Wednesday July 17, 2024

– Gibbous Moon Phase – step out, take action, breaking away, expression

– Retrogrades in 2024 –

Pluto – May 2 – October 12
Saturn – June 30 – November 15
Neptune – July 2 – December 7
Chiron – July 26 – December 29
Mercury – August 5 – August 28

– Moon in SCORPIO – Void of Course 9:10 PM – 9:25 PM moving to Sagittarius

– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – July 17th – 18th – Travel for Pleasure, Advertise to Sell, Castrate Farm Animals, Mow to Increase Growth, Dig Holes, Kill Plant Pests, Cut Firewood, Wash Windows, Wean, Potty Train

– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – July 16th – 18th – Barren days, neither plant nor sow.

– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: – 20 ARIES: a young girl feeding birds in winter

– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer

– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Kathe, God of the South – Waves and Music

– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month – New Moon in Cancer SUN/MOON – 15 CANCER: a group of people who have overeaten and enjoyed it (EARTH – 15 CAPRICORN: in a hospital, the children’s ward is filled with toys)

SUN – 26 CANCER: guests are reading in the library of luxurious home

EARTH – 26 CAPRICON: a nature spirit dancing in the mist of a waterfall

Why the Environmental Movement Confuses Me

Growing up, I spent the third weekend of each month camping. My family belonged to a club, and we travelled all around Southern California at campgrounds. These were at the beach, in the desert, in the mountains and in forests.

As kids, we called it white trash camping. All in trailers and campers. Often will full amenities and hookups. Often with a little store or a pool and a playground. We had lots of food and sodas and everything (within reason) we would like.

Later I realized that much of it was also an excuse for the adults to hang out and get drunk without the fear of having to drive home. But we had Soda and sugared cereal and all of nature to hang out in.

Besides all the fun we could have, it was probably one of the best schools a child could have. Think of all we learned:

How to pack and prepare for a trip
How to set up a camp site – from parking and leveling the trailer to setting up the site.
How to build a fire
Hiking (and not getting lost)
Boating, skiing, motorcycle riding
How to catch, gut and prepare a fish
How to fire a gun and gun safety
Preparing food over a campfire

With all the fun, probably the most important lesson Iearned was the appreciation of nature. And this conservation was taught throughout my childhood. It was through taking care of the space we used for a time. It was picking up after ourselves. And making sure we left as little of ourselves in nature as was possible.

One of my father’s favorite games for us was to collect pop tops. Kids nowadays have no idea all we went through in the 70’s. These evil things were on every soda and beer can. To open them, you had to pull them off. And all too often, people would throw them on the ground. Dad paid us a bounty for picking them up in every campground. Just a penny apiece. But it was an easy way to get a dollar or two to spend on candy. That was how many of these things were cast off.

Add those to the cigarette butts and other trash, and you could see that litter was a problem. This was the era where commercials featuring Cherokee Indian Iron Eyes Cody standing on the side of a road where trash was being thrown at his feet. We needed to do better.

Environmental Confusion

I learned all of this from my parents and from the other campers in our club. But it was part of a larger education I was part of. I joined the Cub Scouts when I was old enough. And learned many additional skills. And conservation was always a cornerstone of scouting. Here we were taking part in enjoying nature. And while doing it, showing the utmost respect for it.

While we were doing that, the “Environmentalists” were there telling us we couldn’t. That we were spoiling the environment. That their version of “nature” could not be exploited. But in the end, it was less about protection and more about control.

Their agenda always starts with an emotional plea. Save the whales. Protect the harp seals. Save the dolphins. Take something soft and cuddly and show it being slaughtered. Then scream for CHANGE. And money of course.

While the idea of what the environmental movement is fighting for always seems heroic. Until look look underneath. You follow the money. You follow the agenda. And then you see that it is mostly a scam. And the scam is about power in the hands of a globalist power structure with a globalist agenda.

And that agenda absolutely does not have the interests of each one of us in mind. They call it “all” of us. And they are ready to spread that misery equally across the population – leaving the exception of themselves of course.

So my confusion has been and always will be that our end goals – a cleaner and safer world – are the same. But the way we get there is no where close.