START NOTHING: 9:13 am to 6:40 pm Sun., 1:42 am to 5:35 am Wed., and 8:31 pm Thurs. to 12:53 pm Fri.
(NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, AS BRITISH COLUMBIA HAS ABANDONED PACIFIC TIME, and will use Mountain Standard Time year-round. Pacific Daylight usually would end Nov. 1, but B.C. has rejected Pacific Standard, and will now run as Mountain Standard, year-round.)
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NOTE: If you are interested in the A-to-Z astrology course which Chengxi and I developed over the last two years, you can inquire more from Chengxi. Her email address is: 1417375672@qq.com I supplied all the text and speaking, and Chengxi is doing the visual and translating my English into Chinese, and putting the whole thing together digitally.
WEEK AHEAD — SUN SIGNS:
As noted last week, the planet Venus is retrograde, and will stay that way till November 13. TAURUS and LIBRA will be most affected. In general, love slows down, or returns from the past.
Mercury retrogrades Saturday, October. 24, also to November 13. So DON’T start new projects now to mid-November.
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ARIES, the accent remains on relationships and opportunities from the past (not brand new ones). Early week is for happiness and enjoyment, although you might hit a rough spot Monday night or Tuesday morning. Retreat, rest and contemplate Wednesday to midday Friday – you’ll get good advice if you ask for it. Late Friday starts a weekend of high energy and high charisma — conquer something!
TAURUS, this is your last week of work and health issues. Be ambitious early week. Social happiness comes Wednesday to the middle of Friday – good stuff! Retreat, rest and contemplate Friday late and Saturday. Don’t make solid plans though. Friday starts a month of exciting relationships — the best of these will come from the past, not the present/future.
GEMINI, you have been feeling heightened romantic vibes, or creative urges – this is the last week of them. With Mercury and Venus retrograde, you haven’t really been able to take advantage of these feelings. This will be the case until mid November. Early week is for intellectual adventures, far travel, and gentle love. Do be gentle Monday night/early Tuesday. Be ambitious Wednesday to Friday. Friday p.m. starts a weekend of fun and happy socializing.
CANCER, this is your last week of being more than usually tied down to home, children, domestic duties. Not a good week to make a commitment, although you might be pressed this way Sunday to early Wednesday. Tackle quiet or private work, secrets, and research, financial and sexual situations early week. Intellectual growth, travel and gentle love visit you Wednesday to midday Friday. Friday eve starts a weekend of ambition – you could meet important people.
LEO, this is your last week of restlessness, short trips, communications and paperwork — but not of indecision, which can last to the middle of November. Relationships are important early week – mostly good but be careful Monday night and Tuesday morning when disagreement can flare. Tackle quiet or private work, secrets, and research, financial and sexual situations mid-week. Make NO commitments. Friday eve starts a weekend of imperial expansion, travel, and gentle love.
VIRGO, this is your last week of collecting money and spending it. Tackle chores and look after your health early week, especially Monday night and Tuesday morning, when you might be tempted to eat the wrong thing. Relationships fill mid week — in a pretty fortunate way. Friday evening starts a weekend of mysteries, investigation, financial, and sexual lures. Delay, surgery, dental work and financial commitments.
LIBRA, your charisma, energy and “presence” remain high. Despite this, you can feel slowed or indecisive. That’s OK, your best decisions will come after November 13, and might involve spending on travel or diving into a special paperwork opportunity. Early week is very romantic and/or creative. Don’t test a relationship Monday night or Tuesday morning. Tackle chores Wednesday to midday Friday – mostly good results. (Beware electricity and computers, Wednesday a.m.) Friday eve starts a weekend of exciting meetings.
SCORPIO, this is your last week of tiredness, low energy, low interest and low charisma. Friday begins a month of success and energy — the more deeply you rest before Friday, the more energy will have that day onward. Sunday to pre-dawn Wednesday brings family issues, and the chance for deep rest. Mid week is romantic and creative. Tackle chores midday Friday into the weekend. Do something good for your health. Here forward, your energy will be great, but indecision advises against starting big projects before November 13.
