trump & Houdini

 

I love Dystopian fiction. But I don’t like living in Dystopia, and that’s what the four years of trump were. A Dystopian U.S. We had an orange man so vain about his silly hair, so narcissistic, that from 2016 to 2020, it was all about… well, trump.

Sex scandals, alleged pee tapes, injecting bleach as a cure for Covid, separating migrant children from their parents and putting them in what amounted to concentration camps, from building walls to barring Muslims from the U.S, to being impeached twice, to inciting an insurrection…the list is long. And any single thing on this list would have put any other politician in office. But trump, it seems, has never been held accountable for anything he has done.

His technique is slick but it’s an old playbook that authoritarian governments and dictators on both the right and left have used for decades. Tell big lies and tell them often enough so that people begin to believe the lies are truth. Divide people by pitting them against each other, Sow distrust in government, in the media, in established institutions. Create conspiracies. If you’re attacked, be merciless in your counteract (his Twitter mouthpiece). If your followers are loyal, reward them by endorsing them for political office. Play to your base, whatever it is. Convince them that only you can save them.
But trump has been out of office for nearly a year now and the January 6 investigation is closing in on his inner circle, issuing subpoenas for people and documents that he’s trying to block legally. It seems he’s trying to run out the clock until after the elections of 2022 and 2024.

A recent article on CNN online pretty much said it all in the last paragraph:

“Altogether, the picture suggests that the realities of government are catching up to one of the most creative escape artists ever seen in American politics. The truth is out there. It’s coming soon.”

Right now, trump could be that picture of Houdini.. Can I get out of this? Huh? Can I? Yeah, of course I can, I’ve done it before… Houdini, of course, escaped. But this time, maybe just maybe, trump won’t slip away and will be held accountable, finally, for something.

 

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The Mystical Underground: Meredyth Willits: My Past Life As A Whale

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Meredyth Willits: My Past Life As A Whale”:

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Meredyth Willits is in a constant search for the why’s of humanity to help move people forward in life. She wants to help change the world, one person at a time, one podcast at a time.

Curious from birth, she has spent her life asking “why,” and is always searching for the layers to an issue for change and growth.
She has made it her life’s work to help people from what she has experienced in life, her interactions with clients, and her strong connection with spirit.

Always two sentences away from telling you to have faith and learn the lesson, so you can move forward and find true happiness.

Meredyth is a wife and mother to four children ages 9-24. She is a psychic medium and life coach who works with CEOs, entrepreneurs, moms, and twenty-somethings, all working to get happy and live their best life once and for all!

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Finding Your Calling

Gregg Levoy, the author of CALLINGS, will be our guest in early December on The Mystical Underground podcast. We’re looking forward to meeting him. His book is beautifully written. Here’s a couple paragraphs from it.

Our lives are measured out in coffee-spoons, wrote T.S. Eliot; not in the grand sweeps, but in the small gestures. The great breakthroughs in our lives generally happen only as a result of the accumulation of innumerable small steps and minor achievements. We’re called to reach out to someone, to pick up an odd book on the library shelf, to sign up for a class even though we’re convinced we don’t have the time or money, to go to our desks each day, to turn left instead of right. These are the fire-drills for our bigger calls.

“I don’t ask for the full ringing of the bell,” wrote the poet Wallace Stevens. “I don’t ask for a clap of thunder that would rend the veil in the temple. A scrawny cry will do, from far off there among the willows and the cattails, from far off there among the galaxies.”

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Episode 3 of Staff of Kings

Stay tuned! November 21…

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The Mystical Underground: TMU Time Machine: Kathy Herman: Cassadaga I

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “TMU Time Machine: Katy Herman: Cassadaga I”:

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Kathy Herman about the history of Cassadaga, FL, the setting for the TMU Halloween Special and Rob’s short story, “The Devil’s Chair,” from their short story collection “The Outliers.”

*MacGregor, Rob; MacGregor, Trish. The Outliers. Crossroad Press.

