Hurricane Harvey

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Trish and Rob

Hurricane Harvey meandered in the Gulf of Mexico for what seemed like days, as a tropical depression, then became a tropical storm that moved into Central America. Now it’s back in Gulf of Mexico and is predicted to slam into the Texas coast as a major hurricane – cat 3 or higher. In fact, the National Hurricane Center’s 4 PM CDT discussion is alarming. I added the red type.

Key Messages:

1. Harvey is expected to be a major hurricane at landfall, bringing life-threatening storm surge, rainfall, and wind hazards to portions of the Texas coast. Preparations to protect life and property should be completed by tonight, as tropical-storm-force winds will first arrive in the hurricane and storm surge warning areas on Friday.

2. A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for much of the Texas coast. Life-threatening storm surge flooding could reach heights of 6 to 12 feet above ground level at the coast between the north entrance of the Padre Island National Seashore and Sargent. For a depiction of areas at risk, see the Storm Surge Watch/Warning Graphic at hurricanes.gov.

3. Devastating and life-threatening flooding is expected across the middle and upper Texas coast from heavy rainfall of 15 to 25 inches, with isolated amounts as high as 35 inches, from Friday through next Wednesday. Please refer to products from your local National Weather Service office and the NOAA Weather Prediction Center for more information on the flooding hazard.

4. The Potential Storm Surge Flooding Map is available on the NHC website. This product depicts a reasonable worst-case scenario – the amount of inundation that has a 10 percent chance of being exceeded at each individual location. This map best represents the flooding potential in those locations within the watch and warning areas.

Author Whitley Strieber, who co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, the basis of the movie The Day After Tomorrow, has an excellent post on this potentially devastating hurricane. If the storm stalls just off the Texas coast, as the hurricane center says it may, then Strieber believes we may be seeing another Superstorm Sandy or Hurricane Katrina.

Keep Texas in your thoughts, folks!

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A Tarot Synchro

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Trish and Rob

 

At some point in late 1300s, playing cards were first seen in Europe. According to tarot historian Tom Tadfor Little, it wasn’t until 1440 that the cards which would become the origin of the tarot were first mentioned in a letter from the Duke of Milan.He requested several decks of “triumph” cards to be used at a special event. The letter differentiated triumph cards from regular playing cards. Apparently, the game of triumph was similar to bridge. There were four suits with cards numbered one through ten and also court cards that included a queen, king, knight and page.

The deck also included 22 symbolic picture cards that did not belong to any suit and 21 of them were permanent trump cards.. The game spread quickly to all parts of Europe. Around 1530, people began referring to it as tarocchi, an Italian version of the French word tarot.

Then in 1781, in France and England, followers of the occult discovered tarot cards and began using them as a divination tool.

That’s the official history.

But there are some tarot experts who believe the cards originated in ancient Egypt and survived the great fire that destroyed the library at Alexandria. At its height, the library, established in the 3rd century B.C., held anywhere from 40,000 to 400,000 papyrus scripts. Among these people, the tarot are cards are considered to be the hieroglyphic keys to life.

Regardless of which theory you subscribe to, the 22 cards of the major arcana can be seen as Jungian archetypes common to all people as they journey through life. But since the 1700s, life has changed dramatically and the archetypes have constantly evolved. In fact, since my friend Phyllis Vega, and I published Power Tarot in 1998, look at the big events that have impacted our lives and changed the way we live:

9-11

the birth of the TSA and Homeland Security

the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan

the rover exploration of Mars

Hurricane Katrina

the birth of Facebook, Google, Twitter and social media

the introduction of the iPhone, the iPad and other Smart devices

the first black president

a meltdown in the housing market, the recession

the Affordable Care Act, the closest thing the U.S. has to universal health care

renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba

the hacking of the 2016 election by Russia

the election of a businessman to the presidency

an acceleration in racism and divisiveness

an acceleration of climate change

instantaneous communication and news 24/7

And that’s just for starters. We are more connected to each other than ever before and yet, increasingly more disconnected from ourselves. As a result, the archetypes represented by the major arcana are evolving even more quickly.

This idea is the basis for a workshop I’m teaching at the Cassadaga Bookstore on Sunday, October 8. So today I was writing up my notes for the evolving archetype of the Justice card, key 11, and experienced an odd synchro. I use my mini Rider-Waite deck for this. Its depiction of the Justice card is at the top of this post.

