(All times/dates are Pacific Daylight)
START NOTHING: 2:50 am to 7:40 am Mon., 4:36 pm Tues. to 10:26 am Wed., 7:42 pm Thurs. to 12:54 pm Fri., and after 8:08 am Sat,
The SUN is in Libra now, favouring the air and fire signs (GEMINI, LIBRA, AQUARIUS, and ARIES, LEO and SAGITTARIUS). The moon is in ARIES on Sunday, offering very good luck until mid afternoon, (PDT) especially in relationships.
MARS enters Leo now to late November, bringing zest and courage to romantics and creative types. But TAURUS will need to avoid friction in the home, and SCORPIO will need extra diplomacy when interacting with higher-ups.
The moon is in TAURUS Monday to Wednesday morning. This brings a steady calm to everyone, and of course favours Taurus and the Earth and water signs (TAURUS, VIRGO, CAPRICORN, and CANCER, SCORPIO and PISCES). The moon enters Gemini midday Wednesday to midday Friday, favouring the air and fire signs. Friday pm and Saturday, the Moon sits in. Cancer, which it rules. Emotions Will be high
Sunday is quite fortunate and we should all make a bid for something good or profitable. Monday’s luck is very mixed, computers perform well, but there seems to be some sort of grudge floating around. Tuesday is bonkers – could be great, could be idiotic! (But your luck is mildly benevolent.) Wednesday is good all day, especially for travel or communications. Thursday is mildly successful. But argument and dissatisfaction, practical barriers and difficulty pinning down the truth — these prevail, Friday and Saturday.
AFTERWORDS:
Full Moon in Aries (as happens today, Thursday and tomorrow – September 23 and 24) – pregnant, going into war.
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The main thing about the nuclear arms race since the 1950s, is that it actually brought humanity together, and stabilized international relations.
It is the same with AI – it will actually bring humanity together, bring nations together, to address the potential for destruction of all humanity. Atom bombs or AI, both nudge humans toward deeper cooperation. Ultimately, a blessing.
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Those who lead adventurous lives, have a different life at the end. In our current society, barring the military, there seems to be far less scope, or fewer paths for adventure. (•)
I suspect the diminishment of adventure in our society is in some proportion to the growth of conformity, the widespread establishment of unions and socialist governments, the safeness of housing… but this dismal list has a brighter cousin: those who live in these houses that are the same as the neighbours, for miles, and who, in the ideal case, fall in love and stay that way into old age, and enjoy the beauty of the world because they are secure and loved. They also have the satisfaction of seeing their children grow and become adults – a far deeper creative satisfaction than any artist knows.
There are geniuses and levels of intelligence that are similar on both sides, the conforming, and the adventurous.
I think, in the long run, the adventurous finally find one of two old ages: often single, they sit in their small apartments, solitary, but wise; or, they find a mate, suitable or not, and “ lock in” until death. The latter choice requires optimism and a mature ability to love – something adventurous people can find does not come naturally, and must be pursued.
(*) My views might be restricted by the prejudice of my age. Those who carry the adventure gene will always find a way to carve out a new or different path.
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Mechanical plans often work; emotional plans often don’t.
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From Carter to Biden, every president wimped out on Iran. Trump just announced that he doesn’t care about the midterms and that whatever the vote, Iran will not benefit from it. Trump is the first idealistic president since JFK. By that I mean – even more than JFK – he puts achievement of his goals above pleasing the electorate , even above it seems being elected. This isn’t so dumb: he’s at the pinnacle. Where can he go from Prez but into a gentle downslope? There’s no more mountain to climb. He might try to get into mediation types of roles between warring nations, for instance. (Remember, he has already mediated/solved eight wars as president.)
So he is free, in many ways, to do just what he wants over the next two years, barring legal constraints. And it is starting to look like Iran is going to be his pet project.
This is why a sizeable number of Republicans are splitting with Trump: his boasting and exaggerations, his indecision and quick switches they could swallow happily because it was taking them to greener pastures. But they don’t, many of them, understand why Trump is insisting on doing something so politically unpopular as hanging onto the war in Iran.
If Trump does stick it out and defeats Iran; additionally, if he establishes a Democratic government in the nation, he will be one of the handful of presidents remembered for great deeds. I’m not saying a good deeds, or fair ones. You could argue that Iran has the same right to the atomic bomb as say Pakistan or India. But words have meaning. If you call a nation Satan, and vow to kill every single one of its citizens, you shouldn’t be surprised when they don’t want to share their sophisticated weapons.
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Everyone now is talking about Trump‘s larger domain, his victory in Greenland. But I haven’t heard anyone say what it might cost in additional investment, personnel, military installation, and personnel, infrastructure, etc. In a way, Denmark made a good deal: a huge territory which it could not possibly have defended alone is now protected by the strongest, and in many ways, most war like nation in the world. That Denmark made such a deal suggest that it considers Russia and China to be adversaries
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I turned away from many promising pathways in life – now, in my 70s, I see there were many more opportunities than I knew at the time. Awareness is a valuable thing! I wasted a lot, in money, love and time.
But I have no regrets, for one simple reason: life is still beautiful and a miracle. Some social scientists once surveyed seniors , I think those over 80 or 85. One of their questions was: what do you most regret, the things you did or the things you didn’t do? Evidently the answer was overwhelming – I don’t remember the percentages – most people regretted not doing something.
I do regret that: that I did not spend my life writing fiction, that I did not stay in law school, that I sold most properties too soon – each a specific regret in itself, but when I look at each potential situation and the life it would lead to from the outside, I am not so impressed – each path would have led to a lifestyle that I ultimately would not have wanted. In some ways, I’m exactly where I want to be.
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Invention: any police car or emergency vehicle, when with lights flashing and siren wailing, will also be able to control the traffic lights ahead when approaching an intersection. From, say, one city block away, it could turn all four lights in all four directions flashing red. This would be easy for the driving public to perceive, and to understand, and it would add to the safety of emergency vehicles and others.
Also invented the idea around 1980 placing kill switches in cars at the factory, allowing cops in pursuit of a car to electronically enable a kill switch, which would slow the car to say 5 miles an hour and then make it stop and simultaneously lock the doors so the passengers and the driver could not get out. Some of this might violate civil rights.
I am sure engineers have already engineered both of the above.
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When you stop looking for it, Is often when you find it.
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One thing that always give me hope: the absolute massive variety of surnames in the US.
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When you see a yellow rose, you are seeing the yellow – and even that particular slice of yellow tint – because the flower has accepted or absorbed every other colour, every other band on the visual spectrum. If you see a green tree, it’s because the tree has rejected that colour (green) and so leaves it in the light that is reflected back to your eyes. The plant’s nourishment, its absorption of light energy, allowing chlorophyll, etc., comes from every colour, every wavelength on the spectrum, other than the specific colour being mirrored back to you.
It stands then, if white has no colour, that a white flower or leaf or plant would soak up less of the sun‘s energy than other plants because it is reflecting away every colour wavelength. I’ve never seen evidence or documents or studies about this – I’m a very lazy scholar. A black tulip, for instance, absorbs every spectrum and every colour, so you see nothing except black – the absence of light — which means the tulip is absorbing everything. This should give it an advantage over lighter coloured plants.