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Category / Navigating Modernity
June 19, 2019 June 20, 2019 by Jayant Kalawar
To be human is to be….A view from the Devi Lens
Chakras, Divya Shaktis, LalitAmbA, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity
Cellular, Coaching, Endocrine, Gene Expression, Memes, Mentoring, Modernity, Sadhana, Theater, Upasana
WIth the Devi's Blessings. Cover art by Jayant Kalawar 2018.
By Jayant Kalawar
When I wrote the essay Outsider Deconstructing European Enlightenment it was a way of describing what it means to be human, by telling a story of how some humans have done things with each other and with nature around them. Many of us call such descriptions history.
So these humans I describe have a quite a bit of potential to act in different ways. However, much of it has not been switched on (yet). Most of these humans seem to be very good at utilizing some of their potential, for example: to survive, reproduce, acquire material things and consume them.
That leaves out the potential for courage to be compassionate, to connect with all species on Earth and the Earth itself and to explore and connect with cosmic spiritual vibrations. Such potentials, in most humans, remain untapped. In my essay I talk about how each of these seven potentials (yes, if you go back and count you will see there are seven) are channeled through seven chakrAs. which I posit makes for being human, when you see humans through the Devi Lens (all that in the essay).
What switches on these potentials? The culture you live in and how you are nurtured plays a big role in throwing these switches on and off. It's this cultural driver that I focus on in my Outsider essay, to show how it switches on some of our potentials and lets others remain dormant.
In current usage in our digital world, we all live in now, I think it is better to call this driver memetic complex, rather than culture. New memes are produced and old ones are morphed or die every day now in this relatively new digital age. So unlike the past, we have a real chance to develop many memetic complexes (is that the right plural? – but you get the point) that may switch on the entire range of potentials in humans.
I think there are two more drivers for switching on potentials in humans.
One of those drivers I think is the natural environment we interact with, including through breathing, consuming and generally our physical living conditions. I want to explore how this driver actually works within us at the cellular level, through gene expressions and protein pathways. I have barely begun learning about this. But at the moment, my sankalpA is to write my next essay on how natural environment and genetics drive the switching of human potentials on and off. It took me about 3 years to write and self-publish the Outsider essay, after almost 15 years of reading and research (not knowing where it would take me, if at all). So, I have no sense of what may emerge and when that may end up being an essay about this cellular / endocrine driver and how it is tied to the chakrAs. But the general broad intention is present.
The other driver is personal practices, sAdhanA leading to upAsanA. You will notice I am not translating when I drop Sanskrit words into what I write here. It is easy to find meanings with Google search these days. If you are really interested you will do so and in the process perhaps get more and more comfortable with living in a global memetic complex! That one is so personal that I am not sure it could even be an essay. Perhaps a short memoir, some distant time in the future, when some sense emerges that there is something worthwhile to share.
Notice the use of emerging. Rather than aspiring.
If you do download and read my Outsider essay on Kindle, I hope you write and post your comment here. Especially how it made you think differently about what it is to be human and how we go about doing things in this world.
May 19, 2019 May 28, 2019 by Jayant Kalawar
An Outsider Deconstructing European Enlightenment
Chakras, Divya Shaktis, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity, Upanishads, World History
Advaita Vedanta, Being Different, Kashmir Shaivism, Memes, memetic complex, quantum biophysics, Refactoring, Shakti, spandana, Sri Vidya
I recently published this essay on Amazon Kindle. Here is a brief summary:
From an outsider's perspective, European Enlightenment was a brilliant social innovation, which emerged in the 17th century, as a response to the brutally destructive intra-religious wars in Europe. It led to the formation of national governments, financial markets and rapid growth of a certain kind of science and technology. However by the 21st century, that innovation, through its runaway success, has had unintended global consequences of ecocide, fratricide and suicide, particularly impacting those outside of the European sphere. This 60 page essay takes you briefly through the 3000 year history of monotheism in the West, before focusing on the 17th century and the path that has led to the current global systemic crises. The outsider, using the framework of his Devi traditions, offers a compass of hope, to navigate out of the global dystopian scenario charted by European Enlightenment, towards compassion, connection and immersion.
There are quite a few pages open to browse here:
You may decide to download after browsing.
I am opening this page to comments and discussions. The comments posted on this page so far are quite insightful. You may want to browse through them as well. And please consider posting your comment here as well.
February 15, 2019 by Jayant Kalawar
Responding to Kashmir Terror of February 14th 2019: Vedic Astrology Perspective
21BanyanTree Jyotisha, Astrology, Country Forecasts Using Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrolog, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity
Indian, Sun
ॐ श्री मात्रे नमः (Photo by Soumik Dey on Unsplash)
The terrorist attack in Kashmir on February 14th 2019 appears to have led to deep and widespread angst in India. One of the questions being asked is whether and when India may strike back with a military operation, as a response to the terror attack.
Here is my assessment in that context, based on Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrology[1].
India Independence chart (August 15th 1947 12 am Delhi, India) is going through Jupiter (8th L) Bhukti currently. Transit Jupiter was at 25:59 on Jan 14th, afflicting within 2 deg with 9th aspect of natal Sun at 27:59 in Cancer, when the terror attack took place. Sun rules 4th house of domestic and communal harmony in the India Indep chart. natal Sun by the 8th L Jupiter gives death like experiences in domestic arena. This affliction will peak on Feb 27th, implying need for more caution for domestic events which may result in death like experiences, whether man made or natural, in the next 10 days. Let us hope no further violent loss of life is experienced.
Tr 6th L Venus transiting 8th H of obstructions and death will directly afflict Tr 10th L Saturn Feb 16th-18th, indicating potential for increased impact on emotional and physical well-being of the masses of people during those days.
Is there potential of a military response from India to the terrorist attack on February 14th? Tr 12th L in Mars is currently strong as it is transiting in its home base Aries and will be directly aspecting most effective points in 12th, 6th and 7th houses for the next 5 days. This indicates potential for military operations between now (Feb 15th) and Feb 20th. Operations launched within this date range from a distance from home base (12th H) e.g. air or sea borne may be carried out in a distant land (7th H) and have the potential for success in conflict situations (6th H).
Let us see what transpires.
[1] For more information in Systems Approach to Mundane Astrology go to http://yournetastrologer.com/mundane_astrology.htm
January 14, 2019 January 15, 2019 by Jayant Kalawar
India: Some Risk Signs Flashing
21BanyanTree Jyotisha, Country Forecasts Using Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrolog, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity
India Forex Reserves, India May 2019 General Election, Systems Approach to Mundance Vedic Astrology
NOT RECOMMENDED AT THIS TIME (Photo by Jeremy Dorrough on Unsplash)
A few weeks ago I had pointed out in an article here that India could be headed for an anti-incumbency wave in a May 2019 election. There were two suggestions made at the end of that Vedic Astrology[1] based analysis on how to manage such a potential wave: one was to ease the GST burden on small businesses and the other was to provide relief for all the micro businesses and individuals in the unorganized sector who got really badly hit by the demonetization.
The government of India moved last week to exempt many small businesses from GST. That would be a welcome step for many.
Now to wait and see whether the government will put on the Chaiwaalaa hat to understand how the micro unorganized sector was hurt by demonetization. They are the ones who will come out to vote in numbers and that may feel like a big wave indeed.
Meanwhile, Tr 8th L Jupiter is at 20 deg Scorpio now. It is afflicting natal 10th L Saturn and natal 6th L Venus. The next few weeks may be tough as Tr 6th L Venus conjuncts with Tr Jupiter in Scorpio and Tr Mars comes into the 5th aspect affliction of Tr Jupiter. There may be financial impact in general and especially on FX reserves position. FX reserves have stabilized in the $395 bill range after reaching a high of $425 bill in early 2018. This may see some downward pressure in the next few weeks. The USD INR rate had improved as Tr Ju was relatively out of affliction / afflicting zones in the last few weeks. It has now begun slipping back into the 70s range.
[1] I follow the Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrology as propounded by the Late Professor V.K. Choudhry. See http://yournetastrologer.com/mundane_astrology.htm
Flourishing Through the Rough Terrain of 2019: A Vedic Astrology Perspective
Lunar Eclipse, Meditation
The Devi Waiting For Her Children To Come Back Home (c) Jayant Kalawar 2019
Aum Sri MAtre NamahA
