This Merc retro story smacks of the trickster. I’m beginning to think that maybe a lot of the snafus what we experience during these periods are really more about the trickster than anything else. The trickster, after all, is sometimes so in your face that you can’t ignore what has happened. You’re forced to look at the event or experience and figure out what the message is. You may resist, screaming and howling all the way to the discovery, but one way or another, the trickster gets his message across.
So this afternoon, we decide to go see Source Code. We leave the house a bit early so we can go by the hardware store for ant killer. It’s been unseasonably hot in Florida and already, we’re being inundated by ants. These ants are the hungry, relentless types. Obnoxious.
So while Rob is in the hardware store, I run into the drug store for some stuff. I finish before he does, don’t have the key to the car, so I head into the hardware store. He’s at the counter, the clerk hurries over, he tells her we’re on our way to the movie and we’re running late. In other words, can we get on with it, please?
“Oh, what movie are you seeing?” she asks.
“Source code.”
She wrinkles her nose. “Nope. Tonight I’m off to see Insidious, by the same people who did Paranormal Activity. Did you guys see that?
Yes,we did. Okay movie. I ask what she finds offensive about Source Code, which came out only today, April 1. She has just seen the trailer, but feels that Jake Gyllenhaal is just trying to re-do The Matrix. We leave fast, we’re now late for the movie. And we are about to sustain a big fat dent in the rear right corner of our car.
In the parking lot, we have a giant vehicle to our left, not a Hummer but something longer, maybe a Suburban or a van of some kind that blocks Rob’s view of oncoming cars as he backs out. I hear a sickening crunch, squeeze my eyes shut. Crap, are you kidding me? I look back and yes, the bad news is there.
A skinny, elderly man hops out of his car and is already pulling a card from his wallet when Rob and I reach him. He speaks with an accent, he wants us to call his son. He doesn’t have his cell with him, neither does Rob, and my cell oddly refuses to get a signal. I keep trying the son’s number while Rob and the man debate the issues about damage to his car. It’s minimal, some black streaks from our fender.
I start talking to the man in Spanish. Will he take cash for the damage? Rob pulls out a hundred dollar bill. “This should cover it,” he says.
“Cincuenta mas,” the old man says. Fifty more. “The car it is new.”
I still can’t get a signal. I tell the man he needs to go into Walgreen’s to call his son. He rolls his eyes. He is NOT happy. No one is HAPPY. Suddenly, Rob is working on he guy’s fender with some stuff he bought in the hardware store. The black paint from our car comes off his fender. Our car is much worse off.
“Look at this,” Rob says in English. “No problem. The paint is gone. If this were my car, I’d take the hundred bucks and leave.”
Nope, the guy isn’t having any of it. In Spanish, I ask if he’ll take another fifty bucks for the minimal damage. He mulls it over, looks at the bills, nods. That’s it. Money exchanges hands, we head off to the movie – and at some point during the course of this mind blowing big screen tale, I recognize the eerie parallels.
Source Code is about parallel realities, the world of physicists Michio Kaku and Brian Greene, an intelligent thriller, that focuses on the last eight minutes of the life of a man on a doomed train. One review compared it to Ground Hog Day, 24, and The Matrix. This same reviewer called the idea “preposterous,” but noted that Gyllenhaal excelled in this role. And yes, he does. He’s amazing. The story, the plot, the concept, everything is tightly written, satisfying to the very last second. Move over, Keanu Reeves, you’re yesterday’s paradigm.
When we walked out of this movie, I felt that our personal precursor to this movie was the fender bender incident. It could have gone any number of ways, and did, if you subscribe to the many world theory of quantum physics. In one reality, for instance, the man’s son arrived, insurance companies were summoned, our rates soared. In another, it didn’t happen. In yet another possibility, we settled for a hundred bucks. Or fifty. Or, the best scenario, we didn’t back into this guy at all. But what I took away from this brilliant movie is that each scenario is viable.
I’m just grateful that the possibility we experienced cost us just $150 and no injuries to anyone, anywhere. A car can be replaced, a life cannot. Unless you’re Gyllenhaal, in Source Code.
Please excuse the typos in my previous comments! Thanks. I seem to often be seeing in mirror-images these days. Comes from working in several languages, I suspect.
