Once Upon a Time, Your Words Could Get You Burned at the Stake

Posted on September 23, 2020 by cdsmiller17

Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600)

I’ve written about one aspect of Giordano Bruno‘s life before: it was part of the opening chapter of my “Star of Bethlehem” manuscript. It concerned whether one should even cast the horoscope of Jesus of Nazareth. It makes me wonder if the same ‘rules’ that operated more than 400 years ago would have had the same result, today, for me.

(A subsequent search showed that it wasn’t Bruno in that introductory chapter…)

I decided to look at Bruno’s birth chart, but that’s where the first difficulty gets presented: no one knows exactly ‘when’ he was born, let alone ‘what time’. Most biography sites state that it was January or February in 1548. When I went looking for a birth chart done by someone else, the suggested date was March 30th, old style. They also had a time that was obviously randomized. So I’m going with that…

This looks ‘inspired’. Uranus is the apex of a double Yod, involving the Sun and Mercury (on one side) and Mars (on the other). And Mars is conjunct to Pluto. I would say that Uranus is ‘out on a limb’ here, in Virgo. But how much can we rely upon the chart? I have no idea, really. But my instinct is to go with it.

His ‘execution’ chart is a little more precise, in that the date and place is known in history. The timing is also randomized by me, but I think it shows enough to suggest that it’s ‘real’.

This time there is an inconjunct between the Moon and Venus (with the Moon sitting in conjunction with Jupiter and Pluto on either side). When you combine the two charts, the bigger picture appears:

The original Yod in Bruno’s birth chart is now accentuated by Pluto and the Midheaven in his ‘fatal’ chart. So, Uranus is the reason he was executed by the Roman Catholic Church. He was four centuries too far ahead of his time to be tolerated. He would have been better accepted today. Sometimes, it cannot be helped. Truth is truth, no matter when it was stated.

So, just for fun, I compared my own birth chart to Bruno’s. We’re connected, for sure. But it could be that my life’s purpose is ‘just’ to carry on with his work. Who knows?

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A Show that Dials Up Space Adventure

Posted on September 23, 2020 by cdsmiller17

Stargate SG-1 (1997 – 2007)

So here’s the thing: I never watched a single episode of this sci-fi show, but now I think I should have. It was obviously a catalyst for David Wilcock, especially in its early years, because he wrote extensively about it in his book “The Ascension Mysteries”. I wrote a post about the ‘IP’ address for Earth, but got it completely wrong, because I focused on the wrong end of the list of digits. (And this obviously proves that Pluto is not considered a planet by our “Space Brothers”.)

The first three digits of any stargate address are single numbers between 1 and 9. The next three sets of digits are between 1 and 99. The final set of digits will be between 1 and 999. Almost any number you dial, except perhaps for the highest numbers in the final three-digit set, will take you to an inhabited world. If you are traveling locally, a three-digit number will suffice. The local gate address for Mars is 605, and Earth is 606, so keep that in mind if you ever get lost. Some of the higher three-digit numbers do not have planets assigned to them in our local area. Once the people on a given planet ascend, their number is reassigned to new planets. Now that enough time has passed and no other insiders have come forward with this information, I will finally reveal our entire gate address after all these years, according to Daniel’s testimony. It is 7.5.3.84.70.24.606.

Wilcock, David. The Ascension Mysteries (p. 310). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

OBIT

By the time I met Daniel, I had already read about a technology called Project Looking Glass from three other sources. Looking Glass was allegedly a complex device that allowed the user to peer through time. Daniel confirmed the existence of Looking Glass and said that a sphere of white light appears in the area you are viewing. It may or may not be visible, depending on a variety of factors including the consciousness of the people in the area. Daniel said this sphere of light was called an OBIT, or Outer Band Individuated Teletracer. He said the outer band was a part of Earth’s hidden energetic field that the insiders had identified. Suddenly I had an idea. “Let’s look it up online right now!” We ran over to his laptop and typed the full term into a search engine. Both of us were quite astonished to discover that an episode of the television show The Outer Limits had this same title. It aired on November 4, 1963. The Internet Movie Database has a description of this show that reads, in part, “The Outer Band Individuated Teletracer, or O.B.I.T., is a remarkable technology that can track and monitor any individual, anywhere, for any length of time!” Daniel revealed that a great deal of information was being released through fiction. That way, if anyone ever tried to come forward, they could simply be accused of borrowing ideas from a movie, book, or television program.

Wilcock, David. The Ascension Mysteries (p. 311). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

And that seems to be what goes through anyone’s mind when they read David’s words.

Here’s an excerpt from that particular episode:

David Wilcock’s live YouTube presentation last week repeated a lot of these points, but took 4 hours and 22 minutes to do so. If you have the time and the patience, here it is:

It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to picture that we are not the brightest sparks in the Universe. And our ignorance of ourselves will be our own undoing, some day.

So, my friend, “Know thyself.”

