At 2:14pm (EDT) was a lunar eclipse. I say "was" because I am posting this about 3 hours after the fact. But the effects are still in play.
jack’s story
I never met him. He told me the story over the phone. There was real sorrow and regret in his voice. Regret that they hadn’t got to her in time, that she hadn’t shared her pain so they could stop her. Even after she jumped they could have saved her, if only she had held on another minute.
You see he already had the deaths of the other 2 girls on his conscience. He looked for them for 4 days but their bodies were never found, ever. He said the sharks had got them, the ones that hung around the whaling station 50 years ago. Many long years later he is still sad about those girls, the grief in his voice seeps down the phone line. It was his fault, he told them to go there. It was their pretty skirts, he said, the wind had caught them. They were just young girls, sightseeing, but he should have known about those full skirts, the ones they wore in the 50s. He desperately needed to find some kind of explanation, so he chose that one. It didn’t assuage his guilt. The recent drowning made him relive the pain all over again but he still needed to talk about it.
Because it went even further back to when his own friend took his life. That was his fault too. They tried to ring – but no-one got there in time, like this last one, just too late.
These days he is too old to go out in the boat so he mans the two-way radio in the local sea rescue. Still trying to save people and feeling bad about the ones he couldn’t then and still can’t. (Journal entry, 5 October, 2008)
Jay Cutler and the Bears beat the Vikings...wow. Who saw that coming?
While typically bemoaning the state of the world to a ‘wise old friend’ I discovered something encouraging. Apparently it is nobody’s fault that we are in a state of degeneration. Cosmic forces have been at work. According to Hindu scripture, for the past 5,111 years the world has been in an age of ‘vice’ called the Kali Yuga, the era of the ‘male demon’. Given the dominance of the male gender, scientific rationalism and the destruction of Mother Earth, this sounds about right.
The Kali Yuga is referred to as a Dark Age because human civilisation ‘degenerates spiritually’ and morally during this particular turn of the wheel. It is associated with the apocalypse demon Kali (not to be confused with the goddess Kali, although I don’t know why not - Goddess Kali is a destructive bitch herself but she is just taking revenge I reckon) That might also explain the apocalyptic thinking that seems to dominate our era and the many apocalyptic dreams I have had.
Some believe we are now in a new phase of the cycle or that we are on the verge of starting one. Bring it on I say! According to Swami Sri Yukteswar ‘we are in recent transition from the lowest material age, the Kali Yuga, into the electrical or atomic age, the Dwapara Yuga’.
In this era we ‘begin to see the world as more transparent as we move from an awareness of self as a physical body in a strictly physical universe, to an awareness that we are something more’. Given my own journey on the planet and my thesis, that sounds about right too.
I will keep looking into this, but for now, I am happy to be deluded that things will change.
Thanks to Wikipedia and image & info from 'History and Celestial Time' http://www.world-mysteries.com/Walter_Cruttenden_1.htm
On December 26 at 9:38am (EST)---Mercury turned Retrograde.
They tell me it’s complex. I am tired of people hiding behind that particular euphemism for ‘you don’t know what you are talking about so you should listen to me because I do’.
Having just moved to
I found a recent article on the ABCs NSW internet site that talks about this very problem in
‘They talk about the fact that these….greedy rich people (have) got more than one house and if they didn't….other people could own….or rent that house…They're really attacking a fundamental right….to have a second house or even to be able to have a flexible lifestyle where they might move between two houses….’
Right? What right? I am going to sound like a communist here but having a second house is not a right, it’s a luxury. With so many people in the world without a decent roof over their heads it’s not really that complex is it? Let’s get that one straight at least.
