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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At 5:00 AM, I was Shown This Date in History

Posted on October 29, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Depression (really) Starts? (July 4, 1931)

Ninety-five years ago today, the Stock Market crashed. Historians consider that to be the start of the Great Depression. But, ‘something’ wants me to look at Independence Day 1931, instead. I wonder why?

Everything about this chart is arbitrary and speculative, and yet the resulting Ascendant in Libra is conjunct to the South Node. That implies that something happened in previous times that is echoed here.

Moon Inconjunct Ascendant

You tend to put your own emotional needs and wants second to whatever you feel has to be done. In other words, you are likely to be more disciplined emotionally than most people. But this is not good if you feel that your emotional needs are not important. Your needs must be fulfilled as much as anyone else’s, particularly because your feelings are really very powerful within yourself.

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

Because the timing is arbitrary, this description may be accidently correct. Still, it is interesting.

Independence Day (July 4, 2024)

This year has had some very challenging aspects. And, as the 4th year since COVID-19, the inflation/deflation financial concerns are starting to bite. Americans are not exactly suffering a depression, but when people cannot make their monetary ends meet, what’s the difference?

Hmm. Neptune on the Descendant: is this all a smokescreen? The Grand Trine of Uranus/Pluto/Ascendant is concerning. But this time, the Moon is conjunct the (arbitrary) Midheaven, so this could be a portend for something affecting the general population. The Moon/Midheaven is the apex of a Grand Trine involving Neptune (Saturn) and the Virgo Ascendant. Let’s blame the other side!

OK. This is where it gets a little freaky. If I hadn’t been shown the 1931 date, we wouldn’t be looking at this situation. The Nodes are repeating their placements in 1931. In fact, the 2024’s Moon is conjunct 1931’s Venus, while 2024’s Venus is conjunct 1931’s Pluto. Meanwhile, 1931’s Neptune is inconjunct 2024’s Pluto, and opposite 1931’s Moon. It’s like a circular argument, just going round and around.

Are we about to be hit with another Great Depression? Next year’s Saturn/Neptune conjunction seems to suggest that possibility.

Hmm.

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An Echo from 1939 at Madison Square Garden

Posted on October 28, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Trump NYC Rally (October 27, 2024)

You know what they say: if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Right, Donald?

In real terms, this was Trump’s Last Hurrah: he wanted to make sure he filled Madison Square Garden at least once in his life. He did that last night. (Did they bus people in from other states? I thought New York was a true blue state.) Jupiter is conjunct the Gemini Ascendant and Mercury is inconjunct it, in Scorpio. This is not a very good combination, for sure. Pluto is on the 9th House cusp, to add emphasis.

Nazi NYC Rally (February 20, 1939)

With everybody and his uncle comparing this recent event to the one in 1939, I thought it might be informative to see if there are any astrological connections.

This time, the Ascendant is at 0° Libra. Neptune is in the 12th House (of the Unconscious) and in opposition to the Moon in Pisces. There are four inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod, pointing at the Sun @ 1° Pisces, from the Ascendant and Pluto. That’s a lot to unpack, so I won’t be delineating the aspects.

The cycles of time turn until the right combination comes round again. These two charts show a distinctive connection between them: 2024’s Venus is conjunct 1939’s Mars, and 2024’s Mars is conjunct 1939’s Pluto. At the same time, 2024’s Saturn is conjunct 1939’s Jupiter. What the heck!

By the rhetoric and recent actions of the Trump campaign, it looks like he wants to be dictator for more than one day. The Harris campaign is right: this duck is a Fascist duck.

Quack!

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I’m About to Put the Cat Amongst the Pigeons

Posted on October 27, 2024 by cdsmiller17

The Battle of the Sexes (but not in the way you might think)

Have you noticed? Kamala argues with precision and logic; Trump hits back with bitchiness and slander. If the roles were reversed, you wouldn’t think anything of it, but here the genders are reversed and there’s a good reason for that.

Astrology is a great undercover detective. Both of these candidates have a Sun/Moon opposition in their birth charts. That means, as I have discovered over the years, that the individuals concerned have the traits of their opposite sex in spades. That is why some people with this configuration become ‘trans’.

