Astroworld

Remember the Military Industrial Complex? Of course you do. This is still an eye opener. For instance...

* Our Weird and Wanton Wars

Many citizens in Britain are puzzled. Why do we always seem to be at war? How can this come about? What does it mean? At the same time, we seem to think of ourselves as a peaceful nation. In seeking answers, let us list a few notable characteristics of our current wars. ...

... * Our govt encourages the flourishing of the military/industrial complex by awarding it invaluable assistance and privileges. For example, there is a unit of 180 individuals employed within the Dept of Trade and Investment whose sole work involves selling the output of British arms manufacturers to foreign govts. The salaries of these individuals are not paid by the arms manufacturers but by us citizens, the taxpayers. ... http://www.truth-out.org/our-weird-and-wanton-wars62697

con't with this bit...

* Change the focus - We are in Afghanistan to find Osama-Bin-Laden and defeat Al Qaeda - No, sorry; to defeat the Taliban; - No, wait; to win hearts and minds - No; to establish democracy - No, to protect the women of Afghanistan - No; to hand over to the legitimate govt. Well, it is partly legitimate anyway. The establishment wants to keep Trident renewal. So keep it out of the defense review and assess it by some separate criterion, never mind how absurd. Let's say 'value for money.' It has been est'd that the millions of people who can be killed by Trident submarines work out at about 3,600 pounds per dead person. Is this value for money? Are there cheaper ways of killing people on a genocidal scale? ... http://www.truth-out.org/our-weird-and-wanton-wars62697

European Exopolitics Summit 2009 in Barcelona - Dr. Steven Greer

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1874942#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://divinecosmos.com/index.php/videos/44-2012-return-to-camelot/487-awesome-new-disclosure-videos&medium=1874942

After watching this video through........WOW!
Dr. Steven Greer b. June 28, 1955, Charlotte NC,
time unknown.
He has some significant placements in his chart; touch the USA chart, & that have been goosed by the recent difficult Card.T Sq,

Smooth Move..........that's my chant for you, Sally.

qop, can you give an overview of the Greer piece?

Looking a word for its proper usage, my husband ran across this. Perfect for this Glenn-Beck-inspired madness. . ."booboisie." The word was coined by H.L. Menken and used to refer to the un- and ill-informed middle class. If I weren't in a hurry this morning, I attempt to use it in a sentence.

Also this morning, this --
http://www.stariq.com/pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=10366

Overview.
Fast forward or endure the Spanish intro, the bulk of it is English.
Although he is a Physician, fate ( Universe) has put him in the right place with the right people at at the right time to gain info on the UFO's, the Gov keeping them secret, also FREE energy inventions, that have been squelched........He is WELL AWARE of the POWER ELITE, and the murders of those who have/would oppose their plans.
He has enlisted the promise of 1 of the G-8 countries to work with him to expose this criminal activity.......
He is looking for support from WE,( International) to go up against this Goliath.
This is our call to lay down our mice and get busy!Heads UP! Dovetails with Matthews message.
The extraterrestrials are waiting for our consensus/assistance,.

b. June 28 1955 Charlotte, NC, no time, some planets touch the Sibley chart........his chart has been activated by the extreme planetary activity this summer & he is approaching the finish line with his project..............

Holy TOLEDO! Why are we whining about Glenn Beck?
Don't have a date for this but the bush pres was mentioned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk&feature=player_embedded#!
More Dr. Greer...........

Is this bizarre or what? Anybody read about this?

http://tinyurl.com/348dtdg

Hey Crystal, wow talk about a bad day at the golf course. Bet the golf course will be clearing the rough of rocks. I'm surprised that the brush was over grown. This is Irvine, model city, land of elitists. Wonder if they'll ban swinging clubs in the rough?

Whoa...Karen-thank you for the new word-boobobsie. Haven't came up with inspiration to use it but I am comforted knowing that some of the issues we are working with have always been with us. Oh!! the computer has red-lined the word.
Good morning everyone!!

Crystal, I just laughed my boots off! (That and I need to cool down. I've dug about 36' in trenches in attempt to defray the copious amounts of runoff we have on this mountain slope. I've got the pipe down, and pea gravel on most of it. Whew!)

So, here's a sentence with booboisie. With the help of the Koch Brothers, Glenn Beck has been highly successful in bamboozling the booboisie. ;0

Now, qop. . .what are you referring to about whining? I'm a little clueless about this. Frankly, all this Beckish stuff stimulates my funny bone, though it's not funny at all. In fact, this is part and parcel of the dismantling of a constitution that verges on divinely inspired and written. We could use a little extraterrestrial help (perhaps in evidence when the constitution was written).

