Gateway Trees

Trees often get represented as bringing their own feeling and atmosphere, in movies and fictional settings, misty, foreboding, creepy, and sometimes downright scary. The Blair Witch Project springs to mind there, and many others where the trees are part of the sinister plot. Poltergeist being another film that came to mind, of the trees coming alive and coming through the windows. Like I said, there are countless horror films that use a wooded setting or trees at night to create a sinister feeling. But why is it that they work so well for that? In daytime and sunshine, trees and woods can be quite wonderful and relaxing, creating a feeling of calm and safety. Strange how just a change of lighting can completely alter that.

Fairy Tales often feature forests and woodland as their settings, at least in part, ones like Hansel and Gretal, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, and I’m sure others.

Twin Peaks – the whole series had a strange theme running through it, yes, aside from the rather strange overall theme that seems to easily created by David Lynch. But the observation early on of the Douglas-fir made me take note of the trees (as was probably the point), a few scenes in forests, and the log lady, carrying around her special log to tell her the secrets of the what gets seen by the trees. And later we had more sinister forest scenes followed later in the series by scene depicting a portal within the trees, and talk of the white and black lodges. So the trees to me were quite pivotal in that whole scenario, not just for atmosphere, but almost as if they were part of it, or maybe just bystanders to the malevolence, soaking in the darkness and holding on to it.

Lord of The Rings – The Ents, Fengorn Forest and the woods of Lothlórien. Strange areas of ancient forest, under bewitchment and being watched over by things unseen to a normal mortal eye. The Ents being the shepherds of the forest to keep watch and guarded with protecting them.

And in my article about Giants, Trees, and discussing both in A Giant Debate, I have given thought to the idea that the large trees led to something above, like the idea in Jack and the Beanstalk. But now I consider the opposite, that the roots of the trees could have gone as far down as the trunk did above, and became caverns, tunnels and what we would now call an underground city perhaps as found In The Old Underground.

So, is it possible that trees harbour something else, the network they connect to accessing a different energy, a deeper energy from within the earth. One that we as people are infrequently connected to as we are no longer ‘grounded’ as we once were. And maybe it’s an energy that is limited now, with smaller trees on the surface to try and harness it, constantly having their underground network disrupted, interfered with or severed entirely. But despite all the changes and challenges that appear to be on the horizon, just as with the tree roots that still live, nature finds a way…

(c) K Wicks

As Clear As Mud

People have been noticing A Change in the Weather, and some oddly dramatic clouds, rain, winds and hail storms have been popping up here and there across the world. Making quite the impact too on all the ‘green and renewal energy’ installations around the world, mentioned in An Elemental Shift.

A recent mud hail storm occurred in Arkansas, looking like bricks raining from the sky. Which made me think of other times where unusual whether has been noted. Recently, and in times past.

1902 it rained mud in the UK and Tasmania, and Australia had what they have called a ‘remarkable meteorological event’, in which they say ‘An extraordinary red dust storm accompanied by falling fireballs’ occurred.

1957 – Kerala, India. They had their first ‘Blood Rain Event’, although speculated as dust, it was settled upon that it was in fact algae that was causing it, and the subsequent one that happened in 2001.

1859 – Carrington Event – the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, causing Auroras all over the world and extensive damage to telegraphs by way of sparks and fires. They say a comparable event today would cause huge disruption to communication, electrical systems, internet and general blackouts.

1862 – The Great Flood (USA) – “The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico“. The damage from that was catastrophic, with large death toll, a quarter of the cattle gone, massive costs for rebuild, towns destroyed and roads impassable or gone. I guess the very recent storms and flooding in North Carolina would be comparable here – as they seem to have suffered devastating losses and the toll is still rising, of deaths and cost to the ones who remain.

There are also many incidents of fish and frogs falling from the sky, I’m not sure I believe the explanation that they get pulled up into storms, and then travel in the clouds to then fall as rain in the next place. That would mean that clouds are dense enough to actually hold them, and contain enough oxygen and water to keep them alive until the ‘drop zone’. But you never know.

