Synchronicity in Action: the 7/Eleven Baby

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Trish and Rob

Our blogging friend Nicholas Carroll alerted me to this one. J’Aime Brown was born on 7-11, at 7:11 PM, and weighed in at – you guessed it – 7 pounds and 11 ounces. Synchronicity in action! 7/Eleven, the national chain, heard about this and are contributing $7,111 to J’Aime’s college fund along with other gifts.

I was curious about J’Aime’s birth chart, so I Googled the story and found out that the boy was born in St. Louis. Our souls choose the circumstances of our births and, as Nicholas pointed out, it looks as if this soul “went above and beyond. Maybe this soul intends to wake us up to the reality that there is no such thing as coincidence.” So let’s take a look at what his chart tells us.

He has three notable clusters in his chart – in the 1st house, the 7th, and the 8th. In the 7th, we find his nurturing Cancer sun hugging his North Node in Cancer, with Venus widely conjunct. His focus this time around is on relationships, something he should embrace in this life to realize his full potential. He will attract money and opportunities through these relationships. It looks like he has already done that, considering 7/Eleven’s contribution to his college fund!) And, not to get too far ahead of ourselves, he will be attractive to women and would be happiest with a Cancer woman.

In the first house, he has Saturn, the South Node and Pluto, all conjunct in Capricorn, the builder. He also has Capricorn rising.  He’s going to be self-directed, Dad may be stricter than he would like, and he’s going to be a leader – that comes from the square from Pluto his Midheaven, the cusp of his 10th house. He’ll have a transformative impact on other people’s lives. With his Scorpio moon in 11th house, he’ll choose a career where he can really delve into things, and will always seek the absolute bottom line. This Scorpio moon also gives him intuitive ability and he’ll have a talent for  quickly sizing up people.

In the 8th house, he has Mars and Mercury conjunct in Leo – that’s ambition and physicality and communication. He’ll be a forceful speaker and an excellent communicator in general. The Vx – Vertex – in Leo also suggests that other’s share their resources with him (already happened with that college fund).

Jupiter in the 1st house is square Neptune in in Pisces in the 3rd house, so this boy came in with big dreams and has easy access to his personal unconscious, which is expansive.

Uranus in Taurus in the 4th house is conjunct the part of fortune, which suggests frequent and unexpected changes in his home life, which really is his pot of gold this time around. As an adult, his own home and home life will be unusual and unconventional.

He’s a builder of bridges with a solid understanding of paranormal concepts and the nature of consciousness. He’ll understand the synchronicity of the 7s and 11s. A little powerhouse!

 

 

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Behind the Scenes of Scary Movies

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

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The following story comes from Bump in the Night.

During the filming of some of the scariest movies of all time – The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, and The Crow – it’s not surprising that uncanny incidents occurred behind the scenes. The real-life horrors took place during the filming and after it was over. Take The Omen.

This classic horror films about the devil’s offspring might be the most cursed film of the genre. Before and during the filing there were, well, many omens! A sequence of peculiar accidents plagued the cast, crew, and even people loosely connected to the film. The strange occurrences began with a series of unlikely lightning strikes.

Before filming began, the plane carrying novelist and screenwriter David Seltzer was struck by lightning. He was fortunate to survive. In another electrifying incident, a plane transporting the film’s star, Gregory Peck, was also struck by lightning. The pilot managed to land the plane safely and nobody was hurt. During filming in Rome, a bolt of lightning narrowly missed producer Harvey Bernhard.

Peck had anther close brush with death during the filming, when he cancelled a flight to Israel that crashed and killed everyone onboard. With all the strange happenings, it was a wonder Peck decided to continue on with the project. It’s also surprising that director Richard Donner didn’t walk away from The Omen when he was hit by a car and stayed at a hotel bombed by the IRA. I a separate vehicle-related incident, a number of crew members were nearly killed on the first day of shooting in a head-on car crash.

As another omen, the poster for the movie depicted the silhouette of a boy with a wolf-like shadow. The movie title was above the image and below it were the words: REMEMBER… YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

 

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Door to Nowhere

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Trish and Rob

This photo was taken of the building next door to Catch 27, where we ate one night in St. Augustine. When I first spotted this door to nowhere, I was struck by the incongruity of the thing, the strangeness of a door suspended in midair. It looked as if the building had been raised for some reason – maybe due to flooding or renovations.

