After my 36 hour trip home from Wisconsin (I averaged 23 miles per hour overall, taking airplanes), meditating on this situation the whole time, I am left with one question, really.
Isn’t it odd that we have a virus that’s bigoted against Mexicans?
If you’re Mexican, it just might kill you — it’s so deadly that so far 149 people have allegedly died; with due respect to their families and loved ones. But so far, there have been no fatalities anywhere else, that we are told. Such as, none in the United States.
If you’re a prep school boy from New York City, you get a fever and a cough and it blows over.
Borrowing from Thoreau, there’s your trout in the milk.
I knew a Pete Moss. . . . . . .
Bogs are good. Boycott peat moss.
victoria. . appreciate your taking the time re: ecliption. Hate to bog down or boggle the minds of willing readers, but it is just breath-taking to me when aspects (especially the kind we are experiencing now) reveal such minute details of a person or event.
As for you, so glad to hear positive news about the escape of the personal planets from the bucket. It had to happen. You seem to be in great form, as I can hardly keep up with your clever responses lately. However, like the Marx Bros movies, I’m worn out from laughing at them, so Mercury rx sounds like a bit of a vacation to me!
Creativity rules . .
be, waded through your ecliptian scenario, best I could. Took the time because the trio is starting to make some semblence of sense to me. I would think that Neptune would naturally favor Jupiter. It spells expansion of confusion in my metaphoric mind (arrested development busts loose), but only if I allow it to take over. This awareness I attribute to the personal planets venturing out of the bucket.
Jupiter has had his way with me. And while he can be awesome and great fun . . . well, a Marx Brother movie can wear one out and is only laughable for so long.
She who rides on the wind with a loaded tenth, spoke of this Jupiter, who opposes my Mars, the two of them suffering from something called detriment. But I no longer fear what sounds like a disease, this detriment. But that Jupiter, he stradles my sun like a drug (a blatant metaphor from my metaphorical mercury in libra) so we’re doing some mediation now.
The time is coming when saturn will meet my mercury. I know this because twice this week I mentally climaxed to a place where there was no metaphor to be found. The mirror breaks. My reflection is no longer what I seek. I do not deny it, it has its place. I put my hands in the center of the shards and push them aside. I walk the path of my desire and I deal with the rest, or not.
A little sunshine in the 7th never hurts. Oh oh Mercury is backing up like a mac truck. Mam back!
Here is the link to CDC for you to decide for yourself via USA information:
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
I learned more very interesting information about the flu and history of flu. The symptoms are this via rapid onset:
fever > 100
cough
muscle aches, pains
sore throat
Anything else is probably not the flu…
OK Loved Ones: Another from me:
Vitamin B5 — Pantothenic Acid — was recommended by my chiropractor years ago as a stress reducer. And isn’t what we call stress a version of fear?
There are so many ways to reduce stressfear, of course. (Essential Oils, for example) But I think our dietary habits play a huge role in how we respond to life’s events.
Here’s an interesting write-up on the VitB5:
http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?Id=2127
and interesting that this has come of it so far:
“Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius won Senate confirmation Tuesday as the nation’s health and human services secretary”
http://www.the-health-gazette.com/health-gazette-blog/alternative-medicine/natural-antivirals
The last solar eclipse in January was only 10 days before the 2nd opposition (1st on election day) of Saturn (restrictions, status quo) in Virgo (healthcare) and Uranus (sudden, unexpected, inventions [of drugs perhaps]) in Pisces (confusion, hospitals,drugs) with Venus(values/money) conjunct Uranus. That eclipse was also conjunct the NN and Jupiter.
In addition, Mercury (rx) was conjunct Mars in Capricorn, and they were sextile the Pisces planets and trine Saturn. Might the information from the government be a little slow on the uptake, but still adored by the media (Venus & Mars sextile)? Meanwhile, Neptune, positioned nearby the US Moon (citizens), was preparing for her reunion with Chiron and Jupiter, which is happening now. Does seem that he (Neptune) might be torn between favoring one or the other of his host’s (Aquarius) rulers (Saturn/Uranus) Perhaps leaving that up to Chiron and Jupiter?
Just a thought.
Unfilled positions for the top post (and all others I believe) for Health & Human Services, the Surgeon General, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention are the reasons why Sec’y of Homeland Security, J. Napolitano is (so far) the spokesperson for the government regarding the swine flu outbreak. That’s what I heard anyway.
Many people who life in SoCal make (regular) trips to Mexico for medical treatment / supplies/ drugs / remedies. It’s a bit of a joke, actually, it’s so common to find there what is not accessable here.
(Note, there is a flip side of course. Procedures and facilities available here that people travel to LA to utilize.)
Also, I understand that much of the commonly available food there is “whole” – the stuff we in LA have to go to special “whole foods” stores to find (if we can afford it).
Yet a best friend – born in the US, grew up in Mexico, now in LA, very spiritual, very “in-touch” – is ill for several years now with lupis and fibermyalga.