SAGITTARIUS, this is your last week of fun and frolic (or dealing extensively with some group or another). Friday will begin a month of quietude and recuperation. Early week brings paperwork, casual friends, communications and errands. Be careful Monday night and Tuesday morning. — don’t spout off! Be home mid-week, hug the kids and your mate, make the beds, dig the garden. Friday afternoon begins a weekend of romance, creativity, play, and nature’s beauty.
CAPRICORN, a few weeks of extra ambition ends this Friday, when you will enter a month of happy socializing. Chase money early week., buy/sell, be intimate with a casual lover, or learn something by rote. Be cautious Monday night and Tuesday morning. Midweek keeps you busy with paperwork, trips and communications — some good success here. Friday afternoon start a weekend of deep domesticity. Be with the family — here lies success and happiness.
AQUARIUS, this is your last week of far travel, intellectual expansion and gentle love. Friday will begin a month of ambition and examination of your qualifications. Your energy and charisma are very high early week — bosses favour you, but lovers don’t especially. Chase money and possessions – and casual intimacy if you want – midweek. Most things will go your way. Friday afternoon starts a weekend of short trips, communications, and casual friends.
PISCES, your month of darkness and secrets will fade by Friday to let in the light of understanding and revelation. Lie low, rest and contemplate – but do not plan — Sunday p.m. to dawn Wednesday (PDT). Your energy and charisma jump upward Wednesday to midday Friday. You can get lots done, but avoid starting brand new projects or relationships. Friday afternoon starts a weekend of gathering money, shopping, hugging, a sexy friend, and sitting down with a good book to learn something.
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AFTERWORD:
Donald Trump is a Gemini Sun with a Sagittarius Moon and Leo rising sign. The lunar south node entered Leo in late July, 2 1/2 months ago. That’s right about when I wrote here that the Donald was making a mistake. I was referencing Iran and Trump’s slowness and hesitation. But the south node, in Leo until March 2028, is a broad spectrum influence. For example, just yesterday (as I write this) Trump at a rally, speaking about the Democrats, said as his climactic comment, “we’ll shove it up their asses.” not the most gracious thing to say, and I suspect such comments will alienate independent voters.
Leo is the sign of the king, and Trump is being tempted more and more to act like that – but in a way that hurts himself because the south node is usually poor karma, and unrealistic choices. So all you Leos need to be careful until April 2028. Reject self pity, reject anger, and reject independence – all these can bite you in you know where. The very best thing you Leos can do: interact with others, be interdependent, chase opportunities, foreign relationships, relocate and make public appearances. (In this last, Trump is doing the right thing.)
Trump’s ascendant is 29 degrees Leo, which means his potentially poorest decisions occur when the south node is in that degree. It was in that degree from July 28 to October 9 — the weeks just past. Hopefully, this man’s worst decisions are behind him. But the effects of the node will last to some degree for another 17 months.
Additionally, the nodes travel an average of 1.66 degrees per month, or 18-19 days per degree. But the south note stays precisely on Donalds rising degree (29 Leo) for 74 days — over four times as long. In astrology, the longer a body sits in one place, or an aspect lasts, the more powerful it is. So if Trump made mistakes in the last couple of months, they were probably four times as significant as any ordinary mistake.
I told you months, even years ago, what Trump should do in both Ukraine and Iran. Of course he never saw my advice, but he ignored it anyway.
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I think I’ve said this before: pedophilia is more evil, more heinous than murder. Putting the pain of the murder aside (for it is unknowable – killing someone might take two seconds or 20 days or months) – putting that aside, killing someone ends their life on earth. If there is no afterlife, that’s it, the end. The victim doesn’t suffer, because the victim doesn’t exist anymore. If there is an afterlife, then the victim, once dead, gets in line for the next life. If we do have to experience 100,000 or so earth lifetime reincarnations to ascend to a level worthy of heaven, then the victim has fulfilled one of those “ demand” lifetimes.
