I Know, I Know: We’re All Feeling It

Posted on November 8, 2024 by cdsmiller17

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Just a Reminder: the Morning After the Night Before

Posted on November 6, 2024 by cdsmiller17

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This Artist Painted the 2nd Famous Painting in the World

Posted on November 5, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890)

There’s a sequence in one of the Doctor Who episodes where Vincent van Gogh gets to see a modern gallery exhibition of his work, and hear a description of his excellence from an expert art curator. It showed up in my YouTube feed, today.

Yes, it’s emotional. Imagine seeing how your work has impacted the world in the future. It’s also great theatre. But what about the man, himself?

This time was supposedly on his birth certificate. It’s close enough for jazz, in my opinion. That one inconjunct may tell the tale of his insanity, and the painful conflicts he endured, during his life.

Moon Inconjunct Ascendant

This aspect ties together in you a Moon sign and a rising sign that are very different. This indicates that the image you project to other people does not reveal very much about your real feelings. When you are upset, you surprise people by showing a totally different side of your personality.

It is very likely that while you are young you will attract people who are emotionally difficult to handle. This will continue until you learn to show your emotional side as well as the surface personality that you allow others to see. It is all right for people to see all the energies that make up your personality. Only by accepting yourself completely can you overcome this conflict.

Planets in Youth (page 139) by Robert Hand (1977)

The Starry Night (June 18, 1889)

In the aftermath of the 23 December 1888 breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum on 8 May 1889. Housed in a former monastery, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole catered to the wealthy and was less than half full when Van Gogh arrived, allowing him to occupy not only a second-story bedroom but also a ground-floor room for use as a painting studio.

During the year Van Gogh stayed at the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, the prolific output of paintings he had begun in Arles continued. During this period, he produced some of the best-known works of his career, including the Irises from May 1889, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the blue self-portrait from September 1889, in the Musée d’Orsay. The Starry Night was painted mid-June by around 18 June, the date he wrote to his brother Theo to say he had a new study of a starry sky.

Wikipedia

Using the information provided, and a pinch of my own intuition, I would say that this is the ‘exact’ time that Vincent saw the image of the starry sky out of his hospital window. Everything is where it should be. The Jupiter inconjunct the Neptune/Pluto conjunction also fits the ‘madness’ of his personality.

But out of that madness came a painting of great beauty and wonderment. Thank you, Vincent.

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This Man Analyzed the Psychology of the Crowd

Posted on November 4, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Gustav Le Bon (May 7, 1841 – December 13, 1931)

Ellie Dreams Down Under has done it again. Today’s video, which is part of her Human Ascension series, came out the day before the 2024 US elections. She called it “The Enemy Within”.

In this video Ellie has a chat with her A.I. assistant ‘Curiosity’ about Mass Psychosis. (I wonder who chose the personality of the bot for her: he sounds like a college educated Black man from the States.)

Gustav Le Bon is featured in this video, too. Surprisingly, I had never heard of him before, but his background sounds familiar. It made me wonder what his birth chart would reveal.

As his birth time is quoted on his birth certificate, we can reasonably rely upon its veracity. So, the first thing that stands out is his natal Moon position of being in opposition to his Gemini Ascendant. Hmm. That’s the clue that he could look at Mass Psychosis from a dispassionate point of view. His focus was on crowd behaviour. And, as you know, we have modern examples of fears being blown out of all proportion in order to incite large groups of people to do (and say) quite irrational things.

Enough said.

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His Fatal Flaw? A Heart That’s Too Big For His Body

Posted on November 3, 2024 by cdsmiller17

A Man Called Otto (2022)

Ironic, isn’t it? Tom Hanks always needs to be the person everyone likes. In this film, he is definitely playing against type. The fact that Rita, his wife, had something to do with the production is telling.

Otto’s backstory is told in a series of flashbacks, as he is reviewing his life during several of his suicide attempts.

Otto Anderson is a 63-year-old widower, living in a rowhouse in suburban Pittsburgh. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, Otto has become a cynical, fastidious crank. Pushed into retirement from his job at a steel plant, he cancels his utilities and plans to kill himself to join his late wife.

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Normally, I would avoid films like this, but someone in Susan’s family insisted that we would enjoy it.

I hadn’t realized that Hanks’ son, Truman, played his younger self. Susan noted his name in the opening credits but I didn’t recognize him during the film.

Here they are together at the premiere:

So, if you want a couple of hours of good amusing entertainment with a huge dollop of pathos, I can heartily recommend this film. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and, in the end, you’ll understand the life’s purpose of a seemingly grumpy old man whose heart was just too big for his body.

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Is This Man Trump’s Svengali?

Posted on November 2, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Stephen Miller (August 23, 1985)

I have avoided looking at this individual because I didn’t want to sully the reputations of the Miller clan. But, now I’m beginning to see that he seems to be the hidden puppet master when it comes to Trump and his policies. (And in a rare moment of insight, it’s a relief that his birth time is known.)

Because we can trust the timing of his birth, that one inconjunct may be very informative, without any speculation on my part.

