In the show, The Signal, Sven and Paula’s 10th anniversary was St. Nicholas Day. The event at the end of the series was three months after the Paula’s original (publicized) prediction. That’s quite telling.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
This is a German series, dubbed into English on Netflix. It takes an interesting premise and adds so many twists and turns to the story line that you cannot look away, in case you might miss something.
This next review does more to explain how I feel about the series than even I could say in a short period of time:
My reason for even posting this is not truly esoteric, but factual. When the coordinates of the potential landing spot are given, my ears perked up. For all intents and purposes, they were the coordinates of Megiddo: 32° N 35′ 07″, 35° E 11′ 04″. But I could be mistaken. To me, that added an element of Armageddon. That’s why I stayed rivetted to the TV until the very end of the show.
Evidently, Paula gave everyone (except her daughter) the wrong coordinates and the wrong date, on purpose. She hinted to Sven that the correct date was actually their 10th wedding anniversary. Hmm.
OK. I admit it: I’m a diehard Leafs fan. I guess that comes from being born in Toronto. Every year, when the Stanly Cup playoffs come around again, lots of Toronto Maple Leafs supporters cross their fingers, hoping that, against all odds, they’ll make it back to the top by defeating all oncoming teams.
So, for the last 57 seasons, they have been unsuccessful to repeat their success of 1967. You could say that they’re becoming the Chicago Cubs of the NHL. But, as we always say, “Maybe next year!”
Now, this is going to be a bit esoteric, so just ride along with me for a bit, to see where it takes us.
We all know who this great king of Babylon was, but after his death, God sent his ‘son’ a message.
In the Book of Daniel, considered by scholars to be a work of historical fiction, the figure of Nebuchadnezzar differs considerably from his portrayal in the Book of Jeremiah. He is for the most part depicted as a merciless and despotic ruler. The king has a nightmare, and asks his wise men, including Daniel and his three companions Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, to interpret the dream, but refuses to state the dream’s contents. When the servants protest, Nebuchadnezzar sentences all of them (including Daniel and his companions) to death. By the end of the story, when Daniel has successfully interpreted the dream, Nebuchadnezzar shows much gratitude, showering Daniel with gifts, appointing him the governor of the “province of Babylon” and making him the chief of the kingdom’s wise men. A second story again casts Nebuchadnezzar as a tyrannical and pagan king, who, after Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to worship a newly erected golden statue, sentences them to death through being thrown into a fiery furnace. They are miraculously delivered, and Nebuchadnezzar then acknowledges God as the “lord of kings” and “god of gods”. Though Nebuchadnezzar is also mentioned as acknowledging the Hebrews’ God as the true god in other passages of the Book of Daniel, it is apparent that his supposed conversion to Judaism does not change his violent character, given that he proclaims that anyone who speaks amiss of God “shall be cut in pieces and their houses shall be made a dunghill”. In a third story, Daniel interprets another dream as meaning that Nebuchadnezzar will lose his mind and live like an animal for seven years before being restored to his normal state (Daniel 1-4). The Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel, a fickle tyrant who is not particularly consistent in his faith, contrasts with the typical “servant of God” in other books of the Bible.
Given that Nebuchadnezzar is referred to as the father of Belshazzar in the Book of Daniel, it is probable that this portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar, especially the story of his madness, was actually based on Belshazzar’s actual father, Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (r. 556–539 BC). Separate Jewish and Hellenistic traditions exist concerning Nabonidus having been mad, and it is likely that this madness was simply reattributed to Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel through conflation. Some later traditions conflated Nebuchadnezzar with other rulers as well, such as the Assyrian Ashurbanipal (r. 669–631 BC), the Persian Artaxerxes III (r. 358–338 BC), the Seleucids Antiochus IV Epiphanes (r. 175–164 BC) and Demetrius I Soter (r. 161–150 BC) and the Armenian Tigranes the Great (r. 95–55 BC). The apocryphal Book of Judith, which probably applies the name “Nebuchadnezzar” to Tigranes the Great of Armenia, refers to Nebuchadnezzar as a “king of the Assyrians”, rather than of the Babylonians, and demonstrates that Nebuchadnezzar was still viewed as an evil king, responsible for destroying Jerusalem, looting its temple, taking the Jews hostage in Babylon, and for the various misdeeds ascribed to him in later Jewish writings.
