On the Road with Gypsy

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Trish and Rob
Travel often creates an atmosphere that’s fertile for synchronicity – and for sightings. This story comes from Gypsy, who recently drove from Louisiana to Delaware.
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Since leaving Louisiana, I’d been “asking” to see something, anything unusual. On the first day,at two different times, I saw a white object in the sky that disappeared within a minute or so. I remember thinking it was weird because I could see planes in the sky far away and they hadn’t disappeared when the sun shone on them in certain ways. What had initially caught my eye both times with these two things was the fact that, unlike the contrails and planes which I could tell were moving, these objects didn’t seem to move. Just one instant they were there, the next instant I couldn’t see them anywhere in the sky. I dismissed them as just flukes of the sunlight.
On the second day of my trip, the weather was bright and sunny, just like the day before. Not a cloud in the sky. I was on Interstate 40E around  Whytheville, Virginia, when out of nowhere a white ball appeared in the sky. I didn’t see it approach from any direction, didn’t see it moving across the sky like a plane would. It just appeared in the sky overhead,  low enough so I could see the dimensional shape of it – circular, pure white, the color of fresh snow. It wasn’t shiny, just a pure white.
The dimensional aspect was the most interesting. It seemed to be  covered in pyramid shapes. I’ve looked and looked for something online that might be similar, but the closest image I found was that of an origami ball. If you went from point to point on this image, in a circular line, connecting the points, so to speak, this is what the object looked like, except that it was solid white and there were no appendages extending in any direction other than those of the pyramid shaped things.
I was so taken aback with watching it, I weaved into the other lane of traffic. In the meantime, I had a sandwich in one hand, was holding onto the steering wheel with my other hand, and was trying to figure out how to take a photo of the object with my broken cell phone. When I say broken, I mean that the two halves of the phone are literally broken apart and have to be held together for the phone to work.  So I dropped my sandwich and reached down for my phone and was trying to open it without hitting another car or getting hit.
As I look up from grabbing my phone, the ball just disappears. It didn’t fade, didn’t speed away, or anything else. It just disappeared, evaporated.  I could still a plane on the far horizon and its contrails, but the white ball was just gone. I looked around and up through my sun roof, but never saw the object again.
The size of this thing was difficult to determine. It was certainly close enough and/or large enough that I could see these pyramid-shaped protrusions on it. But from my visual perspective it didn’t seem to be nearly as large as the other UFOs I’ve seen.
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Cop catches same speeder in two countries

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Trish and Rob

This one comes from a blog appropriately named confused.com. It’s a story that was originally in the New Zealand Herald.

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A former London traffic police officer has caught a man speeding in the UK, then after he moved to New Zealand caught the same man speeding again – two years later.

Andy Flitton is now with the New Zealand traffic police and said he had forgotten about the first speeding ticket until the man brought it up.

A speeding offense in two hemispheres may see the driver’s car insurance premiums rise. Mr. Flitton said: “He asked if I used live in London and operate the laser gun on the A5 in North London. When Fltton said yes, the man replied: “I thought it was you. You gave me my last speeding ticket there, the only two tickets I’ve ever gotten.”

The motorist had moved to New Zealand just two weeks before the latest speeding offense.”We must have some sort of connection,” Flitton said. “Both times he broke the law I was the one to give him a ticket.
“It just shows what a small world it really is.”
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Love the line, “We must have some sort of connection.” Yes, the guy speeds and Flitton gives him tickets halfway around the world. Sounds like the traveling trickster! What are the chances?

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Egypt, Global Events, and Synchros

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Trish and Rob
As the peaceful, grassroots revolution has unfolded in Egypt, we’ve been looking for synchronicities. Every global event seems to have its share. So today when we heard that Mubarak had fled Cairo and the VP had turned power over to the military, we rushed home to watch the news coverage.
During President Obama’s statement concerning the events in Egypt, he mentioned that Tahrir, the name of the square the protesters have occupied for the last 18 days, means freedom. Throughout the  media coverage, reporters have referred to it as Liberation Square. Either way, this synchro is certainly fitting.

