There’s a First Time for Everything, It Seems

Dirty Laundry

BeBe woke me up from a fairly sound sleep at about 2:30 this morning. She needed to go outside to do her business, so she barked once. That was enough to get me out of bed, as usual. Only something was different.

As I went out our bedroom door, I saw a pile of laundry on the floor. I couldn’t see it clearly, as it was in the twilight of the middle of the night, but it seemed superimposed on the normal space. I stepped through the space, and it disappeared, only to be replaced by another pile in the hallway. That, too, disappeared as I continued walking walking down the hall. By the time I got to BeBe at the door to the back deck, I knew I’d experienced what can only be described as a walking dream. It made me wonder if I was still asleep but acting like an automaton. I still feel a little ‘otherworldly’ this morning.

And then, when researching for this illustration, just now, I realized that I’d symbolically aired my dirty laundry in private, and now I was doing the same, in public, with this blog. The joke’s on me, I guess.

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An “Unholy” Performance at the Grammy Awards

Sam Smith and Kim Petras (Duo or Group Winners)

Talk about putting the wind up the sails of Fundamental Christians in America! Because they don’t understand the British sense of humour behind this performance, they don’t recognize a “wind-up”.

In some ways, this can be seen as a step too far. Usually, as David Wilcock has pointed out in the past, a lot of Grammy performances have a nuanced ‘devil worship’ element. This one was full-on, in-your-face.

But here’s the point: Satan isn’t the only one who wears red, which in the Catholic tradition, means that the Cardinals’ sins are washed clean in the blood of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice. Hmm.

Everything I’ve ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I’ve ever been
Everywhere I’m going to

It’s a sin
At school they taught me how to be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn’t quite succeed

It’s a Sin (by the Pet Shop Boys)

As for the Fundamental Christians, they are rushing in where wise men fear to tread: LGBTQ2+ individuals are already outside the sanctity of organized religion, as far as these people spouting judgement about ‘others’, like Sam Smith (non-binary) and Kim Petras (trans female). Do you think Smith and Petras care what is being said about them? They are not going to hell, no matter what their judges think: hell is already here, on earth, and always has been.

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Has the USA Become an Angrier Society?

Because of a Breakdown in Family Values?

Maternity leave is universal in most western countries, but does not exist in federal law in the United States. It’s not hard to work out why, especially with the national debt crisis that the government goes through on a regular basis. Lawmakers are loathe to spend money on socialism when the returns, in their opinion, are so very low. There may also be a racial element here, as the ones producing larger families are not white Anglo-Saxon protestants (WASPs). In other words, why pay some mothers to stay home to produce even more children? That particular view is short-sighted, but completely understandable, especially if you’re afraid that your race will be wiped off the map at some point in the future.

Just a point of order: this disintegration of values is happening everywhere, not just in America.

But this may be the reason for gun violence: people are angry; they feel disenfranchised; and the politicians have stoked the fires with conspiracy theories and disinformation. The 2nd Amendment rights are their only protection in a world of violence and hate. Oh, now it makes sense…

So, in truth, the American government is powerless to make change unless it’s willing to alter the family dynamics of an entrenched society.

Ellie Dreams Down Under tackled this same question today…

Hmm.

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A Spiritual Odyssey in Seven Months

True Spirit (2023)

I remembered when this young lady landed back in Sydney, Australia in May of 2010. It was all over the news. We started watching this film on Netflix last night, before I realized that I knew the original story. It’s a symbolic life’s journey, from the boat’s launch in October 2009 to its return 210 days later.

And as is sometimes the way, especially with Australian biography films, we were shown Jessica’s real video blogs at the end, which echo what the filmmakers were trying to achieve. That’s worth the price of admission alone.

Jessica Watson (May 18, 1993)

We have to remember that Jessica Watson was only 16 years of age when she performed this amazing feat. Would you have been able to do the same? I know I wouldn’t. Maybe she was just too young to recognize the danger that she had put herself in. Like all good stories, the heroine set off on her journey, leaving all those she loves on the shore, and for the first couple of months, it’s smooth sailing. She even gets to cross the Equator a couple of times, before rounding the Cape Horn at the bottom of South America. Then she crosses the stormier Atlantic Ocean, finally rounding the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

That’s when she runs into the Doldrums, or at least that’s how they showed it in the film. However, the 7 days without wind may have been caused by something other than the sun beating directly down on the water near the Equator. (I always thought the Doldrums were connected to the Indian Ocean, which is why I didn’t question this fact during the film.) At any rate, this equates to the time when Jessica felt she was all alone and couldn’t get away from herself. Finally, she catches the wind again and sails on toward Australia, only to arrive in the middle of a tropical storm system that threatens the boat and Jessica’s life. She rides the waves like a surfer until a massive wave of water overturns the boat and holds it under water. (This is when I realized that what she was going through is very much like everyone does in life.)

Eventually, the underwater current sets the boat back on the surface and she finally returns to Sydney Harbour, a little worse for wear, but now back in the bosom of her family. (De Em.)

This birth chart is randomized, and because of the resulting Yod(s), I’m leaving the timing alone. But I’m not going to delineate the inconjunct aspects because Jessica can be afforded a little privacy after living her journey so publicly. But it is interesting that the timing highlights the North Node in Sagittarius at (about) the right age.

