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The New Moon on June 22 at Washington DC was in the 9th house exactly trine the Ascendent pointing to favorable developments in international relations, as seen in the summit meeting of the Presidents of the US and Russia. Supporting this development is a conjunction of Mars and Venus in the 7th house indicating a peaceful marriage of sorts. This fortunate development will continue to unfold beyond the lunation period; relations with Russia appear to be entering a more optimistic road now. The developments between the US and Russia are coming to full view at the Full Moon eclipse on July 7th with the eclipse Moon in the 7th House at Washington showing that relations with foreign powers are now improving while the eclipse trine Saturn in the 3rd house says that the improvements will continue to develope through talks over time.

Over and against the above indications, we have to look at the charts of Iran and Afghanistan. It was 30 years ago that the Islamic Republic of Iran was started. Iran is just recently past her Saturn Return. Saturn in the chart for Iran is in the 1st house, i.e., the-house-of-the-people. Repercussions of the Islamic Revolution are being felt now; there is popular unrest , and this will lead to economic worries for Iran. It is also noteworthy that Jupiter in the Iranian chart is at 29 degrees Cancer in the 12th house. There will be a major solar eclipse on July 22nd at 29 degrees Cancer. This eclipse will cause plenty of disturbances in Iran affecting public institutions such as hospitals, schools, and prisons over the coming months. It is possible that a lot of people will be going to jail. It appears in the Iranian chart that disruptive events will come up in 2014 – 2015, more serious than what is happening at present and that will be happening later on this year and into next. As for Afghanistan, it was 29 years ago that Russia invaded. Repercussions stemming from that invasion will be felt this and next year due to the Saturn return cycle as well. The United States and Russia are now forming closer ties; the link to Afghanistan  is significant. In the Afghanistan chart Mercury is at 29 degrees Cancer in the 4th house. The solar eclipse on July 22nd will also register in Afghanistan negatively affecting the land, landed interests, and cash crops. There will be a concerted effort of the US and Russia to destroy the opium business in Afghanistan that will meet with hostile reactions of the Afghan farmers connected to the Taliban and related terrorist organizations.

The coming eclipses, especially the solar eclipse of July 22nd are pointing to a big earthquake, very probably in Asia as the eclipse will be visible there, especially in China. The solar eclipse at  29 degrees Cancer suggests a possible tsunami coming sometime in the weeks or months following the eclipse. The effects of a strong solar eclipse such as this one last at least one year during which there are bound to be periodic repercussions.

To go back a bit, the New Moon chart of June 22nd shows that there were a number of news-worthy deaths of celebrities in the entertainment field as well as fatal air crashes. This pattern, especially of air crashes over water, deserves watching as it may continue through the summer.

The Lunar Eclipse of July 07 is at 15 degrees Capricorn. A lunar eclipse in the middle of the sign Capricorn is said to bring incursions, assaults of soldiers, robberies and captivities. Countries and regions under Capricorn include India, Pubjab, Afghanistan, Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Mexico and other places prone to violence at this time. The eclipse also suggests renewed pirate activity. The lunar eclipse also suggests that there will be an increase of US military activity. Uranus is in the 10th house in DC in the lunar eclipse chart. This means that there will be sudden and unexpected developments in Government circles which will require careful management. Nonetheless, it appears that the trouble, whatever it is, will be gotten around and averted.

T. Raphael Simons will be on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show this Fall. Check back for the official show date coming soon.

