Brooklyn Ghost Story

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Over the past couple of years, our long-time friend Melissa, aka Queenie Bee, has mentioned disturbances in the apartment she shares with husband, Jon. From time to time, she senses another presence and so does her cat whose fur on her back rises up. Was it her imagination. Old buildings are known for making creaking sounds, after all.

But Melissa’s latest encounter seems to suggest something more from the ghosty realm. Here it is.

“Latest installment in our ghost story — last night at about 2:00 AM I went downstairs to sleep on the couch. Jon’s snoring had woken me up and I couldn’t get back to sleep.  It wasn’t long though before I was feeling that someone or something was here with me.  And Geisha ran over to the kitchen table acting like something was over there.

“She dealt with that and then came over and protected me. She was in a guarding stance and then finally snuggled in and went to sleep. This morning, Jon woke up and immediately told me he had a nightmare and I started laughing hysterically for no reason.

“In his dream ,he saw a dead lady sitting at our kitchen table in the same spot Geisha ran to and where I had felt some other presence. His description of what she looked like did not please me. I think that is weird!

“I thought my imagination was going off on a tangent since I had watched a scary movie earlier in the evening. But then Jon told me his dream. I can tell you for sure it is not Nana or my friend Sarah or anyone I know…unless they are supremely pissed in the afterlife! I told the ghost this morning that we are cool with her presence as long as she is nice.”

So Jon’s dream–as well as Geisha’s reaction–provided Melissa with a sense of verification of her experience. No doubt we’ll hear more. I say that because of Melissa’s actions to welcome the ghost. My preference would be taking action to send the lost being–if that’s what she’s dealing with–on its way into the other world. Doing so is not necessarily done out of fear, but out of compassion.

 

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Perspective – A Year Later

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

If you look back to last year at this time, there are some eerie parallels. In early January 2020, Trump’s impeachment was winding down – not enough to vote for conviction. I first read about the corona virus. A passing reference, nothing more. I remember because my neighbor was really ill, with three or four hospital stays. I had read about the corona symptoms and they sounded a lot like what my neighbor was experiencing. I asked her husband, a commercial pilot, if he’d flown to China recently.

“Not my route,” he said.

“Annette’s symptoms sound like this new corona virus in Wuhan, Kevin.”

He shook his head and said they’d been told she had a B virus.

On January 10, 2020, when the much talked about Saturn/Jupiter conjunction in Capricorn happened, Wuhan released the genome sequence of the virus. It was around this time that the trump admin was first notified about the virus.

Today is January 13, 2021. The House will vote on the second impeachment of trump, the only time in history that a president has been impeached twice. Thanks to Bob Woodward’s book, we know that trump knew about this virus back in January but chose to ignore it. So as of today, the virus trump said would magically disappear in April, has killed more than 380,000 Americans. But a vaccine is available – if your state has a plan.  Florida never had a plan for anything. Our governor, Ron DeSantis is a trump lapdog. But that’s another story.

Here in the east, this is a new moon day, at 23 degrees Capricorn. The moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury are all in Aquarius, in trump’s 5th and 6th houses. Saturn and Jupiter will be playing tag for awhile, and now they’re just 2 degrees apart.

Saturn represents the status quo, government, structure, rules, discipline. Jupiter represents expansion, the higher mind and higher education, your worldview, spirituality, luck, synchronicity. Transiting Jupiter at 5 degrees Aquarius in the outer circle of the chart is opposed to Trump’s natal Pluto at 10 Leo in the 12th house, the inner circle. Pluto represents power. The spirituality (conscience?) of people in the government becomes central. Do you vote for a person or for a country? Are you loyal to your ideals, your vows, your moral compass – and the constitution – or are you loyal to a person?

That 23 degree Capricorn moon. I have a superstition about the #23. In the I Ching, that hexagram is called Splitting Apart. Author Robert Anton Wilson collected hundreds of incidents involving that particular number. Capricorn is the sign of government. They have a new opportunity to do the right thing, but thanks to that #23, things may have to split apart first.

Stay tuned for February astrological forecast.

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The Power of Symbols

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Symbols are powerful. Carl Jung knew it. Rosa Parks knew it. Martin Luther King knew it. Princess Di  knew it. And it seems that some members of congress now know it.

The U.S. Capitol is a symbol of democracy. On January 6, it was invaded by a mob that trump had incited. They broke into the chambers of the senate and house of representatives, a shocking metaphor for democracy and freedom under siege.But beneath the symbol, senators and members of Congress cowered in fear in their offices, under desks, behind stacked chairs. Beneath the symbol, the siege became personal.

