The lunar eclipse in Taurus on Saturday, October 28, occurs at 4:24 EDT. Jupiter is widely conjunct and Mercury, Mars and the sun are opposed.
These eclipses are about internal events – emotions, intuitions. This one is going to emotionally intense and may involve miscommunication on a par with a Mercury retrograde.
To find out how it may impact your sign, check here.
Ghostwriter In Office. Creative Ghost Writer Using Computer
About a month or two before Covid started in March 2020, Rob & I signed up for Reedsy, a British online ghostwriting site. To date I’ve worked on nearly 2 dozen different projects. It’s interesting, the people I’ve met are varied, and their books span the non-fiction and fiction spectrum.
What’s great thing about Reedsy is that when a person comes to you with an idea, chapters, or a complete manuscript, you offer your services at the price you think is fair. This is where it gets tricky. If the person hasn’t written anything except an idea for, say, a novel, then as the ghostwriter I will write a novel from scratch. That means 60,000 to 75,000 words. It means a lot of time, usually four to six months, where that novel becomes my full-time job.
So the bottom line questions are usually, What is my time worth? Am I charging too little or too much? Rob & I often discuss the prices we’re charging and since we started three years ago, our prices have risen. So this evening we were talking about prices again – are we charging too much? Too little? – and a few minutes later, I get a linkin notification from a man who opens with:
I recently helped a ghostwriter earn over 117k in 6 months so looking at your profile I thought there might be a fit. Perhaps we could have a chat?
Then there was a postscript where he asked if I was ever hesitant about asking for more money – the very thing Rob and I were discussing.
I laughed. Talk about immediate synchronicity! $117,000 in six months? That averages out to more than $19,000 a month from ghostwriting. That’s quite a tidy sum!
From Rob: I’m working on a novel set during World War II that involves the theft of priceless paintings and sculptures both in the U.S. and Europe. I’d just finished a scene in which one of the characters had obtained fake IDs and was walking with a fake limp for a particular reason that’s too lengthy to explain here.
I took a break, turned on the news and there was story comparing some of the actions of Trump supporters including elected officials with the actions of the Watergate plumbers from 1970. The name plumbers came about because the original task of this small group of Nixon supporters was to stop leaks about how the American public was lied to about the Vietnam War. Specifically, the plumbers initially targeted Daniel Elsberg, a State Department official, by breaking into his psychiatrist’s office looking for evidence that Elsberg might be crazy.
What caught my attention was that Gordon Liddy, in preparing for the break in, had obtained fake IDs and, for some reason, he walked with a fake limp. Of course, seeing that report so close in both time and similarity to what I had just written sent the synchronicity bell ringing loudly in my head. Fake IDs, fake limp in my world; fake IDs, fake limp in the news world coming together.
As always, the question of what do with such meaningful coincidences tells us it’s a subjective matter. It’s also a very personal matter in that undoubtedly no one else experienced that particular synchronicity. So it was a personal, little mind-blowing experience, which for me signals I’m on the right path with the story, but also importantly that there’s a bigger picture of reality that exists outside of our everyday world of cause and effect. And for a moment, I got to come in to touch it.
Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
Here’s an odd political synchro. I learned about it this evening on MSNBC (Oct 24) but Chris Hayes didn’t call it a synchronicity or a coincidence.Yet, that’s exactly what it is.
Today in court – Fulton County? Elsewhere? I can’t keep track of Trump’s indictments ! – trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, testified against him. Also today, a Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, accepted a plea deal and cried during her apology to the people of Georgia for her apparent election denialism.
Sane day, 2 attorneys, one who is where Ellis is now and went to prison for it, and the other headed for who knows what – disbarment? Time in jail?
And both had been in trump’s orbit.
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If we were living in a novel, where would we be right now as a human collective?
In novel and movies, in any captivating story, the catalyst is the event, the point in time, where an event occurs that alters the life of the protagonist. It’s the harbinger of change.
The Catalyst is Beat 4 of the 15 beats that screenwriter Blake Snyder identifies in story telling in Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need. It can come as bad news, a divorce, getting fired. It may arrive in the form of seeing the spirit of your dad in the back seat of your car, a Near Death Experience, an alien encounter, a spiritual or creative epiphany. But all catalysts have the same thing in common: you’re kicked out of your status quo thinking and banished from your comfort box, the matrix where you’ve been living.
After Blake’s death, Jessica Brody wrote Save the Cat Writes a Novel, adapting Blake’s 15 beats to novels. In the book, she writes,“The Catalyst will crash land in your hero’s life and create so much destruction, your hero will have no choice but to do something different. Try something new. Go somewhere else.”
Catalysts often involve synchronicity.
Perhaps the catalyst in the story of American democracy was trump’s election to the presidency. He broke all the norms and, ultimately, nearly broke the spine of democracy. Take your pick. Issuing a ban on Muslims entering the country. How a shot of bleach would lick Covid. The J6 insurrection. Two impeachments, 91 indictments. Cozying up to dictators like Putin, Kim Jong Un, his bogus claims that the 2020 election was stolen, his pathological lying and narcissism.
