Message for Thursday 20 October 2022

Thursday 20 October 2022

\Trimming Weapon-Fixation/

Moon in Leo—>Virgo

/moon goes void-of-course at 3:36a PT | 6:36a ET | 10:36a UT

until it enters Virgo at 9:27a PT | 12:27p ET | 4:27p UT

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week ends at 8:16p PT | 11:16p ET | 3:16a(F) UT

1 I keep saying that I try to avoid politics. But how can I avoid writing about THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE AND THIS PLANET? And that is at stake because of the policy of the Biden administration to pour billions of dollars into WEAPONS AND MORE WEAPONS for a NDVER-ENDING WAR. It pushes Putin into a corner and leaves no room for an end to the hostilities. We need to heed Noam Chomsky on the Left and Henry Kissinger on the Right, both of them insisting we need to NEGOTIATE. And INSIST that Kelensky negotiate rather than just demand more and more weapons and more and more money, into whose Ukrainian pockets we don’t even know, because Congress refused to adopt an amendment proposed by Rand Paul which would have set up an INSPECTOR-GENERAL to determine exactly where the money was going. “No, just trust any and every Ukrainian with the money” replied Congress in its savviness. Everyone knows Ukrainian politics has been corrupt for decades, and how could a nuclear war be good for the Ukrainian masses?

1> This section is going to be long. Here is the symbol: “A soldier going through his drill.” Thousands of Russians and thousands of Ukrainians. “One who, though possessed of military proclivities and ambitious of military honors, will ever be unfortunate in that calling. And should he ever be engaged in active service he is nearly certain to be killed, or at best badly wounded.” Unfortunately this is likely to come true for thousands unless swift action is taken to bring about a peace settlement.

1> Many great American leaders have warned against foreign involvements and insisted on peace negotiations, including George Kennan, J. William Fulbright, and John F. Kennedy, who said, “We must never negotiate out of fear, but we must never fear to negotiate.” He steered us away from threatening nuclear war in 1962 (the Cuban missile crisis) and if he were President now would have found an answer to the Ukraine-Russia imbroglio. The brilliant, courageous man who has brought some of this to my attention is Jeffrey Sachs, discussing our dangerous situation with Tulsi Gabbard here: https://www.tulsigabbard.com/podcast/ I recommend listening to this interview with him when both he and Tulsi make clearer than anyone else the stakes we are facing in the threat of nuclear war right now. The episode is entitled Russia, Ukraine and Preventing Nuclear Holocaust with Jeffrey Sachs. Tulsi can also be found at tulsi.substack.com

2 “A man trimming palms” could be some courageous Senator or Administration official stepping up and saying “Enough money for Ukrainian war-mongering; we need to insist on negotiations.” Cut out the “dead leaves” of missiles and tanks and maybe even nuclear weapons which in fact are death-dealing and not life-promoting. They cannot save the Ukrainian people, but put them in immediate danger.

3 Some may think that Zelensky, and some that Putin, is “a man with a crown on his head and a spear in his hand.” I don’t think so, because he is described as having “dignity, valor, and humanity combined.” We need such a person, and more than one, at the highest levels of government, both here and internationally, to get us out of this crisis. Where is he; where are they?

4 Let’s hold up as our ideal this image: “A rustic cottage, overarched by a spreading cedar tree.” “This is a nature attuned to works of benevolence and homely simplicity, careful in the affairs of daily life, solicitous of peace and comfort, and ever ready to shelter, befriend and succor the wayside traveler without neglect of those within his doors.” People are longing for normality, for peace and common-sense concord with one another. Let’s insist that our politicians make that simple state of affairs possible for us.

{Thursday} /Trimming Weapon-Fixation\

Cosmic Piper