Joe’s Encounter

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our friend, Melissa, was staying with us recently for a  weekend and mentioned that her cousin, Joe, told her about an encounter he had in 2019. I was immediately interested, so she put us in touch with each other. That photo was part of what Joe sent – how the night looked when his experience happened. This description is what he wrote that night when he got home.

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Hello Trish

This is what I wrote down when I returned to my home.  I was so anxious and nervous I couldn’t go to sleep and I wanted to write everything down when it was fresh in my memory. As I mentioned before I have changed to what I thought was spiritual to an alien encounter. Instead of originally thinking the first entity I saw was the same guy I now believe they were two separate aliens. What happened to the shorter first one I don’t know since I lost sight of it when I walked around the S.U.V.

The following statement is my own personal
observation of an event that occurred to me on January 26, 2019.

On Saturday night at approximately 11:45 pm I was leaving ____________ restaurant where earlier I had met with some friends of mine and had dinner. I had no alcoholic beverages to drink since I had driven by myself and I was afraid of getting a DUI. I have never ever had that type of conviction before and I didn’t want to take any chances. My friends all left and I stayed behind to talk to the bartender and one of the waiters that were closing everything down. I was holding a small bag of recyclable bottles in my left hand and my keys to my pick-up truck in my right hand. The restaurant is about a 30 minute drive from my home in New Fairfield Conn. I had stayed till after closing time.

I left the restaurant by myself and went out of the main front entrance. While walking down the steps I saw off to my right side a short person who had his back to me and was wearing a dark blue or black hooded jacket with the hood up that covered his head. He was down below me between the porch and shrubbery area on the grass. I thought that was odd since there were no other customers left and why would anybody be there to begin with. As I stepped off of the last step I walked around a S.U.V. that was parked to my right side of the front stairs. The S.U.V. had blocked my vision for a few seconds and thus I had lost sight of this guy.

After I walked fully around the S.U.V. I immediately became walking side by side with this person about 10 feet away from him.

He was now walking a little bit ahead of me and was much taller and thinner than I originally thought.  Approximately 6′ 2 to 6′ 4 in height. I knew that this person was not a prior customer since there was no one like this that was there at the restaurant when I left.

My next thought was perhaps it’s just a guy coming off of the street or had walked from the train station and was going to the Shell gas station to buy something. The gas station was open and had its florescent lights on.  He was walking very briskly on the edge of the parking lot and on the grass next to the Belgium block curbing.

He appeared to be first wearing black pants that were creased down the front and flared out near the bottom. He had black shoes that were shinny and pointed towards the toes.

What seemed very unique was his posture. He was leaning forward with his head and shoulders slightly bent over his body. His arms were straight down and not moving at all as he walked.I didn’t see his hands since they were inside the pockets of his coat.

The coat was about 3/4 in length with the hood up over his head. I could not see his face nor could I tell what race he might be.

I yelled out to him to see what his response might be in an upbeat and non – threatening way: “Hey man where are you going baby” ?

As I drew even closer to him he started walking faster.  When he was opposite to the low curb torch lights and the other lighting from across the street it illuminated his area below his knees very clearly.

Now while I had the added bright lights I realized his shoes were not black but medium brown in color. The eyelets or grommets were a bright gold metallic color that had brown shoelaces tied off in a bow. He had on reddish brown socks and now his pants were light brown in color.

I am still looking at him from the side. He was taking very quick but small scissoring steps but not moving over too much distance and I slowed down too.

At this point I had a weird feeling that something isn’t normal; it doesn’t feel right.

Next he reached the slope side of the grass area right past the restaurant’s handicap ramp.
I was now within 5 feet of him and the area became very dark.

It was here that I saw him completely fly up and get stretched out and elongated into the air at about a 45 degree angle.  He seemed to blow apart into a transparent blue and grey exploding bubble clouds.

I vividly saw only his left leg with that shoe on it which was bent at the knee fall into an empty slit in the air. Just like it was suctioned up into that slit in the air.  At about this same time I could see other body parts fly up in a fan shape around and underneath the bubble clouds. They were traveling from left to right and up towards the upper roof of the restaurant.

