I know, I know, I’ve hinted at the anagram Enola being “Alone” in reverse before. So, what do I think of this second instalment? Not much: I was bored by the fifteen-minute mark. Obviously, I am not the target audience. That’s when the “Home Alone” idea struck me: I loved the original film but disliked the sequels. I suppose it has something to do with trying to catch lightning in a bottle, twice.
But don’t take my word for it: see for yourself.
It’s a very nebulous business, predicting elections. Obviously, the pundits got it wrong, but Michael Moore didn’t. Also, Cash Peters looked at a lot of individual races, and although he never sees who wins or loses, he does get a sense of how the candidates will run. Even Ellie Dreams Down Under has Tarot insight, and she saw ‘problems’ for the GOP. What is one to do with this information? Bet on it?
My history of looking at the Roman Empire and relating it to the American history has placed me in a singularly interesting position. Reincarnation can explain some of the chronology, but that really isn’t what’s happening here. Countries, like people, have a certain lifespan. Along the way, it is possible to see how the planets line up in new and different configurations. Take this past July’s Pluto Return for the USA. Never have I experienced a preview of a civil war, but one that is totally up to date. Ellie Adams and I surmised that Texas and Florida would be the states to set things in motion. (Republican governors moving immigrants to New York and Martha’s Vineyard could have been the trigger, but the other side – Democrats – decided to take the higher ground by welcoming the new arrivals. That was unexpected.)
In truth, it was the unexpected cancellation of Roe v Wade which divided the American voters along three lines: Democrats and Republicans; male and female; young people and elders. The MSM tried to downplay the ‘abortion’ issue, by fixating on inflation and the economy. They failed, because the voters knew what the real issue was: Pro-Choice. Anyone taking away a woman’s right to choose for herself will ultimately pay the price at the polling stations.
The Supreme Court did not do Republicans any favours. In fact, the Dobbs decision may have been the single most damaging thing that happened this past year. The second most damaging? Donald J Trump.
Or in the words of Rupert Murdoch’s publications: Trumpty Dumpty…
My mind is playing pun tricks on me again, mainly because I’m not particularly interested in looking at a minor politician in the Ontario Parliament. But the Universe must have a different purpose, here. So, who am I to argue? This is Stephen Lecce, the Education Minister.
This time was originally randomized. It was obviously set for dawn, but I don’t like doing that. Then I flipped the time to PM from AM, but that didn’t feel right, either. Then I moved the clock back 6 hours. Ah, that’s more like it.
The dream I had last night involved recognizing someone from the past, by way of a package of lychee nuts. (My wife does lots of gardening, so that fits in with a box of seeds and bulbs.) But lychees are a specific fruit, one that I do not have the acquired taste for. By symbolically, they are perfect: tough and prickly on the outside, tender and fleshy on the inside.
And I think this describes Stephen Lecce, to a tee.
Until you learn to handle your feelings, you are likely to get angry easily, have temper tantrums and be touchy about what is yours and what is not. You may feel you have to defend yourself against imagined threats. The problem here is that you are likely to become too emotionally involved with ideas, opinions or even objects without knowing it until someone threatens them. Then you react as if you were being personally threatened or attacked. You have to realize that it is possible to change your opinions and attitudes without damaging your worth as a person.
Why does this matter? It doesn’t, really, but it helps to understand when he changes his mind and he and the Ford Government did, after two days of protests. They then decided to undo the legislation making the strike illegal, and then invited the union to return to the negotiation table. This effectively set the strike clock back to zero. The issues are not yet resolved, but at least both sides are talking. Wait and see.
I don’t trust opinion polls. They have a way of focusing a bias into election platforms that may be misleading. As usual, history was made, yesterday: a long-standing trend of voting against the sitting President was somehow understated. No, if you ask the right questions, you get the right answers.
Admittedly, the dust has not yet settled, so we do not really know the extent of the GOP debacle. Trusting that Trump’s endorsement is enough to get elected is a losing proposition. And, thinking that you can ignore a very important legal issue, abortion, was foolish, too. Young people got out and voted their preference, while elder voters wanted to make it about the economy. When polls underrepresent one side of the equation, the results are skewed. When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Tomorrow is a big day. But not just for American politics. This one is going to be ‘huge’ for me, too.
This chart has a definite Cosmic Cross (aka Grand Cross) in its centre. When I was watching Ellie Adams’ YouTube video about it, yesterday, I suddenly twigged onto the fact that, personally, this was going to trigger my Avatar Gate T-square (Jupiter opposite Pluto, both square my Moon), like this:
What makes this ‘special’ for me is the Yod formed by inconjuncts from my natal Neptune and Ascendant to the transiting Moon/Uranus conjunction. At the same time, the transiting Saturn is inconjunct my natal Saturn. That’s a lot of energy to absorb in one go. I expect some emotional fallout.