I took a break to pull my own card for the day – using the Tarot of the Cloisters, a beautifully illustrated round deck. I shuffled the deck, fanned out the cards, and selected one. What did I pull?

The Justice card.

The universe definitely has a sense of humor.

Will justice prevail in the trump presidency? Will special prosecutor Robert Mueller find the evidence he needs? Perhaps.

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The Great American Solar Eclipse

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Trish and Rob

It’s being called the Great American Eclipse because for the first time in 99 years – the path of a total solar eclipse traverses the U.S., 14 states in all.  The areas of totality are indicated on the map.

Here in South Florida, we’ll have 81 percent totality, enough so that the afternoon will turn to twilight. I just received our eclipse glasses on Friday. After a frantic hunt locally – sorry, sold out; sorry, sold out – I ordered them online, through a NASA approved site. They were sold in packets of 5 and because I ordered them so late, I paid an additional $15 for expedited shipping. So, 30 bucks for five pairs of glasses. Not too bad. We gave three pairs away, and tomorrow afternoon around 1:25, Rob and I will be in our backyard to watch it unfold.

The time of greatest darkness here will be shortly before 3 p.m. We’re considering going to our dog park to watch some of this because the area is wide open and we’re curious about how animals may behave. Not the dogs, but the wild critters – birds, squirrels, insects.

Here is NASA’s site on the eclipse. For the astrological perspective, check out Susan Miller’s site. And then get out there at some popint and if you don’t have glasses, do the old grade school science thing – pinhole in a piece of paper, place another piece of paper under it, and watch the progressive shading as the moon eclipses the sun. Better yet, borrow someone’s glasses!

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Global Synchro: Kennedy, McCain, & Health Care

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Trish and Rob

In an email exchange this evening with Nancy Atkinson, whom we initially met through blogging, she pointed out one of the most interesting global synchros that Rob and I completely overlooked.

But first, some background info here. Glioblastoma – GBM – is a highly malignant tumor that generally grows in the cerebral hemispheres of the brain, but can be found anywhere in the brain or spinal cord. Beau Biden and Ted Kennedy died of it. John McCain has been diagnosed with it. Whitley’s Strieber’s wife, died of it. Nancy’s husband, Rich, now has it.

Now here’s the synchro Nancy pointed out.

In May 2008, during contentious debates on Obamacare, Ted Kennedy, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, was diagnosed with GBM. He made numerous trips to Washington during the last year of his life to fight for what eventually became the Affordable Care Act. Kennedy died in 2009, at the age of 77, and the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – was passed in 2010.

Skip ahead to 2017. During contentious debates to repeal Obamacare, John McCain was diagnosed with GBM and underwent surgery, so the vote on the repeal was delayed until he returned. And when McCain returned, he did the unthinkable – he voted against repeal.

Even the New York Times noted the “eerie parallels.”

But this goes well beyond eerie parallels. It’s a global synchronicity:

Both men are/were senators, giants in their respective parties who have/had served as senators for decades.

Both had been diagnosed with the same type of brain tumor.

Both were voting/fighting for a major health bill that would impact millions.

Kennedy was fighting for the Affordable Care Act that would enable millions of Americans to get health insurance. At the time McCain was diagnosed, the Republicans were trying to repeal the ACA (Obamacare) by scaling back Medicaid – the largest health insurer, and doing away with the mandate. They hoped to ram the bill through a vote with little time for anyone to read it. It was estimated that the Republican version would rob 24 million people of their health care and give tax breaks to the very rich. They needed McCain’s vote to pass it.

So then the trickster stepped in. When McCain returned to the senate, he did an about face, voted against the repeal, and it failed.

No telling why McCain voted against it. Perhaps his diagnosis drove home the point that not many people would be able to afford the surgery he had – $60,000-$70,000- or the cost of the follow-up care he will require, chemo, radiation, experimental drugs. And if the ACA was repealed, people who depended on Medicaid – the poor, elderly, and very sick children – would be shit outta luck.

Thanks, Nancy, for pointing out this synchro, and you and Rich are in our thoughts and prayers.

