At sunrise this morning, May 22, we were treated to a conjunction of the Moon with Venus. The conjunction did not occur exactly at sunrise, however, that was later at 10:09 AM EDT, at 16 Aries 24. The two appeared very close together because Venus is only 2 degrees of declination the right of the Moon, in addition to being in conjunction by longitude. This article is the third in this series, please read the two prior postings: Venus as Innana and the Cosmic Pentagram and Venus as Innana at the First Gate, for the necessary background material for this article. In the two…
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On May 30, 1806, Andrew Jackson and Charles Henry Dickinson met in a duel in Nashville, Tennessee. Charles Henry was an excellent duelist with 26 kills under his belt. The animosity between the two men seems to have started in 1805 over a bet at a horse race. Jackson and Dickinson were rival horse breeders with a long-standing hatred of each other. Dickinson accused Jackson of reneging on a horse bet and called Jackson a coward and an equivocator. Getting no response, Dickinson then Jackson’s wife, Rachel, a bigamist. (Rachel had married Jackson not knowing her first husband had failed…
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Will there be War? The question is rather redundant because America has been on a more or less continuous ‘war footing’, either in active military engagement or preparing for action, since July 1776 . See this article on Wikipedia The Rise of the Military Industrial Complex President Eisenhower in his Presidential farewell speech in January 1961 famously warned against the growing influence of the ‘military-industrial complex’. Edward Teller, the man who invented the H-bomb, met Eisenhower socially after his Presidency was finished, and felt that Ike President had specially in mind : Colonel Thomas Lanphier , the flying ace World…
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Venus, Stage 1 The planet Venus and its cycles were closely observed and honored by many ancient civilizations and shamanic cultures like the Celtic at New Grange Ireland, the remains of the Sumerians, the Babylonians and Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem; best known is the Mayan calculation. The ancients were attracted to Venus because one it was fairly regular in its orbit, two close to the earth and easily observable and three its unusual pattern. This allowed them to based ceremonies and rituals what has since been called the “Cosmic Pentagram.” A complete pentagram is formed in the sky by Venus in…
