I’ve lived in Midland, now, for 10 years. While passing the Scotiabank yesterday afternoon, I reminded myself that I hadn’t yet photographed the front of this branch. So here it is. The final image of my banking career.
Admittedly, there are at least five centuries between these two images, but I must state out loud that there is something here, when you go deeper into their connection. (By the way, I have communicated this with Ellie, and she has chosen to ignore my messages. I suspect that she thinks it’s too far-fetched.)
On it’s own Lisa’s birth chart (which I randomized), isn’t spectacular, but the accidental conjunction between the Ascendant and her natal Pluto might account for her enigmatic smile.
Uranus conjunct Neptune in the last degree of Scorpio doesn’t undo the significance. In fact, it augments it. Venus conjunct the North Node @ 22° Cancer makes her much beloved with the public. So, altogether, not a bad birth chart.
Elena Collins (June 22, 1966)
I’d previously written about Ellie’s connection with Pamela Colman Smith here. This new relationship goes back a lot further: The facial feature similarity is a strong indicator of a past-life connection.
For eyes that see, Ellie’s Sun is conjunct Lisa’s natal Sun/Mars/Midheaven conjunction in Cancer. Lisa’s natal Moon is conjunct Ellie’s Descendant. The other links are notable, but I won’t bore you to tears.
Also, I’m always told by my youngest daughter, we are ONE, so anything which reminds us of that fact is to be welcomed. To whomever pointed out this resemblance between the Mona Lisa and Ellie, thank you. You have aided my reincarnation research in a way that is both surprising and insightful.
The Canadian flag is seen flying behind the National Archives building in Ottawa Friday, Feb 14, 2025 in Ottawa. Saturday marks the 60th Anniversary of the National Flag of Canada Day. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Fly the Flag (July 1, 2025)
It’s not new, but it definitely is different this year. The threat of becoming the 51st state has united Canadians as never before. It takes just one common ‘enemy’ to make it happen. We never thought it would be the United States of America.
I must admit to a need for a pinch of salt when it comes to the writings of Josephus. He was definitely on the side of the Romans after he got captured. The tone of his work, post-capture was that the Roman sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the 2nd Temple (in 70 AD) were ordained by God.
It’s the literal return of a “Jesus” which makes the whole thing suspicious.
7) THE LAST PROPHET: JESUS/JOSHUA “But a further portent was even more alarming. Four years before the war [in Tabernacles time in 62 C.E.] when the city was enjoying profound peace and prosperity, there came to the feast at which it was the custom of all Jews to erect tabernacles to God, one Joshua, [Another way of saying “Jesus” or “Y’Shua”] son of Ananias, a rude peasant, who, standing in the Temple, suddenly began to cry out, ‘A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds; a voice against Jerusalem and the sanctuary, a voice against the bridegroom and the bride, a voice against all the people.’
“Day and night he went about all the alleys with this cry on his lips. Some of the leading citizens, incensed at these ill-omened words, arrested the fellow and severely chastised him. But he without a word on his own behalf or for the private ear of those who smote him only continued his cries as before.
“Thereupon, the magistrates, supposing, as was indeed the case that the man was under some supernatural impulse, brought him before the Roman governor; there, although flayed to the bone with scourges, he neither sued for mercy nor shed a tear, but, merely introducing the most mournful of variations into his ejaculation [words from his mouth], responded to each stroke with ‘Woe to Jerusalem!’
“When Albinus, the [Roman] governor asked him who [he was] and whence he was [where he came from] and why he uttered these cries, he answered him never a word, but unceasingly reiterated his dirge over the city, until Albinus pronounced him a maniac and let him go.
“During the whole period up to the outbreak of the war he neither approached nor was seen talking to any of the citizens, but daily, like a prayer…repeated his lament, ‘Woe to Jerusalem!’ He neither cursed any of those who beat him from day to day, nor blessed those who offered him food: to all men that melancholy presage was his one reply. His cries were loudest at the festivals.
“So for seven years and five months he continued his wail, his voice never flagging nor his strength exhausted, until the siege, having seen his presage verified, he found his rest. For, while going his round and shouting in piercing tones from the wall, ‘Woe once more to the city and to the people and to the Temple,’ as he added a last word, ‘and woe to me also,’ a stone hurled from the ballista struck and killed him on the spot. So with those ominous words still on his lips he passed away.”
patheos.com
In a clever bit of foreshadowing, the writer of the Gospel of Luke wrote this::
41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Many people have suggested that the man we know as Jesus never existed, that he was a made up character who supposedly died 40 years before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus.
