Mainstream media coverage of the conflict between Israel and Palestine has always been ludicrously skewed to the Israeli/Zionist perspective. This is nothing new, and anyone with any media literacy is well aware of this.
Despite the fact that Palestinian casualties always outnumber Israeli at least 50 to 1, it is Israeli casualties and losses that top the newscasts. This has always been the case. Israeli life is worth more than Palestinian life in the mainstream media, plain and simple.
Last night, I saw a standard propaganda piece covering the Israeli attacks against Palestine in Gaza, and it serves as a perfect illustration of the propaganda machine at work. The "news" presented is one-sided, out of context, and creates manufactured support for unconscionable Israeli actions.
This "news" story focused solely on the Palestinian rocket attacks coming from the ground. One of these rockets struck near an Israeli hospital and killed two people. This was the top story.
Not once was it mentioned in this "news" story that the Palestinian rocket attack was in retaliation for a previous attack launched by Israel that hit a Palestinian hospital, killing four people and wounding 30 medics.
Not once in that same "news" story was it mentioned that the Palestinian rocket attacks are in retaliation for the bombs that have rained down on Gaza over the past two weeks and for the damage now being done via illegal ground invasion. This broader context was completely, mind-bogglingly, omitted.
(Media reports without broader context are less valuable than a steaming pile of feces. At least feces can be used as fertilizer.)
Not once was it mentioned in that "news" story that Israel has launched its own rocket attacks in Gaza as it carries out the illegal ground invasion. The weighty fact that "more than 1,000" rockets have been launched by Palestine was included in the story, but the even weightier fact that more than 2,000 rockets have been launched by Israel was conveniently omitted (not to mention the bombs).
Israeli forces have now destroyed more than 500 Palestinian homes and displaced more than 100,000 people.
They have attacked civilian homes, hospitals, mosques, and a stadium.
Not once in that same "news" story was there mention of the more than 600 Palestinian casualties of the most recent Israeli bombing and rocket attack campaigns. Not once was it mentioned that 80 percent of those casualties were civilians or that almost 100 of them were children.
If 100 Israeli kids were dead by the hands of Palestinians right now, we'd be in World War III. Make no mistake about it. The outcry over 100 dead Israeli kids would be echoing through CNN and MSNBC and CBS and ABC and Fox and PBS and every mainstream media news outlet in existence.
In fact, it was the trumped-up story of three murdered Israeli teenagers that was used to justify the recent attacks against Palestine. The murder of 500+ civilians and 100 children was justified by the deaths of those three teenagers, despite the fact that no culprit has been found or proven.
Israel is currently bombing a country that it illegally occupies. It has now launched an illegal ground invasion of a country it illegally occupies. And it is using weapons supplied to it by the United States of America, Britain, and other Global Government allies.
Because of the illegal occupation, Palestinian people have been forced into ghetto life, living as refugees without adequate access to the basics of life. They are forced to go through multiple checkpoints just to go about their daily lives.They are being occupied by a foreign military every day of their lives, a foreign military that rains bombs down upon them and their families at whim.
I recently saw a study that said that only 14% of Americans are sympathetic toward the Palestinians.
This shows the vicious efficacy of the pro-Israel propaganda machine.
The population of the United States of America is the most media-brainwashed and media-manipulated population in human history. I don't think there can be any doubt about that.
In order to throw off the murderous and fascist power structures that are killing us on this planet, increased media literacy and criticism are crucial. The ability to deconstuct the skewed information coming to us through mainstream media newscasts is critically necessary.
Until then, you will have a population justifying mass murder and wanton destruction as "protecting Israeli citizens."
There are many, many people - including astrologers - who are hiding in the weeds on this issue. They are choosing not to speak up, not to criticize Israel's actions. They are choosing to overlook their own country's support of Zionist-led mass murder. They choose to skirt away from a controversial issue like this because they see the big 86% statistic that feels no sympathy for the Palestinians. They want to maintain their popularity. They don't want to rock the boat.
This is the slow march toward the Global Governance stranglehold. This is the slow march toward global fascism, and it's speeding up. It starts in Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and it spreads.
Silence is complicity now more than ever.
And popularity means shit.
Speak out, speak up, extricate your mind and your own perspective from the mainstream media garbage. Or it's on your soul that you stayed quiet and went along during this time on Planet Earth.
* This article deconstructs pro-Zionist bias in the mainstream media which creates false support for violent Israeli-Zionist actions, including from U.S. and Canadian citizens.
This should be obvious to long-time readers, but I equally condemn violence and murder committed by Israeli Zionists and by Palestinian Hamas members (or other violent groups). I also make a distinct differentiation between Israeli and Palestinian citizens who oppose the violence and murder and the so-called leaders who are ordering and committing it.
