Chaos Theory and Hurricane Predictions

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Trish and Rob

The 11 PM August 31 forecast from the National Hurricane Center makes me feel somewhat more optimistic about this hurricane. Notice that the cone now includes the areas offshore. It means the hurricane may meander along the Florida coast a much better scenario for all Floridians. Even on this track, there will be winds and tons of rain, but we may avoid the catastrophic devastation that earlier forecasts implied.

But this evening, part of the Florida coastline went under a tropical storm: from Deerfield  Beach to the Sebastian inlet. It’s because the storm hasn’t yet made the northward turn.

This storm has been difficult to forecast in terms of specific tracks. Initially, it was supposed to track through Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. It avoided Hispaniola completely and, gratefully,  didn’t do much in Puerto Rico. Then it was supposed to slam into South Florida as a cat 4 hurricane – with the target pinpointed as West Palm Beach.That resulted in frenetic grocery store buying today, long lines at gas stations, many stations running out of gas, bare shelves at Publix.That scenario is looking less likely with this 11 PM forecast.

Earlier this month, I read a fascinating article about how technology has helped make hurricane forecasts more accurate – except in certain areas.  “As first demonstrated by Edward Lorenz half a century ago with chaos theory, also known as the “butterfly effect,” a very small change in initial conditions can produce substantial differences in future outcomes when it comes to meteorology. In other words, small initial errors in forecasts propagate down the line like a large snowball rolling down hill.”

How does climate change contribute to this situation? Probably quite a bit, but it’s unlikely you’ll hear that from government officials in the trump administration.Check out weather underground’s research and conclusions on this storm.

Since we don’t know as of shortly after midnight on September 1 how all this will unfold, whether we’ll have power or Internet, we won’t be posting until the hurricane has done whatever it’s going to do.To all our Florida friends, stay safe.

And hey, focus on pushing this sucker off the coast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/hurricane-forecasters-may-be-reaching-the-limits-of-predictability/

 

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TURNING 30! Happy Birthday, Megan!

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

Thirty years ago, on August 31, 1989, our daughter, Megan, was born. No C-section, no spinal, but a shot of Demerol for pain, and a very long labor – 30 hours. She’d been due on September 4, but was born the day after a solar eclipse in Virgo. In Florida, any child born before September 1 of a given year can start kindergarten at 5. My sense is that Megan wanted to be sure she could start school at age 5, so she was born less than four hours before the midnight deadline.

Megan on Hopi reservation

Three days after she was born, I drove over to a New Age bookstore and paid 5 bucks for a copy of her natal chart. In those days, there was no handy astrology software on phones or iPads. In fact, it would be 18 years before the first iPhone hit the market. My friend and astrology mentor, Renie Wiley, came over that evening, took one look at Megan’s chart, and started talking. Now, 30 years later, I realize that just about everything Renie said has proven to be right on target.

When she was eight, we had her I.Q. tested. She falls into the MENSA range, so she entered a gifted program in third grade. She always had an affinity for animals – her first word, at 7 months, was – not Mom or Dad – but “cat.” She always loved listening to stories, being read to. Even before she could walk, she had a lot of books and enjoyed paging through them. By three or four, she was reading. By five, in kindergarten, she started keeping journals.

By the time she entered the gifted program, her intuitive ability was full blown. It’s described here, in one of early posts in 2009, about the golden retriever she was going to get.

MEGAN’S DOG

In fact, in looking back through 10 years of this blog, I found all sort of birthday tributes to Megan.

Happy 22, Megan!

Happy Birthday, Megan!

Megan at Chichen Itza

In Havana, Cuba, in El Floridita, Hemingway’s spot

Playing chess with Rob, Costa Rica

Costa Rica, her bird friend

Skydiving

But the 30th birthday is truly special. Much of what Renie told me about Megan’s chart is in place. After the gifted program, she attended a public charter school for acting. She and Rob published a book for teens on dreams and one on astrology before she graduated from high school. She attended New College, the honors college in Florida’s state college system, and majored in art.

