As Canadians, we know their songs. Even Americans, of a certain age, do, too. Here’s two of them:
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They were popular in the 1970’s but they didn’t fade away, as you’d expect. In fact, especially in Andy Kim’s case, his voice is stronger than ever. Dan’s has been ravaged by the years and medical problems.
But, and this is not a criticism, just an observation, Dan’s music is melodic and full of complex musical chords, Andy’s is simpler and more straightforward. In fact, one song had only two chord changes.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
King James Version
Think about those words. It’s what every good Christian wants, but no one suggested that we had to go through a period of time where a man named Trump took over the world’s communication systems,
Funny, isn’t it? I have tried to be scrupulous about making sure that all the ‘i’s are dotted and the ‘t’s crossed, but sometimes I just gap it, which I only realize much, much later when a YouTube video reminds me of something about the person.
When I researched Bob’s birth chart, I was met with an incongruity: the Sun was listed in Scorpio, while the Moon was posted as Aquarius. Huh!? Evidently, there must be a lot of gullible people out there, who take astrological data at face value without enquiring further. Here’s what Microsoft’s Copilot wrote:
Sun in Scorpio (23° 33’): Scorpio individuals are known for their intensity, determination, and curiosity. They delve deep into mysteries and seek hidden truths.
Moon in Aquarius (8° 13’): Aquarius Moons are innovative, independent, and humanitarian. They value freedom and often have unique perspectives.
Mercury in Scorpio (14° 30’): Mercury in Scorpio indicates a probing mind, keen intuition, and a desire to uncover secrets.
Venus in Libra (20° 20’): Venus in Libra suggests a love for harmony, beauty, and social connections.
Mars in Aries (2° 0’): Mars in Aries is assertive, energetic, and action-oriented.
Jupiter in Gemini (retrograde, 2° 3’): Retrograde Jupiter in Gemini may indicate a reflective approach to expansion and learning.
Saturn in Capricorn (0° 20’): Saturn in Capricorn emphasizes discipline, responsibility, and ambition.
Uranus in Sagittarius (29° 4’): Uranus in Sagittarius seeks freedom through exploration and unconventional ideas.
Neptune in Capricorn (8° 18’): Neptune in Capricorn blends practicality with spiritual awareness.
Pluto in Scorpio (12° 57’): Pluto in Scorpio signifies transformation, power, and regeneration.
North Node in Pisces (retrograde, 10° 14’): Retrograde North Node in Pisces suggests a karmic focus on spiritual growth and empathy.
Chiron in Cancer (retrograde, 6° 32’): Retrograde Chiron in Cancer relates to healing emotional wounds and nurturing others.
None of that seems right, so I wonder if the AI Chat bot read the wrong chart analysis (perhaps for a different person). At any rate, the Moon/Pluto conjunction in the 5th House speaks to his being a child progeny. The Moon is inconjunct to the Midheaven, and the Sun is inconjunct to Pluto.
Sun Inconjunct Pluto (absolutely)
There will be many changes in your life, and you will be affected by deep psychological forces that may be difficult to understand at times, as well as confusing to the people around you. You approach people with great intensity, and your emotional involvements are seldom casual. Either you like people very much or you dislike them intensely. Possibly your attitudes on other matters will be extreme also. One of the most important lessons that you will have to learn is to be more moderate.
Planets in Youth (page 94) by Robert Hand (1977)
Moon Inconjunct Midheaven (perhaps)
Work very hard to develop an objective awareness of what you are doing and where you are going. You will need this understanding to guide your emotions, which might otherwise lead you astray and make it difficult for you to focus on your goals. Even though you won’t have to choose a career or a purpose in life for many years, you can learn how to have good perception, which will make it easier to choose later on.
I won’t belabour this point. The event chart, which I have set for 5:00 pm yesterday, says it all.
A Yod points at the Ascendant @ 1° Scorpio 29′. It is formed by an inconjunct to Jupiter @ 1° Gemini 09′, and an inconjunct to Neptune @ 29° Pisces 39′. Pluto is square to the Ascendant and in opposition to the Midheaven. (And Pluto is also in opposition to the chart’s Part of Fortune.) Hmm
No doubt there are skeptics out there that wonder if it is even possible for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to appear to simple folk who live in countries where Roman Catholic beliefs are unshakable. I wonder, too.