More about T. Raphael Simons…

T. Raphael Simons is a psychic reader, astrologer (Western and Chinese forms), feng shui expert, hypnotherapist and life coach and is  available for consultations and counseling in person and by telephone. Author of Feng Shui, Step by Step, Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success: Arranging Your Office for Success and Prosperity, and The Feng Shui of Love, his interest in the metaphysical sciences and arts began in 1970, he first learned to read Tarot cards in 1971 and took up reading them professionally in 1977. From there he studied astrology for seven years with Ivy Jacobson beginning in 1980. In 1988 he took up the study of Chinese astrology and fengshui with Terry Lee in New York and has been practicing and teaching Chinese astrology and fengshui ever since. He also trained in channeling in New York with the medium Alex Murray. Since 1999 Raphael has been a member of OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids), the most ancient bardic and druid order in the UK in which he was elected a full member in the Druid grade. Raphael has been living in Durham, North Carolina since 2003, moving to NC from New York City. Originally trained as a musician, he taught music at Princeton University and Oberlin College. More info at: www.psychicarts.net

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Recently, I interviewed Tom Campbell about his work researching altered states of consciousness with Robert Monroe at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running. These early drug-free consciousness pioneers helped design experiments, developed the technology for creating specific altered states, and were the main subjects of study all at the same time.

I’m pleased to present this interview with Tom Campbell to you here on The Bohemian Blog…

Kala: Hi Tom, Welcome to Explore Your Spirit with Kala’s Bohemian Blog, a pleasure to have you here.  You were involved with researching consciousness in the early 1970′s with Robert (Bob) Monroe at the Monroe Institute.  Regarding the topic of consciousness, some levels of consciousness are described as “altered states”.  Can you explain this term as well as-  How you define consciousness and altered states?

Tom: “Altered states of consciousness” refer to various states of awareness.  “Altered” implies that they are qualitatively different than one’s awareness in physical reality.  Consciousness has four attributes:
1 it takes in data (information)
2 it has memory
3 it processes the data (sorts, analyzes, and compares, etc)
4 it is self modifying (it evolves)

Kala: You’re a physicist (my favorite type of scientist) as I find that physicists have the most expansive and open of minds and can see the greater good, bad and all the levels in between. For the past 20 years, you’ve worked developing missile defense systems.  In this level of consciousness, how do you see our world at large, the big picture overview?

Tom: This reality system is an elementary school.  Fear, belief, and ego dominate the landscape, unconditional love is in short supply.  Most of us are doing the best we can with what we have and understand.  It’s a wonderful  place to grow up.

Kala: Robert Monroe spoke of you in his book Far Journeys referring to your scientific research and experiences.  In your research, what are some of the most life altering and mind expanding results that you’ve uncovered?

Tom:
1 The only thing that is fundamental is consciousness – all else is virtual
2 Consciousness is a self modifying evolving digital information system
3 The consciousness system is finite and imperfect
4 Physical reality is a virtual reality
5 There are many virtual reality frames and we exist in several of them
6 Physical and non physical are not fundamental – it is only a matter of perspective (Next level of relativity theory: there is no fundamental reality frame)
7 Evolution criteria, Love, and spiritual growth are all defined in terms of entropy a measurable quantity
8 Three databases define all that is likely to happen, all that did happened and all that might have happened but didn’t (these are called the Akashic records in Hindu theology)
9 There is no such thing as an objective reality – all reality is interpreted. Light, energy, energy bodies, guides, chakras, oversoul, higher self, Reiki symbols, acupuncture technique, Ouija boards, pendulum oracles, I Ching, etc. are all metaphors/tools – consciousness is the only active ingredient.
10 The paranormal is perfectly normal
11 Quantum Mechanics is derivable from first principles
12 Physics and metaphysics become one understanding
13 Metaphysics, philosophy and theology all become transparent and one can easily see and derive the threads of Big Truth that run through them. These are just the tip of the iceberg.

Kala: Your book, My Big TOE is described as …”unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds, are brought together under one seamless scientific understanding”.  The vision statement of why I created The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, was to connect the scientific and spiritual arenas to each other, as I believe that a deeper understanding of the cosmos can occur when scientists work with mystics and compare notes, research and experiences.  Do you see this happening in the 21st century?

Tom: Maybe – we haven’t turned the corner yet.  However now that there is a scientific theory  that unites both perhaps some progress will be made.  One can only hope.

