Quirky week ahead. New Moon arrives on the 17th in late Aquarius at 8:14 am PST. The Sun enters Pisces on the 18th at 5:09 pm PST as the Chinese New Year enters the year of the Boar. Presidents Day is the 19th. Why the hell would we celebrate that? Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday comes the 20th. Ash Wednesday is upon the 21st with Venus going through the Omega/Alpha point as it enters Aries at 12:22 am PST. Thursday..... oh hell....... just call it a day........

Doesn't it all feel odd, odd, odd. That's the way it always is. You are becoming more aware of it. This won't be the year of the Bore in the sense of no drama; there's plenty of that in store. What is and will be boring is that you are realizing that the Dream is the endless regurgitation and reconsumption of the same old same old drama called the Karmic Wheel. It isn't getting better or worse. It's the same ad infinitum. Ya, tired yet?

You are the fun. Let go of getting fun from the Game. Otherwise it'll smell all the more gamey while you think you are the one that stinks. You can try to nose/knows more or less. That doesn't work either. If you be, you see. If you be, you choose. If you be, you play with the movie as it melts and you don't get lost in the everlasting projections that just go in circles. Belief, truth, power, grace, stuff, meditation and chewing gum will not relieve you of suffering. Suffering is the endless search for yourself in all those stories. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma. Enjoy yourself with all the weirdness passing under the bridge.

Here's some weird tidbits for the fun of it:

• Borat's brother is Simon Baron Cohen, a world class Cambridge expert on autism. Was he studying his wonderfully weird brother since childhood? Make sensy time? Upon winning his Golden Globes award, Sacha spoke at length of his fellow actor's anus and golden globes in real high definition tv.
• Dow Chemical currently is running a very prominent advertisement with the word: Hu. The religious philosophy of Eckankar considers that HU, the sacred word, is woven into the language of life. It is the Sound of all sounds. Now that's what we think of when we think of Dow Chemical! It gets creepier every day.
• Current government statistics reveal what are the ten highest states, with just a few exceptions, in these categories: Incarceration, Obesity, Gambling, Divorce, Unwed Pregnancies, Executions, Firearm Deaths and Suicide occurring in the predominantly Republican morals pandering Red states. Perhaps more study on the seven deadly sins would be better than projecting them onto all the other folks who are getting along just fine for Christ's Sake. (see Nov. 2006 Vanity Fair)
• South Korea has been killing its pigs, cats and dogs as prevention against bird flu.
• George W. Bush is president.
• A German Lutheran pastor recently self immolated himself to death. His last sermon voiced concerned that Islam was overwhelming Europe.
• The Dalai Lama would be glad to not reincarnate as the Dalai Lama anymore. (see 11/16/05 Charlie Rose interview)
• The actress, Karolyn Grimes, who played Zuzu in It's a Wonderful Life, who told George Bailey that every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings, had her movie career fade thereafter with her mother being terminally ill and dying when the girl was 14. Her dad died in a car accident a year later. She was orphaned to a bad situation for the rest of her childhood. Her 18 year old son killed himself. Husband number one died in a hunting accident and number two died of cancer. She sells her own Zuzu Bailey's It's a Wonderful Life Cookbook.