There are many people of all religious faiths around the world who see this violence and warmongering for what it is: a system of violent and inhumane global fascism, often referred to as "Global Governance," that must be opposed by all human beings who wish to live in a better world.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
Re-Post: A Uranus-Pluto Square Reality Check Brought to By Your Friendly Plutonic Punk Astrologer
Planet of revolution, Uranus, stations retrograde tonight (8:52 p.m. CST) at 16 degrees Aries, increasing themes of "survival-based rebellion" in the face of top-down destruction and corruption from the highest levels of the illegitimate power hierarchies on this planet.
Both weather warfare (tornadoes, typhoons, and flooding of primary food-producing areas) and standard warfare (Israel's bombing campaign and illegal ground invasion of Palestine) were unleashed recently, timed to occur as the personal planets in Cancer triggered the Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn square for the final time of the square series.
Uranus in Aries now moves retrograde into the sixth square to Pluto in Capricorn on December 15, 2014. From there, both Uranus and Pluto move direct into the seventh and final square on March 16, 2015.
This is a re-post of an article from November 2, 2012. The themes remain as pertinent as ever:
"The levels of "shock and awe" emanating from the events timed to and associated with the Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn squares (2012-2015) correlate directly to how much credence and faith an individual put in the establishment structure of things to begin with.
If you've always understood there was something seriously wrong - like, abomination wrong - with "the way things are," you're not going to be all that surprised by the events unfolding over the next years on this planet.
You also more than likely weren't surprised by anything that has gone on since Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008, when predatory mortgages and derivatives schemes were timed to collapse the United States economy and loot the public purse, creating a massive transfer of wealth from the people to the rich.
Or when the One European Currency experiment started going south.
If you understood the violent and inhumane nature of the money systems ahead of time, none of the shenanigans going on now is much of a surprise. This is a timed, intentional collapse, creating chaos so that the next steps toward maintaining control can be put in place. The new organizational schemes are not all that different from the old.
If you've been aware for a while now (since birth?) that things could not possibly continue under such levels of deception, denial, corruption, greed, exploitation, and destruction, it's not going to rock your world all that much when things prove fatally dysfunctional.
What's probably going to surprise you is that it's held up this long. And that people continue to put their energy into propping up the rotting, stinking schemes rather than re-working and fortifying real, necessary infrastructures.
If you've been following along with some of the 60+ posts related to Pluto in Capricorn on this blog, you're aware of the situation.
Right now, many people are breathlessly striving to make gains within corrupt and destructive stock market systems that mostly buy and sell shady financial contracts rather than anything real. People working and living in the primary industries, with real products and services, are considered suckers, dupes, the unfortunate souls who couldn't figure out the easy scam.
Financial astrologers are huge during Pluto's transit of Capricorn. "Figure out how to make a killing in the corrupt stock markets using astrology! Learn occult tricks of the trade that give you that inside edge! Make millions in blood money using the stars!"
Wheeeeeeeeee.
Understand that with Pluto, there's a trajectory toward maintaining corrupt power structures that is often much more popular and lucrative than the trajectory toward legitimacy, transparency, and necessary change.
If you haven't had financial security in the past, life is not going to be all that much different for you. Though you will be dealing with more extreme scenarios, you'll actually have a major leg up emotionally, psychologically, and along survival lines on the majority who continued to believe in Market Gods and invisible hands guiding them to neverending prosperity right up to the end.
There's a lot of talk about "all hell breaking loose" over the next few years on the planet.
But for most of the poor and working classes, hell has never not been breaking loose. Hell is something they're pretty used to, at this point. It's just that once it starts touching the middle and upper-middle classes, it starts to be considered a "real" problem, especially through media channels.
"The economy" was already shit, work was already hellish and exploitative, un- and under-employment were already rampant for many, many people before Pluto entered Capricorn and the predatory mortgages started kicking off like dominoes in 2008.
The majority didn't have the luxury of meaningful work before Pluto entered Capricorn, and the corporate steamrolling of small and independent businesses since the ingress has made things that much worse. Looking to corporations to provide meaningful, life-and-society-sustaining employment, as is the Pluto in Capricorn credo, is an absolute joke at this point.
For these reasons, I don't see the cardinal Grand Crosses of 2013 and 2014 as being that much of a switch for a certain percentage of the population. We're moving into a very pressurized, highly acute year from May 2013 to May 2014 when the uncertainty and tension will, at times, be unbearable. Structural frameworks will come unhinged in grand fashion. There will be violence, uprising, weather-related disasters. The circumstances people find themselves in will be highly challenging. Action will be required. New and unexpected directions will necessarily be taken. We will be moving en masse in relation to upheaval and manufactured chaos on both global and societal levels. But what else is new? Seriously, what could surprise at this point? Not even the end of the world.
The people who will experience the most "shock and awe" will be those who have been insulated financially from the real problems on this planet. The people who have been "successful" in the current systems, who have been playing along with the make believe.
