Australian psychotherapist and newspaper columnist Chris Mackey takes an interesting look at synchronicity as he looks at the changes taking place among psychologists. It’s a good article for people on the fence or those who don’t yet recognize synchros.
On September 13, 2019, at 9:33 PM, we’ve got a beautiful full moon at 19 degrees Pisces. It forms positive angles to Pluto in Capricorn in the 9th house, to the part of fortune (that circle with the x in the center) in Scorpio in the 7th house, and to the North Node at 15 Cancer in the 3rd house. It also features a grand trine in earth signs – 20 degrees Taurus rising to Pluto at 20 degrees Capricorn in the 9th, and to the sun at 20 Virgo in the 5th house.
You can see that grand trine – a blue triangle – in the center of the circle connecting those 3 spots. Trines are angles of 120 degrees and are indicative of an easy flow of energy. Grand trines connect 3 planets of the same element (earth in this case) and increase the ease with which the energy flows.
Those of you with a Pisces sun, moon, or rising or any of those points in another water sign – Cancer or Scorpio – will feel the energy of this moon most strongly. Neptune, which rules Pisces, is at 17 degrees Pisces, closely conjunct the full moon. This planet rules the seas and oceans, imagination, escapism, psychic phenomena, and can also cause confusion at times due to lack of information.
The four planets in Virgo in the 5th house – Mars, the sun, Venus, and Mercury – create a detail-oriented energy, particularly in the areas of creativity, children, and what you do for fun and pleasure.
The energy of this full moon is wonderfully positive. Full moons are times of culmination and completion, when we often hear news that delights us. For how this full moon impacts you, check out the monthly forecast for your sign in the masthead.
When you Google the definition of stupidity here’s what you get:
behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment.”I can’t believe my own stupidity”
When you listen to trump’s July 4th speech, you hear stupidity that sounds like this, from the BBC news:
“Trump claims army ‘took over airports’ in 1775.”
A speech delivered by President Trump at Independence Day celebrations contained historical errors. At the event in Washington DC, for the 4th of July “Salute to America”, he referred to airports existing in 1775. The mistake was attributed by some US media outlets to difficulty reading the teleprompter.
The US president also mixed up the War of 1812 with the War of Independence.”
Okay, we had airports in 1775 and Washington’s luggage got lost in transit and eventually had to be delivered by horseback. Don’t believe it? The You Tube video is at the top.
More recently, there’s trump’s infamous: Dorian is going to hit Alabama. and the exhibit of his sharpie-altered weather map. This was quickly followed by a statement from the Alabama center that trump’s statement was incorrect. Now its being reported that Wilbur Ross head of the commerce department that oversees the weather services, threatened to fire the meteorologists at NOAA unless they backed up trump’s statement.
So, just to unravel the facts here: the head of the commerce department ordered meteorologists at NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – to forget science so trump could save face. These people are the ones who forecast weather based on SCIENCE, not politics. Their forecasts, especially during times of violent weather, save lives. Wilbur Ross, one more trump sycophant, should resign.
But the bigger picture is even more disturbing. When science becomes a tool of politics, we enter really dangerous terrain. And we’ve been there for some time. Trump is a climate change denier, as are many of the people in his administration. But the widespread obliteration in the Abacos is just more proof that we are in the midst of what these deniers are claiming.
If this category 5 storm had stalled over the South Florida area for two days as it did over the Bahamas, the peninsula would look like the Abacos, a junkyard. I doubt that much of anything in South Florida can withstand a two-day assault by winds of 185 mph, with gusts up to 220 mph, storm surges of 30 feet, and two-feet of rain. The east coast of the peninsula would be underwater, including Mar-a Lago. In addition, it’s likely that an assault like that would bring Lake Okeechobee surging over its dikes – or breaking them altogether, flooding the entire western part of the county until it merged with the Everglades.
Today, trump declared that a ferry with Bahamian refugees on board couldn’t enter the U.S. without visas. He cited the presence of gang members, murderers, very bad people,” all his usual diatribes against immigrants. But there’s one very significant difference here: 70,000 Bahamians were left homeless by Dorian. They’ve lost everything. To deny them entry to the U.S. is inhumane, a travesty, and for any christians who still support this mad man, such an act goes against the fundamental tenets of christianity. Ask yourselves: would Christ turn away the needy? The desperate? The ones who have lost everything?
Whenever I read something about the state of things on the Abacos – the stench of death in the air, the bodies found in heaps of rubble, the utter devastation – I think, This could have been us. With the slilghtest job to the west, Dorian’s eye would have come on shore in Florida. So I give what I can to relief and rescue organizations I trust. I wish I had some skill that I could contribute on the ground – medical skills, zillions of bucks to bring in food, to rebuild homes and lives.
