Was This an Accident or a Cosmic Correction?

Posted on July 30, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Think That You Might Be Wrong(?)

I was loathe to join the “Happy Hour” group last night, I just wasn’t feeling ‘right’ if you know what I mean. Susan finally persuaded me to come outside and sit with everyone there. OMG…

Les’ son, Justin, was holding court. Most of the discussion centred on ‘things my father taught me when I was young.’ On its own, the discussion was informative. The fruit didn’t fall far from the tree. I said as much. Then the discussion turned a corner when Les brought his birth chart and analysis out for Justin to read. Curious, Justin started asking me questions about ‘life paths’ and destiny. It went on from there.

It didn’t take us long to realize that we were basically saying the same things, but using different starting points and different language. What got me was his emphatic way of speaking. It was challenging, to say the least. Normally, I don’t bring ALL my spirituals guns to a knife fight, but I felt I somehow had to justify my opinions. The discussion lasted an hour. Justin’s final argument was that the creation of the universe was no accident, no “Big Bang”. He sees the hand of a ‘creator’ at work. So, God exists and Jesus was his son, followed by the Holy Spirit as the third part of the trinity. In fact, Justin says that the three parts of the trinity remind us that everything has three components: body, mind and spirit; past, present and future; etc, etc, etc. I felt like I was watching myself in a mirror.

And then this cartoon sequence showed up on Facebook this morning:

Oh, wow, just wow!

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Sometimes We Need Reminding:

Posted on July 29, 2026 by cdsmiller17

No Family Is Perfect

This won’t be a longwinded post. We have a tendency to think that everyone else has a family that’s better than ours. Surprise, surprise! They don’t.

There is a spiritual theory that families are made up of individuals who are karmically connected. In other words, we have made life contracts to come back together in the present to iron out issues that came up in past lives. Literally, if you fix it in the present time, you fix it for all time!

In the family I grew up with, we have finally put some of our personal issues to bed, permanently. But our children, and our children’s children still have a few things to work out, to the third and fourth generation.

Hmm.

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Fifty Years Ago This Earthquake Devastated China

Posted on July 28, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Tangshan, China (July 28, 1976)

Although this is considered ‘old’ news, now, this 7.6 magnitude earthquake was something spectacular and deadly, at the same time.

That stellium in Leo occupying the 1st and 2nd Houses of the event chart demonstrates the power of the forces of nature. There are no inconjuncts (surprisingly), but the trine from Neptune to the Moon, Venus and Saturn and the square from Uranus to the Sun and Saturn may have been the triggering energies.

Respect.

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Are Wedding Vows a Thing of the Past?

Posted on July 27, 2026 by cdsmiller17

What Do They Really Promise?

In the past, women were considered chattels. I’m sorry if that offends you, but only 50 years ago could a wife finally take out a loan at the bank without her husband’s permission. It was essentially enslaved labour, and the public pronouncement at a wedding of the groom promising to take care of his bride was a binding contract.

Read these words and view them through 21st century eyes:

Hmm

No wonder divorce rates went through the roof.

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New Age Thinking?

Posted on July 26, 2026 by cdsmiller17

There is Nothing New Under the Sun

Wrapping ideas from millennia ago in “New” robes doesn’t make them right. It’s just a different way to be rebellious with the ‘status quo’. Gnosticism has been around for a long time. The Roman Catholic Church sought to eradicate it by killing anyone who disagreed with its ‘religion’ [Middle English (originally in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) ‘obligation, bond, reverence’, perhaps based on Latin religare ‘to bind’].

We all want the freedom to think and do as we want. There’s nothing worse for a human being than the thought that they can’t have their own way: “I have the right!”

When faced with a choice, “Not my will, but Thy will be done,” most would choose the selfish option. It’s only natural, after all. But sometimes we have to let go of our personal needs for the greater good.

But who exactly gets to decide what the ‘greater good’ is?

Complicated, isn’t it?

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Let Me Share the Astrology of that Moment in 2016

Posted on July 25, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Sioux Center, Iowa (January 23, 2016)

I may seem to be belabouring the point, but it is informative to see that when this quote was reported by CNN and others, on the day, Trump was absolutely right about being so popular that he wouldn’t lose votes.

Here’s the event chart, timed for 2:30 local time:

If astrologers had been paying closer attention at the time, the election would have been seen more clearly. The Moon in Leo is in opposition to the Sun in Aquarius. A Yod (Finger of God) is pointing to the Moon (popular vote), formed by inconjuncts to Venus and the Midheaven. A truer indication could not have been made. He was absolutely convinced of what he said, and the event chart, combined with his birth chart, proves that point.

Hmm.

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I’m So Popular…

Posted on July 25, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Was He Kidding? No.

And yet polling, at the moment, says that he has a steady 32% approval rating. Why?

Political pundits everywhere are predicting an absolute wipeout at the midterm elections in November. Trump is determined to not be a lame duck president again. So, will he go nuclear? Probably.

He has realized that there is a lag between the law (and lawmakers) that allows his some latitude before action is taken against whatever he suggests. The time is shortening. And timing is everything.

Because of the Supreme Court of the United States, Trump feels that he has absolute immunity.

We shall see…

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Susan’s Green Thumb is Still Working Its Magic

Posted on July 24, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Citronella

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And Yet Another One Rises to the Challenge

Posted on July 23, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Andy Burnham (January 7, 1970)

It’s been like a merry-go-round in the U.K. these days. This is the seventh Prime Minister in a decade.

Unknown birth time (so, what’s new?) and I have rectified his birth chart to show the age (26) when he married his wife (Venus). Sun/Moon conjunction in Capricorn? Hmm. A Jupiter/Saturn opposition? Hmm, again. This man is a ‘natural’ politician. The double T-square, one part pointing at Uranus (from Sun/Moon opposition to the Cancer Ascendant), and the other pointing at Pluto (from a Venus/Ascendant opposition) show that he will do impulsively dangerous things to get his way. But if the birth time is different to this rectified one, the Ascendant oppositions will disappear, leaving a wide Uranus/Pluto conjunction only, instead. Same effect.

The only inconjunct between Pluto and the Midheaven is also dependent on the correct time. So, I won’t write about that aspect, here.

I chose the title of this post BEFORE I heard Burnham’s speech. Honestly.

Cash Peters flashed an interesting photograph after showing Andy Burnham’s in his YouTube video this morning: it was of Rachel Maddow. Hmm.

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After 23 Years, Mom’s Still in Touch

Posted on July 22, 2026 by cdsmiller17

Dime After Dime

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