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Podcast with Whitley Strieber

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Trish and Rob

 

Back in July, we joined author Whitley Strieber for a discussion about some of the high strangeness stories in our new book Beyond Strange. Whitley has posted it on his website. Priscilla, who had a time travel experience in the Florida keys, joined us for the second half of the show.  It’s always great fun and insightful to talk with Whitley about these inexplicable experiences! Here’s the link for the show. Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Stolen Bikes

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Trish and Rob

In the 17 years we’ve lived in our house, the neighborhood had been remarkably safe. It’s just a single street that loops around, 30 or 35 homes, suburban, close to good schools etc,. But over the years, Rob and I have experienced a few thefts – loose change from Rob’s car when he hasn’t locked it, a generator in our garage for hurricane season, several bicycles. The most recent theft was the other night – two bikes.

Rob closed the garage door when we got back from the dog park, but our cat, Simba, was still outside so I opened the garage door halfway  in the event that it rained or he wanted to come in. About an hour later, I walked out into the garage to call him, and realized my bike and one of Rob’s was gone.

I’ve had my bike for 8 years – since my last one was stolen out of the garage – and this theft pissed me off. Most evenings, Rob and I ride our bikes down toward our neighborhood park with Nika and Noah racing along the sidewalk parallel to the road. I loved my bike. It was comfortable, perfectly suited for my body type, legs, feet. In the winter, when the air is much cooler and fit for human habitation, I enjoy riding it through the equestrian area near our house.

Rob called the cops this morning, so that we can eventually file an insurance claim, but I no longer had the paper work on the bike and couldn’t recall the make, model, etc. Our neighbor, Annette, who is on vacation, has bought the same model bike, so I texted her and told her what had happened and why I needed the bike model. Her response is an interesting synchronicity:

“I just got back from a long bike ride and I’m sitting here trying to catch my breath and I checked my phone and then you ask me what kind of bike I have…What a synchronicity. Sorry to hear about your bike getting stolen.”

 I’m no fan of these kinds of synchronicities. There’s a victim mentality here, the law of attraction as our daughter is quick to point out. While I have never felt like a “victim” in this neighborhood, I do feel like a “victim” in the current political climate and wonder if this is how it manifests itself for me.

Trump policies getting you down? Trump chaos confusing you? Wondering if/when the dude will be impeached? Hey, no problem, let us show you the way the law of attraction works.

 Steal our bikes.

Try to steal our health insurance, our dignity, our democracy.

After awhile, this kind of thinking, of yourself as a victim of a larger system, whatever it is, starts manifesting itself in your personal life. I think it’s time to stop listening to and reading the news.

At any rate, we’re now looking for replacement bikes on offerup.

 

PS And found two good bikes!

 

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Backlash, Whiplash

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Trish and Rob

No doubt we’ve all  heard plenty of opinions about what happened over the weekend in Charlottesville and how the president responded. The tragedy wasn’t personal to him. He knows the young woman who died no doubt didn’t support him. But the perpetrator and his racist, Nazi, KKK, alt.right compatriots are his supporters. So he just read what his staff had written for him, first blaming the ‘many sides,’ then two days later getting more specific about the violence-prone racists. But there was no passion in his words either time, and he didn’t reject their support. After all, he is the one who has emboldened the masses of hate-mongers on the right with his birther conspiracy and his race-baiting campaign.

Monday afternoon I decided to meditate on the question about why, in the year 2017, we are still dealing with hate groups marching in the South with torches, carrying semi-automatic weapons, and baseball bats. Haven’t we progressed past those days of segregation and lynchings? The Nazi slogan ‘blood and soil’ was shouted out right along with ‘take America Back.’ Back where, to white-only bathrooms, poll taxes for blacks? Why not AM radio and black and white TV as well?

I put those thoughts out as I drifted into my meditative state. Finally, I let it go and cleared my mind and waited to see what, if anything, might emerge. Almost immediately an answer came to me in a vision and a voice. I saw a speed boat idling on a body of water. On board was a woman I’ve never seen before. The boat suddenly sped forward and she fell back in her seat.

The woman turned, looked at me and  said: When we move rapidly ahead, there’s a reaction in the opposite direction. That was it. The comment to me referred to those Americans who feel threatened by change and are fighting to hold onto the past, who see the direction of the racial make-up and the growing political power of minorities as a reason to get angry. That fear and anger brought on the election of a completely unqualified buffoon, a man only interested in his own legacy, his own success, his own pride at the expense of anyone who blocked his way.

