A Dog Named Blue and Gold Rush

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Trish and Rob

We love it when we receive an email with a synchronicity like this one. This story is from Sherry Meinberg and it’s about a dog named Blue (rather than a blue dog!) and a new reality show on the Discovery channel called GOLD RUSH that premieres on December 3.
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  There is a new reality TV series, GOLD RUSH, that debuts this Friday, December 3rd, at 10:00 PM (on the west coast, at least). It is about four guys that take off for Alaska, to look for gold. Whether it is good, bad, or somewhere in between, the concept precipitated a bidding war between the major channels, and finally came down to the Discovery channel vs. the History channel. The DISCOVERY channel won, and without viewing the four episodes in the can, and without a pilot review, they ordered a whole season’s worth of shows. As such, it sounds promising.

At any rate, the story behind the story is about my brother’s dog, an Australian Shepherd, named Blue. Terry owns 80 acres on top of a mountain in Oregon, which includes a tree farm. Blue had the run of the property, and was constantly chasing off the wild animals that lived in the area. He had no fear whatsoever.

 Being a globe trotter, Terry was constantly away for long periods of time, and one of his daughters was left to live on the property, and run the tree farm. Then she got married, and for several reasons, decided that she couldn’t oversee the farm anymore, so she closed up shop, and gave Blue away. She placed Blue with a man who was a sometime actor, who owned property with an airstrip, so Blue would have plenty of room to run and play and chase other wild animals.

When Terry returned home, he was devastated by the news, of course, but what was done, was done . . .       Fast forward several years, and the actor got a part in the new GOLD RUSH series, and took Blue with him to Alaska. During a two-week period prior to filming, the cast and crew needed to get to know each other, as well as get acquainted with the conditions and terrain. During this period, another of Terry’s daughters flew to the camp site, as her husband had a client who was one of the actors. Can you guess which one?

When she got to the camp site, and was talking with some of the people—all strangers—she saw Blue in the
distance, loping towards them, and they recognized each other. Hence, the classic scene of them running towards each other, with her shouting and crying, and Blue barking joyfully, as they collided in a big hug, and rolled around in the grass together, as a camera recorded this unexpected event.

  Later on, one night, as the men had retired in their tents, and were deep asleep, they heard crashing, barking, and growling sounds, and when they finally staggered out of their tents, they saw Blue chasing off a huge bear. They all realized that if Blue hadn’t been there to watch over them, they might not be living to tell about it.

The four men bonded so thoroughly with Blue, that they insisted that Blue be in the show. And he is. Apparently, Blue has become a favorite of all involved in the production, and there are rumors that he is getting his own show. How fun is that?
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We think Blue probably has excellent karma!
Here’s a trailer:

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Mercury Retrograde Alert

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Trish and Rob

Think of Mercury as the trickster. This little planet rules travel, conscious thought, communication, books, writing,  computers, facts, education, and a whole host of other things – lungs, liars, nerves, language, even keys. Three times a year, it turns retrograde – when it appears to be moving backward through the zodiac – but in 2010, we’ll have four retros for Mercury. The next one begins on December 10, just in time for holidays shopping, and doesn’t end until December 30.
Usually during these retro periods, it’s wise not to buy big ticket items – you know, like that plasma TV, that newest iPad, that wonderful laptop you’ve been eyeing. In other words, do your holiday shipping before December 10, at least for the big stuff. Otherwise, you may be in that return line on December 26. It’s also smart to avoid travel. It’s the holidays, of course, which makes not traveling unlikely. If you must travel, be sure to buy your ticket before December 10. Be prepared for snafus. Your flight gets delayed, your flight is cancelled, a snowstorm shuts down your airport, you arrive at your destination but your luggage doesn’t.  Best to nurture a sense of adventure before you get anywhere near the airport.
With the TSA situation in mind, this Mercury retro may prove problematic. It won’t be smooth sailing as it apparently was during the Thanksgiving travel. More people may be opting out of those body scanners or the pat downs by opting out of flying altogether.
Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo, so these retros can be particularly annoying for those two signs. On 12/10, it turns retro in Capricorn, then moves back into Sagittarius, so those two signs will be impacted as well. These retro periods are great for reflection, rewriting, re-thinking, re-evaluating.  Finish off old projects, try not to start something new.Be sure to communicate clearly and succinctly. Take nothing for granted.
Old friends sometimes surface. Issues you thought were resolved may crop up and you have to re-visit them. Capricorn rules government, so it’s probably not a stretch to predict rehashing of old issues, general chaos and confusion.
If you’re mailing holiday packages to friends and families, be sure the stuff is mailed before 12/10. Otherwise, the presents may not arrive until 2011!
Skeptics hear about Mercury retro and laugh – until they experience this trickster’s antics up close and very personally.  
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Forgiveness and synchonicity

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Trish and Rob

I was walking our dog Noah around the neighborhood the other day when I turned the corner to find a neighbor heading my way with her little Jack Russell terrier that always barks and snaps at Noah.  I groaned silently because I knew she would stop me and carry on about whatever was on her mind today.

