[quote=Enorah]I am bumping this because we are again on the eve of Venus Retrograde, as we were when I started this thread some 20 months ago. The last Venus Retrograde period lasted from July 27 – Sept 8, 2007. This one will start on March 6 and ends on April 17.
What does it mean when a planet goes retrograde? It means that the planet appears to move backwards from our vantage point (it doesn’t really move backwards as that would pretty much make null and void all we think we know to be true about our Universe, so maybe it actually does move backwards). Mercury Retrograde is a common occurrence, happens 3 times a year, and it is a term that is entering the popular vernacular. Venus Retrograde happens about once every year and a half.
So, what is the purpose of the Venus Retrograde? In what way are we served by this astrological trend? We are asked to re-evaluate what we value where relationships and money are concerned. If we do not choose this way of being consciously, usually the energies of something like a Venus Retrograde will force us to do this in a way that may feel uncomfortable.
If we do not learn and evolve joyfully with consciousness, well then we will use the illusion of pain to motivate the change.
Pay attention to your attachments as venus transits. What is it you think you need to be happy? What is it that truly brings you joy?
I am certain this process will be reflected in the markets.[/quote]
Enorah, I don’t doubt your instincts in the least. I, too, feel that something is shifting on a monumental level now. I actually began to sense it late last summer when I began a thread called “Countdown: 30 days to Chaos”. I suspected that a “shift” was about to occur in late September/early October. If you recall, the markets crashed spectacularly then. Many posters then responded with, “So, where’s the chaos?”, as if expecting to see bread lines and insurgency the next day.
But that’s not how life, or the universe, works. This catastrophe is unfolding in waves, one right after the other, that just keep coming, faster and with increasing intensity. Last Fall was the start of something huge, IMO. At that point, the ENTIRE world was rudely awaken to the fact that we are in an immeasurable amount of shit.
Obama’s election and the holidays (tense, weird and skimpy as they were) gave the country a brief respite from the coming chaos.
But two weeks ago…I sensed the next wave had just hit us. The Dow quickly dropped below 8,000, and the markets became acutely aware that far from saving them, Obama was likely to make the catastrophe worse.
From everything I have read (and I read a lot of material, both analytical and spiritual), next summer will be known for decades as “The Summer of Hell”. There is simply no other way to put it. I was scoffed at by many on this board when I predicted a national default or massive and rapid dollar devaluation by this summer (or Fall, at the latest).
The foundations are literally giving way as I write this. Anyone who can’t pick up on this, energetically, is truly out of touch with the world around them. You can see it in people’s faces – your friends and family, people on the street, the dim-witted news anchors on TV. You can FEEL it.
Enorah, are you familiar with the predictive linguistics project at halfpasthuman.com? I have subscribed to their data readings for about 2 years now. Essentially, they have developed an experiment in “future viewing” based on words expressed in the collective consciousness. The idea here being that humans, like lower forms of animals, have an innate sense of clairvoyance that we have lost touch with on an individual level, but which survives on a subconscious level in the collective consciousness. Like cattle that sense an approaching storm, so does our language reflect our sense of our common destiny. These guys accurately predicted a “life changing” global event to occur in early September 2001; they accurately predicted the Katrina disaster; they even predicted the devastating China quake last year.
Here is a sampling of what they see coming this year:
An “obliteration” of the dollar which will lead to its “repudiation”; total “revulsion” and ‘fear” of all all paper currency and paper debts, globally; a “collapse” of the global economic financial system; shortages of food and other products globally (yes, that includes the United States); gold and silver will reach “stratospheric” heights; and last, but not least, “revolution” will come to America – and the world.
These are indeed unprecedented, strange and exciting times to be a human on planet earth. If anyone on this board thinks that the next 50 years of their life are going to look ANYTHING like the past 50 years, they are in for a mind-blowing experience.
Personally, I’m down for the ride. I am open to and accept anything and everything the universe has to offer or thrust upon me now. According to the predictive linguists, those who resist the coming change will literally stumnble around, “drooling” and “dazed” by the level of cognitive dissonance they will be experiencing. Those who simply roll with it and adapt to the new reality will have a far better chance of surviving intact.
But I suspect by this time next year, this board (to the extent that it focuses on housing-related discussions) will be completely irrelevant.
I think every thread will be OT, and the words “survival” and “collapse” will be appearing frequently…