The planetary patterns for 2019 beginning March and especially in the May – October 2019 period are quite rough.
Many of us have encountered such rough terrains before in our lives. Those of us who connect with their IshTa DevatA on a daily basis know that this connection gives them more chances to flourish through these rough terrains.
In a September 2018 article on my website, Calm Before the Storm, I had made the specific prediction that the November 6th 2018 mid-term election in USA may likely weaken the ability of the current president of the USA to provide leadership and implement his agenda and that it may likely translate into a sense of political weakness in the USA:
All this points to chances that the November 6th mid-term elections in USA may end up giving a weak result for the current US president.
On January 10th 2019 when the newly elected US Congress convenes the Rahu-Ketu field will be at its peak intensity. The result of the mid-term elections will likely be amplified and may likely begin impacting the ability of the current US president to carry out strong positive leadership actions in 2019.
So by end of January 2019 we may have a sense of how 2019 may likely unfold. Any sense of political weakness in the USA may translate into financial and economic weakness not only in the USA but throughout the globe.
As I write in this on January 11th 2019, these predictions are being borne out. The Democrats have taken over the House of Representatives with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. President Trump has shut down parts of the United States government, in response to the US Congress not funding his agenda. While still early in January, this situation already signals political weakness in the US. Planetary patterns are pointing to the period between January 11th and 23rd as likely to be most vulnerable to misunderstandings and disputes between and among political parties in the US. So by the last week of January we may be better able to assess how well positioned USA is to respond to the disturbances that emerging planetary patterns are signaling for later in 2019.
The first signs of potential for physical and economic distress are likely to emerge from March 22nd on wards and become somewhat intensive after April 8th. The most intense period distress is likely to be between mid-May and mid-October 2019, with peak in July 2019. The source of the disturbances may be a combination of natural and man made triggers and likely impact both economic and physical areas of life.
Each of us may experience disturbances in different areas of life
The planetary patterns also give us indications of how they may impact each of us differently, within a range of possibilities. Approximately 15% of people may directly experience such impacts. That is about 1 in 6 of us. The rest of us will likely have one or more people in our family and friends circle going through some direct experience of distress and many of us may choose to step in to help them through their situations.
Here are likely high stress area for each of the ascendant signs between about mid-May to mid-October 2019:
Aries: Income, especially investment or rental income, may be stressed, which may have secondary impact on father figures, advanced studies and ability to travel long distance for business purposes.
Taurus: Career and social status areas may be stressed and that may impact intimate relationships.
Gemini: Health of father, performance in graduate or specialized studies and long distance business travel may be stressed and that may impact personal and business partnerships.
Cancer: Conjugal relationship may be stressed and that may give rise to disputes and trigger emotional and physical health issues.
Leo: Emotional and physical health of personal and business partners may be stressed and that may in turn stress children and creative activities.
Virgo: Work place stress and stress on physical and emotional health may have secondary impact on home life and mother.
Libra: Children and creative activities may be stressed and show up as impact on your initiatives, ventures and in the way you communicate.
Scorpio: Home life and mother's emotional and physical health may be stressed and this may impact overall family well-being.
Sagittarius: New initiatives, ventures, younger siblings / colleagues, ability to communicate may be impacted and in turn result in stress on personal emotional and physical health.
Capricorn: Over all family well-being may be stressed and result in losses and separations.
Aquarius: Emotional and physical health may be stressed, resulting in losses in income and relationship with mentors.
Pisces: There may be losses and separations, which may in turn impact career and social status.
How to manage this potentially rough terrain and flourish
If you have reached this part of this article, I am assuming you have experienced the power of observing patterns presented by planetary configurations using Vedic Astrology and also know about the power of connecting with your IshTa DevatA.
For those who connect with their Ishta Devata on a daily basis, there may be a unique date and time on January 20th – 21st to connect and meditate, to seek guidance on how to navigate through this rough terrain. There will be a relatively long lunar eclipse between 9:36 pm on Sunday January 20th to 2:48 am Monday January 21st (New York time zone). The total eclipse is from 11:41 pm to 12:43 am. Sitting in a meditative pose and silently chanting your IshtA DevatA mantra from about 10:30 pm to 1:45 am may give you a channel to strengthen your connection with the DevetA to ask for blessings for yourself and your family, friends and community to help go through the rough planetary terrain forming between late March and late October of 2019.
Please note: I follow Systems Approach to Vedic Astrology propounded by the Late Professor V.K. Choudhry (www.yournetastrologer.com). In this article, I have used chart for USA developed using Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrology (see http://yournetastrologer.com/mundane_astrology.htm ). I also follow the work done by Cosmologer, who discovered the SAMVA USA chart in 2006 with the help of J.T.W. Battalana. He developed the chart based on extensive historical research and predictions for over a decade based on the Systems' Approach and with guidance from the late Professor Choudhry (see http://cosmologer.blogspot.com/2007/12/samva-usa-chart.html )
December 29, 2018 December 29, 2018 by Jayant Kalawar
60 Years of Indian Political History to May 2019 General Elections: A Vedic Astrology Perspective
Astrology, Country Forecasts Using Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrolog, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity
Anti Incumbency, BJP, Congress, Systems Approachto Mundane Vedic Astrology
The state assembly elections in India in November – December 2018 returned an anti-incumbency verdict, with BJP losing in Rajashthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. The question came up whether this anti-incumbency momentum would be repeated in the May 2019 General Election.
So I took up my lens from Systems Approach to Vedic Astrology (SAMVA)[i] and began investigating using India's Independence Chart (using 7:43 deg Taurus rising chart for 12 am August 15th 1947, Delhi).
I noticed that the current cycle of elections were occurring in the Jupiter Bhukti period (August 15th 2018 – December 15th 2019), which was preceded by Rahu Bhukti period (Feb 13th 2017 – August 15th 2018). So I set out investigating whether during similar Rahu Bhukti – Jupiter Bhukti periods there were anti-incumbent waves. Here are my notes from my investigation of the political events in India corresponding to five data points of Rahu Bhukti – Jupiter Bhukti periods since 1960:
1960-1965: India-China Border dispute escalated after India gives Dalai Lama asylum and India began its forward policy of having army posts along the Chinese border. In 1963 the Congress lost popularity following the defeat in the Indo-Chinese war of 1962.To revitalize the party, Kamraj proposed the Kamaraj Plan to Nehru that encouraged six Congress chief ministers (including himself) and six senior cabinet ministers to resign to take up party work.
1975-1980: Emergency Rule by Indira Gandhi and a highly unpopular family planning initiative by Sanjay Gandhi from June 25th 1975 to March 21st 1977. In the General Elections that followed, Congress Party and Indira Gandhi defeated, including losing her own seat.
1985- 1987: Congress Party with Rajiv Gandhi had a super majority of 411 out of 542 seats in Lok Sabha from the 1984 December general election. He proceeded to dilute the Shah Bano verdict by the Supreme Court of India giving Muslim women rights in divorce proceedings. This led to accusation of minority appeasement. In July 1987 Rajiv Gandhi's party lost in assembly elections in Haryana in a humiliating manner, which came as a shock.
1996-2002: This period saw BJP coming to power at the Center for the first time, with A.B. Vajpayee as Prime Minister, winning enough seats in the 1999 General Election to rule through coalitions, which were unstable and caused uncertainty. Subsequently in mid-May 2001 BJP lost in 5 key state elections.
2010-2012: 2G Spectrum scandal and many other scandals became a central issue against the UPA government. In the March 2012 state elections Congress lost in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa.
Pattern Observed with the 5 data points above: Actions by a ruling party in a Rahu Bhukti period leads to anti-incumbency wave in the immediately following Jupiter Bhukti period.
Prediction for May 2019 General Election based on Observed Pattern:
The current ruling party (BJP) implemented two programs during the Rahu Bhukti period of February 13th 2017 to August 15th 2018: Demonetisation and GST. These may have impacted the masses in a negative way, generating an anti-incumbency wave. The effect of this wave may be expected in the subsequent Jupiter Bhukti period of August 15th 2018 to December 15th 2019. The initial impact of the current anti-incumbency wave is already seen in the losses in the state elections in November-December 2018. It is likely that the anti-incumbency wave will continue resulting in BJP losing its majority position in the Lok Sabha elections in May 2019. There is likely to be instability at the Center up to December 2019, perhaps due to coalition politics.