To Turbowitch: There is a location near the small town of Dahlonega, Georgia, in the NW part of that state, where the compass reportedly reverses. I haven’t taken a compass there myself yet, although my husband is from the most NE part of that state and I have been to Dahlonega. However, I have a very close friend who is a member of a “spiritual triad” that has purchased a several acre parcel of land in that specific area near Dahlonega, and the plans are to create a spiritual community there, which is purported to be directly on a planetary grid that has a huge crystal beneath the ground. I would not be the least surprised about the presence of the crystal, considering that in Missouri, which isn’t far away, there are numerous crystal caves, and I have definitely been inside those, which go very deeply into the sides of the MO mountains. Taking the myriad legends of crystal grids around the globe into serious consideration, I have little reason to doubt the veracity of the crystal grid near Dahlonega or the reversal of the compass there. The text, ANTI-GRAVITY AND THE WORLD GRID’, edited by David Childress, is an excellent source of information on the subject in which you are interested, as is his book THE ENERGY GRID. The non-fiction text co-authored by Rob Macgregor, THE FOG, is another great source of information on the subject and shouldn’t be missed. In my own personal expereinces with compasses and crystals, there have been occasions when the compass would behave erratically when placed on or near certain types of genuine crystals. I have theories about this anomaly, but they are just that: theories, and are based on just my own expereinces so may not be applicable. I have another good friend who is an amazingly accurate pendulum user, and I’ve seen a compass do crazy things when she simply holds her pendulum over a compass. Her pendulum, for what it’s worth, is a small natural perfect dual-point crystal, un-cut. It’s amazing to watch. Anyway, hope this helps.
I hope turbowitch see this. Thanks, math!
I saw “The Adjustment Bureau” today,and it’s worth a look,if you haven’t caught up with it yet.
Now that I’ve seen “Inception”, “The Adjustment Bureau”, and “Limitless”,I can tell you that “Limitless” is definitely my favourite of the three. With “The Adjustment Bureau” a distant second,but ahead of “Inception” (because it was just too much of a mind-maze for me,that I ended up getting lost…then I started dozing off…or did I ?-)
But see them all,and make up your own minds.
There’s people out there,I’m sure,who think “Inception” is a far better film than “Limitless”… but I would say they’re dreaming.-)
Another amusing indecent occurred when I went to see “The Adjustment Bureau”.Right before the movie started,an add was screened for this amusement center on Queensland’s Gold Coast
(would be similar to Miami for Australians as far as holiday destinations go).
Check out the 15 sec YouTube ad on this page;
https://www.infinitygc.com.au/about-infinity.html
The place is called Infinity,and the tag line is “The Fun Goes on Forever”.
Another message from the Trickster,maybe?
Okay, off to click this link, Daz!
LOOOOOVE Jake! I can not wait to see that movie.
Sounds like your day was parallel to my Truck day. Grrrrrrrrr. The trickster was a happy fellow yesterday.
Your truck day sounded pretty awful, Nat. Better day tomorrow, that’s what we hope for you!
So glad you guys are okay, and the other man, too!
Nance – did you see source code?!
Not yet, but I want to. I loved “The Adjustment Bureau” and “Inception.”
Wow…I saw “The Source Code” last night. I loved it! This movie confirmed for me that Jake is definitely one of the best actors of our (Gen X) generation. The scene where he learns the truth from the lady on the train is a case example: without saying a word, his facial reaction and eyes conveyed that he did not believe the lady at first until it finally dawns on him that it makes sense and he accepts what she has told him. Brilliant moment!
This film is in the same vein as “Inception”, “The Adjustment Bureau”, and “Limitless.” I love that Hollywood is making more films like these. I often wonder about alternate realities and wish I could go into the one where Gore won in 2000 and served eight years as president. Another thing I loved about this film is seeing the Millennium Gate in Chicago. I saw it in 2007 and I love it! Glad that it made it into the film. Chicago is such an awesome city.
Sorry to hear about your fender bender, but glad that it had a good resolution that didn’t involve insurance agents or the police.
We’ve got those other movies on our list. I agee with you about Jake. He’s a powerful actor and was just fantastic in this movie.
I highly recommend “The Adjustment Bureau.” For me, its the best film I’ve seen since “Forrest Gump” in 1994 (and I have seen a lot of movies in the years between). I think you will like this one, too. When you see it, I think its worthy of a blog post as well!
