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Take the Block Off

God blessed me with Uranus on the 25th degree of Scorpio in the 5th House.

I can see.  I see things differently, I see through deception, and I can see commonalities in things others miss.

I analyze my numbers here at WordPress, and what my eyes are telling me is that someone is playing with my sites visibility.

I’m still getting between 8 and 15 views on a Good day, and 2 to 4 on a bad day, even though I’ve been working at this for six years and published 1300 articles. 

I don’t think they’re restricting my ability to gain followers, but it does appear that someone is playing with the category for views and visits.

Proof of this came one day, all of a sudden, out of the blue, after getting an average of between 8 and 10 views every day for several years, someone at WordPress got caught lacking and my views were in the hundreds!  That happened one day, and then it went back to normal the following day.

I work hard, and at this point I can only hope things are fair.

A Glimpse Into the Astrology of Joan Jett

September 22, 1958

Rock Legend, Joan Jett, will be 66 this year, and yes, she’s a native of Pennsylvania. I think it’s interesting how certain celebrities come to my mind for astrological interpretation. There’s really no rhyme or reason to it, they just pop in my head, and what I find most interesting is that after looking at the chart, there’s always some planetary alignment I’ll have in common with the person.

With Joan Jett, she has Chiron on the 18th degree of Aquarius, which is where my Sun is located. The core wounding for Chiron in Aquarius is disappointment in self, self-destruction, feeling invisible, and a disconnection from one’s body.

Clearly, Joan Jett is not afflicted by her Chiron placement as a healed Chiron manifests as an authentic connection to others and the community, the ability to express feelings, and in touch with intuition. Jett is an amazing example of someone not only stepping into her power, but embracing it to the fullest.

The 18th degree of Aquarius has to do with truth and trust. “An unmasked man,” as the Sabian Symbol shows, reminds us that no matter how hard we try to hide the truth, it will always come out in the end. So, the lesson is really about embracing our eccentricities and the things that make us different, because ultimately, they’re what make us special and what will bond us to others.

She has Jupiter on the 2nd degree of Scorpio, which is where my Moon is, and her Moon on the 29th degree of Capricorn is within two degrees of my descendent.

Jett was born on September 22nd, which puts her Sun on the Libra Virgo Cusp. Venus, the planet ruling Libra, and Mercury, the planet ruling Virgo are in a conjunction in Virgo separated by two degrees. That’s the Goddess of Love and Beauty linked with the God of Communication.

That’s a person who loves expressing herself!

Virgo 16 degrees (Venus) is about embracing the beast within us, and the Sabian Symbol for Virgo 18 degrees (Mercury) shows an Ouija board. That’s about intuition, which directly connects her Venus and Mercury conjunction back to the placement of Chiron.

Rock on Joan!

Nooz Now

May 7, 2024 Edition

📺 It’s nothing but drama for the family of one of my favorite actors. Weston Cage, son of actor, Nicolas Cage, allegedly beat the crap out of his mother and gave her a black eye. Christina Fulton, Weston’s mother, blames Hila Arounian, Weston’s ex-wife, for creating a hostile environment and making it impossible for her to have a relationship with her granddaughters. I mean, they said Weston has a history of mental disorders, but no one knows for sure what his problem is, and it doesn’t seem like his mother wants to put the law on him, so..

On a brighter note, the boy’s father, Nicolas Cage, said he’s looking to retire after 45-years in cinema. In 45-years, Cage made over one-hundred movies, and he says that he would like to leave on a high note. The Humanity Bureau was the last Nicolas Cage film I saw, and it was pretty darn good.

🛐 As if walking into a church and pointing a gun at a pastor wasn’t strange enough, the plot deepens. This case has people talking divine intervention- so, this guy walks into a church in Pennsylvania, pulls a gun out, points it at a pastor’s face and pulls the trigger.