A recent blog comment from Dale Dassel led to an interesting discovery about Mercury retrograde:
“I’m presently reading a newly published book called The Triangle by Mike Bara (a frequent commenter on Ancient Aliens), and something just occurred to me during the chapter detailing the vanishing of Flight 19 in December 1945: Was this a Mercury retrograde period? Because it seems that virtually everything that could possibly go wrong during that mission, invariably did, including the disappearance of one of the search planes sent out to find the lost squadron. The entire episode was fraught with one mishap after another, an unbelievable string of bad luck.
And while we’re on the subject, I can’t help but wonder if Merc retrograde also played a hand in other notable disasters, like the April 1912 Titanic sinking, the May 1937 Hindenburg explosion, or the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in July 1937? That would certainly be an interesting pattern!”
So I looked up the 4 events that Dale mentioned. Flight 19, which took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida on December 5, 1945, and disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle was the first date. And yes, Mercury was retrograde in Sagittarius that day.
The Titanic sank on April 14-15, 1912. Yes, Mercury was retrograde in Aries.
The Hindenburg explosion happened on May 6, 1937. Yes, Mercury was retrograde in Taurus.
Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937. Mercury was in Cancer on that date, but it was in direct motion.
Out of the 4 disasters Dale asked about, 3 featured Mercury retrogrades. Beats the odds!
Hurricane Dorian was forecast to hit South Florida on Saturday, August 31. I returned from Orlando on Thursday, August 29, and encountered the effects of panicked hurricane buying – gas stations without gas, grocery store shelves empty of water, ice, and other essentials, people frantically putting up hurricane shelves, and a kind of eerie uncertainty underlying everything.
Then Dorian’s arrival was pushed back several days. This enabled gas tankers to replenish stations, grocery stores restocked their shelves and limited the sale of water and ice to a certain amount per person. The delay gave procrastinators additional time to get ready.
By Friday, August 30, we were in good shape. Fridge and shelves stocked, 30 pounds of ice in freezer, full propane tanks for grill, enough bottled water to last until Armageddon, full gas tanks in cars, flashlights and batteries stocked, backup batteries for computers and phones powered up, our generator tested and ready to go in the aftermath.
Saturday, August 31, was a gorgeous day here in South Florida. I stopped by our local grocery store to pick up a couple of things and found the place nearly empty. I even found water! By Sunday morning, it was still beautiful here but conditions were predicted to deteriorate by Monday morning, so we started closing our accordian shutters. This should take about 15 minutes but the shutters were stiff – they hadn’t been shut since Irma in 2017 – and needed generous doses of WD-40. It took a lot longer than expected. We brought in outside plants and anything else that might become projectiles.
On Sunday, Dorian raked through the Bahamas with winds of 185 mph and gusts up to 220. It was a clear day here, hot and humid but I became obsessed with weather reports about Dorian. The hurricane still hadn’t made that predicted turn that would take it up the east coast of Florida and beyond and eventually out to into the Atlantic.
On Labor Day, Monday, September 2, we were going to head to the gym, but found out it was closed until Wednesday, same as the public schools. We had some rain, some wind, but nothing worse than an ordinary summer day. We monitored a local TV channel for updates, I downloaded a couple of apps I could access through wireless in the event we lost power. It’s now 1 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3, and Dorian is still pounding Grand Bahama Island with cat 4 winds, and it’s calm here. Dorian is still forecast to turn north along the coast, but…
Now it’s later on September 3. We’re still under a tropical storm warning, Dorian has started moving to the northwest at 2 miles an hour, and photos of the devastation in the Bahamas are surfacing. They’re heart breaking and stagger any concept any of us have about the power of nature. The Abacos and Grand Bahama Island experienced nearly three days of category 5 winds – and beyond. Winds at 185 with gusts over 200 mph. Cat 6 should be a new category. And the early aerial view of the Abacos looked like a junkyard.
In 1992, no one really knew what Homestead looked like in the wake of Hurricane Andrew until Dan Rather got there. The same is true with the Bahamas – only this time the truth came out much faster, thanks to Smart phones and social media and the Internet. By today, September 4, more images surfaced. Hurricane Dorian was nature’s destruction machine and the videos I watched made me cry. This could have been us, flattened neighborhoods inundated by the ocean, roads and homes, people and pets and families submerged, drowning.
What do you do when you’ve lost everything? One couple, who’d lived in the Abacos for 50 years, survived by standing on their floating machine. All they had left was the clothes they wore. How do you survive that kind of loss?
The bottom lines here are multifaceted. We’re in the midst of climate change and the destruction is going to be massive even if we ever arrive at a global agreement on how to deal with it. The paradigm is shifting and it’s doing so in dramatic, profound, and painful ways.
Meanwhile, we have a president who seems more interested in clinging to his lie about how Dorian would hit Alabama – a statement that brought a pro9mp0t correction from the National Weather Service, a president who takes money from FEMA – in the midst of a hurricane – so it can go toward building his stupid wall. We’re now living in an alternate universe.
