There’s Talk about Countries Going Nuclear to End Wars

But Would ETs Allow That to Happen?

Chris Bledsoe says that the Lady in White showed him Israel and Iran launching nuclear missiles at each other. But then ‘orbs’ destroyed the weapons. Symbolically, this has been purported before. Remember this?

It also begs the question about Trump joining the Iran War: does Iran actually have the capabilities to fire ballistic missiles at Israel? Or was that just the excuse that Israel gave Trump to get him involved?

What is really going on?

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As Seen in 1971, the American Dream was Changing

American Pie (1971)

As usual, I was contemplating what I was going to write today and this song came on my iPod. Timing, eh? It is THE seminal song of America’s disintegration, for sure. Many people have tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to interpret Don McLean’s allusions. Here’s an extended entry from Wikipedia:

Some commentators have identified the song as outlining the darkening of cultural mood, as over time the cultural vanguard passed from Pete Seeger and Joan Baez (the “King and Queen” of folk music), then from Elvis Presley (known as “the King” of Rock and Roll), to Bob Dylan (“the Jester”) who wore a jacket similar to that worn by cultural icon James Dean (“in a coat he borrowed from James Dean”), was known as “the voice of his generation” (“a voice that came from you and me”), and whose motorcycle accident (“in a cast”) left him in reclusion for many years, recording in studios rather than touring (“on the sidelines”)), to the Beatles (John Lennon, punned with Vladimir Lenin; though it is to be noted that McLean has stated “the Quartet” is not a reference to the Beatles) to the Byrds (who wrote one of the first psychedelic rock songs, “Eight Miles High”, and then “fell fast” – the song was banned, and shortly after, the group declined as it lost members, changed genres, and alienated fans), to the Rolling Stones (who released Their Satanic Majesties Request and the singles “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Sympathy for the Devil” (“Jack Flash”, “Satan”, “The Devil”), and used the Hells Angels – “Angels born in Hell” – as Altamont event security, with fatal consequences), and to Janis Joplin (the “girl who sang the blues” but just “turned away” – she died of a heroin overdose the following year).

It has also been speculated that the song contains numerous references to post-World War II American political events, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy (known casually as “Jack”), First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (“his widowed bride”) and subsequent killing of his assassin (whose courtroom trial obviously ended as a result [“adjourned”]), the Cuban Missile Crisis (“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick”), the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, and elements of culture such as sock hops (“kicking off shoes” to dance, preventing damage to the varnished floor), cruising with a pickup truck, the rise of the political protest song (“a voice that came from you and me”), drugs and the counterculture, the Manson Family and the Tate–LaBianca murders in the “summer swelter” of 1969 (the Beatles’ song “Helter Skelter”) and much more.

Apparent allusions to notable 50s songs include Don Cornell’s The Bible Tells Me So (“If the Bible tells you so?”), Marty Robbins’s A White Sport Coat, the lonely teenager (“With a pink carnation”) mirroring Robbins’s narrator who is rejected in favor of another man for the prom, and The Monotones’ The Book of Love (“Did you write the book of love”).

Some of those connections were obvious, others, not so much. Here’s McLean’s version of events:

Needless to say, America has gotten quite worse since then.

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The First Time I’d Heard These Words in This Lifetime

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

I read this book when I was just a lad. It went along with watching cowboys and Indians TV shows in my childhood. At the time, I had no idea that I may have been living during those times, first as Étienne Brûlé and then as Pierre-Esprit Radisson. This scene from the film hit me with a ton of bricks.

Why? Because I heard the word, here translated as ‘English’, and realized it sounds like Yankees. I believe the Huron word for English was Yangees, as spoken in the film clip. Wow, just wow.

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It’s a Modern Romantic Fairy Tale Fantasy

You, Me & Tuscany (2026)

Honestly, I had to suspend my critical faculties to watch this bit of fluff on Prime Video.

I won’t bother you with plot details, because they are so farfetched that you won’t believe them, anyway.

If you’re looking for a bit of diversion, and beautiful scenery, this is the film for you. Otherwise avoid it.

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Be Careful What You Ask For…

The Trap (2026)

This is a six-part Netflix series, originally filmed in German, but dubbed into English for the rest of us.

I’m writing this post after watching half of the show. My reason is simple: the third episode had a sequence towards the end where Lisa’s faithful dog was missing from her recluse’s mansion. When she gets to the pet door, she sees him laying on the ground, his leg caught in a trap. Oh-oh, says I, this doesn’t bode well for Lisa, since she devised a trap to catch the killer of her sister, Anna. I cannot remember such an obvious symbol telegraphing a show’s potential ending. We’ll see if my premonition is correct tonight, when we watch the final three episodes.

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Why Would a Spymaster Sell Out to the Highest Bidder?

August Hanning (February 16, 1946)

More accurately, why betray your country in your retirement? That’s where a retired person can sympathize. What are you after the work is done? Nobody.

