Totality
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A harbinger of better times, if we can survive the worse ones.
The much-anticipated solar eclipse is about two weeks away (Aug 21, 2017). Interestingly, to me, the path of totality will pass directly over my current residence (Columbia, SC) at 2:42pm before it exits over Charleston and out to sea. I can’t remember the last time I lived in a place so situated (if I ever did). So I suppose I’ll be watching, if there’s enough of a break in the weather and the chem-trail haze.
A lot of people are excited about this eclipse. I understand schools are closing early to let their students view it. One of my co-workers is taking off to seriously watch it through a telescope. Of course, such a major astronomical event prompts yearnings to glean the significance from it, both scientific and spiritual.
I mentioned in my last journal entry that I was reading a new book by John Hogue: Worldwide Astrological Predictions for the Real New Year: Spring 2017 to Spring 2018. I’ve finished it and posted a review (see the links a the end of this entry). In his book, Mr. Hogue does draw some astrological significance from the eclipse, mostly as a herald to major events that are the subject of prophecies (re: Nostradamus and others). These events represent turning points in human history and concern things like World War III (a nuclear one with the US against Russia and China), financial meltdown (i.e., a stock market crash), and a major climate event that includes some stunning natural disasters (like earthquakes along major faults running through the US). Heavy stuff, but Mr. Hogue also offers a thread of hope.
I’m not really a “believer” in astrology in the sense that I plan my life by horoscope, but I don’t dismiss it or any spiritual practice. I feel like there is a nonphysical side of life, that is probably the larger side. I call it “the numinous” and I think we interact with it constantly, and mostly unawares (I incorporate this idea in my novel-in-progress, Power of the Ancients). Practices such as astrology, tarot reading, mediumship, and fortune-telling tap into the numinous and can provide insight to people who are self-aware, open-minded, discerning.
It seems to me that when historical prophets such as Nostradamus, Stormberger, Edgar Cayce, and even bible prophets predict world wars and other calamities that point to current times, we should pay attention. Especially those prophets, such as Nostradamus, that show amazing accuracy in their predications. What we get from them, as far as I can discern from my reading, is a consensus that civilization (and possibly humanity) will end in apocalyptic warfare. Current events seem to be a juggernaut in that direction.
There is another prophetic thread among the seers that indicates a calamity of nature, especially weather. I see this in Mr. Hogue’s writings, in Nostradamus’ writings, the Hopi prophecies, and others. They all say, in essence, that the weather will go wild “towards the end.” Even “messages from the other side” reported by psychics, and “alien abductees” are very often filled with ecological themes and warn of the destruction of the human habitat (i.e., Earth). I have come to believe that much of this points to the utterly insane and apocalyptic practice of geo-engineering that our rulers engage in with total abandon.
But prophecies are possibilities, potentials and warnings. None are written in stone. I mentioned that he offers a thread of hope in the dark times he writes about (and he is as adept at reading current events as he is at reading the stars or Nostradamus’ quatrains). That thread is the idea that these times are the birth pains prior to better times. The pains will be terrible, but the world that comes from them will be, well, if not heaven, at least livable. He is referring to the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (in an interesting throw-back to a song that very popular in my early youth).
It is difficult for me to be optimistic about the Age of Aquarius when I read current events. But then, what Mr. Hogue and believers in the New Age are referring to is a return to the way humans lived when we were tribal hunter-gatherers. That is, when men and women worked as partners without hierarchy and everyone shared in the fruits of everyone’s efforts. This is more than socialism; it’s practicality. And it worked for the most of the time of human existence on Earth.
So maybe there’s a chance for surviving these times and for humanity having more future. After all, Nostradamus made predictions of a future history as far out as 3797 c.e..
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LINKS for further reading:
My review of John Hogue’s new book of predictions, here.
The Amazon page for Mr. Hogue’s book, here.
Geoengineering Watch—much info but it’s dark and desperate, here.