In the vision, the woman fell back into her seat, but she didn’t fall overboard, and the boat continued on. That to me suggests that we have a rocky path ahead, that there will be more incidents like what happened in Charlottesville. That’s especially true if the perceived leader of the alt.right, D.T., is removed from office – a growing possibility. But the country moves ahead.

 

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SPAM

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Trish and Rob

When I was a kid, spam was the gross stuff that came out of a can. Now it’s the gross stuff that ends up in your email, your blog, your website. I’m not sure what the purpose is. Spammers must be getting paid by someone, somewhere, to advertise something, but c’mon, some of these spams are ridiculous.

First, there’re the spammers who leave long messages in Chinese, Japanese, or Russian. No telling what they’re advertising or advocating.

Then there are the spammers who write about how women can produce breast milk when they aren’t pregnant. This one sounds sort of kinky to me, but honestly, what woman would want to produce breast milk when not pregnant?

Then there’s the usual porn spam announcing live videos of threesomes! Foursomes! And child porn, yes siree, pull up your seats and bring your popcorn.

But one of my favorites – and this guy hasn’t stopped by for awhile – was from a guy who has a serious mental issue about American women, how awful they are – unfaithful, shallow, the pits. One evening, I actually went to his website, clicking onto it from Google, not the blog, and read a couple of his nauseating posts about how many hits he was getting from men fed up with American women. Asian women were the way to go, they were grateful, wonderful, compliant etc. etc.

Several times, we got spams about consulting a particular psychic. I noted the psychic’s name, tracked down his email address, and wrote him and asked him to stop spamming our blog. He emailed me back and claimed he didn’t know anything about it. Yeah, sure. The spams kept appearing.

Then there are the real psychos, the ones who might follow you into a dark alley some night and do unspeakable things to you if they catch you. I think of them as the shadow people, the truly disenfranchised, bitter, sorry souls who have nothing but time on their hands and can’t think of any better way to use that time.

I don’t get any of it. Why would people who speak Chinese or Japanese or Russian spam a blog written in English? Are they paid by how many spams they send out? Do they, on their job resumes, list SPAMMER as their profession?

I used to see spammers as an annoyance. Now I’m beginning to regard them as individuals with such serious mental problems that they belong in padded cells, pumped up on anti-psychotic drugs.

Then there are the hits that come from government agencies – the NSA, DEA, DIA, FBI, the acronym spy agencies. They don’t leave comments, spam or otherwise, and usually appear on posts we write about aliens, abductions, contact, the truly weird stuff. Early on in this blog’s life, those hits were unnerving. I kept expecting to encounter a man in black at our grocery store. Now they’re just puzzling and lead me to believe that the government doesn’t know much more than the rest of us about alien life or things that defy science, that they’re struggling to piece things together.

So, dudes, spammers and spies alike, go feast on these two books and leave us alone, okay?

 

 

 

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What is it?

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Trish and Rob

This is a night-blooming cactus in our backyard. But what’s this:

It’s greater than God and worse than the devil. Rich people want it and poor people have it. If you eat it, you die.

Any guesses? Think about it. Send us your answer. If no one gets it, I’ll provide the answer tomorrow. One clue: the Peaceful Warrior knows the answer!

 

 

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Mercury Retrograde Alert

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Trish and Rob

Advance warning. Buckle up! Mercury – the planet that rules communication and travel – turns retrograde two days from now, on August 12, at 9 p.m. EDT, in earth sign Virgo at 11 degrees. On September 5, it turns direct in Leo. Mercury rules both Virgo and Gemini, so those two signs will feel the impact most strongly. However, everyone feels these retrogrades to some degree.

During Mercury retrogrades, miscommunication is often rampant, electronics and appliances break down, it’s unwise to launch new projects or sign contracts. Instead, follow the rule of the three Rs: revise, review, reconsider. Mercury also rules moving parts, so it’s wise not to buy a car or electronic device during the retro.

If you’re traveling during this period, try to go with the flow because you may experience delays or abrupt changes in your schedule. It’s also probable that you’ll return to the location you’re visiting at some point within the next year or so.

Mercury will still be retrograde on the day of the solar eclipse, August 21. Since this eclipse will be total in some parts of the U.S., solar power grids may go down and cell phone coverage may be spotty. California and North Carolina, the two states that have the largest solar power infrastructure, are preparing natural gas backups.

And just in case you missed the post about what this solar eclipse may portend, here’s a link to it.

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