New Moon in Gemini

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Trish and Rob

The New Moon in Gemini on June 3 has something good for everyone. New moons are always about new opportunities, new people, new chapters opening in our lives. New moons favor submissions, interviews, starting new projects.

This one, at 12 degrees Gemini, also enjoys Mercury at 27 degrees Gemini, and the part of fortune at 20, exactly conjunct the 20 degree Gemini rising in the chart. This is all about communication, networking, and socializing.

To see what’s in store for you for the rest of June, the new forecasts are in the masthead.

ARIES

It should be a great month for you, and it all begins on June 3, with a new moon in compatible air sign Gemini. You may have an opportunity to collaborate on a book with a friend or could be invited to teach a workshop or conduct a seminar. You may be networking and socializing more, and new and valuable contacts are made.

TAURUS

With the new moon in Gemini on June 3, a new source of income should surface for
you. It could be a freelance job, something that comes to you through your network of acquaintances, a writing or publicity gig or even a part-time job. All that’s required of you, Taurus, is to be vigilant and recognize the opportunity as it surfaces.

GEMINI

A new moon in your sign happens just once a year and usually sets the tone for the rest of the year. Make a wish list and at some point on June 3, mull over each item on your list. Vividly imagine each thing happening. Do something special for yourself on the 3rd. Do whatever makes you happy. Then step out of the way, and let the universe do its job.

CANCER

June should be to your liking, and the good stuff begins on June 3, with a new moon in Gemini. Opportunities that surface may revolve around learning, research, communication— writing, speaking, teaching—and networking. You might have a chance to teach a course or 
or workshop, could get a freelance writing project or could be hired for a behind-the-scenes project. Gemini is a sociable sign, so expect to be out and about more than usual.

LEO

The new moon in Gemini should be very nice for your social life. As new friends enter your life, so do new opportunities for networking, publicity and communication projects. Today, you can talk to anyone about virtually anything. If you’re in sales, you probably surpass your daily quota! The new moon kick starts a good month for you, Leo.

VIRGO

The new moon in Gemini on June 3 brings new professional opportunities that could range from a promotion and raise to an entirely new career path. It depends on what you’ve been desiring and where you’ve been putting your attention. If you’ve been working toward starting your own business, then the energy of this new moon could make it happen.

LIBRA

The new moon in Gemini is a good one for you. Be on the lookout for new opportunities to network. You may be asked to conduct a workshop or teach a class on a subject in which you’re an expert. Or you may take a workshop or class. Gemini is perpetually curious, so on or around the time of this new moon, you may have a chance to research something that intrigues you.

SCORPIO

Expect new opportunities for writing and speaking gigs, for networking with professional colleagues and for living more gregariously. It’s a good time to enter the flow of events and situations and leave the worrying and fretting to someone else!

SAGITTARIUS

This new moon brings in new opportunities in partnerships. You and your spouse may launch your own business or deepen your commitment to each other in some way. You have a chance to form new networks of friends and acquaintances or to work on a publicity campaign for a new client. With Mercury also in Gemini, your communication skills are sharp.

CAPRICORN

The new moon in Gemini on June 3 ushers in new opportunities in your daily work routine and in the maintenance of your health. You might be promoted or tapped to head up a team, or if you’ve been looking for employment, you get the job you want. If you’re self-employed, a new client or project comes your way. You may have a stab at a writing project or could be hired for a publicity or merchandising campaign.

AQUARIUS

If you aren’t involved in a romantic relationship, this moon may change the status quo, particularly once Venus transits Gemini and this same area of your chart from June 8 to July 3. The new moon and this Venus transit also facilitates all your creative endeavors. Whatever your skill or talent, you may sell a project this month or be invited to exhibit your products. If you and your partner are considering starting a family, then this new moon and the Venus transit may bring it about. This part of your chart also governs children.

PISCES

The new moon in Gemini brings in new opportunities for your family/home. Unless your kids are very young, engage the entire family in the decision about where to go this year. If you have been going to the same areas year after year, be more adventurous now and choose a spot where none of you have been.

 

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‘Angel Numbers’

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Seeing the same numbers repeatedly over a period of time is one of the most common synchronicities  that people report. They usually want to know what does it mean. Well, here’s one possible answer, called Angel Numbers, that popped up recently on my FB inbox from someone calling him/herself Ancient Soul.