In any case, it is doubtful that he will suffer in the afterlife, once dead. So the only pain a murder causes, other than the physical pain of the murder, is suffered by those left behind, still living.
Pedophilia is a far different matter. Instead of exterminating someone’s life, you bend them early. The sapling that’s bent yields a bent tree. In maturity, it’s top branches sweep the ground rather than kissing the sky. The abused child will forever walk a path that might parallel, but will never join, never merge with, the normal crowded one. He or she will spend this entire life as an outcast in some way or another, or in many ways. Will face temptations that ordinary adults from ordinary childhoods do not. Instead of simply extinguishing a life, the pedophile creates a life of pain and loneliness. To what degree is dependent upon two things: the severity of the incidents, and the cooperation or non-cooperation of relatives, especially the parents. In this area, often motives will weave in and out like in a rattan chair.
Let’s put it this way: when a child is sexually abused, no parent is innocent. Innocence might be claimed by ignorance, but what is ignorance? Then of course there are the parents who openly cooperate in the abuse. Two weeks ago in the news, there was a story of a woman who took her six-year-old son to a doctor who proceeded to anally rape the boy while his mother watched. She did this numerous times. When the boy protested, the doctor said: “this is what doctors do.” this is typical and the most evil of all things done to a child, to say to him her that being abused is normal, and protesting is insane. Here the bend in the tree is much more powerful than a mere penis up the anus. This doctor got six years with the possibility of early parole. What did the boy get? What did the boy get? The motives of bad parents are like cockroaches: if you see one, 100 more are hidden.
Condemning an innocent child to a lifetime of semi consciousness, of rage, whether within or expressed, whether recognized or waiting to leap like a cat, of lack of boundaries and confusion about others motives, even those 1000 miles away and uninvolved. Caution, preventing intimacy – or both thrown to the winds. Loneliness, miles and miles of loneliness. This is what a pedophile has done – rather than murder, he/she has murdered a child’s life, has psychologically broken — permanently, there’s no healing here! Only a bunch of fools parading as psychologists who trying to capture experience on paper. Permanently, the pedophile has broken the child’s arms and legs, has poisoned their life force, yet makes them go on living (in a subtle way – the pedophile doesn’t make us keep on living; the true villain is nature, which injects us with such joy from life).
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I THINK IT WAS Zachariah or Zephera who wrote in the Old Testament, speaking for God, that when man could turn night into day and escape the bounds of the Earth, God would retreat – not in anger, not in disappointment, but to let mankind mature on its own going forward.
Nothing happens overnight, but with electricity return night in today as a casual event. Men have landed on and circled the moon. I think we are entering that new world. Turning night into day: this started with caveman’s fires, took a leap forward with Tesla and Edison, and our light there’s so extensive that it turns night today – as seen from space – over huge swaths of northeastern US, Europe, and parts of Asia. Escaping the Earth, began with the Wright brothers (though the dream began with poor Icarus) and took a major leap forward with NASA and the Russians.
I think it’s up to us now, guys.
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I wish I weren’t so angry. I really do want to be a happy peaceful man. But I would say about, or a slice about 1/4 of me, is angry.
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Aries or first house, is a doer, a conqueror. Taurus, or second house, is a possessor. Gemini/3rd is an experiencer. (Eg, learning the job is more important than the pay. ) cancer/4th – security and sheltered growth; Leo/five, take a chance. Virgo/6, practice, wellness or get sick; do your job. Etc.
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Whenever I meet a dog on the street, I always extend the back/outside of my hand – the other side of the palm. I suspect dogs find this the least aggressive stance, because every single one I’ve met has come up to smell my hand.
At this point, one of three things happens: 1 in 10 will jump back and bark or growl; another 1 in 10 will jump back and watch me alertly. Both scare me enough that I will say hello to whoever’s on the other end of the leash and be on my way.