Thank God, literally, the gun jammed and the bullet never discharged. Another church member, after seeing this, quickly springs into action and tackles the gunman. The gunman’s name is Bernard Polite, and he’s now being held in Allegheny County Jail.

At some point after the incident at the church, police searched Polite’s home, and they found a dead man who was killed from a gunshot wound. The dead guy was a relative of the man who pulled the gun on the Pastor. Obviously, there’s more to this case than what happened at the church and police are still investigating.

😺 I don’t know, it seems to me that this cat was trying to kill his owner, but everyone else thinks the cat was just showing affection. Every night, after this guy would lay down, he noticed his cat would jump into the bed and stare at him until he fell asleep. After installing a camera to record the cat’s behavior while he was sleeping, the video revealed the cat blocking the guy’s mouth as he slept. This was alarming for the man because he had a history of asthma. The owner laughed it off, but I don’t know-seems like a kill cat to me. https://www.wecb.fm/his-cat-stares-at-him-all-night-he-finally-films-it-and-understands-the-reason/

🎈 Happy Birthday, James Burgess. James Burgess owns the website that I use for the astrological Sabian Symbols. He was born on May 7th in 1951.

There’s also a James Burgess that plays linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, but that’s not him.

❓ Here’s a story put out by the Associated Press about three guys who went to the beach to surf, and ended up getting executed. Three young men killed over car tires. Terrible, terrible.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-missing-foreigners-australian-american-surfers-685cbe3faba195be35b4b28b1cfb3acf

Reaching Ronda, Part 1

If you Google Ronda Rousey, it will tell you she’s an American Professional Wrestler and Actress, but she was also the first female fighter to sign with the UFC. Rousey fought in the UFC from 2012 to 2016, and she became UFC’s first female Bantamweight Champion.

The timing of her entry into the UFC was absolutely favored by the heavens; in December of 2011, Regulus, the Kingly Star of the Constellation Leo, which is also the heart of the lion, crossed over the Leo Virgo border into Virgo on the zero degree.

Ronda is an Aquarius born on the 1st of February in 1987. Her natal Sun is on the 12th degree of Aquarius, and her career as a fighter was a physical manifestation of a difficult spiritual lesson.

When you think of a fighter in general in connection with their sport you know the obvious. Not everyone will be a title holder or a belt holder. They train to be the best in the world, and while some achieve what they set out to do, others are less fortunate. This has nothing to do with fighting itself, or her record as a fighter. It’s more about the bigger picture that show us that not all fighters are on the same level.

Without the physical manifestation of finding an outlet for aggression, which was definitely something Rousey needed to do in this life, it would be impossible to understand the spiritual meaning behind the placement of her Sun.

We are all representations of our creator, and all of us come here with a message to share. Some of us come straight out and do it, while others are a living testimony.

On the 12th degree of Aquarius, the Sabian Symbol of Ronda’s Sun represents improvement. It shows people on stairs graduating upwards, which shows that spiritually, we’re all on different levels. Physical competition can prove where we stand physically, but how can we prove the exact same message spiritually?

We’re not all equal, and as James Burgess puts it, “However spiritually inspiring it may be to think that we are all of the same worth and level of attainment, the truth is that it is not so.”

This is important because it’s the first step towards self-improvement. Once you identify your placement in the grand scheme and then realize that you can be better and climb higher, the choice to do so becomes your make.

I don’t know Ronda personally, but considering the conjunction in her chart between Venus and Uranus in the sign of Sagittarius, I’m willing to bet that she has a deep and personal love for freedom and independence. She’s a seeker of new challenges and loves the chase, but she’s selfless enough to dedicate herself to a cause.

I’ve been thinking about something I heard while listening to Bringers of the Dawn by Barbara Merciniak, https://youtu.be/oFNM5rU6W6k?si=WGb6LIK-vV5o67FV.