Her art: check out her instagram: artbymmm or artbymmm.com

Today, she’s an entrepreneur, self-employed as an artist and dog sitter and is just finishing her first book, a Dystopian novel that far surpasses anything Rob and I have written. The only time she worked a 9-5 job was an internship at Disney, with dolphins. And, true to the placement of Uranus in her 10th house of careers, she chafed at the restrictions, the rules, and decided at the end of that internship that she wouldn’t ever work for anyone else.

Part of what Renie said, all of which has proven true:

“My God, this girl is artistic, has a wonderful imagination and is quite intuitive. She has a way with animals, too, and if she doesn’t go to vet school, she’ll do this animal thing in some other unique way. She’s very bright.

“She’s going to have allergies – but she’ll move past it. For most of her childhood, I think she’ll be a picky eater. She’ll grow out of it, though. And with three planets in Virgo, she’ll also try her hand at writing. And succeed! That South Node in Leo indicates she may delve into acting at some point. And oh, she’s going to have tons of friends and they’re all going to congregate at your place.
“If she ever has a 9-5 job, she’ll be bored to tears. Her career will be erratic, unique, she’ll create her own niche and art and animals will be a part of whatever she does. There are strong past life connections between her chart and yours and Rob’s. She’s a joyful soul, Trish.”

So, happy 30th, Megger! You’re a special soul and the best of everything Rob and I have created. Thank you for choosing us as your parents!

 

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New Moon in Virgo

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Trish and Rob

So here we go, a new moon in Virgo on August 30, at 6:37 am EDT. I love new moons. Even when they have challenging aspects generally or to my natal chart, their fundamental message is the same. New Moons represent a time of renewal and newness – new doors open, new the people enter our lives, new opportunities present themselves and, usually, synchronicities proliferate.

As an archetype, Virgo is the perfectionist, the discerner, master of details, whose mind works at the speed of light, connecting this detail with that detail to create a larger picture. Virgo tends to be very left-brain – rational, reasonable – but there’s often a deep intuition that pushes up against that left brain, whispering, Hey, forget the brain, how’s it feel?

And on August 30, half the zodiac is in Virgo: sun, moon, Mercury, Venus and Ma. The part of fortune is also there. If we look at the meanings of the planets, this lineup really strengthens the basic archetype. Sun – you, your personality, ego, total self; moon – intuition, inner life, emotions, mom, how you nurture self and others; Mercury – Virgo’s ruler and also rules communication, travel, siblings, neighbors, contracts; Venus – love, romance, money, art, beauty; Mars – the warrior, ambition, motivation, sexuality, physicality. That part of fortune is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the place where you are incredibly lucky.

With half the zodiac in Virgo, all of us are called upon to be discerning, attentive to details, but to listen to our hunches, intuitions, gut feelings. Other earth signs – Capricorn, Taurus – will love this full moon. It forms a beautiful angle to your sun sign, especially if you’re born in the first week or so of your sign. You water signs – Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces – should also benefit. Fire signs – Aries, Leo, Sagittarius – and air signs – Gemini, Libra, Aquarius – should look to the natal house where the new moon falls. You’ll benefit most according to what that house rules.

You can obtain a free natal chart here.   Or contact me and I’ll email you your natal chart. If you want an interpretation of your chart for what lies ahead for you in 2019 and 2020, contact me for prices. In the meantime, the September forecasts are posted in the masthead!

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Kary Mullis, RIP

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

The back cover of his book, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, referred to Kary Mullis as the world’s most eccentric Nobel Prize-winning scientist. That’s not surprising since the book not only describes how Mullis redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science, but also about his mysterious encounter with a being from elsewhere, and his belief in astrology.

Mullis, whose research paved the way for major advances in medical diagnostics, molecular biology and forensic science, died on Aug. 7 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 74.