What are your thoughts?

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Forecasts for June

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Trish and Rob

The astrological forecasts for June are now posted in the masthead. Happy June, everyone!

 

 

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How’d This Happen?

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Take a good look at this guy. What do you see?

There are certain members of congress who remind me of reptiles. They’re not so different from the lizards that scamper through our backyard, eating anything within reach.

Take Mitch McConnell, repub from Kentucky, senate majority leader who blocked Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court for months. Who seems to love trump regardless of what he’s doing. Whose soul (if he ever had one) has been whisked off to trump Neverland.

You know, that Neverland that says, Women are subservient to men. Women shouldn’t have any control over their own bodies, it’s okay if the prez is a pathological liar and con man, it’s all good as long as the republican agenda can be shoved through.

If the dems ever get really serious about impeachment hearings, they already know it will die in the Senate. Mitch decides what can come to the floor. In Nixon’s era, he resigned before he could be impeached. Pelosi needs to fully embrace impeachment even if she knows it will die in McConnell’s senate, otherwise trump and every prez that comes after him (if there are any) will figure they can do what they want without impunity.

The bottom line here is ugly. Trump has torn apart the fabric of the constitution, of the presidency, of diplomatic ties with our allies, pulled out of climate and nuclear accords, and calls himself a genius, the best prez ever. As the protagonist in The Handmaid’s Tale laments at one point, “How’d we get to this place?”

Well, one possible answer is that we believed it could never happen here.

 

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Simba, RIP

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Simba was my first orange tabby. He came to us from our neighbor, Annette, when she found him and his bro, Copper, as a kitten near her church. She adopted Copper and asked if we would take Simba. Annette thinks this happened in 2005, I think it was 2007. Simba and Copper were nearly identical except that Simba’s eyes were green and Cooper’s were amber. But if you saw them close together like this, you could hardly tell them apart.

Over the years, Simba was the alpha cat – not mean, but firm about his positions among the cats we had. When younger, one of his favorite spots was on top of my desk, just sitting there looking regal as I worked, as in the top photo.

Outside, he and Copper often climbed a tree in our front yard that enabled them to get to the roof, where they would sit together watching the world below. This tree: and that’s Copper during catobatics, with Simba just visible above him. When Copper was hit by a car three years ago, Annette and her family buried him next to this tree. I would often spot Simba sitting on that grave.

One summer, we stated finding dead mice around the house – in the shower, the kitchen. And then we started seeing Simba crouched in various places around the house where he sensed a mouse was hiding. We realized we had an infestation and Rob started placing mousetraps in cabinets Simba had pinpointed. Eventually, they were all caught. He was our mouse detector.

Noah, our Golden Retriever, was like a horse next to Simba but Simba befriended him early on. The same was true of Nigel and of Megan’s dog, Nika. There are Nika and Nigel at the end of the sidewalk, with Simba watching them.

He was tolerant of our other cats, but not exactly warm and fuzzy.

As he got older, his spot at night was next to my head on my bed,where we often tussled over who got the extra pillow.

When Nala entered our lives last Christmas, she quickly cozied up to Noah and Simba gradually accepted her.

For the last several days, he hadn’t been eating and yesterday, didn’t eat at all or go outside to his favorite spot by the pile of wood we use for our fire pit during the winter. He was also bloated  – we thought he’d just gained weight  – so I took him to our vet.

X rays revealed so much fluid in his chest that his lungs were floating. His stomach was also filled with fluid. Ira, our vet, walked me through the X rays and pointed out what he thought might be a mass, a tumor, close to his lungs, which would explain the buildup of fluid. Even if the fluid was drained, it probably would return, he said. Simba was already having difficulty breathing.  Rather than put him through additional tests and blood work, I felt it was best to euthanize him.

Ira and his technician, Juan, were wonderfully compassionate.

I miss seeing Simba by that fire pit in the morning. Or in the backyard by the pool, stalking lizards or trying to teach Nala about the etiquette of outside freedoms. I miss him by my head at night. I hope Noah and our other cats were with him as he passed.

Rob dug a grave for him close to where we buried Powder not that long ago. Now there are 4 cats and a bird buried in our backyard. And I’m waiting for Simba to pay us a visit.

