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Monday, February 26, 2018

NorthPoint Journal: Your guide to planetary energies for February 26 to March 4, 2018 By Pam Younghans




Highlighted Aspects this Week

TUE: Venus sextile Pluto
WED: Mercury square Vesta, Mercury square Mars, Mercury sextile Pluto 
THU: Venus trine Jupiter, Sun semisquare Uranus, Full Moon 4:51pm PST (12:51am GMT on Friday)
FRI: Mercury trine Jupiter
SUN: Sun conjunct Neptune, Mercury conjunct Venus, Mercury conjunct Chiron, Venus conjunct Chiron


MERCURY, the Messenger Planet and ruler of all things related to mental activity -- communication, networking, facts, truth, news, logic, thinking, and ideas -- is very active this week. We're bound to see a significant amount of both information and misinformation coming forward, which means we'll need to be wearing our own personal Sorting Hat when it comes to knowing what to believe and what to discard as false.

This is true not only of external communications, but also our own perceptions and what we think we "know." Mercury is in Pisces right now, which increases intuition but also can create brain fog, leaving us somewhat adrift from reality and potentially gullible.

WE ARE TESTED in this regard on Wednesday, when Mercury squares both Mars and the asteroid Vesta, which are aligned in Sagittarius and fully dedicated to defending their cause. Externally, the war of words can cause significant distraction; internally, we may wage battle with our own need to be right, which can interfere with our ability to hear inner guidance.

Any square involving Mars, the god of war, is likely to create at least some fireworks. But in the midst of the barrage of words, we have the opportunity to discern the truth of the matter, thanks to the depth-perception provided by a Mercury-Pluto sextile, also on Wednesday.

FOLLOWING Mercury's trail, we'll jump over Thursday's very-important Full Moon for now, and land on Friday, when a Mercury-Jupiter trine increases the flow of communication. The good news is that with Jupiter in truth-seeking Scorpio, we are less likely to be derailed or deceived by mere words; metaphorically, we will find it easier to tune our ear to hear the core melody and be less distracted by the vocal flourishes.

Our experience on Sunday is also strongly influenced by Mercury, as the planet conjoins both Venus and Chiron in Pisces. If we are looking for healing -- especially of relationships -- this is an excellent time to access forgiveness and to open to new levels of trust with loved ones. Once we acknowledge the wounds of the past, our heartfelt, kind words can go a long way in healing any scars that remain.

The Pisces Sun also conjoins Neptune on Sunday, making it a powerful day of compassion and understanding. This influence also supports dream work and spiritual practices, as well as mindfulness meditation and creative/artistic activities.

NOW, back to the highlight of the week -- the Virgo Full Moon that occurs at 4:51 p.m. PST on Thursday (12:51 a.m. GMT on Friday). While not an eclipse, this lunation is of greater significance than most, since it is high point of the lunar cycle that began with the Solar Eclipse on February 15.

A Full Moon is a time of bringing light to current issues. It marks a culmination and a crisis point based on themes that have been building over the past two weeks. With this Full Moon in practical and discerning Virgo, it strengthens our ability to see truth and to know what we must do to facilitate improvement and healing.

THE SABIAN SYMBOL for the degree of the Full Moon (11°23′ Virgo) reinforces the theme of dispelling illusion and seeing reality:

"After the wedding, the groom snatches the veil away from his bride: The penetrating and unveiling power of the trained mind."

In his interpretation of this symbol, astrologer Dane Rudhyar writes, "There can be an unveiling of mysteries, long protected by secrecy."

Much is coming forward now that has been held hostage by our desire not to face reality. The revelation of truth may not be comfortable, but it is the first step toward finding solutions to our problems. What will we see when the veil is snatched away, and how will it affect our journey from here?

IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THIS WEEK: In the year ahead, you will have many opportunities to find new stability and clarity in your life. In the past year or two, you have been releasing old patterns of behavior that have kept you feeling powerless and inhibited your ability to set boundaries. As you have surrendered to these personality changes, your self-concept has changed. This internal shift is what now allows you to open your life to new potentials in the coming year.


