It has now been just over nine months since “the great darkness” fell in the US, and during those nine months the darkness has deepened, and deepened, and deepened – to the point where even an historic part of the People’s House has been obliterated by that darkness. During such times, of course, people start searching for ways to get Read the full article…

Summer is on its way, and during this period there will be festivals aligned with the solstice, an Inca festival of the sun in Peru, Islamic New Year, and even a 7-day period devoted to minimizing the risk of being struck by lightning. And millions will also be celebrating a job well done. Indeed, they were everywhere over the past Read the full article…

The day after the November elections in the U.S., the highly respected Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne wrote:  “Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial Read the full article…

“We’re not going back! We’re not going back!”, the new tagline for the Harris-Walz campaign, is picking up steam on a daily basis, and is signalling the enormous burst of enthusiasm for this campaign as it now moves into its first full trecena. Basically it’s saying “Game On! The timing for the ratcheting up of this campaign is interesting as Read the full article…

Returning once again to the Vulture trecena, after a trecena that brought to light even more ethics issues related to the US Supreme Court, the trial of the US president’s son, a former president undergoing a probation interview and returning to the scene of a horrific crime, and horrendous attacks by Israeli forces on refugee enclaves in Gaza, we come Read the full article…

While there were few signs of it at the beginning of the last trecena, apart from many major “firestorms”, the “storm” theme eventually clicked into gear in a big way over the past few days with major cyclones, tornadoes, and destructive hailstorms all being unleashed. And in a large swath of southeastern Ukraine the devastating flooding caused by Russia’s destruction Read the full article…

For most people the first day of this time period may seem like just an “ordinary” day, but from the perspective of the Maya calendar, this day reveals a number of auspicious alignments. This is not only the beginning of a new trecena, but also the start of a new Maya month, and the first day of a new directional Read the full article…

Here we go with the last trecena (13 day period) of the current 260 day cycle – a cycle that began with the week “when America turned the page” (as journalist Don Lemon put it), and ends with Dussehra, the final day of a popular Hindu festival that celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Let’s look at how this Read the full article…

What a difference one 260-day Tzolk’in cycle can make! One cycle ago (last October) the White House looked like a “haunted house”, with entire suites of offices vacant, with an infected fake president inside, “a victim of his own negligence” (as journalist Don Lemon put it). The “super- spreader-in-chief” was either denying that there was a problem, or making extremely Read the full article…