There is a strong element of self-fulfilling prophesy going on right now, a strong element of occult-assisted planning, and a strong element of manipulation, including of weather.
The "sky is falling" types will be able to pat themselves on their backs when they perceive things as going to hell over the next few years.
But people like me, and like many who read this site, know we were already there long ago.
Those who engineer pyramid scheme structural realities on this planet are going to be banking on: shock, confusion, disbelief, emotional catatonia, psychological distress, denial, chaos. Illusions shattering and people being paralyzed under the realizations they're having.
These are the malleable public reactions, the ones that can be shaped like warm Plasticine, the emotional and psychological states that will ensure people follow blindly into the next **new and improved** hierarchical set-up.
The reactions of those who are already aware are not this. They're calm, unsurprised, practical, fairly unruffled. They're not easily manipulated. This is where we need to be over the next three years.
Understand that we have just entered a three-year span, Saturn's transit of Scorpio, when crisis energy will be highly manipulated. Fear and emotional and psychological shock will be used like weapons.
If you haven't already, slowly, gradually become aware of the broader context so that you do not get caught up in the manipulated chaos and emotional and psychological breakdown associated with Saturn in Scorpio in mutual reception to Pluto in Capricorn.
Understand what other people will be dealing with so you can help lead them through.
We're all going to need a little assistance at times."
More on Uranus in Aries from March 16, 2011: Uranus in Aries Ushers in an Era of Unnatural Disaster
Research Site: GeoEngineeringWatch.org
Both weather warfare (tornadoes, typhoons, and flooding of primary food-producing areas) and standard warfare (Israel's bombing campaign and illegal ground invasion of Palestine) were unleashed recently, timed to occur as the personal planets in Cancer triggered the Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn square for the final time of the square series.
Uranus in Aries now moves retrograde into the sixth square to Pluto in Capricorn on December 15, 2014. From there, both Uranus and Pluto move direct into the seventh and final square on March 16, 2015.
This is a re-post of an article from November 2, 2012. The themes remain as pertinent as ever:
"The levels of "shock and awe" emanating from the events timed to and associated with the Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn squares (2012-2015) correlate directly to how much credence and faith an individual put in the establishment structure of things to begin with.
If you've always understood there was something seriously wrong - like, abomination wrong - with "the way things are," you're not going to be all that surprised by the events unfolding over the next years on this planet.
You also more than likely weren't surprised by anything that has gone on since Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008, when predatory mortgages and derivatives schemes were timed to collapse the United States economy and loot the public purse, creating a massive transfer of wealth from the people to the rich.
Or when the One European Currency experiment started going south.
If you understood the violent and inhumane nature of the money systems ahead of time, none of the shenanigans going on now is much of a surprise. This is a timed, intentional collapse, creating chaos so that the next steps toward maintaining control can be put in place. The new organizational schemes are not all that different from the old.
If you've been aware for a while now (since birth?) that things could not possibly continue under such levels of deception, denial, corruption, greed, exploitation, and destruction, it's not going to rock your world all that much when things prove fatally dysfunctional.
What's probably going to surprise you is that it's held up this long. And that people continue to put their energy into propping up the rotting, stinking schemes rather than re-working and fortifying real, necessary infrastructures.
If you've been following along with some of the 60+ posts related to Pluto in Capricorn on this blog, you're aware of the situation.
Right now, many people are breathlessly striving to make gains within corrupt and destructive stock market systems that mostly buy and sell shady financial contracts rather than anything real. People working and living in the primary industries, with real products and services, are considered suckers, dupes, the unfortunate souls who couldn't figure out the easy scam.
Financial astrologers are huge during Pluto's transit of Capricorn. "Figure out how to make a killing in the corrupt stock markets using astrology! Learn occult tricks of the trade that give you that inside edge! Make millions in blood money using the stars!"
Wheeeeeeeeee.
Understand that with Pluto, there's a trajectory toward maintaining corrupt power structures that is often much more popular and lucrative than the trajectory toward legitimacy, transparency, and necessary change.
If you haven't had financial security in the past, life is not going to be all that much different for you. Though you will be dealing with more extreme scenarios, you'll actually have a major leg up emotionally, psychologically, and along survival lines on the majority who continued to believe in Market Gods and invisible hands guiding them to neverending prosperity right up to the end.
There's a lot of talk about "all hell breaking loose" over the next few years on the planet.
But for most of the poor and working classes, hell has never not been breaking loose. Hell is something they're pretty used to, at this point. It's just that once it starts touching the middle and upper-middle classes, it starts to be considered a "real" problem, especially through media channels.
"The economy" was already shit, work was already hellish and exploitative, un- and under-employment were already rampant for many, many people before Pluto entered Capricorn and the predatory mortgages started kicking off like dominoes in 2008.
