I guess something came up in my YouTube feed, featuring David Bowie’s song “Life on Mars?” It is considered one of Bowie’s best songs, and one where his cut-up lyrics paint a picture of a different time.
The resulting TV series on BBC was probably the last one I watched before returning to Canada in 2007. But it has stuck with me, all these years later.
This ending was supposed to be that final image of leaping off the building, but others thought it needed more, so we got this following ending instead. Emotionally, it is much more satisfying.
Now, the reason I’m revisiting the ‘scene of the crime’ is to remark, again, on the idea that there is a parallel time and place we visit when we’re in a NDE or coma. Some people would prefer to go to a heavenly place, but sometimes that doesn’t suit the individual who is looking for more meaning in his or her life. 1973 was a rough time in the past, but the political correctness of today’s modern age didn’t stop the police in Manchester from catching the bad guys and making the world a better place, then.
If Sam Tyler can go back to where he left off when he woke up from his coma by essentially committing suicide, then death has no hold on the rest of us. (I know it’s a fantasy, but that doesn’t undo what the truth might really be.) Now, Sam will be there ‘forever’, as his girlfriend suggested.
What makes the point for me is that, I, too, returned to my past life after living 22 years in the UK. Hmm.
It’s amazing when I think about being introduced to a fortune-telling tool when I was just a young lad. In the 1950’s reading tea leaves was all the rage. It went out of fashion (especially in Canada) when coffee at Tim’s became the norm.
Take a look at the illustration above: what do you see? My first impression was a camel and a pyramid, so a trip to Egypt might be on the cards. But other people will see other things, so it’s like an inkblot Rorschach test. I wonder if that’s where he got his ideas from.
I suspect that my early brush with Tasseography may have given rise to my lifelong spiritual quest. Hmm.
{Newt} Gingrich gained power and held sway in the House while behaving just as he had encouraged young Republicans to act before he had even been elected to Congress. He’d advised them to “learn to ‘raise hell,’ to stop being so ‘nice,’ to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat ‘war for power’—and to start acting like it.” If only he’d gotten accepted into art school.
Cohen, Brian Tyler. Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy (p. 15). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Honestly, I never knew. Maybe we should look at Newt Gingrich.
But, when I said ‘let’s look at’ him, I meant astrologically.
This chart was already on my computer program, but it was listed as Harrisburg NY, so I suspect they didn’t get the Wikipedia memo. It was also listed as being BC quoted, when, in fact, all astrology sites list his birth time as conflicting/unverified. What I suspect happened is someone rectified his chart, based on the placement of Venus @ age 19 when he married his first wife. There is one inconjunct.
Moon Inconjunct Jupiter
This aspect indicates that you have a positive, optimistic outlook on life, and you enjoy socializing with good friends. However, there are some dangers with this aspect. First, it can be a sign that you are self-indulgent and possibly even selfish, although this is not likely to happen if you have a good, strong relationship with your mother. You have a great need to be cared for and supported, to be accepted for what you are with no strings attached. If this need is fulfilled, the positive side of this aspect will flourish. But if your mother does not support your needs fully, you will feel insecure and will look elsewhere for support and fulfillment. In this case your concern will be totally for yourself with little thought for other people’s needs.
Planets in Youth (pages 124-5) by Robert Hand (1977)
Now, I was going to comment that this seems a bit like Trump, but his Moon is in opposition to the Sun and Uranus. Trump’s only inconjunct connects Neptune and the Midheaven.
So maybe Brian Tyler Cohen is correct: the nastiness in American politics started with Newt Gingrich.
I don’t claim to know everything (or anything) about Taoism, but Wikipedia has a long passage about it.
Tao (or Dao) can mean way, road, channel, path, doctrine, or line. The Tao is a natural order that enables all things to exist and dominate every action, not so much through force as through a natural curvature of space and time. It is the origin and power of all creation – its essence is unknown, but it can be observed in its manifestation – this is behind the operation and change of nature. Livia Kohn describes the Tao as “the underlying cosmic power which creates the universe, supports culture and the state, saves the good and punishes the wicked. Literally ‘the way’, Tao refers to the way things develop naturally, the way nature moves along and living beings grow and decline in accordance with cosmic laws.” The Tao is ultimately indescribable and transcends all analysis and definition. Thus, the Tao Te Ching begins with: “The Tao that can be told is not eternal Tao.” Likewise, Louis Komjathy writes that the Tao has been described by Taoists as “dark” (xuan), “indistinct” (hu), “obscure” (huang), and “silent” (mo).
