Regarding Positive Affirmations

Two years ago, I gave a special person a list containing thirty of my most important positive affirmations. I stuck it to her refrigerator before leaving her house one day, and when I came back, I noticed it was gone.

She said she threw it out, and then, she asked, “Who the hell do you think you are writing a list like that? You’re really conceited,” she said.

I was shocked because not only did she have no idea what a positive affirmation was, but she thought I was a terrible person for creating such a list. What’s funny is that here we are, it’s two years later, and she’s now making videos offering words of guidance and hope.

So, basically, she shit on me, and then like everyone else, proceeded to take my ideas, move forward, and pass them off as her own.

Fuck you for that.

Anyway, I wanted to share something important about positive affirmations because after all these years of using them, I just for the first time today, got it.

Life has a flow, and you should always go with the flow. You’re supposed to do your best and try your hardest, and if that’s not good enough to bring you success, prosperity, and good fortune in your current situation, then so be it.

There might be consequences that arise from your shortcomings. So be it. Every seemingly negative situation or setback you experience, can be dwelt upon, which would stifle your progress, or they could be looked at in a positive way to help promote the change you seek.

Keep moving forward, remain humble, and continue putting your best foot forward. At some point, things will change for the better, and the life you so passionately desire will be yours one day. There’s a flow to life, and as long as we remain in flow, we’ll put ourselves in the right places at the right times to receive our blessings.

Positive affirmations are designed to help you through that time. They’re not only reminders of how powerful and special we truly are, but they’re designed to keep out negative thinking while reprogramming your thought process and inner dialogue.

Don’t ever think your arrogant or conceited for making an I Am list.

It isn’t until you’re really down and suffering beat up from life’s tests and challenges, and it isn’t until you’ve tried and tried to move forward only to realize you’ve been running head-first into a brick wall that the time for understanding the true value of positive affirmations will finally be upon you.

It is at that time, that you’ll awaken to what the flow of life is all about, and you realize, no matter how bad things get, they’ll eventually get better.

Gemini’s Current Stop in the 9th House

Friends, Fans, and Followers;

Good Evening!

The astrological 9th House is an interesting place. In the 9th House, we can find information regarding international traveling. The 9th House is known as the home of long-distance journeys and long journeys in general.

If you wanted to take a trip that required leaving the country, the 9th House is where you’d look, but in general terms, long journeys can apply to different things. If you decided to attend college and major in communication, well, by the time you graduate and earn that degree in communication, you’ll be able to look back on that experience and say “it was a long journey”.

What about a person who wakes up one day and realizes they need to get help overcoming an addiction that took over their life? Recovery and sobriety is a long journey.

What about the athlete who breaks a bone or tears a muscle playing the sport they love? Healing and re-strengthening the afflicted area can be a long journey depending on how severely they were injured.

The first book I wrote was titled Smorgasbord, and then I wrote a sequel, and finally, I decided the series needed a third book. That was a long journey. Writing a book can be a long journey.

The path of spirituality, from the time of your initial awakening to the time of self-discovery, individuation, enlightenment, and the acquisition of healing or super-natural abilities is a long journey.

The 9th House also holds information related to philosophical and metaphysical issues.

When it comes to communication, because the 9th House is opposite of the 3rd, it deals with communication on a much broader, wider, and higher level. If speaking to a friend is a 3rd House issue, then speaking to a large audience or having a job as a radio broadcaster would be a 9th House issue. Writing a letter would be a 3rd House thing, and writing a book would be a 9th House thing.

♊ Gemini ♊

Popularly, Gemini is known as the sign of the Twins, and while that is true, Gemini, on a much deeper level, is the sign of Brotherly Love. In the constellation Gemini, there are two stars known as Castor and Pollux. The Romans and the Greeks knew Castor and Pollux as brothers, and one day when Castor was killed, Pollux went to his father, Zeus, and asked if he could trade places with his brother. Zeus suggested that Pollux share his immortality with his brother, and that’s what he did.

Gemini represents the undying selfless love that shared between two brothers, a love so strong that one brother would not be able to live without the other. That’s powerful love.