Kala: In your title, My Big TOE, “TOE” is an acronym used in the physics community that stands for “Theory of Everything” and is described in conversations as the “Holy Grail” for physicists.  How close have you come in your work to this theory and finding the metaphorical grail?

Tom: It is done.  The theory is complete – I and others continue to search for Big picture experiences (physical and spiritual) that are not fully explained by this theory and have found none yet – physical details will come later as scientists compute the logical conclusions in their own fields.

Kala: Is My Big TOE the first book of your trilogy. Tell us about the other books to come…

Tom: My Big TOE is the name of the trilogy.  The three books are Awakening, Discovery and Inner Workings.

Kala: You’re the Keynote Speaker at the Monroe’s Institute’s 22nd Professional Seminar, which will be held in March, 2010. What is the agenda for this event….

Tom: The agenda has not been determined yet, however the theme of the 22nd Professional Seminar is “Consciousness: The Endless Frontier”

Kala: Who is Tom Campbell, the man behind the research? How has following this life path allowed you to “Explore Your Spirit”?

Tom: It has allowed me to understand what spirit is, how we are connected to it, its purpose, and how the evolution of spirit works.  It is so much easier to learn and grow when you understand what is going on and why it is going on.  Everything is clear and makes good sense.  That being said, spiritual growth does not take place within the intellect – change must be at the being level.  I would not trade this path I have been on for anything.

Kala: I knew Laurie Monroe and her desire to continue the work being done at the Monroe Institute and I was involved with the Rhine Research Center for several years. Where do you see scientific research on consciousness, the mind/body/spirit and the metaphysical and paranormal going in the future? It’s always been a struggle to get mainstream science and universities to support what they consider to be alternative theories. Do you see this changing or evolving?

Tom: The fundamental beliefs upon which science is based is part of the problem.   Science wants/demands consciousness to be physical — to be constrained by the little picture rule-set – to be reduced to physical causality.  It doesn’t work that way – that is illogical. The subset cannot contain or explain the superset. Science is doomed to fail at taming the paranormal and must be relegated to “observing phenomena” that exits beyond their control until they change their fundamental beliefs.  Also in my books I introduce the psi uncertainty principle (a part of our rule set just like gravity) that requires a certain amount of global (as opposed to local) uncertainty to exist around psi events in order to maintain the integrity of our physical reality frame (learning lab).

Kala: If you could summarize your work into a few sentences, what do you wish you could explain to humanity about consciousness?

Tom: It’s all about growing up and becoming love – that is your purpose – evolving the quality of your consciousness; and the larger consciousness system will support you in achieving that purpose to the extent that you allow it.

Kala: Tom, thank you for your time with this interview. We look forward to having you on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show for a more in-depth interview soon.

Tom: My pleasure Kala.  Discovery of fundamental truth is good – sharing that truth with others is even better.  Much Eastern philosophy, western mysticism, science, and theology supports this theory.  The ideas I present have been known and understood from prehistoric time to today.  What I bring to the table is that others describe, I derive.  Where others explain using poetry and metaphor, I explain in terms of contemporary science. It is not that I have discovered something that has never been experienced before, rather that I have explained what has been intuited for millennia in terms of the logic of western science.

More info about Tom Campbell…
Tom Campbell began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running. These early drug-free consciousness pioneers helped design experiments, developed the technology for creating specific altered states, and were the main subjects of study (guinea pigs) all at the same time. Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness.
During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems and presently works for NASA.  Tom is the “TC (physicist)” described in Bob Monroe’s second book Far Journeys and has been a serious explorer of the frontiers of reality, mind, consciousness, and psychic phenomena since the early 1970s. My Big TOE is a model of existence and reality that is based directly on Campbell’s scientific research and firsthand experience. It represents the results and conclusions of thirty years of careful scientific exploration of the boundaries and contents of reality from both the physical and metaphysical viewpoints. The author has made every effort to approach his explorations without bias or preconceived notions. There is no belief system, dogma, creed, or unusual assumptions at the root of My Big TOE.  By demanding high quality repeatable, empirical, evidential data to separate what’s real (exists independently and externally) from what’s imaginary or illusory; Campbell has succeeded in logically deriving a scientific general model of reality that explains the normal and the paranormal, physics and metaphysics, body, mind and spirit. More info at: www.my-big-toe.com

