The Mystical Underground: Rob Macgregor: Staff Of Kings: Episode 8

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Rob Macgregor: Staff Of Kings: Episode 8”:

Join Rob MacGregor, the author of the Indiana Jones prequel novels, and the Mystical Underground as they present the eighth episode of an audio production of the unpublished novel “Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings.”
Sometimes called “The Lost Indiana Jones novel,” Staff of Kings will come out in multiple episodes on The Mystical Underground’s podcast feed, beginning August 22, 2021. It will continue as possible each month through 2022.

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Synchronicity & Sabian Symbols

Posted on July 2, 2022 by Trish and Rob

In 1925, astrologer Marc Edmund Jones met with psychic Elsie Wheeler, who was confined to a wheelchair by arthritis. With him, he had 360 white, unlined 3×5 index cards with an astrological degree written on each one.

As explained in the intro to The Sabian Symbols: A Screen of Prophecy by Diana E. Roche, “Because he realized there would e interruptions he decided to break up the sessions into quarters. A quarter of the cards were taken at random for each session and the cards were shuffled continuously during the process. Each card was placed face down in front of Elise and she ‘reported on the picture she saw by inward vision.’” Neither of them knew which degrees was being dealt with during the time she was describing the picture. Marc hurriedly wrote down the brief description on each card as she described the image. The first session took approximately two hours.”

In other words, Elsie was remote viewing the card in front of her with no idea what degree or symbol was on the card because it was turned over.

I haven’t looked at this book in years, but pulled it out today because I couldn’t remember the definition for my Gemini sun’s 16 degrees. Now here comes the synchronicity.

Yesterday, we did a podcast with man who’s alleged purpose in life is to doubt everything in his search for the essential truth. Sounds noble, I know. He’s a climate change denier, says the science doesn’t support it. He questions all psychic experiences, everything related to UFOs and abductions, etc. And oh, polar bears are doing just fine and their icy world isn’t really melting. He also happened to mention that the CIA social engineered the feminist movement because Gloria Steinem was a CIA operative.

I thought, huh? The CIA?

It turns out that Gloria was a CIA operative, by her own admission, and went undercover as a Playboy bunny to find out how widespread misogyny was. This was in 1971. I remember how women, collectively, were pissed that they didn’t have the same rights as men and that feeling, that emotion, deepened and went viral and became a powerful movement.

Finally, on March 22, 1972, the ERA was passed and became the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. A year later, Roe v Wade legalized abortion. All of this would have happened without Gloria. I clarified this to the podcast host:

When that movement started, women were coming out of a period where they couldn’t have a bank account of their own without a spouse’s approval. Abortions were illegal, so pregnant women who didn’t want the child for whatever reason resorted to back alley abortions. I have friends who went that route. It kept women from having control over their own bodies. It kept men in charge of their bodies. The movement would have happened regardless of whether gloria was involved or not. The collective anger was a force unto itself.

Then today, I looked up the definition for 16 Gemini:

“A woman suffragist haranguing. Keyword: indignation.” The theme of this particular degree is liberty and justice for all. “This symbol speaks to the eternal struggle of the disenfranchised to be fully accepted members society with all the accompany rights and privileges. The image of a woman suffragist haranguing symbolizes all efforts to end discrimination and separatism in whatever form they appear.”

Now, though, we’re about to move backward. The supremes have now overturned  Roe v Wade, a right women have had for 49 years. What’s next? An end to gay marriage? And end to interracial marriage? Men controlling women and their bodies in new, unimagined ways?

If you don’t have a natal chart, go to this link for a free chart:

https://astro.cafeastrology.com/natal.php

Now look for the degree of your sun. Let’s say your sun is 8 Cancer 36- eight minutes and 36 seconds of Cancer. Since the seconds are over 30, read definitions for both 8 and 9 degrees of Cancer. Which describes you best? Click here.

It’s also fun to take the degrees of other planets in your horoscope. Try your moon. Mine is 29 degrees 56 minutes of Capricorn. So I should read both 29 degrees and 30 degrees.
Here’s what 29 degrees Capricorn says: “A woman reading tea leaves.”

I stopped reading there. It fits.

So give it a shot.

 

 

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Another novel predicted a future incident

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Trish and Rob

We’ve written before how novelists sometimes tune into future events in an eerily accurate way in their fictive stories. Among them are Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote about a shipwreck and how survivors became cannibals eating a cabin boy named Richard Parker in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Forty-seven years later, the incident actually happened – a shipwreck, survivors and eat a cabin boy astonishingly named Richard Parker!

