Yes, when it comes to cold nights for Floridians – at least those of us from Orlando south – we kind of lose it. I’m talking about lows in the 40s – fairly warm for states that are being pummeled by 10 and 11 inches of endless snow. Rob either chops up wood that we’ve bought or that he has cut from the trees in our yard and shortly after it gets dark, he starts the fire in our outside fire pit.
Nigel and Riley, Megan’s dog staying with us, love it. I bundle up in 4 layers of clothes, slip on my gyms shoes, & stay out there as long as long as I’m not cold, maybe 15 minutes. The fire is invariably good and warm, but like any fire, the wood is consumed, the heat dies down. I’d love to have an indoor fireplace where I could curl up on the floor with Nigel and a blanket and pillow and go to sleep.
But in the absence of that, the dancing flames ignite my imagination. As an astrologer, I’m aware of the element of the 12 signs. The fire signs – Aries, Leo, Sagittarius – are doers, the ones who get things done. They may do things in a hurry, may exhibit a fair share of drama, may insist they are right. But each fire sign represents a particular archetype. Tonight, this fire encompassed all three.
I needed to leap into a story I’m working on (Aries), the story needed drama and excitement (Leo) & it needed that nomadic truth and bigger picture that Sagittarius provides. So I hurried inside and went to work.
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At least once a day, I run across a post on Facebook or some other social media site that delineates trump and musk’s numerous violations of the law – you know, firing federal employees without cause or regard to the law. & some cultish trump person responds with what a fantastic job trump is doing, how musk is uncovering trillions in waste and how the biden admin was filled with mafia crooks.
I respond to the ones that also attack the person who listed those violations and their repercussions. Like one today, where the guy told the woman who posted about what trump and musk had done so far, to “get over it, sister” because Musk is uncovering trillions in waste. He doesn’t offer facts. But according to him the biden admin operated like the mafia…No evidence.
These people are mired in the trump cult. They believe that when he was shot, god saved him, he’s a savior, a new version of christ, and he’s going to take us out of the horrible state in which the country finds itself. I told the guy today to wake up and get his news from somewhere other than Fox News.
I (Rob) was riding my bike in the regional park that’s adjacent to the Everglades a few miles from home when I came to the end of one of the paths and saw the Wind Phone.
I knew right away it wasn’t about the wind. It appeared somewhat like little book exchanges some people create at the street-side of their property. But this wasn’t about books any more that it was about the wind.
It was about spirit contact. It’s where you can call the dead.
If you look closely into the top part of the box, you can see the spirit phone. Also in that box is a notebook where you can leave a message for a lost loved one. The phone is just over a month old and already there are about a dozen messages.
I’d never heard of wind phones but now I know a lot more about them. A wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located in a secluded spot in nature, usually within a booth-type structure and often next to a chair or bench. But don’t expect a dial tone. The phone line is disconnected.
According to an article in Smithsonianmag: People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of their grief, to reminiscence and to continue to connect to the person who is gone. For many, it is a deeply moving, life-affirming experience.
The articles on wind phones say they are a way of expressing grief, coming to closure. But for me I’d rather think that wind phones are a place for two-way conversations or at least making a connection, spirit contact, maybe symbolically.
That’s what happened to me. On the bike ride into the park, a cousin of mine who had died a couple of decades ago came to mind before I’d even seen the wind phone. When I happened on the wind phone, I noticed a white feather on the ground nearby. I’ve always considered white feathers symbolic of spirit contact.
Did Cousin John have something to say to me? I felt a nudge from him as I headed home to contact a man at the house next door. He’s the father on the man who lives there and he visits from Michigan in the winter. This year I had avoided talking to him because of past political disconnects with that family. I’ll leave it at that.
But when I got home and saw him sitting on a chair in the front yard by himself reading a book, I went over and talked to him about senior aches and pains and medical stuff – not politics – and gave him a non-fiction adventure book that I co-authored last year. He was very appreciative and a bit surprised. Thank you, Cousin John, for the nudge.
There are about 200 wind phones scattered throughout the United States and they are usually found in parks, along walking trails and on church grounds. It all began in Japan in 2010 when Itaru Sasaki, a garden designer, built a phone booth in his yard so he could “talk” with a deceased relative.