It is also not lost on me that the Beaver is significant to my past life as a fur trader, living among the North American native population. This one may be a completion of that soul journey. We shall see…
It is only after the voters have had they collective voices heard will we know what they really think. Everything up until that point is political spin (in other words, not real). So, I will refrain from commenting further until after the cards have settled on November 8th.
It occurred to me last week that Donald Trump likes to think that there is an Art of the Deal. I’ve said before that it’s actually the Art of the Steal. Most of the time, he loses, but his real reason for suing his ‘enemies’ is to foist financial ruination on anyone who dares to challenge him. Ask Hillary Clinton.
There really is no defense against his litigious nature. He does not compromise, he does not negotiate, he uses bully tactics to frighten others into submission. It is time for the American people to see him for what he really is: a self-serving narcissist. He wanted to drain the swamp so that he could be the meanest crocodile in Washington.
This image says it all, really.
I’m in the middle of my own personal nightmare (my COVID patch). Last night’s dream, therefore, doesn’t need to make sense, to make sense. It was a mashup of several things and, even now, I’m not sure if I captured all of them to share here. (And this is coming after two full sleepless nights.)
To begin with, there was a long sequence of memories relating to the date November 5th, culminating in a Barach Obama childhood dream about going to the White House. (I never knew that his mother thought he might one day be president, but it’s telling that he believed that to be true as a child.)
At the same time, the James Bond movie song “The Man with a Golden Gun” was playing over top of the images.
I’m not surprised that a Bond film would be referenced in my dream, but why that one? Does this imply some form of assassination? Imran Khan, former cricketer and (former) Pakistan PM was shot yesterday but only in the leg. Was this an echo in my subconscious? Obama has been on the campaign trail with many of the Democratic candidates for the midterm elections, so that makes him an obvious target for such a thing to happen, and yet it didn’t strike me as applicable, in his case. Maybe the implication was the comment about how “hot” he was, from one person in the audience, is the true meaning.
At any rate, should something happen over the weekend, you read it here first.
It’s a funny thing: I never thought to analyze Jane Roberts‘ birth chart, until now. Blame Cash Peters.
If I were going to lay odds on Saturn being prominent in a birth chart, it would be this one. In fact, if you equate Seth to Saturn, you have the definitive makings of a medium. There is a double inconjunct.
This can be a difficult aspect because it signifies a conflict between your sense of responsibility and your desire to fulfill your own needs and do what you want. This leads to a struggle within you that may keep you from acting decisively. Instead of deciding what you will do, you feel caught between these two forces, wondering whether you have the right to do what you want. You may feel that others are trying to frustrate you, but it is only your own indecisiveness that is causing the trouble.
Sometimes with this aspect there really is someone in your life who discourages you and makes you feel that your efforts are futile. You must learn to avoid negative people who make you feel bad about yourself.
The difficulty with this aspect is to find a balance between getting what you want in life and getting along with others. More than most people, you will have to learn the necessity of compromising to get along with people, especially because you often seem more aggressive than you are. At times you may feel that nothing is going your way, that you continually have to give in to others and put your own wishes aside. However, it is not really this bad. You do not actually have to compromise any more than anyone else, but you are more reluctant to do so.
Even while you are quite young, you will have a very serious attitude toward life, and as a result, youth will not mean as much to you as it does to others. Either you will take on responsibilities very early in life, or they will be thrust upon you. You may find it hard to simply relax and have a good time, but even if life seems hard sometimes, you should try to relax and enjoy yourself when you can. Otherwise, with this aspect you might become the type of person who always seems to put a damper on other people’s good spirits. You get so wrapped up in your own worries and responsibilities that you remind others of their own problems, even when they want to escape from them.
It is only by comparing her birth and death charts do we get a complete picture of her life.
I am now going to focus on Neptune as it transits Saturn and the Ascendant.
Under this transit you will discover that in many ways your view of the world isn’t at all correct. This may occur through a series of obvious disappointments, or it may take place subtly through an increasing sense of anxiety that has no obvious cause. Fear and loss of self-confidence are two of the most difficult effects of this transit. You may suddenly become afraid for almost no reason at all, and you may fear things that are not at all threatening to others. It is as if you were becoming disoriented.
Planet in Transit by Robert Hand (page 456)
This transit will alter your relationships with others and change the kind of impression you make on people. The greatest single danger is that you are susceptible to deception by others, because you are in an unusually idealistic frame of mind, and you believe in the merits of proposals that you are invited to join, even when they are useless. In fact, with your excessive idealism, you are likely to get involved in many situations that you would usually avoid.
At the same time, there is a danger that you might lose sight of who you really are and what your limitations are. You may expect too much of yourself, or you may think that you impress others in certain ways that are not at all true.
Ibid (pages 470-1)
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