The Blue Ridge Synchro

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Trish and Rob

 

Not long after we had author and UFO researcher Preston Dennett on our podcast, I asked Preston where he’d moved when he’d left L.A. Turns out he’d moved to Blue Ridge, Georgia, where my sister and her husband, Neal, have a weekend home. I told him we were going to be visiting them in a few weeks and suggested we get together for lunch. The synchronicity struck me as significant. Of all the places he might have moved, it just happened to be this rural town in Georgia where we were headed.

So on the Sunday of our visit, we met Preston at a local restaurant in downtown Blue Ridge. Surprisingly, Dolly Saffron was with him. She’s a lifelong abductee featured in Preston’s book Symmetry, and her story is fascinating. Dolly has an eidectic memory and recalls being abducted for the first time when she was 10 months old – being floated out of her crib. Since then, she has had numerous abductions and that included being taught how to fly a UFO craft.

Yes, it sounds out there. But when you hear Dolly talk about her experiences, she exudes such authenticity that it’s difficult to dismiss what she says. But I hope she’s wrong about what she foresees about the planet’s future.According to Dolly, the aliens – whom Whitley Strieber calls the Visitors – have left our galaxy because our planet is about to enter a period of dire chaos due to climate change.

People will get “crazier,” food shortages will become the norm, the rising oceans will obliterate coastal cities and the planet essentially will become uninhabitable. Dolly sees this beginning in about two years, when we will be forced into  survival mode, and continuing for  eight years. She and Preston have a greenhouse and are now starting to grow their own food. They are preparing to live off the grid. At the end of this period, the aliens will return, Dolly said, and take survivors to another galaxy. Earth will be uninhabitable.

When I related all this to my sister, who is on the fence about UFOs, her response was: “I don’t want to live out the rest of my life in survival mode.”

Neither do we.

I emailed Whitley about meeting Preston and Dolly and mentioned that I hoped her timing was wrong. He replied thast predictions about timing have been wrong and that the point isn’t about survivors being picked up, but about the evolution of souls.

Given all the chaos and violence in the world, the evolution of souls sounds like a welcome change

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The Mystical Underground: Rob MacGregor: TUPLAS (Redux)

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Rob MacGregor: TUPLAS (Redux)”:

Join Rob as he reads an excerpt from his fiction novel…TULPAS!

“Inception meets Westworld in an original SF novel about a parallel universe only a dream away.In Tibetan Buddhism, tulpas are human-like creatures created through deep meditation. In this compelling story, tulpas take over the sub-conscious world in a parallel universe—where they quickly become invincible. For Bruce Lang and Risa Ferraro, on this side of that dream world, the tulpa army is just a puzzling nightmare. But for their counterparts on the other side, Alex Brooks and Lydia Cabrera, the tulpa army—Dominion—is far too real. As the states of reality and dreams converge in an inevitable clash that may destroy all consciousness in both universes, the four must band together to save what is left of reality.”

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Rights? Freedoms?

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Trish and Rob

 

Stating the obvious, our rights and freedoms are being eroded. First, it was the overturn of Roe by the supreme court. This isn’t about protecting the unborn. It never was. After all, once you’re born in this country, you’re guaranteed citizenship but oops, not much else else. No guaranteed health care or child care. No guaranteed parental leave for parents. You’re basically on your own. And oh, once you begin your education, you may experience a school shooting because the 2nd amendment is apparently sacrosanct in this country.
Abortion always has been about controlling women – and is now being taken to extremes.

From CNBC on April 27, 2023:

The Supreme Court last week upheld Food and Drug Administration regulations that permit easy access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

A legal battle over the medication and its FDA rules is still playing out in a federal appeals court.

Despite the decision, mifepristone will remain largely unavailable in 13 states that banned abortion since the federal right to abortion established in the case Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer by the Supreme Court.

Fourteen other states have laws that restrict how mifepristone is used or dispensed.

How would men react if their access to Viagra or condoms was restricted or banned by the government?

What gives the government the right to interfere with a woman’s health care? With the decisions a woman makes about her own body?