The process for analyzing DNA that Dr. Mullis invented is called polymerase chain reaction, or PCR. It replicates a single strand of DNA millions of times, enabling scientists to pinpoint a segment of the strand and amplify it for identification. The process allowed him to literally blow up a DNA strand to the size of a dinosaur.

In fact, the science of PCR, because it allows for the unlimited replication of small bits of DNA, was one of the inspirations of “Jurassic Park,” the Michael Crichton novel about a theme park of cloned dinosaurs that Steven Spielberg turned into a movie franchise.

His method is now used to detect genetic mutations that can lead to diagnoses of diseases, like sickle cell anemia; analyze ancient sources of DNA, like bones; assist in obtaining crime scene evidence (he was recruited as an expert witness in the O.J. Simpson murder trial); and determine paternity.

It was used as well to decode and map the entire human DNA as part of the Human Genome Project, the landmark international research effort that ran from 1990 to 2003.

The obituary on Mullis in the The Los Angeles begins this way: “Kary B. Mullis was an LSD-dropping, climate-change-denying, astrology-believing, board surfing, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was both widely respected and equally criticized for his controversial views.”

Curiously, Mullis didn’t think HIV caused AIDS, calling it “a hell of a mistake.” In his book, he also denied that climate change is caused by humans, a belief he held to the end.

While studying biochemistry for his PhD at Berkeley, his interest in hallucinogens blossomed. One LSD trip inspired a paper on time travel. It was later published by the science journal Nature.

We read Mullis’s book years ago, and what I remembered most about it was the cover photo, the chapter on astrology, and the story of his alien encounter.

Here’s how Mullis’s experience is described on Whitley Streiber’s Unknown Country website:

“Mullis described an encounter with an odd entity, accompanied by missing time. While at his family cabin one night in 1985, Mullis was walking to the cabin’s outhouse around midnight when he spotted what he described as a glowing raccoon that said, ‘Good evening, doctor.’

‘Mullis’s next memory was of walking down the road toward the cabin near sunrise six hours later; his clothes were dry, despite the dew that would have had settled that evening. After reading Whitley Strieber’s Communion, Mullis realized that his encounter with the glowing raccoon, along with his missing time and the fear he would experience when trying to approach the spot where the encounter occurred, was part of an unrealized otherworldly encounter.”

Mullis’s other-worldly experiences are also included in The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, by Dr. Jeffrey Kripal. The book explores stories from former skeptics who had their attitudes toward the paranormal “flipped” after having their own extraordinary experiences.

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The Bread Synchro

Posted on August 24, 2019 by Trish and Rob

This synchro is an odd one involving a loaf of bread. Here’s the background.

Every second Thursday, the city of Orlando sponsors Wine Walk, a boost for local businesses in Thornton Park. People pay $10, which entitles them to a drink at any spot on the Wine Walk map that is participating. For more than a year, Megan has been setting up on the porch of Wolfgang Dog Bakery, a perfect location for her pet portrait exhibit. Aldo, the dogs enjoy going into the store, filled with all sort of delectable treats to sniff at.

On August 9, the bakery was closed because employees were going to some sort of work function, so it wasn’t supposed to be a stop on wine walk. But apparently Wolfgang wasn’t excluded from the walk and people arrived looking for wine. Instead, they found Megan’s display on one side of the porch, like usual, and a display of various kinds of breads, rolls and cookies from a new bread company/bakery. In the photo, you can see people looking at the bred display.

During the evening, Megan’s roommate, Evan, texted her and asked if I’d brought any bread with me. I hadn’t, just English muffins. But before we left for the evening, the man who is starting the bread company handed Megan a loaf.

“Synchro, Mom,” she said as she got in the car. “Here’s Evan’s loaf of bread!”

When we got back to her place, Evan helped us carry in everything and we laughed about how he’d manifested a loaf of bread.