Listen to 1:58:00 to 2:03:00

We do not have a pantheon of powerful female creator images. We have nothing on which to pattern a positive image of the empowered feminine. So, men are striving to be male and women are striving to be empowered through a male vibration because their is no clear vision of the empowered female. WE MUST CREATE IT!

Did I lose you?

Ronda Rousey is a great example of a woman striving to be empowered through a male vibration, but both men and women are lost without a clear vision of the empowered female because both men and women must balance the masculine and feminine within themselves.

Think about it? What would that look like?

I thought about this and thought and thought. What would an empowered female look like?

Important Message Hidden Within the Current Astrology

Good Afternoon Beloved!

Let’s take a look at the current astrology provided by https://www.astro.com/free/free_chart_e.htm. Thank you for your Chart of the Moment.

There are several planets in close proximity of one another in Taurus. Taurus represents practicality, patience, and dependability, and Venus is actually home in this earth sign.

When it comes to love, Taurus reminds us to take our time. Stability ranks high with the Bull, therefore, consistency over time is the key for natural selection, or separating the wheat from the chaff. Who will be there standing when the dust settles? Only time will tell.

In the 10th House, which is where matters involving personal reputations and careers manifest, Taurus points the way forward. An approach that’s quite, determined, and fixed on the task at hand will win the hearts of many. With the Sun close by, the life force powers us along. We’re blessed with warmth, will power, and all that is necessary to cultivate the life we want for ourselves.

Jupiter is on the 24th degree, and Uranus is on the 22nd degree, which means these two planets are separated by only 2 degrees. The presence of Uranus indicates freedom and independence. Uranus is life and the God of transformation. Jupiter here can be working in a twofold manner. He can either be there providing all that we need and require to achieve this transformational journey, or he can be there to represent the abundance and prosperity that can be ours when all is said and done.

It’s probably a little of both, but because he’s ahead of the pack and the closest to the end of the sign, I have a feeling he’s showing us what’s at the end of the road. It’s Gemini, and as we look to the location of Gemini’s ruler, Mercury, we see that attainment is at hand.

I had a dream last month; I was standing on the outside of a circular fence that was holding a large group of bulls. The bulls went from being quiet and sniffing the ground they walked on to an immediate state of rage, and with that rage they broke through the fence. As they ran to freedom, they smiled at me.

Do you feel stuck? Do you feel imprisoned? Confined? Well, the famous American Founder, Benjamin Franklin, once said:

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

The Bull wants stability, and it wants a place to call home and to be surrounded by all it considers beautiful, but the bull will never go along just to get along.

Jupiter is showing us the light at the end of the tunnel, which is the transformational journey represented by Uranus, and the Sun is representing the power of the human will when all the we love (Venus) is on the line. Love is on the line, and the only way to get it is through transformation. The Sun is giving us the nod, and Jupiter is showing us what can be ours.

Like the Bulls in my dream, it begins with you tearing down the temporary partitions providing safety and comfort, and going after all that is yours. Your love.

The Leather Jacket

The Leather Jacket
By: Francis Joseph LaManna


How I came to be in possession of such magnificence was truly by chance. I recently purchased an old home not far from Manhattan’s Garment District in New York, and it was probably two or three weeks after I had moved all of my belongings in and got myself situated that I stumbled upon a hidden room on the third floor.

It was approximately six feet in height, and the dimensions of the floor were four feet by four feet. It was more like a walk-in closet than a room, but either way, I walked into this space and there it was.

I’ve always had an eye for fashion, and I’ve seen a lot, but this was a first. Hanging there, on a hook screwed in to the back wall of this closet was a vintage leather, burgundy in color. “Good heavens,” I muttered to myself. This was indeed the finest and most marvelous of all outer wear.

That evening, I tried it on, and I must admit, it looked fantastic on me. I felt like a new man, no wait, like a distinguished man. The jacket itself commanded respect, and while it was on me, I felt like I could’ve been anything I wanted. A business man, a gangster, an academic expert in a far-reaching field like psychology or philosophy-whatever, you name it, and I could’ve been it.