In light,
 
Pam



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Friday, March 24, 2017

Gillian MacBeth-Louthan: 3 Excerpts from THE QUANTUM AWAKENING



Excerpts from:
THE QUANTUM AWAKENING   
A Website, a Global Electronic Newsletter,
A Thought, A Way of Life,
ISSUE #219
March 2017
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This newsletter has been in circulation, hard copy and online, since 1986 and reaches a core group of millions of dedicated Planetary LightWorkers. One to one, light to Light, it births itself into completion from that point forward, feel free to share this information.  
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***From Your Hostess of Light
*** Loop In the Wheel of Fortune (boy could we all use a vowel about now!)
***Leylines and time markers wobble like buoys in the ocean


From Your Hostess of Light, Gillian
Hey Ya’ll I do not know about you but my cosmic butt has been kicked so much it can wear skinny jeans! I thought that after holding and working for the light for over half a century it would get a little easier. There is no easy street in deep space for sure. Every dang molecule is battling with itself and its right to be alive in whatever form. All livingness responds to the call for regeneration. The pollywog is no longer happy being a tadpole. The caterpillar demands to become a butterfly and life demands everything else in between.
We pray, we take out the cosmic trash, we mediate, we chop wood and carry water. We hold a heart space for the world and some days it feels as if we need to wear chain-mail undergarments just to go to the grocery. So many have shut themselves away because that is the easier choice, ask any old incarnated hermit or monk. To me it is like the’ knights templar hiding behind the Magdalene’s skirt.’
Even the stealthy fox has to change its colors to align with the global adjustments. There are no personalities involved in these upcoming shifts, only the need for propulsion out of this dimensional warp.
As great emotional gases come to the surface, like old faithful erupting out -of -sync and line-dancing with a new time partner. What lies beneath bubbles to the surface, allowing what is noxious to escape, both people and planet. When the inner earth gases meet the outer earth gases a new tempo is created.  Like the temples of old in Delphi many an oracle can attest to ‘a deep earth knowing’ supplied by inner earth fumes escaping. As the world huffs and puffs and shows her true colors everyone all will know what Mother Earth has to say.

Loop In the Wheel of Fortune
(boy could we all use a vowel about now!)
We are all in the middle of a restructuring, and there is no easy way to get thru this loop in the wheel of fortune. As time jumps forward past the winter gods and goddesses we all take a moment to take off the teachings of winter. We are weary confused and alert, like a cat next to a rocking chair. we can feel the future racing thru our veins, Are we prepared for these shifts to come? Every cell in our bodies screams no! The weather has more moods than a teenage girl without a date. How do we prepare for energies that do not respond to our prayers and will not acknowledge us or our dire earthly straits?
What will the goddess of spring ask of us this year? Growth is natural and beautiful but sometimes painful.  like a spring bud just waiting to break free we all have to put on our big girl and boy  panties and get thru this next phase of light and life.  Disclosure is the word for the spring as every little thing that was dormant in winter now spurts out all its hidden secrets.
As the Goddess of Spring stretches herself underground, she takes all of us to a hidden entrance of life. Like a magic fairy door hidden in a tree trunk or a portal between worlds in the middle of a sticker patch, the worlds between the worlds open to be seen. Each corridor reflecting a place where time bends.  The dimensions dance together like auroras changing form and colors at a glance. We become dizzy and disoriented as living magic is seen when least expected. We rub our eyes to make sure we see what we see! The human eyes cone changes as it sees thru time. Time once disrupted comes back around like a dancer that seductively moves toward you. All matter shifts in accordance with divine instructions. This spring equinox portals open and close, try not to get caught in-between.
A seed can only be sown when it is given free will. Allowing it to search for hallowed ground and start the process of releasing the divine blueprint of life into the earth. Everything we do or do not do seeds the future. All seeds are about believing in the invisible harvest. Like a cosmic farmer holding the image of bounty in his heart until it is finally seen on Earth.
When that harvest is birthed from your seed of belief it is then necessary to share that bounty with others. To take part of your field of manifestation and cut off the corners of it and give it freely so another can start the seed of belief process as well. Sharing their bounty with others and so on and on…. Listen to the voice of the universe inside of you as it asks more and more of you. As it asks you to give and give and give, like a wellspring without end. The universe has its watermark upon your soul and cells. You can never out give the Creator.