For those more adept in Vedic Astrology and interested in Indian political history of the last 60 years, I provide details below of my findings and analysis of 60 years of Indian political history, focused on specific Rahu-Jupiter Bhukti periods.
I begin with the first Rahu+Jupiter Bhukti period in the India Independence Chart in April 1960.
10th L Saturn Major Period Establishing Foundations for the Masses Ends in Loss of Standing in conflict with Neighbors (natal Saturn in 3rd, directly afflicted by 6th L Venus)
Rahu Sub-period 4/26/1960 – 3/3/1963 India-China Border dispute begins to escalate after India gives Dalai Lama asylum and begins forward policy of having army posts along the Chinese border.
The Sino-Indian War (Hindi: भारत-चीन युद्ध Bhārat-Chīn Yuddh), also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict (simplified Chinese: 中印边境战争; traditional Chinese: 中印邊境戰爭; pinyin: Zhōng-Yìn Biānjìng Zhànzhēng), was a war between China and India that occurred in 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main pretext for war, but other issues played a role. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. India initiated a Forward Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of the Line of Actual Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1959.
Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3,225-kilometre-long Himalayan border,[11] the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chinese troops advanced over Indian forces in both theatres, capturing Rezang La in Chushul in the western theatre, as well as Tawang in the eastern theatre. The war ended when China declared a ceasefire on 20 November 1962, and simultaneously announced its withdrawal to its claimed 'line of actual control'.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
Jupiter Sub: 3.3.63 – 9/14/65: Nehru era of establishing Indian Constitution (1950) and Indian States (1956) ends with Nehru's death May 20th 1964. Indian National Congress begins to split into factions.
In 1964, Nehru died because of an aortic dissection, raising questions about the party's future.[63][64][65]
Kamaraj became the president of the All India Congress Committee in 1963 during the last year of Nehru's life.[66] Prior to that, he had been the chief minister of Madras state for nine years.[67] Kamraj had also been a member of "the syndicate", a group of right wing leaders within Congress. In 1963 the Congress lost popularity following the defeat in the Indo-Chinese war of 1962.To revitalize the party, Kamraj proposed the Kamaraj Plan to Nehru that encouraged six Congress chief ministers (including himself) and six senior cabinet ministers to resign to take up party work.[68][69][70] After Nehru's death in May 1964, Kamaraj was widely credited as the "kingmaker" in Indian politics for ensuring the victory of Lal Bahadur Shastri over Morarji Desai as the successor of Nehru.[71]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress
The split in Congress Party under Kamaraj Plan, in this Jupiter sub-period, began the move towards the ascendancy of Indira Gandhi in 1966. The incumbent Congress (Organization) led by Morarji Desai was effectively voted out.
1975-1980 Rahu+Jupiter Bhukti Period
This one occurred in 5th L Mercury Dasha Period Relating To Children Ends in Reaction to Anti-Children Actions (forced sterilizations as means to family planning, also general signification of Mercury, open communication )
Rahu Sub-period 3/13/75 – 9/29/77: Emergency Rule by Indira Gandhi and a highly unpopular family planning initiative by Sanjay Gandhi from June 25th 1975 to March 21st 1977.
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=india+emergency&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1
How did the Emergency get mixed up with sterilization?
Indira Gandhi's 20-Point Programme did not say a word about family planning. But Sanjay Gandhi's Four-Point Programme not only had family planning as the first point but it became the only point which was ruthlessly implemented on a national scale. In Sanjay's vocabulary, family planning meant only one method – sterilization.
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/guest-column/story/19780215-how-did-the-emergency-get-mixed-up-with-sterilization-822855-2014-11-07
Jupiter Sub-period 9/29/77 – 1/5/1980: Congress Party and Indira Gandhi defeated, including losing her own seat.
The structural factors allowed voters to express their grievances, notably their resentment of the emergency and its authoritarian and repressive policies. One grievance often mentioned was the 'Nasbandi' (vasectomy) campaign in rural areas. The middle class also emphasised on the curbing of freedom of speech throughout the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Indian_general_election
This occurred during Ketu Dasha Period of Loss and Transformation: Loss of Congress Party standing as the only National Party, Emergence of BJP claiming to represent traditional religious and spiritual interests
Rahu Sub-period 8/14/85 – 9/2/86: Rajiv Gandhi, with a super majority if 411 out of 542 seats in Lok Sabha from the 1984 December general election, proceeded to dilute the Shah Bano verdict by the Supreme Court of India giving Muslim women rights in divorce proceedings. This led to accusation of minority appeasement. Many say this was the turning point for beginning of rise of BJP as a National political party.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Gandhi
Jupiter Sub-period 9/2/86 – 8/9/87: In July 1987 Rajiv Gandhi's party lost in assembly elections in Haryana in a humiliating manner, which came as a shock.
Haryana elections: Congress(I) humiliated, Devi Lal's Lok Dal(B) wins
This simple act symbolised not only the ideological change that had swept Haryana, but also the dramatic reversal in the fortunes of the Congress(I) which, like its leaders' photographs, had been dumped unceremoniously, by the voters of the northern state. It was the hardest knock yet for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, weakened as he is by scandals of kickbacks from defence deals.
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19870715-haryana-elections-congressi-humiliated-devi-lal-lok-dalb-wins-799052-1987-07-15
This occurred during 6th L Venus Dasha Period Time of Conflicts, Disputes and hence Instability with Multiple Coalition Governments
Rahu Sub-period 11/13/96 – 11/14/1999: Congress was in power through a coalition government. It attempted to control the government by withdrawing support for one Prime Minister (Deve Gowda) and having another (I.K. Gujral) in his place. Led to unstable governance and a mid-term general election was called in December 1997.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_in_India
New Lok Sabha elected in 1998 makes for a first time BJP led coalition led by A.B. Vajpayee. It is also unstable and lasts only 13 months. Another General Election is called for on April 26th 1999.
General Election of September 1999 led to another BJP led coalition with A.B. Vajpayee as its PM, forming government.
Jupiter Sub-period 11/14/99 – 7/15/2002: Mid-May 2001 BJP loses in 5 key state elections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_in_India
2010-2012 Rahu+Bhukti Period
This occurred during 4th L Sun Dasha Period of Domestic Telecommunication Innovation Projects (natal Sun in 3rd, well placed, old in degrees) with Progress Marred by Scams
Rahu Sub: 11/8/2010 – 10/3/2011: 2G Spectrum scandal and many other scandals became a central issue against the UPA government.
According to some analysts,[8] many corruption scandals including the 2G spectrum case, the coal mining scam, Adarsh Housing Society scam and the Commonwealth Games scam were major factors behind the Indian National Congress-led UPA government's massive defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. The severity of the corruption charges led to a loss of trust between Congress and the party.[9][10] Time magazine listed the India's Telecoms Scandal as one of the Top 10 abuses of power.[11]
Jupiter Sub-period: 10/3/2011 – 7/21/2012: March 2012 elections Congress loses in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa.
This is currently (at time of writing) occurring in the 3rd L Moon Dasha Period of New Reform Initiatives (natal Moon well placed, weak in infancy) Badly Implemented
Rahu Sub-period 2/13/2017-8/15/2018: Demonetisation, though it was introduced in November, prior to February 2017, may have played a role in people in the non-organized sectors (some say there are up to 80% of the population) who operate in a cash economy, both in rural and urban India, in disenchanting and distancing them from the incumbent Government. If this aspect of how people who live day to day operating in cash economy is true, then their reaction may be similar to the 1977 reaction of people to forced sterilization.
Also, the GST implementation (July 2017) may have impacted small business and traders due to complexity of formulae as well as tardiness of implementation (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods_and_Services_Tax_(India)#Criticism )
Jupiter Sub-period 8/15/2018 – 12/15/2019: Incumbent BJP lost in 3 major state elections (Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh) in November – December 2018. At the time of this writing, the trend appears to be that BJP may be in a weaker position coming out of the 2019 May General Elections.
Based on the analysis in this post, one may come up with an actionable finding for the ruling party, such as:
How to make up for the pain that voters may see as having come directly from the Government due to demonetization and GST implementation? That is question that may be keeping leaders and strategists for the incumbent government awake now (if not, perhaps that is what they may want to focus on and worry about?). If they can crack that question, the incumbents may still have a chance in the upcoming general election in May 2019?