It next seemed like in an East to West direction the rest of all these body parts went and then transformed into hundreds of brilliant white dot like tiny blinking stars as they approached the outside perimeter of the clouds. Next appeared blue lines of radiated streaks of light that were above the clouds and twinkling star dots and came from the South towards the North in direction.

I became mesmerized and frozen by watching this radical scene unfold in front of me. Next above all of this in the middle of the upper sky appeared a small rectangle that was in the middle of the electric blue streaks of light. A picture like frame that moved towards me and became bigger and bigger the closer it came to me.  It eventually looked like a large window with shapes and colors that were intense, three dimensional and indescribably beautiful. It resembled a sunrise or sunset but with deeper and richer colors of red and yellow. It had in its foreground and in the lower right corner a robin’s blue colored sphere.

I viewed this scene with a feeling of peace and tranquility.  Which was the complete opposite of the event which had happened right before this one. It was a place that was not part of our world we live in. It was perhaps a dimension that cannot be explained. This
window or maybe doorway felt like maybe it was the entrance to heaven. A place I could not cross over and enter into yet.

At this time from where the rectangle appeared to me in the sky to the final enlargement lasted I would say about ten seconds.  Next the rectangle toppled over into the cloud formation and within three to five seconds everything totally collapsed and imploded so quickly and then into a black hole.  Everything disappeared and was completely gone!

This implosion was totally silent with no noise, wind, smell, what-so-ever. I would estimate that this whole sequence of events from start to finish happened within a minute or two. That’s all.

Everything was gone and just an eerie stillness was left as I gazed up at a dark thick hazy night sky. It was like nothing ever happened.

Next I immediately ran down to my pick-up truck that was parked towards the back side of the restaurant.  All along looking back to where I just witnessed this occurrence.

Frank, one of the workers, was leaving to go home. He stopped when he saw me and rolled down his window. I frantically shouted out asking him if he saw anything that I witnessed. He said no. He hadn’t seen anything. I told him I thought I just saw a ghost or full bodied apparition and told him what happened.

I next threw the bag of recyclable bottles I had taken from the restaurant that I had been holding into the back of the truck. I drove up to the front of the restaurant. I parked right next to the S U.V. that I had walked around and saw Jake, (one of the waiters) and Will, (the manager) and emphatically told them what I had seen happened. They were locking the front door from the porch and were leaving.

I swear and would under oath that what I saw happened is the truth. To see a full bodied man walking near you, you would never think that it was not a real person. I never would have gotten that close to him (it) if I thought it was a ghost or spirit. Furthermore, I definitely would have also videotaped it as well. But I didn’t think it was anything unusual despite what it turned into.  My biggest regret was not taking a video of what happened.

This occurrence was totally unreal, shocking, and life as I have known it will never be the same for me. It was frightening and became spiritual near the end when the rectangle appeared.

My problem now is how to deal with all of this. For me this seems to be a random occurrence.
I was at the right place and at the right time by mere chance. All of which I can not stop thinking about.

I have more questions to ask and nobody I know right now can answer any of them. I don’t understand why I was the one who saw all of this happen. Perhaps a man or spirit going to heaven ?

I clearly remember asking him ” Hey man where are you going baby” ?  Was I the cause of his radical and graphic departure ?

How can I make sense out of something that just doesn’t make any sense at all. I have not told a lot of people about this. However I do  feel an obligation and a sense responsibility to have this in writing of what happened to me. I would also talk about this occurrence to anyone who is interested in my story regardless if they believe me or not.

Signed:
Joe Killian
New Fairfield
Connecticut

 

 

 

From Joe about the image below:

“Here is what I drew out for you to put into perspective of what I saw right before the implosion into the black hole right in front of me on 1/26/2019. The entities body parts were blown apart into the bubble clouds right before this.  Plus his whole left leg with his shoe on had already been sucked up and into a slit in the sky to the left side of this picture.
It seemed to me that his energy and solid matter was transfered into the small florescent tiny stars to the upper right side of the picture.