Update: 21 years ago today, Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in South Africa. And we all know what unfolded after that!

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What’s REALLY Going On?

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 Labrador is a northerly region within the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the  largest and most northern geographical region on the Atlantic Ocean in Canada. It’s about the size of Colorado.

 According to this article, hundreds of dead seals have washed ashore since early December between Hopedale and Makkovick this winter. “Usually at this time of year, the seals are on sea ice south of Hpedale, but there’s very little ice there now,” says Ian Winters, a Nunatsiavut conservation officer.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is testing carcasses. The DFO received several reports of seals giving birth on the coast of Labrador in December – two to three months ahead of schedule for nomadic sea mammals. These early births are happening on land rather than on ice floes, which means the pups probably won’t survive.

Now let’s backtrack to the thousands of dead birds that fell out of the sky over Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. We now know they supposedly died of blunt force trauma, but here’s an addition piece of information. According to this article (be sure to play the video to see what’s mentioned here),  the national Weather Service radar in North Little Rock picked up a speck on the radar that showed up at about the same time the birds started falling.

The spot is estimated to be about 1,300 to 1,400 feet in the air. As Science and Operations Officer Chris Buonanno at the National Weather Service said, the speck is NOT precipitation. It doesn’t move like a cloud or rainstorm cloud. So: what is it?

A theory about what’s actually going on, comes from natural news.com, which speculates that a pole shift is already underway. Russia’s Ministry for Extraordinary Situations (MCHS) – and no, that’s not Wolf Blitzer’s CNN Situation Room! –  apparently issued a warning last week that the weakening in the planet’s magnetosphere “was allowing poisonous space clouds to enter deep into Earth’s atmosphere where it is coming into contact with birds.”  So if these dead space clouds are reaching into the lower atmosphere and killed the birds while in flight, what’s in these clouds?
Well, nothing good, that’s for sure. Hydrogen cyanide. We all know about cyanide from movies, right? It’s the pill the spies pop when they’re caught and as soon as they bite down on it, the poisonous gas kills them. It’s recognized as a chemical weapon. It’s used on the tips of harpoons to kill whales. Here’s what Wikipedia says about it:
A hydrogen cyanide concentration of 300 mg/m3 in air will kill a human within about 10 minutes. It is estimated that hydrogen cyanide at a concentration of 3500 ppm (about 3200 mg/m3) will kill a human in about 1 minute. The toxicity is caused by the cyanide ion, which halts cellular respiration by inhibiting an enzyme in mitochondria called cytochrome c oxidase.

So, the next question: is this the result of a weapons test or attack? Or are the poles actually shifting?
The geomagnetic reversals happen over thousands of years. But in between the flips, “the magnetic field can become quite weak and chaotic, causing turbulence  in the field, which can effectively cause weaker gaps in the magnetosphere. These magnetic gaps or weaknesses can allow outside influences that normally would not penetrate the magnetosphere to reach deep into that magnetosphere, theoretically all the way down to where birds fly at very low altitude.”
The media keeps marching out doctors and researchers who give perfectly plausible explanations for the deaths, but not for mass deaths. If the pole shift is underway, we wouldn’t be told about it until after the fact.
Years ago when I first read about the pole shift, I barely slept for days. Back then, I used to fret a lot about stuff that might happen – what if, oh my god, where would we go, what would we do, what would we eat…It’s that primitive part of the brain that borrows trouble and spins fantastic fictions.

Since then, I’ve realized that when I worry about what might happen, it robs my capacity for feeling joy about what is happening in the moment, this instant. Just the same, it behooves us to stay informed. Information is power. And with Google at our fingertips, our personal fetch expert for anything in the known universe that we can imagine, our personal detective and researcher, answers are rarely farther than a few keystrokes away. We just need to connect the dots.

