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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is Ben Affleck’s film, through and through. My wife, about halfway through our viewing of it on Netflix last night, said, “Talk about emotional acting!” No, melodrama doesn’t even come close. Political intrigue is probably a better description.
The story is about political spin. This story makes sense only when it’s over. There were too many hints along the way that weren’t explained: like, the father of the kidnapped child knew who was responsible; and, the spin doctor brought the financier into the picture. But did Affleck’s character know how it would end?
The foot-stomping sequence at a political rally is a tension riser. (Or was that our “attention” riser?) The political cover story is way too slick. And coming out a month before the midterm elections, it’s a reminder that not all is as it seems. There’s the spin and then there’s the truth. Appearances can deceive.