[i] I follow the Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrology as propounded by the Late Professor V.K. Choudhry. See http://yournetastrologer.com/mundane_astrology.htm
October 25, 2018 October 25, 2018 by Jayant Kalawar
Enjoying Aloneness, How it is not Loneliness: A Contemplation
Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity, Upanishads
Alone, Contemplation, Lonely, Meditation
Aum Sri Matre NamahA Thillai Nataraja temple, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu [photo by Santu Brahma] source: tweet by Keerthik Sasidharan @KS1729 on October 1st 2018.
Aloneness happens when there is no dependence.
No dependence on possessing things.
No dependence on having any relationships.
No dependence on having any obligations to family, friends, community or society.
No dependence on any give and take transactions.
Loneliness happens when there is dependence on any of those things and one is deprived of them.
Dependence followed by deprivation causes loneliness.
Dependence on owning a car or home takes away from the capacity to be alone. One may own a car or home and yet not be dependent.
Dependence comes from an attachment to a particular object, whether the car or home.
Moving from owning a car today to not owning one tomorrow, in an equanimous way, requires considerable Aloneness capacity.
Aloneness can be cultivated to some extent.
But to have deep and stable Aloneness capacity requires a cognitive shift.
Cognitive shift of how you view yourself, how you view the space and time world around you.
Materialist view of yourself and the world leads to dependency. Dependency on the material.
Materialists cannot be alone.
Religious view of yourself and the world leads to dependency. Dependency on the material and God.
Religious people cannot be alone.
The languages that we use today have emerged from and constrained by materialist and religious views of the world.
The world of the Aloneness cannot be described in the languages we use today.
It can only be contemplated, along the way to disabling our dependencies.
It can only be contemplated as we are enabling the cognitive shift to Aloneness.
To sustain oneself on this path we need the blessings of the Devi. Aum Sri Matre NamahA.
This contemplative note is based on my interpretation of a discourse on certain verses of The Naishkarmya Siddhi of SureshvarA by Swami Shantananda of Chinmaya Vrindavan, Cranbury, NJ on October 25th 2018.
Remembering / Forgetting
Divya Shaktis, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity, Poem, Poetry
Kali Durge Namo NamahA, Poetry, Success
Aum Matre NamahA The Devi waiting for Her children (c) Jayant Kalawar 2019
Our goal in life
To be successful
Be in the right place
At the right time
Think the right things and
Perform the right way for
Single pointed acquisition and consumption.
First acquire and consume space:
Clear forests, drive out the locals.
Then set clocks to coordinate and
Slowly bleed cultural time,
the rhythms of natural life,
the rituals of learning
wisdom.
Then content: How to and how not to think. The Scientific. The Rational. The Logical.
Snuff out imagination
and practice
and learning by doing.
Finally, imprison
Art in Cubes
Architecture in Glass
Urban Design in Squares
Maps with Borders
And Walls.
Our Self
In the Vibrant Cosmos.
She is waiting
September 13, 2018 by Jayant Kalawar
A Remembering, A SmaRaNA of Shri GaneshA September 12th-13th 2018
Chakras, Divya Shaktis, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity
Coaching, Meditation, Mentoring
Aum Shri GaNeshAya NamahA, Celebrating the Divya PurushA, evening of September 12th 2018, ChinmayA Mission, Cranbury, New Jersey (photo by jayant kalawar)
He is the master of GaNas, categories.
We categorize the cosmos, slice and dice it.
So our limited cognitive ability can digest
What the senses deliver to us.
Our categories become our obstacles.
What they exclude makes for our ignorance, Avidya.
He removes these obstacles that make us ignorant, Vigna-hArA.
He is Buddhi-dAtA.
He blesses the SAdhakA,
Who strives to explore beyond ignorance,
With intellect, Buddhi.
He is Moksha-dAtA.
He shows the path to MokshA
To the SAdhakA who uses his intellect
To explore beyond the sensory world.
He is with us always.
We forget to remember
And connect with Him
So that He can guide us.
Aum Shri GaneshAya NamahA.
Above is a paraphrased summary of my interpretation of a short talk by Swami ShantAnandA at Chinmaya Mission, Cranbury, NJ on the evening of September 12th 20h18.
August 31, 2018 September 1, 2018 by Jayant Kalawar
September 2018: The Calm before the Storm?
21BanyanTree Jyotisha, Advaita Vedanta, Astrology, Country Forecasts Using Systems Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrolog, Divya Shaktis, Life Coaching For Material and Spiritual Abundance, Navigating Modernity
Career, Coaching, Desires, Eclipse, Horoscope, Mercury, Venus
Summary: the level of intensity of the putative physical and economic storms in 2019, with felt impacts into early 2020, is likely to be signaled in political events and directions in the USA in the first half of November 2018 and then in January 2019.
The storms of 2019 may impact up to 10 to 15% of people across the globe in some mix of physical and economic outcomes in a very low to high range. There are no cookie cutter solutions to identify who is more likely to be impacted and how much and what to do about it. Assessment of individual horoscopes can help in this regard. Those who do consistent sAdhanA and connect with the Devi are likely to have less impact.
The grahAs will be showering their blessings upon us this September.
Venus will be transiting into its home base Libra on September 2nd and staying there until end of the year. Venus will promote a sense of material well-being and harmony, after a month being farthest away from Earth, hence weak.
Mercury will end its long sojourn of the last few months in Cancer and transit into Leo on September 2nd and then into its home base of Virgo on September 19th. Mercury then joins Venus on October 6th and moves into Scorpio on October 27th. Mercury may not cause much volatility between now and October 27th (except a brief few days September 22nd to 25th, when it comes under passing influence of Rahu-Ketu field), and thus helping better communications and analysis, further adding to the harmony component of Venus.
Mars is strong and exalted in Capricorn between now and November 5th, providing a positive energy to those who are adept at channeling its energies constructively by connecting with Devi DurgA. There is an exception period when Mars energy may be quite disturbed (not as intense as the June-July / Early August time frame) as it once again crosses the much weakened Rahu-Ketu field, between September 19th and 30th. Disturbed Mars energy shows up as natural disasters on Earth, including wild fires and volcanic eruptions, military and police action and generally aggressive interactions and thoughts at personal level. But overall Mars will still provide positive energies especially to Devi sadhakAs.
Sun is in its home base of Leo until mid-September and then in Virgo until mid-October. Sun will bless those of us who seek to remember their IshTa DevatAs and chant the GAyatri mantrA.
Jupiter will be generally strong in Libra between now and October 11th. In turn it supports Saturn to be strong in Sagittarius during this time.
Rahu-Ketu axis is moving between now and December 5th. Its negative influence is weak at this time.
So you see the overall picture emerging: a mostly positive environment may be expected between now and October 11th.
So what made me headline this post Calm before the Storm?
Well, I see this to be most positive period before storm clouds begin to signal themselves, and the storm momentum builds up. Watch out for the signals during the following periods in the next year or so and make your own assessments (I may likely keep coming back to this in future posts opening up more details). The way to approach and develop a series of potential scenarios is to apply the intensity of the outcome from one event set as the starting point of amplification of the next time period. So here goes:
Jupiter will go through the influence of a weak Rahu-Ketu field from October 22nd to Nov 14th, with peak dissonance between November 1st and 14th. At the same time Mercury will go through the same field November 1st-2nd. And Mars will be weak as it ends its long transit in Capricorn on November 5th. This may likely cause volatility in political and financial arenas combined with unfocussed energy, especially in the USA. All this points to chances that the November 6th mid-term elections in USA may end up giving a weak result for the current US president.
The Rahu-Ketu field will be strong between December 5th 2018 and March 6th 2019. On January 10th 2019 when the newly elected US Congress convenes the Rahu-Ketu field will be at its peak intensity. The result of the mid-term elections will likely be amplified and may likely begin impacting the ability of the current US president to carry out strong positive leadership actions in 2019.
The Rahu-Ketu field will be positioned to have intense impact between May 20th 2019 and August 19th 2019 – this one has particular potential to trigger both natural disasters and war like situations between multiple nations around the globe. This in turn may have negative impact on health and economic situations of large populations.
Fall-out from the May-August 2019 events may likely be felt in physical and economic terms, almost like after-tremors across the world, from November 13th 2019 to February 2nd 2020.
To sum up: the level of intensity of the putative physical and economic storms in 2019, with felt impacts into early 2020, is likely to be signaled in political events and directions in the USA in the first half of November 2018 and then in January 2019.
I may cover topics of how to begin to prepare and position for 2019 in the next few months.
II Aum MAtre NamAhA II
I practice Systems Approach to Vedic Astrology as propounded by the late Professor V.K. Choudhry and now being carried forward by his son Shri K. Rajesh Chowdhary.