I snapped a photo, but during dinner, kept glancing back at it and wondered, Suppose that door, when you open it from the inside and step out, leads elsewhere?

The building and the restaurant were in old town St. Augustine, where the cobbled streets are narrow and lined with old buildings, tourist shops, museums, restaurants, all the usual tourist traps. But here, the trappings seem different somehow, perhaps because the city is the oldest in the U.S. and across the street from Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest fort in the country.

San Marcos was built by the Spanish between 1672 and 1695. It was intended as a stronghold  against invaders that approached the city through Matanzas Bay, is built of coquina rock, its walls six feet thick, its psychic history embedded in stone. Surrounding the plaza inside the walls are numerous rooms that were used as storage area for food and weapons, a chapel, lodging for soldiers. All the rooms are pretty depressing, small and cramped, with appropriate exhibits that illustrate some facet of its history.

In the chapel, I was intrigued by the pews ( a modern addition), a large holder for candles, an kind of altar of flames, candles lit for the dead, and poster boards that detailed the history. I wondered if that door to nowhere might be a portal to the city’s past.

Let’s say it is and there’s some way to move into it and pass through it to, well, elsewhere. But suppose, just suppose, the way through this portal involves tensegrity, a series of magical passes – positions and movements of body and breath –  dreamed by men and women seers who had lived in ancient Mexico. They were taught to Carlos Castaneda and his band of female acolytes by don Juan Matus, his mentor, a Yaqui Indian from Yuma, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico.

And suppose these movements are executed by a young woman who does them in the chapel, witnessed by several dozen tourists? As she does them, the texture of the wall shifts and eddies, like a a wave, and she passes through it? At this point I’m thinking there may be an idea somewhere in here for a novel

But the big question is: if this door is a portal, where does it lead?

And now, more than two months after that trip, the logline for this door to nowhere is:

The island home of a reluctant psychic is invaded by people with terrifying powers from centuries in the future. She discovers that she is the descendant of their brilliant, misguided leader,   fleeing a world devastated by climate change, and that he and his team will seize the island unless she can defeat them – by joining him.

 

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New Moon in Leo

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Trish and Rob

THE AUGUST FORECASTS ARE UP.

The new moon in Leo on July 31 occurs at 11:12 PM EDT, less than an hour before Mercury turns direct in Cancer. After this month’s two eclipses and a Mercury retro, this new moon should be a relief.

It forms a beautiful angle to Jupiter in Sagittarius and although Jupiter is retrograde, some of its expansive energy should affect all of us in a positive way. Compared to the rest of of July, this new moon should bring joy. I also like Venus’s position, conjunct within four degrees of the new moon. Venus softens things and rules romance, beauty, $, women, female sibling, art.

Also, the rising in this chart is fire sign Aries and it forms a great angle to Mars at 19 degrees Leo. I have a certain fondness for the number 22, the degree of this rising, because I associate it with Hexagram 22 in the I Ching – Grace.

Saturn and Pluto up there in the 10th house at 15 degrees and 21 degrees Capricorn forms an angle to Mars called a quincunx – 150 degrees. It usually indicates that an adjustment may be necessary. Saturn represents government and structure, Pluto represents profound transformation, and Mars symbolizes our forward momentum, our physicality, ambition. It’s also the god of war, so there may be news of some sort about rising international tensions.

For a look at how this new moon impacts your chart, check out the forecasts for July -‘ and August,  in the masthead. One thing is certain: fire signs are going to enjoy themselves!

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Democracy: Is it okay to…

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Trish and Rob

I would like to believe there’s something in trump’s natal chart and the transits to it that portends the end off his administration before the 2020 election. I would like to see some massive explosion to his chart, something that forever removes it – and him – from our collective awareness. I’ve looked for these indicators before and have pinpointed  dates and events that approached and passed without much impact to his chart or to him. He really is the teflon guy. Regardless off what outrageous thing he says or does, his  approval rating remains slightly above 40 percent.

This figure comes from 538, whose statistics I trust most of the time.  Today, July 28, they have his approval rating at 42.5 percent, an average based on various polls you can see at their website. As of 2018, the population of the U.S. was 327.2 million. That means that more than 140 million people in this country approve of trump. Granted, not all of them vote, but honestly, if that number is anywhere near right, what country do I live in?