In a YouTube discussion about Kamala Harris, I suggested that she is an honorary male. That then posed the question of why Donald Trump is the way he is, with his misogyny and hyper-masculinity façade. I guess it makes him a dis-honorary female. Without intending to, he has shown us what he doesn’t want us to see: that’s why he is so highly sexualized with, and abusive of, the other side. Do you see?

His ‘relationship’ with Roy Cohn (as shown in “The Apprentice”) was flirtatious. His sexual ‘adventures’ with women, over the years amounts to a ‘love them and leave them’ attitude. He is contemptuous of females in authority, and he is scathing of homosexual men. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Honestly, people, do you really want to return him to the White House?

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What is the Star Link Between These Two?

Posted on October 26, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk

When I first heard that the Starlink satellite system was cut off for Ukrainian soldiers in the early days of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, I thought, ‘Whose side is Elon Musk on?’ Well, now we know.

The conjunctions between their North/South Nodes seem to suggest a prior life connection. In other words, they were once comrades-in-arms in a past life. How else can you explain it?

Postscript

Instinctively, I knew there’d be a link between these two and Donald J Trump, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so conclusive: when I added Trump’s adjusted time chart to the mix, his (corrected) Ascendant is right between their two South Nodes. Now, doesn’t that just say it all?

Hmm.

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What Will Happen on November 5th, 2024?

Posted on October 25, 2024 by cdsmiller17

PsyCards

24: The Scales

The symbol stands for justice, moderation, prudence and a sense of balance in our affairs. It represents commonsense and a harmony with the world of nature.

32: The Fool

This character can stand for folly and stupidity of the sort that brings so many ventures to ruin in oneself and in other people. It can also symbolise the ‘holy fool’, the person who can tell us truths of a sort which a wise man cannot.

18: Destruction

War, vandalism, wanton and futile destruction are unfortunately part of human nature. This card depicts the element in our collective psychology.

36: The Puzzle

A card full of puzzling implications. In our lives we come face-to-face occasionally with situations where we are forced to make an agonising choice. There is often no clue given as to which course to take. This card reflects such a situation.

35: The Voyage

A card of movement and foreign connections, the likelihood of travel or a journey is suggested by this card. It could point to a holiday, or where new aspects of yourself will be found, or another voyage across your inner world, to uncolonised areas of the psyche.

26: The Wheel

This card represents the principle of things endlessly changing yet forever staying the same. It stands for constancy and persistence.

12: Fortune

The card signifies the quest ending in fulfilment. It stands for success achieved by good luck, persistence, and an increase in wealth.

Hmm.

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Some Thoughts About the US Elections, This Year

Posted on October 25, 2024 by cdsmiller17

“It’s a Tie”

If you are a pundit, you will have an informed opinion. If you’re an ordinary person, you will have hopes and fears. If you’re a politician, you’ll have your fingers crossed. The world is holding its breath.

Perhaps it’s the hype, perhaps it’s the truth, but I cannot remember a time when so much hinged on one election year. Will the United States of America continue their experiment, or will they evolve?

God only knows, and He’s not telling, because He has given the US free will to choose for itself.

“In God We Trust”

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At CNN’s Town Hall with Kamala Harris, Last Night:

Posted on October 24, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Trying to Be All Things to All People

It’s a binary world. That’s a fact, but politicians the world over want to appeal to the greatest number of voters, in order to win an election. Kamala Harris is no different. But some issues have too clearly defined demarcation lines to allow someone like her to straddle both camps.

The war between Israel and Gaza is a case in point: the US is supplying bombs and artillery shells to Israel, so that they can defend themselves. But those same armaments are decimating the people of Gaza. How can you defend America’s stance with respect to this conflict when the nightly newscasts are bringing images of atrocities to human life in Gaza into American’s homes? This feels like an echo of the Vietnam War in the late 60’s, early 70’s.

And the environment becomes another battleground: VP Harris won’t ban fracking, but she also wants to promote alternate ways of generating power, in order to work towards a ‘better future’. It’s the usual case of wanting your cake and eating it, too. People want their leaders to take stands that more respond to their own ways of thinking.

22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

1 Corinthians 9:22 NIV

But in the end, who wins, and who loses?

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