Mira, a red giant, is not new to our awareness. It was first used a reference marker for Mercury in 1596 by David Fabricius. Mira, meaning “wonderful” or “astonishing,” is known to have a companion star and bears the distinction for being the brightest periodic variable. Astrologically, we catalog Mira at 1 Taurus 31. Sightings prior to those of Fabricus are speculated to have occurred, but those are likely fabricus-ations. Nevertheless, Mira live up to its namesake.

An interesting concept arises around Mira’s appearance, depending upon which color spectrum one uses to view the enigma. Ultraviolet filtering and viewing reveal factors previously unseen. Infrared viewing would reveal an entirely different spectrum, and like UV offers up things invisible to standard optical viewing. Maybe there is something to looking at the world and Universe through different color glasses. Perhaps rose-colored glasses are the way to go, after all. I’ve decided to go for the balance of blue and red (as close to UV and IFR as I can get) and am seeking to resurrect some of those old1950's era 3-d movie watching glasses to see what I can see. Since I don’t have any of those glasses handy anymore, looks like I’ll be on e-Bay later.

Over the next several days Mars in Gemini and Jupiter in Sagittarius face off across the measure of zodiac. Most simply, astrologers see this as too much energy - Mars = energy, Jupiter = too much. But it can also manifest as amazing skirmishes of philosophical warfare, principle-based battles, lines drawn in theological and political sands, and personally, one over assessing one’s physical capability. I am optimistic that politicians in the U. S. can overlook the comment made by the Iranian general that threatened to “punch” the U. S. What are the odds of that? Astrologically it’s curious that we now find out the major insult uttered during the last year’s famous World Cup Head Butt incident under this pattern. Hopefully, irrationality will not run amok/amuck - take your pick.

Here’s where I go amok. The rest of this GT is a rant. You’ve been warned. You can skip to the sales pitch at the very end or bow out now. My personal tilt comes from Internet hoaxes and people post ill-informed commentaries on the state of the world and Universe. Oh yeah, I’ve been accused of that in the past... and maybe following the following commentary. But this is a star blog, not a stellar debate.

Still with me? Good. The Mars-Jupiter pattern currently marks its turf and as part of that, here’s what made me tilt. Over the past week I have received no less that thirty forwards from the site that tells us that the world recently added more than twenty degrees to its tilt in space and there’s a government conspiracy threatening to cover this up. Folks, think this through. Some speculations offer that the ice age may have begun during the Earth’s last pole shift. I don’t know if that’s true, nor does the person claiming to be the reincarnation of Noah. But I’m pretty sure if the Earth’s axial tilt shifted in such a dramatic manner, life on Earth would be done and we, like the mastodons, would be found in a hundred thousand years with buttercups in our mouths.

That’s assuming this refers to axial tilt, not a magnetic pole shift. Some speculate that the Earth’s molten core would be turbulently affected by a magnetic pole shift. My science background doesn’t know what to make of that either. The experiments I did with a home made electromagnet and some mercury I found on e-Bay were inconclusive. The earth tilt website, which lacks contact information (that should be a clue), claims the plethora of volcanic eruptions, surge of earthquakes and globally prevalent heat wave (Northern Hemi, of course) are all effects of the pole shift/axis tilt. Nah. If these catastrophes were related effects, I’d be expecting hundreds of thousands of heat wave related deaths and the frequency of earthquakes and eruptions making life downright unliveable and certainly outside the realm of expected occurrence. By the way, the Earth’s magnetic poles shift all the dang time, not significantly, but they shift. Sometimes aviation officials have to change the numbers on airport runways. These numbers indicate the direction of the runway to the nearest ten degrees relative to true north and need to be repainted when the true magnetic north shifts sufficiently.

Did I mention anyone with a Crackerjack box compass could see the magnetic pole shift? Airplanes flying on instrument would miss their intended landing site, cruise ships would fail to find their harbors and boy scouts would not make it home to their tents.

The axial tilt site shows how the sun rises at a higher latitude than it should based upon some pictures of Dallas. There are no reference markers to orient the viewer. You might as well purchase the baseball signed by Rudy Guiliani in blue pen with the accompanying proof photo where he signs a ball with a black sharpie that you can find on e-Bay. If the poles had shifted so radically, anyone with a clock would notice the radical difference in the amount of daylight/darkness each day, let alone the time of sunrise, sunset.

Confirmation of the axial tilt seemingly is a slam dunk confirmed with a satellite photo of the earth jumping in the corner of the picture. Anyone who watches weather on the tele knows this is a common occurrence in satellite pictures. And if the Earth tilted in space, would not the land masses in the satellite pic shift as well given the satellite maintains a “constant” point of view instead of remaining the same?. And don’t you think some geek Googling his latest affection’s backyard, would have noticed?

Finally, is there a government smart enough for a scientific cover-up? Here in the U. S., the government ignores science, but that’s another thing and instead of looking smart, they assume the characteristics of three adjectives on the far side of silly.

It appears that one of the hot topics in metaphysics of the 1990's started as an Internet hoax. Maybe because we’re alternative thinkers, we’re naturally predisposed toward conspiracy theories and such. I’m thinking, though, that insidious factions intend to discredit metaphysics and derail the truth of what’s happening on Mother Earth by getting those phenomena-logically oriented, distracted by false phenomena. Global warming is real. It’s not the tilt of the Earth causing the heat wave. There is no conspiracy in science. There may be a conspiracy around science. Nature speaks with impeccable clarity on her own behalf. What better time could exist than a Mars-Jupiter pattern to decode malicious hoaxes and clearly listen to the language of nature for ourselves?

I’ve got to go. I have to head down to the local authenticators to verify that my signed photo of Albert Einstein receiving an award from Abraham Lincoln is for real. The selling description indicated that since Einstein leaned toward concepts of time warping, he proved it in this picture. Cool!

Why not check out the questions to cosmic questions on my website? I address some of the hoaxes in advance of their appearance. And you know what? I was right about Y2K and I was right about Barry Bonds and the home run record.

Since we have the Mars Gemini-Jupiter Sagittarius sales pitch in the sky going on, feel free to buy stuff in my store. Or donate. That’s cool, too. To reiterate a point in my last Galactic Times, come mid-September until late October, my reading schedule is next to impossible. Book now or resort the “Quick Answers to Questions” hyperlink on my home page.