Months later, the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami hit and in a matter of minutes, more than 20,000 people died. Sasaki opened the phone booth to his neighbors, who urgently needed a place to express their grief. Word spread, and soon people came on pilgrimage from around Japan to speak through the “phone of the wind” to those they loved.
…No mystery here. He’s doing what autocrats have always done – break the system so that he and his billionaire buddies can remain in power indefinitely.
Don’t believe it? Think things are great and spectacular, as one woman said to me today?
Bu if you still don’t believe it, well, then go back to Fox News for your daily brainwashing. & then head to your local grocery store or hardware store or any store and take a look at the rising prices. and try to convince yourself that trump is making things great again.
And rip off your blinders and take a clear look at what he’s doing. Because if all this continues, then in several weeks or months we’ll look like Putin’s Russia, like North Korea, like Hungary. Read up on Nazi Germany, on Mussolini, on Chile’s Pinochet, on Venezuela’s Chavez and Maduro…
Trump is using the same autocratic playbook and being outspoken about it. As one friend now refers to him – President Capone.
3 Souls Paranormal is a group of paranormal investigators, specifically ghost hunters or investigators from Pittsburgh. They call themselves 3 Souls Paranormal – though there are actually five investigators, and we have four of them with us today. They are Stephen Nolte, Frank Cirri, Mark Castner, Missie Hornbeck.
Here’s another one of orange man’s executive orders signed today, February 6:
“Today, I’m signing an executive order to make our attorney general — who’s a great person, she’s going to be a great attorney general, Pam Bondi — the head of a task force brand new to eradicate anti-Christian bias,” Trump said at an event tied to the National Prayer Breakfast.
Huh?
What does this mean, exactly? What is anti-Christian bias, anyway? If I’m not mistaken, didn’t colonists come to this country in part because they wanted religious freedom – i.e., the spiritual freedom to believe what they wanted without fear of prosecution?
So does this mean your religious beliefs will be a criteria for being hired to a particular job that has nothing to do with religion? Does it mean that writers shouldn’t have christianity in their novels? Their non-fiction books? Does it mean that if, like our daughter, you’re going to be working with whales that you must do so from a christian perspective? And for whales, what the hell does that mean?
And oh, just for the record, Pam Bondi was the attorney general in Florida for awhile before she joined trump’s defense team during one of his impeachments. As AG here in Florida, she usually sided with corporations. As orange man’s AG, you can be sure she’ll perk right up when it comes to this anti-Christian bias. And that is likely to entail:
– trump is our savior because god saved him from an assassination attempt when the shooter got him in the ear-
– women should stay at home and have babies
– christianity should be taught in schools
– abortion should be banned nationwide
– men are superior to women
– white men are superior to everyone
Well, you get the idea.
But the bottom line is that one of the principles on which this country was founded was the freedom of religion. So please, trump – orange psychopath, convicted felon, grifter, general asshole – don’t presume to tell me what spiritual beliefs I can hold.
At the dog park today (Jan. 31), the small group who were gathered with their dogs at our usual place got into a conversation about, well, shit. It began when I posed the question of what happens to all the horse manure that’s created here in Wellington’s equestrian community. Apparently, this was an issue three years ago in the village and some sort of resolution came about.
That led Lloyd, owner of Abby, to talk about the word shit originated in ‘olden times’ when wet manure stowed in the hold of ships would ferment and generate hazardous methane and explode. So, Sacks of manure would be marked SHIT, meaning Ship High in Transit.
I had never heard that story, and to me it sounds like etymythology. So I offered another version of the origin of shit, which is considered the genuine origin. It’s from the Old English “scitte” which is related to the Dutch “schijten and the German “scheisse,” all meaning shit.”
But now comes the shitty synchro: Two hours later, the same group met for dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Wellington. We sat a table outside under a roof and adjacent to the open bar. From our table, we noticed a sign facing us just above the bar that seemed to relate to our earlier conversation. It reads: MANURE HAPPENS. An odd sign to see in a restaurant, but this is Wellington, Florida and there’s a lot of manure, aka shit happening here during the winter horse season.
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, aka shit happening here during the winter horse season.