Power of the Ancients, here.
The much-anticipated solar eclipse is about two weeks away (Aug 21, 2017). Interestingly, to me, the path of totality will pass directly over my current residence (Columbia, SC) at 2:42pm before it exits over Charleston and out to sea. I can’t remember the last time I lived in a place so situated (if I ever did). So I suppose I’ll be watching, if there’s enough of a break in the weather and the chem-trail haze.
A lot of people are excited about this eclipse. I understand schools are closing early to let their students view it. One of my co-workers is taking off to seriously watch it through a telescope. Of course, such a major astronomical event prompts yearnings to glean the significance from it, both scientific and spiritual.
I mentioned in my last journal entry that I was reading a new book by John Hogue: Worldwide Astrological Predictions for the Real New Year: Spring 2017 to Spring 2018. I’ve finished it and posted a review (see the links a the end of this entry). In his book, Mr. Hogue does draw some astrological significance from the eclipse, mostly as a herald to major events that are the subject of prophecies (re: Nostradamus and others). These events represent turning points in human history and concern things like World War III (a nuclear one with the US against Russia and China), financial meltdown (i.e., a stock market crash), and a major climate event that includes some stunning natural disasters (like earthquakes along major faults running through the US). Heavy stuff, but Mr. Hogue also offers a thread of hope.
I’m not really a “believer” in astrology in the sense that I plan my life by horoscope, but I don’t dismiss it or any spiritual practice. I feel like there is a nonphysical side of life, that is probably the larger side. I call it “the numinous” and I think we interact with it constantly, and mostly unawares (I incorporate this idea in my novel-in-progress, Power of the Ancients). Practices such as astrology, tarot reading, mediumship, and fortune-telling tap into the numinous and can provide insight to people who are self-aware, open-minded, discerning.
It seems to me that when historical prophets such as Nostradamus, Stormberger, Edgar Cayce, and even bible prophets predict world wars and other calamities that point to current times, we should pay attention. Especially those prophets, such as Nostradamus, that show amazing accuracy in their predications. What we get from them, as far as I can discern from my reading, is a consensus that civilization (and possibly humanity) will end in apocalyptic warfare. Current events seem to be a juggernaut in that direction.
There is another prophetic thread among the seers that indicates a calamity of nature, especially weather. I see this in Mr. Hogue’s writings, in Nostradamus’ writings, the Hopi prophecies, and others. They all say, in essence, that the weather will go wild “towards the end.” Even “messages from the other side” reported by psychics, and “alien abductees” are very often filled with ecological themes and warn of the destruction of the human habitat (i.e., Earth). I have come to believe that much of this points to the utterly insane and apocalyptic practice of geo-engineering that our rulers engage in with total abandon.
But prophecies are possibilities, potentials and warnings. None are written in stone. I mentioned that he offers a thread of hope in the dark times he writes about (and he is as adept at reading current events as he is at reading the stars or Nostradamus’ quatrains). That thread is the idea that these times are the birth pains prior to better times. The pains will be terrible, but the world that comes from them will be, well, if not heaven, at least livable. He is referring to the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (in an interesting throw-back to a song that very popular in my early youth).
It is difficult for me to be optimistic about the Age of Aquarius when I read current events. But then, what Mr. Hogue and believers in the New Age are referring to is a return to the way humans lived when we were tribal hunter-gatherers. That is, when men and women worked as partners without hierarchy and everyone shared in the fruits of everyone’s efforts. This is more than socialism; it’s practicality. And it worked for the most of the time of human existence on Earth.
So maybe there’s a chance for surviving these times and for humanity having more future. After all, Nostradamus made predictions of a future history as far out as 3797 c.e..
* * *
LINKS for further reading:
My review of John Hogue’s new book of predictions, here.
The Amazon page for Mr. Hogue’s book, here.
Geoengineering Watch—much info but it’s dark and desperate, here.
Power of the Ancients, here.
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