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March 1, 2003
1. A United Perspective
2. A Call for Stories
3. Forward: The Comet NEAT
A United Perspective
Sometimes when I’m looking at the news and observing Mr. Bush
talking about
disarming Iraq,it seems like a very bad movie, that soon the lights
will go up,
and the audience will file out of the theater. It’s the same way I
felt
when I used to look at the pictorial history books of World War II
that my
stepfather had on our bookshelves. The horrors of that war wrecked
his health and affected him for life. (He survived the Bataan Death
March in
1942 and was in a concentration camp for the rest of the war.) Some
of the
photos in those books were of innocent children lying in rubble in
the street
with blood oozing from their lifeless bodies. Many were of the caged
Jews in
concentration camps ... and the aftermath when the horrors of what
went on there
came to light. It is the same way I felt in school when reading
about the
crusades led by "Christians" who were trying to bring the faith
forcefully to
"heathens." Somehow it seemed an oxymoron to kill in the name of
Christianity.
It turned my stomach. It was also the way I felt observing the
devastation at
Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center attack.
Horrors so
incredible, it is hard to imagine anyone could be so cruel as to
initiate it.
Always it is because the perpetrator does not agree with the
victims’ viewpoint
or way of life. Or they want something the other has.
One of the results to justify this war Mr. Bush seems impatient to
start is that
we will liberate the Iraqi people giving them a better life built
around (our)
western values. (or is it their oil?) I’m sure the crusaders thought
the
heathens they were conquering would be better off as Christians ...
it was for
"their own good." (Tell that to the ones who died in the process.)
Disarming a
madman is one thing; but occupying and forcing a culture on a nation
is quite
another. It has been said we would have to have a military presence
there for a
long time. We are still a presence in Germany. What is going on
here? Is there a
systematic taking over of country after country until there is a
global America?
What a plethora of rich ethnic diversity would be sacrificed!
Further, there is another thing that has been bothering me. We are
always very
proudly proclaiming our American freedoms ..particularly the one
about free
speech. One would think that if we really believe in our freedoms
and grant
them to each other, we would listen politely to each other and
accept the fact
that there are differences of opinion. However, I’ve observed the
most
irrational phenomenon of people getting upset and angry with people
who don’t
agree with them... like it’s a personal affront! Good thing we have
safeguards
to protect our freedom of speech, or our friends and neighbors would
become
crusaders "for our own good" and force the "right" viewpoint on us!
You may
wonder why I’m championing diversity when the title of this is A
United
Perspective. After working with astrology for over thirty years,
I’ve come to
see people as variations of a model that is everywhere the same.
Believe it
or not, after all this time, it is hard for me to see much
difference in the
cares and concerns of a young man in Japan, an American teenager, a
European
grandmother, a Catholic Priest or an Arabian businessman. I’ve had
consultations
with these and just about every other kind of person imaginable.
When we get to
the bottom line, we are all human. We all have a birth chart-- each
individual
ever born has one. If an astrologer looks at a chart, s/he cannot
tell if
it’s the chart of a man, woman, American, African, cat, or wedding.
All the
components of the chart are the same. It is, to me, a metaphor of
our oneness.
Further, we are all made of the same "stuff". If you reduce us to a
collection
of chemicals, we are all the same.That "stuff" is sub-atomic
particles composing
a field of substance that permeates everything everywhere. It is the
basic
component of everything that exists. Further, everything that exists
is
interconnected and affected by this field. When a thought or emotion
is
generated, it travels through this field in waves and affects
everyone
everywhere. I won’t bore you with all this in detail, but you might
want to
look at a book called The Field by Lynne McTaggart. (I may have
mentioned it
before.) Therefore, if we are all inter-connected, and each of us
affects all
others no matter how minutely, then we are all one. If we are all
one, then what
we do to others, we do to ourselves. If we initiate a war, we are
sure to
reap devastating consequences, not only karmically, but also in
retardation of
our own spiritual evolution. Defending ourselves is one thing, but
initiating a
war is insane, if we really understand how the universe works and
the
interconnectedness of all things.
I have said that the USA chart is aligning very similarly to World
War I, but
that does not mean we have to repeat the past. Every time we evolve
a little
higher, we have the choice to respond with more love and compassion
than before.
I’m mindful of a Star Trek episode in which Captain Kirk was
struggling with a
reptilian alien. He was in a position to kill the alien but decided
not to. A
"being" appeared and commented that his action revealed
"advancement" in his
barbaric species. I often wonder if Gene Roddenberry was a prophet!