The electric blue streaks of light appeared next to the upper left and right side. Next a very tiny thumb nail sized rectangle came up towards me. The red on top yellow bottom with the light blue sphere inside of it.  As it gradually grew more larger it stopped above me and collapsed into the clouds and the tiny stars. The tiny stars would constantly appear and then fade out then appear and fade out. There were hundreds of them doing this random burst out and fade out sequence right before the implosion occurred.”

 

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A Synchronicity with Aliens in the Backyard

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

We first posted this story in 2014 and I happened to run across it today while going through some files on my computer. It’s a great example of how synchronicity can bring people back into your life whom you haven’t seen or heard from in years but who played a pivotal part in your past.

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This sequence of synchros concerns one of the first – perhaps THE first- abductee we ever met, Don Estrella.

Don retained partial memories of an abduction that occurred one Halloween while he was wearing a pirate’s costume and his companion was dressed as a clown. We wrote about his abduction in Aliens in the Backyard:

 It was the mid-1980s and Don was essentially lost and homeless. We were intrigued by his colorful background. He had worked as an assistant to author John Keel at the time Keel was delving into the chilling Mothman saga in West Virginia, which later became a book, Mothman, and in 2002 a movie, The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere.

Estrella reveled in telling stories related to the giant red-eyed flying beast. He had also worked in a clerical position at the United Nations, where he started a UFO club. He recalled that then-UN secretary-General U Thant had sent someone from his office to attend the initial meeting.

Curious about his abduction experience, we persuaded Estrella to undergo a hypnotic regression with psychiatrist Dr. Bethhold Schwarz, of Vero Beach, Florida. The author of UFO Dynamics, Schwarz had interviewed or regressed hundreds of contactees or ‘UFO observers,’ as he often called them.

During the session, Estrella recalled a bizarre scene in which he was abducted on a North Virginia highway on a Halloween night, while he was wearing a pirate’s costume and his companion was dressed as a clown. They never made it to the Halloween party. The engine in their car died and wouldn’t start. That’s when three small beings appeared and escorted them to a waiting circular craft. They joined seven or eight other abductees standing in line in an obvious stupor.

 Estrella sobbed throughout the regression as he described being taken aboard, placed naked on a table, examined and probed. While those procedures are now common descriptions by abductees, Estrella also recalled seeing strange symbols on the interior wall of the craft. During hypnosis, he drew several of the alien symbols.

While Estrella was haunted for more than two decades by his experience and seemed lost because of it, author, researcher and Harvard psychiatrist John E Mack pointed out that some abductees have experienced physical healings and spiritual transformations as a result of their abductions. Estrella apparently developed psychic abilities in the aftermath of his experience and, as we recall, was happiest sitting in a restaurant with a cup of coffee and a cigarette and giving free readings to the waitresses. He was fairly talented at tuning into near-future events and reading a person’s past.

Over the years, we wondered what had happened to Don. Then last week, we received an email from Raum, a writer and UFO researcher in Massachusetts, who had experienced a synchronicity that had prompted him to write us. In the subject heading of his email were the words: Don Estrella.

Hello Rob and Trish,

Synchronicity abounds!  A couple of weeks ago my significant other (Ruth) and I had been discussing Don’s condition as he’d recently been hospitalized.  That evening I picked up my Kindle and I happened to be reading “Aliens in the Backyard” when I exclaimed to Ruth, “Hey, these ‘synchno’ writers are writing about Don!”  Was a complete surprise. 

I read the three or four pages of you reiterating what you remember of his case.  There were a few, more or less, insignificant errors but I was bowled over seeing his name out there with what I know about the man. I’d love to hear Schwartz’s tape of their session.  Before Schwartz died Don wrote and asked him for a copy of the tape, to which I understand he complied, but I never did hear it myself.

I was fortunate enough to have Don as a close friend until he dropped out of our lives a few years back.  Ruth liked and understood him, now visits in the nursing home daily as he named her as his proxy.  She today mentioned your names to him and he remembered you.  His mind is confused and groggy but old memories die hard as I’m sure you know.