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The Travel Groove

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Trish and Rob
Travel and synchronicity are two peas in a pod. Regardless of the method of travel, you’re removed from your normal routine, your senses are sharper, and the environment is ripe for  synchronicity. This travel synchro comes from Gypsy, during her recent car trip from Louisiana to Delaware.
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I managed to leave Louisiana without a single CD to listen to on my trip. I always keep my multi-CD track full of my faves. But my grandson and his little groupies had been using my car so much  I had taken all my CDs out of my car to keep them from being damaged, then forgot to grab them before I left.
So I get on the road – and have NO music. OK, so there was the radio, but I’m not into it, I like music of my own choosing. Then I arrive in Delaware and I’m lamenting to my daughter that I have to go out and pick up a some CDs before I leave so I’ll have music on my return trip. She says, “Oh, by the way, you have some mail here that just came.”
It was a large envelope from someone I haven’t heard from in over a year – and hadn’t expected to be hearing from at all. I’d never even discussed music with this person. But inside the envelope is a CD and a note from this woman saying she thought I might like the music!
It was just one of those moments, you know? I can’t tell you the last time anyone sent me a CD gift –  years!
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This kind of experience means you’re in the travel groove!
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Dolphin Art

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Trish and Rob

Take a close look at the painting above and use your imaginations. Maybe you can see a person in pink at left with outstretched arms, possibly giving signals. Imagine this person is standing at the edge of a pool. In the water, surfacing, painted in green, is a dolphin. Then look to the top of the page. There’s a large dolphin leaping out of the water.

Okay, now look below. The painting was actually made by a dolphin as our daughter Megan held the paper.  It was one of the last training project with the dolphins during her month-long internship at Dolphin’s Plus in Key Largo. The dolphin’s name is Elvis.

Is it a synchronicity, just imagination, or dolphin’s mysterious mental powers? I’m not sure I could paint this well while staying afloat in a pool with a paint brush in my mouth.

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The 13th Sign, Part 2

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Trish and Rob

 Okay, so who is this figure Ophiuchus?

 Well, it’s the only astrological sign based on a real person – Asclepius. To the ancient Greeks in 27 BC, he was regarded as a healer, and in the Roman pantheon, he was a son of Apollo. He supposedly learned the secrets of preventing death when he observed one serpent bringing another healing herbs. He raised the dead using this herb. In order to prevent the entire human race from becoming immortal under his care, Zeus supposedly killed him with a bolt of lightning, then later suffered a pang of conscience and placed his image in the heavens to honor his good works.

Ophiuchus is usually depicted as grasping a snake – thus his name as Serpent Bearer – and has one foot resting firmly against Scorpius (the scorpion).  In honor of Asclepius, snakes were often used in healing rituals and non-venomous snakes were allowed to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept. Cults grew up around Asclepius and pilgrims supposedly flocked to his healing temples from 300 BC onward. Ritual purification would be followed by offerings or sacrifices to the god, and by spending the night in the holiest part of the sanctuary so that dreams would occur. Any dreams or visions were reported to a priest who would prescribe the appropriate therapy by interpreting what the dreams meant.

Just from the mythology, we can glimpse some of the components of the archetype: healer, alternative medicine, the power of groups (pilgrims flocking to the temples), magic (raising the dead), dream interpretation, cult mentality, violence and violent deaths, sudden unexpected events (thunderbolts), resisting and questioning authority, pushing against the status quo, a greater independence from authoritarian rule (sounds like what’s going on in Egypt) and greater dependence on the self and the local community. 
Other components of this archetype include what author and physician Dean Radin calls “the global mind.”  We posted about Princeton’s Global Consciousness Project, and it’s real time color coded “dot” that  shows the data analysis of these random number generators, so that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can see changes in the global mind as they occur.