Leylines and time markers
wobble like buoys at sea
As the memory of what was, seems to drift like a piece of lost wood in an ocean of confusion, we continue to move quickly down the corridor of time. We are being ushered into time doors that swing both ways. Down hallways that never end into a place that is not fully created yet.  Time brushes past us like a blast of air, not asking our permission for anything.  Life corrals us into a corner of pre-empted choices.  Time has shifted. It has quickened its pace, and all outcomes have shifted as well.
Longitudes and latitudes dance to an unseen beat. Leylines and time markers wobble like buoys in the ocean, sacred crystal geometries are reset. An actual cog in time has been felt as the worlds walk into a new traffic pattern. We still biologically walk to the beat of the old drum when the band plays on in a different octave of time and light.  Our perceptions are enhanced and we see in and out of time but are still not sure where to place each thought. Seeing between the worlds is not a place for those weak of purpose. One must hold tightly to the tight wire as time doors are opened and possibilities present themselves in a new array of colors. The unexpected is to be expected on a daily basis. People do there best to hide what ails them but actions are louder than any words.  
Seeing into the future is not a place for those weak of knee. As one walks thru the time doors many trap doors make themselves know. Dimensional black holes to other places of parallel time loops can create a dizzying effect in most unexpected places.. Time doors open and close faster than the bat of an eye. Truth and time are adjustable in nature.
That which has appeared emptied now becomes full, freeing itself from  previous definition.  A shift of light realm awakens from a long sleep to escort you into the cornerstone where time and space meet. All limitations are transformed in this expanded view.  Do you have the courage to take an open-eyed leap of faith into this fluid point of possibility? Your vessel of perpetual self is being purified for the expanded energies and truths of the upcoming shifts. You are an instrument of light that is being fine-tuned to play a new song. Relax into the Shifts; look at them eye to I, seeing with the wisdom of a thousand years!  See beyond what you deem humanly possible. Each situation has a million outcomes. It is up to the individual to pick the reaction  which then opens the door to a matching experience.  

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Gillian MacBeth-Louthan
PO Box 217
Dandridge, Tennessee

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Jenny Schiltz: The Need for Self-Empowerment during the Ascension Process


Jenny Schiltz: The Need for Self-Empowerment during the Ascension Process


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixj9XOpMGUQ


Check out this new project titled The Ascension Series and in this episode, Steven & Amy North (Incarnate/Spirit Guide), Ascended Masters and  I  have a candid discussion on the need for Self-Empowerment and Walking in your Truth & Power during the ascension process.




Click here to download an MP3 
To listen via itunes, click here

In this episode Steve North and I refer to Rebecca Dawson so below you will find links to her site as well as ours.
http://channelingthemasters.org (Jenny Schiltz)
http://www.stevennorth.com.au (Steven North)
https://www.facebook.com/channelingth… (Jenny Schiltz, Facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/steven.omto…. (Steven North, Facebook)
http://www.rebeccadawson.com.au/ (Rebecca Dawson)
https://www.facebook.com/rebeccadawso… (Rebecca Dawson, Facebook)

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Snowden discusses US surveillance and cyber-warfare programs in interview with Wired « WORDVIRUS

Originally posted on WORDVIRUS:

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By Thomas Gaist

15 August 2014
Wired magazine published an extended interview this week
with former US intelligence agent and famed whistleblower Edward
Snowden. Conducted in a hotel room somewhere in Russia, the interview
included fresh revelations related to mass surveillance, cyber-warfare
and information-grabbing operations mounted by the US National Security
Agency (NSA).

The meat of the interview centered on a number of operations run by
the surveillance and intelligence agencies, painting a picture of an
American government engaged in ever-expanding cyber-machinations
worldwide.

