The Calm Before the Storm... or is the Storm now here?

[Bill Ryan]

This newest post, on the Ang Stoic Astrological Reports thread, suggests that the storm is here.

This isn't a thread about the pros and cons of astrology! It's just a neat introduction to the possibility that the storm may be upon us, and there may be a pretty bad forecast now for quite a while to come.

The storm is an emotional and spiritual one, of course. But one with strong gusts that can sometimes knock someone right over.

Maybe the crew of the ship might benefit from taking a moment to discuss the storm (the one that there was supposed to be the calm before!) — rather than each other.

That's because everyone reading this surely has an interest in:

1. The ship staying afloat; and
2. Together reaching a good, safe harbor, in a delightful new land to be.

I'm absolutely not experiencing any storm personally, touch wood. But I can sure detect it affecting many others over the internet. Do, please, share your perceptions, intuitions, and experiences.

[Flash]

the storm feeling may be linked to the internet - do they already have the technology to send us emotionally crawling?

Today I feel edgy, but yesterday was fine. To me this is not a storm, just a puddle after some rain.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Flash (here)
To me this is not a storm, just a puddle after some rain.

Ha! Made me laugh.

I do suspect you may have encountered maybe one or two hurricanes before.

[TargeT]

I'm 30 min away from a beer on the beach; maybe people need to just move somewhere less hectic... hard to get caught up in it when there's beer and beaches


Give out calmness, be the still stone in the river... it works (well, sometimes).

[Cardinal]

I moved away from the beach to get away from the storms. Now I live in the mountains, but still get the damn things. Instead of flooding, I get trees coming down on my house (ducking, as I watch for Hurricane Michael to hit...)

[Valerie Villars]

I live in the country and haven't a care in the world by normal standards, but for the past two weeks I have been experiencing an anxiousness and a feeling of being unsettled which I NEVER feel anymore.

I can't put my finger on it and there is no real reason to have any anxiety. But, here it is. And it just hasn't gone away which is very, very unusual.

Beautiful house, beautiful land and a bottle of red wine any time I feel the need. But I still feel jumpy and I don't care for it.

[Matthew]

I live in foresty suburbia I have been feeling more serene than normal; ..to try an illustrate: it feels like I am on a slower, longer, calmer waveform. And recently for me, it has been feeling like the calm after the storm...

but I will take it as it comes :-)

[RunningDeer]

I posted elsewhere that I was feeling unsettled and impatient. It made no sense because my day has been productive in a lot of unrelated areas.

It’s been three+ weeks with the electricity going out in my area at least a couple of times a week. It effects the phone service and internet. While checking out my phone and lines, the technician said there’s a back log of angry customers.

It’s safe to say that it is also the case for my internet service provider. The gentleman gave me a free month of internet service. He thanked me for my patience and said you wouldn’t believe how many customers yell and swear at them.

UPDATE: hello to Sammy. Hope to see you back posting real soon.

[Mike]

There's so much to feel tense about these days. I think it would be much more shocking if everyone wasn't feeling tense.

But that doesn't mean that we have to be tense! If everyone just takes a moment to be artful and maybe a little humorous with each other (and kind! ..like Paula illustrated above) while enduring the storm, it'll pass without so much discomfort

(And a "hi" to Sammy from me too. Sam I was just telling someone not too long ago how much I missed your presence on the forum. Hope all is well with you!)

[Blacklight43]

I have been in the middle of my own storm here. My beloved of 58 years passed after a very painful couple of weeks of suffering...but I feel the storm is subsiding a bit now. It's a relief he's no longer in pain and my adrenaline has stopped gushing so I am relaxing a bit and can even sleep again. I guess it's just as well I missed some of the drama going on here on Avalon now I can regain some sense of normalcy.
This place has been such a big part of my life for so long you are all like my second family.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Blacklight43 (here)
I have been in the middle of my own storm here. My beloved of 58 years passed after a very painful couple of weeks of suffering...but I feel the storm is subsiding a bit now.

Welcome back, Blacklight43.

♡

[ghostrider]

Something is afoot, check this , take your current age, take the year you were born and add the two equals 2018... They say once every 1,000 years we all have the same cosmic age( if you want to call it that) ... I feel a new era is upon us... Everyone can sense/feel it , something earth changing is going to happen...

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by ghostrider (here)
take your current age, take the year you were born and add the two equals 2018

Of course it does!

[ThePythonicCow]

There is a tendency, apparently at all levels of existence, to divide into "them" vs "us", "friend" vs "foe", "ying" vs "yang", even (at the plasma level) "positive electrical charge" vs "negative electrical charge".

This depends on adequate pattern recognition abilities, in order to distinguish between any two such classes. For example the "us" vs "them" pattern recognition in living, mobile, beings (whether red blood cells or elephants) here on earth is invariably quite capable.

Part of that pattern recognition involves noticing, quickly and with a good degree of accuracy, which distinguishes "us", vs "them". This is especially critical (vital) in the case that the "other" side is potentially threatening.

