Sonntag, 31. Juli 2022
Uranus-Mars-North Node Conjunction in Taurus
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/mars-uranus-north-node-conjunction-astrology-july-2022
This conjunct my Jupiter- moon conjunction so it culd have some effect on me. in my fifth house. I suppose with all the political instability an increase should be expected.
Digital Slomads in 30s-40s with Kids
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/30/business/digital-nomad-trends/
2 year digital nomad visas working online, mostly Americans in quaint Europe or sunny islands
Samstag, 30. Juli 2022
Freitag, 29. Juli 2022
Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2022
The Power of Visualization for Awakening
Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2022
Shamanic Journey
Dienstag, 26. Juli 2022
Montag, 25. Juli 2022
Sonntag, 24. Juli 2022
Perfectionist vs self perfectionist relationshionship(sadistic vs masochistic)
I have long since noticed my wife' s tendency to perfectionism. A bit easygoing as I am, I put this to her father's example and found in her horoscope pluto opposite moon, apparently a clear sign. I myself however am self disciplined, doing yoga, tai chi, energy work incessantly. Self denial here is the key. My father was a workaholic and like me had pluto opposite sun, i.e. masochistic tendencies. Therefore humorously speaking, my wife and I live in a sado-maso relationship. I guess this balances out as she tortures me endlessly nagging over my mistakes and sloppiness and I masochistically accept this, enjoy suffering under her, whereas others would reject it. Similarly her moon conjunct saturn is deadly serious whereas my moon conjunct jupiter is pure clown, opposites therefore. Yin- Yang balance I suppose.
Samstag, 23. Juli 2022
Dog Samadhi/ Enlightenment?
I am in the habit of connecting with people's chakras and this can develop until we get in synch. All the chakras align and then from top to bottom a spiral churning takes place and one zones out. I suppose that all animals with a spine are capable of this, basically a central nervous system. I am now feeling this with a dog. Maybe she will reincarnate as a person next life or I as a dog. I wonder when I connect with people strongly like this if we had a strong connection in a previous life. Mutual horoscope often shows we were lovers. I think what I am doing is weird and a sort of culmination of many lives preparations. Maybe this dog was a previous favorite pet that saved my life or something. People do samadhi by meditation techniques. I think my cat is better at this. Dogs follow our moods more closely so they are more neurotic and need technique like we do to escape our mental rut. Yes I am implying negative spiritual evolution for humans. Dogs and humans have a 40000 year coevolution. Spiritual development from himalyas, india, etc likely before ice ages or 20000 years ago. Perhaps Shiva was a real person originally. So if people learn smadhi then dogs must keep up with their masters like in everythiing else.( neurosis, overweight).
Zoomers Living with Parents or Half of Income on Rent
Downward social mobility for all future generations as things continue to get worse and worse decade foor decade. What is bad for humanity good for the planet as we have overused resources. The postwar generation had it best. Future generations will live from own gardens, handmade goods and envy current luxuries.Multigenerational homes will be normal, with everyone doing their bit so the larger clan survives. A job matrket will be a thing of the past, similarly available rental units. Make do and mend.
Let the Good Times Roll - Energy Depletion Ending Modernity
The positive side to this is that population and consumption and therefore polluution will drop rapidly. Predictions of 10 billion people and higher GDP are erroneous. Countries without resources or power to get them will fall apart, go into chaos. Predictions of 800 million Nigerians for example in 2100 are based on linear projections of birth rates at highest per capita energy consumption. If all that energy is sold to the highest bidder and local receive nothing while food exports from Ukraine and Russia are stockpiled or sold for gold to China, India and Europe then the only growing continent, Africa will shrink in population, similarly to Europe or China or Japan. Pollution will also fall and the oceans, wildlife will recover. Boats can't go fishing as diesel is too expensive and container ships will be dismantled. Local production will beat China, Bangladesh in prices.Globalization will collapse. Global warming predictions and Mauna Loa CO2 graphs will take a back seat to scraping out a meagre existence. Server farms will shut as social media energy burning becomes sinful compared to basic survival needs. Local contacts will become more important.
Seeding the Oceans with Iron
- Since the 1980s, scientists have studied whether adding iron to the oceans might represent a relatively simple and inexpensive solution to climate change.
- The idea is that adding iron would encourage the growth of carbon-munching marine phytoplankton that would pull carbon out of the atmosphere on a global scale.
- But a new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that iron fertilization, as the process is called, is unlikely to work.
It’s a beguiling proposition: pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by supercharging populations of microscopic, carbon-munching marine phytoplankton through the relatively simple and inexpensive process of adding iron to the ocean.
