Brother by a Different Mother?

[kimberlysteele]

I feel the same way... Just replace "Japan" with "Illinois" and Miyazaki-san and I have a deal. Sometimes I have fantasies about watching the Big Bluestem rolling through the former insurance high rise, swamp milkweed colonizing Walmart, and the overlarge hospital half submerged in algae and the other half a spiky ruin where turkey vultures, hawks, and eagles nest.

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly,

Would you do a natal astrology chart for someone if you were paid?

[(Anonymous)]

I look forward to when roads no longer have cars on them. No more squished snakes or turtles, no more birds and butterflies hit by cars. Imagine!

[kimberlysteele]

Hi Anon,

I don't know how to do natal astrology, so no. I have only the most rudimentary grasp of astrology.

[kimberlysteele]

Yes. That's definitely coming down the pipe, though I doubt I will see car-free roads in my own lifetime even if I live to be 100. Once cars are gone, it won't take that long for badly built highways, roads, and other automobile infrastructure to decay. All of it will be one big animal crossing... glorious!

[kimberlysteele]

The one thing he does miss here is that living without petroleum wealth is HARD. One of the books I have in my library is Memories of Silk and Straw: A Portrait of Small Town Japan by Juinichi Saga. In the 1980s, Saga interviewed the elder inhabitants of several small towns in Japan to get a glimpse into the previous century. Life was hard, people went hungry, and it wasn't unusual for people to be too impoverished to afford a single tatami mat or for women to work themselves to death while pregnant. At any rate, Miyazaki got a lot of flack for this comment because he's a very rich guy inadvertently casting judgement on the poor.

[lp9]

Same same. For as long as I can remember, ever since I was a little kid, I would stare out the window on long car rides and visualize what the land used to look like before it was heavily populated by European settlers and imagine myself in the landscape. The Pennsylvania turnpike is particularly fruitful for this exercise.

[lp9]

We have a neighborhood street that the city closed to vehicular traffic and now it's a walking path. It took probably two years for the asphalt to crumble and the plant life to close in - you would never guess it ever saw cars. I think much of the infrastructure will give way to nature pretty quickly (or at least a combination of debris and plant life).

a question

[(Anonymous)]

i apologize if this is off-topic, but...

you said, in JMG's covid open post, that you and your Ogham were not in agreement. I'm curious as to why you think this is the case?

-p coyle

p.s. don't be surprised if i ask for a reading one of these weeks about me taking a trip to chi-town in mid-march. :-)

[kimberlysteele]

I look forward to that happening! There is SO much asphalt here in suburban Chicago.

[kimberlysteele]

I talk to the land sometimes as I am driving or walking along. There are certain spots where the Natives used to have horrific wars from what the land says. One is on an ugly little hill on the side of a gas station by my parents' house. The stretch of Ogden Avenue where I work has told me several times of the tribal wars that used to happen there.

Re: a question

[kimberlysteele]

No worries! I'll be posting an Open Post later tonight or tomorrow. I think I have too much cognitive dissonance to imagine a mass die-off of the vaccinated. If my Ogham are correct, the level of death caused by the vaccines will be absolutely horrific and will reshape society with its severity. They are saying it will be Black Death levels of casualties and that there will be no denying the vaccines are at fault. I have a great imagination, but I've got a mental block when it comes to picturing the sort of vaccine holocaust they're talking about. Too many people too close to me would be severely maimed or dead in the scenario they're predicting.

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[(Anonymous)]

I hopeful that if we were going to have that level of casualties, we'd have seen more evidence for it starting by now. What hasn't been ruled out yet is large-scale population drop from vaccine-induced infertility, although if that's going to kick in, we should start seeing it about now.

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[kimberlysteele]

But we are seeing it.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/62vZ5UD1JjbJ/

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.1.2002023?crawler=true

The 23 percent spike in all-cause mortality is being blamed on Covid, but I think we are all perfectly aware that it's not COVID killing people. The media is just pissing on our legs again while claiming it is raining.

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20210402/allcause-mortality-in-us-soars-23-in-9month-period-largely-due-to-covid19

[jdecandia]

Have you ever read Derrick Jensen?