If an image, like the following one, appeared in the skies above Jerusalem, people would be amazed:
Photo taken by Morgan Barber and shared to me on January 30, 2025
But what if the Second Coming has, in fact, already happened in 70 AD? What if the whole focus should now be on the coming Kingdom of Heaven in 2070? The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
It’s taken me forever to get here, but I think the missing pieces are coming together.
Whitley Strieber’s YouTube channel posted a video two days ago that finally made sense. In it, his guest suggested that a soul can choose to come back to another incarnation even before its death. That would explain the anomalies that I have encountered while doing my reincarnation research. In particular, this one.
When a new being is born before the previous one dies, it makes a mockery of traditional reincarnation theories. How can a person/soul double up their lives? Foolish, aren’t we? But, I’m reminded, all things are possible with God.
So, when I write about a doubling up of lives through some very interesting past lives, I’m not mistaken.
Riots begin against police at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, inciting the first major protest, and subsequent international movement, for LGBTQ+ rights.
Something always lights the spark that starts a robust movement. In this case, a routine raid on a gay bar in NYC went wrong. Why? Because the police paddy wagons were delayed. Honestly!
The Stonewall riots started in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. According to a Daily News article from the time, the NYPD had obtained a warrant to raid the bar because it was illegally serving liquor. later accounts said the raid was precipitated by an anonymous tip that the Mafia was trading stolen bonds. In any case, it was the first time the NYPD did not give the managers advance notice of a raid. Around 1:20 a.m., a team of eight undercover officers, led by Pine, raided the bar. As was customary, the police began to check patrons’ identification. The routine raid did not go as planned, as patrol wagons for the arrested patrons took longer to arrive than expected. A scuffle broke out when a butch lesbian in handcuffs was escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon several times. The police tried to restrain some of the crowd and knocked a few people down, which incited bystanders even more. Eventually, the police were barricaded inside; the crowd was not cleared until 4:00 a.m.
Yes, Pluto inconjunct an Aries Ascendant can have that effect. It’s just strange that such a mighty movement should have such a simple start; but, then again, don’t they all?
In my manuscript “The Star of Bethlehem”, I suggested that the Second Coming of Christ could be the LGBTQ+ movement. Do you want to see what that looks like, astrologically?
The cover art for Ghost in the Machine features a sixteen-segment display-inspired graphic that depicts the heads of the three band members, each with a distinctive hairstyle.
A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man, calling for an end to the recent violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way. The Chinese government crushed a student-led demonstration for democratic reform and against government corruption, killing hundreds, or perhaps thousands of demonstrators in the strongest anti-government protest since the 1949 revolution. Ironically, the name Tiananmen means “Gate of Heavenly Peace”. (AP Photo/Jeff Widener)
Tiananmen Square Massacre (June 4, 1989)
This protest by Chinese students in Beijing has been effectively wiped out of the Chinese consciousness by the Communist authorities in the intervening years. But not everyone has forgotten. The “Tank Man” image (above) is indelibly marked on Westerners’ consciousness. And, knowing now what we didn’t know then, the West has had some reminders, lately, of what power Saturn and Neptune conjunct has.
Here’s a sanitized retrospective of the protests that went (oh, so) wrong.
By December, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union began to collapse..
With Saturn and Neptune conjunct again, this time in Aries, we have to ask: Have we learned anything?
When faced with the almighty power of the Roman Catholic Church, Galileo recanted his belief that the earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around. A man of science wouldn’t ordinarily do that. But when push comes to shove, he didn’t feel he had a choice.
According to Wikipedia, this was the judgement of the Church:
The sentence of the Inquisition was delivered on 22 June. It was in three essential parts:
Galileo was found “vehemently suspect of heresy” (though he was never formally charged with heresy, relieving him of facing corporal punishment),[157] namely of having held the opinions that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, that the Earth is not at its centre and moves, and that one may hold and defend an opinion as probable after it has been declared contrary to Holy Scripture. He was required to “abjure, curse and detest” those opinions.
He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition.[162] On the following day, this was commuted to house arrest, under which he remained for the rest of his life.
His offending Dialogue was banned; and in an action not announced at the trial, publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.