Wednesday September 25, 2024
– Third Quarter Moon Phase – realign, revise, reorient, surrender, complete
– Retrogrades in 2024 –
- Pluto – May 2 – October 12
- Saturn – June 30 – November 15
- Neptune – July 2 – December 7
- Chiron – July 26 – December 29
- Uranus – September 1 – January 25
– Moon in CANCER –
– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) Sep – 25th – –Get Married, Mow to Slow Growth, Can Fruits and Vegetables, Brew Beer
– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – September – 24th – 25th – Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Good days for transplanting. Fine planting days for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops.
– 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 VIRGO SUN/MOON – 12 VIRGO: a bride with her veil snatched away (EARTH – 12 PISCES: an examination of initiates in the sanctuary of an occult brotherhood)
SUN – 03 LIBRA: the dawn of a new day reveals everything changed
EARTH – 03 ARIES: a cameo profile of a man in the outline of his country
Going Nuclear – The Intro
With all of the escalation of hostilities around the world, and notable lack of leadership here at home, I think it is important that we all consider what it will mean to be in a word war – even if we are not “active participants.” Passive suppliers to the effort is bad enough.
But even worse, consider how far these escalations could go. What would it mean if wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe went Nuclear and one or more of the factions killing each other drops a nuclear bomb?
What Would it Mean?
The fear of nuclear war has been somewhat lost on the more recent generations.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in 1945 (79 years ago). And it did not take long for other nations to decode the technology and make it worse. By the 50’s, they had built enough Nuclear Bombs to wipe out life on planet Earth. The players were The East vs the West (aka the USSR vs America).
The Boomers were born into it. They had to endure Fallout shelters, backyard bomb shelters, nuclear drill. They lived through the worst of the Cold War where there was a constant state of fear that nuclear war was imminent. We had the Korean and Vietnamese wars that were basically fights to stop the spread of communism. In 1964, Nuclear War was even featured in a Presidential Election in the form of a commercial warning the country against Goldwater.
By Generation X (about 1966) much of the fear grew to its worst. The bombs became a Competition between the east and west. And relations between the two sides was a stalemate.
I do not remember bomb and air raid drills in school (in California the worst of what we endured were earthquake drills). But we hated the Communists. And we feared the destruction.
Come the beginning of the Millenials (about 1980), Reagan was President. The peaceniks were sure that he would surely bring us nuclear war. Instead, he brought us the START talks and the INF treaty to reduce the number of nuclear warheads. They would not have happened without the Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative (a space based defense system that would stop Nuclear Bombs from reaching the US). These showed that maybe as a species, we were not trying to kill each other off.
Then there was the fall of the Soviet Union. The fall was economic mostly. Their economic system collapsed. But it allowed the people in the Eastern Bloc to stand up and fight for their rights. And the Cold War ended.
The problem is, there are still all of these Nuclear Bombs all across the world. And now it is more than just two countries.
Nine countries have nuclear weapons:
- Russia
- United States
- China
- France
- United Kingdom
- Pakistan
- India
- Israel
- North Korea
The total number of nuclear weapons in the world is close to 13,000, with the United States and Russia possessing nearly 90% of the total. While the number of nuclear weapons is lower than it was during the Cold War, some countries have been expanding their arsenals. Everyone is pretty sure Iran has weapons now.
What are the Millenials and Zoomers Thinking About it?
I look at the younger generations and question whether they are really prepared mentally for what is going on. Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Iran have all made Nuclear threats in the last year. We who grew up during the cold war understood the idea of mutually assured destruction – that one bomb would trigger a full on Global war that would destroy life on Earth.
But is that what will happen?
What will we do if Iran Nukes Tel Aviv??
Will strategic nukes deployed in the Ukraine make us all go boom?
It’s a lot to think about. Stay tuned for more.