The full moon in Gemini on Nov 27 is opposed by Mars and squared by Saturn in Pisces.Full moons are about completion and with these aspects, whatever you’re trying to complete may get deferred through circumstances. If so, don’t fret about it. Just move on and finish it another day.
To find out how this full moon impacts your sign, check here, the Star Power forecast for November.
This one day becomes an extravaganza of food, festivities, family and friends. It starts on Thursday and extends to Sunday and covers Black Friday shopping deals. For the pilgrims, it was simpler: a day of gratitude.
So on this Thanksgiving, my focus is gratitude – for the family & friends, pets and animal buddies who share my life, and that I’ve had the opportunity to make my living by indulging in my passion – writing.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, however you celebrate it!
In 1984, zoologist Wayne Potts published an article in Nature on his research on how flocking birds move. And his work illustrated that birds in flocks don’t just follow a leader. Instead, they anticipate sudden changes in the flock’s direction.
Sounds like precognition, right?
Once a change in direction begins in the flock, Potts said, it “spreads through the flock in a wave.” Potts called it a manoeuvre wave and said that it begins slowly but can reach speeds three times faster than would be possible if birds were simply reacting to their immediate neighbors. Potts called this ability among flocking birds the chorus line hypothesis. That is, he said, birds are like dancers who see an approaching leg kick when it’s still down the line, and anticipate what to do.
“These propagation speeds appear to be achieved in much the same way as they are in a human chorus line: individuals observe the approaching manoeuvre wave and time their own execution to coincide with its arrival.
So one day last February, I (Trish) was driving to my favorite salon to getmy hair trimmed. The route was pleasant and my mind hummed along, thinking it was a new moon day in Aquarius, a fellow air sign, and new moons always meant new opportunities. Suddenly, I found myself stuck in a weird, negative train of thought, and tried to find something else to think about.
I glanced up at the sky and saw a flock of birds – hundreds of small birds, flying west. Then they suddenly changed directions. And it hit me as a synchro, a message that I should do an immediate 180 in my thinking. That’s what I did and realized I had just seen a manoeuvre wave.
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This evening Rob & I were watching Chris Hayes on MSNBC. He glanced down at his phone and the photo at the top had come up. Five years ago today (October 3)Megan and her friend Julie met Hayes. He was in downtown Orlando doing a show.
So what kind of synchronicity is that?
I’m not sure.
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We first published this post in 2011. But the #137 has come up again recently so it seems appropriate to repost.
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In 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, we mentioned number 137. It came up again during Trish’s interview with Anne Strieber and a listener wrote to her about his synchronicity with the number. A little background first:
A prime number can be divided only by 1 and by itself. Or, put another way, a prime number is a positive integer that can’t equal the product of two smaller numbers. That makes 137 a prime number and a particularly baffling one. In Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, Arthur I. Miller refers to this number as the “DNA of light.”
The number is also associated with the Kabbalah. Miller explains that in ancient Hebrew, numbers were written with letters and each letter had a number associated with it. “Adepts of the philosophical system known as the Gematria add the numbers in Hebrew words and thus find hidden meanings in them,” Miller wrote.
In Hebrew, the word Kabbalah has four letters that add up to 137. Not surprisingly, physicists began referring to 137 as a mystical number. Wolfgang Pauli, a Nobel laureate and one of the early supports of Jung’s theories about synchronicity, wrestled with the implications of 137 for most of his life. When he was admitted to the hospital at age 58 and learned he would be in room 137, he supposedly said, “I will never get out of here.” He was right. He died shortly afterward.
Physicist F. David Peat had his own experience with 137 when he visited the Jung Institute in Bollingen, Switzerland. In an email to us, he explained he was invited to give a lecture to celebrate the institute’s fiftieth year. Upon arrival at the hotel next to the institute, he was given a key and told his room was on the second floor of the annex. He walked down to the lake first to “get something of the spirit of Jung.” But after half an hour, nothing happened, so Peat decided to return to the hotel. “I took the elevator to the second floor, removed the key from my pocket and it was 137! I realized I was there to talk about Pauli, not Jung.”
So, during Trish’s interview with Anne Strieber one evening, they talked about this mysterious number. The next day, Walter Hughes of California clicked on the interview and left the room for a couple of minutes. “When I returned, I heard them discussing the quantum, mysterious number of time; 137. My birth date is 7/1/37! The synchronicity was embedded in my very listening to the program! The mystery is so eternal; so wonderful.”
Where 137 for Pauli was an archetype of death, for Walter Hughes it’s an archetype of life, mystery, and synchronicity.
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The trickster is usually intriguing and sort of plays with us, makes us look silly or naive or ill informed. But it has a counterpart in what I think of us as The Dark Trickster. It does basically the same thing as its sibling, but in a way you’re not likely to forget.
For instance:
Our friend Evan, a physical therapist, has been really careful during this pandemic. For awhile he worked on the road, going masked to homes for PT sessions. Then he changed jobs and went to work for one of Orlando’s hospitals, always masked. He has been vexed and boosted, but recently came down with Covid. His symptoms were mild but persistent. Finally, he went back to work and was assigned to – the Covid wing! He says this was unintentional. In my mind, that qualifies it as a dark trickster.
Here’s another example. Before the pandemic, daughter Megan came home one night from a movie with friend Denise and they found her beautiful cat, Piper, dead on the living room floor. Megan, hysterical, thought one of the dogs she was watching had killed her. But a veterinarian who arrived shortly afterward to pick up her dog, saw that Megan was distraught and examined Piper. She said there were no bite marks, that it was likely Piper died of a heart attack, that her heart was congenitally weak in some way.