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“Found a Peanut!” (again)

Posted on September 22, 2020 by cdsmiller17
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The Title is Misleading: It’s the Girl Who’s Lost

Posted on September 22, 2020 by cdsmiller17
Image courtesy of Amazon

The Lost Husband (2020)

A quietly satisfying film, this one was on Netflix last night.

After the sudden death of her husband, Libby is forced to move in with her hypercritical mother. Out of the blue, her estranged Aunt Jean offers an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Life on Aunt Jean’s goat farm is more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is quiet – deep, country quiet. But there is also a shaggy, gruff farm manager with a tragic home life, a feed-store clerk who claims she can contact her husband on “the other side,” and the eccentric aunt she never really knew but who turns out to be exactly who she needs. (IMDb)

Ordinarily, I run away from watching ‘romance’ movies. They’re always so picture perfect greeting cards ( hence Hallmark makes them) that there is no reality to them. This film is different. Libby seems to be a woman wiped clean of any artifice. Some of the photography actually catches Leslie Bibb’s scars on occasion. It feels very real.

The old house on her aunt’s property holds the key to the missing part of Libby’s story. I won’t reveal what that is exactly, so as not to spoil your enjoyment of it, should you choose to watch the film someday. But the other scene that plays out there is important.

Sometimes our biggest regrets have to do with not telling someone we love what we want to say to them. Especially if they die before we can. But this film shows how it can be done. Sunshine, the granddaughter of Aunt Jean’s boyfriend, seems to have a spiritual side to her that pops out every once in a while, and creeps people out, especially Libby. But Sunshine persuades Libby to visit the porch of the old house in the night, and she sets some candles out, and gets Libby to close her eyes. Asking that anyone who might be there to send them a sign, Sunshine gets asked by Libby, “How will we tell? Our eyes are closed…” Libby then asks to take over. She talks to her ‘lost’ husband, Danny (who died in an automobile accident), expressing regret for not being more communicative and for changing the routine that day which put him in harm’s way. After she finished, a mighty wind blew out the candles in one great whoosh. Sunshine tells Libby that she’d ‘nailed it’. The seance has worked, because Libby starts to feel better about her situation.

Herizen F. Guardiola as Sunshine

Before watching this film, I never realized how beautiful small town Texas could be, especially in winter. The town, Atwater, looks totally authentic. Even the saloon ‘feels’ real. And the farm scenes are the most breathtaking of all, especially the sunsets.

This film has some great moments, some quiet despair, and a satisfying resolution.

I can recommend it to anyone who is tired of being stuck in an urban setting for six months or more. You will find a freedom of being ‘lost’ in its landscape. Bless.

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Canada’s 17th Prime Minister Held That Office for 79 Days

Posted on September 21, 2020 by cdsmiller17

John Turner (June 7, 1929 – September 19, 2020)

His is the story that didn’t turn out the way we all expected it to. His tenure as Prime Minister lasted from June 30, 1984 until September 17, 1984. Then he became the Leader of the Opposition during Brian Mulroney’s time in office, until 1990.

He died in his sleep, early Saturday morning.

This is a rectified time (rated C on most astrology sites). My own computer program had a time of 1:30 pm, but that made some of the planetary placements a little ‘too late’ to be correct. Uranus represents his being a Rhodes Scholar. Venus represents his marriage at almost 33 years of age.

The North Node seems to indicate the timing of his becoming Leader of the Liberal Party in Canada. Jupiter may be when he returned to civilian life. (And, if I’m honest, this could have been even further rectified by another half hour more, but it’s good enough for our purposes.) That inconjunct between his Nadir/Saturn and Jupiter says it all. It wasn’t meant to be…

This is John Turner’s death chart. By itself, it shows the stresses that we’re all under at this particular time. How they affected him is demonstrated when you combine the two charts.

Since Mr. Turner died in his sleep, the exact time of his death is not known, with some news reports suggesting late Friday night, others, early Saturday morning. I’ve chosen 1:00 am because it pulls two powerful conjunctions into focus: the ‘death’ Ascendant with his ‘natal’ Pluto; and his ‘fatal’ Sun with his ‘birth’ Ascendant. This shows what a ‘natural’ death would look like. And the one bright spark is the conjunction between his ‘natal’ Mars and the ‘fatal’ Venus.

His Royal Claim to Fame

The young lawyer caused a stir when he danced with Princess Margaret at a party in 1959, giving rise to speculation that the two would become a couple. The two remained friends for life. (The Guardian, yesterday)

To see an excerpt from the letter that Margaret wrote a friend from Kensington Palace on May 16, 1966, see this post from the CBC in 2015.

(And, surprisingly, I’d never known this before.)

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Hidden in Plain Sight: a Spiritual Exercise

Posted on September 21, 2020 by cdsmiller17
Robot cat and mouse

Autostereograms

Do you remember when these hidden 3D images were all the rage? I couldn’t always see what was there, but once in a while the picture would suddenly ‘appear’ and I ‘saw’.

That’s what spiritual vision does, too. Trust me, I know.

