Will It Rain or Shine on St. Swithin’s Day?

Posted on March 17, 2024 by cdsmiller17

One Day (2024)

This show is described as a drama series. It certainly isn’t a lot of fun. A Romeo/Juliet style love story for the modern day. Dexter is a rich boy from London, Emma is a a poor girl from Leeds. They meet on St. Swithin’s Day (July 15, 1988) on their graduation day from the University of Edinburgh. The story covers the next 15 years on the same day. It is meant to be ironic, but depending on the weather for the day, not just the next 40 days is forecast, but for the next year as well.

So, why does everyone think this is a great love story? He’s shallow and ‘annoying’, she’s deep and ‘rude’. They don’t match each other’s energies at the same time, and their happily ever after ends in tragedy. No, I didn’t enjoy the ride. I expect it’s because I’m from the generation prior to theirs.

And Maybe the Racial Diversity Elements Made It an Unlikely Pairing

And, just to show you the juxtaposition of a different version with the drama series, here’s the film that was based on the same source document (the book) and covered the very same events.

Maybe I’m prejudiced, but I feel this is a more likely linkup between two divergent characters.

(Even the posters are the same, just to make the point…)

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A Doomsday Book Set the Stage for Our Modern Times

Posted on March 16, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The Late Great Planet Earth (1970)

I’ve written about Hal Lindsey before. You can check out his birth chart here. He set our hearts racing towards Armageddon when his book came out in the 1970’s. But, strange as it may seem, he may have been right, after all, since we are now seeing the Hamas-Israeli war play out before our viewing eyes, on network television news programs. Take a look at this YouTube video interview from 1998:

This seems to be echoing what Gregg Braden has been discussing recently. Are we in the End Times?

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The Truth is in the Title

Posted on March 16, 2024 by cdsmiller17

American Fiction (2023)

Oh, boy, this is a clever satire on the state of American literary circles. Meet Monk: he’s a writer of fiction who gets no reviews, no awards and hardly any book sales. In frustration, he writes a manuscript about a black man who murders his father and then goes on the lam. Everybody and his uncle (Sam) love it. He gets offered a huge advance to publish it, but he doesn’t want to, because he knows he was just f*cking with the white bread publishing system. When he gets offered a multi-million dollar sum to get it produced as a film, he has to hide his identity, for fear of being found out to be an academic.

The sequence where Monk finally starts writing his story reminds me of the same thing that Charles Dickens went through when writing “A Christmas Carol” as seen in “The Man Who Invented Christmas”.

This happened to me when I was writing a play called “Bankrupture” in 1978. Instead of inventing each of the characters and their dialogue, I acted as a secretary, taking down verbatim what they said. They revealed themselves by speaking their own words. In my experience, this was unprecedented. I was able to do this because I based the main character, Elmer, on myself. This is known as being an author surrogate.

So, I can relate, yet again.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend that you do so. It’s as good as they get.

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Spiritual Downloads or Intrusive Thoughts?

Posted on March 15, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Lately, I’ve had a dream image repeat itself most mornings, just before I wake up. In its latest version, the walls of my room seem to be flooded with light. But attached to the moving light are words and phrases which seem to realign themselves into patterns like sentences being written. Unfortunately, in the dream state, these phrases are unintelligible. In other words, they could be Greek for all I know.

Writing this now, I am remembering a previous post from seven years ago, about a Dream Wordle. Please note that the Wordle puzzle in the New York Times was nonexistent. (Today is their 1000th edition.) But in 2017, the thoughts were ‘dark’. Now they’re ‘light’. Is this a good sign?

It feels so to me.

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Astrology Chart as a User’s Manual for Life

Posted on March 13, 2024 by cdsmiller17

I am reminded today that Astrology has some very important purposes in peoples’ lives. I did the birth charts of our next-door neighbour’s two daughters, born 2020 and 2022. Essentially, they could qualify as COVID kids, because their charts are reminders of what the world was going through during those years. In fact, we are still feeling the fallout of the pandemic, even now.

As parents, our neighbours were mystified by the eldest’s reactions. She could not be bossed or cajoled into doing what they would want her to do, so they felt stumped. I offered to do the girls’ charts so, as parents, they could understand what was really going on behind the scenes. It has been enlightening.

Once these girls reach the age of majority, or maturity, should that come first, I would suggest their parents print out the copy of their aspect analysis, in order to pass onto them the wisdom of their lives.

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Inspired Transmission or Plagiarized Book?

Posted on March 12, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The Urantia Book (1924 – 1955)

Someone asked Ellie Dreams Down Under if this book was real or not. There is no ‘author’ as such, since it purports to be coming from a spiritual channel. So, it’s in the same vein as Madame Blavatsky‘s “Isis Unveiled” and “The Secret Doctrine”. Her method of transmission was that bits of information would be presented to her (by unseen hands) from different ancient manuscripts and she would add them to her own manuscripts. That’s also how I wrote “The Star of Bethlehem”.