The fact that the siege was televised all over the world, that international leaders expressed their horror and revulsion at what they were seeing on their televisions, became a humiliation. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have become another type of symbol – that of hungry ambition, without moral compass. Like trump, really.

Another weird symbol during that siege – that mobster wearing horns and what looked like war paint on his face. He didn’t wear a mask, so I suspect he won’t be difficult to identify. But what about the rest of these brainwashed, dangerous idiots?

And will any form of censure be taken against Cruz, Hawley, Cotton? And what about all those members of congress who signed on to object to the certification process even after the siege on the Capitol? Are there consequences for that? And all of this, of course, took place during a major symbol – a pandemic.

According to Worldometer, the U.S. has the highest number of covid cases in the world – 23,340,710  as of today, January 12, with 389,041 total deaths. We also lead the world for the  worst failure on the globe for containing this pandemic. Even our vaccine distribution is a joke. These figures are symbols of the trump era.

He never dealt with the pandemic like a leader. He lied.

He never led anything. He lied.

And his lies were believed by his cult followers.

When symbols are broken and created from that rubble, then we’re at the juncture of the old paradigm and the new, an old paradigm that no longer serves us struggling to survive as a new, more egalitarian paradigm moves in, a force of nature.

May impeachment or the 25th amendment get rid of him, please. And then let’s see  this conman hit with the fact that the law is coming for him, his tax returns, and his corrupt kids and inner circle.

 

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The Mystical Underground: Toren Atkinson: The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Toren Atkinson: The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets”:

Join Trish, Rob and Jon for a conversation with…

Toren Atkinson has been a professional artist since 1996. He’s created book covers, comic books, film production art, illustration for board, card & roleplaying games, album covers, tattoos, and T-shirt designs.

Toren is also one of the founding members and the lead singer for the Canadian rock-n-roll/power-pop band, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Toren and lead guitarist Warren Banks formed the band in 1992. The band’s name is drawn from a phrase in H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Tomb: “I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.” Atkinson and Banks decided to create a band around the Cthulhu mythos because it was a topic they were interested in, and it was a unique “niche that needed to be filled.”

He has a former podcast called “Caustic Soda” and a current podcast called “Toren’s Guide to Everything.”
Toren co-wrote the Spaceship Zero RPG with his bandmate Warren Banks and is currently working on a new RPG environment called Ruin Nation.

Ruin Nation Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/cE6YQGpffPQ
https://torenatkinson.com
http://thickets.net

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com

https://www.facebook.com/TheDarkestoftheHillsideThickets/

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The Bowie Bird

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Today, January 10 is the fifth anniversary of David Bowie’s death.

Last year on this date, instead of spending the day with her family, Iman – who was Bowie’s wife – went hiking through the San Francisco redwoods. She went alone, but while there joined a guided tour.

Along the way, she saw a bluebird fly right in front of her — “A bluebird, above all things!” she exclaimed.  Bowie’s final antemortem single, “Lazarus”, includes the lines, “You know, I’ll be free/ Just like that bluebird/ Now ain’t that just like me?”

“I asked the tour guide, and he said, ‘Oh, they’re very rare here, bluebirds,’” Iman continued. “And so now, instead of remembering it as sad, it is more of a joyous day.”

The model and philanthropist related her story to a reporter for Harper’s Bazaar. She and Bowie were married in 1992 and they had a child together in 2000. They remained married to the end.

From the article: Despite being a glamorous supermodel and a beloved rock god, Iman insisted their family life “could not have been more regular! It was a really everyday marriage.”

She continued: “He was a very funny, warm gentleman – you know, everyone talks about him being futuristic, but no, he was not, he liked more than anything to wear a three-piece suit. It was a beautiful, ordinary life and that was what was great about it. We could live in New York, pick up our daughter from school, walk everywhere… You know, I wish we had had more years.”

Bowie died Jan. 10, 2016 of liver cancer.

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At the gym

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

After Rob and I got our initial Pfizer vaccines, we started returning to our local gym but a little at a time. When he went and I didn’t, I always asked how many were wearing masks. The percentage varied according to the day of the week.

Once I started going back, I met a 58 year-old blond in the leg machine area. She was getting in shape for her 40th high school reunion. I learned that her daughter in law was a paralegal for a large law firm in West Palm Beach and was pregnant. Once vaccines became mandated for companies employing more than a hundred people, I got blow by blows about how her daughter-in-law was going to lose her job because she didn’t want to get vaccinated while she was pregnant.