Should the a vast number of House seats go to tea-party republicans you can bet you'll witness a total meltdown of above. Your social security will be even more punitive than it is now, along with any other social services. Further, we will be caught in a cycle of investigations aimed at impeaching Obama. Now, if this sounds a little alarmist, then call me an alarmist.

I whipped out a beautiful raging rant on the destruction of Iraq which began in the 1990's. Too raw for sharing but here is the link to Democracy Now! for today's program:http://kpfa.org/archive/id/http://kpfa.org/archive/id/63679http:.
Karen-wow!! on your chores but I do believe that digging up some ground I have and want to use for cool weather garden is just what I need to do when faced with issues that outrage me but which I am powerless to change.

none of it is funny Karen but like you there is a part of it that's hilarious. Beck and Palin are the perfect crazies to lead the crazies. Something good will come of it, perhaps they will get the whole country in an uproar and we will do something about the insanity in this country, i do feel as if it's going to go on for a while longer and we will simple endure digging our ditches, planting gardens,moving etc. etc. etc.

Best wishes to Sally, Morgana, and all the Astroworlders. This is the site that helped keep me sane during the Bush years.

Been thinking about the mid-term elections and The Field, Al Giordino's (sp?) blog had a very good statement about them--i.e. that this is not a national election--this is 80 or 90 local elections. The results will depend on local work and local turnout.

I am very interest in the House seat for Ohio's 8th District. This is John Boehner's seat (the orange right-winger who has ambitions to become Speaker.) A very attractive ex-marine, lawyer, family man, Democrat, Justine Coussoule is Boehner's opponent in the race.

Their birthdates (I don't know time of birth) are for Boehner, Nov. 17, 1949 in Cincinnati; and for Coussoule Mar. 13, 1975 in Adams, Mass.

Sometimes I can get general information for solar returns. I was surprised to see the Boehner's solar return for Nov. 17, 2009 shows Uranus in the 10th at 22 Pisces. Coussoule's natal Sun is at 22 Pisces. Certainly this year Boehner has had a surprise challenger.

Forgive me if this posts twice. I thought I had already posted when I got a "now you can comment."

Best wishes to Sally, Morgana and all you Astroworlders--you helped keep me sane during the Bush years.

Been interested in House race for Ohio's 8th district. That is the seat John Boehner holds. Boehner is the orange right-winger who has ambitions to be Speaker.

He is being challenged by Justin Coussoule, an attractive young family man who is an attorney and an ex-marine. Coussoule's bday is March 13, 1975 in Adams, Mass.

Boehner's birthday is Nov. 17, 1949 Cincinnati.

No birth times so I used solar returns to see if I could get any ideas. Nobody looks like a clear winner (as near as I can tell), but Boehner's solar return for 2009 shows Uranus in his 10th House at 22 Pisces.

Interestingly, Coussoule's natal sun is 22 Pisces. Looks like an unexpectedly strong challenger was in the stars for Boehner.

Another genocidal pink boyz oil well explodes... I couldn't possibly cuss loudly enuf over this.

* Oil Sheen Spreads After Another Gulf Rig Explodes

by NPR Staff and Wires

An offshore oil platform exploded Thur and was burning about 100 mi south of the Louisiana coast, with the Coast Guard reporting that a mile-long oil sheen had spread from the site. ... http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/3191-breaking-oil-rig-explodes-in-gulf-of-mexico

* Tony Blair Pelted with Eggs and Shoes at Book Signing
Former PM attacked by anti-war protesters in Dublin as he promotes memoirs

DUBLIN - Violent skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at the first public signing for Tony Blair's memoirs, with shoes and eggs hurled at the former prime minister. ... http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/04-0

Couldn't happen to a nicer creep.

Chris Floyd

* Mad Men: The Psychopaths of Power Play the Insanity Card

Speech Defect: Emissions of Evil From the Oval Office

On Tue night, Barack Obama gave a speech from the Oval Office on Iraq that was almost as full of hideous, murderous lies as the speech on Iraq his predecessor gave in the same location more than 7 yrs ago.

After mendaciously declaring an "end to the combat mission in Iraq"--where almost 50,000 regular troops and a similar number of mercenaries still remain, carrying out the same missions they have been doing for years--Obama delivered what was perhaps the most egregious, bitterly painful lie of the night:

"Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the US and Iraq, we have met our responsibility."

