Saturn Day, October 31, 2009, as white, playing the Giuoco Piano/Two Kights against "Puddlegum" (1543)
(...) Literally a “great and lasting omen” would be a “big picture” reading, disclosing information regarding causes and conditions occurring in the macrocosm. The omen was hexagram 51, Thunder, and my notes directly quoting the Blofeld translation follow. Read More ...

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Sun Day, December 20, 2009, Lunar Apogee, as white, playing the King's Gambit against “eztemp” (1122)
(...) The 2012 researcher camp usually breaks messily into two factions. There are the New Agers and the End Timers. I find the former to be overly optimistic while the majority of the latter tend to make at least one leap of logic in their linear thinking. ... Read More

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Moon Day, August 10, 2009, as white, playing against the Alekhine's defence, Mokele Mbembe (Buecker) variation as played by “eztemp” (1121)
(...) "During solar flares and for two to six hours after, our magnetic field suddenly increases 20 to 30 gammas, causing massive magnetic storms. The storms disrupt electronic communications and cause fade-outs in shortwave radio emissions. In power lines, fluctuating magnetic fields caused by sunspots can produce large electrical currents. Sometimes, said Patrick Huyghe, in Science Digest, erupting flares cause electrical surges in the ground itself. Read More ...

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Moon Day, November 30, 2009, playing the Queen's Gambit Declined vs. “eztemp” (1145)
(...) His theory, similar to Terrence McKenna’s, is that time, a.k.a. the "fourth dimension," is cyclical, taking on the shape of a wave. A wave has peaks and troughs and those occur at regular intervals. This is why history seems to repeat itself and does so rhythmically. Thus a look at the past with an understanding of the shape of time allows one to accurately pinpoint future dates of trend reversals. ... Read More

Sun Day, June 7, 2009, as black against random combatant at Fly-or-Die
(...) To generalize, all matter cycles through galactic cores repeatedly ad infinitum. The tao of matter is away from the core as some light and mostly hydrogen, through a star and on outward again as light, and then back again to the core as relatively weak microwave energy. (...) In his book, Witt puts into the language of physics the definition of reality as it was laid out by the mystics and shamans of yore. For example, the Mayans believed that all manifest was borne of the great egg at the crossroads in the sky, which was the core of the Milky Way, our galaxy. ... Read More