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Q: Recode catagorical variable as integers in Pandas I've asked this question for R but am now trying to do it in pandas. I'm trying to use pandas to recode a categorical variable to integers. Given:
group
 005j
 005j
 0k16
 0fff
 0fff

I'd like to get a series of increasing integers representing the same grouping:
group   intCode
 005j      1
 005j      1
 0k16      2
 0fff      3
 0fff      3

A: In [10]: df['intCode'] = pd.Categorical.from_array(df.group).labels

In [11]: df
Out[11]:
  group  intCode
0  005j        0
1  005j        0
2  0k16        2
3  0fff        1
4  0fff        1

A: Just providing an updated version of @herrfz's answer. Categorical.from_array and labels have been deprecated.
df['intCode'] = pd.Categorical(df.group).codes

worked for me running Python 3.6.9

A: You can get unique values
>>> df = pd.read_clipboard()
>>> groups = df['group'].unique()

Index them
>>> groups = pd.DataFrame(groups, columns=['group']).reset_index()

And merge back (adding 1 to start from 1 instead of 0):
>>> groups['index'] += 1
>>> df.merge(groups)
  group  index
0  005j      1
1  005j      1
2  0k16      2
3  0fff      3
4  0fff      3

[5 rows x 2 columns]

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Reshad Jones pulls himself out of game versus Jets
By Kevin Nogle@KevinNogle Nov 4, 2018, 4:57pm EST
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Miami Dolphins Pro Bowl safety Reshad Jones pulled himself out of the team's game against the New York Jets, head coach Adam Gase revealed after the team's 13-6 win. Jones was on the sideline throughout much of the game, but remained in uniform and no injury update was ever passed to the media. Jones was not in the locker room after the game for comment.
Jones has been playing through a shoulder issue. He has 35 tackles this season, including one on Sunday.
"I'll probably learn a little more tonight," Gase said of the situation with Jones.
Matthew Cannata, who was at the game covering it for The Phinsider, tweeted that players in the locker room all said they do not know what was happening with Jones, but that one player said Jones would not pull himself out of the game without a reason.
The Miami Herald's Adam Beasley tweeted a Dolphins defender told him that he was "not surprised" Jones pulled himself from the contest. Armando Salguero, also from the Miami Herald, reported a Dolphins source told him, "If [Jones] doesn't want to play for us, [bleep] it."
The Dolphins face the Green Bay Packers next week. The drama surrounding what happened with Jones will definitely be a part of the build up for that game.

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Today's economic orthodoxy is heavily dependent on the idea of utilitarianism, because it is a convenient mechanism that allows economics to be taken more seriously as a natural science. It allows economists to bypass all the inconvenient complications that arise when delving into deeper considerations of ethics and human behavior. The adoption of utilitarianism allows for the use of an additive system that fits well into an economics that is based on mathematics, as we have today.
Before going further, it's worth briefly exploring who Jeremy Bentham was, and what we mean by utilitarianism.
On the face of it, utilitarianism has some appeal. But a simple thought experiment, first articulated by American philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974, puts the simplicity of utilitarianism in stark focus. Nozick hypothetically proposes the "experience machine": a machine that would give you any experience you so desire. So if you wanted to experience the thrill of climbing Machu Picchu, so be it. But all the while you would be hooked up to this machine, not knowing that you were there. In other words, you would actually believe you were climbing Machu Picchu. Would you plug yourself into the machine? As long as you're living your hearts desire, does it matter whether its real or not?
Nozick believes that most people would choose not to be plugged into this experience machine. This implies that it is somehow important whether these experiences are real or not. The reality of life is important: people want to actually do certain things, achieve certain goals, rather than simply feel the pleasure associated with it. However, if utilitarianism held strong, then the pleasure associated with actions would be all that mattered, and we would choose the machine. It is clear then, that there are other things besides simple pleasure that people consider intrinsically valuable.
While different forms of utilitarianism have attempted to come to grips with this and other complications, this was not so for Jeremy Bentham. He proposed a form of 'felicity calculus', where the pleasure and pain that arises from different actions could be quantified and and determined by addition and subtraction. This sort of simplistic rationale is too tempting to resist for orthodox economists. For Bentham, different pleasures vary only in their intensity and duration, and not quality. He even said himself, "the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry." Reductionism at its finest. This form of thinking has given rise to "homo economicus": economic man. Homo economicus, meant to represent each and every one of us, is a narrow, self-interested individual who's only concern is to maximize his or her consumption of goods and services. In physical terms, the assumption that we are all homo economicus is akin to the assumption that, for practical purposes, all cows are spheres.
The concept of utility is core to understanding economic orthodoxy today, and yet the assumption of rationality is based on an outdated and unrealistic form of utilitarianism that is not, and has never been, applicable to real life. Luckily, we have fields of economics, such as behavioral economics, that have attempted to move beyond this mode of thinking, and incorporating knowledge from other fields such as psychology in altering models to be more realistic. But neo-classical economic theories are still based on this idea, and despite strong attempts from many directions to reform the discipline, it clings stubbornly to such discredited beliefs.


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Das Amt des Reichsstudentenführers wurde am 5. November 1936 durch Erlass des Hitler-Stellvertreters Rudolf Heß geschaffen, um die anhaltenden Machtkämpfe zwischen dem Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbund NSDStB als Parteigliederung einerseits und der Deutschen Studentenschaft DSt als Dachverband der örtlichen verfassten Studentenschaften andererseits zu beenden. Der Reichsstudentenführer war fortan in Personalunion Chef des NSDStB und der DSt, des Reichsstudentenwerks, des NS-Altherrenbunds (seit 1938) und später auch des NS-Dozentenbunds (ab 1944). Mit dieser Maßnahme sollte "die Führung des deutschen Studententums an allen Hoch- und Fachschulen, die Führung der nationalsozialistischen Altakademiker, die soziale Betreuung des studentischen Nachwuchses und die Sorge für Auslese, Berufslenkung und Berufserziehung in den akademischen Berufen" in einer Hand gebündelt werden.

Die Reichsstudentenführung, in der die zuvor getrennten Hauptämter und Referate aller genannten Organisationen zusammengeführt wurden, war seit April 1937 als NSDAP-Hauptamt unmittelbar der Parteiführung unterstellt und hatte wie diese ihren Sitz in München. Einzelne Ämter (Außenamt, Sozialpolitisches Amt, Langemarck-Studium, Körperliche Ertüchtigung) waren auch in Berlin angesiedelt.

Formal bestanden die der Reichsstudentenführung unterstellten Organisationen zwar auch danach getrennt weiter, jedoch wurde bis 1938 in den Führungsämtern insbesondere von NSDStB und DSt von der Reichs- bis zur Ortsebene eine weitgehende Personalunion hergestellt. Dies wurde dadurch erleichtert, dass der Reichsstudentenführer nach dem nationalsozialistischen Führerprinzip sämtliche Gau- und Ortsstudentenführer ernennen, absetzen und ihnen Weisungen erteilen konnte.

Erster und einziger Reichsstudentenführer war von 1936 bis 1945 der vormalige Heidelberger NSDStB-Führer Gustav Adolf Scheel. 1941 ernannte dieser Würzburg, wo 1919 die Gründung der Deutschen Studentenschaft erfolgt war und 1938 neben einem Studentengeschichtlichen Museum das Institut für Studentengeschichte und Hochschulkunde entstand, zur "Stadt der Reichsstudententage".

Mit dem Kontrollratsgesetz Nr. 2 vom 10. Oktober 1945 wurde die Reichsstudentenführung durch den Alliierten Kontrollrat verboten und ihr Eigentum beschlagnahmt.

Literatur
 Gustav Adolf Scheel: Die Einheit des deutschen Studententums. Rede vom Juni 1937. Abgedruckt in: Wolfgang Kalischer (Hrsg.): Die Universität und ihre Studentenschaft. Universitas magistrorum et scholarium. Versuch einer Dokumentation aus Gesetzen, Erlassen, Beschlüssen, Reden, Schriften und Briefen. Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen-Bredeney 1967, (Jahrbuch Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft 1966/67, ), S. 248ff.
 Friedhelm Golücke: Studentenwörterbuch. Das akademische Leben von A bis Z. Styria, Graz u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-222-11793-4, S. 366.
 Michael Grüttner: Studenten im Dritten Reich, Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1995.
 Holger Zinn: Die studentische Selbstverwaltung in Deutschland bis 1945. In: Matthias Steinbach, Stefan Gerber (Hrsg.): "Klassische Universität" und "akademische Provinz". Studien zur Universität Jena von der Mitte des 19. bis in die dreißiger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bussert & Stadeler, Jena u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-932906-60-8, S. 439–473 (insbes. 470 ff.).