"We have met our responsibility!" No, Mister President, we have not. Not until many Americans of high degree stand in the dock for war crimes. Not until the US pays hundreds of billions of dollars in unrestricted reparations to the people of Iraq for the rape of their country and the mass murder of their people. Not until the US opens its borders to accept all those who have been and will be driven from Iraq by the savage ruin we have inflicted upon them, or in flight from the vicious thugs and sectarians we have loosed--and empowered--in the land. Not until you, Mister President, go down on your knees, in sackcloth and ashes, and proclaim a National of Day of Shame to be marked each year by lamentations, reparations and confessions of blood guilt for our crime against humanity in Iraq.

Then and only then, Mister President, can you say that America has begun--in even the most limited, pathetic way--to "meet its responsibility" for what it has done to Iraq. And unless you do this, Mister President--and you never will--you are just a lying, bloodsoaked apologist, accomplice and perpetrator of monstrous evil, like your predecessor and his minions--many of whom, of course, are now your minions.

I really don't have anything else to say about this sickening spectacle--which is being compounded in Britain, where I live, by the sight today of Tony Blair's murder-tainted mug plastered on the front of the main newspapers, as he makes the rounds pushing his new book, doling out "exclusive interviews" full of crocodile tears for the soldiers he had murdered in the war crime he committed and the "great suffering" of the Iraqi people which, goodness gracious, he never foresaw and feels, gosh, really bad about. All this laced with venomous comments about his former colleagues--those who, like Gordon Brown, sold their souls to advance Blair's vision of aggressive war abroad and corpo rapine at home--along with, of course, earnest protestations of his God-directed good intentions, and his unwavering belief that killing a million innocent human beings in Iraq was "the right thing to do." Pol Pot could not have been more blindly self-righteous than this wretched moral cretin.

I will say again what I have said here many, many times before: What quadrant of hell is hot enough for such men?

Words might fail me, but wise man Wm Blum has a few that put the "end of combat operations in Iraq" in their proper perspective. Let's give him the last word here ... http://www.chris-floyd.com/

Joanna, that article took every thought I can think of out of my mind, every task I have accomplished out of my mind, every meaningless statement I've made out of my mind as well as the same tasks around me. I wonder if animals prowling and attacking other animals ever wonder who they are and what they are doing. Do the bees that sting or the spiders that bite wonder what they are doing? Do the bees that instead of stinging just fly away have a bigger conscious than their fellow travelers. Could anyone reading that article not wonder about this or any country and what we do to our fellow man to each other.

Thank you for the post, it's powerful and profound and should be read to every person on this planet, every government, but even then there will be those turn away and say "so what"
those that cannot turn away from the words already have decided they are the bees that choose not to sting.

Amen to the Chris Floyd article on Iraq, JoannaO. It is just appalling that men like Blair, and his cohorts are still being given the time of day. It makes one wonder about the sick, twisted world we live in. Shameless the way he's promoting his book, and trying to absolve himself from blame. These people in power don't have any conscience........psychopaths indeed.

There's a new posting on Chris Floyd's blog. Just use Joanna's link. His steady and unflinching gaze is at once both disturbing and clarifying.

We have always been murderous thugs. The differences today include weapons that contaminate every living thing they touch, including the planet Herself. It is so diabolical, it defies decency. Yet, those cleverly manipulative brokers of profit have repackaged Hitler for the masses in order to turn our attention from our dirty rotten back yards.

Kaaren, joannaoregon,Crystal-I ussed to read Empire Burlesque and then I quit because i wanted to be a "good sport"and stay positive and keep my spirits up but I will say this morning that I do believe that we are the fascist regime of our times. I wish that I didn't believe this but I do and I believe this based on what we have done and are doing in the ME and around the world. Even in Haiti the official US position is to clear coveted land for big manufacturers and to then push the people into slavery and to control their natural state-the food given to the people there simply rots in warehouses because the "US"can't afford to help more than it did but watch what happens in a couple of years-of course you will only ever find out by reading Empire Burlesque or listening to Pacifica radio/Amy Goodman.
Oh good morning beautiful wonderful companions. And i will now eat my oats and then go weed the garden and give thanks to Mother/Father God for the riches I was given at birth.

One more thing-I lost my faaith back in the 70's when Kissinger and Nixon financed the Chilean revolution and took over that country and killed people my age and destroyed a beautiiful society with a"vibrant middle-class".
Today there is all manner of infrmation about this dark history but in the day this information was only available via the underground press. I was almost knocked out by what I learned and even my friends didn't know and didn't care-I could not believe that 1) my word was of such little value to those I loved and 2)that people didn't care some didn't even know where Chile was.
The word coming from those who escaped was so hideous and no one cared or rather a few did but the "news" from Chile was suppressed. Since that jack Lemmon movie about Chile, Missing, came out-Jack Lemmon a perfect example of a holy liberal-the world has known but i knew early on-(psychics have told me that some of my closest soul companions were students/intellectuals there,in Chile.)
I know that I am just babbling on and that is because the thoughts of what our government does in the world with our resources just really profoundly upsets me.