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Recently on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, I spoke with Dr. Davis Liu about the future of healthcare in the U.S.  One of the most interesting ideas we discussed was being able to have a live video chat with your doctor online rather than having to go into the office for minor exams.   It appears that the future is now, in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Anna Wilde Mathews reports: ” The Doctor will Text You Now – Patients visit with their physicians online as more insurers being paying for Digital Diagnoses”.  You can read Ms. Mathews article here in the Journal:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203872404574257900513900382.html#printMode

and if you haven’t listened to the show with Dr. Davis Liu about the future of Healthcare in the US, I suggest you listen now and prepare for the changes coming soon:

http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows3.shtml#LIUHEALTH

Dr. Liu is also a Guest Blogger on Kala’s Bohemain Blog, his most recent article focuses on Saving Money on Prescription Drugs and can be read here:

http://exploreyourspirit.com/blog/2009/02/19/save-money-on-medical-care-prescription-drugs-and-more/

All the best,

*~Kala~*

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When I was eight, I lost my most precious possession, a rubber ball I had purchased with the first dollar I ever earned.  It was the size of a volleyball, pink and smooth and soft. I liked to bounce it on the sidewalk and show it to everyone I met. I’d tell them the story of how I’d helped my mom with housework and she’d given me a whole dollar and I’d used it to buy my very own ball.

A few weeks later, I was visiting Nana in New Jersey and we went to a military picnic and clam bake. Women in bright dresses and hats served potato salad and buttered corn on the cob at picnic tables.  A brawny man with a crew cut pulled clams out of a huge, steaming vat and opened the shells with a knife.  Nana showed me how to season them with lemon and dip them in butter and pop them in my mouth.  I liked the rubbery, ocean taste of the clams and went back for a second helping.

I met other kids by the lake and we played dodge ball with my pink ball late into the afternoon. Then, without warning, the sky darkened and a storm rolled in with gusty winds and rain.  We had to pack up and leave quickly, but I couldn’t find my prized ball. I cried out in anguish while the adults grabbed my arm and shoved me into the car.  This was my first experience of how the winds could rise and carry away something precious to me.

Back at Nana’s house, I just couldn’t believe that I had lost my most prized possession. “I’ll buy you another one,” Nana had said, but it would never be the same. That pink rubber ball meant more to me than a mere child’s toy.  It represented independence and self-reliance—the belief that I could make my own way.

With knots in my stomach and tears rolling down my cheeks, I bolted up to the bedroom and opened the drawer with my grandmother’s Bible, a book I knew she regarded as holy.  At that young age, I wasn’t quite sure what religion I was supposed to follow.  My mom had been raised a Catholic and my dad had been Moslem, but neither practiced nor taught me anything about the religious beliefs of their families.  Nevertheless, a part of me had always felt that a spiritual being I could neither see nor touch nor hear had created me and protected me.

I ran my fingers across the worn, brown leather Bible cover and asked for a sign.  Flipping it open, I pointed to a line on the page and read: In the Lord, put your trust. (Psalms 11:1)  Upon reading these words, a loving feeling washed over me, like I was being embraced by angel arms and reassured that everything would turn out okay.  Breathing a sigh of relief, I sprinted down the stairs to find my grandmother.  I informed her that my ball would be found, that the Bible said so.  Within the hour, a friend called and said her teenage daughter had found the ball and she would bring it to the house.  On that day, I learned to ask for help and to trust that it would be provided, but how or what or by whom was still a mystery.