Without a doubt, this leather jacket belonged to me now, and as the saying goes, finders keepers. I brought the jacket downstairs, and before adding it to my own collection of coats, I made sure to place it on a hanger of good quality. Leather jackets can be quite weighty, and I didn’t want it to end up on the floor.

Several nights later, Martin Saint Pierre, a good friend of mine, came over and I implored him to try on the jacket. After several hours of making up poor excuses, he finally decided to walk upstairs with me to see what the fuss was all about. Well, his eyes lit up, and while his mouth hung open, I had to remind him not to drool on my new carpet.

“Ooh, very nice,” he said. And then, he reached for the coat. After sliding both arms in and adjusting the collar, he decided to fasten the three buttons on the front of the jacket.

Now, let me tell you this, Martin Saint Pierre was no saint, but he didn’t deserve to die the way he did that night. His face turned three different shades of blue, purple, and red before he fall backwards and hit his head on the floor. But, it wasn’t his head hitting the floor that did him in! We just couldn’t get the jacket off of him, and as he struggled in his attempts to do so, the jacket got tighter and tighter.

The leather jacket suffocated him, and a lot of other people too. I gave it as a birthday gift to people I didn’t like, and then I would just take it back and wear it home. As a matter of fact, it’s still in my closet.

The Leather Jacket is a short story fiction piece written by Francis Joseph LaManna.



Self-Awareness

Good Evening Beloved!

Self-awareness is one of those terms that seems easy to define, and in a sense, I suppose it is. But, what does it mean to be self-aware?

Self-awareness can easily be defined as awareness of self, and if you look it up on the internet you’ll probably get something like this:

Self-awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don’t align with your internal standards.

The first thing you should know about self-awareness is that it’s the beginning-it’s the start of a path that’s going to take you home. You’re going to laugh when you read this, but the five senses are deceiving; touch, smell, taste, hearing, and seeing are the senses we’re born with, and they help us navigate through this world and our lives.

Through our senses we acquire what looks good, women, clothing, jewelry, homes, cars, etc. We surround ourselves with good smells and perfumes, we go to the food store and shop for food that’s pleasing to our taste buds, and we buy the music we like to listen to.

Hey, there’s no accounting for taste, to each his own, and everyone spends their money differently. What we acquire through our senses shows the world a little something about us, but what do we truly know about ourselves?

There are levels to self-awareness, we could all achieve a very high level of self-awareness, but not all of us do because at some point, most people cut the “self” off when it comes to earning a paycheck.

What do I mean? Did you ever hear someone say, “Don’t pay attention to how you feel. You’ll feel better once you get out there and get going.”

That’s good advice, and I’ve taken it myself many times, but if you’re truly not happy with what you’re doing, those feelings are going to manifest. The universe has a funny way of putting us on the path we belong on.

In terms of self-awareness, intuition and feelings-the two things no one else sees and the two things that are manifested from within us, are the keys to a high level of self-awareness. This comes down to you, and how far you want to take this path. You can take it all the way home until you reach enlightenment and secure a connection to your higher-self, or you can turn back and continue to go along to get along.

So, self-awareness doesn’t have too much to with your senses, it has to do with how conscious you are of your intuition and inner emotional response to what you’re going through on a daily basis.

Your intuition and inner emotions are guiding you, and the universe will drop subtle hints and reveal clues that will only make sense to you. So, you can’t ask no one else for help on this path. This is for the individual who’s attempting to find his or her way back to universal or god consciousness. You have the answers.

In addition to the definition provided above, something should be said about the environment. The first three houses in the astrological chart are all about the self and self-awareness, but as we progress to houses four, five, and six, we deal with the integration of self and the environment. Houses seven, eight, and nine are when we meet the other, and we get ourselves mirrored back to us. We learn about ourselves through our relationships with other people and groups.