This ban goes right along with the banning of books, the suppression of voting rights, the targeting of the LBGTQ+ community. Any time one of your “inalienable” rights is banned, take a look at republicans. This is their agenda- it’s called Fascism.

From CBS News on the banning of books:

“During the 2021-2022 school year, more than 1,600 books were banned from school libraries. The bans affected 138 school districts in 32 states, according to a report from PEN America, an organization dedicated to protecting free expression in literature. “

And every year, the number of bans increase. Texas and Florida now lead the nation in book bans. Ron DeSantis, the The Florida governor – the same guy who is trying to take on Mickey Mouse because Disney came out in favor of the LBGTQ+ community- seems to find particular perverse delight in telling students what they can and can’t read. No, No, Charlotte’s Web might corrupt and poison a young mind. And oh my God, Harry Potter is about wizards and magic. Ban it, ban it. 

“Many of the new restrictions come from a law passed last year that requires trained media specialists to evaluate each school book to ensure it is age-appropriate and free of “pornographic” content. The law also requires schools to keep a searchable online database of the books in their libraries and classrooms.

“Proposed legislation goes further. In March, the Florida House passed a bill that could require schools to remove a book promptly based on a single complaint from a parent or county resident that the book depicted sexual conduct. Under the proposed bill, the book would remain unavailable until the complaint was resolved.”

Take a look at some of the banned titles.

DeSantis also has revamped black history. Can’t have anything in the curriculum, folks, that might make white kids and their parents feel guilty about….well, take your pick. Slavery, the right to vote, the killing of George Floyd.… You get the idea here. Best to keep people oblivious  about their true history. We can’t allow young people to know the truth.

So what can you, a single individual, do to counteract all this? To help turn things around so that we really are equal in every sense of the word?

Vote, of course. But what else?

Start with your expertise. Are you a good writer? Speaker? Organizer? Speak out. Protest.  Never remain silent. If you’re a teacher in a state like Florida, stand  up for your rights as an educator, for your students’ rights to be educated. Speak your truth. Join an organization with  voice that’s heard.  If we don’t stand up, folks, then we may find ourselves ruled by autocrats whose religion and beliefs become law, which is already happening. Fortunately, there are still blue states that are holdouts of freedom and democracy.

But for how long? With a supreme court that apparently can do what it wants, without any ethical restraints or eversights,  our days of inalienable rights may be on a countdown to the 2024  election.

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Synchronicity as a Kind of Alchemy

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Trish and Rob

This book by Richard Tarnas remains one of my favorites.

Synchronicity is a  kind of alchemy that transforms us or a decision we’re making in an essential way. The alchemy occurs because of what the synchronicity says to you, its impact on you. This was certainly the case for Carl Jung during a visit in the 1950s with Henry Fierz, a chemistry professor with whom he had become friends over the years. This story came from  the Tarnas book.

Friez had dropped by at five o’clock one afternoon to talk with Jung about a manuscript by a scientist who had recently died. Friez felt the manuscript should be published, but Jung, who had read it, thought otherwise.  Their debate about the manuscript apparently became somewhat heated and at one point, Jung glanced at his watch, as if he were about to dismiss Friez.  Then he seemed puzzled by the time and explained that his watch had just been returned from the repair shop, but it read five o’clock, the time that Friez had arrived.

Jung asked Friez the time; it was 5:35. As Richard Tarnas recounted the incident in Psyche and Cosmos, Jung apparently said, “So you have the right time, and I have the wrong time. Let us discuss the thing again.”

In the ensuing discussion, Friez convinced Jung the manuscript should be published. “Here, the synchronistic event is of interest not because of its intrinsic coincidental force,” Tarnas wrote,  “but because of the meaning Jung drew from it, essentially using it as a basis for challenging and redirecting his own conscious attitude.”