Okay one more thing: Pat C. has a link up over on Starlight regarding the very issue of suppression of information. Here is the link:
http://howtheworldchanged.org/ I plan to stream the program.

* Page Turning and Book Marking
The Spoils of War - Uranus Returns to Pisces

In perfect harmony Uranus at 29 Pisces coincides with the fake end of the 29 Pisces Iraq War mimicking the false start and continuing the confusion it's so famous for. "Did we win? Did we lose? Did we tie?" writes Mike Littwin in the Denver Post. ... http://raginguniverse.blogspot.com/

I'm still attempting to process my dreams of last evening, and then read raging universe. The idea that we all share a common karmic history and the responsibilities associated with it has been explored by Cayce. Sally has written about it also.

In our attempt to control by virtue of our made-for-tv virtue, we continually create another disaster on the backs of those least able to defend themselves. It's an ancient repetition of base psychopathy. And YES! I had high hopes for Obama, while hiding my dashed hopes that Kucinich might be heard despite the director's cues to silence him.

And still, I'm hoping that transformation can take place. It may be that we need another clash of civilizations, but would that really change the way we treat this world 500 years hence? I just don't know.

My thots on that, Karen, is that doing the same old thing to get different results is the definition of insanity. But apparently we're insane... over & over & over again. At least the pinkos are certainly insane. It's my thot that an old fashion miracle will be needed for massive healing and I don't believe in those anymore.

* Thom's blog
These So-Called Extra Benefits?

CA regulators are seeking $9.9 billion in fines from health insurer PacifiCare for allegedly mismanaging medical claims, such as losing thousands of patient documents, failing to pay doctors what they were owed, and ignoring calls to fix the problems. The Dept of Ins says PacifiCare violated state law nearly 1 million times from 2006 to 2008 after it was bot by UnitedHealth Group. Adam Cole, the ins dept's general counsel says, "This is about intentional disregard for the interests of doctors, hospitals and patients in CA, and the pursuit of cutting costs at any means possible. It's a story of intense corpo greed." Meanwhile, health insurers across the country have "asked for premium increases of between 1% and 9% to pay for extra benefits" they are required to provide under the recently passed health care law. These so-called "extra benefits" incl no longer having the right to dump or deny kid's coverage because they got sick. Republicans are using the rate increases to demonize Obama's health ins reforms, while ins companies like UnitedHealthcare, which CA is going after for more than a million crimes against consumers and the state, keeps on its CEO Stephen J Hemsley, who took over $400 million in compensation for his first 5 years on the job, and whose predecessor, Bill McGuire, took over a billion and a half for his first 10 years as CEO. If the companies just cut CEO pay, no rate increases would be necessary.

-Thom
Free Speech TV

I am sure that everyone has now heard of the explosion in San Bruno here in the SF Bay Area. I am linking this to the crimes against Californians via PG&E-I remember when the public utility company that functioned so beautifully with absolutely no power outages in winter,etc was taken over by the for-profit guys much like Enron. They got rid of all the mature more expensive workers and have continued to downsize yearly relying mostly on lowest bidder workers.
The reports now are of PG&E getting reports of natural gas leakage for weeks-weeks. I just know that no one wanted to think things through-no profit there. This would never have happened if PG&E were a community owned, public service utility. Taxpayers would gladly pay for the engineers,etc who would start yanking tails saying these pipes were laid in 1948-do you think that we should begin to replace them? But no, profit is GOD and deregulation is good for us. We really like this new economy and this new world. Yeah!!! for plastic surgery and million dollar homes and so what if we lose a few neighborhoods.
GOD! I am furious with this greedy fu-k-up-I know that it is greed behind all of this. I feel sick at heart. somehow I don't grow so furious over the terrible fire in Boulder-that is the result of over population-so many of us.
Yes I am bitter although I live on the other side of the Bay Area-this didn't have to happen.

Clymela, you're spot on. We are all commodities now, every single one of us. Even if you have skills that are in demand you won't work unless you are the low bidder. The actuarials determine our worth, what we might spend over our lifetimes on housing, food, clothing, utilities, etc. If you can't pay, you don't get.

Now having created one massive and totally dysfunctional system for 90 percent of the population, the corporate jabbas (remember jabba the hut?) decide to call all social programs "entitlements" as they rub their fat hands together, and tighten the choke chain on their cash cows.

