G7 – Summit in St.Ives, Britain – free content
The political “leaders” of the club of the rich have met again. This time the main points on the agenda of the illustrious group covered: leading global recovery from Covid 19, while strengthening resilience against future pandemics; promoting prosperity by championing free and fair trade; tackling climate change and preserving the planet’s biodiversity; and championing shared values. To give the entire meeting a more inclusive shine and appearance, political representatives from other countries – like Australia, India, South Korea and South Africa were invited. Like with so many of these kinds of meetings – the public coffers have to pay the exorbitant cost of these meetings – but their participation is left to the interpretations of the very likely weeks before honed statements of their press conferences. The discussed matters and decisions affect all of us and are clearly of public interest, but are still crafted and decided behind closed doors. In days of modern communication would it be a great deal to make those kinds of meetings public, via the internet, to prove their true public intent. Nonetheless, the scripted outcome and beforehand designed media statements are certainly …
Rockets over a Holy Place – part 2
In the last article, “Rockets over a Holy Place,” I made the case that the just bygone tension between Gaza and Israel was connected to a transiting Mars over the AC of the present annual horoscope for the State of Israel. Since the horoscope not just contains that described content of time, it might well be worth taking a deeper look into the present active chart to find up the not so distant future holds for the Holy Land. …
Rockets over a Holy Place -free content
It started around May 7 clashes between Jewish groups and Muslim worshippers broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The area around the mosque is considered one of Islam’s most sacred sites — an area also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount. It is most likely one of the most disputed pieces of property in the world. People around the world are meanwhile used to these kinds of headlines. This time the differences could not be settled peacefully and the rift has so far ended in rocket attacks and airstrikes destroying property on both sides of the Gaza/Israeli border. According to this week’s news, a brokered ceasefire by Egypt has put an end to the 11 day bloody and destructive dispute that killed over two hundred people and destroyed many buildings. Examining the present situation from an astrological point of view shows that the quality of time had all starry tools ready for deployment to instigate a military type of showdown between those two sides. …
French Generals warn of Civil War -free content
Over the last two weeks the international media, in a concerted effort, outright condemned the warning of some high-ranking French military brass that the country is heading for civil war. An open letter signed by 25 retired Generals warned “The hour is grave, France is in peril.” It is not the first time that a warning of this kind was expressed from active and retired military members, but this time it hit the international headlines. As a response, the French Defense Minister, Florence Parly, has vowed to punish soldiers that signed the open letter. We could call it damage control from the highest level. Nothing new these days – be it Covid, climate change, the denial of an unsolvable looming economic / monetary crisis, social unease – almost anything these days is getting stomped out by the overpowering streamlined private and government media, ridiculed, torched and just simply eliminated. The political behavior that is on display by many governments of perceived democratic countries is certainly nothing close to a democratic …
Fentanyl – the origins of a potent and silent killer
Who has not heard about the serial killer that silently infiltrates our communities? In Canada every day 11 people and in the US 41 die of opioid substance abuse. According to the WHO about 269 million people (or 5.3% of the global population aged 15-64 years) used drugs at least once in 2018. Among them, about 58 million people used opioids. About 35.6 million people suffered from drug use disorders in 2018 Worldwide, about 0.5 million deaths are attributable to drug use. More than 70% of these deaths are related to opioids. The biggest consumer of prescribed opioids is the US. All those numbers seemed to get drowned in the present Covid media frenzy that is loud, overpowering and heavily politicized. As an example here in Western Canada in B.C., the number of Fentanyl deaths for last year is about 1.5 times higher than Covid related deaths. I know in other parts of the world these numbers are not that one sided but the problem of artificial opioid use is not something that can be ignored. If you read and hear about the recently proposed countermeasures that Health authorities are coming up, one can only wonder – do these officials really know what they are dealing with? To get a better picture of that crisis from my end of the chart – I started searching for an adequate date or time when one of the many opioids were introduced to the market. …
The Social Trap -free content
The old saying “Socialize losses and privatize profits” still fits the present day narrative; actually, it even seems to be applied to all sorts of fields. Starting at the top with large entities like entire countries and their respective political orientation right down to small local business projects there is hardly any new enterprise or organization that can risk escaping the narrative of “sharing”. There are hardly any startups these days that can afford not to advertise its “beneficial social aspect or value” without risking losing social media brownie points and putting the potential future of their venture in peril. Some company descriptions sound almost out a communist manifesto rather than a well calculated, for profit orientated business. Be assured, profit or a gain of power is certainly the well calculated driver. The phenomena is not isolated to just one part of the world; like its cause, it is international and does not stop at borders. The made promises will not lead to the land of plenty, which is getting to be very obvious lately. The benefits almost seem to be reserved only for a handful of …
In Time – a movie premiere (2011) free content