This timing is randomized, so don’t hold me to it. However, there are no inconjuncts so what you see is what you get. What’s the most important aspect? The one linking the Moon to the Sun/Mercury/Venus conjunction .That opposition tells the tale: the Moon is (accidentally?) conjunct the 2nd House cusp @ 3° Virgo. The 2nd House rules one’s own money making abilities. Virgo is the sign that describes looking at another’s errors of judgement. Jupiter is also in opposition to the Midheaven, which rules how one earns a living. As a result, the Moon is trine the Midheaven, while Jupiter is trine the Sun/Mercury/Venus conjunction. That seems obvious to me. Pluto is in the 12th House of the Unconscious. Hmm.

Ellie Dreams Down Under may have a very clear understanding of Hanning’s motives:

Hmm.

His Arrest chart, set for 12 noon, on October 6, 2026, revealed an interesting aspect with Hanning’s Sun: the event North Node is almost exactly conjunct.

Hmm, again.

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“Don’t Be Afraid of What You Don’t Know”

Disclosure Day (2026)

Waiting only three months for a mainstream movie to show on a streaming service seems very short. I’m grateful, though. I knew it would be an echo of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and yet carry the story way further than anyone expected.

A weather news anchor begins experiencing strange behaviors and discovers she can suddenly speak various dialects–including what appears to be an alien language. At the same time, a mysterious man with an unknown past comes into possession of stolen government evidence proving the existence of extraterrestrial life and is determined to make it public. For reasons neither fully understands, the two are drawn together. If they can navigate government agents, suspicious spouses, and others trying to stop them, they may reveal a truth that could change humanity forever.

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Here’s the theatrical clip:

It’s quite the train ride from start to finish. And, as far as Steven Spielberg’s methods are concerned, he uses just two individuals to get his message across: weatherperson Margaret and cybersecurity specialist Dr. Daniel. Their lives are tied together from a “Hansel and Gretel” event at age ten. Daniel’s abilities were triggered at age 20. Margaret’s were triggered yesterday. A Cardinal was involved (hence the superimposed image on the poster). He translates the alien clicks she speaks into English.

I cannot fault Spielberg’s story-telling. But he does have a thing for big machines (this time, fire trucks). What we witness when Margaret and Daniel go back to their joint experience at 10 is something that many others have gone through in reality. I’ve written about them before, including Whitley Strieber and others, on these pages. Disclosure is very much needed to exonerate and authenticate these individuals. Government agencies work on the premise that disclosure will ‘upset the apple cart’. But we as a civilization have gone too far off-track to carry on the way we have been behaving. Something has to change. Humanity needs a reset. Discovering that there are other beings looking out for our best would certainly wake a lot of people up. Margaret’s empathy would be a good starting point. It’s called ‘walking a mile in another man’s moccasins’. Hmm.

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Did You Ever Wonder Why Some Books Go On and On?

100th Anniversary of the Winnie-The-Pooh Book (October 14, 1926)

I believe this is the first book my mom got for me when I was still ‘knee-high to a grasshopper’. I certainly remember her reading it to me as a bedtime story. I also suspect that this is where my love for all things English comes from. The book turned 100 yesterday.

There were three inconjuncts for that day, none of which were dependent on the exact time of day. Logically, the London edition appeared on book shelves before the New York edition. No matter.

Winnie-the-Pooh, as a character, showed up the prior Christmas Eve as a featured children’s story in London’s Evening News. In fact, Pooh’s first appearance was in the book, When We Were Very Young in 1924 as “Edward Bear”. So his birth chart would be different to this one.

Pooh was living, then, under the name Mr. Sanders (one of A.A. Milne’s little jokes):

Yes, this book has legs. It will probably run and run for another hundred years.

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Well, That Didn’t Go as Planned

eVisit with My Cancer Specialist

No, I didn’t get negative news. I got no news because I was unable to make the link with my doctor. It’s simple, really: the email which was sent to me over five weeks ago ended up in spam. I don’t open spam. When the expected link email didn’t come today, I called for technical assistance. They told me to recheck my spam. The letter telling me that there was even going to be an eVisit scheduled for today was dated the same day as the email was sent. But, as usual, the email came first. Oops. Oh, technology, you think you’re helping make our lives better, but you’re not!

Now, I’ll have to wait until they reschedule my eVisit.

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The Presumption is that Trump will Cheat to Win

He Flip-Flopped on Mail-In Ballots Before, and He’s Doing It Again

Do Americans really have faulty memories? I’m sure that some will remember that he advised Republicans to both mail in ballots before, and vote personally on, election day.

Who does that?

At the same time he’s doing his damnedest to suppress Democrat votes, by having ICE agents arrest as many (supposedly) undocumented people as possible, while subjecting his political opponents to legal scrutiny close to the elections. The hint of impropriety is enough to put some voters off.

I guess he’s desperate.

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