I don’t mind talking to neighbors, but this one is particularly annoying because she bad-mouths people and their children while interjecting comments about God or Jesus, who she says guides her life. Once, I asked her if she thought Jesus channeled God when he was alive and that stumped her, at first. Finally, she replied. “Well, I’m not sure what you mean by channeling, but Jesus is God. Everyone knows that.”

So, here she was again. I couldn’t help smiling because a moment before I’d been studying the sky as a skywriting pilot finished one word and started on a second word. That first word was Jesus. As expected, Gloria stopped and told me she was glad to see me, because she had to tell somebody about ‘our crazy court system.’ She had just been dismissed from jury duty after two days and she was relieved, but also upset. “God did not want me serving on that jury, and I’m glad. I couldn’t believe those other people on the jury. So many of them were willing to act neutral and there was a child involved.”

By this time, she had me hooked. So I asked what it was about. “It was a terrible murder case. This guy shot his wife and six-year-old daughter, then tried to run away. Just terrible. The judge asked me if I could be fair and I told him the truth. Not for something like that. He killed a child. I told him I had five kids and what that man did was unforgivable. They sent me home after I said that. Thank God.”

I nodded.  “But don’t you think he deserved a fair trial?”

“No. What if he got off? They should put him in jail and throw away the key.”

Whew. While she had been talking, I watched the skywriter  finish the second word. I interrupted as she carried on, and pointed skyward. “Can you read it?” She stared up and read the two-word sentence. If she saw any connection between her story and what was written in the sky, she didn’t show it. The skywriting read: JESUS FORGIVES.

Trish loved this story when I told it to her, because she knows this woman all too well. Then she kept asking me when I was going to write it for the blog. I’d hesitated for a number of days, not knowing quite why. But now, as I read over what I wrote, it’s all too obvious. I’m acting just like Gloria: gossiping and talking about Jesus!
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Boomerang returns…after long trip

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Trish and Rob

This synchro story appeared on the web site of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Thanks to Gabe Carlson for alerting us to it.

MARYSVILLE, Wash.—Eleven-year-old Brenden Hale was playing with a boomerang along the Skagit River in Mount Vernon last June when it landed in the water and floated away. He thought it was gone forever, until he went duck hunting with his grandfather last month on family property at Skagit Bay. 

Brenden was taking a break on the beach when he saw a crusty-looking piece of wood that looked familiar. It was a boomerang. It was his boomerang —identified by a notch on the back. The Daily Herald of Everett reported it had floated 10 miles down the river and wound up on a beach at his family’s property. Brenden told his mom, “Boomerangs really do come back!” 

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The Boss

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Trish and Rob

This synchro is small, one of those you experience in the course of a given day. But since I haven’t had a synchro for awhile, I was delighted  to experience it!
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 Last March, we had several Bruce Springsteen synchros. He has a home here and usually comes down in the winter because his daughter is involved in equestrian sports. So today I was at the gym and thinking, Well, it’s November, shouldn’t the Boss be back in town soon?  The radio was on in the gym, and suddenly the DJ says, “And that’s a cut from Bruce Springsteen’s new album.”

Synchro! I figure Bruce must be on his way back to South Florida.

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The Japanese Do TSA

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Trish and Rob

This one is just too funny to resist!

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What’s with the Phoenix?

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Trish and Rob

HEY, TELL US WHY YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A PHOENIX IMAGE. YOU’RE ONE OF HUNDREDS EACH DAY!  HIT COMMENT BELOW, THANKS.

If you Google the word Phoenix,  931 million links come up, everything from Phoenix, Arizona to NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander to the phoenix bird. So it makes sense that on any given day, people may be searching for this word. If you have anything related to phoenix on your blog or website and allow Google to index your site, then chances are some people find their way to your blog through that word.