Then there was The Wreck of the Titan, a novel by Morgan Robertson that described a luxury ship on its first cruise striking an iceberg and sinking. The story was published in 1898, fourteen years before the RMS Titanic maritime disaster.

In 1972, Regency Press published a novel, Black Abductor, by Harrison James, a pseudonym for James Rusk Jr. It’s about a terrorist group led by a black  man who kidnapped a college student named Patricia. Her wealthy father was well known and had right wing sympathies. Two years later, a similar true story unfolded when Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army led by a black man. She was a college student, the daughter of right-wing media baron Randolph Hearst.

Now it has happened again with a novel called, The Tenth Justice, by Brad Meltzer. We’ve heard over and over that no secret Supreme Court document has ever been leaked, except for the recent illegal release of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft of court decision to overturn Roe v Wade. But that’s not exactly true. It has happened in fiction.

Meltzer’s novel is about a Supreme Court clerk Ben Addison, who is fresh out of Yale Law and on an ultra-fast track to success—until he inadvertently shares a classified court secret. Sound familiar?

At this point, we don’t know who released Alito’s draft but in all likelihood it was a court clerk. Their average age is twenty-seven.

Here’s a partial description of the novel.

Guilty of a criminal act, his golden future suddenly in jeopardy, Ben turns for help to his roommates—three close friends from childhood, each strategically placed near the seats of Washington power—and to his beautiful, whip-smart fellow clerk, Lisa Schulman. But trust is a dangerous commodity in the nation’s capital. And when lives, careers, and power are at stake, loyalties can shatter like glass . . . and betrayals can be lethal.

As the real-life story unfolds, we’ll see how close it parallel’s Metzer’s novel. Will a clerk be found at fault and how did the document get leaked out?

Metzer recently appeared on MSNBC to talk about two of his children books – one about Rosa Parks, the other about Martin Luther King – that have been removed from some school libraries. During the interview, Katie Phang, briefly mentioned the odd synchronicity about The Tenth Justice, and Metzer jokingly quipped, “Yeah, now there’s proof that I’m a time traveler.”

 

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U.S. PLUTO RETURN

Posted on June 28, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

Even though science no longer views Pluto as a planet, astrologers still use it, especially now. Pluto’s influence is never ambivalent or passive. It represents profound transformation, power, purge, the afterlife, death, birth and rebirth, good and evil, redemption, the underworld, everything that is secret and hidden. In other words, not much fun.

In the past, its extremes were best symbolized by Hitler and Gandhi. In today’s world, they are best symbolized by the Dalai Lama at one end and autocrats like Putin and on the other end, a supreme court that expands gun rights on the same day that they ban abortion, stripping women  of a right they’d had for 49 years.

When the U.S. was born – the day the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia – the country’s natal Pluto was at 27 degrees and 33 minutes of Capricorn. You can see it in the inner circle, 2nd house.On Feb 22 2022, Pluto returned to that exact point.   A Pluto return  happens every 248 years, so this is the U.S.’s first such return. That date was also a palindrome, meaning it reads the same backward and forward.

A Pluto return generally means the destruction of power structures and norms and a gradual rebuilding from the ashes. You might say this country has been in a Pluto return since Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 – the election of the first black president, followed by the electoral win of grifter trump, an insurrection and attempted coup, a pandemic that Biden handled well, the Jan 6 committee, the invasion of Ukraine and now, the banning of abortion.

On the day that the supremes released their abomination, Pluto was at 27 degrees and 56 minutes of Capricorn – it’s there in the outer circle, 2nd house. In other words, just 23 minutes away from an exact to the minute conjunction. That number, 23, is important. In the I Ching,  hexagram 23 is called Splitting Apart. You can read more about it and the people who have kept track of that troubling number  here.

Many of us had hoped the Pluto return would result in something positive, a true shift in consciousness – and perhaps it still will. But right now, folks, it looks like we’re at the gates of Gilead, the fictional world depicted in Margaret Atwood’s brilliant book, The Handmaid’s Tale.  Clarence Thomas has already alluded to gay marriage and contraception as on the chopping block. That should mean that interracial marriage would be there, too. But since Thomas is married to a white woman, my guess is that won’t happen. Or it will be grandfathered in.

But what all this amounts to isn’t the protection of the unborn. It’s about the control of women. It’s the beginning of an autocracy.

So if you have considered leaving the U.S., now might be the time to do it.

Pluto will enter Aquarius on January 21, 2024. It will turn retrograde and slip back into Capricorn, where it will be on election day in Nov 2024. Then, on November 20, it will enter Aquarius again. Mercury will also be retrograde on election day, as it was in 2000, when the election was too close to call. And we  all know where that election ended up in – in the supreme court, which handed Bush a win.