Snowden spoke about the NSA’s MonsterMind program, an “autonomous
cyber-warfare platform” which has been developed to launch cyber-attacks
automatically against rival governments, without any need for human
intervention. He noted that MonsterMind could easily be manipulated to
provoke spasms of cyber-warfare between the US and its main rivals.

“These attacks can be spoofed. You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one…


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Thursday, June 26, 2014

WORDVIRUS: “The Internet’s Own Boy”: How the government destroyed Aaron Swartz By Andrew O’Hehir for Salon

I very seldom go to the movies, but for Free Internet advocates, this film is not to be missed, especially here in Boston. <3 RIP Aaron. Your efforts were not in vain. Ultimately, We the People will win. <3  ~PB

[photo: Aaron Swartz (Credit: TakePart/Noah Berger)]

A film tells the story of the coder-activist who fought corporate power and corruption — and paid a cruel price.

“The Internet’s Own Boy”: How the government destroyed Aaron Swartz

By Andrew O’Hehir for Salon

posted Jun25 by DJ Apollo   
http://kielarowski.net/2014/06/25/the-internets-own-boy-how-the-government-destroyed-aaron-swartz/


Brian Knappenberger’s Kickstarter-funded documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” which premiered at Sundance barely a year after the legendary hacker, programmer and information activist took his own life in January 2013, feels like the beginning of a conversation about Swartz and his legacy rather than the final word. This week it will be released in theaters, arriving in the middle of an evolving debate about what the Internet is, whose interests it serves and how best to manage it, now that the techno-utopian dreams that sounded so great in Wired magazine circa 1996 have begun to ring distinctly hollow.

What surprised me when I wrote about “The Internet’s Own Boy” from Sundance was the snarky, dismissive and downright hostile tone struck by at least a few commenters. There was a certain dark symmetry to it, I thought at the time: A tragic story about the downfall, destruction and death of an Internet idealist calls up all of the medium’s most distasteful qualities, including its unique ability to transform all discourse into binary and ill-considered nastiness, and its empowerment of the chorus of belittlers and begrudgers collectively known as trolls. In retrospect, I think the symbolism ran even deeper. Aaron Swartz’s life and career exemplified a central conflict within Internet culture, and one whose ramifications make many denizens of the Web highly uncomfortable.

For many of its pioneers, loyalists and self-professed deep thinkers, the Internet was conceived as a digital demi-paradise, a zone of total freedom and democracy. But when it comes to specifics things get a bit dicey. Paradise for whom, exactly, and what do we mean by democracy? In one enduringly popular version of this fantasy, the Internet is the ultimate libertarian free market, a zone of perfect entrepreneurial capitalism untrammeled by any government, any regulation or any taxation. As a teenage programming prodigy with an unusually deep understanding of the Internet’s underlying architecture, Swartz certainly participated in the private-sector, junior-millionaire version of the Internet. He founded his first software company following his freshman year at Stanford, and became a partner in the development of Reddit in 2006, which was sold to Condé Nast later that year.

That libertarian vision of the Internet – and of society too, for that matter – rests on an unacknowledged contradiction, in that some form of state power or authority is presumably required to enforce private property rights, including copyrights, patents and other forms of intellectual property. Indeed, this is one of the principal contradictions embedded within our current form of capitalism, as the Marxist scholar David Harvey notes: Those who claim to venerate private property above all else actually depend on an increasingly militarized and autocratic state. And from the beginning of Swartz’s career he also partook of the alternate vision of the Internet, the one with a more anarchistic or anarcho-socialist character. When he was 15 years old he participated in the launch of Creative Commons, the immensely important content-sharing nonprofit, and at age 17 he helped design Markdown, an open-source, newbie-friendly markup format that remains in widespread use.