I thought about this issue a lot. Would I, when pregnant, have gotten Pfizer or Moderna or J&J? I started researching.

According to website Everyday Health, “More than 125,000 pregnant women have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.” These stats are from the CDC. So far, more than 22,000 of these women have been hospitalized and 161 have died.
“COVID-19 patients who are pregnant are twice as likely to require admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and 70 percent more likely to die than individuals who aren’t pregnant, according to the CDC. As reported by the CDC in September 2021, a record number of pregnant women — 22 — died of COVID-19 in August.

Just 31 percent of pregnant women in the United States have been fully vaccinated, the CDC reported. And vaccination rates are even lower for pregnant women of color, at 25 percent for Hispanic mothers and 16 percent among Black mothers.

The CDC says that nearly all the Covid-19 cases among pregnant women to date have been among unvaccinated individuals.

So, if I were pregnant, would I get the vaccine?

Yes.

My blonde gym friend tells me that her daughter in law refuses the vaccine and is going to lose her job in November because of it. And with that job loss, there goes her health insurance.

“That really makes the case for universal health care, doesn’t it?” I asked her.
She looked surprised, as if she hadn’t connected the two, then nodded. “Yeah, it sure does.”

But…It’s there in her voice.

The blonde is fully vaccinated, no longer wears a mask, thinks our governor (now known as DeathDeSantis) is doing a great job. No vaccine mandates in this state, no mask mandates, no mandates of any kind in Florida. No siree. That’s why he has sued school districts over mask mandates, sued cruises ships leaving from Florida that demand proof of vaccines. He panders to the trump base and yes, has presidential aspirations.

This mindset is also why Florida has lost more than 58,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic, a consistent third behind California and Texas for the most cases, the most deaths. And even these numbers for Florida are suspected to be higher.

But I don’t say any of this. I acknowledge her spiel, and tell her why I think DeSantis is a jerk. Our minds aren’t changed. But we temporarily feel better.

Rob and I got our boosters and haven’t yet grown extra limbs, an extra head, alien bodies. But if we do, here’s a promise: If we do become aliens, then we’ll take over the planet!

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Cosmic Time!

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Trish and Rob

On a recent night, I let our dogs out the front door at about 11:15. It was Dec. 20, the day after the full moon, and the day before the winter solstice. As the dogs were doing their business sniffing around and watering the foliage, I looked up and noticed not only the bright moon, but an expansive ring around it.

I brought the dogs back in, told Trish about the ring around the moon, and we went out the back of the house where we have a better view of the sky. This time, I noticed a white streak, probably from a passing jet, just crossing into the right side of the ring.

Duly impressed by the sight, Trish returned to her office to whatever she was working on. But I stayed out because I noticed that streak was quickly sliding left through the circles and in a minute, at about 11:25, it would cross through the moon.

When it did, I snapped a couple of pics, including the one above. I went back inside, showed them to Trish and said, “Hey, it looks like a cosmic clock. It’s five to five.”

I went to my room and after a few minutes decided to send the pic to Trish and daughter Megan in Orlando. That was when I  realized that, no, it wasn’t just five to five, it could also be 11:25. I looked at time and saw it was 11:34 as I sent the pics. So when I took the photo, it was very close, if not exactly 11:25. A cosmic clock!

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Attempted Coup

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Now that we’ve seen trump’s true intention – a coup – we can welcome a peaceful transition of government.

In a news conference this morning, the  mayor of Palm Beach has announced that any Floridians who were a part of the mob that descended on the capitol last night will be prosecuted in Florida, to the fullest extent of the law. He mentioned that Trump hopes to live in Palm Beach and made it clear that the kind of insanity we saw last night isn’t welcome here and that any attempt in Palm Beach will be dealt with by law enforcement.

It’s easy to imagine the Proud Boys and other brainwashed trump loyalists roaring into South Florida to greet their guy for a big homecoming. Hopefully, trump will  be removed from office before January 20.

Already, a number of people in congress are calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked. UNFIT FOR OFFICE. What’s tragic is that it took something like this violent attempted coup to wake people up.

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A Telepathic Experiment

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

 

Recently on a wonderful radio show called Higher Journeys, the host, Alexis Brooks, asked if there was a particular time astrologically when telepathy was facilitated. It’s a great question and the answer depends on several things: your need to communicate telepathically with a particular person and your belief that it’s possible. If these two elements are present, then let’s look first to the lunar cycles.

