Solar Eclipse in Cancer

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Trish and Rob

June 21. The longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, Father’s Day. It’s also the day of a solar eclipse at 00 degrees Cancer. This eclipse in the 2nd of three this summer – a lunar eclipse in Sagittarius on June 5, this solar eclipse in Cancer, and on July 5, a lunar eclipse in Capricorn.

Solar eclipses take place during a new moon and are generally about new beginnings. But there are several things moving against it with this eclipse. First, Mercury is retrograde in Cancer and Venus is retrograde in Gemini. The Merc retro lasts until July 12 and the Venus retro until June 24. Mercury governs communication and travel and Venus governs your love life and finances.

So, with this kind of iffy stuff part of the eclipse picture, what can we expect?
The focus here is on new opportunities that emerge around home, family, your roots, your country. The 00 degrees of a cardinal sign is powerful and given all the turmoil now in the country, it will impact each of us differently.

If you live in one of the states where corona virus cases are spiking because you reopened too soon, you may decide to retreat for a few weeks. If that isn’t an option for your current job, be sure you take the usual precautions that have become our new normals. Face masks. Hand washing and sanitizers. That six feet of physical distancing.

Whatever you’ve learned about yourself and your life choices so far during the lockdown may prove helpful. Some of us may have realized we dislike what we do for a living and are prepared to make changes, to move toward our passions. Others among us may have realized our current partnerships are flawed at a level too deep to reconcile – or are ideal for who we are becoming. The past several months have been a wakeup call and whether or not we heard that call will be obvious during and around this solar eclipse.

Saturn at 0 degrees Aquarius forms a perfect angle of 150 degrees to the eclipse. Saturn represents structures, government, the status quo, business as usual. But this particular angle suggests adjustments in that status quo. We’re starting to see that after the murders of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks in proposed legislation to rein in police. This adjustment is also apparent after trump’s shameless display in Lafayette Square, where he used the U.S. military to clear protesters for his photo op in front of St. John’s church. You know the op I’m talking about – where he held an upside bible.

According to The Guardian, this stunt peeled away some of trump’s most loyal Evangelicals. “The staunchest of evangelicals, 90-year-old televangelist Pat Robertson, split from Trump on Tuesday,” – the day after the stunt. “Trump can’t afford to lose evangelicals, even by the handful. A record 81% of white evangelicals voted for him in 2016, and he only narrowly won the presidency, sometimes by just a few thousand votes in crucial areas.” So be on the lookout for news in this area, too.

It’s possible the eclipse could reveal what type of paradigm shift this is.

For how this eclipse affects you personally, take a look at the June forecast in the masthead.

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Living

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

Today, we interviewed Philip Merry, whose PhD is in grounded synchronicity – which means it’s based on personal interviews rather than on library research. The discussion was terrific. One of the things he talked about was how the media keeps tabs on the number of fatalities in the U.S. and in the rest of the world, but no one talks specifically about death. He’s right. I haven’t seen a single anchor talk to any researcher whose specialty is the spirituality of death.

At some point in this pandemic, Philip was tested or the virus. He said during the few days he had to wait for the results, he thought a lot about death – and about what and who are most important to him, how he would like to live the rest of his life. He concluded that he wants to live purposefully. To his relief, his test results were negative.

Since all of us share the experience of death at some point and have a limited time as incarnated humans. One good use of this pandemic and time at home is to take stock of where we are right now in our lives. Even before today’s podcast with Philip, I’ve been thinking about those kinds of questions.

Am I doing what I love?
How do I want to live from here on out?
Am I living purposefully?
What are my goals right now?

In 2012, I think it was, when the world was supposed to melt down because the Mayan calendar was going to end, I came up with a bucket list of countries I wanted to see: Cuba, Greece, Vietnam, return to Chile & Ecuador, return to Scotland, cruise the Rhine River, Brazil… well, the list is long. In those eight years, I got to see Cuba and returned to Colombia. But in Colombia, I got to visit cities and areas that were new to me – and Cartagena, which I’d been to before and love. But still, that’s pathetic on my part. That has to change.

Yet: in this post-pandemic world, what will air travel be like? Temperature checks, virus checks, immunity passports, no middle seats? Four-hour waits? Wearing masks for the duration of the trip? No food, no snacks, not even water to drink?

