Year of the pig: economical perspectives and astrology

I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen anymore, especially after last year’s predictions. I think we are in a period of changing energies that is so profound that we will be affecting the outcome of things more obviously that ever with our intentions from the spiritual perspective. People have a tendency to want to clock and predict things, and work from statistical analysis, and as far as I’m concerned we are at the beginning of the time when that won’t work at all anymore because we tend to do it out of fear and survival. The new consciousness taking root now is more like what the Hawai’ians call the Aloha spirit. “Community” is what will be supported by the energies more and more as the years go on.

My prediction for the year of the Pig?

Anyone who acts like a pig is going to end up in deep shit.

Smiling in the snow,
Alexander

Can you clarify what you mean by last year’s predictions.

I think that Michael’s predictions were right on the mark.

Red Fire Dog Year – Signified social upheaval and demand for justice.
This certainly happened here in Hungary where I live and work. After the leaked tape of the PM Gyurcsany where he admitted lying to the public and the revelations of the money laundering of 4 Billion dollars in Indonesia by the same government there massive barking for justice. And on the day of the 50th anniversary of the 56 uprising against the communists there were clashes on the streets, rubber bullets, police brutality, bleeding bystanders and fire. A RED (read communist)FIRE DOG year indeed, especially as the the current government are in fact the literal succesors to the former communist regime.
The 911 truth movemment also made massive strides Charlie Sheen spoke out, polls show that most Americans believe it was an inside job, I finally managed to convince my parents ( a daunting task) with the help of the loose change film.
Fear and the survival instinct is a very real, valid force and doesn’t warp predictive ability. Its how you respond to fear that makes the difference. Making predictions doesn’t negate free will but gives it a context in which to work.

Dylan

Hi Dylan,

The predictions I refer to are most of the ones I saw that were made by people who wanted to be quite specific about things, such as the what Randolpf Buss says in the article Wendy posted- “Honestly, we do look at some esoteric indicators ; some analysts use sun-spots, some astrology, some consumer preferences.” I do not put people like Michael in the category of people making “predictions.”

There are many out there who use methods to try to divine what will happen specifically and I think it is a distraction. For instance, last July I made friends with someone who knew of several major people and groups who were using finely honed analysis methods to predict market flows and other things in the world. One of the people he referred me to read about is named Archie Crawford. He is a well-known financial analyst who uses very in-depth astrology to make his predictions and give advice and was said to have had a 90% accuracy rate. My friend saw him at a conference last May where Archie said to a group of 300 people that the astrological energies were going to be such in September that it was most likely that there would be a complete overturning of the government here, a coup of sorts. And that it would be so intense as to involve the probable death of GWB.

Obviously the closest thing to a coup that occured last fall was the election in November which changed the balance of power here.

I am more interested in the general flow of the energies and what we can do with them from the intent level, and I believe that is more our responsibility than trying to deduce logically, even through esoteric means, what WILL happen. We are creatures of choice who are always creating. And no matter what the tendency of the past has been we can create something different by flowing with the incoming spritual energies.

As I see it, most people check their astrology and use other tools not as if they were a part of what is going on in the heavens but as if they were being acted upon by things and had to set themselves up either to get out of the way of something bad or time something just right so they could be in on a good thing and make their lives better. Both of these typical behaviors do not involve trusting your innate sense of harmony and destiny to bring you to the right place at the right time, and, as someone who practices astrology, I believe this is the wrong use of it. Attunement is the root skill we are honing in Daoism through our practices.

An example of what I mean when I say that people use these methods out of fear when they could be using their inner guidance is the friend I spoke of. He followed the advice of a well-known and seemingly reliable group using certain energy flow prediction techniques who determined that there would be a terrific drop in the stock market from October through January. He invested with the understanding that the market would drop and he would profit from this because of the type of investment he made. None of what was predicted happened and I believe that there are so many unpredictable factors in the works these days relating to consciousness that external methods are becoming less and less reliable. So while there is a history of certain things happening under certain astrological configurations which worked in the past, these things are changing now because of the times. (One of the most famous examples is the twenty year Jupiter conjunct Saturn cycle which coincides with our presidential elections. U.S. presidents, starting with Lincoln, who were elected during this transit were actually assasinated up until Ronald Reagan who was shot but not killed. GWB was “elected” during one and it didn’t happen to him either.)

There are groups of people all over the world now who are meditating to bring the world into balance. This plus the action of the Dao on things is a very potent factor which has built up quite a lot of momentum in the last two decades.