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I love menswear and especially if it knows exactly what it's doing, ie. if it has the courage of its convictions. So, if you're a guy (aged teen to well and truly matured) and you like cool and if you happen to be in London then head straight down to Brick Lane to get yourself kitted out with some sharp typically London-cool wardrobe staples. Just thought I'd mention it. I'm talking about Number Six (aka When We Were Casuals). The lads there say that they have some new tricks up their sleeves for 2010, just visit their blog for a preview. If you're in a rush and don't have time to visit their website, here are some of the brands you'll find there: Lyle & Scott Vintage, Fila Vintage, Barbour, Farah Vintage, Adidas Originals, Fred Perry, Napapijri, and so many more. In fact everything that a man's heart desires when it comes to looking pretty darn good.
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PradhanMantri Street Vendor AatmanirbharNidhi: A Helping Hand for the street vendors
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown led to the closure of all markets in Manipur as a measure to curb the spread of the disease. The world has been crying ever since the virus emerged in Wuhan, China. Today, we have almost adapted to a new normal and slowly coming back to life.
While we are all busy taking care of ourselves and following the norms to stay safe and away from the virus, the street vendors or the daily bread earners have been struggling for a place to earn their living. Migrant workers who had been working at different places to earn are left helpless almost to the point that some have returned to their native places with no means of earning. The struggle is real for them to feed their families as COVID-19 threatens their livelihood.
Since the PradhanMantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a scheme that has been already launched for the vendors, there was a requirement to look after the welfare of the street vendors without licenses as well. The PMMY was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, ShriNarendraModi, on 8th April 2015 for providing loans up to 10 lakh rupees to the non-corporate, non-farm small or micro-enterprises. Under the aegis of PMMY, there are three loan schemes namely- Shishu, Kishore, and Tarun to signify the stage of growth or development and funding requirements of the beneficiaries and also provide a point of reference for the next phase of graduation/ growth.
Therefore, there was an urgent need to provide credit for working capital to street vendors to resume their businesses. With a view that improvement in rural economy is the key to enhancement of overall economy of the state, the Chief Minister of Manipur, Shri N Biren Singh had been taking a keen role to look after the economic needs of the state. In Manipur, there is a marked difference between market vendors and street vendors: those outside the purview of license holders are referred to as street vendors or hawkers, and even though they are granted legal status by the municipalities, street vendors are liable to face more harassment from the authorities, unlike the licensed market vendors.
Implementation of the PM-SVANidhi scheme for the street vendors by the state government will go a long way in reviving and boosting the economic activities and financial condition of the state and more particularly, the large section of the vending community, who are mostly women. The state government has started providing loans to the street vendors to bail them out of the financial crisis they had faced due to the global pandemic and help them bring back to normalcy.
The PM-SVANidhi is a Central Sector Scheme launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on 1st June 2020 to provide affordable working capital loans up to 10,000 rupees with a 1-year tenancy to street vendors to resume their livelihoods that have been affected due to Covid-19 lockdown. The loan will be repaid in monthly installments and no collateral will be taken by the lending institutions.
The scheme is available to street vendors engaged in vending in urban areas as on or before 24th March 2020. One should possess a certificate of vending or an identity card issued by Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). Vendors from rural/ peri-urban areas/ city dwellers who have returned to resume their business after leaving the urban areas due to the pandemic are eligible for the scheme's loan fulfilling the eligibility criteria. Digital platforms with a web portal and mobile application have been developed to ensure fast and transparent implementation of PM-SVANidhi.
Under the PM-SVANidhi scheme, the Chief Minister of Manipur has disbursed loans to 368 beneficiaries/ street vendors on 25th August 2020. Including 16 beneficiaries from Hill Districts, the Chief Minister has also disbursed loans to 449 regular licensed vendors along with loans under the PMMY scheme.
Covering 24 urban local bodies of Manipur, the Chief Minister had again disbursed loans to 803 beneficiaries/ street vendors for the second batch of the PM-SVANidhi scheme.Under the PMMY scheme, the Chief Minister had disbursed loans to 466 regular licensed vendors and other micro-business units including 5 beneficiaries from the Hill District Headquarters.
In Manipur, a total of 5,354 vendors have been benefitted so far under PM-SVANidhi and PMMY schemes. The state government has set a target of extending assistance to a total of 20,000 street vendors who had been vending in urban areas on or before 24th March 2020 under the PM-SVANidhi scheme. Currently, Manipur is ranked first among the Hill and North Eastern States category in implementation of PM-SVANidhi for the highest number of loans disbursed to date.
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Fantasy/Reality – what is it?
When I'm asked what genre I write in, I say "Fantasy/Reality".
I think many people see these terms as opposites. Fantasy is not reality. Reality is not fantasy. However, when applied to stories, you can say that fantasy/reality is "fantasy with real people".
"What does this mean?" I hear you think. Or is that, "Umm…?"
I'll try to explain. Many fantasies have characters that just are. The characters are out-of-this-world tough, or beautiful, or brave, or magically powerful or even godlike. It's true that some of these characters appear in my work too—the Dagda in Antler Jinny and the Raven is a god who doesn't seem likely to change much in the future. The fantastic world is the what's important to many writers and their readers and developing character takes a back seat to feeding the imagination.
For me, character is what it's all about.
I like to choose as my characters, people who have a long way to grow, who must develop in human ways to fight their circumstances, and in doing this, help us to face our own problems. Jinny is a good example of the characters I like to write about: crippled by an accident, she must develop in strength, wisdom, and even love, to reach her goal of becoming Queen of the Dragons, and so dance again. (But was it an accident that took her leg? You will have to ask Grizel.) Even the Raven sees, too late, the mistakes she has made.
The fantasy elements—the dragons, Geordan's bone, the Druid's wizardry—these are there to illustrate the story, add interest, and yes, draw a humongous crowd of readers! But look more closely at the Druid. Although sometimes he surprises us in both Antler Jinny and the Raven and The Druid and the Bracelet, he is not your standard fantasy Gandalf-lookalike wizard. Druids in Celtic mythology could control the weather, to a degree. They could change the form of people and things—turn beautiful ladies into deer, and perhaps change them back again. The third expertise druids had, according to the old mythology, was glamourie. Using glamourie, druids could fool the eye, rather like ladies of today use glamour for a similar effect. Glamourie isn't form-changing, whose effects are permanent, but a temporary way of encouraging people to see things not as they are.
Those three things, weather control, form changing, and glamourie, were the only three wizard powers available to the druids in ancient Celtic mythology, and so the only powers available to the druids in my books. Before you rush to comment, yes, I admit that Geordan showed far greater power in his battle with the druid Lailoken, but Geordan was possessed, and possessed by not just anything, but by Aengus the god. Aengus has no earthly limitations at all—he, like Erbert, can be in several places at the same time, is impervious to fire, death, even enchantment—and passes through time as if it was air. Aengus, first brought to the reader's notice in Aengus Amused, a book which is a fantasy without an ounce of reality, is so powerful that I can use him only sparingly.
Fantasy/Reality stories have themes. There's a take-away message hidden in all those words, maybe two or three or more. Pure fantasy, unlike Science Fiction (which often has a warning embedded for us to recognize) is often just a story. An entertainment. A . . . fantasy.
Of course, there are many writers who employ Fantasy/Reality. A good example is The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro. This is a story about real people who encounter fantastic things, yet the story hangs together well and delivers a thought-provoking theme.
I hope that, as you read my books, you find something in my reality-based stories that gives you a little to think about too.
Chris Dews July 2018.
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Painting: "The Rose Of Al-Basrah"
This painting was inspired partially by an album of music my friend Derek was working on, of the same title. The idea was that maybe, this painting could be turned into a cover for the album. At the same time, it was also designated to be in the nursery for my friend's daughter.
I based this painting off of a photo of roses taken in Connecticut. It is fairly small, 12"x14".