Okay, what about cruises? I’ve never been a cruise person. I don’t like being confined in a place without at least one window and natural light. Okay, forget cruises.

I could drive to South America through Central America, down the Pan American Highway, except… there’s a spot called the Darien Gap between Central and South America that is impassable – dense forest, marshland, mountainous. You have to fly over it or go by boat. That route might appeal to me 20 years ago, but not now.

What stories do I want to tell? What books do I still want to write?

This question has come up a lot during the pandemic. Only one answer is easy: finish reading through White Crows and get it out. It’s a Tango Key, Mira Morales book, but later in her life. Her daughter, Annie, is 25, a dolphin researcher. She has stifled her ability because it nearly ended her marriage to skeptical Sheppard. And then Tango Key is invaded by people from a future world devastated by climate change. They have terrifying abilities and intend to seize the island. She discovers their leader is her descendant.

Then there’s the non-fiction….

Anyway, these are my primary pandemic thoughts. They roll around and around in my head, helping me to define what’s important here and now.

PS In the 3 weeks since I wrote this post, look where the statistics are now:

 

 

 

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Mercury Retrograde Alert

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Trish and Rob

On June 17 at 9:59 PDT and June 18 at 12:59 a.m. EDT, Mercury turns retrograde in Cancer. It turns direct again on July 12 at 1:26 a.m. PDT and at 4:26 a.m. EDT. Ugh. That’s about three weeks of Uh-oh, my life doesn’t seem to be working.

When the planet of communication turns retrograde, things seem to go haywire faster than usual. The radio in your car dies for no other reason than it needs a rest. Your computer goes bonkers after an update, your apps crash, you miss an important appointment, your AC dies, miscommunication runs rampant.

In the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty in this country, in the world, Mercury strolls backward relative to Earth and we humans suddenly feel like we’re caught up in a kind of Ground Hog’s Day.

Mercury rules both Gemini and Virgo, so these two signs and the sign in which the retro occurs, usually experience it most strongly. That said, it impacts all of us in some way. As a Gemini, I’ve had inklings of it for about a week now – weird glitches in my phone, my computer, my car, and miscommunications with the people around me. The environment of this pandemic, the racial turmoil of the protests, the idiocy, incompetence, and danger of trump and his administration inflame the worst aspects of the retrograde.

My general rules are simple and gleaned from personal experience. They consist of a lot of DO NOTS.

Don’t sign contracts

Don’t buy a car, computer, electronics, or anything else with moving parts

Don’t take anything for granted. Check and recheck appointments.

Don’t submit anything.

Don’t start anything new

Don’t make travel plans, unless you don’t mind sudden changes and snafus in your itinerary.

Don’t move.

Don’t travel. But if you do, it’s likely you’ll return to that destination.

Strive for patience even when your patience well has run dry.

Review, revise, reconsider

For an explanation of how this retro impacts your sun sign, check in the June forecast in the masthead.

And remember: a Mercury retro invites us to revisit situations, relationships, and events we might prefer to forget. Slow down, breathe deeply, be grateful, kind, and mine your passions, whatever they are. And know that it’s all over on July 12!

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The Mystical Underground: Meditation…Naturally

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Meditation…Naturally”:

Join Trish and Rob’s conversation with…

Josh Lane, author of Conscious Nature: The Art and Neuroscience of Meditating in Nature, a book that ties the healing power of nature with mindfulness and meditation, and also cutting edge neuroscience.

Josh’s journey started with a fascination with nature as a youth that led to college studies that focused on the realm of our connection with nature and related mentoring on the subject. That led him to a decade long apprenticeship in wilderness tracking and studying the ancient arts of reading nature’s language. He has also explored a variety of meditative paths, including shamanism, Hermetic Qabala, and Qi Gong systems.

I should also add that when Josh first contacted me last year he told me that he had recently re-read my Indiana Jones novels, and wondered how much of his own journey had been inspired by the esoteric topics that I had embedded in those books. I think it was on reading the last of those novels, Indiana Jones and the Interior World, that went into some of the philosophy of the Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia that you had a synchronicity and decided to contact me.