So, I don't blame you one bit for being angry. Very few public utilities remain in tact. We've sold out. Thankfully there are some of us who refuse to sell our souls.

Pg&E president and other spokespeople are making BP look as compassionate as the Red Cross. You have to have access to our local TV/radio to get a whiff of these hounds.
Rescue Remedy for me-I am really shaken by fear and anger. No doubt some of those in my spirit cadre are involved over there across the Bay.
Karen-yes we haven't sold our souls-too old for that temptation but all old souls are lazy. I am thinking that we are entering the days for which we were born-we will have to shake a leg to join in with those old souls born later with perhaps a little more energy than this old soul.
I remember that just before Argentina went belly up that society was overwhelmed by greed and vanity. I remember reading an article about how the citizens were simply obsessed with plastic surgery and looking young. Sound familiar?

You know, Clymela, I'm not sure laziness is word to describe you or me, or any other person I know. It's one of those words we use to castigate ourselves or others. It was once used in a disparaging way regarding "slaves."

I may be way off base here, but it seems we are constantly being told what we SHOULD do, with those doing the should-ing getting a bang out of feeling a little self righteous about whatever is they're advising us to do.

You are your own person. You make a difference in this world by loving, by your smile, or your hug. Each and every one of us make a difference in our own ways.

If I were to listen and take to heart the constant should-ers, I'd never get out of bed.

I, for one, am just glad you and your family are unharmed. Your presence just makes this world that much better, Clymela.

I have this up on my wall above the puter & it's been enormously helpful. Mebbe you'll find it likewise.

"When you surrender to your Spirit, you automatically enter Easy World, where the Design for Harmony reigns, & where the turmoil & trouble of Difficult World can't affect you. It moves you far above the vibrational zone where Difficult World exists, & into the realm where everything continually works together to support & increase your well-being. It doesn't matter what is going on in Difficult World, everything is always working out splendidly in Easy World, so it's definitely where you want to be. At your core, you know this. Just remember to choose Easy World as many times as it takes."

"Breathe. Relax. Allow. Enjoy... & watch the magic unfold! When someone invites me into difficult world, I simply re-choose Easy World."

[Composite bits by Julia Rogers Hamrick]

Oh, the above from her book "Recreating Eden" or from her website the exact words.

Karen-I think the idea of the lazy old souls comes in comparing us to the young souls and their hustle,bustle to build a fortune or nation or what ever they want to do with all that energy.
I recently came across a California history book in the local library where the school children are told that the original people of this area were "lazy"-oh!! if only we could arrange to live in the harmony they knew for thousands of years. How better to sit/lie around until there really is something to do.
Joanna-I just can't really want to live in Easy World until folks like the San Bruno folks are there as well. With the exception of early, private tragedy my life has been pretty easy and free except for the natural losses of life. Still I don't feel like I am in Easy World but more likely just came in to observe.

Thanks for your comment, Clymela... but if I didn't have "a place to go", I'd be so depressed that I couldn't function at all... it's still somewhat "iffy."

OH Joanna!! Forgive my flat-footed hollering. You just go on lifting your thoughts up until you can move through Easy World-I practice some forms of religious/spiritual science all the time for just the reason you are pointing out.
You know I love you and your thinking so please overlook a day when I was obviously "down there". Love and Light beautiful one and I love your thoughts that you share.

Clymela, dear... there's nothing to forgive. We all have each other to help us move along, yes? And here's as nice piece from one of Eric whazizname to help also.

* ... There is more than enough grief and anger and trouble in the world — and not nearly enough forgiveness and acceptance and peace. We could use more of that before the whole thing goes up in smoke from an overdose of ego and vengeance and extremism.

When great tragedy occurs in our lives, we have a choice: to defeat it or to be defeated. Ted Koppel speaks to that in the last piece — in the first piece, Mark Morford tells us this would be a good weekend for extreme acts of radical love. The remaining two reads, sandwiched between, will inspire. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

Lazy? what is Lazy and is there anything that it can and does accomplish? Think a bit and I will bet you can come up with some "lazy accomplishments."

Mercury rolling back and forth across Virgo, the sign that loves to criticize itself and others. Often her criticism is well justified but not when her ruling planet is retrograde or in aspect to Saturn, in aspect to Pluto and she rips apart everyone in her path.

But, Mercury just turned direct, we can all breath a big sign of relief and slowly get back to our workable routines, pick up that missed breakfast or luncheon or phone call. Computer and car issues start working themselves out and PEOPLE MOVING WILL GET MOVED. Rejoice tonight dear friends, Mercury is direct. By the way if you got fired or someone else was hired in your place, hang on a week or so and work will come back to you,

Sally, let's hope that move gets moving right on track this week! After I stopped chuckling, I wondered if you had any notion of when you might complete that move?