With Gemini in the 9th House, we come face to face with two sides of the self. There’s the new you, the transformed you, and the you that’s standing at the end of the journey. He’s looking back at his old self, the self that was injured, addicted to drugs, or immature and uneducated at the beginning of some long process.

With that old self, as much as we may have loved the time and the memories that the old self produced, we have no alternative but to let it all go now that the journey is over.

In addition to that example, there’s something more. A long journey is something that is not only personal but something one must be personally motivated to embark on. It is often on these long journeys, where people are following their hearts, that we meet the people we have the most in common with. Two people journeying through life may meet here in the 9th House and either fall in love, or form a friendship that lasts a lifetime.

Gemini is also a mutable air sign. This tells us that intelligence, adaptable intelligence is the way forward. For example, sometimes we think we have all the answers. Then, we soon find out that what we’ve always thought or known to be, was inaccurate or completely false. Well, you’re survival through the 9th House depends on your ability to move forward adapting to new truths, or beliefs.

Gemini, because of it’s dual nature, is an excellent sign to have in the 9th House. Before embarking on any journey, a person would want to collect as much information and learn as much as possible. Gemini represents the ability of learning or having the knowledge present of both the light and the dark. When Gemini is in the 9th House, there’s a rare opportunity present.

Take advantage.

Wow, Just When You Think You Know Someone.

I really learned a lesson today.

I met someone three years ago who said she was ready for a serious relationship. And every time I showed her I was serious she would back out.

On top of that, she never invited me over to spend time with her and her children. She always invited me over late at night, so, that’s the relationship we had. We were sex buddies, I guess.

Despite the limited time I had to spend with her, I remained faithful. Part of me said let her go and the other side said maybe this will work out. So, I hung in there, and she slept around, dated other guys, and continued to keep her profile up on the dating site.

She would get videos and pictures of other guys sent to her all day, and I never said anything about it. Then she started yelling at me one day telling me to stop sending her dirty pictures and to stop talking dirty to her during the day.

That wasn’t me. LOl, Umm, excuse me, I think you have me mixed up with your buddies on your dating site.

Anyway, I continued talking to her despite the many and numerous reasons that kept popping up for why I should let her go.

I loved her, I loved her despite the fact that she had three or four different baby fathers and many children.

I was always positive and optimistic about our relationship, and I was constantly thinking about ways I could pick her up and make her happy.

Then there was the money thing. For the first two years we talked, she didn’t have enough money to buy a pack of cigarettes. When I would see her she would ask me to pick up cigarettes and wine before I came. So, I would.

Then she moved to a nicer bigger home, and all of a sudden she had lots of money and offered to take care of me. Things keep getting weird and nothing ever made sense.

She kept inviting me over later at night and we would have sex. Then recently, she invited me over and I was too tired. It was midnight, and I had work the next day.

So, she said okay, well, if you can’t come over, talk to me dirty over text. So, I did. Then she asked me to send her a picture of my dick. I’ve been talking to this woman and sleeping with her for almost three years, but I told her no. I decided not to send her a picture of my dick because I remember her telling me a story of how her ex husband sent her a dick picture and she called the cops on him.

So, I said no, I won’t send you a picture of my dick, but I’ll send you a picture of someone else’s dick. She agreed and laughed, so googled the word dick, and I sent her pictures of random dicks. Soon after she was cumming.

Well, three days later she’s texting me saying there’s something wrong with me, and how could I send her those pictures.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You asked me to send them!

LOL, I can’t even believe it. I mean seriously, grow up. I never met a more deceitful and manipulative person. Do you know how many pictures she sent me of herself with her legs wide open and of her ass? I never told her she had something wrong with her, and I never acted like she sent those in a way that was forceful or inappropriate. And I never asked her to send them nor did she ask my permission.

I’m a 44 year old man and she’s almost 50. I can’t believe her behavior.

Anyway, the lesson here is that if you’re getting the feeling that something isn’t right, it probably isn’t. Here’s a relationship ongoing for almost three years and she turns around one-day and treats me like a stranger.

It’s really a shame, I guess you really have to be careful with who you talk to and who you open yourself up to. And you think it’s gets easier when you get older? Nope.