The majority didn't have the luxury of meaningful work before Pluto entered Capricorn, and the corporate steamrolling of small and independent businesses since the ingress has made things that much worse. Looking to corporations to provide meaningful, life-and-society-sustaining employment, as is the Pluto in Capricorn credo, is an absolute joke at this point.
For these reasons, I don't see the cardinal Grand Crosses of 2013 and 2014 as being that much of a switch for a certain percentage of the population. We're moving into a very pressurized, highly acute year from May 2013 to May 2014 when the uncertainty and tension will, at times, be unbearable. Structural frameworks will come unhinged in grand fashion. There will be violence, uprising, weather-related disasters. The circumstances people find themselves in will be highly challenging. Action will be required. New and unexpected directions will necessarily be taken. We will be moving en masse in relation to upheaval and manufactured chaos on both global and societal levels. But what else is new? Seriously, what could surprise at this point? Not even the end of the world.
The people who will experience the most "shock and awe" will be those who have been insulated financially from the real problems on this planet. The people who have been "successful" in the current systems, who have been playing along with the make believe.
There is a strong element of self-fulfilling prophesy going on right now, a strong element of occult-assisted planning, and a strong element of manipulation, including of weather.
The "sky is falling" types will be able to pat themselves on their backs when they perceive things as going to hell over the next few years.
But people like me, and like many who read this site, know we were already there long ago.
Those who engineer pyramid scheme structural realities on this planet are going to be banking on: shock, confusion, disbelief, emotional catatonia, psychological distress, denial, chaos. Illusions shattering and people being paralyzed under the realizations they're having.
These are the malleable public reactions, the ones that can be shaped like warm Plasticine, the emotional and psychological states that will ensure people follow blindly into the next **new and improved** hierarchical set-up.
The reactions of those who are already aware are not this. They're calm, unsurprised, practical, fairly unruffled. They're not easily manipulated. This is where we need to be over the next three years.
Understand that we have just entered a three-year span, Saturn's transit of Scorpio, when crisis energy will be highly manipulated. Fear and emotional and psychological shock will be used like weapons.
If you haven't already, slowly, gradually become aware of the broader context so that you do not get caught up in the manipulated chaos and emotional and psychological breakdown associated with Saturn in Scorpio in mutual reception to Pluto in Capricorn.
Understand what other people will be dealing with so you can help lead them through.
We're all going to need a little assistance at times."
More on Uranus in Aries from March 16, 2011: Uranus in Aries Ushers in an Era of Unnatural Disaster
Research Site: GeoEngineeringWatch.org
Friday, July 18, 2014
A Beautiful Northern California Retreat
In 2012, I had the good fortune to stay with a wonderful lady in the Point Arena area in Northern California. Aside from weekend trips to North Dakota as a child, this was my first foray out of Canada, and it was great!
I just got the hot tip that she now has a one-bedroom cabin available for short-term stays. This is a perfect retreat space: quiet, secluded, beautiful, surrounded by woods, with a view of the Pacific Ocean and reasonably priced.
Nearby Point Arena is an adorable little seaside town with plenty of shops. It has the best bakery I have ever come across, and I had the best burger of my life at a restaurant there called Rollerville.
If you are visiting Northern California, or if you live in the area, this is a fabulous spot to consider.
I just got the hot tip that she now has a one-bedroom cabin available for short-term stays. This is a perfect retreat space: quiet, secluded, beautiful, surrounded by woods, with a view of the Pacific Ocean and reasonably priced.
Nearby Point Arena is an adorable little seaside town with plenty of shops. It has the best bakery I have ever come across, and I had the best burger of my life at a restaurant there called Rollerville.
If you are visiting Northern California, or if you live in the area, this is a fabulous spot to consider.
Link: Point Arena, California-area Retreat Cabin
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Jupiter Enters Leo and the Rock & Roll in Our Hearts & Souls Will Never Die
Painting by GMacP
The biggest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, entered the sign of big personalities, big star power, and big creative endeavours, Leo, early on July 16 where it will remain until entering Virgo on August 11, 2015.
Expansion planet Jupiter entering the sign of the actor, the artist, the comedian, and the child-at-heart indicates a year of sexy, sizzling style, playfulness, pizzaz, and parties. Big colour. Big drama.
Most of all, it indicates a year of more fun, and most everyone could use more of that amidst the various hellrides we've been on in recent years (decades, centuries, and millenia).
We have a deep wellspring of "humour as precious, healing elixir" to draw from as Jupiter transits Leo, and black humour gets us through even the toughest and tightest of spots - where we are now.
Just when we think we're down and out, when we feel absolutely crushed under the weight of oppressive circumstances, we find something that tickles our fancy. We see something that makes us smile - maybe a child, maybe a pet, maybe a comical situation. We find the joke or the self-deprecating comment that sets us free. We find the buried flame and coax it back to life. This is the grace that Jupiter in Leo bestows upon us this year. These are our blessings: the ability to laugh in the faces of power-hungry dickheads and their needless, idiotic cruelty. The ability to mock and satirize those who falsely believe they can snuff out our flames with violence, hatred, and inhumanity.