Clymela. . .the photos around the internet document the horror of the blast. What actions are being planned there? Are lawsuits brewing? What kind of emotions are being voiced?

Sally, I have Saturn in Virgo. Throughout my life I've battled that "critical" voice, one that is usually directed at self. Perhaps for this reason I'm highly tuned into the facets of criticism and how it's used. If criticism is asked for, and given in a thoughtful and respectful way it can be a source of light. Too often, however, it is used to inflate one's sense of "rightness." This mysterious and beautiful world has been diminished by those voices demanding that we live within certain parameters, ones that only serve to enrich those who have created the illusion.

Hi folks and Nameste to all.

I've been working on a simple way to explain the difference betwwen inflation and hyperinflation. Both of course cheapen the currency, but for different reasons.

Here goes: Confidence is Everything

Banana Republic bank* #1 loans 10 bananas (and holds a note for 10 bananas plus interest doubling on paper the banana supply) and gets repaid 12 bananas = productive confidence inspiring inflation. We are gaining bananas (gaining currency quantity and value). That is inflation.

Banana Republic bank #2 loans 10 bananas and gets repaid only 6 bananas=negative production, confidence destroying hyperinflation. We are losing bananas (losing currency quantity and value**), and experiencing diminishing returns.

The latest statistics I've seen are, for each dollar loaned in the USA, only 60 cents is currently being returned.

The common statistic is if a bank is only getting 90 cents back per dollar loaned, they are considered bankrupt.

Given the average return is now only 60 cents the USA may have been bankrupt for some time.

As other countries and investors figue-out we are bankrupt they refuse to own our currency (or buy US Treasury bills) as they do not want to own money which is becoming worthless.

As the currency becomes woth-less and there is less of it (remember only 6 bananas returned), US citizens can buy less with their money.

As hyperinflation runs its course the money eventually is worth nothing.

Bank* As money looses value banks go bankrupt. That is "one" reason so much bail out money has gone to US banks.

Value** The government's usual response to loss of value and quantity is to print money. As the loss of value and quantity accelerates so does the printing.

New message from Matthew (I don't remember it being posted already).

http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=125&z=2

"Banana Republic bank..." WhaddaHOOT, Timmy J.

This mysterious and beautiful world has been diminished by those voices demanding that we live within certain parameters, ones that only serve to enrich those who have created the illusion.

I love that comment Karen because it is so very true. George Carlin said something like that once, not a beautifully put however, but he said "when they are ready they will bring down the curtain and we will see there was nothing behind the stage set but a cement wall." At least something along those lines and Neptune in Aquarius has certainly brought the curtain down.

Very well done Timmy J, impressive work and articulated well. Thank you for this and Joanna, thanks for the Matthew communications.

I do believe that those who fancy to rule the world and everyone in it are quickly boxing themselves into a corner. What's the game, printing more and more money and then stealing that from the populace? First of all there are more of us than them, and second of all if they have everything, what to do then, steal from each other? None of it makes any sense.

Timmy J, Your excellent description leads to a few questions. One fits into the discussion of illusion. We assume that our one dollar will buy a one dollar gizmo. Since that one dollar gizmo is made in China, and shipped via a Merck super tanker, its total "cost" may be .35 cents. Despite inflation or deflation, the corporate jabba initiating the gizmo has made, say .15 cents, which they use to invest in other currencies. So when the US bankrupts, it will be no "sweat off their backs." Pretty much sums up what's happening right now.

My dreaming has taken on a different meaning. I had a dream vision about the amoral nature of dreams. When we try to interpret our dreams through a "moral" lens, we miss the key symbology of it. For instance, I dreamed that I killed a child. That child --a part of myself that is no longer necessary. Or, I'm in a frightening haunted house -- a part of past that wants to reveal itself. And, maybe this "discovery" on my part is more revealing about me, than dreams.

What a wonderful dday you all had here on Astroworld. I was "away" experiencing some type of inner conflagration that caused me to melt down-woke me up at 12:11 AM 12/114/2010 and went on all day. Very unusual but that has passed now and I awakened this morning wanting to bake apples craving the smell of the apples and the cinnamon and butter and sugar baking and I knew that whatever "flew over" me yesterday is now departed. Prayer and meditation helped although all I could manage yesterday was to "run my energy"
Enough of me but I did really want to speak of what happened to those who might understand.
Timmy J thank you so much for distilling all the news and explaining it in a way that I can absorb.
Karen-your insight about dreams is something that I know touched Jung so deeply and led him to say always that we can only pray that we never have contact with the Living God because to do so is to have our little world on which we depend turned upside down. It is that knowledge that led him to say on that BBC special that he didn't believe in God rather he KNEW!!
Sally- I love every time I see your name and I agree with you about the "Big Guys" pushing on us to become "Global" Pluto in Capricorn will reveal that concrete wall behind their stage and I rejoice in that thought even if it means making a bigger garden and getting my own chickens,etc.
Joannaoregon-thank for the links especially the Matthew link-I love the Matthew messages.