See, I told you this was going to be convoluted. Let’s look at his death chart, set for noon.
Notice that six days were removed by converting the calendar from Julian to Gregorian. In truth, we cannot presume anything about this chart to be correct, but of the two inconjuncts in his ‘fatal’ chart, only one can be relied upon: Venus inconjunct Neptune. Hmm, interesting.
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Can there be a modern equivalent of this?
Remember how evangelical Christians saw Trump as the second coming of Cyrus the Great? What if he were Nebuchadnezzar II instead? Those aspects featuring planets @ 17° are interesting, are they not?
And, not to make to fine a point: Babylon was broken up, and its empire was scattered.
Testifying in a court of law can be very stressful. Now imagine what it would be like to be the prosecution’s witness against your ‘boss’ of 8 years. Yes, like Hope Hicks, you would be nervous, too.
Mr. Trump was elected, but The Journal was not done digging. In early 2018, it published an article exposing Mr. Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Ms. Daniels. When asked about that, Ms. Hicks became fuzzy, saying she could not recall the period. She grew considerably more tense, clenching her jaw and stumbling a bit in her speech.
Ms. Hicks said she did not have knowledge of the records Mr. Trump is accused of falsifying. Those records, prosecutors say, disguised Mr. Trump’s repayment of Mr. Cohen for the hush money.
And at times, she seemed to aid the defense. When a prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, asked about Mr. Trump’s reaction to the initial The Wall Street Journal article, she said that he was “concerned about how it would be viewed by his wife.” That response recalled the defense’s opening statement, in which Mr. Trump was portrayed as a family man — and helped provide an alternative motive for efforts to cover up damaging information to which prosecutors have already linked him.
Still, Ms. Hicks’s testimony was key to the prosecution’s case, including when she recalled a potentially crucial conversation: “I believe I heard Mr. Trump speaking to Mr. Cohen shortly after the story was published,” she said, which prosecutors might use to argue that Mr. Trump was involved in the machinations.
And she delivered a memorable observation that bolstered the prosecution’s argument that Mr. Trump directed Mr. Cohen’s payment. She scoffed at a prosecution question prompting her to consider whether Mr. Cohen “would have made a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels out of the kindness of his heart.”
That sort of altruistic move, she said, “would be out of character for Michael.”
The testimony marked a stunning spectacle: a former president’s confidante turned against him.
Oops!
Ms. Hicks’ birth time is unknown, so I have randomized the timing. In reality, the time could have been an hour or so later, which would have placed Jupiter near the Descendant, typifying when she started working for Trump. There are two inconjuncts. Each of them helps us to understand her motivations.
Sun Inconjunct Mars
You have a rather strong will, which may be difficult to control. This is because your way of doing something tends to interfere with what you want to gain by doing it. Your actions in some situations may surprise people by contradicting what they have learned about you as a person. Inside of yourself, you may even begin to feel that you can’t approve of the way you act, or you may feel that you can’t deal comfortably with the results of your actions. In other words, you get yourself into real jams.
Planets in Youth (page 80) by Robert Hand (1977)
Aha!
Jupiter Inconjunct Neptune
With this aspect you must learn to stand up for yourself and demand your rights forthrightly and directly. Often you feel that you don’t have enough energy to assert yourself or that any such effort would be futile. Unfortunately, some people with this aspect learn to work behind the scenes or dishonestly. Others simply give up or take a defeatist attitude toward life.
Planets in Youth (page 236) by Robert Hand (1977)
“Deny, deny, deny.”
Is that clear enough for you? I rest my case, m’lord.
Our Ruby ran into the car in front, when it stopped at a turning onto King Street. The damage is minor but it needs repairing. I wonder what the event chart looks like:
Hmm.