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Isabella Dove and her daughter, Naa’lia

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Trish and Rob

We first “met” Isabella Dove around the time we started our blog in February 2009. She lived in Thailand with her young daughter, Naa’ila. Back then, she was teaching yoga and she and Naa’ila moved around southeast Asia as new yoga gigs surfaced.

I was always impressed by their relationship – mom and daughter, a nomadic duo.
But in October 2014, Isabella  lost her eleven-year-old daughter while they were living in West Africa. I still remember the night I came across Isabella’s post about Naa’ila’s death. I cried.

In 2015, Isabella sent us a string of synchronicities related to Naa’ila that appeared to be spirit communication. She considered them to be deeply healing. We included some of them in Secrets of Spirit Communication.

Hello Trish, this is the story.

Or one of the stories. There have been others but this one I feel has a huge meaning.
My daughter passed away on the 23rd of October 2014. She was 11 years, 9 months and 9 days old. The day she died was the Diwali Festival, as they call it in India, the Festival of Lights. It’s a day when many people apparently wish they could pass away because the Festival of Lights represents the ultimate liberation from life’s burdens. It occurs every year around the end of October.

I was told that  in India some people who are on their way to other side, actually try to wait to pass away on that day. So when I was in India, people were telling me in how lucky she and I were that she passed on the day she did. She was freed from burden and went straight to the light and this has invaluable significance for my own karma.

We lived in Laos for 4 years so I organized a Theravada Buddhist ceremony at the main temple in Vientiane and decided to put her ashes in the wall of the temple, as per practice. So a plaque was needed.  The best way was for me was to keep it simple, creative and not too expensive. So I took the picture of her that I love with the writing on it (image above) went to a printing shop, and had it made on an acrylic support which would be covered with glass and sealed. Three more copies were made  as I wanted to keep one for me and I also sent one to my brother.

The post in Laos is reliable, yet you can never guarantee what happens. Anyhow, it cost me four times the price of the four acrylic 4 plaques to send them to Europe.  This was done around January 20, 2015. Since I couldn’t find any bubble protected envelope, I put the plaques in a simple envelope and thought I would be lucky if the package arrived at its destination in one piece.

I never really bothered to check but after about a month, my brother told me the package hadn’t arrived yet. Then, on March 10, 2015, he was writing me a happy birthday email and announced the package had arrived that very day, on my birthday. Like a present. 
So my lovely daughter’s presence was in both places at the same in Europe with my brother and with me in Thailand, wishing me a happy birthday!

I have other stories like this in my notebook. I also wrote a few posts on my blog. I am slowly getting my normal life back, but it will never really be normal again.

Lot of love,
Isabella

And now Isabella’s memoir about her journey with Naa’ila through physical life and beyond, has been published.  Everything Is Fine, Mama: The Way of the Mango Girl is a beautiful story that tells us as much about Isabella as it does about her special daughter, Naa’ila.

As a parent, I can’t imagine anything worse than losing my daughter. But Isabella not only survived it, Naa’ila’s death became became the fulcrum for her spiritual growth.

 

 

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Welcome to Hurricane Season

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

This evening, Rob was reading something online and said, “Hey, there’re going to be as many as 25 hurricane this season. How do we evacuate during COVID?”

Me: You don’t.

Rob: You’d want to stay here?

Me: Huh?

This is like asking what you would do if everything went off the grid tomorrow and never came back. You don’t know what you would do until it happens. You can speculate all you want, but the bottom line is that you don’t know.

We considered evacuating before Irma in September 2017. But just getting out of the state with millions of other people, on I-95, I-75 and the Florida turnpike, felt like insanity, and in the end, we stayed behind. Our friends Arlene and Neal evacuated, 18 hours to get to some small town in southern Georgia, a trip that usually takes about eight to nine hours on a good day.

That was the largest evacuation in Florida history.

Whether you evacuate or not depends on the strength of the storm, where and when it’s forecast to make landfall, what category the hurricane is, how long it will take you to get to somewhere that’s safe, all the minutia. It also depends on what your personal situation is.

If you have young or sick children, elderly parents, pets that can or can’t make the trip, or if  you live to the beach… all the personal minutia, too, that sculpts your decision.

So if we have some cat 5 hurricane aimed at South Florida this season, have some sort of plan. Pay attention to the synchronicities, those early warning signs. And whether your plan is to you stay or leave, understand this is all part of what our futures with climate change may look like.