We are buoyed throughout this year by the continual realization of how fucking funny human beings are. We're buoyed by the realization of how funny we are, how funny our friends are. We amuse ourselves and our friends this year, rejecting the shallow corporate versions of celebrity and entertainment.
With Jupiter transiting Leo, the inspiration to create is upon us. The inspiration to create something BIG is upon us.
And the Leo New Moon at 3 degrees conjunct Jupiter in Leo on July 26 (4:42 p.m. CST) officially kicks this year of creative expansion off with a bang.
Jupiter in Leo reminds you to be the star that you are, the star that you were put on this Earth to be, because no one else can do it like you can.
But with Saturn transiting Scorpio (not leaving the sign entirely until September 2015), resources and energy are oh-so-limited. This means: what we create had better be good. It had better cut to the chase. It had better tap the deepest and richest veins of soul. It had better be sizzling hot, meaningful, and influential in creating the change we need to see on this spinning wheel. It had better say something that's aching to be said. Anything less is a waste of limited resources and creative juice.
Create a path to a future you'd like to live through on this planet. Create the new-era interpersonal dynamics that bring us into a better world.
We won't get the big reality check on the "catalytic relevancy" front until the very end of Jupiter's transit of Leo, when it (along with Venus in Leo) squares Saturn in Scorpio at 28 degrees of the signs on August 3, 2015. So it's in our best interests to hone our creative expressions to the most white-hot relevant and meaningful all along the way...
Relevant art, expression, and creativity can change the world. This is the potential we hold in our hearts and hands this year.
But self-flagellating, useless, and/or strictly-for-profit art, expression, and creativity help kill the world. Creativity without soul, without catalytic relevance to the times, is dead, pointless, unnecessary. It's a vanity project. It's a cardboard cut-out. Throw a match on it.
Big egos without even bigger benevolence are a gargantuan bore.
This year, we work to stay on the most cutting-edge, relevant side of things. This is the only place we want to be.
We start to tap our deepest and most catalytic creative motivations as Jupiter in Leo moves into a square to Mars in Scorpio, exact on August 1, 2014. We want the guts and the glory and the truest soul-stuff, and we eliminate all else coming out of this square. We are driven by our motivations for change, change, the deepest and most necessary of change.
Rock and roll is alive in our hearts and souls this year in more immediate ways than usual. The force of creation propelled through us can never die. It lives on and on and on without end.
Show this planet what sings through you. Show your ballsy, beautiful rebellion to those hierarchical powers-that-be who want to exterminate your shining light, who want to make you the same as everyone else. Jupiter in Leo forms a gorgeous, edgy fire trine to Uranus in Aries that is in effect for most of the year-long transit. This trine will be exact September 25, 2014, March 3, 2015, and June 22, 2015.
We are now rushing heart-first into this year of creative revolution, into this year of collective, creative rebel yell.
Let's rock this little planet. Let's show them how it's done.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
The Cardinal Configurations and Orchestrated Disasters in Major Food-Producing Areas
July 2014 flooding at a local farm
Photo credit: Leader Post
As many of you know, hundreds of people have been displaced from their homes by flooding in the prairie provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba since torrential rain on June 29, 2014. Millions of acres of farmland have been flooded, which will lead to major crop losses, and there have been hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. Most rural roads, highways, and bridges were closed in the affected areas due to flooding. Some have collapsed and will need major repairs. At one point at the height of the flooding, there was no way in or out of a neighbouring village. Basements have been flooded and destroyed on a massive scale. There is currently no working sewer or potable water in my village.
Thankfully, no deaths or serious injuries have been reported.
For anyone following the cardinal t-square and Grand Cross narrative since 2010, however, this is no surprise. I've written about the geo-engineered disasters tied to these cardinal squares from the beginning:
From May 2011: "As I've written about,
the current cardinal t-square formed by Uranus in Aries opposite Saturn
in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn becomes a quite unsettled (and
unsettling) Cardinal Grand Cross mid-June through the end of August.
We're under very similar astro conditions as we were last summer, only
tighter and more condensed. The parallels are striking - and
orchestrated. - Last summer, the Canadian prairies, where I'm located, were flooded. This caused massive crop failures - if farmers were even able to get a crop in after an unusually cold and wet spring. Honeybees starved to death due to the lack of flowering crops - not a good omen.
This spring, we have more of the same: unusually cold temperatures and heavy precipitation. Farmers can't get on the land due to flooding. People along the rivers have been evacuated from their homes, and they're calling it a once in 300 years flood.
- Last spring and summer, the prairies had wild weather all summer long, including baseball-sized hail, destructive winds and tornadoes.