Love,
Linda
Uh Phall…”.unlike the US, Mexico doesn’t really have a public health system. ”
Mexico has a HUGE public health system, via their SSSI (seguro social). It’s crappy, but it is enormous. Getting an MD in Mexico is a piece of cake, and docs are paid about what your average administative assistant makes here. What MX does *not* have, alas, is food stamps or any method of food equity. Which an immense drag on public health.
I personally know three doctors in Mexico who live in villages and literally take chickens in payment. They are out of the SSSI net, but they are very active.
Also *every* pharmacy in Mexico sells homeopathics, which is considered more efficacious than allopathy.
Not to mention the layers and layers of curanderia. Mexico is swimming in health care.
One guest on some MSNBC news show yesterday was speaking about this and . . .unlike the US, Mexico doesn’t really have a public health system. So, this flu could have been percolating (with lots of people getting mild flu symptoms) for months and months. . .but, no one was keeping track of it . .. and its just now getting to the point where there are fatalities. Here in the US (and possibly the rest of the world) we may just now be getting acquainted with this flu. In the US we are “lucky” to have our public health officers (with their ever-dwindling budgets) to keep track of cases, etc.
Also, people with influenza ultimately die from pneumonia. So, keeping one’s body and mind healthly is critical.
Hello Eric,
here a very good idea regarding why Mexico:
http://www.mwblog.com/journal/archives/2009/04/pray_away_the_s.php
and it’s by Marianne Williamson…
Memento Mori…or: the bell tolls for thee. Remembering that, a few remarks:
….I was in Asia last year, and some tourists wanted to wear face masks, because they saw some locals wearing face masks. They had not understood that when the locals wear face masks, it is them who have the sniffles, and they wear them to protect others !
…In the US, however, it is considered a feat, or sign or toughness, if one goes about their daily work when sick. Some work out in health clubs when having fevers. If sick, stay in bed, or at home.
…I cannot believe the confusion about cold versus flu: the flu has a sudden onset ! If there are chills, sudden malaise, and high fever by the end of the day, it’s the flu! There may or may not be sniffles, sore throat, or cough. There will, however, be weakness for quite a few days. Recovery is needed, as in, rest.
As long as symptoms are present, it’s called the symptomatic stage. As soon as the symptomatic stage starts, one knows that one is infectious. Hence, not a good idea to go out in public. I have not seen one single information about for how long after the symptomatic phase starts, one is considered infectious. Common sense would be a factor: do not spit your sputum on sidewalks, for example, which seems to have become an acceptable behaviour lately, amongst younger men especially.
…”www.healerswhoshare.com” (303 428 4584): These folks produce vibrational medicines. I trust them, but remember, the body is designed to DIE at one point. I have just spoken to them. They have a remedy “SWN09”. It is NOT for prophylaxis, i.e. not preventative. It is meant to be taken once symptoms have started, and will help speedy recovery.
I asked them if they think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. Naturally, such a question will not lead to a definite answer; the answer I got was ‘think positive, and SARS also was not the epidemic it was cracked up to be’. I am being careful with quotes here, so take it just as an unofficial opinion.
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I could see the social/economic/nutritional thing in some cases, but not in all cases. If the virus is so deadly, then it would have to take out someone besides a Mexican, somewhere. It is interesting that there are only two labs in the world that can identify this kind of H1N1. That means there can be no independent or state monitoring of this issue; it’s all CDC. We have no choice but to believe what they say — or not, I guess.
(Just ducking in for a second here, folks… a few random thoughts:)
Kristen: Tower Card – old order falling apart – yes indeedy.
Patty: Who’r you calling ‘not an ascended master’?? The escalator rolls both ways ;^D, oh Descended One.
Stormi: HLS is just looking around for something to do. Knitting a meaner fence seems plausible since they are losing their mandate (issuing colored alerts). Code Brown! (goes nicely with Pink).
Hunger in Mexico has been a problem since the 1960s; I’d venture that more people died of cholera, dysentery and/or malnutrition in one day last week than the whole tally from the flu so far. It’s a big, complex story/problem having to do with Harvard-trained technocrats, American capital, Mexican oligarchs and the feckless working&peasant classes. So very very very old this mess, and as the Partido Institucional Revolutionario demonstrated with their decades of corruption, there is no political solution.
There *is* a solution, but it begins with the enzymatic restructuring of capitalism itself, a restructuring pressed into existence by the ecological emergency of our time. It’ll work, just keep your powder dry (and your oscillococcinum handy).
My favorite joke in the world ends with “what’s time to a pig?” Look it up, my porcelain beauties.
Back to my wallowing elsewhere.
Little piggy kisses and grunts to you all. . .