Self-awareness is more than our ability to focus on our thoughts, actions, and emotions. To be self-aware means that your not only aware of intuition and inner emotions, but that you’ve also committed to listening and allowing them to guide your way forward.

I made a comment earlier about money and the job or work. We’ve been seeing a whole generation of people who are now retiring from work and feel completely lost.

That’s because they’ve ignored themselves and went to work for forty years to keep the money rolling in. That’s a tremendous sacrifice the head of a household usually makes, and they should be respected for that.

These individuals, for their entire lives, were defined by their job. The image of self they step into retirement with is one created entirely by their jobs, the money they made, and the promotions they earned. Without the job they feel like they lost a part of themselves.

It’s like the athlete whose career comes to an end and is no longer performing in front of 80,000 people. They’re lost without the stage, but the stage was never who they truly were.

In order for you to incorporate self-awareness into your job, it has to be a role that gives you the freedom to make decisions based on your intuition and how you feel, and let’s face it, there aren’t many roles like that out there. In business, money is the bottom line. If you’re intuition is telling you not to take one million dollars, you gone!

lol, but truthfully; there aren’t many roles like that out there because it’s not about playing a role or role playing.

It’s about the real authentic self.

Why is the Economy Low-Key Bad?

Several days ago I posted an article about Big Government in the United Sates. If I remember correctly; in 1900, 1 in 24 Americans had a job with the federal government. By 1948, it was 1 in 8, and by 2009, there were nearly two million federal employees working for the government with a 15% increase expected by 2010.

The federal employees’ payroll in 2009 was almost $15.5 billion. That was fifteen years ago! What’s it like today?

This is why the economy is not good. No new money is being generated. Federal employees are paid by tax money-all they’re doing is recycling old money. They’re increasing taxes, using that money to create new jobs within government, and redistributing old money.

Basically, they’re vampires to the American economy. They don’t produce! They just suck the blood out of the economy, and while they’re sucking they’re violating our privacy, placing cameras and surveillance gadgets everywhere, and now-they’re visiting people because of online posts. Well, what do you expect them to do?

If the size of the private sector was growing while the size of government was decreasing, and if government was giving money to Americans to start their own businesses, and if America started exporting more then we imported, then the economy would be doing much better.

It’s very simple.

Withdrawal Pain and the Root Chakra

Good Afternoon Beloved!

This information is coming from experience. For all the people who’ve had an addiction to any kind of pain medication; did you ever notice that when you’re either out of medication or you attempt to stop taking your medication, you get a lot of pain at the base of your spine?

There are seven energy vortex centers that begin at the base of your spin and stop at the top of your head. The vortex at the base of your spine is called the root chakra, or the Muladhara. It’s the foundation for all the other chakras, and it’s said to be the location of the kundalini energy, the coiled serpent that climbs the spine.

When the root chakra is blocked, you could feel a lack of stability and security, unsafe, ungrounded, fearful, and not very confident. You might also feel depressed and not very energetic.

Now, we all know the withdrawal symptoms that are caused by not having your medication, but that pain you feel at the base of your spine has a lot to do with the blockage of your root chakra-and the body’s process of natural healing to uncover and re-energize the vortex.

The interesting thing about this is that when you make a full recovery and return to proper body functioning, you’ll feel balanced again. You’ll feel safe and no longer fearful to live your life. The root chakra is the very first chakra, so if it’s out of balance or blocked, it disrupts the other six.

Also, because you’ve been taking medication consistently and for a long time, you’re circulatory system is off, and your digestive system is off. This results in abnormal blood flow and irregular bowel movements. It’s a slow kill from the inside out.

I know man.

Nooz Now

April 28, 2024

Good Afternoon, and welcome to another edition of Nooz Now!

📰 Last night on YouTube, I watched the 48 Hours episode about the case of Suzanne Morphew. On Mother’s Day in 2020, the wife and mother of two daughters disappeared without a trace. A careless and negligent prosecution staff rushed to judgment and arrested and charged her husband, Barry Morphew, with murder. They described Barry as a man’s man, and I personally think that’s why he was the perfect target for prosecutors.