But with the other eight, I’ll probably slide my hand under their jaw and scratch their chin; then scratch behind their ears, then lastly, if I feel very accepted, I’ll pat and scratch the top of their heads. If I’m unsure, I’ll just skip that third caress. Touching the top of a dog‘s head has various meanings to the dog. I think the dog perceives it as dominance among other things. The quickest way to alienate many (unfamiliar) dogs — and/or to get bitten – is to try to pat them on their heads at first meeting.
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You know Trump should’ve just kept his mouth shut. Canada already was America’s 51st state. By going and boasting about how he could make it real, he cut deep into the Canadian character, which at base is Scorpionic. He did more to advance Canada‘s sovereignty and independence than any US president. Or 50 years I’ve been writing here that one day Canada would rule the US. Of course you might see this through Donald’s eyes in reverse.
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Canada should eliminate all tariffs. Every penny collected as a tariff is in actuality a tax on the Canadian citizen, because every penny accrues to the government’s coffers. In other words, we pay more, the US gets less, and the government keeps all the extra money.
Another simple mechanism that would have the same effect as tariffs without the economic damage to Canadians, would be to have no tariffs, but anything sold in Canada from the US or any other country must charge the same or more than the identical Canadian product. If a specific Canadian industry looks threatened under this arrangement, then by law imported goods must charge an additional 10% to the customer. In other words, they must jack their prices up by 10%. This is still not a tariff, because no money flows from producers/importer or purchasers to the government.
There is one potential flaw: it contains the potential for manipulation by the Canadian producer/seller, although this manipulation would probably not be severe or deep. Canadian producers could whiplash US producers/Canadian importers by changing their prices.
A more serious though subtle danger of this method is that it holds a whisper of communism,
It provides an advantage in forming groups, and its nature does not really conflict with communism.
Another problem would be matching values of items: when are items identical, or identical with additional parts, etc.? Food would be quite easy to match.
Such a law or process – price matching without tariffs turning into communist control over prices and production – is a danger.
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Recently, I opined that America would tend to move into Canada because they could just not sustain the energy needed to cool off from months of 100° plus temperatures.
Now it is revealed that some California residents pay up to $ 2,000 a month for utilities, mostly to run those air conditioners. Evidently for many California residents their utility bill is equal to or even more than their mortgage payments. Just saying.
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I think David Eby wins his B.C. election. He’s a staunch federal loyalist, I suspect. The independence referendum in Alberta will probably be defeated, but I sympathize with the promoters. Ottawa and Montreal have long bullied BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan. They have looked on us like a hole in the backyard, that they can keep pulling valuable things out of. In exchange, they gave us the RCMP and a bureaucracy – both controlled by the east.
The East has given the West nothing but heartache for over two centuries;
If the east can’t reform and woo the west, which Carney is trying to do now, then it’s time for the west to lay down some of their own rules, and to treat the east like a competitor — at worst an enemy, at best an associate.
With the exception of Quebec‘s Hydro power, these three provinces contain almost all of Canada‘s energy (absent NFLD, the northern territories, Nunavut) and an abundance of resources, minerals, fish, forestry, farmland. Ability to export would be huge. There are two major ports, Vancouver and Prince Rupert, and various specialty ports, such as the coal port at Tsawwassan, or the expanding LNG terminal at Kitimat .
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As I understand it, this is the sequence: first, non-Jews kick Jews out of Israel, then the Jews spread around the world, then the Poles and the Germans (with quiet cheers from Britain and Russia) decide to eliminate the whole Jewish race. They fail, then the Jews go back and reclaim Israel.