M
carecare, don’t know if you got it right. But I got it alright. It’s a good read for me. I am speaking from awareness of self change within, strident enough to be light. I am definitely being moved along by what I am feeling as sudden events in the changes without.
thanks for bring up the bigotry in eric, i was wondering the same thing. i live in the sw borderlands, the part of (“new”) mexico that doesn’t get talked about unless there’s a crisis. last night i happened to catch the cbs “news” reporting from el paso about the lack of awareness (paranoia) of “those” mexicans crossing the border (which actually crossed them) and possibly spreading their germs, hence the new terrorists. this morning gma had napolitano talking about what the govt. is doing about it right now, again leaving me wondering (but not surprised) why the fuck homeland “security” is addressing this in the first place. maybe they’ll build a bigger fence! or better, a dome where they can just bubble u.s. all in and give the “aliens” spacesuits to “protect” us, er – them.
interestingly, if you look at the psychosomatic (mind/body) link for flu/influenza, it’s about
“Responding to mass negativity. Putting too much faith in statistics.”
I know some tarot…..the Tower is a major arcana so it has a bit more influence on greater issues as opposed to minor arcana that are for mundane, individual things. Tower is usually depicted as a tower being hit by lightening and bricks or stones falling from the destruction. From my old books it meant “the illumination that destroys the old order to make way for a new construction.”
Something being destroyed by lightening has a hidden meaning because light usually means knowledge and lightening usually denotes Uranus (sudden and unexpected major changes). The Tower itself represents Capricorn or establishment and old values. So, the Tower card means new sudden and unexpected knowledge will tear down the old established ways. A sort of house cleaning: out with the old and in with the new because of sudden knowledge or “enlightenment.”
I hope I got that right, it has been a LONG time since I did any tarot readings!
Well Kristen, since most of us aren’t ascended masters, we’d best take a practical approach – how about: breathe deeply, love freely, trust wholly, forsake white flour products for awhile.
What is the ‘tower’ meaning? Not all of us know tarot.
Tarot cards have been turning up XVI Tower continually for past week+
Flu is just another phrase for “I cannot breathe.” Breath. Life. Death. Breath.
What better way to spread fear than imploding the human body. Of course, it is also a way to make us all slow down and ask ourselves, what is most important, right here, right now?
April 28, 2009 Tricycle’s Daily Dharma Healing and Curing
Healing does not mean curing, although the two words are often used interc hangeably, While it may not be possible for us to cure ourselves or to find someone who can, it is always possible for us to heal ourselves. Healing implies the possibility for us to relate differently to illness, disability, even death, as we learn to see with eyes of wholeness. Healing is coming to terms with things as they are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, from Letting Everything Become Your Teacher
www dot earthclinic dot com has some interesting theories too, as well as nutritional ideas about this flu. The chief contributor says a lysine amino acid shortage in the diet can trigger a more severe reaction to flu. You have to type swine flu into the search box to see the suggested remedies – all suggestions based on the Asian experience with SARS and Bird Flu.
Arginine is the opposite of lysine, and would counteract the body’s ability to absorb lysine. Wish I’d known that 10 years ago, I might have saved myself a hip replacement and osteoporosis.
Arginine is in flour and chocolate. Lysine is in proteins such as eggs, and chicken. A balanced diet is the key. I know a lot of poor farmers will feed stuff like day old bread and rolls to hogs, and my guess is they suffer the same dietary complaints that we do. Poor hogs! Given their druthers, I suspect they’d rather root around in a clean pasture.
I’m not a doctor either, just a food nut looking for answers.
But it could be an immune system problem. So far, the people outside of Mexico who have it are well off – not just Americans, but from the other countries. They are people who were on vacation, so they must also be fairly well fed – lots of nice salads and fruits in the diets, whole grains and lean meats etc.
When i had two surgeries in a row two years ago, my body was completely depleted, and I kept getting various fungal type infections and even lost a lot of hair. I finally got better, but I’m sure if a flu bug had hit me at the time it would have been a difficult recovery.
My husband has been sick for a long time and didn’t know what was wrong. A doctor finally did a chemical analysis of his blood and found he was almost completely deficient in vitamins c, d, a, e, and most of the b vitamins. He’s one of those people that did Atkins diet off and on for several years. I tell you there is no substitute for ample fruits and veggies in the diet. So now he eats a balanced diet and has more energy and fewer colds than he’s had in years. Colds are viral too btw.
People in nursing homes are particularly vulnerable to flu and virus infections, because their health is so fragile. Their diets are mush too.
My guess is when the virus gets out into the mainstream public in the US and other places, it will be the people in less than optimum health who get sickest. Those of us who have access to good quality food probably have a better immune response. Right now there are so many people struggling with high food prices, they are living on white flour products and sugar. Gravy and biscuits, macaroni and cheese, kool-aid, and so on, will run the body down. Mexico has more than it’s share of the poor, or people living on beans, lard and flour.
I’ve been wondering why everyone is in such a panic about this particular flu, but given the way it has started out (and time of year), it makes sense to be a little worried.