The new moon occurs once a month, when the sun and moon are in the same sign and at the same degree. New moons are always about new energy that is ushered into our lives, new opportunities, people, situations, relationships, professions, projects. New chapters. It’s always a good time to make submissions, apply for jobs, undertake new things. So the new moon day and the two weeks afterward is an ideal time to try communicating telepathically with someone.

But your target is important. Try to connect with someone with whom you have an emotional connection. The best type of experimentation is with someone who is open, receptive, and eager to try the experiment. Or, if you don’t want the other person to know what you’re attempting, then try it alone, on or right after the time of the new moon.

On January 13, 2021,  for instance, at midnight ET, there’s a new moon at 23 degrees Capricorn.   If you have an earth sign sun, moon, rising – or any other planet – in the later degrees of Capricorn, Taurus, or Virgo, even better. It means this new moon forms a beneficial angle of 120 degrees to that planet. That angle or aspect is called a trine. It facilitates the flow of energy on the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual levels.

Two weeks after the new moon, we have a full moon, when the the sun and moon are at opposite ends of the sky. Full moons illuminate the various levels of our lives. They favor completion, culmination, a harvest of some kind. If you started your little experiment during a new moon, then by the full moon you should be successful at establishing telepathic contact. On January 28, there’s a full moon in Leo.

The other fortuitous aspect involves Jupiter, the largest dude in the solar system, ruler of luck, prosperity, expansion, spiritual beliefs, worldview. It’s now in Aquarius, so that’s fortuitous for all the air signs – Aquarius, Gemini, Libra- who shouldn’t have any trouble with the telepathic experiment. The fire signs – Leo, Sagittarius and Aries – should also be feeling the expansiveness of Jupiter now. So give the telepathy experiment a whirl!

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Insurrection & The Big Lie

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Insurrection means “a violent uprising against an authority or government.” That’s what we saw on January 6, 2021. It wasn’t a group of rowdy tourists. It wasn’t Antifa or Black Lives Matter or the FBI. It was a whole lot of white supremacists who were snookered into believing trump’s big lie – that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

What I find deeply depressing about all this is how gullible these people are. They have fallen so far down the Q’Anon rabbit hole that they’re blind to what’s in front of them – an attempted coup by trump and his tribe.

I remember a coup in Caracas, when I was about 14. Schools shuttered because a revolution was imminent. In fact, we used to call these days off from school “revolution days.” My mother and I went to the local grocery store to stock up on “revolution supplies,” that was how she described these sprees, and the shelves were pretty bare. That image of bare shelves has stuck with me all these years. It’s similar to what you see as a hurricane approaches, to what I saw in the spring of 2020 a our local Publix & Whole Foods, and to what I see even now, during the surge of Omicron.

Usually, these revolution days didn’t last long. Presumably the corrupt government of Perez Jimenez came to some agreement with the revolutionaries, whoever they were. Hey, I was 14. Politics was peripheral to my life.

My friends and I enjoyed these revolution days. It meant we could hang out, spend the night at each other’s houses, stay up late and sleep in because school had been cancelled. One night, my friend Lorraine and I – she’s now a diehard trumpie- stayed up really late talking about the book 1984. Another friend and I, Mary Jo, now a diehard democrat, used to speculate about what any of it meant. Why were we born into the families we had? What did we want to do with our lives?

On the night that Perez Jimenez fled the country with $13 million stolen from the Venezuelan treasury, my sister and I watched it with our parents from the balcony of our apartment in the neighborhood of Las Mercedes. I remember our dad was especially agitated. “Everything is about to change,” he said. A year later, he took retirement from Creole – a subsidiary of Standard Oil – and we moved to South Florida.

So when someone tries to convince me that January 6 was just rowdy tourists or an infiltration of FBI agents stirring up trouble with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, I kinda lose my shit. A neighbor believes the election was stolen, that vaccines are part of some wider conspiracy that allows Bill Gates to track you, that may turn you into something somewhere – alien? monster? robot? who knows? He has bet Rob a thousand bucks that he can prove the election was stolen.

Rob responded that his so-called proof had to be verified by CNN or other networks (not Fox News) who were calling for the 2020 election to be overturned because of whatever “proof” the neighbor provided. Listen up, Mr. Pillow Guy. This neighbor may replace you!
January 6 2022, trump will be holding a press conference at Mar a Lago, which will undoubtedly be more whining about the Big Lie. I hope no network covers it.

 

 

 

 

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