In my youth and early twenties, I explored numerous religions, but nothing ever really stuck.  I always wanted to know what other groups thought or practiced or believed.  I couldn’t accept the idea that one group had the whole truth and everyone else was wrong, or confused, or infidels, or a cult, or going to burn in hell for all time. I wasn’t content with one book or one set of beliefs or practices.  To limit my thinking for religious purposes was like living in a cubicle and not being allowed to look over the wall and see what was going on outside.  I wanted to think for myself, to study, to analyze and to practice without inhibitions.  Why would God only accept the practices and prayers of one particular group and not others? An omniscient God couldn’t be that petty, could he—or she?

I finally concluded that I just didn’t know and floundered in a spiritual void for a time.  But when I was diagnosed with a serious illness and reunited with a childhood friend, I cracked and fell to pieces.  Deep, buried emotions erupted to the surface, shaking me to my core. Propelled to seek answers and find inner peace, I tumbled into a spiritual adventure that exploded my concepts of reality and opened me to a brave new world where souls talk, trees emit energy fields, rocks have life, and God is everywhere. *excerpt from the book, God Outside the Box

Listen to the interview with Kala and Patricia Panahi on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show.

The show airs on September 4th 2009.

More about Patricia Panahi…

Over the course of her thirty-four year career, Patricia Panahi has been a teacher, business owner, healer, workshop coordinator, program director, and, of course, writer. Her short stories and essays have been featured in several publications including Kanilehua, Hilo Sunrise, and the East Hawaii Observer.  In the 1980’s, Patricia owned and operated The Light Spot, a metaphysical bookstore and coffeehouse in San Diego, California.  In 2007, Patricia resigned as director of the English Language Institute at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to pursue her passion for writing.  She is the author of The Well Woman Cookbook, God Outside the Box: A Story of Breaking Free, and she has just completed her novel, Veil of Walls the story of a young American growing up in pre-Revolutionary Iran. Patricia lives on the Big Island of Hawaii with her husband and a mischievous cat named Pixie.  More info at: www.patriciapanahi.com

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Who Are They?

All children have the natural intelligence of intuition (II). Some children are highly skilled or gifted in this talent in the same way that others have a talent for math, music, languages or physical dexterity.

Since each of us has a preference in how we relate to the world, the book, Raising Intuitive Children, shows how children with an intuitive learning style and intuitive intelligence view and interact with people, tasks and the environment.

Children with intuitive intelligence have traits that manifest in different ways along a continuum of normal skills to gifted talents:

•    Children who learn through feelings and process information kinesthetically. (Intuitive learning mode)
•    Children who are creative and artistic and intuition drives their motivation. (Artistic drive for exploring and creating, entrepreneurial)
•    Children whose intuitive intelligence is like a radar reading other people and understanding them. (Empathy and interpersonal skills)
•    Children who have intuitive episodes like dreams or a flash of creative insight. (Deep insight, precognition)
•    Children who are psychic. (Awareness of non-physical worlds through all senses or a specific sense.)
Intuition is the common denominator of these talents, and all children have the same intuitive capacities. Like musical prodigies and math geniuses, children display their intuitive talents differently. Some educators call the intutive kids the right-brainers! (Better than no-brainers, I guess)

II is the new kid on the block
Education, parenting and psychology professionals recognize that children have multiple intelligences, and intuitive intelligence is the new kid on the block. All intelligences exist on a continuum of normal to gifted. There are math prodigies, musical geniuses and intuitive psychics. The traits for intuitive intelligence cluster into several groups:

•    Creative and inspired artists,
•    Sensitive and empathic feelers, and
•    Talents involving inner psychic awareness,
•    Spiritual intuitives
Intuitive intelligence stands as an entity deserving recognition. Brain mapping using EEG topography found that creativity and intuition are associated with theta waves usually linked with daydreaming or fantasizing. Theta waves are calm states in which intellectual activity at the conscious level isn’t occurring. Children and adults with ADHD produce excessive theta waves.