Truth be told, I should’ve left her sitting there on her porch by herself when I drove to her house to meet her for the first time.

Fellas, if a woman has five kids from three different men, and all of those men left her, there’s probably a very good reason.

Well, I’m seeing it first hand now for myself.

Sun and Moon Placements; A Sign of the Time

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Good Morning Beloved!

Th current alignment for the Sun and Moon are as follows;

Sun 16 Pisces

Moon 24 Capricorn

With the Sun on the 16th degree of Pisces, spirituality is brought into focus, and it should be apparent that life and most of everything in it has a natural flow or rhythm.

Pisces is feminine mutable water.  Do not resist what the inner voice says to you today and tomorrow.  Inspiration and the push forward comes from intuition, so, believe in yourself and the faith that grounds you.

In the hard working and dedicated sign of Capricorn, emotionally, we’re encouraged to remain persistent.  Sometimes, life has a way of beating us down, but we don’t have to stay down.  On the flip side of this, you may feel upset or discouraged from not getting an opportunity or a chance to move on with your life.

As the Sun and Moon work together, we can feel the energies in their rawest forms.  We’re grounded by earth once we have a chance to experience what feels right to us, and that gives us a clearer mind to listen to and follow intuition.

The key now is seeking peace and serenity because as long as you’re acting with love in your heart, the universe will show you the way forward.

As I’m writing this my beloved, I sympathize with those of you who might be in a situation where it’s impossible to get centered, and once you do, someone or something knocks you off balance.

I suggest reading the Sabian Symbol for Pisces 17 again.  The answers for this dilemma can be found there and at Neptune’s placement on the 26th degree of Pisces.  

I really felt compelled to at least make an attempt to try to explain this current time we’re in despite the fact that most people will either dismiss it or not understand.  

But then I saw a sign revealing the current time.

On this website, I’ve talked a lot about the work of other people, Cal Garrison being one of them. She wrote the Weiser Field Guide to Ascension, which was published in 2010. I think it was around that time that I purchased and read it for the first time, but it’s still in my possession and I’ve read it many times since 2010.

Every time I read it, something new appears. On page 211, it says:

That two-year window came to a close at the end of October 2009. If you’re reading this book, chances are it is late spring or perhaps the early summer of 2010 (early summer 2010 for me). Some have predicted that the ascension would be a thing of the past before anyone opened these pages; others told us it was sure to happen in August of 2010, which means that this field guide is either gone with the wind or is about to provide everyone with a down-to-the-wire Cliff’s Notes for an event that is slated to take place in no time at all. If all of us are still present and accounted for, at this point it might be good to look at how we’re going to approach the ascension and consider the reality of the pole shift in more detail.

Cal Garrison

I highlighted gone with the wind and pole shift.

Well, I shared with all of you my astrological birth chart, and I showed all of you how my nodal axis is aligned between Pisces and Aquarius, and Virgo and Leo. That not only means that my nodal axis is aligned properly with the time marking the beginning and end of the Grand Cycle, but it’s aligned properly to mark the suspected times of earth’s pole shifts, which is approximately every 13,000 years.

They said before we entered the time of this shift, there would be an awakening. I described my personal awakening in a YouTube video recently, but I just realized last week, that current position of the outer planets point to what I experienced in 2013, and what Garrison was talking about in her book.

Neptune 26 degrees Pisces, Pluto 1 degree Aquarius, and Uranus 19 degrees Taurus.

If you’re following the Sabian Symbols for those placements, then you’ll see that:

Pluto represents the “Old Adobe Mission” If you read Garrison’s book then you know the importance of the pueblo or the old adobe mission.

Neptune represents the realization of faith and the Soul’s freedom to choose

Uranus represents the Awakening

The current alignment of the outer planets is just now starting to point at ascension. In addition to that I just saw this:

The picture above is a still shot from the YouTube Short video I made in 2019 or 2020 to advertise my new book. Look in the upper left hand corner.

“Gone With the Wind” just like it says on page 211 in Garrison’s Book.

