Everything will need to restart – “from the ground up” – so declared Air Canada after its flight attendant strike was settled after its entire system ground to a halt for three days. Flight attendants for that company had gone through an historic fight to achieve their goals, and by the last day of the last trecena they had achieved Read the full article…

Do you remember where you were late last October, just prior to the U.S. presidential election? Do you remember what you were thinking or feeling, or hoping for? That was one cycle ago, as of this trecena, and people in the U.S. had an important decision to make – did they want to continue as a functioning democracy or did Read the full article…

It has now been one full 260-day cycle since U.S. voters were being called upon to tap into their inner wisdom, do their research, and muster the strength to make informed, responsible decisions that had the potential, literally, to shape the destiny of the world. Last October, this was the last full trecena before the 2024 presidential election. Early voting Read the full article…

What a difference one cycle can make. Last August, as a new 260-day Maya Calendar cycle was set to begin, there was a renewed sense of optimism as the Harris-Walz campaign clicked into high gear in the U.S. and people had “a reason to hope” that rationality and justice would prevail and Trumpism would finally die down. New military equipment Read the full article…

Easter is just around the corner, and as this trecena begins many in the U.S. will be wondering whether or not they can afford to buy Easter eggs this year, as the economic turmoil, triggered by gross ineptitude in the White House and roller-coaster stock market fluctuations, and the tearing down of government agencies, has millions of people thinking twice Read the full article…

We are in a time of great darkness, a time of extreme chaos and crisis, as hundreds of thousands of experienced, highly skilled, career professionals are being fired from federal positions all across the US, from agencies ranging from public health services, to financial services, to aviation regulation, to food regulation, to law enforcement, to national parks and environmental protection, Read the full article…

This trecena opens with the world in a state of shock and profound disbelief as it becomes evident that a decisive percentage of American citizens made the choice to elect as their next president a convicted felon, proven to be a fraudster, rapist, misogynist, xenophobe, serial liar, insurrectionist, and self-proclaimed admirer of cruel autocrats; someone who has indicated that he Read the full article…

So here we go with the trecena that will carry the US presidential election. It’s “down to brass” tacks time, or – more pertinent to this particular trecena – it’s down to the bare bones foundations of what will follow thereafter. This is the trecena within which the people of the United States will decide whether they want a democracy Read the full article…

With this beginning of a brand new 260-day Maya Calendar cycle, the shift in energy is palpable. It is late summer, preparations are beginning to be made for forthcoming seasonal transitions, and change is in the wind. Unlike one cycle ago, when things were looking bleak on many fronts, there is a distinctly “lighter” feel at this point, even though 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…