Mud flood – there is much talk within the Tartarian circles of there being a massive mud flood in our recent past. And if you look at the reasoning, it’s not far-fetched at all, with multiple cases across multiple countries of there being clear sign of full houses, windows and door ways buried ‘just beneath our feet’. And that many of our modern cities and towns are built on top of the previous layer, except in some places, where it seems the buildings were far too special to just leave hidden. And they are the ones that are ‘founded’ and across the board have a similar appearance, of that ‘classical style’ that everybody seemed so capable of building in the 1800’s. Clearly with the artisan skilled army, huge resources and materials to travel and build. Or rather found it seems, and seems more reasonable to believe the skills of the time were to dig and find things for your paymaster, like in the ‘gold rush’.

A different crafty way to get people to volunteer to go somewhere, to make your future and fortune. However, the people who encouraged that just needed cheap and willing labour, people to dig the riches for them and trade it in for that ‘currency’ they wanted everyone on. Knowing a fool and his money are soon parted and within time companies owned all the mines so if there was still opportunity, they controlled the monopoly on it . The newly dug riches makes its way into the reserves and out of the hands of the people, the rush ran out when the companies closed it down, and they were stuck there, now tied to the system.

Liquefaction – While thinking about how the mud flood could have occurred, I decided liquefaction could be an option, because while wondering on storms, rain and an eventual deluge, something didn’t quite fit. The lack of mud. Now, you could say that such an extensive amount of rain could indeed cause mud on a scale we haven’t seen before, like when a mudslide happens, or I guess a lahar that you get on a volcano after eruption in some cases. As with Mt Saint Helens in 1980, but on a much larger scale could in theory be possible. But doesn’t really explain where all the extra mud came from or how it covered so much, and why it buried everything so neatly, all up right and intact. Because really you would expect things to be topsy turvy underfoot if buried under a violent and destructive path of mud and water. Or if the ground liquified, you would expect it to lean or have collapsed, like subsidence causes today with buildings.

But much of the past is buried beneath our feet, old buildings used as new foundations, old streets and towns covered over and forgotten while the new takes over on the surface. And they don’t always get filled in and lost to memory, Edinburgh has a vast underground city still, mostly on show to tourists but that’s just the bit you can see. I suspect there are all sorts of sub-societies that have been dwelling for a number of lifetimes now, across the whole world, finding a different way of surviving, or an older way perhaps. And we have caves, catacombs, ancient sites and architecture from all sorts of ages and eras, alongside each other, underneath and over, intermingled and reimagined. So, I can understand why it is not an easy task to unpick exactly what has happened, where it happened, how it happened and what then happened thereafter. But that won’t stop me trying…

(c) K Wicks

On The Glad and Sorry

Another of those sayings we have, but this one is a bit more relevant to today’s financial climate we find ourselves in. Being part of that cycle of debt and beholden to a system of monetary value. On the glad and sorry, meaning, glad you’ve got it, sorry you have to pay it back. But that mindset or attitude isn’t everyone, some people seem quite happy to borrow something and pay it back, maybe not so much these days with staggering rates of interest and small print to screw you over in other ways. The idea of borrowing, lending and paying it all back has gone somewhat out of control.

With the general population and their mindset of ‘it’s ok, we’ll pay it later’, and the corrupt political mercenaries that harvest people’s time and money, who have no concept of ‘living within your means’ or affording anything, as they don’t ever have to pay anything back, the idea of more just keeps going. They just add it to the tab of ‘the people’ and carry on spending, wasting and craving more. More extravagance, more flamboyance, more opulence, for them. And less for everyone else, that’s what greed will do to you it seems, where having enough, or more than enough, is no longer enough, you need to have it all, and for others to have none. That’s the dysfunctional, destructive path they have chosen and it’s playing out on the public stage with very real consequences for ordinary people, lives and futures.