Sorry to hear about your fender bender…glad you’re alright. Will be putting Source Code on my list of must see movies…i almost passed it by. The last couple comments about the reversal of compass sounds pretty interesting. Hope you’ll write something on this.
Have to find out more about it!
The narrow headwater of the St. Johns is in Indian River County, which is a marsh that cannot be navigated. There are other very short rivers in the coutry that flow north briefly, but the St. Johns flows north for its entire 310-mile length.
Portion of the Bermuda triangle create havoc with compasses.
Well, we know as a certainty that the St. Johns River is the only river in the United States that flows north instead of south. My suggestion would be to go to the southern-most mouth of the St. Johns River in Florida and check the compass reading at that place. It’s an anomaly that no one has been able to adequately explain.
UNRELATED COMMENT,DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW OF PLACES IN YOUR COUNTY WHERE NORTH BECOMES SOUTH AND SOUTH BECOMES NORTH ON A COMPASS? kEISHA lITTLE GRANDMOTHER CAME FROM uNITED STATES TO SPEAK HERE IN OUR LITTLE WELSH TOWN & SAID GREAT SPIRIT SENT HER TO GO TO A LANDMARK NEAR HERE WHERE THE COMPASS POINTS REVERSE,IS THIS A COMMON PHENOMENEN,ARE THESE PLACES POWER SPOTS OF REVERSE MAGNETISM. REALLY INTERESTED TO HEAR IF YOU KNOW OF OTHER PLACES. THANKYOU.
Offhand, there are places of magnetic anomalies, but nothing like this that I know of. Maybe someone who drops by will have insight into this, Jane.
Trish
I have a strange intuitive sense that if we had gotten in our SUV and gone to the city for the surgery, ours would have become one of the many vehicles involved in the multiple accidents all over the place. Or, something would have gone wrong during the surgery itself because the hospital was on auxillary power for several hours. Will never know the reason it wasn’t supposed to happen today, but nonetheless, am very glad to be at home and safe!! The surgeon’s nurse phoned me around noon and said the doctor could still do it if I wanted, and I declined, telling her we’d stay with the re-scheduled date. I’m never one to tempt Fate when obviously timing is everything. The wind was so powerful here that it literally lifted the 12×12 screen gazebo in our backyard and moved it seven feet, intact, without any distortions. The poles are solid steel. It didn’t tear the roof or the screen, just simply picked up the whole thing, which is extremely heavy, and moved it. Is that crazy, or what? So vehicles crossing all the bridges? No thanks. Not in winds that can do that. I’m quite thankful to whomever is running this show!!
There’s a purpose behind it, for sure!
Glad to hear you are okay after the incident – a reasonable outcome if you think of what might have happened (or maybe is being played out).
So glad the accident wasn’t worse and no one was hurt except your pocketbook! What an afternoon you guys had! Whew! As you know, this morning I’ve had my own rather significant interaction with the Trickster or The Source or The Universe or Mercury retrograde or all combined. Was scheduled to have eye surgery at 11, and due at the hospital at 9:30 for pre-ops, etc. Got up very early because the hospital and our docs are in another town north of us. Well. Massive storm system came roaring across from west to east, taking its time. Weather people warned all residents to remain off the highways and in their homes. Tornadoes, power outages, (including the surgical center, which when I phoned them was using auxillary power ), large hail, downed trees, downed powerlines with fires from transformers all over the place, the two main highways we would have had to take were piled up with multiple accidents, completely stopped bumper-to-bumper traffic, winds exceeding 65mph,( bridges close when wind reaches 39mph, so we couldn’t leave the island anyway). Bottom line, no surgery today. For several days I’ve been feeling intuitively it wasn’t going to happen today but had no reason to feel that way, and have been preparing for the surgery. My intuition was dead on. It wasn’t supposed to happen today. I’m sure I’ll never know WHY it wasn’t supposed to happen, but am glad it didn’t. Now am scheduled for the 19th, which will still be within Merc retro. We’ll see what occurs on THAT day! Meanwhile, vision is not good, but still, am feeling intense relief. Apparently whatever was waiting in the path if the surgery had been performed today, has been avoided. I’m grateful.
Wow, I just downloaded Green’s new book, now I’m really interested in the movie. Glad things were not worse with the fender bender. But I find the desire to just not leave the house some days – it is so much easier to stay centered – away from people!
You’ll enjoy the movie. Green’s book is dense. I read some, then switch to another book, going back and forth like that.