Ya'll are welcome!

Yes Karen, China is email and the US is snail mail. The US and its dollar are being isolated as China and other countries route trading around us. Da dollar has the plague, and only US banks and the FED will buy it. According to my favorite cycles guy, Martin Armstrong, it'll be 23 years before the phoenix rises. Hat tip to Pluto.

Although it is exciting to watch the fire, my focus is shifting to: What are the benefits to this change? I believe during the last depression Joseph Campbell holed-up and did a lot of reading. My Hero!

Timmy J

I so agree Timmy J, watching is a hoot, it all looks like these people are imploding on themselves and we might end up being run by tea-baggers. Robert Reich is saying we are getting ready for a revolution in this country and I think we are. But at least Delaware will be masturbation and sex free if they end up with O'Connell and maybe even America itself. Ever since Pluto went over the US Mars and squared Neptune, and Uranus squared Mars and opposed Neptune the crazies in this country have come out full force. Lordy, lordy!! I am trying to do what you are doing, I am reading and letting the institutions run themselves amouck. The good that will come from this eventually is a renewal of spirit, a kinder, gentler spirit, just as Europe is trying to do but they have had several implosions in their history and have a better grasp on how to do it than we do. What was it that was said during the Bush administration, something along the lines that "we live in our own little reality and they are about ten steps ahead and we will never catch up with them." They keep us in chaos and shock and awe until we don't know which end is up, and it will be a surprise to find out which end that might be.

This is very good and don't let the title get you down.

* World Gone Mad

The diagnosis is clear by Derrick Jensen
Published in the September/October 2010 issue of Orion magazine

I DON’T KNOW about you, but whenever I attend some “green” conference, I know I’m supposed to leave feeling inspired and energized, but instead I feel heartbroken, discouraged, defeated, and lied to. It’s not the inevitable talk about farmers (re)discovering organic farming; about plastic forks made from cornstarch; about solar photovoltaics; about relocalizing; about the joys of simple living; about grieving the murder of the planet; about “changing our stories”; and most especially about maintaining a positive attitude that gets me down. It’s that no one, and I mean no one, ever mentions psychopathology.

Why is this important? Because those in power destroy sustainable communities — and not just sustainable indigenous communities. If people develop new ways to live on their land more sustainably, and those in power decide that land is needed for roads and shopping malls and parking lots, those in power will seize that land. This is how the dominant culture works. Everything and everyone must be sacrificed to economic production, to economic growth, to the continuation of this culture. ... http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5838/

OK Sally, here is the video to go with the current aspects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGd0g-wpXA

BTW,this is the saying which has gotten me through the toughest times in my life "Eat life or life will eat you."

A friend of mine has it sand painted in sanscrit on his front door.

Timmy J

very good Timmy J, loved the song and it is such a mad world. Actually the "eat life or life will eat you" is very true, I would encourage everyone to look at where they are not eating life but are being eaten. It certainly stabbed at my heart.

It does feel doesn't it Joanna as if we are surrounded and cannot get away from the long knives.

I despise the genocidal pink boyz...

Thom's blog
North to Alaska?

Scientists fear declining Arctic sea ice is causing a rare mass migration of 1000s of walrus from ice floes to dry land along Alaska's coast. Researchers from the US Geological Survey (USGS) who track walrus movements say 10,000 to 20,000 of the animals, mainly mothers and calves, are now congregating in tightly packed herds on the Alaskan side of the Chukchi Sea, in the first such exodus of its kind. Welcome to the new world of global warming. Human migrations caused by climate change now involve more than 200 million people, most in the regions surrounding Pakistan and Bangladesh. A massive fish kill was reported late Fri at Bayou Chaland. Photos the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous number of dead fish floating atop the water. The fish were found in an area that has been impacted by the oil from the BP oil spill, the parish said. A recent fish kill in nearby St. Bernard Parish was attributed to low oxygen levels in the water, presumably also from the BP oil spill.