A Call for Stories
As most of you know, I’m working on my second book. I want it to be
a very easy
to read and engaging book. Nothing does that better than stories
from the lives
of people. I would like to hear of your experiences regarding a
change of heart
in your perception of an astrological sign’s qualities. In other
words, was
there a time when you had a conception of a sign being a certain way
that you
perceived as unacceptable, opposite from you, conflicting with your
viewpoint or
down right distasteful? Then, was there later an event, a
revelation, or a holy
instant when you saw the necessity of that sign’s qualities to
complete the
mandala of human perfection? What did it for you? All stories will
be anonymous,
and there is no compensation for it. But, if you’d like to help, I’d
appreciate
it.
The Comet NEAT
Planet-Sized Comet Headed This Way?
By Edgar J. Steele 2-24-3
After a great misery for mankind an even greater approaches. The
great cycle of
the centuries is renewed: It will rain blood, milk, famine, war and
disease. In
the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a tail of sparks.
---Nostradamus, Century
2, Quatrain 46 (1654)A huge comet is rounding the sun, a comet twice
the size of
Jupiter (from tip to end of tail -ed) (about 22 times the size of
earth). Some
have seen it at sunrise and sunset; otherwise, it is not visible
because it is
occluded by solar glare. Essentially, it is coming from behind the
sun and was
first observed by NASA less than two months ago. NASA's solar
observatory has
released a number of pictures of this comet, but those stopped just
as a huge
coronal mass ejection (an event which is to the hydrogen bomb as the
hydrogen
bomb is to a firecracker) erupted from the sun toward the comet.
Some call these
things "sunspots." This comet is passing within 9 million miles of
the solar
surface. In celestial terms, that is a very near miss. You haven't
heard about
this, have you? Remember the hullabaloo over Hale/Bopp and
Levy/Shoemaker? They
were pikers by comparison with what has been dubbed Comet "NEAT."
Why all the
silence this time? I have read a good deal of speculation on several
different
internet sites. Some see it as biblical prophecy fulfilled (see
Revelations
- you might agree). Some consider this to be "Nibiru" or "Planet X,"
foretold by
the Mayans as passing through the solar system every 3600 years or
so. Some
consider this simply to be an awesome photo opportunity. Some say
the strange
weather on Earth lately is the result of an effect caused by the sun
which
in turn is responding to Comet NEAT. Electromagnetic fields reach
hundreds of
millions of miles into space, you see, and are generated by all
celestial
objects. Influences occur at distances far in excess of that between
the sun and
comet Neat or, for that matter, between Earth and comet Neat. The
sun has a
regularly-repeating solar "sunspot" activity cycle of approximately
11
years. 2000 was to have been the most recent peak. Solar > activity,
rather than
dropping off in year 12, as it always has, has continued to rise
ever since.
Earth's magnetic field has been weakening in an accelerating fashion
of > late.
The North Pole, which wanders anyway, has traveled almost as far in
the past 20
years as it did in the 100 years prior to that, when it was located
in
Canada's northern Yukon Territory. Some hypothesize that Earth's
poles reverse
when its magnetic field reaches zero. The geological record proves
the poles
have shifted many times down through the history of the Earth (metal
flakes in
lava align with the magnetic field, to be frozen in place when the
lava cools,
you see, just like the needle in a compass). Coincidence? Perhaps.
Maybe it is
nothing. Maybe it is something. If something, it could be the most
significant
occurrence in recorded human history. Generally, the concern is not
that Comet
NEAT will strike Earth or even come near us (though I have yet to
see a good
description of its path relative to Earth). Rather, the concern is
for the
effect upon us through the electromagnetic interaction between it
and
Earth and the Sun. There is a secondary concern that something this
huge could
have smaller objects following in its wake, or that pieces of it
broke off
during the massive solar flare when it passed near the Sun, pieces
that might
find their way to Earth. "Planet buster" asteroids can be as small
as 1/3 mile
in diameter.
Just five days ago, a Rand Corporation (government think tank)
scientist, Dr.
Geoffrey Summer, publicly stated that secrecy would be the best
option if it
were discovered that an asteroid were about to hit the earth:
"Overreaction not
just by the public but by policy-makers scurrying around before the
thing
actually hits because we can't do anything about it anyway ... to a
large extent
you are better off not adding to your social costs." Go here for one
of NASA's
official web pages carrying photographs of this comet:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_02_12/
Something tells me you should take a look right now, though. Who
knows if this
will be available even tomorrow? For the moment, my question is,
"Why is there
no media coverage of Comet NEAT?" Of course, we all know how
paranoid I am.
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth."
- Morpheus
Copyright ©©2003, Edgar J. Steele
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