For example, as humans, we are intuitively and naturally able to quickly identify any "outsider", "enemy", or other such "other". Whenever the "other" group is starting to appear threatening, then this might appear in our conscious mind as repulsion against whatever traits, however benign, incidental or innocuous, are more likely, in our experience to be associated with "them".

To the pro-Q or pro-Trump members of this forum, it may seem that some of the anti-Q or anti-Trump members are starting to behave badly (that is, to appear threatening), and vice versa.

Our innate "us" vs "them" pattern recognition abilities are kicking in, with increasing strength.

We live in interesting times.

We live in divisive times, and (paranoid, tin-foil-hat conspiracy theorist that I am) I doubt that the peak of this storm has yet passed, or even approached.

The evil bastards who think they rule over us are adept at splitting us into "us" vs "them" groups, fighting amongst ourselves. Like a good carpenter needing to split a piece of wood, they are quick to notice whatever weaknesses and tiny cracks exist in humanity, so that they can leverage and pound on them, widening them and splitting us.

They will arrange (using paid protestors, propaganda, psyops, false flags, mockingbird media, too loud or too mealy mouthed "leaders", political theater, politicized theater, music and arts, false history, the forces of law, tax collection and armies, whispering in the ear of more influential leaders by the ones close to them that they trust, ...) to ensure that each "side" of some potential split seems threatening to the other side. They can then count on basic human tendency (a tendency in all entities) to "color" the distinguishing traits of the "other" side as somehow repulsive, bad or evil.

[ThePythonicCow]

P.S. -- The choices we face are:

• Fight at the level we are currently consciously energized.
• Withdraw into a soup of undifferentiated nothingness.
• Realize that there are higher levels on which we can engage.

[onawah]

I think it's this post that you are referring to Bill, not quite the last in the Ang Stoic thread:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1252401
I'm always gratified to see that other Avalonians are reading that thread. I find Ang's reports to be kind of uncanny in the way they reflect what I am generally feeling about the energies at the time.

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
This newest post, on the Ang Stoic Astrological Reports thread, suggests that the storm is here.

This isn't a thread about the pros and cons of astrology! It's just a neat introduction to the possibility that the storm may be upon us, and there may be a pretty bad forecast now for quite a while to come.

The storm is an emotional and spiritual one, of course. But one with strong gusts that can sometimes knock someone right over.

Maybe the crew of the ship might benefit from taking a moment to discuss the storm (the one that there was supposed to be the calm before!) — rather than each other.

That's because everyone reading this surely has an interest in:

1. The ship staying afloat; and
2. Together reaching a good, safe harbor, in a delightful new land to be.

I'm absolutely not experiencing any storm personally, touch wood. But I can sure detect it affecting many others over the internet. Do, please, share your perceptions, intuitions, and experiences.

[Daozen]

Outside the internet, life goes on. People are learning languages, finding new jobs, making friends, starting businesses. As they have done for thousands of years. I stayed away from the political threads for over a year. Getting involved did nothing for me spiritually or physically. It was just a giant waste of time.

I think a lot of the internet food fights are toxic and irrelevant. Pro-Trump/Anti-Trump etc... It's a shame that these threads dominate in a time that could be used for healing and creativity, but such is the nature of the net. It's down to me to use my own discipline to ignore these conversations as much as possible, and focus on doing something creative. No one cares what internet pundits think. On the other hand, engineers, farmers, artists and builders... they are creating things that last centuries.

If you want to fear something.. fear disease,disasters, debt, and maybe death. All else is just ghosts clanging pots.

So...

Switch off the internet, and there's calm and creativity everywhere. www.meetup.com is a good start.

[mgray]

Today you can find a storm with just a click of the mouse or go button on your phone. Information and misinformation can be had 24/7/365.

Like TargeT, sand between my toes with an adult beverage in hand has been my peaceful place for 50 years, but weather is going against me in NY.

[thepainterdoug]

Thanks Bill ,as this does hit a mark with me.

Any one that has taken notice of any of my posts in the last three months can see I'm pre occupied with this.

I liken the people I see in my town today analogous to the present day characterless cars that drive by. No one can tell one apart from the other ,as opposed to the days of the Plymouth Roadrunners, The Camaro's ,Mustangs, GTO,S etc all having distinct styles and personality

I reject writing off my observations as ,"longing for the good ole days "as well.

I am also quite alarmed by the lawlessness spreading all over places like Venezuela and sections of Mexico once seen as safe for tourists . Cancun Playa del Carmen etc.. I can see a day when the drug cartels will run everything and everyone, as who is to stop them? The police are frightened and underpaid . And with the governments just as corrupt , the drug lords must feel they have a right to do what they want as well.

something is way wrong . just my opinion .

[Hazelfern]

It seems obvious that I am in a catastrophic climate change. Be it a natural event or solely human made, here I am. Too much heat and rain with more on the way.

>I'm kind of annoyed by the smugness of the comments thus far<