According to Komjathy, the Tao has four primary characteristics: “(1) Source of all existence; (2) Unnamable mystery; (3) All-pervading sacred presence; and (4) Universe as cosmological process.” As such, Taoist thought can be seen as monistic (the Tao is one reality), panenhenic (seeing nature as sacred), and panentheistic (the Tao is both the sacred world and what is beyond it, immanent and transcendent). Similarly, Wing-Tsit Chan describes the Tao as an “ontological ground” and as “the One, which is natural, spontaneous, eternal, nameless, and indescribable. It is at once the beginning of all things and the way in which all things pursue their course.” The Tao is thus an “organic order”, which is not a willful or self-conscious creator, but an infinite and boundless natural pattern.
Furthermore, the Tao is something that individuals can find immanent in themselves, as well as in natural and social patterns. Thus, the Tao is also the “innate nature” (xing) of all people, a nature which is seen by Taoists as being ultimately good. In a naturalistic sense, the Tao as visible pattern, “the Tao that can be told”, that is, the rhythmic processes and patterns of the natural world that can be observed and described. Thus, Kohn writes that Tao can be explained as twofold: the transcendent, ineffable, mysterious Tao and the natural, visible, and tangible Tao.
Are you getting the picture? When I saw the Bronze script for Tao, I was immediately struck by the resemblance to the Tree of Life in the Kabbalah. (I know, I know, I’m showing off how I make cosmic leaps of faith, but the point is that the middle ‘way’ is flanked by two outside pillars.) The triple top is open-ended, the shape in the middle is a prison cell (?) and the bottom tails off slightly to the left. After all Chinese writing is actually a pictogram.
This image is the modern form of Tao, but it seems to be missing some elements of the Bronze one. Just sayin’.
And just to show that I’m not the first one to make this connection, check this out:
I’ve written about this previously, in a post about the Number of the Beast (in April 2018): at the time, I was still hooked on the idea that we would need a computer chip in or on our body to activate the ability to buy or sell, but without cash. I even speculated that credit cards already served that purpose. But I missed the obvious, didn’t I?
Is this the system that is intended to replace cash reserves and the Gold Standard?
It has been noted before that Paul is barefoot here and out of step with the other members, which shouldn’t really be a surprise because Paul is left-handed. But the timing of the photoshoot gave us a different kind of snapshot of the group’s energy.
Long ago, and far away, I wrote a chapter in my book “At This Point in Time” about the night the Beatles conquered America. Here is an excerpt:
If one wants to find something in a chart, it is amusing how easy it is to do so. In this case, I looked for the Beatles’ individual personalities to show themselves as planetary symbols, and I found them: John Lennon is the Sun (the leader of the group); Paul McCartney is Mars (the motivator to get them to work); and Ringo Starr is Saturn (the old man in the back who keeps time for them). All three planets are in Aquarius (group-oriented activities) in the 5th house (wanting to ‘get to the top’). So, where is George Harrison? Well, he is Neptune (the mystical one) in Scorpio (in search of deep meaning), all by himself in the 2nd house (anti-materialism).
Miller, Christopher. At This Point in Time: Charting the History of the Human Spirit (Kindle Locations 1353-1358). BookBaby. Kindle Edition.
I wanted to remind everyone about the planets that represent the Beatles individually in the chart, so that I could help you see what the energies were during that tumultuous time in 1969. There are three inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod pointing at Mars. And the Sun is completely left out of those configurations.
The way I see it now, in hindsight, is that Paul (Mars) was at loggerheads with Ringo (Saturn), and Linda (Venus). George (Neptune) was not seeing eye-to-eye with Yoko (the Moon). John (the Sun) was already out the door, by himself, figuratively speaking. Hmm.
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