Mercury Inconjunct Ascendant

You are likely to have some problems, but not serious ones, in communicating with others. The problem is that people’s first impression of you may not fit in with what you say or your manner of thinking and speaking. People tend to hear what they expect to hear, and they may not listen to you as carefully as they should. So you will have to be as clear as possible and insist that others listen to what you are really saying. If others do not understand you, it is up to you to set them straight.

This pattern also works in reverse in that what you say may make people respond in ways that you can’t accept. For example, you may be outspoken and frank but dislike it when others are, preferring to be treated gently and sensitively.

Planets in Youth (page 175) by Robert Hand (1977)

Hmm.

Looking at Miller’s chart with Trump’s, I cannot help but wonder if there’s a bit of a ‘bromance’ here: both charts have Venus @ 25° Cancer. Even their positions of the Moon are within 10° in Sagittarius. And, Miller’s Pluto is within 4° of Trump’s Mercury and 10° of Trump’s Mars, which is within 8° of Miller’s Mars. It goes without saying that their thinking runs along similar trains of thought.

Hmm, again.

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I Know It’s an Existential Question, But…

Posted on November 1, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Why was Trump Spared His Life from an Attempted Assassin’s Bullet?

You would have thought that he might have had a change of heart, like Ebenezer Scrooge after the visits by the three ghosts. Initially, he had a ‘small’ change of political approach to the election, but that didn’t last long. In fact, he came back nastier and more vengeful. A bit of, “How dare they?”

What he didn’t seem to understand was that you get back from the Universe what you put out there.

Does the Universe want him to be POTUS again? Or is this about free will: give the people a clear choice and they will do the right thing?

Anyway, lots of things have changed since that fateful evening in Butler, Pennsylvania. Imagine if it hadn’t.

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Re-electing the Former President is Like:

Posted on November 1, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Putting a Fox in Charge of the Hen House

He says he’ll protect the women “whether they like it or not.”

(Where have we heard that phrase before?)

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After All This Time, the Penny Finally Dropped

Posted on October 31, 2024 by cdsmiller17
Our wedding officiated by Rev. Ray Worth (pseudonym) on May 1, 2010

Ray Worth (October 3, 1941)

I kid you not. I’ve known Ray since 2010, when he agreed to marry Susan and I in Penetang. Later, when we moved to Midland in 2015, he invited me to join his Faith and Science book group (which meets twice a month in St. Paul’s United Church). Oh, did I forget to mention that Ray is an Anglican priest and that he had come out of retirement to perform our wedding at St. James-on-the-Line?

At any rate, I contacted Ray yesterday because, while revisiting the Wikipedia post of the “Swami of Baltimore” I suddenly recognized that Ray might actually be William Walker Atkinson reborn.

There’s no mistaking the resemblance. I asked Ray for his birth details, which he kindly sent me, and because his birth time is unknown, I randomized the chart for the time that I received the details.

The Moon/South Node/Ascendant conjunction in Pisces is striking. It looked familiar, I thought. Where had I seen that combination before? Oh, bloody heck, of course…

William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1852 – November 22, 1932)

There they are again, but this time in Gemini and joined with a close Uranus aspect, which might account for the need to write on spiritual matters. As Ray’s chart is totally randomized, this has to be proof that the Universe wanted this combination to be seen again.

But is Ray Worth the Reincarnation of William Walker Atkinson?

That’s the $64,000,000 question.

For a long time, I wondered if I was the reincarnation of the Swami. Now, I think I can relinquish that position to my good friend Ray. But my instincts were correct: I had some connection to this man from Baltimore, even if only as an associate in the present time. Isn’t astrology wonderful?

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The Difference is Night and Day

Posted on October 30, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Kamala Harris’ Ellipse Speech (October 29, 2024)

I guess you could call it the calm before a coming storm. Kamala Harris returned to the scene of the January 6th crime and attempted to undo the damages done there that day. Here, almost four years later, she is setting out the roadmap to a better and brighter future. Does the chart agree?

The energies are a bit scattered (as a shotgun discharge), as you can imagine during this turbulent time frame. There is one inconjunct linking the Sun in Scorpio with the Gemini Ascendant. Hmm.

Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” Speech (January 6, 2021)

This was the speech that fractured the American psyche. We have looked at the Storming of the Capitol, on the day, but this is the time when the fuse was lit before a seismic bomb went off in Washington, DC.

Always remember, folks, that a Mars/Uranus conjunction is cosmic shorthand for a lightning strike. The Moon is in Libra, in the 6th House, conjunct the Descendant. This event, therefore was against the will of the people.

Did Kamala’s Speech Undo the Harm of the Insurrection?

Combining the two charts shows where the energies are aligning, which is fairly much everywhere. Harris speech’s Part of Fortune is conjunct Trump speech’s Uranus. Her speech’s Jupiter is conjunct his speech’s North Node. Her speech’s Pluto is conjunct his speech’s Mercury/Part of Fortune conjunction.

In my humble opinion, I think the answer to my question is “yes”.

But is it enough to heal the psychic wounds of the country? That remains to be seen.

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