So where will the country be by Thanksgiving or Christmas of 2024?

I don’t have any idea.

 

 

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The Mystical Underground: Trish MacGregor: Star Power For July 2022

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Trish MacGregor: Star Power For July 2022”:

Join Trish for the July 2022 astrological forecast! It’s also in written form in the masthead.

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Bye, Roe v Wade

Posted on June 24, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

So, it finally came to pass. 49 years of legal precedence overturned by a supreme court with three justice appointed by trump. As Huffington Post put it in their headline: Five Judges Destroy Right for Millions.   The irony, of course, is that four of them are men and the lone woman. 50. is no longer of child-bearing age.

“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Alito announced.

Well, guess what. Nowhere in the constitution are the words women or she mentioned. Not surprisingly, Thomas had also targeted contraception and gay marriage. But you won’t hear him mention overturning interracial marriage, since he’s married to a white woman, Ginni, who has also been asked to testify  by the J 6 committee for her complicity in the insurrection.

Just how far will this conservative court go in their attempts to control women? Will we go back to the 1950s, when women couldn’t open a bank account without a man’s permission? Will they overturn women’s right to vote? We’re not only marching toward Gilead, we’re at the gates.

The headline of the New Yorker story pretty much says it all:

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse

We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.

Abortion won’ be illegal everywhere – at least, not yet. But some states are trying to make it illegal for a woman to travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion. Really? If a woman is eight or ten weeks  pregnant and doesn’t show yet,  how will anyone else know? Will ultrasounds be conducted on female airline passengers headed to Canada or Mexico or to a state where abortion is still legal? Just how far will this lunacy go?

In Texas, anyone who helps a pregnant woman obtain an abortion can be arrested.

We may be entering a place in this country that is beyond Gilead, beyond what Margaret Atwood imagined in The Handmaid’s Tale.

From the New Yorker:  “Anyone who can get pregnant must now face the reality that half of the country is in the hands of legislators who believe that your personhood and autonomy are conditional—who believe that, if you are impregnated by another person, under any circumstance, you have a legal and moral duty to undergo pregnancy, delivery, and, in all likelihood, two decades or more of caregiving, no matter the permanent and potentially devastating consequences for your body, your heart, your mind, your family, your ability to put food on the table, your plans, your aspirations, your life.”

This extreme right-wing agenda is about one thing: the control of women. It has nothing to do with protecting the unborn. After all, in this country, once you’re born, you’re on your own – no guaranteed child care, no guaranteed health insurance, nothing. 

The one hope is the November mid-term elections, when some of these right wingers can be replaced by politicians committed to carrying the country forward instead of taking us back to the 1950s or earlier.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis is up for re-election and he has already proven himself to be a trump clone with his “don’t say gay bill,” his ridiculous fight with Disney, the largest private employer in the state, and his vow to expand the state’s restrictions to abortion. Senator Marco Rubio is also up for re-election and Val Demings is running against him.

Then there’s the big election in 2024. Unless trump and his inner circle minions are held accountable for their roles in the insurrection, they’ll try again in 2024. And this time, it may be successful.

 

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PORN

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Trish and Rob

Recently, our blog has been getting a lot of spam. Since comments are held in moderation until they’re approved or deleted, it hasn’t been a huge problem. But this recent trend started with spam from an alleged hairstylist site. Then it morphed into random spam about Jesus and numbers in the bible. And now we’re getting porn spam.

Who writes this stuff?

Some of it seems to be from porn websites. Click here for…take your pick of the type of porn. But the rest of it seems to be from individuals whose emails feature a guy’s name. These are usually so long that to delete them, I have to scroll down for what feels like a short forever. These long treatises appear to be porn stories.Whoever writes this shit must have nearly endless amounts of time, an excess of hormones, and not a clue about writing.
Want to write porn? Forget 50 Shades of Grey by E.L James. Try literate porn: Anais Nin’s “erotica” and Henry Miller’s – well, whatever.

 

I got through half of 50 Shades and didn’t bother with the rest of it or its two sequels. The sadomasochistic relationship in the book depicted a stupid woman who had little insight into her own persona. Then there was the male character, a control freak, so unappealing it’s a total mystery why any woman would find him attractive or desirable. These two characters don’t even represent archetypes. They’re just, I don’t know, a mess.

Nin knew how to write. But E.L. James is like these porn spammers, a wannabe resorting to pathetic posts on other people’s websites. That I’m even writing this is weird. The only reviews I’ve ever left for other writers – on Amazon – are five stars. This is my first negative ever about a writer’s work. And it was all spurred by random porn on our website.

