America was born under the sign of Aquarius. Her Constitution expressed the Aquarian point of view. I was born Aquarius rising, which meant as I grew older I became more Aquarian.
We are taught from earliest childhood an established way to think, depending on where and when we are born. It has everything to do with the state of the nation’s economy. It goes with the territory we’ve entered in America that the economy would falter. We depend too much on government.
My parents told me I asked too many questions. They were conformists. I’m a born adventurer. At age five, I set out to see the world. The cops found me a mile away from home talking with a yardman. At age 49, when I was out of work, I took a vocational guidance test. The test told me that I was as adventurous as the average 18 year-old.
At age 49, my business enterprise was on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me. I blamed it all on America’s government. Since I had a personal stake in the outcome, I was allowed to take the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to court. I’m not a lawyer. I went to the county law library and studied constitutional law concerning the income tax and determined the United States was a liar and a fraud. This non-conformist felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. I had a bigger than life calling.
Coincidentally, at this time, my ruling planet, Uranus, had transited to a position opposing itself when I was born. It meant I would be under pressure to change my life. Under the circumstances, it should come as no surprise that I would choose to go to sea. Was it really a coincidence?
I bought a sailboat and set sail on the South Atlantic, in the Bermuda Triangle, one of the world’s most treacherous ocean areas. In August 1976, at 2 a.m., I ran into Tropical Storm Dottie, moving northward out from Florida’s east coast. I was on my way from Nassau to Florida. We, my three friends and I, were in the middle of the Gulf Stream, which moves northward. The wind was coming from the north, which meant the seas would be higher and steeper.
I was sailing into high, steep seas. If one should break, we’d be pitchpoled. I was sailing as close to the wind as I could, spilling most of it, with the rail a few inches above the sea. If I fell off, we’d have been knocked flat on the water. If I sailed too close to the wind, my sail could back. The wind would carry the boom across decks with such force that we could be demasted. It was like walking a tightrope. I steered by the slope of the deck for eight hours.
Before the storm, my course had been southwest to allow for the northern drift in the Gulf Stream. When the storm hit, I changed course to the north. We should have been far to the north of a true course. The storm had moved ahead of us. With daylight, I was astounded. Going into a tough, all I could see was sea. Going up, all I could see was sky. Imagine the stress on a ship that straddles the seas, the bow plowing straight into a 30 foot wave. In such conditions, there are rogue waves. Little wonder there are many missing ships in the Bermuda Triangle.
As we rolled over a huge sea, I spotted smokestacks in the west, which turned out to be those of Florida Power and Light, a mile south of our destination, Lake Worth Inlet. We were horrified to see seas breaking completely across the inlet.
Something told me to go for it. Seas were breaking on both sides of us. We slid down the one behind us into the inlet. It never broke. My friends called it miracle that we were alive. It was one of the unsolved mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, only in the reverse. We were saved by God’s grace. You only hear the bad news stories. There are rumors of time warps. It appears that a time warp placed me where I wanted to be. I must have had a purpose. I’ve never forgotten that.
On another occasion, I mentally picked up on cries of distress and sailed straight to three young people who were snorkeling over a reef and got caught in an ocean current. They had drifted miles on the current. While at sea, I saved seven lives from a watery grave, including my own. Was it a coincidence that I studied the Constitution and had a bigger than life calling? We want our America back!
After I left the life at sea, I met my present wife, Karen. The moment I met her, it was like meeting an old friend I’d not seen for a long time. On our first date, Karen blurted out, “I want ours to be a platonic relationship.” Fifteen years later, a friend gave Karen a compatibility report he had made from astrological software in his computer. I read, “The platonic thing was there from the start, and there is a sense of the brotherly and sisterly between you. Even if lovers, you will always be first and foremost, good friends.” Absolutely, my life is blessed. This was a sign.
Richard Tarnas, a distinguished philosopher and cultural historian, spent 30 years of meticulous research on the outer planets’ alignments and found consistent correspondence between those planets’ alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history. In the Gospel According to St. Matthew, Jesus, “in earth as it is in heaven” (from the Lord’s prayer), it seems the alignment of the outer planets connects. Tarnas reports that in November 2008 Saturn and Pluto went into unfavorable alignment, which happens to be the month and year Obama was elected.
From the cutting edge of science, says quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker, “it has only been with the advent of quantum theory that we have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter. In the developments of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation.” We exist in a state of mind—unbounded. We set the boundary. Walker says science has learned from subatomic particles, the aspects of matter, that they form a dimension of infinite possibility. We think with our minds. A thought takes no shape but is ultimately our reality. Something more, according to Walker, is our minds interacting with matter. “And God said, Let us make man in our image” Gen. 1:26.
Astrological charts don’t fit conformists, people of lesser wills. I’m a strong willed non-conformist. My chart fits me like a hand in a glove. In line with my chart, after I knew my Constitution, had my bigger than life calling, I began to learn through the school of hard knocks my purpose in life. I got on my path of destiny. I’m an Aquarian peace maker.
I read in Matthew that Jesus said an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is not the way to go. America is on the wrong course. We should love our enemies and pray for them. I read that if we don’t forgive our enemies we will not be forgiven. I read that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us. I read that we cannot serve two masters. But I also read that we should be aware of false prophets that come in sheep’s clothing, but are inwardly raving wolves.
What Jesus says in Matthew in so many words is that the blind are leading the blind. Jesus said the way to destruction is broad and the way to life is narrow. In other words, the wise learn from our mistakes. If we cling to the trunk, never taking a chance, we will never be prepared for what is to come. Chance favors the prepared mind.
We are entering the Age of Aquarius, an age of brotherhood. Uranus rules Aquarius. Friendship and companionship are extremely important to Aquarians. We are stubborn in our beliefs. We are annoyed by those who fail to understand us. We do not like hypocrisy. We operate as equals among equals. We are independent. We derive our security from being in the company of like thinkers. Welcome to the Tea Party.
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