I sit here every day, when I’m not working, and I wonder why I haven’t accumulated any money. I even wrote an article on here about how it seems like I find myself in poverty every 12 years. How can that be? I’ve written three books, I’ve been running my own website, which is monetized for six years, I work, I have a college degree, and on and on…

How am I poor? Why am I poor? In my relentless pursuit of the almighty dollar, I turned to Garrison’s book once again and that’s when I saw on page 210:

Perhaps, I’ve been fighting against this natural flow of life. Maybe, there’s something I need to accomplish before I can start making money. Right here, in the Weiser Field Guide to Ascension, it says that at this time, knowing who we are is more important than making money.

Maybe, for me personally, my inability to make money is the result of me fighting against the natural flow of life. You cannot walk without crawling first.

There are levels and steps to everything, and how ironic is it that according to the astrological birth chart, the first house is the House of Self, and the second House is the House of Money and Possessions.

With Easter coming up at the end of this month, the alignment of the outer planets, the new discoveries I’ve made in Garrison’s book, and everything else I’ve seen, heard, and experienced, I’m recognizing that the time is now.

So, where do we go from here?

Part of Fortune Placement

In an astrological chart, the Part of Fortune, a little symbol that looks like a circle with a cross in the center, could show a position of worldly success. It’s a place of luck that involves the physical body and one’s health.

The Part of Fortune is not a planet, it’s a mathematical point that requires the degrees of your Sun, Moon, and Rising Sign. Yesterday morning, at 10:47 AM, the Part of Fortune was located near the top of the chart in the 10th House on the 17th degree of Pisces. The Sabian Symbol there reads: Pisces 17 “An Easter Promenade”.

The first thing worth mentioning is that Easter is coming up on the 31st of this month, and Easter, which in Greek is called Pascha, is the feast to celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord.

A resurrection, a fresh start, a rebirth, and a new beginning is what we have to look forward to. The Sabian for Pisces 17 talks about how humans dress up and attend certain functions in society, church being one of them.

The deeper meaning of this symbol goes beyond our need to dress up in our “Sunday Best” for attention because the image we present to the world characterizes our inner and hidden sense of self.

According to the description of Pisces 17 on https://www.jamesburgess.com/an-easter-promenade.html,

we, in a way, idealize ourselves by dressing up, and by doing so, we gain insight into the ideal. That brings us to the most important part of this:

Unless our society allows us to celebrate ourselves as we choose to be, it is not our society. We need our idealised self-image accepted or we cannot realise it.

Variety and extremes of self-exhibition can often lack grace, even to the point of being ridiculous, yet they test our social environment, so they have genuine value. If we find that our Easter persona doesn’t fit – then maybe our workaday personality doesn’t either, and we need to find a better place, or way, to be.

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If our idealized self-image isn’t accepted, we cannot realize it (Self-Realization). If your society doesn’t allow you to celebrate yourself as you chose to be, then it’s not your society.

Okay, then, at this point we must consider changing something. Maybe we need to move to a different place that does accept the idealized self-image we have of ourselves.

The importance of this placement falls in line with Easter Sunday and the opportunity for rebirth or a fresh start. Unbelievable Synchronicity!

For a deeper understanding of the POF’s placement in Pisces on the 17th degree, we look to the placement of Neptune, the ruler of Pisces. Neptune is also in Pisces on the 26th degree, but in the 11th House, not the 10th.

The 11th House deals with our future, the friendships we have, and the groups and organizations we may interact with. Through the placement of Neptune, we learn from our higher selves, that this is really about the realization of faith.

Pisces 26, which is where Neptune was yesterday, talks about the freedom of choice. The freedom of choice is what we need if we want to make the necessary changes according to Pisces 17.

If you want the freedom of choice, you have to allow others to have the same-thing, the freedom to chose. At the Soul level, we’re actively creating our lives and our futures, even though a lot of people don’t realize this. If our human soul is creating our future, the it needs to have the freedom to chose what comes next.

Are you pissed off? Feeling stuck?

Feeling like you’re in a rut?

Feeling like you’re stuck in a repeating cycle of events?

Pisces 17 is spiritual, and too much conformity to the extent of robbing the soul of its freedom to chose, will crush the spiritual side of humans.

Free your soul, rebirth is right around the corner.