There are several channelers on the Internet who post material that’s supposedly from higher beings from elsewhere. Jane Clifford sent me this one because she thought it was a good synchronicity. The morning after I told her about our experience with the Mitchell-Hedges skull, she said she opened a daily posting from channeler Daniel Scranton and found the following message that deals with crystal power.
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Sometimes portents take a long time to come true. In 1991, after my first novel, Crystal Skull, was published, I received a prediction that seemed highly unlikely at the time. Our late friend Renie Wiley, who was a talented psychic, saw the cover of the book that featured an image of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, and said: “That crystal skull will come to you.”
I thought that maybe Anna Mitchell-Hedges, then caretaker of the skull, would see the book and contact me…or maybe I should contact her and see what happens. Those were passing thoughts, and I didn’t think much about it again, though I never forgot what Renie told me. So Saturday evening, Aug. 31, Renie’s prediction came true…28 years later. The Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull came to our house.
Bill Homann, the caretaker of the skull, had contacted me a couple of months earlier and said that he was leading a workshop with the skull at a bookstore in a nearby town and did I want to get together. We had been corresponding casually for several years and had talked about getting together. He’s a big Indiana Jones fan and so knew about my books, including Crystal Skull. Finally, the opportunity arose.
But it was touch and go with Hurricane Dorian boring in on south Florida. Finally, on Friday, the hurricane slowed its pace assuring that there would be no big blow for a few days. So friends gathered for a potluck dinner. Bill was the last one to arrive because people were doing private sessions at the bookstore from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Then he had a 45 minute drive to our house.
After the dinner, we set up chairs in a circle in the living room and Bill talked about the history of the skull and his involvement with it. He went into the legend of the 13 crystal skulls worldwide that are interconnected in an energy grid. Interestingly, we had 13 people in attendance. Synchronicity.
Taking a page out of Indiana Jones, Bill talked a bit about how Anna Mitchell Hedges, the adopted daughter of adventurer F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, found the skull in 1924 near the top of a pyramid at Lubaantun, British Honduras (now Belize). Anna, who was 16 at the time, was told not to climb the pyramid on her own because the climb was steep and some stones could easily break free. But she and a couple of Mayan kids climbed the pyramid one morning, anyhow. According to the story, Anna glimpsed a reflected ray of light coming from a gap in the stones near the summit. After reporting it to her father, the opening was gradually expanded and six weeks later, when it was wide enough for a slender person to enter, Anna was lowered down on a rope and found the crystal skull on her 17th birthday. The jaw was found a month later.
Anna lived until she was 100 years old and died in 2007 on Bill’s birthday. She lived with Bill for several of her last years.
Bill believes the skull comes to us from antiquity. However, skeptics say that such a skull couldn’t have been made in ancient times without modern stone-cutting machinery. They suspect (with no proof) that Mitchell-Hedges planted the skull in the pyramid for Anna to find. They go on to suggest (again with no evidence) that the adventurer bought the skull at a charity shop in London. It’s all part of an effort to debunk the legitimacy of the skull.
Anyone who has traveled to pre-Colombian stone sites, particularly in Peru and Bolivia, knows that the so-called primitives without modern tools were able to create seamless walls of stone weighing tons that fit perfectly together often with jagged edges and using no mortar. How were those stones cut and lifted in place? Present day master stoneworkers have no idea how they did it, and admit even with their machines, they would have a difficult time re-creating such massive walls.
Sure, stone walls are not crystal skulls, but the same question arises in both cases. What kind of technology did the ancients possess to create such walls and crystal skulls. If markings on the skull, viewed under high magnification show telltale signs of machine cuts, who is to say that such technology, or some related technology, did not exist in ancient times. Bill thinks the skull dates back to the time of Atlantis or even earlier.
Another bit of synchronicity: Bill had recently been featured on Expedition: Unknown on the Discovery Channel. Meanwhile, Bruce Gernon, who was in attendance, and I will be on an upcoming episode of the same show in October on the Bermuda Triangle.
Following Bill’s introduction of the skull, he guided us into a group meditation with the skull. Afterwards, we took turns sitting with the skull for a few minutes each. Under Bill’s guidance, the sitter would hold their hands a few inches from the skull, then expanding their arms out to the sides, then coming in slowly. That was repeated three times, then the sitter crossed arms over the chest and pulled in the skull-energy to the heart chakra.
When it was my turn, I was already quite relaxed. I’d been sitting a few feet to one side of the skull. I felt a gentle vibration rolling up and down my spine and when I brought my arm inward toward the skull I felt a wave of energy that was similar to pressing against a large beach ball. Others had varying experiences, from feeling heat and waves of energy to a greater sense of peaceful.
After everyone had a session with the skull, we finished with some picture-taking with the skull, and…oh yes, Rose Strain’s delicious cheese cake!
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/
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.
In fact, in looking back through 10 years of this blog, I found all sort of birthday tributes to 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!
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!