This spring, various U.S. states are experiencing deadly tornadoes and baseball-sized hail. A HAARP-induced tornado Sunday night in Joplin, Missouri killed at least 116 people and destroyed large swathes of the 50,000-person city.
More artificially-created, unnatural disasters are to be expected. Don't blame Mother Nature or even global warming on these ones. Their hands are being forced.
- Last spring, the major, gut-wrenching disaster was the oil/Corexit/synthetic micro-organism horror show in the Gulf of Mexico.
This spring, it's Fukushima. (Both events are under media blackout.) The most recent readings released to the public show radiation releases from Reactor 1 shot up from 45 sieverts per hour to over 200 sieverts per hour on May 22/23. For perspective as far as how much radiation this is: an exposure of six sieverts per hour results in almost immediate human death. With a timeline of nine months until containment (as if anyone could really pinpoint it), the entire northern hemisphere is at risk for contamination by radioactive fallout - all while the government and media tells us next to nothing. Almost 5,000 Japanese nuclear power plant workers have been found to be suffering from internal radiation exposure after inhaling radioactive materials near the disaster site.
- In April of last year, a volcanic eruption in Iceland spread ash across northern Europe, stranding 10 million air travellers.
This May 22, just after Family Radio's "Rapture Weekend," another volcano blew in Iceland, kicking up similar clouds of ash and causing more air traffic problems.
- Last summer, the G8 and G20 meetings took place June 26-27 under a cardinal t-square/energetic Grand Cross as well as a wickedly potent Capricorn Full Moon lunar eclipse exactly conjunct Pluto at 4 degrees. The meetings took place with Uranus on the zero degree of Aries, moving into its long-term square position to Pluto in Capricorn, and planning for the Uranus-Pluto square series was laid out.
This summer, NATO is involved in a brand new war against Libya, headed by Canadian General Charles Bouchard. The initial attack was scheduled to begin on the vernal equinox 2011 as Uranus re-entered the zero degree of Aries. (The invasion of Iraq was scheduled to begin on the vernal equinox 2003 as Uranus ingressed Pisces.) NATO warplanes have been bombing Libya since then with the heaviest shelling to date happening this morning. Three people are dead and at least 150 injured, many gravely.
Osama bin Laden's death was announced May 1 just before Obama's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey show, giving his approval ratings a boost as he leads the United States into another attack on a sovereign nation. Other reports claim bin Laden has been dead for years. Now, aggressive language is being ramped up against Pakistan for supposedly harbouring bin Laden, justifying an attack against that country."
In July 2011, Pakistan's breadbasket was flooded in a horrific situation that killed around 1,600 people and destroyed two million homes, leaving up to seven million people homeless. That flooding destroyed crops on a grand scale.
(You may recall my reporting on crop derivatives schemes that pay off handsomely when major crop losses are experienced - or when the mass belief in crop loss fuels speculation on grains futures.)
The flooding of the Canadian prairies in 2011 was called a "300-year flood," and the flooding of 2014 occurred in a similar pattern. The rains followed an abnormally cold and wet spring in 2014 when many farmers were not able to get onto the land to plant, just as in 2011. Many who did manage to seed their land have now been unpleasantly surprised by the flooding of their efforts.
On June 29, 2014, as Mercury stationed direct in Gemini and the Sun in Cancer began triggering the Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn square, 8+ inches of rain came down in one day in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with a further 2 - 4 inches the following day. Creeks overflowed their banks, and dams were full to bursting.
On the other side of the weather-modified coin, another major food-producing area, the U.S. state of California, is currently experiencing a "500-year drought" with a miserable lack of moisture that has lasted for more than three years now. This drought threatens to break many food producers, particularly those who are independent.
Many point to climate change to explain this catastrophic weather.
But if you know the astrology, the timing and patterns are too uncanny to believe this is purely natural.
We are moving into the final two Uranus in Aries - Pluto in Capricorn squares of the seven-square series - in December 2014 and March 2015. A square series between these two transpersonal bodies was last experienced in the 1930s during the Great Depression, which included catastrophic drought and crop failures, and the lead-up to World War II
The semi-illegal dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board by the Harper regime in 2011 has created chaos in the Canadian grain system. Farmers are now receiving far less for their wheat than they were when the Wheat Board was fully functioning as a sort of "farmer's union" with mass selling power on the world stage.
Freight trains are not moving grain as quickly, either (preferring the more lucrative oil contracts instead?), leaving major backlogs of grain in the bins for many prairie farmers. Much of that backlogged grain has now been damaged or destroyed by the floodwaters.
Orchestrated war manoeuvres have also coincided with the cardinal squares this year, just as they have in years past. The illegal war against Libya was launched at equinox 2011, as Uranus re-entered Aries and moved into the seven-square series between revolutionary Uranus and deadly Pluto.