Do these 140 million people think it’s okay for children to be held at the border in cages, without proper food, without a toothbrush or soap, some of them so young they have other children taking care of them? Do these people believe it’s fine to have a liar, racist and mysoginist for president? This man’s administration has raised the deficit to 3 TRILLION (so much for Republican fiscal conservatism), has trashed health care, denies that climate change is real, appointed every swamp monster to his cabinet, many of whom have been removed due to ethical violations and outright crimes, and has created chaos in world markets.

These 140 million plus Americans have been conned by the biggest con man of all times.

I used to think trump was just stupid. I still think that, but even stupid people have strengths and his are TV and Twitter. The Apprentice made You’re fired a kind of meme. His Twitter rants are daily news. He has his enablers, too, Mitch McConnell, who just blocked two bills in the senate concerning election security, and most of the Republicans in the senate. And of course he has his behind-the-scenes enablers – Putin, the Saudis.

I think what we’re seeing is the old paradigm rearing up and declaring that it won’t go out with a whimper, that white men must always rule, that women and their bodies must be commandeered by these white man, and that they’re jamming the courts at ever level with their brethren to make sure they’ve got the three branches of government in their pockets.

Democracy is headed toward an Apocalypse, a type of government that has horrifying parallels to Fascism, but which may be some new type of nightmare that surpasses anything adolf  envisioned. And the Democrats are dragging their collective feet about impeachment because they know the senate won’t convict.

But so what? At least get the process going so we can see everything that’s been hidden.

If internment camps like what we now have at the borders are in the future for the more than 157 million who disapprove of trump, then we deserve to know that so that we can make alternate plans for our own futures. In fact, many of us are already making those plans. What are yours?

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Serial Baldies

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Trish and Rob

A fringe issue? Thanks to Alejandro Rojas for posting this photo. Notice that besides the three seemingly identical (from behind) men with white fringes and tan heads, there are two more baldies in front of them. One has a dark fringe, the other appears to have a shaved head. 

Breaking the pattern, the driver has hair and a beard, which is visible in the mirror in front of him. We can only wonder about the person who took the pic.

These kind of serial coincidences are baffling. We featured another one a couple of years ago that showed four or five people, men and women, all wearing white t-shirts with black horizontal stripes. As for a meaning, I would say it’s about awareness of the unusual. How many would sit on the bus in the back and not even notice. Fortunately, the photographer tuned into the pattern. 

Random or something more?

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When Mercury retro ends, it’s time to impeach!

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Trish and Rob

How has Mercury retro treated YOU? Let us know.

Since this retro also included a challenging lunar eclipse in Capricorn, I’m curious to hear how the retro has been for other people. We took a car trip  to Georgia to see my sister and her family and the actual car trip was fine – no breakdowns, no flats, no engines blowing up. BUT…

On a global scale, we had the Mueller hearing about his 22-month report. What I took away from it was that the Russian hacking of the 2016 election is ongoing. That trump wasn’t exonerated of anything, that Mueller couldn’t charge him with anything because DOJ policy says you can’t indict a sitting president. In other words, a sitting prez can do virtually anything and get away with it – until he’s out of office, then he can be indicted.

Imagine the uproar if this was Obama.

The senate doesn’t give a damn about election security. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell just blocked two election security bills from a vote. Why? Because he knows the russians helped get trump elected? Because the repubs would love another boost from them in 2020?

Pelosi still hasn’t budged on impeachment. Foolish. If trump is never held accountable for anything, he’ll keep on breaking laws, obstructing justice, putting kids in cages at the border, shout that more caravans of illegal immigrants are coming, and generally go bonkers on twitter.

The dems are weak, spineless, and no longer know who or what they stand for. The repubs have no moral compass. trump marches on, eroding democracy and herding the country closer and closer to Fascism.

My hope is that something in this grim picture will change, however slightly, once Mercury turns direct. Like:  more than half of dems in the house sign on for impeachment even if dies in the senate. Forget political expediency. It’s time to do what’s right. START AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.

 

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The Compressor

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

A few months after Irma hit us in 2017, our AC died. You really can’t live in South Florida without air conditioning during the hot months, so we called our AC company. The news wasn’t good – the unit needed to be replaced. Less than a year later, the new AC stopped working.

The technician – Dustin – who came by the house took the whole thing apart and announced we needed a new compressor. Since the unit was still new, he suggested we email Trane to find out if we could get a partial refund. I emailed them and they did refund about a third of the cost. Four months later, the AC unit started making weird sounds, the same thing it had done when the compressor had gone out. Rob called and the tech said he had two other stops to make, but would be by tonight. Free of charge. The technician was Dustin. It was also ten o’clock at night.