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25 Degrees Sagittarius

February 19, 2024 at 7:40 AM

The Sabian Symbol for the 25th degree of Sagittarius, “A Chubby Boy on a Hobby Horse,” is described as using your imagination to build an ideal life. According to, jamesburgess.com, if we want to be powerful and successful then we need to imagine it and expect it first.

Two years before I graduated high school, I painted a picture of myself in an orange and black football uniform with the number 44. The colors of my high school football team were dark blue and light blue, and at the time, I didn’t have a clue if or where I would be playing when high school was over.

Two years later, when it was all said and done, I was recruited by the William Paterson University Pioneers in New Jersey. Someone had already grabbed the jersey number 44, but their colors were orange and black. I played the next four years at William Paterson.

Interestingly enough, Neptune, in my natal chart was close, off by only two degrees, but this morning at 7:40 AM, the Mc was on the 25th degree of Sagittarius.

The Midheaven, which is also the 10th House cusp, represents the highest part of the chart. The door is open if you would like to manifest a future for yourself through the use of imagination.

Opposite the Mc, is this interesting conjunction between the asteroid Goddess, Astraea, and the Moon. What’s playing into your current stirring of inner emotions and the subconscious has to do with balance, justice, and harmony.

The Moon in Cancer on the 4th degree in the 4th house symbolizes protection. Astraea on the 29th degree of Gemini in the 4th House symbolizes our need to communicate- our need to verbalize our thoughts and get our opinions and view points out there. It’s communication in relation to justice to protect ourselves, what familiar to us, our neighborhoods, and our home.

Astraea’s conjunction with the moon forms a quincunx with Pluto on the 0 degree of Aquarius in the 11th House. This will bring hidden or secretive knowledge to you, and there could be health issues involved.

Whatever you need to get out or communicate, please do so. Don’t hold back, because you’re defending yourself or proving your case.

Now, there’s a tradeoff with this conjunction, and that plays into our favor because with Astraea present, there’s only so much we can do, and there’s only so far we can go.

The tradeoff is the opposition to the Mc. If you’ve done all you could and said all you could say, but you’re still getting no where, then it’s time to flip to the other side of the opposition and trade Astraea’s conjunction with the Moon for the 25th degree of Sagittarius and imagine something better for yourself.

I Caught Me an Internet Thief This Morning!

I’m a man of my word!

I told you guys in my poem, Purification, “I’m up late and stay awake to catch these dirty snakes. “I’m up late and stay awake to catch these dirty snakes.”

The poem, well, you can find that if you scroll to the bottom of the homepage, use the drop down menu titled categories, and then click on poetry, but it wasn’t the poem that was stolen and used without express written permission.

It was a video that I made and posted to the Nooz Buffet Facebook Page in September of 2023. I proposed a question about the Sun and Moon occupying the same sky, and then I made a video to show what I was talking about.

Here’s the link to my video, posted, 9/3/2023.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/129397160248816

I’m not going to publicize the thief, because my complaining seems to be making him famous.

But what I can tell you is this; he copied my video exactly as I made it in 2023, showing the sun first, then zooming in on the moon. There was no audio, but the video was an exact copy.

This scumbag didn’t even reference me!

I guess he thought if he stole my video idea from my NB Facebook Page, and then post it to his Twitter account, then no one would notice.

I noticed! IT’S MY MATERIAL!


PLEASE, If You Found My WALLET..

February 17, 2024

Oh my gosh, I opened my curtains this morning, and it was snowing again. It’s our second snow storm in just four days. On top of that, and all the hassles that come along with snow in general, I lost my wallet.

I couldn’t believe it, and I had some sensitive information in my wallet; license, social security card, debit card, etc. Oh, man. Not good. I’m hoping that there are still some good honest people in the world. Maybe whoever found it could drop it in my mailbox, mail it to me, or bring it to the Dollar Tree on the corner of Tilghman Street and Cedar Crest.

And then, if the loss of my wallet and the snow storms weren’t enough to throw a wrench into my plans, last night I started getting dizzy. I had a temperature of 102 degrees, and I was forced to call out of work this morning.

Such is life…lol…

I don’t want to laugh, but sometimes, when things get so bad, all you can do is laugh.