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).
This morning, at 6:48 AM, the Sun and Moon came together at New Moon, also a Partial Lunar Eclipse; plus, the two of them were exactly conjunct Venus. All three at 2° of death and rebirth Scorpio. We have now entered the season of Halloween, when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest, heading towards the Full Moon, Full Eclipse of the Sun, at 16°01 Scorpio, on November 5th.
Furthermore, Eric Cappolino has identified another important conjunction in the New Moon chart, one that affects communicative Mercury, at 23° Libra: with Psyche and Zeus. This one really spoke to me, given two disheartening conversations I had this afternoon.
One with old friend Carol Rosin, who’s just decided to stop working for an International Treaty to Prevent the Weaponization of Space. Says it’s too late. And there’s too much money at stake.
The other conversation with someone in Germany who says that besides wrecking Ukraine, and possibly the whole of Europe, by detonating a nuclear bomb in Ukraine and blaming it on Russia in order to trigger a nuclear exchange that may incinerate the entire world, the point of the Ukraine bomb is to serve as an excuse for the growing wave upon wave of death that the poison jab has already begun to detonate.
In between New Moon/Partial Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon/Total Solar Eclipse: the long anticipated, long dreaded Mid-Term Elections in the U.S. which may well itself seal the fate of the entire world.
If, that is, the deep state doesn’t bring the entire world crashing down beforehand, via the already infamous nuclear scare tactic, which may or may not manifest; no matter what, the FEAR of it is enough to draw in all sorts of demonic energies to suck the loosh from human beings, especially during the season of Halloween.
(Two years ago, I decided to wear a “satanic monk” costume for Halloween, donning a long brown robe and horns. After ten minutes at the raucous party with the horns on my head, I literally began to sense some kind of demonic energy attempting to enter me. I ripped the horns off and threw them away.)
In other words, the election (if it is held), comes in the midst of this enormous Scorpio buildup, when whatever dark doo doo still being held within will be unleashed — on personal, interpersonal, social, political, cultural levels. Bombs, both literal and figurative, of all kinds, designed to blow up whatever remains of so-called civilized society.
Oh my!
And yet, this morning, at 8:34 AM, so only two hours post Eclipse New Moon, this, above Bloomington . . .

I, for one, refuse to go along with the deep scare agenda. I invite LOVE into my heart and vibrate there, as a sovereign soul at one with all.
Let’s begin with the 40,000 mile view . . .

And then segue to the (seemingly) most pressing matter:

Yet . . .

BTW: Two evenings ago, I almost got into a heated, fruitless argument with a couple whom I rarely see. They started it, dissing Putin in the most vociferous way possible, how horrible he is, how he’s destroying Ukraine, his nuclear threats, etc. Half-heartedly, knowing it would be for naught, I spoke up, re: the threat to Putin’s border security, given NATO and U.S. promises “to not move one inch east” that are never kept. Of course, they started to come back at me. Time slowed down. I could feel the emotional heat building . . . when I suddenly interrupted them, saying, in a firm, but hopefully soothing manner, “Let’s just not talk about this subject, since obviously, we disagree.” They readily backed down, grateful. None of us wanted to contribute to the dangerous volatility coursing through the collective.
This happens more and more with me. I quietly interrupt the ignition of any discussion that threatens to seriously polarize. Given that each of us occupies our own solipsistic silo, composed of the types of “news” from beyond our own personal experience that we seek to buttress what we already think we know; and since that “news” can be, literally, anything! . . . then when enough news in our favored agenda coheres into our viewpoint, our unique point from which we view the world, expanded into our “world view,” well, that’s when we might as well seek to go beneath our disparate points of view, our apparently incompatible world views, leave our more or less cemented in beLIEfs behind . . . to gratefully appreciate each other on a different level altogether.
Meanwhile, the memes I choose obviously speak to those whose “conspiratorial,” (dot connecting, pattern-seeking) tendencies lead us to create similar silos, which we, however, myopically tend to see as blanketing the entire world . . .

And since, in the political realm, with what’s being called the most consequential election in American history only 15 days away, there’s plenty to (nervously) laugh at . . .


. . . sometimes it’s best to just stay with a wry look at the simple and/or complex traditions our society institutes in ultimately failed attempts to make sense of the Greater Mystery.

”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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