Not One Iota ~ October 29, 2005

What an interesting time, and you don’t have to be versed in the Chinese curse/proverb to notice. Speaking of curses, another curse busted courtesy of the previously jinxed, highly scandalized Chicago White Sox Baseball Club. I’m not gloating here (yes, you are), but I did accurately predict this World Series on my Stars of the Diamond page - as I did in 2001, 2003 and 2004 (I took the year off in 2002). What do we learn from this and why does a non baseball aficionado care? Simply, the Universe relayed a message that the way it’s been for a long time and something about which it was believed nothing could be done, changed. How cool is that?

Really it goes back to recent passage of Venus over the “practice what you preach” and “speak only when you’re an expert” black hole package. Like any communication service, when you bundle, you get discounts. The discounted insight states: “You can’t have it both ways.” For instance, if you’re an oil conglomerate, you can’t complain about hurricane induced losses and then post a record profit after gouging the consuming public during a storm of price increases. You can’t complain that the White Sox received the benefit of umpire incompetence when it was clearly evident that game three would not have lasted to the cusp of the next millennium had it not been for a blown call for Houston. And it goes on. I’ll save the more severe political stuff for S&S, to be posted over the weekend.

But as a person and dealing with the impending Halloween holiday, which is it going to be? Trick or treat? We are in record setting times with things happening that ain’t happened before. Consider the current hurricane storm pattern in the Atlantic Ocean. I forecast late last year that the weather this year would run wild and anomalous all over the world. It wasn’t magic nor brilliance. It was noting that with Uranus crossing Mars’ closest contact to the Sun, which is proved to produce violent weather patterns when stimulated, that the pattern would play out. But here’s the flip side. While the frequency of storms made astrological sense, the increasing intensity made environmental sense - as in an effect of global warming. On Thursday, tropical storm Beta formed - a staggering record number of storms, now the second letter in Greek alphabet having exhausted the English alphabet. There is a rumor that the Aramaic alphabet will be used next year. Now to be clear, we must all render one iota of attention to all the facts involved. It is global warming compounded with predictable natural cycles playing out the pattern.

With Jupiter in the early days of Scorpio, a dredging effect that seeks bottom line truth, totally disclosed, what really motivates this engine honesty, stirs all waters. From political to climatic to personal to economic, the core issues appear. You can dress it up all you want. It’s still Halloween. It’s still a costume. Jupiter suggests wearing a costume that suits your nature. For instance, I’m going to wrap myself in tinfoil and go trick or treating as an aluminated alien. Well, half of that’s so, meaning my effort can’t be foiled. Anyway...

Venus soon moves over the Galactic Center. To resolve dichotomies and crises of consciousness caused by collision and collusion with reality, get back to the bottom line. Decide and define what you want. Make that an uncompromising truth. Sit a spell, which is quite different from casting a spell. While sitting, conjure as many new progressive ways you can to ensure that your bottom line meets with progressive, trend reversing, curse busting solutions. This process consists of applying a tarnish reducing polish with adequate amounts of elbow grease. Consider the White Sox. After the cheating scandal that resulting in the barring of several players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, they became the Black Sox. But now, they have skill and fire and talent and an expensive ring to prove it, and restore White Sox status.

Consider Joe Jackson. This banished ballplayer became the cornerstone of the 1989 film, Field of Dreams. This movie opened while Saturn conjoined Neptune, demanding that reality not squeeze the life out of fantasy. Now, as the White Sox win and clean their collective socks, Neptune and Saturn check out progress halfway through their conjunction cycle - sounds like something we’d have to do using Maytag’s Neptune washer/dryer appliances. Regardless. The images stand clear. Create the bottom line of your life and make it your vision. Honestly now, seek that vision with no excuses and no justifications, caring not one iota if other see your views and desires for being Greek to them.