But a new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that iron fertilization, as the process is called, is unlikely to help mitigate climate change.
“According to our framework, iron fertilization cannot have a significant overall effect on the amount of carbon in the ocean because the total amount of iron that microbes need is already just right,” Jonathan Lauderdale, an oceanographer and the report’s lead author, said in a press release.
The world’s oceans play a key role in keeping atmospheric carbon levels in check, largely through the work of phytoplankton. These organisms consume carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they photosynthesize; those that aren’t eaten, as well as their waste, sink to the seafloor and take some of that carbon with them. And there it can lie for hundreds or thousands of years.
Phytoplankton need iron to grow, as well as macronutrients like nitrate and phosphate. Iron is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust, but it only enters the sea via dust from the continents and quickly sinks to the seafloor, so some parts of the ocean have lower concentrations of the mineral than others. The Southern Ocean, for example, has relatively low iron levels, and a correspondingly low phytoplankton population, despite being rich in other macronutrients.
In the late 1980s, marine biogeochemist John Martin carried out bottle-based experiments that showed that adding iron to water from these low-iron, high-nutrient areas rapidly boosted phytoplankton populations. He was quick to make a connection between iron fertilization and climate, claiming half-seriously to colleagues in 1988, “Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you the next ice age.”
Since then, a number of scientists have pursued the possibility of iron fertilization as a relatively simple way to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. “The perceived wisdom is that those nutrients represent a missed opportunity to fix carbon,” Lauderdale told Mongabay, referring to nutrients left unconsumed by phytoplankton in low-iron areas.
The allure of carbon-credit cash has motivated a number of individuals, community groups and private-sector companies to pursue the cause, too. In the mid-2000s, several companies were established with the aim of raising carbon credits through iron fertilization, though none managed to bring their projects to fruition. In 2012, U.S. entrepreneur Russ George worked with a Haida Nation community in coastal British Colombia, Canada, to carry out a controversial iron-fertilization project that George claimed would not only generate carbon credits to sell but also boost salmon stocks. The project organizers dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate into the ocean, creating a large algal bloom that lasted for months; there’s no evidence, though, that the process actually sequestered carbon or boosted fish populations in the longer term.
From the bottle to the big blue sea
According to Lauderdale, the impacts of iron fertilization in a dynamic ocean ecosystem are much less straightforward than those Martin saw in his bottles. “Over the last 20 or 30 years, we’ve gotten a much better idea of how interconnected the ocean is,” he said. For instance, the excess nutrients that are not consumed by phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean “get folded into the ocean circulation, and they outcrop in more dusty regions where there’s lots of iron,” he said; the process provides around 75% of the nutrients that feed phytoplankton growth in the northern oceans.
It’s not a one-way relationship either, the researchers found by simulating the mineral concentrations and circulation patterns found in different parts of the ocean to investigate the interplay of microbes, iron and other nutrients. Phytoplankton have evolved the ability to produce organic molecules called ligands, which make iron more bioavailable. The researchers found that ligands secreted by phytoplankton in the North Atlantic carry iron as they ride currents back into the Southern Ocean to feed the phytoplankton there. “The microbes have this ability to tune the marine chemistry for their own purposes,” Lauderdale said, “and so they’ve engineered this system to be optimal for themselves.
“But eventually, they’re going to run out of something else,” he said — other nutrients or sufficient sunlight to support a bigger population, for instance. “And so that feedback mechanism, in our models and in our hypothesis, matches the availability of iron to the other resources that the phytoplankton need to grow.”
That means adding iron to the Southern Ocean to stimulate plankton growth will reduce the amount of macronutrients being delivered to the North Atlantic, which will affect the productivity of phytoplankton there — and may actually reduce the amount of bioavailable iron in the Southern Ocean, too, in the longer term. “So the net effect of that is zero,” Lauderdale said.
What’s more, phytoplankton sit at the base of the marine food chain, so interfering with their populations would significantly impact marine ecosystems — particularly in the North Atlantic, where millions of people depend on fisheries for their livelihoods. Some experiments have also shown that fertilization favors certain kinds of phytoplankton over others, so the process could cause toxic algal blooms and deoxygenate water, depleting marine life. Concerns over this possibility led the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to establish a moratorium on all ocean-fertilization projects in 2008, apart from small-scale, coastal experiments.
Impossible dream or important possibility?
Given the dearth of research showing conclusive long-term carbon capture from iron fertilization, and the potential large-scale ecosystem impacts of doing so, is it time to lay the idea to rest? Lauderdale said he believes so: “I think we should tackle the source of the problem — reducing our carbon emissions — rather than trying to come up with band-aids,” he said.