We’ve traded a number of emails with Raum and learned that Don had helped Ruth uncover her memories of repeated abductions since age 10. We also discovered that Don was actually in hospice and wasn’t expected to live very long. We sent Raum a copy of Aliens in the Backyard to give to Don. Then, on November 18, we received another email from Raum:

Hello Trish, As I just wrote to Rob, Don passed on at 4:03 this afternoon.  Ruth was there holding his hand —she was in hospice with him as she has been since early yesterday with hardly a break.  For me, her selflessness to Don is for him being our friend—but more than that, a fellow abductee,  a man of love and peace. He’s a reminder there are good people in the world.  With him we saw other realities.

The book we’d sent him arrived the day after Don  died.

In a subsequent email from Raum, he nailed the synchros  beautifully:

Hi Trish,

The more one thinks on it, the more incredible this ‘meaningful coincidence.’  A ‘syncho couple’ (you) receives the very thing that you have written two books about.  A researcher (me) happens to be reading a book on UFOs that you wrote several years ago which included a story about a ‘psychic experiencer'( Don ) who, because of his UFO experiences, becomes the focus of this ‘serendipitous coincidence’.  Unfortunately this also involves his last act before leaving this plane of existence permanently.  His proxy, the researcher’s ‘other half’ who is herself an abductee, had been brought through hypnosis into this UFO realization (among others) years ago by ‘the psychic experiencer (Don).    The ‘braiding’ is exquisite.

RIP, Don. Many thanks for all the fascinating insights you shared!

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Part of me wonders if this is an example of spirit contact.

 

 

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The Mystical Underground: Rick Bettua: Sharks And Synchronicities

Posted on October 3, 2021 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Rick Bettua: Sharks And Synchronicities”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Rick Bettua, who served thirty-two years as a U.S. Navy diver. He finished his career in 2008 as a command master chief petty officer and master diver, then returned for another three-year stint as an advisor, retiring in 2011.

In October 2004, he became the Navy’s command master chief of salvage diving, and in that role, he managed the world’s largest and most diverse diving command with more than 250 personnel operating throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as Iraq and Kuwait. I should add that Rick and I have co-authored a book, called BREATHE, which is about Rick’s survival story—or actually many survival stories throughout his career and afterward. After Rick retired, he moved to Queensland, Australia. He’s married and has two children.

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The Random Rat

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

During the height of the pandemic, we had a mouse problem. Our cats would catch mice in the yard, bring them into the house, and the mice would get loose and hide. Eventually, we got rid of them. They either died or, when possible, were released.

Recently, we noticed that bananas and plantains in our fruit bowl were being nibbled at during the night. “We’ve got mice again,” Rob announced, and started setting out traps. It quickly became became evident that what we had this time was smarter than the average mouse.

This critter avoided traps, the lure of bits of cheese, and one night I glimpsed him scampering behind the toaster oven on our counter. He was too fast to get a sense of his size. The next morning, I remarked that the mouse might be tapping into Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field to avoid entrapment.

So we decided to set up our spy camera in the kitchen, directed at the bowl of fruit, For the next two nights, the camera caught the critter – a rat, not a mouse – leaping onto the counter, checking out the bowl of fruit, then diving in. When I showed the video to our neighbor, she identified the rodent as a roof rat.

I was going to buy sticky paper and put it around the bowl of fruit so the critter would get stuck. But my neighbor talked me out of it. She’d seen a mouse trapped on the stuff and said it was awful, the animal struggling, squealing, in the middle of the night. No, thanks. So I bought a 99% guaranteed mouse trap, moved all the fruit to the fridge, cleared the counter, and aimed the camera.

The first night, the critter came out at 1:45, checked out everything, avoided the traps, and scampered up the wall and vanished through an opening between wall cabinets. Unfortunately, the video no longer appears on the camera footage. Rob blocked the space between the cabinets, so we’ll see what this guy does next.

I looked up the esoteric meaning of rats:

When a Rat appears as your Spirit Animal, the creature often brings a message about your career. Rat’s arrival in your awareness urges you to ask yourself, “Have you gotten lazy? Or are you working too much and forgetting hearth and home?” In either case, Rat comes prepared to help you by offering foresight and adaptive ability while directing change toward a creative solution.