There is something to be said for poetic licence. Describing Christ’s return as a flash of lightning works for me. It can be startling, but it is also illuminating. (I often refer to spiritual inspiration as a mental flash.)
The next image is quite interesting, too:
Lightning flash measuring 768 kilometres is the longest ever recorded (New Scientist – 2020)
So, the question is: are you ready for it?
Hal Lindsey, in his book The Late Great Planet Earth, describes the events that will play out before the second coming of Christ. I read the original book in the middle-to-late 1970’s, and have used some of its ideas in the play My Satanic Struggle. At the time of my writing the story (1978), I believed with all my heart that Armageddon would occur. The problem with prophecy, as I’ve suggested before, is that we know what will happen, but not when. Now, by rereading the whole book again, I am able to understand how separate issues in the world today may be playing out the ‘end of the age’ scenario.
This 2020 image is of a ‘roadway’ along the disputed borders with India and Bhutan. Lindsey suggested that the armies of the East would require a land route to bring its 200,000,000 soldiers to the Middle East. In the meantime, the armies of the North would cross the land connection at Bosporus (between Europe and Asia). Now, how are they to achieve an easy crossing? They would need to have control over the Crimean peninsula (2014) and the eastern areas of Ukraine (2022) to achieve this. Well, I never saw that coming, did I?
These are the two charts used to illustrate the movement of troops, and the areas of conflict. It reminds me that Wikileaks had a map of Megiddo in one of its data dumps in 2020. Here’s another view:
The two concentric circles in the Wikileaks map imply a nuclear bomb strike, the first circle being the strike itself, and the second the radiation fallout. Would this be allowed? Surely not. Nuclear weapons have been under UFO control for many years now. And, in case the point is lost on anyone, the Rapture could be an intervention by aliens (aka angels).
COVID-19 may also have been used to wipe out less than .1% of the world’s population. Evidently, this was the beginning of the 7 years of Tribulation. Which means, we have only two more years to endure.
And don’t even get me started on the leader of the neo-Roman Empire. He survives a near-fatal blow and comes back from the dead (legal issues?) to lead NATO into conflict with China as the Antichrist!
Is that enough, for now? If you can find a copy, I suggest you read Lindsey’s book for yourself.
To be completely honest, it was far more than a toehold. It was a swath of land extending far into the west of the country, thanks to the help of Radisson and Groseilliers
The purpose of the charter? To legitimize the fur trade with the Indians and bring the beaver pelts back to England, thereby undercutting France’s efforts to do the same. Without the proliferation of the lowly beaver, this would not have happened.
I randomized the timing of HBC’s incorporation, just to see what stood out. The conjunction of Neptune with the Descendant might be accidental, but there’s no mistaking the inconjunct linking it to Pluto.
However, I do not have a Robert Hand quote that supports this aspect, so I’m going to have to wing it. Neptune is an energy that has a secret nature. It hides behind masks and therefore seems to represent that which no one must talk about. Pluto, on the other hand, is a revealer of secrets and brings to light the hidden motivations of the enterprise. In other words, the creation of the HBC was an excuse to exploit the natural resources of this newfound country, while actually claiming more of it for the Crown.
In 2023, Hudson’s Bay officially stopped selling animal fur products.
I know, I know, it’s a very silly joke, but it shows us in one saying how contradictory Marx’ beliefs were.
There are five inconjuncts, with two forming a Yod pointing at Mars. This man wanted to start a revolution to free the ordinary man from oppression by an overbearing aristocracy. He eventually inspired the Russians to overthrow the Tsar and their ilk in the 1917 October Revolution. But were his words all that mattered? I would say, no, because the rulers in Russia didn’t do themselves any favours.
Here’s another quote:
Here, Marx is showing how democratic societies eventually become socialists (and by extension, fascists). Now it makes sense when Putin decided to invade Ukraine to stamp out a fascist state.
“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
In the 19th century, the truth of his ideas have now been proven by the results in the 21st century after COVID-19. The world hasn’t recovered yet, and now the cost of things has risen so high that most people cannot afford to live anymore. And yet, the rich keep getting richer, and the poor are dying.
But it’s not funny…