Third apparition
Juan Diego returned immediately to Tepeyac and, encountering the Virgin Mary reported the bishop’s request for a sign; she condescended to provide one on the following day (December 11).
Juan Diego, hoja religiosa, etching by José Guadalupe Posada, n.d. but possibly pre-1895
By Monday, December 11, however, Juan Diego’s uncle Juan Bernardino had fallen sick and Juan Diego was obliged to attend to him. In the very early hours of Tuesday, December 12, Juan Bernardino’s condition having deteriorated overnight, Juan Diego set out to Tlatelolco to get a priest to hear Juan Bernardino’s confession and minister to him on his death-bed.
Fourth apparition
In order to avoid being delayed by the Virgin and embarrassed at having failed to meet her on the Monday as agreed, Juan Diego chose another route around the hill, but the Virgin intercepted him and asked where he was going; Juan Diego explained what had happened and the Virgin gently chided him for not having had recourse to her. In the words which have become the most famous phrase of the Guadalupe event and are inscribed over the main entrance to the Basilica of Guadalupe, she asked: “¿No estoy yo aquí que soy tu madre?” (“Am I not here, I who am your mother?”). She assured him that Juan Bernardino had now recovered and she told him to climb the hill and collect flowers growing there. Obeying her, Juan Diego found an abundance of flowers unseasonably in bloom on the rocky outcrop where only cactus and scrub normally grew. Using his open mantle as a sack (with the ends still tied around his neck) he returned to the Virgin; she rearranged the flowers and told him to take them to the bishop. On gaining admission to the bishop in Mexico City later that day, Juan Diego opened his mantle, the flowers poured to the floor, and the bishop saw they had left on the mantle an imprint of the Virgin’s image which he immediately venerated.
Just so we are on the same page, this apparition happened about 10 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The priests and monks imported the ideas of the Virgin Mary from Spain.
The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Guadalupe, Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain was the most important of the shrines to the Virgin Mary in the medieval Kingdom of Castile. It is one of the many dark- or black-skinned Madonnas in Spain and is revered in the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, in the town of Guadalupe, from which numerous Spanish conquistadors stem.
The most popular etymology of the name “Guadalupe” is from the Arabic “Wadi” (river) and the Latin word “lupus” (wolf). Some find it unlikely that Arabic and Latin would be combined in this way, and suggest as an alternative the Arabic “Wadi-al-lub”, signifying a river with black stones in its bed.
Wikipedia
Ah, now we’re getting some place. Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary at a grotto containing water.
Up until 1858, Lourdes was a sleepy country town with a population of around 4,000 hosting an infantry garrison in the castle, a transit point to the waters at Barèges, Cauterets, Luz-Saint-Sauveur and Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and for mountaineers on their way to Gavarnie.
Then on 11 February 1858, the 14-year-old local girl Bernadette Soubirous claimed a beautiful lady appeared to her in the remote grotto of Massabielle. The lady later identified herself as the Immaculate Conception and the faithful believed her to be the Blessed Virgin Mary. She appeared 18 times, and by 1859 thousands of pilgrims were visiting Lourdes. A statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was erected at the site in 1864.
But then, the sightings of the three children of the Blessed Virgin in Portugal in the early 20th century makes no special mention of water nearby, or does it?
Since the 18th century, Fátima has been associated with events related to Marian apparitions. The first supposed apparition dates back to the mid 18th century in Ortiga, now a quarter of Fátima, when, according to popular belief, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young, mute shepherdess and asked for one of her sheep, causing the girl to speak in response. This event supposedly incited the creation of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ortiga in 1758, which, in 1801, prompted Pope Pius VII to grant an indulgence to all pilgrims visiting the Marian shrine.
Later in the early 20th century, a similar event took place in which three local children, Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, purportedly saw visions of a woman known as Our Lady of Fátima, since believed by the Catholic Church to be the Virgin Mary. On 13 May 1917, whilst guarding their families’ sheep in the Cova da Iria, the children first claimed to have seen an apparition of a “lady dressed in white” and shining with a bright light.
I have previous written about Bernadette’s vision at Lourdes, and the children’s visions at Fatima.
Now let’s put these three sightings together.
What is interesting to me is how these three events dovetail with each other, without having a direct planetary link for all three. In fact, I would suggest that the Mexican and Portuguese events are more connected than the Lourdes sighting by Bernadette. The reason for this is perhaps that there was physical proof that others witnessed. The Mexico City North Node is (almost) exactly conjunct the Fatima Midheaven. That has to count for something, right?