“Wow,” I said as he went to work. “Talk about dedicated. I hope you’re getting double time for this. What were your other calls tonight?”

“One was a clogged line, like what you guys have. The other was a compressor I have to put in tomorrow. This woman just lost her husband this morning. And then the compressor on her AC goes a few hours later. I’m thinking, Lady, go buy a Lottery ticket because your luck’s got to change.”

Rob and I looked at each other, recognizing the synchronicity. We’ve written about clocks stopping when a loved one dies, about car batteries failing before hearing about a death, about certain books falling at someone’s feet shortly before or after a loved one dies. We’ve heard about animal messengers – birds, butterflies, white feathers – connected to the passing of a loved one. But an AC compressor is a first.

Just look at the symbolism. From a website  on what a compressor does: “

“In simple terms, an A/C Compressor is a pump. The compressor is the ‘heart’ of the air conditioning system, moving refrigerant through the system. … Refrigerant is ‘sucked’ into the compressor, compressed, and ‘discharged’ through the outlet, headed for the condenser.”

In other words, the compressor is the heart and breath of an AC unit, the same processes that help keep us alive.

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Sun Salute

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

Here’s a good morning from the inner world. A salute to the sun and maybe a message to look within for answers.

Skeptics call these marvels of nature that resemble something familiar as pareidolia, defined as a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.

They apparently are concerned that we might read too much into such an image and delude ourselves. But for me finding symbolism in nature and making personal interpretations , and possibly receiving guidance, is preferable to ignoring them as meaningless.  Your thoughts?

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EXPEDITION UNKNOWN goes to the Bermuda Triangle

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Trish and Rob

 

 

The image above shows a thunderstorm sweeping across the Atlantic toward Key Biscayne and the lighthouse where I was perched high above the water. I was there to be interviewed by Josh Gates of the Discovery Channel’s Expedition Unknown. The show was working on an episode about the Bermuda Triangle. Josh picked me (Rob) to open up the show with him from atop the lighthouse after a referral from Dave Shrader of Beyond the Darkness Radio.

The interview was pretty basic. Since I’d co-authored two Bermuda Triangle-related books,  he started out by asking me to define the B.T.—where it is and what it is. We talked some about the origins going back to 1492 and Colombus’s first voyage to the New World.  We also talked about the theories and I told him that I had been somewhat skeptical about the BT until I started researching stories and hearing some first-hand encounters, such as the ones by my co-author Bruce Gernon.

We did take after take with slightly different wordings or postures. At times, it was more like acting than being interviewed. But it was a lot of fun.

Josh’s last question to me prompted a startling synchronicity. He asked  if I’d ever had a Bermuda Triangle experience myself. In fact, I had. It was on a flight from Andros Island in the Bahamas to West Palm Beach with Trish and Bruce and his wife, Lynn. The flight had followed interviews Bruce and I had done for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters. We took off, flew out over the Tongue of the Ocean, the 6,500-foot trench on the west side of the island, after circling past the U.S. Navy base on the island, known as AUTEC, Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Center.

The GPS screen showed a string of Bahama Islands spreading out to the west toward Florida. Abruptly, the navigation system shut down. No more islands, no more GPS. Just as I said the system shut down, a booming peal of thunder startled us. Josh was amazed and quickly check with the sound guy to make sure he recorded the boom and he asked the two cameramen if they had turned and filmed the approaching storm.

I continued the story, explaining that fortunately Bruce is a very experienced pilot and was able to find the way back to Florida without getting confused or lost. Curiously, as we passed over the mainland, the GPS screen popped back up. The next day, Bruce had the system checked and it was found to be in perfect order.

If you’ve ever seen an episode of Expedition Unknown, you probably know that Josh Gates likes to push it to the edge and he has found himself in some dangerous and precarious situations. So it wasn’t surprising when he continued the interview, repeating segments of it over and over—seeking the perfect combination of picture and sound—as the storm moved our way. By the end, the storm hit us as lightning flashed and thunder rumbled and we were still doing takes literally shouting above the storm. That’s just the way he likes it! It was fun, a little scary, and we were both very wet as we wrapped.

After the shoot was over, I told Robert Vanover, the chief producer, about the timing of the initial blast of thunder, and he responded: “Synchronicity!”

Josh Gates: Expedition Unknown

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