Well, we’ll see.

When I told Rob I was writing a post on this rat critter, he laughed. “It’s random.”

Really?

P.S. Tonight, several months after I wrote this post, our cat, Beo, leaped through the open window in my office with qa giant rat in his mouth. Hey, guy, look what I caught! Fortunately, the rat was dead and we scooped it up and put it in the trash.

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The Chopstick Synchro

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

Rob and I have been working on a project for a gaming company – the CEO is in Istanbul, the other two employees are in Amsterdam. They’re creating a mobile app that takes place in a Japanese diner.

Originally, there were going to be 4 characters and a female chef. They asked for a story by October 1 that could be told in 1,000 words. That meant each character needed a back story that could be woven somehow into a front story. We created two versions of back stories, but they thought the stories were “too dark.” They said the story should be lighter, with “trending lifestyle” material that can be woven into a light mystery.

1000 words is about 4 manuscript pages. Yesterday morning when Rob woke up, he had the word chopsticks in his head. Suppose, he says, these chopsticks are environmental hazards of some sort? So I googled chopsticks. The very  first link  was about the environmental hazard that chopsticks are.

The Surprising Dangers of Chopsticks

I had no idea that chopsticks were a hazard.  So we created a story around it and they went for it and asked for a second mystery within the story.  This is one of those synchronicities that involve creativity and dreams. Chopsticks was from a dream Rob had been having, but the word was the only thing he recalled. & that word was all that mattered. So this is a synchro where creativity and dreams coincided.

Next time you reach for chopsticks, keep in mind that about 80 billion pairs of chopsticks are produced yearly. That’s about 20 million trees annually that are used and is why more than 10,000 square miles of Asian forests are are disappearing each year. When many of these disposable chopsticks are produced, harsh chemicals are often used – acid, bleach, hydrogen peroxide, paraffin, sulfur dioxide. They can leach out when dipped into hot liquids.

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Eclipse…a dog story

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Trish and Rob

This is Eclipse. Every day she leaves her house, by herself, and takes the bus downtown to the dog park where she spends a couple of hours getting exercise and making friends, and then she takes the bus back home again. She even has her own bus pass attached to the collar.

It started when her owner, Jeff Young, was taking too long when the bus arrived, so she impatiently ran ahead and got on the bus by herself. The bus driver recognized her and dropped her off at the dog park, and later Jeff caught up with her. After several more trips by herself, Jeff started letting her go on her own, and she always comes back home a couple of hours later.

All of the bus drivers know her and she makes them smile, and many of the regular passengers enjoy seeing her every day and will often sit down next to her. Even the police have given their approval as long as the bus drivers are okay with the arrangement. “She makes everybody happy.”

Great dog story!

 

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October Star Power Forecast

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Trish and Rob

If you prefer the written version, it’s in the masthead.

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Mercury retrograde alert

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

About every 3 months, Mercury – the planet of communication, the intellect, the conscious mind – turns retrograde; it  looks as if it’s moving backward relative to Earth. The retro lasts about 3 weeks. The last one of this year is in Libra and starts on September 27 at 1:10 am Eastern,  and at 10:10 pm Pacific on September 26. It ends on October 18 at 11:17 am Eastern and 8:17 am Pacific.

Mercury governs both Gemini and Virgo, so these two signs may experience the retro more intensely. But we all have Mercury somewhere in our charts and are likely to experience communication  snafus during these  periods. These miscommunications span the spectrum from the absurd to the not amusing at all.

Here are some DOs and DON’Ts and MAYBES for these retros:

– Take nothing for granted. Clarify everything you say.

– Don’t buy a computer, car, or anything else with moving parts. You may  regret it later.

– Revise, reconsider and rethink rather than starting or submitting something new.

– Double check appointments

– People you haven’t seen in a long time may suddenly reappear in your life

– Old issues may resurface

– Don’t sign contracts

– Try not to travel during a retro. But if you do, be flexible. Your itinerary and schedule are likely to change, especially now, with Covid regs so fluid.

