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A lot has been happening worldwide since last week's news about Roe v. Wade.
A British journalist (Dom Phillips) was laid to rest after being gunned down in the Amazon for trying to share what was happening to the indigenous and Brazil's rainforests. In Ecuador, President Guillermo Lasso announced a cut to gas prices in an effort to quell protests demanding lower fuel and food prices.
Over on the finance and tech side, BTC struggled to move and stay above $20K. Meta announced the closure of its Novi wallet (thus its cryptocurrency pursuits). And the US officially entered a recession (but the media might be slow to catch up).
And finally, to top it all off, NASA confirmed that there will be a gigantic 18-km wide comet approaching Earth in July. The movie Don't Look Up couldn't be more relevant right now.
On a more personal note, I continued work with my new client (lovin' it), and got accepted into Batch #2 of the new Vinci program, which is being built to bring the best Web3 community-builders together. I also wrote two new articles, one on a new term I coined called Meta-Community Transformation. The other blog is about Sunsama, one of my favorite new productivity tools (highly recommended).
Today, I'm going to weave together everything I wrote, read, and learned about into a single theme: course-correcting.
The overall theme for the last week was one of course correction, on multiple fronts.
Although there are multiple cycles happening from multiple different areas, there are a few key ones to be aware of that may be influencing events currently.
How solar activity influences war, peace, and the human mind on Earth
In the late 1800s, a brilliant statistician and philosopher, William Henry Jevons, pioneered early theories of resource depletion and macroeconomics. He was also a father of modern economics and, in a way, astrology.
Javons amassed a wealth of data suggesting a connection between a decline in sunspots, and an increase in crop failures, leading to a market downturn. Jevons traced this correlation back to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, the first major financial crash of a modern stock market.
In a book called Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace, and the Human Mind, author Sacha P. Dobler shares some remarkable findings and correlations too:
"Periods of high solar activity and high sunspot numbers – which are associated with a stable and more favorable climate – are also periods of increased mass excitability, war and genocide. In fact, throughout the last millennium, there were 4.6 times as many deaths from war, genocide and persecution during Grand Solar Maxima than there were in Grand Solar Minimum. In contrast, Grand Solar Minima - the ‘bad-weather periods’ - were times of relative peace, reason and of improvements of human rights. In the 1920s, the Russian scientist Alexander Tchijevsky discovered that social excitability, wars and rebellions unfolded primarily at the peaks of the 11-year solar cycles (Schwabe- cycles)."
In 1967, a massive solar storm jammed radio and radar communications at the height of the Cold War. But, according to a 2016 paper published in a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the US Air Force was able to avert disastrous military conflict by studying the sun's activity.
Fast forward to today, and we're seeing similar solar activity, and an increase in activity of war, famine, and economic downturns. In 2017, NASA confirmed that a "Solar Minimum" was coming, and just two months ago, reported one of the strongest solar flares ever recorded. Just like in 1967, it also caused a radio blackout.
Our ancestors had it figured out already
If you've read any of my past blogs or newsletter issues, you'll know how I look into the deep past to bring out knowledge or information that's often overlooked or ignored due to it being considered "old-thinking".
However, there's an interesting thing I've learned while studying the past. Time is not linear. Although we often consider ourselves to be superior, because we are in the present, and anything before us is from the past, we automatically discard its value. Especially when it comes to pre-colonial history. However, there are countless examples of civilizations that reached pinnacles, then went backward, got wiped out somehow, or simply stagnated (e.g. European Dark Ages). So what's old becomes new again.
Astrology is something many modern scientists or rationalists consider "woo-woo", but fail to acknowledge that some of the greatest scientists of the past were practitioners of astrology. Most today confuse horoscopes for entertainment as astrology. Proper astrologists knew that what happened in the 'cosmos' impacted a lot of what we experience on Earth. And studies like those aforementioned shed some light.
So when certain things happen in our day-to-day lives, we often don't take into account the influence that things like geomagnetic storms or solar flares would have at a micro-level. But it's no different from a weather forecast. Instead of looking at just local weather, astrologists (or "readers of the stars") would take their weather knowledge to a higher "meta" level. Just like my Polynesian ancestors (below).
Reading the signs
Looking at how everything is going, it's hard for me to ignore that there is indeed a massive "course correction" currently taking place. Economists have called it The Great Reset, Meso-American cultures have called it the return of The Sixth Sun, and average citizens will be calling this period a [great] recession (or something worse, if they aren't already).
The whole Roe v. Wade ordeal may be a course correction in disguise - positive for conservatives, a step backward for liberals.
Whatever the case may be, it is important to accept these larger influences, but "course correct" your own path. There are very few things we can control in life, except for our own reactions to events. As author Neale Donald Walsh once said in a book from 2009, "when everything changes, change everything."
So if you are one of the few (or possibly many) feeling these changes right now...
Cut that hair.
Quit that job.
Move out of that city.
The world is your oyster. You can make the moves you know you should be, but may have resisted until recently. The sun doesn't care. Neither does the Earth. Both will continue to do their thing. But how will you respond to it all?
Until next time, remember: through patience & persistence, it will come.
George
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