Our logical mind addresses stable patterns, snapshots of reality stored in our memory banks, for the practical living. The holistic or holographic side of our reality, intuitive intelligence comes from within. By focusing our attention on how intuition presents, we act from deeper understanding.

Intuitive intelligence operates on gestalts or whole pieces of information and functions from our memory, not logic. Intuitive ability is finally recognized as the fuel behind innovation, creative thinking, inspiration, insight, and psychic experiences.

Intuition is an essential part of the human mind, which includes our conscious processes and unconscious processes—thought perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. Intuition involves nurturing self-awareness of the inner world, the outer world, and the connection in between

Connection is the key!
There is much we can do as parents to direct expressions of inventive and creative thoughts, help empaths deal with emotional overwhelm and establish resilience, face fears of ghosts. Children with intuitive intelligence, challenged by cultural systems which do not know how to connect with or teach them, need permission to follow their personal path and optimize their talent. We can give that permission and model it for them by developing our intuitive parenting. We also need to become intuitive parents.

Our truest parenting success is the feeling of resonance with our child, the connection of hearts, the meeting of minds—congruence.

Listen to the interview with Kala and Caron Goode on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show.

The show airs on September 25th, 2009.

More about Caron Goode….

Dr. Caron Goode is a licensed psychotherapist, author and inspirational speaker. Gifted with compassion and a deep desire to assist others in living their passionate purpose, Dr. Goode has become a well-respected leader in the parent coaching industry. In addition to founding and operating the Academy for Coaching Parents International that trains students in the empowerment model of parent coaching, Dr. Goode shares her holistic approach to achieving parenting success and managing family relationships in magazines, newspapers and radio. She is also the author of twelve books, including The Art and Science of Coaching Parents and Raising Intuitive Children. (read a free excerpt on www.RaisingIntuitiveChildren.com)

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Given the different proposed birth times, the one that looks most probable is around 10:53 am, falling squarely into the Chinese 6th time division. The date of Michael Jackson’s birth was August 29th, 1958. Born in the year of Earth Dog, month of Metal Monkey, day of Earth Tiger, and hour of Fire Snake, Jackson’s chart shows him to have been a hard worker and subject to harsh conditions. True to his chart, he was a musician with pronounced acting, correographic, and dancing talents. The distribution of elements in Jackson’s chart shows 5 Metals, 1 Water, 1 Wood, 4 Fires, and 6 Earths.  The weakest element in the chart is Wood, showing trouble in liver functioning and a tendency to confusion and anger. The chart has 13 Yang elements and 3 Yin elements. With an extreme over-balance of Yang, Jackson was prone to extreme tension. The greatest focus of elements in the chart is 6 Yang Earths. This shows that Jackson’s health was affected adversely by a tendency to severe anxiety, and an unquenchable need for love. The over-balanced Yang Earth adversely affected the spleen, stomach and pancreas function, with a tendency to diabetes, circulatory troubles, and a degenerative condition of the flesh and nose. The almost equally overbalanced Metal confirms the condition of Jackson’s nose and shows skin and intestinal problems. Jackson’s surgeries appear not to have been so much for beauty as they were for cosmetic reasons related to the complex health issues he suffered. Had he survived his heart attack, it is questionable that he would have been able to live much longer in his emotional condition.

The 13 Yang elements in the chart show Jackson as an initiator. He was good at starting projects and needed others to help finish them. Jackson appears to have been a creatively independent and competitive character while being friendly to a lot of people. He thrived in a friendly and competitive mileu.