So, for a little bit of fun, try ‘seeing’ what these images are:

Cars in front of a street lamp
Rabbit in bushes
Three rabbits
Revolver
Julia

Weird, eh?

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The Most Fun a Bond Arch-Villain Can Have

Posted on September 21, 2020 by cdsmiller17

Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe)

“Tall, portly built German born actor (and talented violinist) who notched up over 100 film appearances, predominantly in German-language productions. He will forever be remembered by Western audiences as the bombastic megalomaniac “Auric Goldfinger” trying to kill Sean Connery and irradiate the vast US gold reserves within Fort Knox in the spectacular “James Bond” film Goldfinger (1964). However, due to Fröbe’s thick German accent, his voice was actually dubbed by English actor, Michael Collins.

“Whilst commonly perceived as cold hearted & humourless from his Goldfinger (1964) portrayal, quite to the contrary, Fröbe was a jovial man and a wonderful comedic performer. His light hearted talents can be best viewed in The Berliner (1948), Der Tag vor der Hochzeit (1952), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965). Fröbe also portrayed dogged detective Kriminalkommissar Kras/Lohmann pursuing the evil Dr. Mabuse in The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960), The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) and The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962).” (IMDb)

On the contrary, I can honestly say that, after watching “Goldfinger” for the first time in years, this actor was quietly smiling through all his “nasty” appearances in the film.

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Death Imitating Art

Posted on September 20, 2020 by cdsmiller17

The Postcard Killings (2020)

I don’t normally highlight a murder mystery movie, unless it is extemely well done, or of cultural significance. This one is both.

As this was released in March, it may have been one of the last films to see the light of day before the pandemic.

Unfortunately, the viewing public and the film critics generally did not enjoy it. Maybe it was too gruesome.

The art works, that the killings were imitating, make an interesting story, in themselves.

Saturn Devouring His Son (Goya)

The Scream (Munch)

The Kiss (Rodin)

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (Caravaggio)

Dante and Virgil in Hell (Özcan)

The Kiss (Klimt)

As the movie is a virtual tour of Europe and (more importantly) museums of art, it will make its mark, one day, when we no longer visit such places in the flesh (as it were).

We shall see…but, in the end, does any of it really matter?

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O2: Advertising SubliminalS EXposed

Posted on September 20, 2020 by cdsmiller17

You & Me

My daughter, Rosanna, sent me the link to this new O2 commercial in the UK. Cute, eh?

Rosanna has previously shown me that she inherited my keen awareness of subliminal messages, but this time she put two-and-two together that even I hadn’t seen.

(M)AKE
SE….X

Honestly, blink and you’d miss it!

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Sonny to Cher: “I Got You, Babe”

Posted on September 20, 2020 by cdsmiller17

Not a particularly happy-looking couple, were they?

Have you ever wondered why? Sonny was more than a decade older than Cher, so it holds that he may have played a significant ‘father-figure’ role in her life. She needed a place to stay, he let her move in despite the fact that he didn’t find her attractive.

Here’s Cher’s chart:

Ah, there it is: Saturn in Cancer in Cher’s 1st House (Personality), opposite her Moon in Capricorn in the 7th House (Relationships). These two positions are in reciprocal mode. Also the Moon is inconjunct Uranus, and Mercury is inconjunct Jupiter. Cher would have been chaffing at the bit for freedom, almost from the get-go of ANY relationship.

Here’s Sonny’s chart:

I’m trusting that Sonny’s birth time is accurate, as it was already on my Kepler 7.0 computer program. Just the usual stresses here: no inconjuncts. Therefore, no axes to grind. He’s a Libra Rising individual, which means that relationships came naturally to him. However, that Mars in Libra in the 1st House may indicate that he had a temper, and its opposition to Uranus in Aries may also indicate that he had a quick-fire one.

Now, let’s look at the combined charts:

There are good connections between them, but also some uncomfortable ones, too. The strong link is between Sonny’s Ascendant and Cher’s Neptune. She would have felt a bit like a mystery to him. His Moon is conjunct her Pluto/Mars aspect. His Pluto is conjunct her Saturn, which means that he would have shaken her to the core of her being. And her Part of Fortune is conjunct his Sun/Mercury aspect. That’s evident by what happened to them after “I Got You, Babe” exploded onto the scene in the middle 1960’s.

Halfway through their 11 year marriage, they had a little girl, Chastity (who later transgendered into Chaz). That name came from a film that Cher starred in, in 1969.

Cher to Sonny: “Oh, No, You Don’t.”

Sonny and Cher divorced in 1975 and Cher went on to get involved with Gregg Allman, having a son, Elijah Blue, in July 1976. Cher also started her solo career in music and TV.

The peak of Cher’s career finally happened in the 1990’s:

Then Sonny died in a skiing accident in January 1998:

The Yods in this chart combination demonstrate the ‘fated’ quality of Sonny’s death.

The result was that Cher realized that she still had strong feelings about him:

Her eulogy at his funeral says it all:

And so, for ever and a day, here’s the last time they sang that song, in 1987:

Bless.

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