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Bill Maher and I share lots of political humor.
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Reading with Ellie
Crystalinks turns 25 - August 25, 2020 |

NASA aThe moon may contain more water than previously believed, including on its sunlit surface. I know it was just wishful thinking on my part but I had hoped it was an alien base or the crystal tower I see when I remote view. Guess not! Did you ever wonder why astronauts have never returned to the moon or have they?

Sports - Yesterday Tom Brady (age 43) surpassed Drew Brees (age 41) as the league's all time leader in touchdown passes (259) - throwing 4 touchdowns. In Baseball the Dodgers took game 5 of the World Series and are now one game away from 2020 champs. In the chaos of reality it's great to have something to cheer about.

Economy - The economy was strong before Covid as Trump inherited a growing economy which kept an upward swing on his watch. It accelerated in Trump's first two years in office, before slowing down again in 2019 - the sine wave effect of all things in a binary experience. Wages were rising, even for lower-income workers. After more than a decade of economic growth, the labor market had become tight enough that employers were increasing pay more quickly than inflation was rising. The trend began under Obama and continued under Trump. Trump's overall economic record is problematic, partly because his tax cuts were so skewed to the rich. But Trump got some big decisions right. Most importantly he appointed a Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, who focused on growth rather than wrongly thinking inflation was a threat and kept interest rates low.
Trump's economic policy geared almost completely toward lifting growth in the short term, while largely ignoring long-term dangers. He increased the deficit, mostly to give wealthy households big tax cuts. He scrapped environment regulations, which increases the likelihood of costly climate destruction. And he hollowed out parts of the government, including its ability to respond to a pandemic.
One year ago yesterday, Biden tweeted: "We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security." The bottom line: Much of the economy's performance is beyond the control of a president. Trump had the good luck to take office with a far stronger economy than either of his predecessors Obama and George W. Bush enjoyed. Trump had the bad luck to have a global pandemic arrive during his re-election campaign. He has tried to claim full credit for his good luck and deflect all blame for the bad news. But that's not the fairest way to evaluate the Trump economy.
Ultimately Trump deserves solid marks for its performance during his first three years - and much worse marks for his long-term economic legacy. Simply put - the man lives in the moment and you know what happens to people like that.
At the end of the day - in the sine wave of reality - everything has its ups and downs and sometimes overstays its welcome. There are no winners in this election as we sit in the audience and watch events unfold trying to adapt our own economic portfolios.
This week features the upcoming presidential election, the Supreme Court, the global increase in Covid, weather, and Halloween.
October 26, 2020 - Pumpkin Day - Halloween Files
Twenty years ago I was planning a trip to Egypt to visit the pyramids among other adventures. It was the time of Ramadan, a full moon, the trip encompassing the date 12/12/2000.
At that time I created a series of files about Pyramids and Ziggurats. Two decades later ... it was time to return to the files to update. Currently I am working through the last of the files - the Egyptian pyramids.
This experience may have resulted in my wakeup dream this morning wherein an unseen male was giving me one large fluffy Egyptian-looking white ostrich feather while sending the thought - These are some of the roles you played

1) The white ostrich feather is the emblem of the ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at, who embodied truth, justice, order and humanitarian morality in Pharaonic Egypt. ... All Pharaohs were subject to "the law of Ma'at" - a factor, perhaps in the extraordinary longevity of Pharaonic civilization. The ostrich feather was a sacred object in ancient Egypt, as the symbol for the goddess Ma'at. The ostrich feather thus is seen as a powerful symbol of truth and purity, and taking on the ostrich as an animal totem can be a way to focus one's energies on living a just life.

2) Atef is the specific feathered white crown of the ancient Egyptian deity Osiris. It combines the Hedjet, the crown of Upper Egypt, with curly red ostrich feathers on each side of the crown for the Osiris cult. The feathers are identified as ostrich from their curl or curve at the upper ends, with a slight flare toward the base. They are the same feather as (singly) worn by Maat. They may be compared with the falcon tail feathers in two-feather crowns such as those of Amun, which are more narrow and straight without curve. The Atef crown identifies Osiris in ancient Egyptian painting. Osiris wears the Atef crown as a symbol of the ruler of the underworld. The tall bulbous white piece in the center of the crown is between two ostrich feathers. The feathers represent truth and justice. The Atef crown is similar, save for the feathers, to the plain white crown (Hedjet) used in the Predynastic Period and later as a symbol for pharaonic Upper Egypt.
3) Then I remembered that a local client named Athena - who I read last week - mentioned seeing white feathers around her before the reading. We assumed these were messages from her mother who passed this year. Now that I think about I found a small white feather on my desk the day I read Athena so I took a pic and sent it to her. I've noticed small and large white feathers floating past my window in recent days perhaps the time of the year when local birds molt.

The Greek goddess Athena takes us to the Egyptian Goddess Neith an early ancient Egyptian deity who was said to be the first and the prime creator. She was said to be the creator of the universe, all it contains, and she governs how it functions. She was the goddess of wisdom, weaving, the cosmos, mothers, rivers, water, childbirth, hunting, war, and fate. As the mother of Ra, the Egyptians believed her to be connected with the god of the watery primeval void.
Number 22 has been a trigger point all year for the astrology of 2020. It was at 22 degrees Capricorn that Pluto & Saturn first conjuncted on January 6th, that set off the pandemic and the reverberations that were to follow this year. All the cardinal signs have been majorly affected, especially when planets went over 22 degrees.
On Halloween, at the full moon, once again, Pluto is back at 22 degrees Capricorn.
On November 12, Jupiter is exactly conjunct Pluto for the last time again at 22 degrees. Mercury finally leaves its shadow on this day and we most likely will be told who the next president will be.
This is an exact astrological repeat of 2000, when Bush vs. Gore was decided by a judge based on an 'hanging chad'. This time it will be the question of validity for mail in ballots. Then we begin to exhale ... and wait for the next chapter of our story to unfold.
The 'Covid Clump' of pandemic planets, Pluto, Saturn, and Jupiter, will begin to separate. On the solstice of December 21sth, Saturn and Jupiter meet at exactly 0 degrees Aquarius foretelling the new era to come.
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