Then the non-Jews in the Middle East try to eliminate them and wage war – in fact, wage several wars, all of which the Jews win. Then Israel gives the non-Jews a major piece of real estate with ocean waterfront – the Gaza strip. Then the non-Jews use the Gaza strip to launch an “unprovoked” attack, to kill and rape over 1,200 Jews. Then the Jews retaliate and take over the Gaza strip, while the non-Jews continue to shoot Jews. Then the international criminal court (ICC) declares that Israel has committed genocide and their leader (Netanyahu) should be arrested. The ICC is of course a collection of Jew haters. I am sad to admit that Canada is one of these Jew-hating nations and has joined a criminal court in trying to arrest Israel’s own leaders. What a bunch of pussies!
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There is so much anger in me. I see it in the blog, especially when I’m talking about Democrats or pedophile Joe Biden. Enough already. Yet I’m also a warm, generous, tolerant, and welcoming human being. Typical of Gemini – duality, the twins, and often two sides to the personality. If you only see one side of a Gemini, realize there’s something you’re not seeing.
Gemini is one of four double bodied, or “ dual” Sun signs. The others are Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. All four have some difficulty with decisions. They see at least two sides to every issue or event. Sagittarius can be an exception here, because they can become so passionate about an ideal, a principal or a political/religious stand that they will admit no counter argument.
Virgo and Pisces can be as indecisive as the rest, but some members of both sides make decisions very easily. Best here is the Pisces who relies on intuition and impulse. Second best is Virgo, who takes a logical, matter of fact approach to a decision. He/she might mentally or on paper list the pros and cons of an action. Or envision the people and the situation and the project to determine what he/she thought would lead to the most practical outcome. With experience, a Virgo can make many decisions very quickly, but might still remain indecisive or of two views about something major: to marry, best career, death.
There’s a trick Geminis could use: 95% of the time, believe your first answer. If you sit back and mull something over, you might be mulling it over for a decade or two. Often, you can rely on your first impulse also.
For Sagittarius, like Gemini, trusting your first impression, and responding on impulse, often works. In making major decisions, there’s a pretty reliable rule of thumb for you Sages: pick the path that you feel most enthusiastic about. If it’s totally impractical, find a way to make it pay.
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Bigot, biased, prejudiced – these words used to carry a potent distain and threat.
Even many swear words were not quite as strong.
But that has changed. This nomenclature and its tentacles have grown weaker, not stronger, through repeated (over?) use.
These words of accusation, often repeated, become part of the landscape, limp yet angry at worst, suited for logical arguments and landscape painting at best .
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Awhile ago, I wrote here about the eras and mega-eras we live in. I promised to give you some “exact” dates, rafter than my approximations. Here goes. Noticed that every chart has Neptune in Sagittarius –, EXCEPT the 2229 A.D. chart, which has Neptune in Capricorn. This is the signal of a new mega era. In the next mega era, which I think occurs around 5000 AD, Neptune will be in Leo. (That’s my memory, I can’t quickly find all these old charts.) So every time Pluto enters 0° Scorpio, a new era will begin, to last approximately 250 years. But Neptune changing signs when Pluto is in 0° Scorpio, indicates a new mega era. Every single Pluto return or ingress into Scorpio, for thousands of years, occurred when Neptune was in Sagittarius. But the first time that Neptune is in a different sign – in Capricorn in 2229 AD — indicates a new mega era.
This is the chart that predicts the industrial revolution. — 1736 AD
This is the chart of the beginning of our own present era. Began 1983, will apply until 2229 A.D.. (This era is the last one of our present mega era, which began around the time of the Egyptian pyramids, and contained many, many eras.)
This is the chart of the coming new era in 2229 AD. it is also the chart for the new Mega era That will last for a few thousand years.
Here is the era chart that began in 13 AD, around Christ’s birth.
Here is the 1490 era chart, just before Columbus discovered America.
Notice how many of these Pluto return era charts begin right around a huge historic event? One around the birth of Christianity, one adjacent to the discovery of America, one when Rousseau “discovered” democracy, and the steam engine was invented, starting the industrial revolution. Our own 1983 era chart coincided roughly with the invention of the cell phone and the Internet.