 

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Synchros in St. Augustine

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Whenever we travel, we tend to experience synchronicities. Maybe it’s because we are taken out of our everyday routine…and things happen. That was the case again in early May when we journeyed to St. Augustine, Florida – the oldest city in the U.S. – for a couple of days.

A friend had said we should visit a bar called The Well. So after visiting the old stone fort, we decided to go find it. It turned into a half-hour hike, but we located it on the grounds of the The Collector Inn & Garden. By the time we finished our beers it was after 5 p.m. and we debated about walking to a restaurant called Catch 27 – also recommended to us. Google told us it was several blocks away, but Trish said she wanted to go back to our room first. So we headed back through Old Town.

As soon as we got in our car and left the parking lot, we noticed the bridge we needed to cross to the barrier island where we were staying was raised for boat traffic and cars we backed up for more than a quarter mile. Rush hour.We skirted the traffic, circled back through Old Town on what is apparently the only street that allows car traffic. Just a block before we were to exit onto a main road, we noticed a sign for Catch 27, which was more than mile from where we thought the restaurant was located. We managed to get back to our parking spot, which still had two hours left on the meter, and walked over to the restaurant.

As we were seated, I asked if there were two Catch 27s, and was told there was only one and that it had moved to the new location. So if we would’ve taken our other option and attempted to walk to the restaurant from the bar, we wouldn’t have found it. So, for us, what originally seemed like an inconvenience – the bridge raised and a long wait – turned into a lucky find. Instead of being blocked, we ended up right where we wanted to be!

Here’s one other one from that trip. A couple of days before we left for St. Augustine, I completed a script called Spinning Out. In the story, my main character, Jake, has an out-of-body experience in which he becomes stuck out of his body and ultimately is aided by a group of inter-dimensional beings that resemble odd-looking human children. These beings form a circle around Jake, lock arms and rotate around him, bringing him slowly back into his body. Yay, good aliens!

So, to my surprise, upon arriving at our airbnb in St. Augustine, I noticed a strange ceramic sculpture near the floor in one corner of the main room. It’s a group of odd-looking little beings with arms locked forming a circle. Of course, that reminded me of my scenario in the script. Here’s a pic of it. Another syncro.

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Animal Spirit Contact & That Rainbow Bridge

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Melissa Fordham is one of the most interesting women I know. Years back when we lived in the neighborhood we moved to when our daughter, Megan, was 6 weeks old, she lived in the neighborhood with her family. She’s 11 years older than Megan, who will be 30 this year, and back then, when Melissa was in her teens, she used to babysit for Megan.

I saw her periodically during her college years, we went to her wedding, and then she and her husband, Jon, moved to New York. But she kept in touch. She’s a Leo who grew up with cats and who, for 20 years, had a beautiful cat named Star. Melissa also has an insatiable appetite for answers that don’t fall within the normal or usual scheme of things and in the past several years, has been exploring that unseen realm.

Last year, Star died and ever since, Melissa has been experiencing a lot of contact with Star. We’ve written about several of her contacts. The most recent event appeared in my text messages this evening. It’s a weird one, for sure.

Toward the end of her life, Star was on a med called Cosequin for her arthritis, featured in both pics.  It’s a joint supplement. But after the cat died, Melissa got rid of the pills and sent them to friends with older cats. “I’ve actually deep cleaned in the year since she died, so there’s really no explanation for what happened.”

On her kitchen floor, she found a single pill, Cosequin, and texted Jon about it. “There’s a Cosequin pill just in the middle of the floor in the kitchen. Just there. Randomly. We don’t have that anymore.”

Jon: Star put it there. She’s saying, “Hi! I don’t need this anymore.”

Melissa wrote that she left the pill there all day and into the next morning – well, just because.

“At first I thought it was a pill of mine, but then I was like, no, I haven’t taken any pills…and Jon’s been gone a week…so it wasn’t his. Then I got closer and was like…OH. MY. GOD.
I was almost afraid to touch it at first. I also liked Jon’s explanation of it.”

What I find so intriguing about her experience is that apparently animal spirits, like their human counterparts, seem to use whatever is most convenient to let us know they’re around.

Now I would really enjoy some type of communication from our Golden Retriever, Noah, who died on March 14. Or form our first Golden, Jessie, who died in 2007. Or from our cats Powder and Tigerlil, who passed in 2017 and 2012, or from our black and white tuxedo cat, Whiskers, who passed in 2006.