Granted, a bread synchro is a small thing. But I think this also shows how the law of attraction often works through other people in bringing us what we want.

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A spirit contact update

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

On February 12 of this year, we posted a story called The Traveling Shoes.

I’m reposting it here because we’ve gotten an update! This happens so rarely and this update may explain why this spirit was so irritated.

The repost, then look for the update at the end:

This story, from Sharon Catley, is one of the oddest I’ve heard. It’s ghostly, but so weirdly eerie it could fit into any number of categories.

I worked at the same company for 33 years. During that time I was moved into several different office locations within the same building. My department consisted of three offices – Mine, another coworkers and a large foyer that was used for storage. One of the things that were stored in that room were these special safety shoes. They were made of rubber and were kind of like galoshes with steel toes that you could put over your regular shoes to enter areas of our location that required additional safety.

There were about 10 pairs in various sizes and colors. We would laugh because they looked a bit like clown shoes. Anyway every morning when we came into work the shoes which had been stored on a two level shelf would be all over the floor. They stayed in place on the shelves all day but every morning they were off-the-shelf.

One morning I was just arriving and had not had a chance to pick up the shoes yet when the payroll lady came in to talk to me. She asked what the shoes were doing all over the floor? I told her the story. She was of Asian descent and said that in their culture this would be the sign of a ghost and that shoes in the house are considered bad luck. The shoes continued to be jumping off onto the floor for the next few years until it was decided to do a rearrangement of that storage foyer. The shelf with the shoes was placed at the opposite end of the room and for some reason the shoes suddenly ceased their night time wandering.

We had done quite a thorough investigation before to see what the cause for this movement might be (breezes or being moved by the night janitor but he did not come every night) We later learned that the ashes of a former employee had been stored in the shelves original spot. The urn had been brought to facilitate the scattering of the ashes at sea but had been forgotten there behind some boxes. It had been found and removed just before we and the shoes moved into those offices. The payroll lady and I concluded that the ghost of the person whose ashes had been there felt disrespected by us placing those stinky shoes in his area. The shoes have since been moved into a closet just outside these offices and are still behaving themselves. Just thought this was an interesting event and wanted to share.

Sharon later sent a postscript to this story, a bit of explanation:

The reason that the lady brought the urn to us was we are a marine transportation company and the employee whose ashes were in the urn had worked for us for many years. The urn was left in the storage room for a number of years as well. Perhaps another reason for the ghost’s displeasure was having to sit in the urn for so long, forgotten while he had been expected to be out floating freely in the Pacific Ocean. And maybe he was just expressing his displeasure by tossing the shoes around.

A bit of a trickster spirit, that one!

THE UPDATE:

Sharon emailed me today, August 2, with this:

Just to let you know I found out some more information about those ashes.  I attended a lunch for retirees of the company where the event took place.  One of the attendees was the gentleman who was supposed to be responsible for dealing with the scattering of the ashes.  As he had left the company before the shoe incident I told him the story and he said.  “I know exactly the ashes you are talking about and I know what happened to them.”

Apparently once the ashes were unearthed after their time being lost he had called in a Skipper and asked that they be scattered on the next trip to Vancouver Island.  The Skipper took the container and left the room. Five minutes later the Skipper returned back into the office with the empty container and said. “There he is, on his way out to sea.”

Apparently he had dumped the ashes down the toilet. So no wonder the spirit was upset.

 

 

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trump presidency in 15 Blake Snyder Movie Beats

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Trish and Rob

In Blake Snyder’s wonderful book on screenwriting, Save the Cat, there’s a break into act 2 that he describes as entering “the upside down world,” the antithesis of act 1. And since our lives, globally and personally, are stories, trump has brought us into that upside world, where the old world falls away.

None of the usual norms apply. Our president is a racist, misogynistic, homophobic idiot who breaks laws, protocol, alienates allies, doesn’t read or listen, and whose entire life seems to be about – well, himself and his adoration of autocrats. Act 2 challenges the hero (US, the people) to fix the problem.