As the Cancer Sun opposed Pluto in Capricorn and squared Uranus in Aries this year, Israel launched a new bombing campaign against Palestine that has left more than 100 people dead and many more injured, including many women and children. This attack by Israel follows an intense media propaganda campaign that involved the story of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered. The kidnappings and murders were blamed on Hamas, the Palestinian political party with military wing. This media story is now being used to justify the current campaign raining bombs, terror, destruction, and death down on the citizens of Palestine.
The initial wave of 2014 cardinal configuration turmoil (weather wars on agriculture and standard wars against people) was kicked up as the transiting Sun in Cancer moved into orb of an opposition to Pluto in Capricorn (exact July 4) and a square to Uranus in Aries (exact July 8).
Now the Sun in Cancer moves to a square to war planet Mars (exact July 19), which is finishing its almost 8-month transit of Libra. This Sun-Mars square marks another acute point for the summer of 2014 when dramatic events can unfold, including events related to war or general social friction and strife.
Communication planet Mercury in Cancer begins to trigger the Uranus-Pluto square this upcoming week with an exact opposition to Pluto in Capricorn on July 22 and an exact square to Uranus in Aries on July 24. We can expect the narrative to be advanced here with new information coming forth along with new manipulations via media. We can expect some rising mental tension and stress heading into the July 22 - 24 period with themes of "uncomfortable things that need to be said, discussed, or thought about." Fuses could be short, and people could be frazzled and snappy, at times, pushed to their mental breaking points and beyond.
Mercury will enter Leo on July 31, squaring Mars, newly in Scorpio, on August 2.
Love, money, and relationship planet Venus will enter Cancer on July 18, stirring up further action with the Uranus-Pluto square as we close out the month. Venus makes an exact opposition to Pluto in Capricorn July 28 and an exact square to Uranus in Aries July 31. This creates tension and challenge in relationships and money matters designed to initiate major moves and changes that could be radical. Things will be moving on the love and money fronts and more than likely in ways we could not have foreseen entirely.
Astrologically, the final two weeks of July are as full of upheaval, tension, and potential turmoil as the first two weeks.
We are moving through major re-structuring made necessary by circumstances changing in ways that are out of our control.
The tension and dramatic events kicked up by transiting Mercury and Venus in Cancer triggering the Uranus-Pluto square could create points of exhaustion and depletion as we close out July 2014. With all those Cancer planets touching Uranus in Aries, there is a strong theme of "radical self-care" necessary in order to make it through.
Physical energy planet Mars is also running on empty as it closes out almost 8 months in the sign of its detriment, Libra. Mars has had enough of this sign. Watch any social over-extension carefully here, and avoid touchy people and edgy social situations if at all possible. Simply taking yourself out of the social game or going to "only what's necessary" can improve physical energy until Mars shifts into home-sweet-home Scorpio on July 25.
Monday, June 30, 2014
How High's the Water, Mama?
Flooding 2014
Photos: Willow
She said it's three feet high and rising...
After a deluge of rain in my local area (8 - 9 inches in some areas over the past two days), my village has been evacuated due to flooding, and I will be away from my computer for a few days.
I will return emails and schedule readings and lessons as soon as possible. I'm not sure if we will have power over the next couple days or not.
There haven't been any injuries or deaths in this area - just a lot of property damage, roads and bridges, gardens and crops washed out.
It wouldn't be the last cardinal Grand Cross summer of the Uranus-Pluto square series without something dramatic going on!
The Grand Water Trine is true to form in this area.
Thanks for your patience.
Friday, June 27, 2014
A Fortunate Fixed Star Portal Opens, But For a Limited Time Only
July is an astrologically action-packed month, a month when some
of the progress we’ve been working oh-so-hard to achieve suddenly starts to
unfold, as if by magic. Delays and frustrated efforts start to ease. The bodies
in the zodiac agree – it’s time for a change.
As we move through the month, we can expect fresh energy and
themes to emerge on multiple fronts as we tip, tip, tip those Libra scales into
new, Mars-led territory, particularly socially and in relationships.
Mars completes its almost eight-month transit of Libra this
month (July 25), blazing a new trail for us through relationships and social
relations. We don’t have to play the same old games in the same old ways. Remember
that. Mars in Libra is driving us into a new social balance, a new definition
of “fair,” and a new set of goals for relationships and our overall social
scenes to be achieved over the next two years.
This is an excerpt from the article "A Fortunate Fixed Star Portal Opens, But For a Limited Time Only." The full article is available to Willow's Web Astrology patrons, or it can be purchased for $5.50 at PayPal or by e-mail money transfer.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Summer Solstice, Chiron Stations Retrograde in Pisces, and Starfish As Coal Mine Canaries
Beautiful Point Reyes in Northern California during a hiking trip with astrologer Matt Savinar in June 2012 during the Venus Transit.
Photos: Willow
Chiron (wound, sickness, healing) stations retrograde at 17 degrees Pisces (oceans, spirit, connection of all life) on June 20 just as we mark summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, and the symptoms of a very sick and very irradiated Pacific Ocean continue to stack up.