You get the idea here, right? We outlive all our animal buddies. And they do seem to reach out to us once they get to that Rainbow Bridge.

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Nala, Nigel, Noah, Nika

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Nala is now at least 6 months old and quite comfortable around the house. She’s spayed, has all her shots, and now runs around outside in the backyard, chasing lizards and insects. She also climbs trees. But whenever I shake the treat jar, she comes dashing in.

Sometimes, Nigel or Nika or both of them play with her in the backyard,. Even though Nigel is many times her size, she doesn’t seem intimidated. Even Nika, Megan’s dog, is much larger than she is. But she likes dogs, cuddles up to them when she’s in that be my friend mood.  

Here are Nigel (blonde) and Nika at dinner with us one evening.

But because she was with Noah when he passed, I wonder about the effect of that. Does Nala sense him around? Do Nika and Nigel? I think they do, but it’s more natural for them  to see what we do not.

Today when we were leaving the dog park, a woman whose name I don’t know stopped me at the gate and said, “I heard about Noah. I’m so sorry.” And then she hugged me.

It’s this kind of compassion from virtual strangers that reduces me to tears. Every pet owner knows what it’s like to lose a beloved buddy. And every pet in a house with multiple animals and species feels the same void we humans feel, but not in the same way. At some level, I think animals understand that death isn’t the end of anything, that it’s just another level of being.

 

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Atticus Finch and the Era of trump

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Remember Atticus Finch, the heroic lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird, who did the right thing? Jeff Daniels is now playing Finch on Broadway and sat down with Nicolle Wallace to talk about the parallels in Harper Lee’s classic to life under trump. It’s chilling. It’s all about racism. And, unless trump is held accountable, it’s also the end of democracy.

You can watch the segment here.

Where are today’s heroes? Where’s the next Daniel Ellsberg who will leak the unredacted Mueller report to The Washington Post?

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Writing the future

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Here’s an astonishing example of an author tuning into the future providing details of an event that would take place two years later. We wrote about this one here many years ago, but it’s worth taking another look at it, and considering the question of whether or not this fictional story created that actual event or did the author tune into what was  to come.

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, Patricia. Her wealthy father was well known and had right-wing sympathies.

In the novel, Patricia was kidnapped near campus while she was with her boyfriend, who was badly beaten by the abductors. For a while, the boyfriend was a suspect in the case. The fictional Patricia initially resisted her captors, but eventually subscribed to their ideology and became a champion of their cause. The terrorists sent Polaroid photos to her father and described the abduction as America’s “first political kidnapping.” They predicted they eventually would be surrounded by police, tear-gassed, and wiped out.

Two years after the book was published, in 1974, Patricia Hearst – daughter of newspaper baron Randolph Hearst and then a college student – was abducted from her apartment near campus. The kidnappers were members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a terrorist group led by a black man. Her boyfriend, Steven Weed, was with her at the time and was badly beaten, but became a suspect in the case. Patricia Hearst, like the fictional Patricia, became a sympathizer of her abductors’ cause. She ended up robbing a bank with her kidnappers and was photographed carrying an MI carbine.

The FBI was either familiar with the novel or had read it and the author became a suspect in the case. The real abductors were eventually surrounded by the police, tear-gassed, and killed, just as the fictional kidnappers predicted they would be. All of this begs the question: had the terrorists read the novel? Or was this an instance where the author’s creative edge enabled him  to sense the future so deeply that he uncovered stunning details identical to those that came about two years later?

Realistically, would anyone read a novel with such a deadly plot and decide to duplicate it? Maybe. But it would be challenging to get the boyfriend to play the appropriate role and the authorities to do the same. Most likely, Rusk, through his creative endeavor, had somehow tuned into an event yet to come.

Two years later, playing on the similarity of real life events, the book was republished with an essay introducing it. That’s it in the image above. The author James called the similarities of the two stories a ‘coincidence.’ He also seemed somewhat embarrassed by the attention the book was getting, including interest from the FBI, and he notes on Amazon.com that the book was not only extremely violent, but also pornographic. He said the only reason it rated three stars on Amazon is because of the coincidence.

One other note, I initially was going to call this post by the title of the book, Black Abductor. But it occurred to me that it would be bad form to repeat the provocative title, which plays on race. I doubt that any mainstream publisher would play on the word ‘black’ as was done in 1972.

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