We use sitemeter here, a counter that provides various types of information about how people find our blog. On November 2, 2010, we posted this story  about the 2010 election results and used the above image of a phoenix. The image addressed the Republican party’s rebirth/victory in the Congress. Rising from the ashes and all that!
Within a few days, we noticed that our hits were soaring and that at least a third of the hits were coming with the search terms: phoenix or phoenix picture. Trish wrote to Mike Perry, who knows a lot about blogging and synchronicity, and asked if he had any ideas about why this particular word might be generating so many hits. He suggested they could be coming from Google images. Sure enough, when we checked the referring URL in sitemeter, nearly every phoenix hit was coming from Google images – not from a blog or website that had mentioned our blog.  In other words, people were entering the word phoenix in Google images, which Google claims is the most comprehensive image search tool on the Web.  
So now the question becomes: why are so many people searching for phoenix? These queries are coming from all over the world – from Brazil to Thailand, Canada to Malta, Istanbul to the Phillipines, Europe to the U.S. It’s the sort of pattern that may provide a glimpse into the collective unconscious.
The phoenix appears in the mythologies of the Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Chinese and Phoenicians. According to the Britannica online, among the Egyptians, it was associated with the worship of the sun. Only one of these magnificent birds existed at any time. It was exceptionally long lived and as its final days approached, it was said to create a nest of various herbs and spices, then it set the nest on fire and immolated itself. A new phoenix was born from its ashes.
In China, the phoenix is considered to be one of the most important legendary creatures, second only to the dragon, and is considered to be the leader of birds. In Japan, the phoenix is called fushicho, which means immortal bird. Then, of course, there’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, dedicated to defeating Voldemort  – the darkest wizard in history – and protecting his targets.
Symbolically, the phoenix is associated with rebirth, immortality, renewal. So what could this word possibly be telling us? Since we believe in synchronicity, it’s ridiculous to write it off as random coincidence.
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Weird Stuff in the Sky

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Trish and Rob

To our American friends, Happy Thanksgiving!
For everyone, here’s a video to ponder. 

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Rescues at Sea

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Trish and Rob

We’ve all heard the stories about how dolphins and porpoises rescue humans who are in trouble. In late 1999, a young Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, and his mother escaped Cuba with 12 others, all of them crammed into a small aluminum boat. The boat capsized during the 90-mile crossing to the U.S. and Elian’s mother and eleven others drowned. Elian, who was in an inner tube, was reportedly rescued by a pod of dolphins. This story spread quickly through Miami’s Cuban community. He was revered, destined for great things. During the ensuing custody battle, a kind of cult grew up around the boy.  He was subsequently returned to Cuba to live with his father and is now a kind of mouthpiece for the Cuban government.

Elian is in good company, at least in the dolphin rescue sense. Apparently actor Dick van Dyke (Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) once fell asleep on his surfboard and awakened surrounded by fins. He thought the fins were sharks and was certain he was about to die. “They turned out to be porpoises,” he said in an article in The Guardian. “And they pushed me all the way to shore.”

Whenever I read stories like this, I wonder why these creatures rescue humans. The only answer that makes sense is altruism.

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Dreams and Shamans in the Florida Everglades

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Trish and Rob

A writer friend visited us earlier this month and one day I told her about D Page at mythic musings. Later that same day, I received an email from D Page detailing a dream she’d had. This dream led into a synchronicity that involved our guest. Here’s the dream.
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This past week I had 4 dreams relating to shamans. Though I have had an occasional  dream regarding shamans during my life, I’ve never had four in a row.  Nor have I ever been to the Florida Everglades. This is the first dream of the sequence:

Two shamans, an older man  and woman, came to take me on a journey.Suddenly,we are on a  swiftly moving boat. The boat has no sides. It is night, and the water is very dark. I can not see anything beyond the boat and the water moving past it.  Somehow I know I am in the Florida Everglades. 

We arrive at an isolated location. We are in an older, large home made from wood. The room we are in is decorated with bamboo, and red and gold fabrics. The other rooms in the house have begun to collapse. Somehow I know this has to do with worldly conditions. There is a woman named Nancy living there. She has acquired a lot of knowledge through education. She has a large folder representing the curriculum she has studied. In a flash, I see that this type of knowledge will now longer apply to circumstances that we are about to encounter. There is another older woman there, who is also a shaman. Nancy asks her when she has to leave to do shamanic work somewhere elsewhere. The woman replies, “Now.”

Nancy then asks,”Who will be shamanizing here [in the Everglades]?  I am very shocked when my left arm rises up on its own accord. I then know I am going to be shamanizing” [taking over for the woman who is leaving]. I woke up at this point.
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When I told our guest about this dream, she was impressed by the depth and detail and that it seemed to address something extremely important. I told Debra what our guest had said and who our guest is – Nancy Pickard. Debra immediately wrote back: “Synchronicity! The woman in the dream was named Nancy! In the dream, she needed to expand her perceptions to integrate unknown variables. To go beyond the limits of education. Just to be open to the unknown without preconceived ideas.”

When I related this to Nancy Pickard, she was astonished. Only the day before, she and I had driven through  the Everglades on our way back from Sarasota. That night, she’d been re-reading Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts and had encountered a passage that was nearly verbatim what Debra said in the email.”Tell her I’d be glad to work with her as a shaman!”

This is the sort of weird synchro that seems to be addressing something important. We’ll have to see how it all unfolds.

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