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Coronavirus already wreaking havoc on Olympic qualifying schedule
James Ellingworth
Published March 10, 2020 Updated March 11, 2020
A man wearing a face mask walks in front of the Olympic rings at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo on March 6, 2020.Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
For many athletes and teams who have yet to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, the global virus outbreak is spoiling plans and ruining hopes.
Qualifying events are being cancelled or postponed almost daily, and time is running out for athletes to prove they meet the standard.
Rowing was the latest sport to find itself in flux on Tuesday when it cancelled two World Cups, the European Olympic and Paralympic qualifying regatta, and the final Paralympic qualifier. All were to be held in Italy from April 10 to May 10. World Rowing said it wants to relocate the qualifiers and was talking with other countries. It hoped to offer good news next week.
For now, the Asia and Oceania qualifying regatta, and the final qualifying regatta are still going ahead from May 17 to May 19 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
On Monday, the International Judo Federation cancelled all Olympic qualifiers through April 30, including a Grand Slam and two Grand Prix. Another Grand Prix last weekend, in Morocco, was cancelled earlier. Judo qualifying ends on May 25.
"It is of paramount importance to keep the judo family safe in these difficult times, and also to ensure fair chances for all athletes engaged in the Olympic qualification," the IJF said.
Other sports as diverse as weightlifting, swimming and badminton have also been postponed indefinitely or cancelled outright.
The African weightlifting championships in Mauritius next month were postponed on Tuesday. The Asian championships set a week later in Uzbekistan were cancelled last week.
Because of the virus, the international governing body is allowing lifters yet to qualify, to register for major qualifying competitions out of their region, such as the European, Pan American or even the Oceania champs.
From the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch-lighting ceremony to Formula One racing, a range of global sporting events have been curbed or canceled due to the coronavirus.
The Badminton World Federation, however, has refused to extend the qualifying period, and noted players from its leading country, China, have been healthy and passed tests for COVID-19.
Badminton has lost three tournaments alone this month in Europe – in Germany, Portugal and Poland – with the end of qualifying rapidly approaching on April 26.
One of its biggest events outside of the world championships, the All England Open, is going ahead on Wednesday in Birmingham.
Chinese teams have pulled out of numerous events worldwide, and others like Russia gymnasts teams have cut back their schedules.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.
The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. According to the World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover. In mainland China, where the virus first exploded, more than 80,000 people have been diagnosed and more than 58,000 have so far recovered.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach wrote an open letter to athletes last week saying the IOC was working with other sports bodies "to ensure a fair Olympic qualification," but didn't say how it might work.
"I want to personally thank you for all this flexibility and solidarity, which is the true Olympic spirit," he added.
When the virus was still largely confined to China earlier in the year, events were moved – boxing and taekwondo qualifiers to Jordan, basketball to Serbia, triathlon to Spain. Now the little space left in the calendar is vanishing. The Olympics open July 24.
When qualifying events do take place, athletes may compete in unequal conditions. Many countries require quarantine for visitors from areas affected by the virus.
Endurance athletes in particular are feeling the pinch.
Evan Dunfee of Canada is the world championship bronze medalist in the 50-kilometre walk, the longest event on the Olympic athletics program. Athletes need weeks of recovery between races. Rescheduling qualifiers will be of little use, he argues.
If athletes have to race in June, "you'll be putting all your eggs into the qualifying basket and wouldn't be able to recover in times for the games," Dunfee wrote on Twitter on Monday.
The virus is already affecting the Tokyo Games. Test events in rugby and shooting have been cancelled. Spectators have been barred from the lighting of the Olympic flame at Ancient Olympia on Thursday, and its arrival ceremony in Japan on March 20 has been downsized.


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Titanic Dry Dock and Pump House Paranormal Tales
by Emma Diane McManus about a year ago in travel
A brief overview of what the paranormal group I'm part of experienced at one of the worlds most infamous sites
The Pump House
NIPRA (Northern Ireland Paranormal Research Association, Northern Ireland's first and longest running paranormal investigating team) ran tours at the famous Titanic Dry Dock and Pump House for over four years and in that time we got to experience some incredible activity.
But first, some history…
The Pump House and graving dock (dry dock) was opened by H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor of Wales on the 21st of May 1889 and, at the time, the dry dock was the largest in the world.
The dock itself is 44 feet deep, 415 feet long and 46 feet wide. The dock was capable of draining 26,000,000 gallons of water an hour. Dry docks are different from normal docks as they can drain out water, revealing the entirety of a ship's hull for painting or repairing.
The dock got the task of outfitting the Titanic.
Once down inside the dock there are large oak rests that the Titanic rested on. Along the top of the dock there are a number of square holes, these would've been used to hold thick wooden beams that propped the ships up while they were dry docked. The workmen would also climb along them, sit on them while they worked on the outside of the ships and used ropes to lower/raise tools and materials. There are also stories of the men jumping from beam to beam! There are four tunnels with steps and shoot, carved into the ground to take the workers up and down. The shoot was used to raise and lower tools and supplies but, like many shipyards/building sites, there were a lot of injuries and even deaths. So the shoot would be repurposed to bring the injured and dead up to ground level.
Over the course of the Dry Docks usage there were approximately 200 deaths, as each ship was "allowed" 5-10 deaths per ship build.
But it wasn't just the Dock that saw injury and death, the Pump House also saw its fair share.
One section of the building used to house 6 large steam boilers. One of these exploded, killing 4 men. This area of the building is now a cafe.
The middle area still houses the original water pumps, including one that continues to keep excess water (rain mostly) from gathering in the dock.
The last section once housed more pumps and valves as well as foremen's offices. The HMS Caroline now has their ticket office and gift shop there.
You can still go on history walks of the Pump House and Dry Dock.
We were lucky enough to spend over four years hosting tours to hundreds of people in this amazing location.
Some of our experiences -
The sound of heavy boots/footsteps could often be heard walking around the Pump House when everyone was still.
Spirit lights were also a very common event. They are something similar to orbs but usually flicker out very quickly.
Sounds of machinery could often be heard, even though the machines were no longer there or functioning.
A spirit named "John" would make himself known a lot. He was a foreman during his life and continued his duties even after his death. He was often seen moving around the "tool room".
"Thomas" would also make himself known. He was a bit of a prankster in life and also continued this in the afterlife. He would flick peoples ears, pull on peoples hoods and hats and if we had someone be disrespectful towards the spirits there, he would shake their chairs and pull of their hats.
There are rumours that Jack the Ripper made a trip to Belfast. And, on occasion, if we mention his name, loud thumps and bangs could be heard from the Pump Well.
Down in the dock many spirits could be seen drifting around and poking their heads out of the tunnels. They mostly looked like shadow figures and weren't interactive with the living.
EMF (electro magnetic frequency) devices would often go off, despite being so deep under ground with no electrical devices or wiring, lights etc.
People would also feel unsteady, as if they were on a boat while in the dock.
These are just some of the incredible experiences we and the many people who came on our tours had!
Emma Diane McManus
Hi! I'm Emma from Northern Ireland. I'm a tattooed, ghost hunting semi-professional photographer and aspiring author.
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Driving It Home
Heather C Holmes
Inky, black, and impenetrable darkness surrounded the compact sedan as it hurtled along the freeway. Stars shone in the cloudless sky. Last quarter of the moon naught but a silver sliver overhead.
Rii Pierce
*Disclaimer: This story was written using a technique learned for writing exercizes. A timer was set for 10 minutes, and written without an idea or prompt to work from. For the sake of the experiment, I did not read the story over once I finished writing or do any editing -- & submitted almost immediately after writing out of curiosity for others opinion on the result. At some point, I may eventually do proper editing and polishing and resubmit, possibly in a new submission for the purpose of comparison. Please enjoy the product of this experiment! I would love to know what you think!
Top Five Podcasts for the Halloween Season
Dylan Simmons
So, you're looking for a way to spend some time, maybe you're walking across campus and you have it: a thirst for horror, something that will make you crawl, or have you feel possessed. Well, maybe not that last one. But the point is, you're looking for a story, maybe something comedic, maybe something horrifying. Either way, these five podcasts will help you get there.
Wicked & Wonderful 09
CL Huth
Read: 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 Imp didn't like electricity. Who knew? In an ingenious combination of magicks, Milo had gone from tossing lightning balls into the horde to electrifying the metallic nets from Zeke's hands. So much like the gnomes, there were hundreds of sticky balls of imps all over the store. Unlike Mrs. Gonzales' house, they weren't being bagged for relocation.
A. W. Knowland
In the small rural town of Plainview, Wisconsin, there lies an old, rundown barn. Painted in red with white outlines, it stands amongst the other dilapidated structures. The surrounding landscape, which once had lush cultivated fields, is now a shadow of its self. The chipped paint, broken tools, and overgrown weeds, have become the prevailing tone.
FALLEN SISTER
Gabriel Wolf
Clouds block the sun on a Tuesday afternoon. October's autumn breeze softly kisses Rose's mocha cheeks and runs through her dirty blonde hair. Dressed in black, she sniffles to stop her slight runny nose and wipes the tears from her face. The world around her is empty and silent as she slowly rocks herself on a swing in the center of the playground. Images of her older sister flash in her mind while deeply mourning her sister's passing.