Many of us might not draw a correlation between a stopped watch and a discussion. But synchronicity, by definition, is the coming together of similar inner and outer events in a way that is meaningful to the individual and can’t be explained by cause and effect. This means that the outer world – and all of nature and our surroundings – can carry meaning just as the inner world does. Jung, who was accustomed to perceiving and thinking symbolically, recognized the synchronicity and changed his thinking accordingly.

Tarnas noted that Jung recognized all events as “sources of potential and spiritual significance.” It didn’t matter to him whether they originated from human consciousness or from the “larger matrix of the world” because he saw nature and a person’s surrounding environment as a living template of “potential synchronistic meaning that could illuminate the human sphere. He attended to sudden or unusual movements or appearances of animals, flocks of birds, the wind, storms, the sudden louder lapping of the lake outside his the window of his consulting room…as possible symbolic relevance for the parallel unfolding of interior psychological realities.”

In other words, Jung used everything in his environment as potential signs and symbols. It seems that once you recognize coincidence as meaningful, once you’re in the flow of it, the inner self and the larger outer matrix chatter constantly to each other. We only have to listen.

I’m trying to do that more consistently!

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Do Dogs Grieve?

Posted on May 2, 2023 by Trish and Rob

On February 12, our dog Nika had to be put down. Initially, I think our Golden Retriever, Nigel, believed she’d gone back to Megan’s like she sometimes did before Covid. When we picked up Megan for our recent trip to Georgia, Nigel leaped out of the car as soon as we pulled into her driveway. He hurried up to the door, tail whipping back and forth, and I think he expected to see Nika. But as soon as he entered the house, he paused and looked around,

No Nika.

He made his way from room to room, sniffing, undoubtedly finding her scent everywhere. His tail still wagged, but not as quickly. By the time he got to the front room and still hadn’t found her, he returned to the front door and plopped down in front of it. He seemed dejected. My sense is that he intuited she wasn’t with us anymore but remained hopeful until that careful sniffing expedition of Megan’s house.

On the drive to Georgia, we stopped at a place where we usually stop to walk the dogs. Nigel bounded out of the car and strained at his leash as I walked him over to the grassy area. Nose to the ground, he sniffed everywhere and at one point stopped and looked up at me with those huge brown eyes and seemed to be asking, Where is she?

Sometimes at the dog park he he’ll see a black and white dog that resembles Nika and will stop obsessing about his ball to check out the dog. It’s eerily similar to what Nika used to do after our noble red Golden Noah, died. Nika would spot a red Golden and lope over to it tailing wagging, her hope so obvious I nearly wept.

We got Nigel as a pup, just two years before Noah died. Noah was the elder who adopted Nika when Megan and I brought her home as a pup from Big Dog Rescue Ranch. When Nigel arrived, Noah nurtured him. On weekends when Megan arrived with Nika, the reunion of these three amigos  was always joyful, the three of them racing around the dog park, the yard.

Megan’s painting of these three beautiful souls.

Yes, dogs grieve.

And the people who love them grieve as well.

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The Mystical Underground: Trish MacGregor: Star Power For May 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Trish MacGregor: Star Power For May 2023”:

Join Trish for the May 2023 astrological forecast!

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Jung on Hearing Voices

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Trish and Rob

Carl Jung treated patients who heard voices. One of the most interesting cases, which he talks about in his autobiography, was that of a schizophrenic older woman who heard voices “distributed throughout her entire body, and a voice in the middle of the thorax was ’God’s voice,’” Jung writes.

He told her that was the voice they should rely on, because this particular voice made sensible remarks and enabled him to manage this patient. One time the voice in the thorax, God’s voice, told the woman to allow Jung to test her on the Bible. So for the next seven years, once every two weeks, Jung assigned her a chapter in the Bible to read and then tested her on it. “In this way,” Jung wrote, “her attention was kept alert, so that she did not sink deeper into the disintegrating dream.” After six years, the result of Jung’s technique was that the voices that had once been everywhere throughout her body were now just on the left side. The right side was totally free of them. He concluded that she was cured, but only halfway.