But some researchers, governments and companies think the concept is still worth exploring. The South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Korea Polar Research Institute led a 2016-2020 project to explore the possibility of experimenting with small-scale iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean. Joo-Eun Yoon, a Ph.D. candidate at Incheon National University who led a 2018 study to establish design guidelines for the project, told Mongabay in an email that iron fertilization “could still be an effective method for stimulating oceanic carbon sequestration.” To overcome the circulation dynamics outlined in the recent study, he recommended conducting experiments in specific regions where iron and nutrients are more likely to stay put, “for example, in an eddy formed in the polar front of the Southern Ocean.”
David Emerson, a geomicrobiologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, told Mongabay in an email that when it comes to iron fertilization there are still “critical questions worthy of research,” such as whether alternative forms of iron would interact differently with phytoplankton and ocean currents. However, he also emphasized the “unknown cost” of ecosystem impacts from large-scale fertilization.
“We shouldn’t do it, unless there are concomitant major reductions in emissions,” he said. “We shouldn’t do it until we know significantly more about how effective it will be. We should only do it if the alternative is major ecosystem/human civilization collapse.”
Booster Tiredness, Arm Soreness
https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-third-shot-booster-dose-side-effects-fatigue-arm-pain-2021-9
i had to get a booster due to hospital work and I was dead tired and just took a 3.5 hour nap. A cuple weks ago I was sick likely covid though the test showed nothing but my family tested positive and had same symptoms. I think natural immunity is more effective due to fever, length of downtime.
Freitag, 22. Juli 2022
Man's Best Friend
https://www.rover.com/blog/dogs-called-mans-best-friend/
Do animals have souls, reincarnate up the ladder? Chakra work with your pet would help. Lots of hugs! Activate that third eye and heart chakra of your pet so they bond with you. I do that with someone's pet so we have a mutual pet relationship. My feelings, attitudes are in the dog and theirs too so we exchange our emotions in this way too when life gets awkward between us.
Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2022
Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2022
Dienstag, 19. Juli 2022
Sonntag, 17. Juli 2022
Samstag, 16. Juli 2022
Freitag, 15. Juli 2022
Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2022
Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2022
Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022
Alzheimers Resistance
Upon being asked says " I forgot to write anything down, perfect title".
Rebooting after illness
felt unwell and withdrew physically, emotionally. I was pondering slowing down but my contacts act like sparks to a fire. I had weirdest dreams like computers, screeens around me were massively freaked then ok, so all back to normal.
Montag, 11. Juli 2022
2/3 majority in Japan and end of official pacifism
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1268694.shtml
Abe had a lot to do with this, visiting the war criminals shrine.( imagine laying a wreath on Hitler's grave). They have the plutonium and rockets to become a nuclear power. Now as a land in decline they seem the perfect candidate for a Trump, Bolsonaro emotional type to caim they can save the day though generally in Japan they are too cultivated for such behavior.
Sonntag, 10. Juli 2022
Change Paths? iching reading while sick and discouraged
Cast Hexagram:
48 - Forty-Eight
Ching / The Well
Deep Waters Penetrated and drawn to the surface:
The Superior Person refreshes the people with constant encouragement to help one another.
Encampments, settlements, walled cities, whole empires may rise and fall, yet the Well at the center endures, never drying to dust, never overflowing.
It served those before and will serve those after.
Again and again you may draw from the Well, but if the bucket breaks or the rope is too short there will be misfortune.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
There is a Source common to us all.Jung named it the Collective Unconscious.
Others hail it as God within.
Inside each of us are dreamlike symbols and archetypes, emotions and instincts that we share with every other human being.
When we feel a lonely separateness from others, it is not because this Well within has dried up, but because we have lost the means to reach its waters.
You need to reclaim the tools necessary to penetrate to the depths of your fellows.
Then the bonds you build will be as timeless and inexhaustible as the Well that nourishes them.
Hexagram Forty-Eight/Line Five:
The water in this well comes from a cool, deep, inexhaustible spring.
Transformed Hexagram:
46 - Forty-Six
Shêng / Upward Mobility
Beneath the Soil, the Seedling pushes upward toward the light:
To preserve his integrity, the Superior Person contents himself with small gains that eventually lead to great accomplishment.
Supreme Success.
Have no doubts.
Seek guidance from someone you respect.
A constant move toward greater clarity will bring reward.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are progressing, rising inch-by-inch toward certain success.What makes this assured is your refusal to tilt headlong toward your goal, slamming into obstacles and going mad with frustration.
You have a clear map before you of the steps necessary to reach your objective.
With faithful patience and a careful conservation of personal energy and resources, you will run this long, slow distance.