For avid movie lovers this movie has most likely passed its shelf life, but I find the title as well as the subject intriguing. For quite some time I intended to have a chart of the premiere of the movie and explore a bit the content of time of the almost 10-year-old cinematographic production. The plot of the story unfolds in the year 2169 portraying a society whose universal currency is time. Time can be traded and / or passed onto another person. Starting with the age of 25, a one-year countdown begins displayed on your forearm, where you can always see and check someone’s remaining time. Basically, the race to gain more time starts with that age and depending how much you earn (time), you extend your lifespan. Wealth is expressed through possession of time and to give it a more socio-political angle, the …
Seaspiracy – a documentary -free content
Last week a new documentary premiered on Netflix -“Seaspiracy”. The documentary focuses on the worldwide human impact on fish, marine wildlife and oceans in general. Tackles topics like overfishing; the fishing industry; slavery on fishing boats; and the ambiguous world of different environment and marine conservation organizations, which seem to whitewash the industry’s doings. Aside from the obvious, very sad and concerning visual impressions of dead marine life, which many will focus on and remember, the documentary also delivers a hidden message. The accumulated data and stats quite subtly debunk the existing narrative of the carbon climate hoax the world is presently exposed to (see earlier article). “Seaspiracy” makes a first quadrant case that the world’s oceans …
Coke and sugar – the glue of the new society
According to marketing analysts there is no product better recognized around the world than Coca-Cola. Its taste as well as its container can be described as iconic, and apparently Coca-Cola is perhaps one of the most internationally understood words. The bubbly beverage was sold for the first time in May 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the brainchild of John Pemberton, a pharmacist who was trying to find a formula for an all around medical remedy, possible to cure many ailments mainly to cure headaches, upset stomach, and fatigue. For that very reason, the initial recipe of the soda called for alcohol and, until the prohibition in 1929, even cocaine. One glass of Coke contained up to 9 milligrams of the pain numbing drug, that these days is only sold illegally in the backstreets. Apparently, the present Coke drink still to this day contains ingredients of the Coca plant. John Pemberton advertised it as a “brain tonic and intellectual beverage,” but did not see the stelar rise of his product since he died just two years later. As everyone knows, the company is multinational and is the biggest beverage manufacturer and distributor in the world. The world certainly drinks a lot of it – just to make it more graphic, you can find the following comparison – the normal flow rate of Niagara Falls is about 1.5 million gallons per second …
UFO – sightings – part 2
The entire UFO story complex is a narrative that certainly thrives in an environment that is without understanding nor has any acceptance of higher or divine forces. It fits the present era, which is religiously techno based, which certainly has no place for a higher power or spirit – “forbid even a God.” Subsequently, it has …
UFO sightings -part 1 – free content
The idea and fascination that extraterrestrials visit Earth obviously never got out of style. In 2019 alone close to 6000 UFO sightings were reported and that in the US alone. Common problem with all these reports: limited amount of witnesses and a lack of evidence. One would think that in times of the omnipresent cellphone there would always be a camera around that would catch at least a more detailed glimpse of something, some cell phones have multiple cameras that are able to produce movie quality images, but no. In the search for a well documented UFO sighting that offers exact times and descriptions I ended up searching for some phenomena that would be worth exploring astrologically. I came across a reported UFO sighting right on the tarmac of the Chicago O’Hare airport, one of the busiest airports of the US. The incident is well reported and documented. Even a government report of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena delivers exact time and place descriptions as well parts of the radio chatter that was filling the airwaves …
The Great Competition – the birth of the Mr. Americas, Universes and Olympias – free content
A mid-September evening in 1901 an event attracted more than 15.000 spectators to the sold-out Royal Albert Hall in London – it was an event that was organized by Eugen Sandow, Russian born Friedrich Mueller, and is recognized as the first bodybuilding competition. The prize to win for the best balanced and most defined male body was set with 1.000 guineas, around $6000 today. Mr. Sandow, who is mainly referred to as the father of modern bodybuilding, chose no other than the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be the judge over the masculinity on display. The event is in a way considered the mother of all bodybuilding contests like Mr. Olympia, Mr. Galaxy or Mr. Universe, that followed years later and it can be seen as the blueprint of all later …
Tiger – encountering Saturn
Luckily, Tiger Woods survived the single vehicle car accident. His fate was fortunately not similar to another sport legend, Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash early last year. As already laid out in my Kobe Bryant’s article, when these kinds of tragic accidents happen it is usually the compounding effect of some constellations that get charged up over time and then triggered (released) by transiting planets. As with many of those kinds of accidents, the pattern is similar. They all need some sort of initial priming, before the compensated energy that accumulated gets released (see – The Regulatives). One can already be born with …
O CANADA – Great Conjunction of 2020 – outlook for Canada
As I indicated in my December article about the Great Conjunction, I’d return to examine different country’s horoscopes and see if we find something that is worth mentioning or detecting. To kick off a series of articles I’d first like to examine the chart of Canada since I found some quite telling leads in it and it is certainly for me one that literally “hits home.” Over the next couple of months I will pull out some other countries on different continents and we will see what we can get. Looking at the Canadian chart of the Great Conjunction of 2020, there are a couple of aspects that could be seen as “disturbing” or should I say, timely currents that could be viewed as disruptive. The chart has a potential of a …