Lunar Eclipse May 2023

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May 03, 2023

Sometime in the mid-seventies, there was a small gathering of few people in the living room in the host’s home in Honolulu. Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was the guest of honor and was very excited to learn that I am an astrologer. He asked if I would provide him a list of eclipses. I said it would be my pleasure, but would he care to explain why he wanted the list. He said that eclipses intensity the effect of whatever one does so he would schedule meditations.

This was interesting. The rule in Western astrology is that eclipses tend to affect those in high positions more than common people. I always suspected that such ideas are based on the fact that historically, only people of rank could afford astrologers and they also usually kept meticulous track of the birth times.

A lot of ominous prognostications have been published about eclipses and what they portend, but the reality is that we survive 4-7 eclipses every year so if you multiply that by your age, you probably will not reach for the panic button. Eclipses are however important IF they touch off configurations in the birth chart. They are also sometimes prophetic if we are trying to guestimate what might happen in the future.

They occur in 19-year cycles so you can go back to 2004, 1985, and 1966 to see if anything stands out as important in terms of world events or your own life. The 57-year cycle is the most significant because it resembles more closely the current eclipse . . . although it must be noted that the planets will all be in different positions, even if the sun and moon are repeating a pattern.

1966

What jumps out at me when comparing 2023 to 1966 is that there were several major events that protected our rights. The first was perhaps the Supreme Court decision “Miranda v. Arizona” in which people must be read their rights before being questioned by law enforcement.

The very next day, the Vatican suspended the 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum', the list of banned books that was instituted in 1557. Then, on the fourth of July, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act.

In terms of the recent admissions of alphabet agency involvement in social media, Facebook and Twitter have provided ample testimony and evidence, but the puppet master is many steps higher up the ladder. Moreover, these tech giants are not the only prominent online and print press companies kowtowing to the powerful elite. Voluntary or coerced, there has been both censorship and manipulation of information, as well as invasive use of personal data that violates our right to privacy.

Congress seems basically toothless since most members are beholden to invisible forces whose objectives are rarely in the public interest. However, there is often a tipping point. In the present situation, the rock and hard place are the constituents and the paymasters. Thus, if there is to be a parallel in 2023 similar to 1966, it might take the form of some kind of restraint on meddling by ostensibly private enterprises and government agencies . . . or the free press will simply become stronger and stronger. It goes without saying that what governments want is usually not what is in the interest of the people. So, what we see is efforts to hold the reins tighter and tighter. Brazil is currently the best example of overreach.

The issues go beyond interventions and freedom because disinformation has also played a major role in swaying public sentiment. The “Russian collusion” allegation has probably run its course so they have to find some new hypercharged fiction.

1985

There were a lot of events in 1985 but the one that stands out is that Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released. My thinking as to the possible parallel is the new everything app announced by Elon Musk.

2004

In 2004, the CIA admitted that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If we go back, there was no Gulf of Tonkin Incident either, but Wikipedia has not corrected the account despite the publication of the Pentagon Papers. This would not be worth mentioning unless the narrative is used to defend actions than would otherwise be indefensible . . . and unless the false narrative remains uncorrected despite being disinformation.

2023

Global tensions are very high. Everyone is aware of the senseless destruction of lives and property in Ukraine, but there is conflict in many other places, like Sudan and North Korea.

Food and fuel supplies are threatened; inflation is out of control, and leaders lack a sense of responsibility to their constituents. Many are predicting World War III. I think it will be avoided, but a lot of chaos is still likely.

Our planet has experienced many wars, and they are often supported by the Military Industrial Complex which sometimes profits by sales to multiple parties. I feel the reporting on Ukraine will come under scrutiny, and we will have to come up with answers regarding the Nordstream 2 Pipeline, the biological weapons labs, and the various mercenaries taking part in the war.

Moving away from conflicts, though it may pinch a nerve or two, I see a slight parallel between same sex marriage and our current situation. In the U.S., the first legal same sex marriage took place in Massachusetts in 2004. The current parallels are arguments favoring lowering the age of consent to include minors and allowing surgical sex change operations on minors.

Personally, I do not think that these are liberal versus conservative issues. They reflect a loss of reason. Where same sex marriage is concerned, there is no reason to deny the same rights to every couple that wishes to tie the knot in an official manner. Marriage customs vary enormously from culture to culture, but when two people are officially married, there is a legal contract that affects shared assets and inheritance. The ability to protect one’s interests should be supported by law. Other issues are a matter of consensus, belief, or personal choices.

However, lowering the age of consent to well below puberty is not designed to protect children but rather to cater to deviant adults. In short, while gender is a common denominator, the rest of the parallels fail the litmus test.

It actually does not matter what opinion anyone holds about partnering so long as the relationships are between consenting adults, but where I see a conflict now is that not only are there stages of gender changes, but issues such as in sports. I do not think that a biological male should be allowed to compete against biological females. The size and muscles are different so this is unreasonable.

In general, I think civilization should rise to level that all people are entitled to equal protection under the law. It does not matter what the race, religion, or gender is when it comes to entitlements, but certain handicaps preclude equal opportunity in certain capacities.

To this, I would add that Biden’s cognitive issues should be a disqualification for office. Unless he can prove he is coherent, responsible, and fully in control of himself, he should gracefully step down. Again, there is a parallel to 1966 because it was presumed that Lyndon Johnson would run again in 1968, but he did not.

This, I believe, is one of the issues being ignored by most talking heads. The assumption that the next major election will be a contest between the same two aspirants as the last election ignores the possibility that Biden’s downward spiral is unlikely to reverse.

As for Trump, he has to survive many law suits. It is entirely possible that he can hold up under the pressures, but the paramount issue, I believe, is the role of technology, including artificial intelligence, algorithms, and the risks associated with data. To the extent that much, if not most, of what we take as fact is actually fiction, we do not know how data will be interpreted, but this is only one tiny part of a much bigger issue that has truly significant parallels to the 1966 movements to allow greater access to information that has been hidden from public view. It also has parallels to the advances in technology and changes in social norms.

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Eclipse Paths:
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2023-may-5?n=234
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/1966-may-4

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