Don’t buy plane or cruise tickets during a Mercury retro.

This list is just for starters. To find out how this Mercury retro may impact you, click here, the September forecast.

 

 

 

 

 

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Vonnegut re-do

Posted on September 23, 2021 by Trish and Rob

Kurt Vonnegut self-portrait

Here’s an older post from years ago that I came across about Kurt Vonnegut and Alan Vaughn. A good one, worth re-posting.

Synchronicities can happen anywhere, anytime, even when waiting out a major storm. As Hurricane Matthew approached, we kept the Weather Channel on, listened and occasionally watched the latest updates. Our house was shuttered and Trish and I were settled in with two dogs and three cats. Stuck inside, I took the opportunity to organize some of our books that were piled here and there, and see if I could find shelf space or set some aside for recycling.

I noticed two books separate from the others, one atop the other. One was The Dreaming Universe, by Fred Alan Wolf. The other was Kurt Vonnegut’s Man Without a Country. I considered putting Wolf’s book in a bag for Goodwill, but noticed there were several paper tabs marking various pages. So, curious, I open the book to one of them, glanced down the page and my gaze stopped on the phrase… ’Vonnegut’s experience.’

That seemed like an interesting coincidence since Vonnegut’s autobiographical book had been resting atop Wolf’s dream tome. So I backtracked a few paragraphs to find what Vonnegut’s experience was about.

The story comes from a book on dreams in which Alan Vaughan, one of the co-authors, wrote that he had watched an interview on TV with Vonnegut and a few nights later dreamed of Vonnegut. He wondered if the dream meant anything to Vonnegut, so the next morning, March 13, 1970, he wrote him.

“You appeared in a dream I had this morning. We were in a house full of children. You were planning to leave soon on a trip. Then you mentioned that you were moving to an island name Jerome. As far as I know, there is no such place, so perhaps the name Jerome or initial ‘J’ has some related meaning.”

Vonnegut wrote back a couple of weeks later. “Not bad. On the night of your dream, I had dinner with Jerome B. (an author of children’s books), and we talked about a trip I made three days later to an island named England.”

Here’s what Wolf had to say about the exchange about the dream. “Clearly there was a connection between Vaughan’s dream and Vonnegut’s experience, all happening the same night, although it is probable that the discussion between Vonnegut and his friend Jerome took place before the dream. But the connection cannot be considered to be causal or local since there was no signal between the two events. One would have to consider this a spontaneous telepathic dream containing the fact of the conversation mixed in a capricious manner, typical of such dreams.”

You could call it telepathic, yes, but also synchronicity.

I was going to end the post there, but as I wrote Wolf’s name in the title, I suddenly realized there was yet another synchronicity here. Just before I took on the book organizing task, I’d been working on a chapter on shamanism for  a work in progress on spirit contact. Specifically, I was writing about the meaning of power animals that can appear in shamanic journeys. I looked back to where I’d stopped and yes, I’d left off with  Wolf. For the record, some of the attributes of Wolf Medicine are communication, working in harmony, and sharing knowledge in a structured way.

Oddly enough, in 2009 we wrote another post here about synchronicity involving Alan Vaughan and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Interestingly, Even though it’s a completely different story, it also involved Vaughan writing a letter to Vonnegut and in that instance Vonnegut had written back about being surrounded by children. He and his wife had adopted six children all at once after their parents had both died – the late mother was Vonnegut’s sister.

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Happy Fall Equinox

Posted on September 22, 2021 by Trish and Rob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s that time of year when day and night are of equal length, supposedly representing both the light and dark in our own lives. Astrologically, the sun enters air sign Libra, which always strives for balance, harmony.

The weather doesn’t change much in Florida – it’s still a hot, muggy summer – but more northern states begin to feel a change in the weather and maybe some color in the trees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rob’s theory is that our cooler weather comes around mid-October. That may have been true decades ago, but now we’re lucky if we can turn off the air by mid-November or early December. Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 to November 30. This year it started on May 22. For me, living in Florida, the fall equinox represents hope that the state will escape hurricane season unscathed.

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