One can certainly construct an argument that these ideas about the character of the Internet are not fundamentally incompatible, and may coexist peaceably enough. In the physical world we have public parks and privately owned supermarkets, and we all understand that different rules (backed of course by militarized state power) govern our conduct in each space. But there is still an ideological contest between the two, and the logic of the private sector has increasingly invaded the public sphere and undermined the ancient notion of the public commons. (Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani once proposed that city parks should charge admission fees.) As an adult Aaron Swartz took sides in this contest, moving away from the libertarian Silicon Valley model of the Internet and toward a more radical and social conception of the meaning of freedom and equality in the digital age. It seems possible and even likely that the “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” Swartz wrote in 2008, at age 21, led directly to his exaggerated federal prosecution for what was by any standard a minor hacking offense.

Swartz’s manifesto didn’t just call for the widespread illegal downloading and sharing of copyrighted scientific and academic material, which was already a dangerous idea. It explained why. Much of the academic research held under lock and key by large institutional publishers like Reed Elsevier had been largely funded at public expense, but was now being treated as private property – and as Swartz understood, that was just one example of a massive ideological victory for corporate interests that had penetrated almost every aspect of society. The actual data theft for which Swartz was prosecuted, the download of a large volume of journal articles from the academic database called JSTOR, was largely symbolic and arguably almost pointless. (As a Harvard graduate student at the time, Swartz was entitled to read anything on JSTOR.)

But the symbolism was important: Swartz posed a direct challenge to the private-sector creep that has eaten away at any notion of the public commons or the public good, whether in the digital or physical worlds, and he also sought to expose the fact that in our age state power is primarily the proxy or servant of corporate power. He had already embarrassed the government twice previously. In 2006, he downloaded and released the entire bibliographic dataset of the Library of Congress, a public document for which the library had charged an access fee. In 2008, he downloaded and released about 2.7 million federal court documents stored in the government database called PACER, which charged 8 cents a page for public records that by definition had no copyright. In both cases, law enforcement ultimately concluded Swartz had committed no crime: Dispensing public information to the public turns out to be legal, even if the government would rather you didn’t. The JSTOR case was different, and the government saw its chance (one could argue) to punish him at last.

Knappenberger could only have made this film with the cooperation of Swartz’s family, which was dealing with a devastating recent loss. In that context, it’s more than understandable that he does not inquire into the circumstances of Swartz’s suicide in “Inside Edition”-level detail. It’s impossible to know anything about Swartz’s mental condition from the outside – for example, whether he suffered from undiagnosed depressive illness – but it seems clear that he grew increasingly disheartened over the government’s insistence that he serve prison time as part of any potential plea bargain. Such an outcome would have left him a convicted felon and, he believed, would have doomed his political aspirations; one can speculate that was the point. Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney for Boston, along with her deputy Stephen Heymann, did more than throw the book at Swartz. They pretty much had to write it first, concocting an imaginative list of 13 felony indictments that carried a potential total of 50 years in federal prison.

As Knappenberger explained in a Q&A session at Sundance, that’s the correct context in which to understand Robert Swartz’s public remark that the government had killed his son. He didn’t mean that Aaron had actually been assassinated by the CIA, but rather that he was a fragile young man who had been targeted as an enemy of the state, held up as a public whipping boy, and hounded into severe psychological distress. Of course that cannot entirely explain what happened; Ortiz and Heymann, along with whoever above them in the Justice Department signed off on their display of prosecutorial energy, had no reason to expect that Swartz would kill himself. There’s more than enough pain and blame to go around, and purely on a human level it’s difficult to imagine what agony Swartz’s family and friends have put themselves through.

One of the most painful moments in “The Internet’s Own Boy” arrives when Quinn Norton, Swartz’s ex-girlfriend, struggles to explain how and why she wound up accepting immunity from prosecution in exchange for information about her former lover. Norton’s role in the sequence of events that led to Swartz hanging himself in his Brooklyn apartment 18 months ago has been much discussed by those who have followed this tragic story. I think the first thing to say is that Norton has been very forthright in talking about what happened, and clearly feels torn up about it.