Oyster and mackerel stocks are the latest to collapse along the California coast, but this is just the most recent news in a slew of illness, death, and mass collapse of marine life all along the West Coast of Canada and the United States.
From a previous post:
"Sea stars are dissolving into goo all along the West Coast of Canada and the United States. Seals have been showing up with open sores, hair loss, lethargy, crumbling livers, and enlarged hearts since the summer of 2011. Fish and kelp have tested positive for radioactive isotopes from Fukushima since early on. Eight times the usual number of dolphins are washing up dead along the East Coast of the U.S. Sea lions are showing up sick, convulsing. There are mass fish kills going on all over the world. Sardines are disappearing along the West Coast. Pelicans, which feed on sardines, have been starving since 2011. Toxic algae blooms are showing up, indicating a pH imbalance in the water. Manatees are dying en masse around Florida. Abalones and sea urchins are dying off the coast of California. West Coast owls have been dying of acute hemorrhaging since winter 2011. Dead sea creatures litter 98% of the ocean floor along the California coastline. Previously, 1% of the ocean floor was covered, and the increase began in 2011.
There is no doubt among reasonable and informed people that the nuclear disaster and contamination - on top of all the other radioactive contamination and other ocean contaminants - are killing life in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean ecosystem is collapsing, with nuclear contamination from Fukushima acting as the tipping point.
But all you will see in mainstream media are "baffled," "perplexed," and "stumped" scientists and academics, spouting nonsense about "mystery illnesses" and "mystery diseases" affecting the animals."
The marine life deaths are being blamed on everything from El Nino to global warming to mystery illnesses. Not once is the radioactivity from Fukushima raised as an issue, unless it is to downplay it or to eliminate it as a possibility.
Starfish (also known as sea stars) are on the verge of extinction along the West Coast of Canada and the United States. Their bodies are dissolving into goo en masse. This species is experiencing one of the more dramatic and visible collapses, and we have to ask why that is.
This data, posted to enenews.com, comes from test results from an island in Alaska that was measuring residual atomic bomb test radiation. It shows that horse mussels bio-accumulate radioactivity at a much higher rate than other species of marine life. Horse mussels are a primary food source for starfish.
* Cesium-137 — 3.854 pCi/kg in Dolly Varden fish
* Cesium-137 — 5.312 pCi/kg in goose Egg no shell
* Cesium-137 — 5.199 pCi/kg Gull egg
* Cesium-137 — 8.094 pCi/kg Chiton
* Cesium-137 — 4.981 pCi/kg Dragon Kelp
* Cesium-137 — 2.365 pCi/kg Rockweed
* Cesium-137 — 13.254 pCi/kg Greenling
* Cesium-137 — .384 pCi/kg Halibut
* Cesium-137 — 125.381 pCi/kg Horse Mussel soft tissue
* Cesium-137 — 15.505 pCi/kg Irish Lord
* Cesium-137 — 1.425 pCi/kg Octopus
* Cesium-137 — .995 pCi/kg Pacific Cod
* Cesium-137 — 10.216 pCi/kg Rockfish
* Cesium-137 — 16.749 pCi/kg Sea Urchin
* Cesium-137 — 25.254 pCi/kg Reindeer Lichen
* Americium-241 — .008 pCi/kg Dolly Varden
* Americium-241 — .106 pCi/kg Goose Egg no shell
* Americium-241 — .05 pCi/kg Chiton
* Americium-241 — .024 pCi/kg Dragon Kelp
* Americium-241 — .024 pCi/kg Rockweed
* Americium-241 — .098 pCi/kg Greeling
* Americium-241 — .008 pCi/kg Halibut
* Americium-241 — 1.678 pCi/kg Horse Mussel tissue
* Americium-241 — .11 pCi/kg Irish Lord
* Americium-241 — .003 pCi/kg Octopus
* Americium-241 — .01 pCi/kg Pacific Cod
* Americium-241 — .085 pCi/kg Rockfish
* Americium-241 — .091 pCi/kg Reindeer Lichen
* Americium-241 — .02 pCi/kg Sea Urchin
(full 2011 sampling report, first link)
This is the type of data and research you will not find from mainstream media sources, probably not even from alternative media sources. This is the type of research you find only from independent, researching human beings doing the right thing and sharing information.
Chiron is now stationing retrograde at 17 degrees Pisces exactly trine Saturn retrograde in Scorpio. This potent Saturn-Chiron trine will be strongly in effect throughout July and August, with a final exact trine occurring August 5...
This is an excerpt from the article "Summer Solstice, Chiron Stations Retrograde in Pisces, and Starfish as Coal Mine Canaries." The article is available in its entirety to Willow's Web Astrology patrons, or it can be purchased for $5 at PayPal or by email money transfer.
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