-Thom

* Pope visit: Cardinal drops out after calling UK 'Third World'

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a senior aide to the Pope, has pulled out of the Pontiff's visit to Britain after saying the country resembled a “Third World country” where “aggressive new atheism” is rife. ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8004493/Pope-visit-Cardinal-drops-out-after-calling-UK-Third-World.html

So if one ain't partial to the RCs, then one is automatically a non-spiritual one. What gall! Hahahahaaa May they rest in agony!

I would disagree with the Cardinal that Atheism has brought the US to a third world, but I agree that we are there with a little help from the Christians, the bankers, greed, politicians and Wall Street.

Okay, Miss Sally... I've come to some real head-banger revelations lately (this nix on my Lt Brain thing is turning out to be a very nice treat) as I see more and more holistically and accept its strangeness. Wasn't it the "Doors" that had a tune that said "Very stange!" Hahahahaaa. To heck with the stupid bankers etc. They're not in charge... they don't know what's going on either PLUS they're lt brainers... so why should they? Blind as a pontiff bat.

It's all one gigantic melodrama by all the meloqueens... could be male or female... but they're meloqueens for all that... filled with gooey pink marshmallow. WhaddaRIOT!

Oh. I guess that should be "mallowqueens" from the marshes. Teehee.

"eat life or it will eat you......" seems a double-edged sword. I think I'd rather live life with heart and gusto, the alternative is no life at all. Or something like that.

I'm contrasting the above with Joanna's post on the walrus and other species who have been objectified by those doing the taking, grabbing, and eating. Gobble, gobble.

The disconnect from the life giver herself and our belief that we can manipulate it has become even more extreme. The weather is becoming more violent while beliefs become more fractured and extreme. How is a so-called xian fundamentalist life any different from communist doctrine? There isn't much difference at all. Yet, whichever domination belief one holds, it's held dear despite any evidence to suggest otherwise.

Oh Sally, you've warned of this again and again. And, I for one, am deeply thankful for the education.

Was mulling while some interesting thots drenched my brain this morn... how in particular xianity are like big-box stores. Built/created by the boyz to entertain the "masses." No nutrition, fake life, same-old same-old ritual, tired & ugly, bent on control thru guilt mostly, many times violent to body, mind & soul.

joannaoregon-wow!! you are so exactly centered on the problem-"big box churches" no nutrition, fake life. Gawd I love that painful as it is. I am knowing that this is the end of Christianity and being an "old Pisces" in heritage (not physically a Pisces).

Thom's blog
The United States of CEOs

Last week, in a San Bruno CA neighborhood, a natural gas pipeline exploded in a thunderous sound heard for miles destroying homes and killed at least four people. Now, a consumer advocacy group has found that the company that operated the faulty pipeline, Pacific Gas & Energy (PG&E), had classified the pipe as a high risk and yet did not use the funds it had collected from a rate hike to repair it. Meanwhile, all over the nation states and cities are increasingly outsourcing facilities and infrastructure to private, for-profit companies like PG&E, taking in short term cash to help them through this tough economic time, but turning our infrastructure over to institutions that are set up only to make a profit and not to further the public good. From privatized parking meters to water supplies to toll roads to gas lines, America is increasingly becoming the United States of CEOs, with less and less control, oversight, and influence from We The People.

-Thom
In Deep Water

potential of really good luck over the next several weeks especially next week, sudden unexpexted good luck. Jupiter will be the closest it's been to earth in 50 years for one, and it's going to be conjunct with Uranus. On the 21st, it will be exactly between the Sun and earth, what a week this should be. Jupiter stays close for the next several weeks. Look to see if you have late degree Scorpio, Cancer or Pisces. Late degree Taurus, or Capricorn, late Gemini or Virgo could have unexpected expenses or an unexpected way to pay off some bills, in any case everyone should feel pretty good, also possibilities of unexpected healings if you've had a cold or been under the weather. Have a great week

potential of really good luck over the next several weeks especially next week, sudden unexpexted good luck. Jupiter will be the closest it's been to earth in 50 years for one, and it's going to be conjunct with Uranus. On the 21st, it will be exactly between the Sun and earth, what a week this should be. Jupiter stays close for the next several weeks. Look to see if you have late degree Scorpio, Cancer or Pisces. Late degree Taurus, or Capricorn, late Gemini or Virgo could have unexpected expenses or an unexpected way to pay off some bills, in any case everyone should feel pretty good, also possibilities of unexpected healings if you've had a cold or been under the weather. Have a great week

Well I have no late degrees-well whoops I have 29 Aries,really 28+ but since I grew up on Rudhyar,grew up as an astrologer that is,I always call it as the degree up -00aries 01 is Aries 1 and on and on. So here I go expecting unexpected good luck. Why not?!
Good morning Astroworld friends.