Norton was a single mom living on a freelance writer’s income, who had been threatened with an indictment that could have cost her both her child and her livelihood. When prosecutors offered her an immunity deal, her lawyer insisted she should take it. For his part, Swartz’s attorney says he doesn’t think Norton told the feds anything that made Swartz’s legal predicament worse, but she herself does not agree. It was apparently Norton who told the government that Swartz had written the 2008 manifesto, which had spread far and wide in hacktivist circles. Not only did the manifesto explain why Swartz had wanted to download hundreds of thousands of copyrighted journal articles on JSTOR, it suggested what he wanted to do with them and framed it as an act of resistance to the private-property knowledge industry.

Amid her grief and guilt, Norton also expresses an even more appropriate emotion: the rage of wondering how in hell we got here. How did we wind up with a country where an activist is prosecuted like a major criminal for downloading articles from a database for noncommercial purposes, while no one goes to prison for the immense financial fraud of 2008 that bankrupted millions? As a person who has made a living as an Internet “content provider” for almost 20 years, I’m well aware that we can’t simply do away with the concept of copyright or intellectual property. I never download pirated movies, not because I care so much about the bottom line at Sony or Warner Bros., but because it just doesn’t feel right, and because you can never be sure who’s getting hurt. We’re not going to settle the debate about intellectual property rights in the digital age in a movie review, but we can say this: Aaron Swartz had chosen his targets carefully, and so did the government when it fixed its sights on him. (In fact, JSTOR suffered no financial loss, and urged the feds to drop the charges. They refused.)

A clean and straightforward work of advocacy cinema, blending archival footage and contemporary talking-head interviews, Knappenberger’s film makes clear that Swartz was always interested in the social and political consequences of technology. By the time he reached adulthood he began to see political power, in effect, as another system of control that could be hacked, subverted and turned to unintended purposes. In the late 2000s, Swartz moved rapidly through a variety of politically minded ventures, including a good-government site and several different progressive advocacy groups. He didn’t live long enough to learn about Edward Snowden or the NSA spy campaigns he exposed, but Swartz frequently spoke out against the hidden and dangerous nature of the security state, and played a key role in the 2011-12 campaign to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a far-reaching government-oversight bill that began with wide bipartisan support and appeared certain to sail through Congress. That campaign, and the Internet-wide protest of American Censorship Day in November 2011, looks in retrospect like the digital world’s political coming of age.

Earlier that year, Swartz had been arrested by MIT campus police, after they noticed that someone had plugged a laptop into a network switch in a server closet. He was clearly violating some campus rules and likely trespassing, but as the New York Times observed at the time, the arrest and subsequent indictment seemed to defy logic: Could downloading articles that he was legally entitled to read really be considered hacking? Wasn’t this the digital equivalent of ordering 250 pancakes at an all-you-can-eat breakfast? The whole incident seemed like a momentary blip in Swartz’s blossoming career – a terms-of-service violation that might result in academic censure, or at worst a misdemeanor conviction.

Instead, for reasons that have never been clear, Ortiz and Heymann insisted on a plea deal that would have sent Swartz to prison for six months, an unusually onerous sentence for an offense with no definable victim and no financial motive. Was he specifically singled out as a political scapegoat by Eric Holder or someone else in the Justice Department? Or was he simply bulldozed by a prosecutorial bureaucracy eager to justify its own existence? We will almost certainly never know for sure, but as numerous people in “The Internet’s Own Boy” observe, the former scenario cannot be dismissed easily. Young computer geniuses who embrace the logic of private property and corporate power, who launch start-ups and seek to join the 1 percent before they’re 25, are the heroes of our culture. Those who use technology to empower the public commons and to challenge the intertwined forces of corporate greed and state corruption, however, are the enemies of progress and must be crushed.

~~~
”The Internet’s Own Boy” opens this week in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Toronto, Washington and Columbus, Ohio. It opens June 30 in Vancouver, Canada; July 4 in Phoenix, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif.; and July 11 in Seattle, with other cities to follow. It’s also available on-demand from Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vimeo, Vudu and other providers.

Source:
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/the_internets_own_boy_how_the_government_destroyed_aaron_swartz/?source=newsletter

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