Magnetic fluctuation doesn’t just affect wildlife. It impacts human beings, too. And it may be creating a sensitivity in certain types of individuals that is part of this emerging paradigm. Planetary empaths are individuals who seem to be so intimately connected to fluctuations in the earth that they experience physical symptoms for days and sometimes weeks before a natural disaster occurs. Their “symptoms” are astonishingly similar and often coincide with the change in colors in the GCP Dot.

Then there’s the hoopla surrounding 2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar. This idea started with Jose Arguelles in The Mayan Factor. That calendar ends on  December 21, 2012. But the date simply  marks the end of a 26,000 year astrological cycle. As the date nears, the doomsayers are out in full force, predicting the end times – the end of the world through massive earth changes that might include a pole shift, and the deaths of millions. When you Google December 21, 2012, more than 7 million links come up. These websites and blogs cover the spectrum of speculation – from the ludicrous to the more sobering assessment of science to urban survivalists eager to sell you equipment and freeze-dried food to get you through this global Armageddon.
While the end of the world scenario is fodder for dramatic entertainment in movies, television and novels, a more likely outcome to all this is a paradigm shift, a shift in mass consciousness that  the rediscovery of Ophiuchus presages. 
That said, there are troubling facts emerging that suggest this paradigm shift may occur as a result of global warming, an increase in natural disasters, a widening disparity between rich and poor, increased political and religious strife worldwide. We’ve covered some of the facts in other posts – about the massive deaths of birds and other wildlife, for instance. Here are some additional facts:
In 2010, natural disasters killed more than a quarter of a million people and displaced millions. According to Swiss Re, the largest reinsurer in the world, the financial losses from these natural disasters exceeded  $222 billion.
Greenland’s ice sheet melted at a record rate in 2010.
2010 and 2005 tie for the warmest years on record. 
The last pole shift occurred nearly 800,000 years ago. Some scientists believe we’re overdue. Others believe a pole shift is already underway.

So, this rediscovery of Ophiuchus may be a warning, may be prompting us to really examine our collective beliefs and desires. What do we want not only for ourselves and our loved ones, but for the planet?

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The 13th Sign, Part 1

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Trish and Rob

On January 10, the Minneapolis Star Tribune carried an article about a 13th zodiac sign. The story apparently zipped around cyberspace at the speed of light and was picked up by CNN, ABC, and NBC. Network coverage on this topic struck me as weird: since when do they cover astrology?
I suspect it was covered because  an astronomer – not an astrologer – made the announcement about the 13th zodiac sign and also presented new dates for the signs.  Paul Kunkle, who teaches astronomy at a junior college in Minneapolis, pointed out that that the zodiac periods were set up by the Babylonians millennia ago. Since then, the moon’s gravitational pull has made the earth ‘wobble’ on its axis, which has created a one-month difference in the stars’ alignment. “When astrologers say the sun is in Pisces, it’s really not in Pisces,” said Kunkle. “Most horoscope readers who consider themselves Pisces are actually Aquarians.”
Here’s how the new dates line up:
Aries: April 18 – May 13
Taurus: May 13 – June 21
Gemini: June 21 – July 20
Cancer: July 20 – Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10 – Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16 – Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30 – Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23 – Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 – Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17 – Jan. 20
Capricorn: Jan. 20 – Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11- April 18

Notice the sign for November 29 to December 17?  In Kunkle’s view, that the 13th sign,  Ophiuchus (OFF-ee-YOO-kuss), the Serpent Bearer.
However, Kunkle’s dates are irrelevant for western astrology; he’s actually referring to sidereal astrology, which is oriented to the constellations. Tropical astrology, the most common form in the Western world, is based on the seasons. It’s geocentric – related to life on  Earth. And in tropical astrology, if you were born between February 20 – March 20, you’re still a Pisces!
The irony is that the ancient Babylonians knew about Ophiuchus, but because they didn’t want a zodiac with thirteen signs, they tossed it out. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second century astronomer Ptolemy and is one of the 88 modern constellations. Perhaps in a larger context, its rediscovery signals the emergence of a new archetype and its importance is found in what it may be telling us about humanity and ourselves at this juncture in time.That’s where synchronicity enters the picture.
Planets are archetypes – Mars, for instance, is the mythological god of war; Venus is the mythological goddess of love. A planet’s discovery “coincides” with a shift in mass consciousness that comes about as a result of certain world events and situations unfold. So what kind of archetype might be emerging with the rediscovery of Ophiuchus?
We’ll cover that and the mythology of Ophiuchus in tomorrow’s post.
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Owls, Again