Now here’re the strange synchros. Denise, who had given Piper to Megan, was with her when she got back from the movie. Denise actually spotted Piper’s body first and stayed with Megan for a long time in the aftermath. The next day, October 29, National Cat Day, Megan buried Piper and Denise called her, hysterical because she’d found the cat she’d rescued dead on her porch. The cat had been hit by a driver who had left her a note of apology and placed her cat on the porch. Megan went over to Denise’s to comfort and console her and to bury her cat. While she was doing that, she found out that another friend had to put down his cat. All of this on National Cat Day. Dark Trickster.
Rob experienced one of these on a trip to Minneapolis. He stayed with a friend who is a chain smoker and didn’t sleep well that night because to the smoke. So he decided to get a motel room. Turns out they had only one room left – in the a smoking room. “It smelled just like the apartment I’d left,” he said.
I’m not sure what the purpose is of this type of synchronicity. We certainly take notice of these Dark Tricksters, we tell other people about them, talk about them. Maybe they happen just to remind us that the universe is a strangely conscious place, after all
Back in the mid-‘80s, we were gathering material for a magazine article on psychic detectives when our friend Renie Wiley, a psychic detective herself, said we should talk to a man named George Hardy.
George was living in Davie, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, when we visited him one evening. He told us a disturbing story about his involvement with the Boston Strangler case. I’ve never forgotten what he said, and I have no reason to believe that he was making up the story.
When we asked why him how he’d gotten involved in working with the police, he said that the faces of killers haunted his thoughts when he heard about a crime. If he was watching television or listening to the radio and a story came on about a missing person or an unsolved murder case, he would suddenly know things he shouldn’t know, and see how things happened.
In the aftermath of a south Florida murder case in 1971, Hardy showed up at a police station and said he had information about the murder of George and Ino Jo Beck aboard their 57-foot catamaran that was docked in Dania, Florida. Hardy described for Dania police the interior of the ship perfectly and gave a reasonable account of the crime. The murder weapon, he said, was a hammer, wrapped in a curtain ripped from a window on the boat and buried behind the killer’s house.
Then Hardy described the killer as a man living near Griffin Road, who drove a bright yellow car and also owned a blue van. He limped on his left leg. The surprised police chief said he knew the man Hardy was talking about. He worked for the local government. When the man found out the psychic had pinpointed him in the murder, the suspect committed suicide a few days later. The police never found the weapon, though, in spite of digging up the man’s backyard.
Earlier, Hardy had volunteered to help detectives investigating the Boston Strangler murders. In all, 11 women in the Boston area were murdered in the early 1960s. He played a small role in the investigation, but the case changed his life. Hardy told us that he provided accurate details of related crime scenes that only authorities knew about. When he had told them all that he had seen in his visions, the police turned on him. They were baffled by the case and decided to find out if George Hardy was revealing visions or if he was the Boston Strangler and was telling them about his own deeds.
Hardy was interrogated at length, then given injections of “truth serum.” Sodium Pentothal is the best known drug used, but other psychoactive drugs have also been tested and Hardy thought he might’ve subjected to a drug cocktail of hypnotics and sedatives. In the aftermath, he suffered from a nervous disorder that continued for decades. When we talked him, in the mid-1980s, he was clearly upset about how the Boston police had treated him years earlier, and the physical after-effects.
George died Sept. 21, 2005 at the age of 78.
IN Googling for this info on George, I came across this piece from the Lauderdale newspaper, The Sun Sentinel, written on Feb 10, 1986.
Fingering a murderer is exactly what George Hardy does. Hardy said the faces of killers haunt his thoughts when he hears about a crime.
“I’m watching TV or listening to the radio and the pictures start going. I suddenly know things I shouldn’t know, see how things happened,” said Hardy, a Davie psychic who has worked on many famous criminal cases, including the Boston Strangler case.
Despite Hardy’s contention that he can identify murderers, the most famous local case he worked on ended in disaster. The suspect he named committed suicide and an extensive police search failed to turn up any evidence the man was a killer.
Six months after the sensational Feb. 5, 1971, murder of George and Ino Jo Beck aboard their plush, 57-foot catamaran docked in Dania, Hardy appeared at the city police station. Beck, a cosmetics firm executive, and his fashion model wife had been smothered with a pillow, then repeatedly slashed and beaten in a case that grabbed headlines in South Florida for months.
Hardy described for Dania police the interior of the ship perfectly and gave a reasonable account of the crime. The murder weapon, he said, was a hammer, wrapped in a curtain ripped from a window on the boat and buried behind the killer’s house.
Then Hardy described the killer.
“I told the (Dania police) chief (that) the killer lived off Griffin Road,” recalled Hardy. “I said the guy would drive a bright yellow car. He also had a blue van.
“I knew he would be limping on his left leg and live in a house that was all dark.”
“The chief looked surprised and said, ‘I know who you are talking about.’ “
Hardy claimed he was given the name of Charles Stackhouse by the police. Stackhouse, 55, was a Hollywood building inspector who matched Hardy’s description.
When Hardy heard nothing more from the police, he called the Fort Lauderdale News and shared his visions with a reporter. The reporter went to Stackhouse’s home off Griffin Road and told him about the accusation.
A week after the reporter’s visit, Stackhouse ran a hose from his the exhaust of his car into the vehicle’s window, climbed inside and killed himself.
“It was terrible. This guy took his life, and we had no evidence against him at all, except this psychic’s word,” remembered Capt. Carl Carruthers of the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Carruthers personally “dug up every inch of that guy’s lawn,” looking for the murder weapon Hardy saw in his mind.
He said he found nothing. “Nothing at all.”