The holidays are all about family. I was on the phone with my mother Joyce recently and we discussed family; long before the fledgling children left the nest. My mom is a terrific cook and always put on the fete during Christmas. One of my favorite hors d'oeuvres that Joyce is famous for are her Holiday Ham Balls. I therefore dedicate this month's recipe to my mom. Blessings to one and all.
It's been a while since I've cooked something in the slow cooker, so on a recent trip to the Bahamas, I thought that French Dip sandwiches would be a terrific meal. This recipe has only five ingredients and is so simple to make it's almost embarrassing.
Spray the inside of the crockpot with cooking spray. Trim off any excess fat from the brisket and place it in the bottom of the crockpot. In a separate bowl, whisk together the beef broth and onion soup mix and then pour over the brisket. Set the heat on the crockpot to low and cook for 8-10 hours.
Remove brisket from crockpot to a cutting board and slice thinly across the grain of the meat. Split the French bread or baguette and pile beef of the bottom half. Cover meat with the sliced Provolone. Butter the top half of the bread and then place sandwich, open-face, on a cookie sheet. Place on the second from top rack in a hot oven and broil for 30 seconds.
One of my yacht owners also owns a professional minor baseball team in Sioux City, Iowa. I have been following the Sioux City Explorers all year as they set a league record of 75 wins out of a 100 game regular season; thus putting the "X's" in the playoffs for their league's championship. And as a fan, I traveled to Sioux City in September to cheer on our team. This trip gave me the perfect opportunity to put together a mid-west regional favorite. This delicious treat will get rave revues at any Halloween party.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the bowl of an electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat butter and sugars together for 1 minute. Add egg and vanilla then beat to combine. Add pumpkin puree and sour cream then beat to combine.
In a separate bowl, stir together flour, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in three batches, mixing until just combined before adding the next batch.
Drop batter using a cookie scoop onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes, rotating the pan half way through. Let cookies cool for one minute on the baking sheet before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely. Once cooled, slice cakes in half.
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% Original Author: Laurence Wastiaux
% CVS Revision Info:
%    $Author: nicks $
%    $Date: 2011/03/02 00:04:13 $
%    $Revision: 1.4 $
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% Copyright © 2011 The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, MA) "MGH"
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% Terms and conditions for use, reproduction, distribution and contribution
% are found in the 'FreeSurfer Software License Agreement' contained
% in the file 'LICENSE' found in the FreeSurfer distribution, and here:
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% https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FreeSurferSoftwareLicense
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% Reporting: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
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dirname='/space/thigpen/1/users/efenster/PPG_4_28_05';
tabledir='/tmp';
% Creates the tables in tabledir %
[D,mu,sigma]=talairaching_stats(dirname, tabledir); % stores TalairachingMean.adf and TalairachingCovariance.adf in the outdir (arg2)
mean=strcat(tabledir, '/TalairachingMean_tmp.adf');
sigma=strcat(tabledir, '/TalairachingCovariance_tmp.adf');
mean2=strcat(tabledir, '/TalairachingMean.adf');
sigma2=strcat(tabledir, '/TalairachingCovariance.adf');
fp_mu=fopen('/tmp/header_mu.txt', 'w');
fprintf(fp,'# FSAFD TalairachingCheck 1\n# date 20050603\n# $Id: talairaching_table.m,v 1.4 2011/03/02 00:04:13 nicks Exp $\n# efenster PPG_4_28_05 \n# nsubjects %d\n# ncols 9\n# nrows 1\n# Average talairach.xfm coefficients (translation excluded)\n', length(D));
fclose(fp_mu);
fp_sigma=fopen('/tmp/header_sigma.txt', 'w');
fprintf(fp,'# FSAFD TalairachingCheck 1\n# date 20050603\n# $Id: talairaching_table.m,v 1.4 2011/03/02 00:04:13 nicks Exp $\n# efenster PPG_4_28_05 \n# nsubjects %d\n# ncols 9\n# nrows 9\n# covariance matrix\n', length(D));
fclose(fp_mu);
unix(sprintf('cat /tmp/header_mu.txt %s > %s', mean, mean2));
unix(sprintf('cat /tmp/header_sigma.txt %s > %s', sigma, sigma2));
unix(sprintf('rm %s | rm %s', mean, sigma));
unix(sprintf('rm %s | rm %s', '/tmp/header_mu.txt', '/tmp/header_sigma.txt'));

[P, I, nf]=talairaching_dir_afd(dirname, 0.01, tabledir); % stores TalairachingProbas.adf in the outdir (arg3)
%load('/space/okapi/3/data/laurence/ADF/talairaching/transfo_param_probas.mat') %loads y computed for the Buckner data set
%P=y;
%load('/space/okapi/3/data/laurence/ADF/talairaching/transfo_param_names.mat') %loads nf (Buckner data set)
files=dir(dirname);
table_proba=strcat(tabledir, '/TalairachingProbas.adf');
fp=fopen(table_proba, 'w');
fprintf(fp,'# FSAFD TalairachingCheck 1\n# date 20050603\n# $Id: talairaching_table.m,v 1.4 2011/03/02 00:04:13 nicks Exp $\n# efenster PPG_4_28_05 \n# ncols 1\n# nrows %d\n# label_col 1 xfmProbability\n', length(P));
for i=1:length(P)
    %u=I(i);
    %fprintf(fp, '# label_row %d %s\n', i, char(files(u).name));
    fprintf(fp, '# label_row %d %s\n', i, char(nf(i).name));
end
for j=1:length(P)
    fprintf(fp, '%f\n', P(j));
end
fclose(fp)

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Chiwenga becomes de facto Zimbabwe President
by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
26 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | Views
New York - Militaristic vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now the country's de facto head of state, amid reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has reportedly been stripped off of significant executive powers and functions by the army, thus effectively becoming a leader in name only pending his imminent departure from office, Spotlight Zimbabwe reported.
Top level government sources with the defence ministry in the capital, including three serving cabinet ministers this week confirmed to this publication that, Chiwenga has been endorsed by the Joint Opeartions Command (JOC), which he chairs to assume full control of all national security affairs, together with classified key presidential functions, as a bid by Mnangagwa's ruling party backers to have him clinging to office using a Government of National Unity (GNU) project taking main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa on board, has allegedly been quashed.
JOC brings together the country's military-security complex to manage homeland security affairs, and is thought to be the real power behind the curtain in Zimbabwe's politics.
Local online media reports in the past few days have claimed that Mnangagwa is afraid of army plots to forcefully remove him from power, and has resorted to try and accommodate Chamisa in his government, to foil the move. Zanu PF politburo member and former finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, yesterday also tried to came to Mnangagwa's rescue by telling a party gathering in vain, that Mnangagwa was their sole presidential candidate for 2023.
Spotlight Zimbabwe, can however report with authority that a Zanu PF and military faction aligned to Chiwenga, has already agreed on Mnangagwa's successor, and that the former vice president is going to be booted out of office within months, as his statecraft and policies have dismally failed to resuscitate the economy, which is all but now sliding into new levels of stratospheric collapse.
We exclusively reported on 22 March 2019, that Mnangagwa's days as president are numbered, as a special delegation of senior military officials reportedly told Chinese generals that his political reign will expire in 2020, and that he was going to be an interim caretaker president up to the period, before the military replaces him with their preferred successor, a few days prior to former leader President Robert Mugabe's November 2017 military putsch ouster.
Chiwenga himself is increasingly likely to takeover until 2023, if his health permits then handover the country to a civilian leadership, our sources said.
"There was a mistaken belief that CGDN (Chiwenga's full name-Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino) was not coming back alive from his medical treatment in India in February," said one of the ministers, who is a close ally of Chiwenga. "As you can see his health is on the mend, and he has been endorsed by JOC to take up more national security responsibilities and key classified functions in the presidium, which I cannot disclose for purposes of national security and my oath of office."
Another one said although things appear to be harmonious in government, the country's political landscape was about to change.
"Vakuru vamunoziva varikuda kugadzirisa zvinhu nyika isati yashata (The main political actor you know about, wants to restore the country before it collapses to economic disaster.) He's coming in on a transition before the 2023 polls, unless he decides to put someone else in power. There are at least two strong candidates, which he has considered, but we shall have to wait and see."
Speculation is rife, that former reserve bank governor, Gideon Gono, might bounce back as president, and is expected to use his skills as a banker to prevent financial recession and further economic catastrophe. Gono is a good friend of Chiwenga, who is credited with availing critical funding for the army and its programs, when Chiwenga was Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander.
Spotlight Zimbabwe, will as part of its anniversary celebration reveal the name of the incoming president to replace Mnangagwa in August, and also the country's 2023 leader who has also been anointed by the army.
Top military officials in government also said that Chiwenga, has reportedly been convinced by his personal advisor, Mengistu Haile Mariam, the exiled Ethiopian autarch, who is now a Zimbabwean citizen and hired ZDF consultant, to start "amalgamating" his presidium functions together with his military doctrine to secure the presidency outright.
"Mengistu now advises Chiwenga on an array of issues, especially how to synchronise and amalgamating his new civilian roles with his military doctrine as former defence forces commander. Many Zimbabweans are not aware that Mengistu is also an unofficial member of the powerful Joint Operations Command. The two (Chiwenga and Mengistu) usually hold off the grid meetings at Mengistu's farm in Vumba."
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