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Trish and Rob
Synchronicities involving birds as messengers are probably more common than most of us realize. We’ve written before about owls as messengers between the living and the dead  and about owls as players in UFO/ET experiences. The following owl stories come from Jane Clifford, for whom owls are messengers that warn her of impending loss.
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Late one night an owl swept in front of a car in which I was the a passenger.  Knowing  it meant a death, I pretended I hadn’t seen it. That night a huge owl appeared in a dream, flying towards my face with its talons going for my eyes. It said “You will see me!” I never denied seeing another one.
Another time I was traveling toward home with my 12-year-old son.  I had to stop for a creature on the road, which refused to move. It was an owl. It swiveled its head 360 degrees and looked at me. Two days later, my son’s great uncle died.
Yet another time I was traveling by car with a friend who had recently lost his partner and mother. Once again, an owl swept across the road in front of us and I knew it meant more loss for him. Sure enough, his ex-wife, uncle, and his children’s maternal grandmother all died a few weeks apart.
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Has anyone had an owl experience that turned out to be good luck??
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The Lost Manuscript and the Herring

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Trish and Rob
Synchronicity and luck often seem to go hand-in-hand. That was certainly the case for Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) , a German dramatist and novelist whose plays were the basis for more than 35 films in the twentieth century. 
In the early days of his career, Sudermann earned his living by submitting weekly installments of his novels to a newspaper in Berlin. But the newspaper editor was apparently worried that if something happened to Sudermann before he finished a novel, his readers would be left hanging in midair. So one day he informed Sudermann that their arrangement was changing. From here on in, the young novelist would have to turn in the entire book before the chapters were published.
Sudermann wasn’t happy about the change  – too long between paychecks! But there wasn’t much he could do about it except start writing.  He sequestered himself on the family farm and wrote Frau Sorg, about a young man torn between his love for a woman and his devotion to his father. When the novel was finished, Sudermann set out to deliver the manuscript to the newspaper.
He supposedly put the manuscript in his overcoat pocket. This part strikes me as somewhat odd, but perhaps manuscripts back then were written on paper of a smaller size than today’s standard of 8.5X11 inches. He boarded a train for Berlin and in Insterburg, where he was due to change trains, he encountered some old friends. Instead of changing trains, they hit the local watering holes.
The next morning, Sudermann woke in Berlin, but couldn’t remember anything that had happened. Worse than the hangover he probably had was that the manuscript was no longer in his overcoat pocket, which meant he wasn’t going to be paid. Depressed, he headed back to the farm and, that evening, again found himself at Insterburg, waiting for the train to Berlin, which wasn’t due to arrive until morning. He found a place to stay for the night, then hit the local bars again.
At some point, he stopped at a delicatessen and ordered a herring. As was customary in those days, the herring was wrapped in scrap paper and Sudermann was already eating when he recognized the handwriting on the paper as his own. It was a page from his lost manuscript. Elated, he got the rest of the deli’s wrapping paper and recovered most of his novel.
The odds in this story are significant. If Sudermann hadn’t gotten lodging for the night, if  he hadn’t stopped at the deli for that herring, if he’d been too drunk  to recognize his own handwriting, things would have turned out much differently.
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Then there is something darkly symbolic and trickster-like about finding your novel pages put to use wrapping fish. Back when I was a newspaper reporter, we used to be proud of getting our stories on the front page stories, but we conceded that the next day they would under someone’s kitty litter. – R
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