Through his work with patients like this woman, he realized that paranoid ideas and hallucinations hold a kernel of meaning. “A personality, a life history, a pattern of hopes and desires lie behind the psychosis….At the bottom we discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill; rather, we encounter the substratum of our own natures.”

It would be interesting if psychiatrists or psychologists conducted a study of mediums in the spiritualist town of Cassadaga, Florida, where most of the residents hear voices, communicate with the dead, and constantly are honing their skills. In Cassadaga, this is considered normal. Business as usual.

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Bootsie

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Trish and Rob

This is Bootsie, a male cat who is unbearably sweet and friendly – and hungry. He stops by our house at least once a day for a bie to eat, some pets, some loving words. I don’t know who he belongs to, but he’s so comfortable around people that I’m sure he was once a pet. Or perhaps still is, but if that’s the case, his owners don’t deserve him. He’s out in the rain, in the heat, at night, and he’s thin.

Our cats have been outside with him during the day, but no squabbles break out. They just kind of sit around as if waiting for someone to make a move.

Recently, we went to Georgia to visit my sister and her family and I hired a woman to come in once a day and feed our cats and love on them, if she could find them. Roxane came over for  meet and greet before we left but she never saw our cats. I sent her pictures of Beo and Nala.

On the 3rd day of our trip, I was monitoring our indoor  security camera and saw a black cat hanging out in the living room. At first, I thought it was our black cat, Nala.

But she has a short tail and this cat’s tail was long. She doesn’t have white paws, but this cat does.  I realized it was Bootsie, who had somehow gotten into the house. I called Roxane, but didn’t reach her, so I called our neighbor Annette and asked her to go over to the house to check. She thought I was nuts, but was kind of enough to go over to the house. Sure enough, she found Bootsie on Nigel’s bed in our bedroom. She took him outside.

Roxane called me a while later. Her cell had died after she’d left our house that day. A black cat she thought was ours was on the front porch, meowing for food, to be let inside. She thought it was our cat and didn’t have any idea how Nala had gotten out but he followed her into the house so she fed him and left him in the house.

I posted his photo on the Next Door app and got several responses from neighbors who also feed him. No one seems to know who owns him. One neighbor suggested that I catch him and take him to the vet to see if he’s microchipped. Great suggestion except that he often shows up late at night. My suspicion is that Bootsie owner’s may have lived in the neighborhood and left him behind when they moved. The worst kind of pet owner.

I suspect Bootsie may join the MacGregor clan at some point. But first, that microchip. I’m hoping he shows up during the day, when the vet’s office is open, so I can at least find out if he has a microchip. And if he does, I can get the owner’s name and address. If there’s no microchip, then I’ll get him fixed and adopt him.

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Galileo, Jupiter & the Trickster

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Trish and Rob

    

 

In researching the impact of Jupiter in the various signs, I discovered that Galileo’s natal Jupiter was in Cancer. Ultimately, his natal Jupiter had his back.

In 1609, the intrepid Italian astronomer Galileo began a serious observation and study of the giant planet. In January 1610, he discovered the four largest moons that orbit Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

His discovery proved to be a critical curve ball for the geocentric scientific theories at the time that said all planets orbited Earth. It laid the foundation for the heliocentric model of the solar system – i.e., all planets orbit the sun. Ultimately, Galileo’s discovery also proved to be his nemesis. The Catholic Church contended that scripture was absolute about the sun moving around the Earth, that Earth was, in fact, the center of the universe. They deemed Galileo’s beliefs as heretical.

In 1616, Galileo was brought before the chief inquisitor and forbidden from holding or defending his beliefs. Seventeen years later, in 1633, he was brought before another chief inquisitor, Father Vincenzo Maculano de Firenzuola, and was tried for his belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

Galileo was 69 at the time, frail and in poor health. His arguments – the fact that he talked about this issue as “discussion” rather than belief” – didn’t convince anyone. On June 22, 1633, the church issued its verdict:

“We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world.”

His penalty was that his book, Dialogues of Galileo, would be prohibited, that he would go to prison, and that once a week for three years he had to recite the Seven Penitential Psalms. Galileo was forced to recant his own scientific discoveries as “cursed.” It caused him profound anguish but saved him from being burned at the stake.

He spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

The really appalling part of this story is that it took the Catholic Church 350 years to admit that Galileo was right. On Halloween 1992, the New York Times published an article about it.

“More than 350 years after the Roman Catholic Church condemned Galileo, Pope John Paul II is poised to rectify one of the Church’s most infamous wrongs — the persecution of the Italian astronomer and physicist for proving the Earth moves around the Sun.

“With a formal statement at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Saturday, Vatican officials said the Pope will formally close a 13-year investigation into the Church’s condemnation of Galileo in 1633. The condemnation, which forced the astronomer and physicist to recant his discoveries, led to Galileo’s house arrest for eight years before his death in 1642 at the age of 77.”

If this sort of thing had happened in the twenty-first century, every media outlet in the world would be there. Journalists would be tweeting their latest opinions on the inquisition. Foes and fans would be videotaping the whole thing on social media. Galileo would have a Facebook page. He would be a hero to some, a despicable traitor to others.

From an astrological point of view, the conflict in belief systems between a single individual with mass appeal and the tyrannical power of the Catholic Church at the time is seen in Galileo’s natal Jupiter. It’s in Cancer, which has a collective appeal. His Jupiter falls in the twelfth house – that area of a natal chart that represents, among other things, institutions like hospitals and prisons. This area of the chart also represents our deepest beliefs, those that often rise unbidden from some dark closet in our psyches and leave us in turmoil, scratching our heads and thinking, Huh?

Even though Galileo spent his last years in confinement, Jupiter really did have his back. His theories, his name, his story have persevered for more than 400 years. Without Google, who can name the man who was pope then? Or the name of the inquisitor? But most elementary school kids recognize the name Galileo. They may not have any idea why he’s famous, they just know that he is. There’s a trickster quality in that.

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Mercury Retro Alert!

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Trish and Rob

Every three months or so, Mercury – the planet that rules communication – turns retrograde. That means it appears to be moving backward relative to Earth. Every planet except for the sun and moon turn retrograde. But because Mercury rules communication, its retrograde impacts us in ways that are usually quite personal.

This one begins on April 21 at 4:35 AM EDT and 1:35 AM Pacific, and runs until May 14. It’s in Taurus. My recommendations  for navigating this period more smoothly are fairly simple:

Don’t submit anything new. Instead, follow the rule of the 3 Rs – review, reconsider, revise.

Communicate clearly and concisely. Take nothing for granted.

Don’t buy a new car or computer unless you  don’t mind returning it at some point. Mercury rules things with moving parts.

If you travel during a Mercury retro, your schedule is likely to be disrupted. But, it’s said that your destination during a Mercury retro is a place you’re likely to visit again. Mercury also rules travel.

Mercury rules contracts, too, so don’t sign any contract during this period.

It’s best not to have surgery during a retrograde. Even though Mars rules surgery, the Mercury retro element can mess things up. A friend, for instance, scheduled his dog for a surgery for  a torn ligament the day before Mercury turned retro. The next day – when the retro began – the vet called and said he’d operated on the wrong leg, so the surgery was free.

Since this one is in Taurus, note where Taurus appears in your natal chart. If you don’t have a copy of your chart, you can get one here. The house in which the retro appears is where the snafus are likely to occur.

The houses:

1st: SELF, PERSONALITY

2nd FINANCES, VALUES

3rd COMMUNICATION, SIBLINGS

4th: HOME & FAMILY

5th: CREATIVITY & FUN, CHILDREN, ROMANCE

6th: DAILY WORK

7th: BUSINESS & PERSONAL PARTNERSHIPS, MARRIAGE

8th: OTHER PEOPLE’S RESOURCES, THE PARANORMAL

9th: WORLDVIEW, SPIRITUALITY

10th: CAREER, PUBLIC FACE

11th: WISHES & DREAMS, NETWORKS

12th: PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS, WHAT’S HIDDEN

Happy navigating!

 

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