Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
It’s very apparent to me that anyone who pays attention to the larger world via social media (for me: mostly X, plus a few podcasters and substackers) is suffering from PTSD. We’ve all been “under the gun,” caught in a slow-rolling catastrophe.
Coming right up? Or not. I don’t think so. I think we (and the cosmos) are being protected, as ever, by ETs monitoring nuclear weapons. (See UFOs and Nukes, by Robert Hastings.) Just as, more and more, it seems clear that Trump himself is weirdly protected. And, perhaps, made of an entirely different substance! — given that no bullet of any kind penetrates, nor does fast food slow him down or fog his 78-year-old 5D brain, nor even a paucity of sleep and non-stop extremely wearing (for anyone else) activity in the ever-widening public.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson sums up the dizzying cyclonic whirl of what we’ve all gone through in his usual extremely articulate, detailed fashion.
It starts like this . . . please go to X to read all the way through!
Meanwhile, those of us who have been actively following and commenting in our various ways all along can now congratulate ourselves for a very brief moment. Consider:
Or, more briefly . . .

Yesterday, the day before Thanksgiving, I caught up on the phone with an old old friend from high school; someone I’ve known since then as well, in a number of capacities. Our talk was intense, lasting about an hour. To my admission of addiction to screens, root addiction since five years old to “the news,” plus recent attempts to counter that, he himself countered: “I tend to sit back and observe.” Well, yes, that is the goal, I thought to myself. But then he continued to speak of his view of just what he is observing: his sense of the the inevitable downward slide of our civilization, comparing it to Rome and long lost empires. His historical knowledge is breathtaking; and he does sit back and observe, not judging, just realizing, just feeling like a privileged witness, that he should be alive to witness the inevitability of this closing human drama.
This old friend, by the way, never got caught up in phone or ipad screen mania! Has a computer yes, but still relies on books, newspapers. His favorite? Still the NYT. He does watch TV however, certain series on Netflix, movies etc.
I told him that I stopped watching TV when I recognized that an actor in one series I was watching, House of Cards, was actually playing himself. That there was no difference between the sleazy, lying, power-mad pedophile Kevin Spacey was playing and his real life. I just knew it. Spacey was not acting. Then, I later discovered, my intuition was correct.
Ever since then, I told him, I just can’t do it. I want to do it, I want to watch certain movies especially, but I know too many of these actors, Hollywood celebrities, are utterly corrupt in the most disgusting way, and it has soured me on the entire enterprise.
My old friend heard me, evinced surprise, and didn’t press the point.
Next, from the decline and fall of our civilization, we went on to focus on our own bodies. (Both the same age, at or around 82). He started talking about covid, how glad he was that he got all the shots, because the three times he got covid “would have been much worse without the vax.” (He didn’t mention the pneumonia he also had this year, nor a horrible heart scare of some kind two years ago.)
Well, I’m sorry to say, but I just lost it. Instantly triggered into an awful rant. I remain, 24 hours later, stunned that a man so wise could be so, forgive me, stupid. Or rather, so dangerously misinformed, since his only sources were mainstream news!
At one point during my rant, he did wonder, incredulously, “you haven’t had covid?”
“NO. I take care of my own immune system. And furthermore, I live around vaxxed people, who have had covid and been otherwise sick.” Did my response strike him as odd, at least? I don’t know.
Please forgive me, those who have experienced my righteous judgment, my wrath! And thank you so very much, for being in my life. You show me just how much I still have to learn about caring for others while in this body, on this planet, in this lifetime.
I sense it’s very good that he and I were not sitting across from each other at Thanksgiving Dinner today. I’m still too raw, and I imagine he’s still probably feeling the sting. I love him, I will always love him. The holiday frequency has me, as does its opposite!
”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
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