At first, we go about it the wrong way. Snyder calls this the “fun and games section,” 30-55 minutes into a movie, TV show, script, the heart of the movie, the story. ” This section ideally answers the question: Why did I come to this movie?”

For the first years of his presidency, the media hoped trump would act more presidential, that he would shock everyone by becoming The President. They went soft on him, reporting on his antics like it was business as usual. Then we hit a lot of moments that led up to the midpoint of the trump movie. In Die Hard, it’s where Bruce Willis outwits the terrorist. In Bruce Almighty, it’s where Jim Carey gets to act like God. In the trump story it’s where he fired FBI director Jim Comey and the Mueller investigation was launched.

I would like to believe we have transitioned into Act 3, where the hero figures out the solution, the bad guys are done away with, and all the loose ends are tied up. But I think we’re still in the section of the story that Snyder calls All Is Lost. It occurs about 75 minutes into a movie – the rock bottom. In 1984, it’s where the totalitarian government arrests the hero. In The DaVinci Code, it’s where the hero is betrayed by someone he/she trusts. In our universe, it should be the point where trump supporters realize they’ve been conned.

Instead, we have the prez dude doing photo ops with an infant orphaned in the El Paso shootings because none of the survivors wanted to appear with him. Instead, we have a prez expressing an interest in buying Greenland, in weakening the endangered species list, in suing the supreme court to allow discrimination against transgenders. In our collective story we seem to be locked into the ALL IS LOST point.  It’s extending well beyond the 75 minutes of the movie.

Or maybe this is the dark night of the soul beat that happens between 75-85 minutes into a film. In a movie, Snyder says, it can last five seconds or five minutes. In real life, it may seem like forever. As Snyder puts it, it’s the “Oh Lord, why hast thou forsaken me? beat. It’s primal. We’ve all been there…And thank God, because by page 85, when the hero finally figures it out, we get to see him realize “the world of synthesis is at hand.”

And this is the break into Act 3.

We’re definitely not there yet with this trump story. Maybe we’ve made it to page 75, one minute past the All Is Lost beat, where the media  actively calls trump out on his lies, where some people are waking up to what is happening to democracy. I just hope our cut to Act 3 happens before the 2020  election.  That cut to the third act is supposed to be, according to Snyder:  “…the turning over of the old world and a creation of the new world order…” If he is re-elected, there may not be any Act 3 for the heroes.

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20-20 Vision

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

We’re closing in on the year 2020, now just four and a half months away. What kind of year will  it be? Perhaps one of vision. But what kind of vision? After all, 20-20 vision can mean looking back…hindsight has 20-20 vision. But 20-20 vision can also refer to looking ahead in a clear manner.

According to Bashar, a multidimensional being channeled by Darryl Anka, the coming year will be a pivot point in history, a splitting apart of different versions of Earth—parallel realities, different tracks of time.

Yet, according to quantum theory of physics, this splitting apart of reality happens all the time. The problem is that we never notice it because our reality appears seamless to us. Apparently, we all split off from the reality where Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election. If so, many of us feel that we were dumped here. Was it really our choice to experience years of divisiveness, chaos, and uncertainty?

Maybe the lesson for all of us who find ourselves in Trump’s ultimate reality show is  that we can now more clearly see a dual reality within our everyday world, one divided between Trump’s loyal base of up to 40% of Americans who see the Trump train traveling smoothly ahead,  and everyone else who see that same train going off the rails over and over.

2020, of course, is election year, a time of vision, and as Bashar says, a pivotal point in history.

 

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The Happy Kitchen

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Mercury retrograde certainly makes itself known. Here’s the background for this synchro: the frother for our Nespresso machine stopped working. So I ordered a handheld frother from Amazon that came from The Happy Kitchen.