He was intelligent, a former baseball player, college graduate, and successful owner of his own landscaping business. It’s a shame, but if the public was looking for the perfect image of masculinity-a jealous man enraged to the point that he would kill his own wife and the mother of his children, Barry was it. But I have to tell you, they made a mistake this time. The craziest part about this case was they arrested and charged Barry with murder without a body, a murder weapon, blood evidence, or an eye witness that a murder was even committed.

That’s unheard of. Not only that, but they eventually found out that Suzanne was cheating on her husband, and DNA evidence was found in Suzanne’s vehicle that matched a man who was previously arrested for several crimes against women. Eventually, the prosecution dropped the case against him because of a lack of evidence-the jury was uncomfortable moving forward, and Barry sued for $15 million.

It took a while, but I think it all worked out in the end. Barry was released from jail, and the girls got their father back. I think it’s unfortunate about what happened to Suzanne, and unbelievable that her body was never found! I’ll paste the link below so you can check it out. https://youtu.be/Br5YebY2mWE?si=rL7OaeeN3U3lk1pf

💍 It’s old news by now, but did you see the police body cam footage of the arrest of rapper, Glorilla? The police arrested her for driving while intoxicated, and they said she failed their sobriety test, but it looked like she passed to me. I don’t know, man. She didn’t stumble or anything. Anyway, it was hilarious because she asked if she could take her jewelry off before the cuffs were slapped on her, and it took almost ten minutes for her to do so! LOL, she had chains, a ring on every finger, a watch, etc.

🎙 I took a moment yesterday to revisit the astrology and life of late singer, Amy Winehouse. She was another superstar that died at the age of 27. Amy was a Virgo born almost at the end of the sign, and she died as the Sun was beginning its transit through Leo. I found this extremely interesting because the date of her death, July 23rd, is not only the day after the celebration of Mary Magdalene, but in the astrological chart, that’s like the zero and first degree of Leo, which is where my ascendant is. She also had an album titled, Frank.

Her astrology is extremely interesting despite the fact that I don’t have her time of birth. In her birth chart, Amy had five conjunctions: In Sagittarius she had a conjunction with the Moon, Neptune and the Galactic Center on the 26th degree, and then at the beginning of the same sign, she had Uranus and Jupiter. She had a conjunction between Pluto and Saturn, the Sun and Mercury, Mars and Venus, and in Gemini, her North Node was conjunct Vesta. Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning 2011, two months before her 28th birthday.

⚰Did you hear that story about a two-year girl who had a severe fever and was pronounced dead-she was dead for two days. While in her coffin, her parents saw her head moving and they realized she was still alive. Eventually, they took her home, and now she’s doing fine.

See, man, you never know. I think I’m going to be cremated.

🏈NFL: The top 5 picks in this year’s NFL Draft consisted of three quarterbacks, one receiver, and one offensive lineman. USC quarterback, Caleb Williams went to the Bears, then went Jayden Daniels from LSU to the Commanders, North Carolina’s Drake Maye went the New England, Marvin Harrison Jr., the Ohio State standout receiver was picked up by the Cardinals, and Joe Alt, and offensive tackle from Notre Dame was drafted by the Chargers.

Blake Corum, the talented workhorse running back from Michigan, was the 83rd pick in round 3, he went to the Rams.

Erick All, the Iowa Tight End who transferred from Michigan was the 115th pick in round 4; he was drafted by the Bengals.

Ohio State Tight End, Cade Stover, was drafted by the Texans in round 4.

Notre Dame’s running back, Audric Estime, was drafted by the Broncos in round 5.

Ohio State Linebacker, Tommy Eichenberg, was drafted by the Raiders in round 5.

That about wraps it up for this edition of Nooz Now.

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