I hope you can find the time to watch this True Spirit journey, in the true spirit of its meaning.

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The Use of Ancient Hebrew Lends Authenticity

Dead Sea Scrolls (Psalm 119:59-64)

Compare this to the Masoretic Hebrew Text:

Now in English:

Psalms 119:56-64 (NKJV)
59 I thought about my ways, And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
60 I made haste, and did not delay To keep Your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked have bound me, [But] I have not forgotten Your law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, Because of Your righteous judgments.
63 I [am] a companion of all who fear You, And of those who keep Your precepts.
64 The earth, O יהגה, is full of Your mercy; Teach me Your statutes.

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It is a source of fascination for me to view most anything about the Dead Sea Scrolls. The fragment shown above is proof that whomever hid the scriptures in those caves near Qumran did so with the best of intentions. And modern versions seem to demonstrate that these same scriptures have hardly departed from the original texts.

The Hebrew is an indication that these were religious men, steeped in Biblical traditions. But what about the other texts that weren’t scripture? Could they be clues about their more esoteric side?

I think so.

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Coldest Day of the Year, So Far

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Marry in Haste, Repent at Leisure

A Very British Scandal (2022)

Firstly, it is very disconcerting to see the actress who portrayed Elizabeth II in the first season of “The Crown” play this member of the British aristocracy who created a scandal in the divorce courts. I said to Susan within the first half hour of episode one: “I don’t like this woman.”

The time period covers 1950 to 1963. It was a very revealing time: the British people, having survived WWII, discovered sex. (It says a lot that “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was finally published in 1960 and became the subject of an obscenity trial. The echo in real life was surprising, but was it really?)

What strikes me about the way this show was constructed was that no actual impropriety (meaning, sexual infidelity) was ever demonstrated, once the marriage between them happened. Sure, there was a lot going on prior to their wedding, but other than Margaret trying to relieve the boredom of being married to Ian, who was obviously financing his life with her money, she invented fantasies to make her husband jealous and pay more attention to her emotionally (and sexually). She was on a self-destructive journey that wouldn’t end well. She was also a compulsive liar. But is Claire Foy’s portrayal of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll accurate, or was there something more behind the scenes?

They chose the actors well.

Compare this video with her interview in those same years:

There seems to be a vacancy behind those eyes. But that’s just my opinion. Which reminds me, there was a recurring image in the show of Margaret finding herself on the ground and bloodied. Had she fallen from a great height? Had she been brutalized? (It always seemed to be hinting at something in the future, as if a premonition, but may have been a memory of something from the past.) Was this a hint?

After a series of miscarriages, Margaret had two children with Charles. In 1943, she fell nearly 40ft down a lift shaft, surviving but with a significant trauma to her head: many say the fall altered her personality, and that she was a different woman afterwards. Four years later, the Sweenys divorced.

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You’ll have to see for yourself.

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And Yet Another Groundhog Day

Punxsutawney Phil (February 2, 1887)

Whoever decided to make a prediction about winter based on the shadow (or lack) of a groundhog on this day every year must have been inspired by a Pennsylvania Dutch belief. Of course, it’s a nonsense.

This chart shows the energies that existed on the first celebrated Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, 136 years ago. Interesting T-square. Every year since that date, the energies would shift, but the initial event is quite clear: if Phil sees his shadow they’ll be six more weeks of winter; if not, it’ll be an early spring.

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And Talking About Vibrational Energy (and Mediums)

Allison DuBois (January 24, 1972)

No comments required.

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Maybe We Baby Boomers Were Right After All…

Good (and Bad) Vibrations

Susan and I had a discussion this morning about vibrations. She’s seen a Dolores Cannon video yesterday which explained that the reason that the medical profession cannot treat some physical conditions is because they don’t understand that the body (and mind) could be subject to negative vibration. (In the past, this would have been described as a psychic attack.)

Most people have healthy boundaries. They know how to say ‘no’ to situations and people who do not have their best interests at heart. But some people are more susceptible to negative influence because they feel they have to help others achieve a sense of balance and harmony in order for the world to be a better place. That is all well and fine, but the trade-off is to take on another’s burden as if it were one’s own. This reminds me of The Band’s song, “The Weight”.

The Weight

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead;

I just need some place where I can lay my head.

“Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?”

He just grinned and shook my hand, and “No!”, was all he said.

(Chorus:) Take a load off Fannie, take a load for free; Take a load off Fannie, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.

I picked up my bag, I went lookin’ for a place to hide;

When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin’ side by side.

I said, “Hey, Carmen, come on, let’s go downtown.”

She said, “I gotta go, but m’friend can stick around.”

(Chorus)

Go down, Miss Moses, there’s nothin’ you can say

It’s just ol’ Luke, and Luke’s waitin’ on the Judgement Day.

“Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?”

He said, “Do me a favor, son, woncha stay an’ keep Anna Lee company?”

(Chorus)

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.

He said, “I will fix your rags, if you’ll take Jack, my dog.”

I said, “Wait a minute, Chester, you know I’m a peaceful man.”

He said, “That’s okay, boy, won’t you feed him when you can.”

(Chorus)

Catch a Cannonball, now, t’take me down the line

My bag is sinkin’ low and I do believe it’s time.

To get back to Miss Annie, you know she’s the only one.

Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.

(Chorus)

Robbie Robertson
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