It arrived within several days and coincided with a proposal I was writing called Cosmic Bliss: The Astrology of Happiness. My agent had informed me that books on happiness were selling and could I adapt astrology to that concept?

Well, sure. Astrology addresses many area of our lives and our capacity for happiness and joy is certainly one of them. So while I’m researching and writing this proposal, our new handheld frother arrives! Yay! Let’s make a couple of cappuccinos and see how this new frother works.

But it didn’t work. Rob and I inserted a bunch of different AA batteries, bought new batteries, but the frother didn’t work. A card inserted with the frother asked that we write directly to the company with any concerns. So on Sunday night, I wrote to support@zulay.net:

Hello,

I ordered a handheld milk frother, inserted the batteries, and it doesn’t work. What now?

Thank you,
Trish MacGregor

The next morning, a Monday, I received this email:

Dear Trish,

Thank you so much for writing to us and letting us know about this issue. I’m so sorry that this has happened. We are a small family-owned business and we’d like to make this right.

I’m thinking you must have received a defective one because this is very unusual. We do have a LIFETIME warranty on ALL of our products so if you can provide me with your order number, I can get a new one sent out to you.

We always strive to give each of our customers “Kitchen Happiness” and I’m hoping I can make your experience with us a much better one.

All the best,
Whitney
Kitchen Happiness Director

Kitchen Happiness?? Really? Now I was especially intrigued by the synchronicity. I’d gotten some feedback from my agent about the proposal on astrology and happiness, and was eager to get home and go to work on it.

As soon as I was home, I sent Whitney the order number and wrote:

Wow, Whitney, thanks so much! These two emails of yours actually became a synchronicity. I’ll write this up on our blog and hope it gives your company the attention it deserves!

Here’s the synchronicity: I’m a writer and have been writing a proposal called Cosmic Bliss: The Astrology of Happiness.

Love it when this happens. I’ll let you know when the post goes up. I also repost to Facebook and Instagram.

Thanks again!

Best,
Trish

Her response was:

Dear Trish,

Oh my! That’s so kind of you. It’s truly our pleasure to be of service and we’re always happy to help. Thank you for understanding. We look forward to your blog and wish you the best, and we can’t wait for you to receive the product! If there is anything else we can help you with, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

All the best,
Whitney
Kitchen Happiness Director

What I find so interesting about this synchro is that it seems to confirm this idea of happiness as a theme for selling products – and a proposal. I mean, c’mon, how cool must it be to work at a place that calls itself Happiness Kitchen?

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Full Moon in Aquarius

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Full moons are about harvest, completion, news, illumination of certain area of our lives. The full moon in Aquarius on August 15 – 8:29 AM EDT, 5:29 AM Pacific – is a beauty – particularly when you compare it to the last full moon – a lunar eclipse in Capricorn on July 16.

This full moon enjoys a wide 60-degree and beneficial angle to Jupiter, the planet of expansion. Jupiter also represents luck, synchronicity, higher education, the law, publishing, worldview, foreign travel, people, and countries. Any news you hear on or around this date is likely to be positive and may catch you by surprise.

The other things I love about this full moon is that the sun at 22 degrees Leo is exactly conjunct Venus, the planet that represents love, romance, beauty art, and $. When the sun and Venus are as friendly as these two on August 15, things tend to go your way according to the house in your birth chart where Leo falls and where the other fire signs – Aries and Sagittarius – are in your chart.

The other beauty of this full moon is that Jupiter in Sagittarius – which forms that beneficial angle to the full moon – also forms an even better angle to the sun and Venus in Leo. That 120-degree angle is called a trine and indicates a smooth flow of energy. Venus and Jupiter, I think, are passionate lovers. When they’re together like this and enjoy such a beneficial touch from Jupiter, hen it bodes well for everyone.

Instead of trying to figure out how all this applies to your birth chart, take a look at your August forecast in the masthead and read about what this full moon may bring about for you.  And then get ready to seize the opportunities and act on any news you receive.

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