So, the glad and sorry is no longer within the same experience. One group of people get the glad, and the others are left with the sorry, and nothing to compensate for it or balance it out, leading to what one could presume would be abject misery. While the other group become loopy with their constant supply of care-free, no consequence, spend-happy lifestyle and ways of thinking, at other people’s expense, literally. But the system of debt is how they control most of society, industry, people and the commercial and financial world, with the new digital component being important to the next phase, but money has been used for quite some time for control. See article compilations – Cash Compilation and Monitoring Compilation for a more in-depth look at how those two areas converge in our current time to bring about a new system of control and Ownership.

Money has been used to buy many people, ideals, enterprises and has grown to be quite the tool of control when it comes to humanity. And they say it can’t buy you time, but it seems that while it may not buy you time personally, you can purchase everyone else’s to run around and do your bidding, so you can ‘free up’ your time as they might put it. And because there isn’t enough time, it really should be set at a premium, without a monetary value perhaps, but with a more fulfilling purpose. But we are not afforded that luxury in these costly times, we were the consumers and now we seem like the consumed. Buying, selling, trading, owning, giving value instead of purpose, and if there is a purpose, making sure it gets tied to a value of financial worth set by someone somewhere. It’s more than disappointing to be in a time when we have so much innovation and resources, but to see them be supressed, hoarded, restricted and used for control and profit. And what we do get offered is debt, that extra illusionary layer to money, to create more ‘wealth’ for them, and more misery for others. And if they are Making Money From Misery, and that’s what they want to do, then why would they stop?

(c) MKW Publishing

Black Sun

There is talk of a black sun, it features in paintings and in architecture from a time gone by, comes up as ideas and theories and find its way into our modern time. Also having been attributed to the Nazi’s in more recent times, a sun wheel symbol with a design consists of twelve radial sig runes, 12 sections and a black centre. Almost looking like a slightly older version of the modern UN logo with its sections and decoration giving it a more Romanesque feel.

Sound Garden – that song from the 90’s ‘Black Hole Sun’, showing strange lizard-like humans, with faces distorting and revealing their hidden nature, along with the arrival of the black sun. The music video to it made quite the impact on me in my youth, some things you see are weird, and you know they are weird, but something makes you file it for later. And as it turns out, ‘later’ has arrived much more than I thought it would for many thoughts and ideas I have had over the years.

Demon faces – there exists a condition apparently, which causes people to see faces as distorted with what has been described as demon like features. It’s called Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), and seems a rather weird thing for some brains to do. They say often caused by a stroke, a seizure or a migraine. But does everyone think to tell someone else if they started seeing ‘demons’? This is where the above music video will get a mention again, because when the faces distorted, it was more of an elongation of features, which could just be the visual effect they were trying out at the time. Eyes larger than you would expect, a sinister grin bigger than the face, and strange automated and repeated actions, showing they are here but aren’t like us. A bit Stepford kind of thing. But when I saw the imagery they are putting forward for this PMO condition, I thought of that song and those faces. Because wouldn’t be an awfully easy way to discredit if people did have the ability to see demons or shapeshifters, making them out to be crazy, or that they have a brain injury or something. Even possibly making the people themselves think they are crazy.

Rupes Nigra / Black Rock – this also comes up now and again, having been charted on old maps as a real place, a mountain it is said. Placed where the North Pole is, shown as having land and the central point on old maps, but it looks like just ocean today, but with a round shape showing as it would if you took something flat and wrapped it around a globe. But it also near to where I found old maps to show the vortex mentioned in Maps and Islands.

Much has been changed, rewritten, buried, relocated, and just plain destroyed or lost to time. But much of what was, often comes to pass again, and much of what is will become new folklore and myth and fade away until its time comes again. It seems as though we are entering a different time, where things of old might be coming back, and how we thought it was turns out to be something quite different…

(c) K Wicks