This exercise was intended to see if Chris Bledsoe’s visitation by the Lady in White is also connected.
At first glance, I thought, “no.” But maybe I was being too hasty. There are links, but they seem to be more in line with the “Miracle of the Sun” event at Fatima. So, that raises the question:
Are these apparitions connected to Unidentified Flying Objects?
Jury Deliberations Begin @ 11:28 am EDT (May 29, 2024)
Let’s not make too fine a point of this: Trump’s fate now rests with the 12 people of the jury in his election interference case in Manhattan, New York. Here’s the event chart:
It’s interesting that the Moon is conjunct the Descendant. Here’s Ellie’s YouTube video about that very thing, this morning. Notice that the Moon is reversed for the jury (second row of the Tarot reading).
I’m highlighting the Moon card being revealed at 15:30 of the video.
Now let’s see how this affects the defendant.
The two Ascendants are within 8° of each other. Is that significant? I think so.
“No One Comes to the Father, Except Through Me.” (John 14:6)
My understanding of this saying is that Jesus was hinting at his position in the Jewish Kabbalah Tree of Life, namely Beauty, the heart centre of the MIDDLE way. Some suggest that he never said this, because they ask, “Why would he?” Ah, that’s the rub. If the Gospel of John was written by someone who was steeped in Jewish mysticism, then this would be an interpretation of Christ’s mission on earth.
But there are other versions of the Tree of Life, this one being from the Essene morning and evening communions, as we have previously looked at, but without an illustration. Check this out:
Notice the small human figure sitting in front of the trunk of the Tree, with his lower half in the Earth and the upper half in the Air. Man’s dual nature is fully on display, here. The bridging part between the upper and lower is the heart. (Hint, hint: the number 7 is significant.)
Now, let’s return to the Kabbalah Tree of Life, with spiritual attributes.
Ah, “Compassion”. (Don’t you just love it when several thoughts converge?)
I was watching a YouTube video of Aaron Abke being interviewed for a channel called “Know Thyself”, which is quite significant, at least to me. He was quoting Essene beliefs, written by Philo in his book, “Every Good Man is Free”. Because I suspect that TJA is a past life of mine, this individual would have been my uncle.
To put this all into perspective, the Gospels, as recorded in the New Testament, could have been crafted with my help, since I had access to Philo’s manuscripts and research. It’s not a great stretch of the imagination. Josephus was not the only Jewish writer in the 1st century in the Common Era.
Since Philo’s birth and death details are also missing, I cannot confirm or deny a relationship to him.
I spend a great deal of my time, lately, reviewing YouTube videos that have a more ‘spiritual’ basis. Once in a while, I find someone (or something) that actually inspires me to dig further, like this:
Now, what makes this good for me is that Aaron Abke is another preacher’s kid, so I can relate to where he’s coming from. He has a great teacher vibe, so I thought it might be useful to do his birth chart.
This chart is rectified, based on his age when he got married and started preaching himself. There’s a double Yod pointing at Mars, which is not dependent on a correct birth time. And as I was rectifying the chart, a thought kept coming to me: is he a reincarnation of Jesus in the modern times in the USA?
Oh, lordy, lordy! I could barely believe my eyes when I saw this: their Ascendants are only 1° apart.
I can only point the way: the rest I’ll leave up to your own imagination.
Susan bought me a book last weekend. It was about Trump, but from the perspective of a right-wing political fan. I don’t want to read it. But I considered doing enough research on its author in order to form an objective opinion about him. However, the last five minutes of my dream this morning, just before waking up to the day, involved listening to someone important (with a family relationship to someone else in my work environment) and deciding not to say anything at all.
So, there you have it: my final words were, “I’m making no comment.”
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I’m Beginning to Resemble a Comic Strip Character
Milquetoast (1937?)
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Susan bought me a book last weekend. It was about Trump, but from the perspective of a right-wing political fan. I don’t want to read it. But I considered doing enough research on its author in order to form an objective opinion about him. However, the last five minutes of my dream this morning, just before waking up to the day, involved listening to someone important (with a family relationship to someone else in my work environment) and deciding not to say anything at all.
So, there you have it: my final words were, “I’m making no comment.”