Blessings, Alexander

Yes. > “As if the inner threshold and what is at stake are now rising together to create opportunities woven from new fabric.”

It’s a funny thing. We humans have been broadcasting to the universe for hundreds of years now that we want to understand it and know about it, penetrate its mysteries. And now, in the face of a vast amount of scientific and personal information showing us how things really are, it comes down to taking the final step – acknowledging that Consciousness is at the root of it all and is the most powerful effector of the changes we experience. This has given us very cold feet. I believe we are seeing the last vestiges of our fear of our own power and our true nature (and also our fear of the essentially loving nature of the universe) when we see all the resistance coming up in the world lately against all things good and freeing.

I’ll tell you a dream I had last July.

I was walking through a twilight setting neither outside nor inside. There were few people around and this seemed strange. I was wondering where others were. I was very alert and intent on finding “Something”. I started to come across a few souls and they seemed to share the feeling of looking for that thing too. Most weren’t finding it and acted confused and upset. A few were showing signs of getting it. Then I saw a man who had found it. He was more substantial than the others and he was moving his hands and arms around in a way that resembled someone who was juggling. And he was smiling. I could see what was going on with him and what he had found but the words didn’t come to me until I was on my way “down” to waking. At that point I heard a voice tell me, “The actual fabric of your reality has changed.” And I understood this to mean that the field itself was radically different. That from that point on the way things worked was going to be more and more in the new paradigm. The man who had found “it” had been actualizing his ability to access the field directly for what he needed rather than to go outside of himself for anything. The ones who were not able to do this were suffering. They were trying to get what they needed in the old way reliant on externals.

The primary thing for us is to have the “vertical” relationship- us in alignment with the Dao/Self/Spirit/Being and then to project ourselves out horizontally into Creation. The ones who have been able to do this successfully in the past have been called masters. Now, the field is such so that it is no longer supporting the old style of being and manifesting. It is moving back into the harmony of the whole. I believe this is the underlying reason why we are seeing som much movement in the world. It is our responsibility to align with this greater movement and flow with it and this requires high levels of trust.

Learning to flow and to juggle,
-Alexander

“…the treasures are there to be found by us, not even difficult, just there waiting for us.”

Waiting for our “YES!”

i thank you God for this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

-ee cummings

I’m not impressed with the conspiracy theory, nor the counter conspiracy theory, nor counter counter conspiracy theory. I’m just numb to it all.

If someone doesn’t like America (or President Bush), chances are that they believe the conspiracy theory. And vice versa. The same with elections being rigged. If someone’s guy looses, then the fix is in. It’s all politics and not the good kind.

Suffice it to say, if you actually listen to radical Muslims you will hear the chant “Death to America”. You can hear this in the Middle East, Europe, and America.

There have been terrorist attacks on the United States by radical Muslims since its birth. If you research Thomas Jefferson and Muslims, you’ll get a very interesting history lesson. At one point the United States government was paying 1/3 of all taxes as tribute to Muslim pirates so they’d stop attacking our trade ships. The day after Jefferson became president he sent the fleet to stop them. He said the situation could only be resolved through the medium of war. When you hear the verse “to the shores of tripoli” that’s Jefferson stopping radical Muslims.

Will we ever know the truth about 911? I’ve no clue. Both doubters and believers already think we do. But we do know the truth about radical Muslims.

So the world is going to be an even more interesting place. Will Iran collapse from within with the help of Saudi Arabia or is more war about to break out?

I’m not sure why so many believe war is bad. Sometimes the medium of war is needed. Yin and Yang, fire and water, war and peace: can any exist without the other? Why is one bad and the other good? It’s all part of the Tao.

You should be aware that British and American Special forces spent most of the cold war training these radical Muslims in order to fight the war by proxy with the U.S.S.R through various regimes in the Middle East and Afghanistan. This practice continued after the cold war and evolved into the practice of “fighting international terrorism” where the terrorists are really controlled by the West.

It amounts to a huge global protection racket and readymade justifications for invasion of countries whose resources are ripe for picking.
This is not just America(911) and Britain(7/7) but also Russia who orchestrated the bombings of those flats by “Chechnyen terrorists” to justify the occupation of Chechnya. War is the oldest racket in the book and the most profitable for the chosen few.
If you don’t believe me listen to Ed Haney, one of the founders of Delta Force who has spoken out and states that the Americans have set up civil war in Iraq deliberatlely through false flag attacks.
Fighting to defend one’s country, family and loved ones is noble (not glorious)and in alignment with Taoism – true yang – but unjustified massacre of innocent civilians under a false pretext is NOT the way – false yang.