In Beat 5, debate, our hero, Democracy, now knows Trump is running for the presidency again and is thinking, Holy shit! What next? Democracy watches a small group of extremists tear apart the Republican Party, which now follows the authoritarian playbook. They can’t break away from Trump. The debate beat will continue into the election of 2024.
In the Save the Cat books, the debate beat leads us into Part 2 of the story. And here, in Beat 6, the hero accepts the call to action. But he has to do this on his own, not because someone else tells him to. Then, with Beat 7, a new character ( or characters) is introduced who will help the hero learn the theme.
The theme here is that Democracy knows he’s is an experiment with a bill of rights, a constitution, separate branches of government, and that his entire persona has been turned upside down by trump, his supporters and co-conspirators. To make things right again, he must fight for his very existence. Perhaps the B characters are the prosecutors like Jack Smith and Connie Willis, and the judges and juries who will hear the cases against trump and the rest of them.
In Beat 8 – Fun & Games – we see Democracy in his new environment. And what’s that going to be?
Then we reach Beat 9, the Midpoint of the story. This culminates in either a false victory or a false defeat for the hero – Democracy!
In Beat 10 – Bad Guys Move In – maybe there’s another insurrection. Or the Republican Party suffers an irreversible meltdown. Or Trump is never charged with anything and really does earn the John Gotti nickname, Teflon Don. Does he then go on to win the election of 2024?
Or perhaps Beat 10 is where we are now, in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas atrocities in Israel. Men and women and kids beheaded, hundreds murdered at a music festival, thousands dead, terrorists perpetrating unspeakable cruelty, acts so heinous and inhumane that the rest of the world snaps to attention, appalled. How the hell can human beings do this to each other?
This beat and Beat 11, All Is Lost, melt together.Beat 11 is the lowest point of the novel. Death often occurs here.
Beat 12, Dark Night of the Soul. These moments occur right before our hero, Democracy, decides what to do.
Then the beats lead us into part 3.
My hope is that in Part 3, several things happen. Here in the U.S., I hope Democracy wins the election and trump ends up in prison. In this scenario, he has lost everything that once defined him in his own mind: the real estate, the alleged billions, Mar-a Lago, publicity, his megaphone. My hope is that what happened in Israel is a wake-up call for humanity and that we strive to create a kinder, more aware and interconnected world.
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Angela Willhoft is a spiritual medium, a conduit between two worlds. As an evidential medium, she serves the physical by giving hope that life continues after death.
In serving the spiritual realm, Angela aims to honor the life they lived and pass along messages of love and comfort to the bereaved.
She looks to provide hope and comfort to people questioning the possibility of life after death and healing for those who are suffering from grief.
Honoring her commitment to two worlds, she offers facts about the life and personality of the departed that can only be confirmed by her clients. Using intuitive guidance, mediumship, and astrology, Angela helps clients through decision-making and healing.
Every year, there are at least 4 eclipses and sometimes 5. The solar eclipse in Libra tomorrow, October 14 is the first since April 30, when there was a solar eclipse in Aries.
These eclipses are like double new moons, so that’s double the new opportunities that come your way. Mercury is conjunct within four degrees to the eclipse degree of 21 degrees and seven minutes Libra. So regardless of where Libra falls in your chart, it’s a good day for conversation of any kind, written or spoken. The South Node is also conjunct the eclipse degree, so this eclipse is about release of situations, relationships and people that no longer serve your best interest.
If you know your time of birth – and the date and place, of course – look up your free chart here., at Cafe Astrology. Locate the house where you have Libra and where the 21 degree ad 7 minutes eclipse would occur. Then poke around the site until you find the section on houses and what they mean. That house is where the new opportunities will surface.
Or you can listen to this month’s Star Power forecast or read it. My version is based on solar charts for each sign, where your individual sign is placed at the ascendant or rising sign. The houses are set up that way instead of by the time you were born. The most accurate way to determine the house in which Libra falls is to have your time of birth, so if you know that time, head over to Cafe Astrology.
The eclipse should be positive!
What are the odds on this one? 141 years after this message was left in the bottle, it happens to wash up in the town where the guy was born.
Every so often I run across these oddball stories and just shake at my head at the weirdness of it all. I wonder if a descendant of his found it…or his reincarnated self! Definitely a synchronicity – maybe trickster?
I often wonder if oddball synchros like this one happen to remind us that the universe really is a very mysterious place.
Preston Dennett is the most prolific author of books about UFOs and alien contact on planet Earth and maybe our galaxy and beyond. Who knows. Preston began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends, and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of at least 30 books and more than 100 articles on UFOs and the paranormal. His latest book is Humanoids and High Strangeness: Twenty True UFO Encounters.
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