 29° Pisces (essentially 0° Aries), with Venus, the North Node and Saturn all within 5°. That’s quite the stellium If the timing is wrong, as no doubt it is, this stellium could be in the 8th House
8th House Stellium
If you have a stellium in the eighth house, shared resources, boundaries, and the affairs of others are integral to your life. As one of the dark houses in astrology that deals with death, secrets, and finances, having a stellium of planets here can be a challenge. Depending on which planets are involved, you could have positive experiences in these areas. In this house, it’s essential to define what your responsibility is versus what isn’t with planets here, as an eighth house stellium can emphasize other people’s reliance on you.
Since the ambulance was called on the evening of her death, I set the clock for 8:00 pm local time. Interestingly, that would make it noon GMT. Jupiter again figures strongly, this time in opposition to the Sagittarius Ascendant. Venus and Saturn @ 27° Pisces are inconjunct to the Midheaven. The Moon, Mercury and Neptune are a stellium in Aries (in the 5th House). All five planets/lights are trine Mars @ 3° Leo which is in opposition to Pluto in Aquarius. I suspect she couldn’t stand her life anymore.
It’s only when you put the three charts together that the overwhelming ‘perfect storm’ is seen. So many inconjuncts, some acting as Yods (Fingers of God). If you look closely at those blue lines, you can almost see a perfect Star.
Or, in this case, “Foreverwood”, the finale of “Everwood”.A lot of story lines got tied up in pretty bows, and the future looked bright for most of the couples. The ‘villains’ of the story were banished, abandoned or forgotten. And, after 89 episodes, the kids finally realized their heart’s desire.
I loved Ephram’s startled expression when he came out his front door and saw a carnival Ferris wheel sitting there. It was really as if the actor hadn’t been told it was going to be featured in his and Amy’s final scene together. Either that, or he turned into a great actor. The maturity of the main characters after four seasons shouldn’t have been a surprise, but it still amazed me.
Obviously, the producers knew that their show wouldn’t be renewed for yet another season. So no loose ends, and they will live happily Everwood after.
I loved reading Alexander Dumas’ story of Edmond Dantès’ life, highlighting themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness. When thinking about it, overnight, I realized that the positive inverse of the story was portrayed in the 1994 film,”The Shawshank Redemption“. Hmm.
It turns out that the original true story can be found in a book of Paris police stories written by Jacques Peuchet, about a man, François “Pierre” Picaud, who was wrongfully arrested for being a English spy (on the basis of a ‘joke’ by three ‘friends’) and sentenced to prison for seven years until the death of Napoleon. When he’s released from prison he takes on a new identity and gets revenge on the three men.
The Monte Cristo and Shawshank links are very few, but others have examined the story lines and concluded that they are diametrically opposed: one positive; the other, negative. In my case, the tunnel leading to freedom is the one thing I saw the two stories had in common, and the other is the wealth each ‘discovers’ when they’re freed.
An email has been uncovered in the Epstein Files discussing The Zodiac Club. Conspiracy Theorists wonder if this club represents the Deep State Cabal of history. 1868 seems a descent date to start looking at it, but no exact date has been revealed. The menu illustration from 1907 gives us a little more detail to create an event chart.
For the record, December 28, 1907 is indeed the last Saturday of the month (and the year). Without the context of what was happening on that day, the chart is just proof of the energies at work on that date. There are four inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod pointing at Mars, from the Moon and the Ascendant for the time of 8 pm. Polite society may dine later than that time, so it is all speculative on my part. However, it is informative, nevertheless.
Notice that the menu card refers to the group as “The Signs”. Hmm.
Like their suggested motto say, “Never secret, only private.”
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t look at a person’s passing unless they were a political person, or had an accident. This is different. For one thing, he had a daily podcast called, “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” and on the day of his death, he waited until just before its broadcast to die, so his ex-wife Shelley had to update his many fans that he’d passed..
The Charts
As you can tell by comparing his birth and death charts, Adams was facing a lot of inconjuncts and some of those formed Fingers of God (Yods). Cash Peters posted a YouTube video of Adams’ transition and the symbolism expressed there is significant, at least to me.
I commented on Cash’s video that what he experienced with Adams’ transition put me in mind of this bible verse:
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
All through the third season of “Everwood” I’ve had the feeling that the main characters are being strongly influenced by the people around them. That’s nothing new, of course; it happens everyday.
It’s a plot device, for sure, but some of the characters wouldn’t have made the decisions they did if it weren’t for a peer saying something to them (and even not saying anything).
The quote as the title of this post occurred in the penultimate episode. Bright, Amy’s brother, suggested that if Ephram wants to talk to her (as she wasn’t answering, or returning his calls) he should just go to her home and confront her, face-to-face. That wouldn’t be Ephram’s ‘normal’ tactic. In fact, Ephram made a lot of sudden and unexpected decisions through the whole season. Most were catastrophic for himself and Amy. And all because he was heeding Bright’s advice.
Other characters had similar choices along the way, some good, mostly not. And it didn’t matter what age they were, no one is immune from following (and rebelling against) what other people think.
We all grow from our mistakes. Peer pressure is what moves us along into our future(s).
Eye-catching, isn’t it? Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 has been around for a good amount of time, almost 115 years. Cubits rejected it, calling it too futuristic. But it fascinates us, anyway.
Modern music videos have brought this fascination back to public awareness, starting in 1967 with The Beatles’ “Your Mother Should Know.”
Honestly, this video is only 16 years ago? Seems older than that. The song came out on February 20, 2007.
If we’re being totally frank, we would admit that the original idea came from William Blake. His painting of “Jacob’s Ladder” was published circa 1800.
It’s where we get the idea of a Stairway to Heaven, as immortalized by Led Zeppelin in 1971. It was also used to great effect in the film, “A Matter of Life and Death” as produced in 1946..
Admittedly, we are fascinated by Life and (especially) Death. Does this make sense, now?
The quote above was the inspiration for naming Fenella Rundell’s channelled messages from the White Brotherhood “The Wellspring”. So, you can imagine how I felt when I came across the word in “Lucid Dreaming Made Easy”.
The shadow is part of us and until we accept that its darkness doesn’t come from an external ‘evil’ but from a wellspring of internal creative energy, we’ll never become fully integrated human beings. As my teacher Rob Nairn once told me: ‘The shadow is such good news!’
Lucid Dreaming Made Easy by Charlie Morley Hay House 2015 (page 81)
Was that an accident? I think not. My “Inner Guide Meditation” may have attuned me to the original concept. See 3:55 of the following YouTube video as proof of the fact that Charlie understood its meaning, too:
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