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  • astrology forecast

    astrology forecast

    ellens-astrology-chartAstrology Forecast: “be wary of your Facebook feeds today – Mercury is in a tenuous position – there may be those feeds inserted by media marketers designed to throw you off track emotionally or try to influence you – check sources – do your own research and do not believe predigested news that you have not used your own mind to evaluate properly and consider”
     
    Yes, you may have forgotten how to do this – to use your own brain to THINK! Do not lose heart – it is still within you to use your own brain equipment to think for yourself – ASK yourself, if you read these items:  “is this reasonable and fact based?”
     
    Like writing in cursive, this “thinking for yourself” is becoming a lost art – “group-think” is trying to take over and your brain is getting lazy and sleepy if you let that happen to it –
    Fear not! You are human! (unless you are a dog reading this – or a cat…) You do have this capability (still) if you simply let yourself use your OWN brain (and not that of some pundit!) – you can avoid reading those upsetting things pushed in front of your nose, designed to upset you by media marketers (yes, this is true – check it out – just google it!) You can shut off the noise by right-clicking the entry and choosing “I don’t want to see this” – or clicking “the X on your browser tab” to banish the upsetting content, or shutting your browser or closing an app or turning off that awful yelling and anxiety producing garble that comes from your television!
    Disconnect from the internet!  Why do you trust WikiLeaks and those that hack into people’s emails?  Are you a voyeur?  It seems that way.  The reality is that they are thieves.  They steal stuff – do you trust a burglar?  Really?  Simply that’s what they do:  hack and steal other people’s stuff – passwords, emails, bank account info, medical records, God only knows what else – and you choose to trust them – there IS INDEED something wrong with how your brain has become…  Something terribly wrong.  
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    But you cannot help yourself these days, it’s everywhere – pushed at you constantly!  …then you go read it and use it to influence your thoughts and your actions – can you validate that they are not making this up?  C’mon.  Think about it!  Really?
    What if it was your e-mail that they hacked into?  How would you like that?  And you support this?  Yes you do, by reading and trusting that this is a true source.  Just because they say they took it from somewhere does not make it true.
     
    Just turn that TV off and notice the peacefulness that ensues – you will feel suddenly calmer… wow – how is that? Go put that mobile device in a drawer for a few hours – or for a real treat and some peace, a whole day! Wow – you might not remember how it was before all of this onslaught of noise into your life from every direction!
     
    Stop and take a pause. Try to remember when things were less crazy.  Can you?
    DadAndLittleMeAge3orSo copyThink of the person in your life whose logic and judgement is (or was) solid – what would they do? I think of my Dad.  He would debunk everything that was like what we see on the news today – the conspiracy theories, especially.  Heck, he even thought that organized religions were a sign of weakness at times in his life.  He questioned EVERYTHING that any group pushed out.  He called it propaganda – a word from WWII that was an indicator of what enemies were telling their citizens to have them rise up and support the war – people like Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and others who attacked the US and its people – and at times people like Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society perpetrated vast conspiracy theories because they were afraid and felt that people were out to get them.  It takes people off track to ask them to believe 100% in something that, when you really think it out, would be quite difficult for anyone to achieve – as a very wise man, Mahatma Gandhi said, “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”  
    And he also said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” as well as, “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”  
    Start simple. Know that big changes do not happen quickly to the masses. In YOUR reality, how do you think this or that conspiracy theory that people are desperately trying to get you to believe would play out? If you were “them who would do this to you and yours” how would you actually do whatever it is that you fear the most? the main thing is to use your brain to THINK and not REACT – and certainly, not to PANIC…
    If you PANIC, everyone around you will either think that you are nuts, or they will panic too – do you want to be a part of that? Seriously?  Think about it.  Be the calm.  Inject reason and rationality.  Stem the tide.
     