So porn folks, a suggestion. Take all the shit you’ve posted on our website and go self-publish. Somewhere, you’ll find readers.

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What does “lucky” mean?

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

When we call someone else lucky, what does that mean, exactly? How are they lucky? Is there a particular area of their lives that’s lucky?

When you Google the definition of the word, one of the lamest that comes up is:

Having, bringing, or resulting from good luck.
“You had a very lucky escape.”

I especially like this one, the answer to a question:

How do you describe a lucky person?

Some common synonyms of lucky are fortunate, happy, and providential. While all these words mean “meeting with unforeseen success,” lucky stresses the agency of chance in bringing about a favorable result.

Notice that phrase – agency of chance?

For me, this translates as synchronicity. My last win with Gold Rush, I wrote about here. It was in January of this year, and involved a fireman and an odd encounter at the lottery machine.  I got this nice ticket from the same machine when I had to run to Publix because we’d decided a pizza tonight sounded good.

No fireman this time. Just a sense that I might get lucky if I buy a ticket or two. I usually buy 2 of whatever I select because maybe every other couple of tickets  on the roll has a winner of something. My odds, though, aren’t quite good. According to the back of this ticket, the odds are 1:4.69. So I’d have to draw at least 5 cards for a win, I think that’s what those odds mean.

That feeling paid off. That’s what’s missing from the definition of lucky. You have a hunch and you play it. And it doesn’t matter whether that hunch involves the lottery or a person , a situation or an event. You act on what the synchronicity is telling you.

AND HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!

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CEDAR KEY

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Trish and Rob

Islands aren’t like other places. They are pretty much self-contained universes where life has a particular rhythm. Cedar Key, southwest of Gainesville on the Gulf coast, is one of those places.

We’ve been to Cedar Key before but this was the first time I’d learned that it’s about the same size as my fictional Tango Key. Two miles long. Doesn’t sound too big, but it actually is.

Cedar Key is reached on Highway 24, which is about 24 miles long, a two-lane road lined by trees and power lines. There aren’t any street lights for night driving, so after the sun sets, you’re essentially driving a long dark corridor to – well, somewhere. We arrived in mid-afternoon on a Thursday, the apparent start of a long weekend for fisherman from the surrounding towns. We made our way inland from Highway 24 to a salt marsh neighborhood where we’d stayed before.

The house sits on high stilts, like many of the buildings on Dock Street. With a house, this  creates space beneath it for a utility room, carport, storage, whatever you want. There don’t appear to be any zoning laws on the island. Trailers sit next to grander homes on stilts, the cemetery and a frisbee golf course were just a bike ride away for us.

But one of the first things we saw was a man in a golf cart with Trump 2024 flags flapping in the breeze. I reminded myself this was Levy County, which went for Trump, and apparently still loves the guy, like this sign says.

Inside this shop, Trump memorabilia is rampant. There are trump signs, trump stickers, trump license plates. DeSantis, our illustrious governor, is also a favorite, with Florida signs that say, DeSantis Florida that address his feud with Disney. I also saw disparaging signs and stickers about Biden. I started moving around the store, turning signs so they weren’t readable.

Cedar Key was once situated on another island, which you can get to by boat.  That’s Nika at the front, making sure she’ll be the first one off when we reach the island. The original Cedar Key was once covered with Cedar trees, which were cut down to make pencils. The pencils were then sent to Germany for lead.

     

On the original Cedar Key there’s a cemetery at the end of this long bridge and then deep into the trees.  An eerie place with some really old gravestones.

One of the highlights of this boat trip: dolphins. Unfortunately, by the time I had my phone camera out and ready, the dolphins were gone. But Loretta had her camera ready. Hope that link works!

dolphin.vid

Cedar Key is where you go to live by a different rhythm.

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Megan book cover

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

Yeah, I’m a bragging mother. But with good reason. Our daughter, Megan designed this cover.  She’s writing for a site that hires writers to write a 50,000 word book in four weeks and the book is posted on their website and downloaded a chapter a day by fans. The number of downloads determines how much the writer is paid.

For her, it’s a great opportunity to write fast – after spending 4 years writing her novel The Dark Silence – and she has learned she can write without overthinking everything. She did the cover and submitted it. Verdict? Great cover, but it doesn’t fit with their platform. Really? Why not?

It communicates the eerie paranormal aspects of the story. The wolf isn’t a creature I would want to meet anywhere. The tone of the blue promises strangeness, mystery. We advised her to start a portfolio – do a cover for The Dark Silence. There’s a talent here that should be explored, excavated.

 

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