To LP9

[fringe_elemental]

Me, too!
I've taken a few long, grueling roadtrips from Fla to Cal. a few times back and forth on I-10 and 40 and back and forth to PA several times and would stare out the window and try to visualize the geological events that made the landscape what it was. Inland seas? I would picture the flat lands under water. Great floods? Major upheavals? Even asteroid strikes! What did it look like when there were living trees in the Petrified Forest?
I always thought it would be cool to have some kind of hard copy traveler's companion for these road trips.
Being on the Salt Flats was a bizarre experience-like being on another planet. And you can see the striations in the mountains before a cataclysm caused the lake to drain and leave the salt behind.
There have been many times that I long for a past that I've never experienced, I will sometimes fantasize about how beautiful the sky must have been in ancient times!
I'll never forget a night drive north to the Redwoods (when I did a 5 year stint in California) and my God how the night sky was full of stars! More stars than I'd ever seen in my lifetime, or since! And I've never experienced true darkness like I did camping beneath the trees. That whole area was magical.

[(Anonymous)]

Derrick Jensen is great! He has a book called Dreams, which mentions the occult.

Re: a question

[methylethyl]

IIRC, it takes most couples 2 years or better to get an infertility diagnosis, so actual reporting on that is a ways down the road. I think if it's a thing, probably fertility docs are seeing it already, but it won't have made its way into any official stats, and thus anything that any individual fertility specialist might say is "anecdotal" until then.

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[methylethyl]

I hear you.

My husband is the only one in our family who got the fox. He didn't talk to me about it first, he just did it, spur-of-the-moment. He's very trusting of authority.

So I want the all-the-foxed-die-over-five-years predictions to be wrong. I don't want to be a widow with three young kids.

But at the same time... when my husband and I were still dating, I had a... warning. Literally a voice spoke in my ear, and suggested (somewhat cryptically) that he wouldn't live the normal span, and that the reasons for that were-- inherent? Already present? It wasn't sinister, it was more like... yo, before you get serious with this fellow, you might want to know this. I kind of brushed off the voice at the time, responded flippantly. It didn't stick around for questioning. I decided that *if* it spoke truth, it was still worth getting married and having a family. After all, death can come for any of us, any time, without warning. We should probably just live as though that's always a possibility, right around the corner. But since there's no avoiding it, and we're all gonna die someday... there's also no point being afraid of it, or warping our whole lives around trying to avoid it. Stuff happens. You can't control everything. Get on with life while you're still living.

So... like you, I have a-- we'll use JMG's word-- "transrational" source compatible with (though not definitely confirming) the idea of mass death from the fox. But I don't want that to be the case.

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[kimberlysteele]

Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear that! My father's father died of a heart attack when my dad was only fifteen. My grandma was brokenhearted and she never remarried. And yes, that message sounds a great deal like some of the clearer ones I have heard "from beyond". Hopefully it is just wrong and hopefully he doesn't get any additional Russian Roulette shots.

"But since there's no avoiding it, and we're all gonna die someday... there's also no point being afraid of it, or warping our whole lives around trying to avoid it. Stuff happens. You can't control everything. Get on with life while you're still living."

THIS, so very hard. Back in 2020 when the Coronapocalypse first reared its ugly head, I brought this point up over and over again. I'm not afraid of death. My biggest worry if I died is that the people and cats who love me would be upset. Other than that, it is a nothingburger.

[kimberlysteele]

I have not! I will check him out.

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[kimberlysteele]

Have you seen this? 13 stillbirths in a 24 hour period and in Ontario 86 stillbirths between January and July when the normal number is 6 per year.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZSWoiRKu6iDN/

[jdecandia]

It's certainly not an optimistic Reed, but I would suggest you check out his book end game.

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[methylethyl]

Alas, I have no video capacity. Limited bandwidth.

I have seen rumors of that, but have been unable so far to track down the source, or any exact numbers. I'm hoping to find a text source for that. It sounds dire.

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[methylethyl]

Plus, you know... it could be wrong ;)

But yeah, part of being a psychologically healthy, functional human being is an acceptance of death. Part of why our culture is so crazy right now is that people think they can somehow avoid it, or delay it until it's convenient or something. Lot of denial there.

No Surprise Here

[(Anonymous)]

Myazaki's anime movies are limpid paeans to the natural world. The characters move through landscapes of ethereal beauty.

Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Nausicaa
... and many more.

Any Miyazake anime is a treat not to be missed.

- Cicada Grove