    You have control of you and only you.
  • it doesn’t matter – nobody cares about that – the tangled web

    it doesn’t matter – nobody cares about that – the tangled web

    “It doesn’t matter – nobody cares about that…”  Gosh what words. Oh the tangled web we weave… Apathy, one of the world’s most dangerous emotions…

    Here lately, it seems that what we have here is a failure to communicate.  I think that I am saying one thing but the receiver comes out with a response that indicates that what I said doesn’t seem to come through as what I said.  Uh-oh.  This worries me.  Saddens me actually, because when you read the news, the whole world seems to be flying out of control at its center.  The gravity seems to not be working so well anymore.

    I wonder…should I rapidly ditch all the people who purport ridiculous things – the haters out there – and yet… what they do, and how they act, make me feel hateful at times.  Ah.  This is it.  This is where I have to stop myself in my tracks and correct the course of my own behavior.

    Yup.  And this, my friends, is not taught to the wee ones much anymore.  The trend is to let people – even encourage people – to say what is on their minds to anyone, and if they don’t listen, well then, it’s okay to threaten, and hey, in their minds, it’s seeming okay to get a gun that will mow down as many people in as short a period of time as possible.  Where has the lesson on keeping yourself in check gone?  Who ripped that chapter out of the books?

    I know anger.  I know rage.  I understand how it feels.  But, I feel regretful for those times that I did act out – and my acting out pales by comparison to the acts of those who, here lately, have been engaged in some major acting out – this is world class disaster category acting out.  And it gives a bad name to a religion that really isn’t for that, any more than any other major world class religion.

    To me, it’s bad behavior, bad manners, and a lack of self-control –  this is because someone did not teach their kids how to manage anger properly.  If someone is raised by an angry person or angry people, then they will consider this to be normal.  This is a problem.  Are we becoming an endangered species?  There was that post last year…

    Anger moves to rage, and that rage is what makes people do unspeakable things.  I think that we need to think about it in these terms, because truly, all this blaming, doesn’t really give anyone a solution – and violence is not a part of the solution – it just creates more rage.

    Encourage others to take personal responsibility for their feelings – by taking personal responsibility of your feelings and don’t stuff them until they burn – calmly consider what they mean, and try to process them without killing people.  Please.  Take a deep breath…

  • what everybody needs – anger management

    what everybody needs – anger management

    A world gone mad – why?  Because there are a high number of angry people in the world who for one reason or the other have forgotten (if they ever knew) how to behave and how to control their anger.  I understand anger.  It isn’t as if I am saying “don’t be angry”.  It really is about getting the anger under control before it spills out and hurts people.  It is about taking personal responsibility for your shit, and not acting out at people just because you don’t like something.  You should have learned this as a child, but you didn’t or else you forgot.

    looming clouds
    looming clouds

    The headlines – mass shootings – domestic violence – Donald Trump’s popularity – all of these support the notion that anger management is needed.  Perhaps a spray in the air?  “Anger-Begone”.  Perhaps you have to attend anger management class before you get your drivers’ license or your next renewal – your passport – your insurance might require it – I mean, how many ways could we make certain that people have skills to control their anger?  There are lots of ways.  Classes in school – elementary through graduation – classes in college – why not?  Nothing else is working.  It shouldn’t interfere with everyone’s rights or freedom.  Who could argue that this would be at least something towards a solution for “the world gone mad” problem that we seem to have.

    If most people knew how to control their anger, and appropriately deal with it vs. shooting people or blowing stuff up, then it could solve a lot of problems in the world and the money being spent on that stuff could be used for something else.  Imagine.

    But this idea might get push-back from someone like Trump, whose whole platform is built around “anger” and using extreme solutions to solve anything or everything that sound like a six year old playing with blocks or locking the door of his room.  All those “angry people” are going to elect him to be King (uh, I mean POTUS, not KING) – King would be like Elvis, and he is not really here anymore, except the look-alike Elvis impersonators in Vegas… which is about the level of “universe” that planet Donald resides within.

    It’s pretty crazy around here – it’s a mad mad mad world….