The text introduces the word “Urantia” as the name of the planet Earth and states that its intent is to “present enlarged concepts and advanced truth.” The book aims to unite religion, science, and philosophy. Its large amount of content on topics of interest to science is unique among documents said to have been received from celestial beings. Among other topics, the book discusses the origin and meaning of life, mankind’s place in the universe, the history of the planet, the relationship between God and people, and the life of Jesus.

Wikipedia

In the grand scheme of things, each one of us is a Child of the Universe. We seem to forget that. And our day-to-day existence is so mundane that we also don’t see that there are universes inside of our bodies.

It’s All Connected

A more recent version of this book has attempted to cross-reference where the ideas and quotes come from, in response to the criticism that this book has been plagiarized from other sources. It is that fact that Ellie said made her feel that the book wasn’t from ‘celestial beings’. Well, the Universe works in mysterious ways, and, in Ellie’s own words, “The Universe Always Wins.”

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True Stories of a Tell-Tale Heart?

Posted on March 11, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The Heart’s Code (1999)

Ellie Collins’ new radio broadcast brought up this book and its suggested ‘cellular memory theory’.

You know that the heart loves and feels, but did you know that the heart also thinks, remembers, communicates with other hearts, helps regulate immunity, and contains stored information that continually pulses through your body? In The Heart’s Code, Dr. Paul Pearsall explains the theory and science behind energy cardiology, the emerging field that is uncovering one of the most significant medical, social, and spiritual discoveries of our time: The heart is more than just a pump; it conducts the cellular symphony that is the very essence of our being.

Amazon introduction

I guess someone is trying to explain how we can ‘know something in our heart’ (what most of us refer to as ‘intuition’) and that this information can be shared with someone else via organ transplants. Is it real?

To me, it reads like an urban legend:

An eight year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered ten year-old girl, began having recurring dreams of an actual murder. The girl was taken to a psychiatrist which concluded that the girl was recounting a real incident. After contacting the police they were able to provide clues (time, weapon, place, clothes worn by murderer and what the little girl said to him) that lead to the convinction of the murderer of the eight year old girl.

Reddit

The person posting that ‘excerpt’ may have mixed the eight-year-old with the ten-year-old girl (in the last line). But you get the drift of their concern. Urban legends are stories that help us sleep at night.

Which brings me to Edgar Allan Poe’s short story from 1843: The Tell-Tale Heart.

You see, there really is nothing new under the sun.

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Moving From Faith Into Knowledge

Posted on March 10, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The Age of Aquarius

It’s such a hard thing to do, moving from one Age into the Next en masse. It takes a leap of faith.

It’s similar to moving to all electric vehicles from our old gas-powered ones. Some of us don’t want to, even though we’re constantly being told that it’ll be better for the environment. Really??

But Humanity essentially has only one choice: move forward with the Earth via the procession of the equinoxes, or check out altogether and return to your spiritual home. Which will you choose?

Left path, right path or down the middle?

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Not Pro-Palestine, Not Pro-Israel:

Posted on March 9, 2024 by cdsmiller17
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 18: Demonstrators rally to demand a cease-fire against Palestinians in Gaza on Independence Avenue near the U.S. Capitol October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, hundreds of demonstrators were arrested for holding a rally inside the Cannon House office building. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

I’m Anti-War

I was a teenager during the Sixties. My natural reaction to war is being against it. I’d always wondered why, until I went through a past-life regression in the early Eighties. Then it became obvious; I had fought in both WWI and WWII. Now, during my Karmic Astrology work, I have discovered past lives that had taken part in many wars (and rumours of wars). That’s where my Peaceful Warrior vibe comes from. But I’m also aware that the choice isn’t always so simple. Maybe it’s been written into the fabric of space and time. The battle between Good and Evil has always been part and parcel of the Human Condition. It is a binary world, after all.

Now, it’s coming down to ‘sitting on one’s hands’ or getting out into the world and protesting.

Peace be upon you.

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Well, That’s One Way to Become Famous in the States

Posted on March 9, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Senator Katie Britt (February 2, 1982)

One kind of has to wonder what the GOP were thinking when they chose Katie Britt to give their televised rebuttal of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Thursday night last. (And I have to remind myself that this person is two years younger than my youngest child.)

The timing of this chart is entirely random. Isn’t it funny how the Moon is conjunct to the Ascendant, opposite Uranus, and the point of a Yod formed from inconjuncts to Neptune and Pluto? But that could be entirely accidental. Her biggest political event, so far, was the rebuttal she delivered.

This time is approximate, since I didn’t watch it live on TV, so the Pluto inconjunct the Midheaven is reasonably suspect. No doubt, any aspects formed to either the Ascendant of the Midheaven are, too.

The fact that all the planets and ‘lights are in the personal part of the chart may be significant. This event hit some very personal points, especially for women, one day before “International Women’s Day”.

So, let’s now look at the intersection of this event with Katie’s birth chart:

Hmm. Interesting. There is one conjunction that entirely puts this into perspective: the event South Node and Katie’s Mars @ 17° Libra 20′. Apparently, she was born to do this. So, next stop?

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