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Meet Sarah Cooper

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trump-impersonator-sarah-cooper-shows-how-to-bunker-like-the-leader-of-the-free-world/

I think it was Caren Griffin who introduced me to Sarah Cooper. A TikTok star. TikTok makes me laugh and this woman is the queen of them all. Her lip-synching sketches of trump can pull you out of any funk. Click the image above and laugh your ass off.

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The Mystical Underground: 7 Values Of Life And A Determined Lady

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “7 Values Of Life And A Determined Lady”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Dr. Philip Merry has lived in Singapore for 30 years, where he will be speaking to us from today. Philip has 44 years of experience training and speaking for major world organizations in 61 countries. He has worked extensively with the United Nations over the years. He is a Global Speaking Fellow with CSP Global, one of only 29 people to earn that prestigious speaking award. Philip specializes in cross-cultural leadership. In his addresses, he focuses on spirituality in work, happiness, engagement and team excellence.

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The Soul of America

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

In recent days, I’ve found myself wondering if the soul of America is corrupt. And then I run across a story that embodies the best of the American soul and it restores my hope. There’s also a synchronicity involved in this. The story is from CNN.

“When Antonio Gwynn Jr. saw the damage from protests in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, he grabbed a broom, bought some trash bags and started cleaning the streets by himself.

“He started at 2 a.m. on Monday and did not stop cleaning for the next 10 hours. When an organized group of neighbors arrived later that morning to start clearing the damage, they found that Gwynn had already done most of the work.

Gwynn is an 18-year-old high school senior. He told CNN that he saw on the local news that Bailey Avenue in Buffalo was covered in glass and garbage, and he knew people needed to use that street to get to work in the morning.

“When word spread of how Gwynn single-handedly took action, his community responded.”

Here’s what happened. Matt Block, 27,  saw Gwynn’s story on the news and and saw that Gwynn had asked for car buying advice on Facebook, and decided to give him his 2004 red Mustang convertible. And here’s the synchronicity: Gwynne’s mom, who had passed in 2018, also drove a red Mustang. Gwynn was so shocked at the coincidence he “didn’t have words” and Block says it “gave him goosebumps.” That’s the impact  powerful synchros often have, a physical, visceral reaction.

But the story doesn’t stop there.

A local businessman, Bob Briceland, heard about Block’s gift. So he offered Gwynn a year of free auto insurance coverage through his insurance agency. “I just felt compelled to help him out. We just need to get together our whole city and show people how there’s so many good people here,” Briceland told CNN’s affiliate WKBW.

“After high school, Gwynn had planned to go to trade school while saving up to go to college. Upon hearing Gwynn’s story, Medaille College in Buffalo offered him a full scholarship where he plans to study business in the fall.”

Think about this. A kid  single-handedly sweeps and cleans up a street trashed during the protests because the people in his town need to use the road to get to work the next morning. He sweeps and cleans for TEN hours. And people in his community step up to show their appreciation – the red Mustang, the year’s worth of insurance, and a full college scholarship. And in the middle of all this is the powerful synchronicity concerning the red Mustang.

Whatever the source of synchronicity – god, the universe, quantum physics, the law of attraction or something else- this one holds a hopeful message for all of us. Perhaps we really can emerge on the other side of all this as a kinder, more equitable and just society.

 

 

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Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius Today

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Trish and Rob

 

Today at 3:12 PM EDT, there’s a lunar eclipse at 15 degrees Sagittarius. This eclipse is the first of three between now and early July. June 21 features a solar eclipse at 0 degrees Cancer and on July 5, there’s a lunar eclipse in Capricorn at 12:44 a.m. EDT.

News of one kind or another usually accompanies eclipses. But lunar eclipses are more about internal events and solar eclipses concern outer events. Because it’s in Sagittarius, a mutable fire sign that always seeks the bigger picture, we’ll all be looking for the emotional big picture. In terms of national events, that bigger picture may encompass the murder of George Floyd. In terms of our personal world, it may concern something we learned during the lock down part of the pandemic about ourselves.

Mars in Pisces forms an exact square with the eclipse degree, which may spark tempers, arguments, aggression of some kind. The forecast for June is here. Check your particular sign for how the eclipse impacts you.

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