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Ghostwriters

We’ve recently teamed up with writers Glenn Meganck and Jerome Preisler on a ghostwriting venture. All of us have done ghostwriting over the years. We enjoy it. It’s something that pushes you to expand what you write about, to step outside your comfort zone, and deliver a product that pleases the person who hired you. Agents and editors aren’t in this picture. Delays are those you or your client trigger and not the result of a publishing schedule.

https://ghostwritingyourbook.com/

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New Moon in Scorpio

New moons typically usher in new opportunities according to their sign and house placement in your birth chart. The new moon in Scorpio on November 4 may hold some surprises, thanks to an exact opposition from Uranus, the planet that usually shakes things up. Uranus, for instance, rules evens like earthquakes, and that may be what things feel like on or around this new moon.

Along with new opportunities, there may be news that comes out of the blue and sweeps something out of your life. You may decide, for instance, to make changes in your professional life, to move, or someone may move into or out of your home. Or, a colleague may suddenly quit and you have to assume additional responsibilities.Or you may decide against taking a trip overseas because of a rise in Covid cases.

Saturn makes a wide but hard aspect to both the new moon and Uranus, which indicates an obstacle of some kind. Whatever it is, work with it or around it but don’t let it discourage you.

To find out how this new moon impacts your sign, click here.

 

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An Orange Synchro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not all synchronicities are biggies. Some occur just to remind us we’re in the flow.

I walked out into the kitchen to tell Rob about an article I’d just read and saw the cut fruit he was preparing for a salad. Then I walked outside to get the mail and found this, the cover of Life Extension Magazine:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An image nearly identical to what’s on the cutting board.

The message seems obvious: Get more Vitamin C!

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The Mystical Underground: Halloween Special: The Devil’s Chair

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Halloween Special: The Devil’s Chair”:

Join Rob for a special Halloween episode as he reads from Trish and Rob’s short story collection “The Outliers”…

“The Devil’s Chair is a story based on an urban legend about a brick chair that faces two gravestones in a cemetery in central Florida, north of Orlando. The cemetery is located outside the spiritualist community of Cassadaga, which offers weekly ghost tours of the town. In this story, the spookiness is enhanced when a reporter looking for a Halloween story visits the cemetery at midnight as he investigates the urban legend.”

*MacGregor, Rob; MacGregor, Trish. The Outliers. Crossroad Press.

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Degree of Your Natal Sun

At some point in my love affair with astrology, I read that the degree of your natal sun usually corresponds to a pivotal event in your life that helped to shape who you are. Possibilities include: parental divorce, a significant move, the birth of a sibling, the death of a loved one. In other words, a significant, PIVOTAL event, something that influenced the course of your life.

When I first learned this, I tested it on the charts of people I knew well, starting with my own chart and that of my family. My Gemini sun is 16 degrees and 12 minutes. Five months after my 16th birthday, my parents left Venezuela, where I’d been born and raised, and moved to Florida. The significance of that move once prompted my dad to remark that since that move, I was reluctant to call any place home. And he was right.

Rob’s sun is 25 degrees and 27 minutes of Taurus. His corresponding age was around 25 – or 1973. He received a pardon from Gerald Ford for dodging the draft and refusing to go to Vietnam, for which he was convicted in 1972 and sentenced to alternative service.

Our daughter’s Virgo sun is 8 degrees and 32 minutes. Around that age – third grade – I had her I.Q. tested and she was admitted into a gifted program, which changed the course of her public school education.

My dad had a 26 degree 44 minutes Libra sun. He was around 27 when he met my mother on a blind date.

Recently, I did Bernie Beitman’s chart. He’s the psychiatrist who started the Coincidence Project, part of his serious study of synchronicity. His Pisces sun is at 8 degrees 30 minutes. So I asked him what pivotal event had occurred between the age of eight and a half and nine. Here’s his response:

That is when I lost my dog and I got lost and found him. That set the stage for my interest in human GPS, a subset of coincidences.

It’s easy to find out the degree of your natal sun. Cafe Astrology offers free astrology charts here.

Just enter your name, place and date of birth. If you don’t know the time, use noon. The sun travels a degree a day, so you’ll be able to see the degree but the minutes may not be correct. Take note of the sun’s degree, think of it as a year in your life. What pivotal event occurred for you that year? If you find something, please let me know.

 

 

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