Jackson’s 10-year luck cycles began at age four. His first luck cycle, running from age four to fourteen, shows Michael traveling and experiencing trouble in the family. Michael’s father abused him. Jackson’s chart shows his father not there to support and guide him, but as a brutal task master. This had a causal connection to Jackson’s tendency to squander money and to be frustrated in love. It appears that it was in his twenties that Jackson came into his own and his father went out of the picture; nonetheless, the harm done in the earlier years engendered the pattern of intense anxiety and neediness that were at the root of Jackson’s health problems. The cycle of age twenty-four to thirty-four shows Jackson riding high. His creativity was flourishing in those years. It is very probable that in those years Jackson had strong romantic interests as well. Possibilities of close relationships, including marriages, show in Jackson’s chart from age fourteen up to the most recent times. Jackson’s chart, nonetheless, shows lack of support from parents, distancing of siblings, and poor relations with children. You may see how all of this, coupled with his anxieties, contributed to his deteriorating health and early death. Had he lived on, and overcome his emotional condition, he would have found genuine love in the cycle of age sixty-four to seventy-four. Jackson’s chart , nonetheless, shows him to have been a loner; it was difficult for him to hold a relationship. The overbalanced element Metal in Jackson’s chart shows that he was prone to grief. Too much grief leads to heart ailments. The vital element in Jackson’s chart is Water. The vital in a person’s chart is that element that the person’s life depends on. Water, Jackson’s vital element, was relatively weak at the time of his birth. It became strong for him at age fourteen and was strongest between twenty-four and thirty-four. It was still strong between thirty-four and forty-four, but began to subside at forty-four. From his mid-forties to around fifty, Jackson’s health was in considerable danger. He had become very fragile. The astrological indications in 2007 show him in an emotionally upset period that weakened him so that he was unable to withstand  the oncoming tide of adverse conditions. 2010 would have been a very dangerous year for him had he survived.

Jackson’s year, month, day and hour of birth reduced to an I Ching hexagram gives us hexagram 7, lines 2 and 3. Hexagram 7 is The Army. It shows Jackson to have been a leader destined to prosper, but if he did not work to improve his internal state he was also destined to have a hard and short life. The astrological signs of the hexagram show Jackson flourishing earlier and becoming exhausted later on. He died in an emotional condition of want.

T. Raphael Simons will be on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show this Fall. Check back for the official show date coming soon.

As an update to this blog post, we asked Raphael, why are so many people passing over right now.. read his reply here:

Why So Many People Are Passing Over Right Now

In response to the question why so many people are passing over right now, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, the flight from Rio to Paris and another flight over the ocean that crashed last night, and so on, I looked at the New Moon Chart and calculated the Part of Death (the Ascendent + the 8th house cusp – Moon). The Part of Death in the New Moon chart is in the 11th house opposite Uranus in the 5th house, and its solstice point is conjunct the New Moon in the 9th house. Translated to plain English, the chart shows surprising deaths in the entertainment field, disasters to vacationers, and fatal accidents in flights over the ocean. To confirm this, the New Moon in the house of traveling was opposite Pluto, universal significator of death. The Part of Death in the Summer Solstice chart is square the Sun, ruler of the 5th house in the 3rd house. This means that the Summer Solstice chart says we are getting news of deaths to people in the entertainment field, as well as vacationers and travelers.

More about T. Raphael Simons…

T. Raphael Simons is a psychic reader, astrologer (Western and Chinese forms), feng shui expert, hypnotherapist and life coach and is  available for consultations and counseling in person and by telephone. Author of Feng Shui, Step by Step, Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success: Arranging Your Office for Success and Prosperity, and The Feng Shui of Love, his interest in the metaphysical sciences and arts began in 1970, he first learned to read Tarot cards in 1971 and took up reading them professionally in 1977. From there he studied astrology for seven years with Ivy Jacobson beginning in 1980. In 1988 he took up the study of Chinese astrology and fengshui with Terry Lee in New York and has been practicing and teaching Chinese astrology and fengshui ever since. He also trained in channeling in New York with the medium Alex Murray. Since 1999 Raphael has been a member of OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids), the most ancient bardic and druid order in the UK in which he was elected a full member in the Druid grade. Raphael has been living in Durham, North Carolina since 2003, moving to NC from New York City. Originally trained as a musician, he taught music at Princeton University and Oberlin College. More info at: www.psychicarts.net

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