If you look at America’s history, you see major defining moments when it seemed the potential for complete collapse of the democratic experiment was close at hand. We were born in revolution with a violent war preceded by protests and riots against the oppressive laws of King George. The revolutionary war and its’ aftermath was violent and heart wrenching. The loyalists to King George were people without a country. They were looked upon as traitors to the new nation and unwanted by the British themselves. These were trying times in the 1780’s. America was truly inventing itself out of bravery, and the need for freedom in all areas, especially speech and religion. This period would set up the ongoing 80 year cycle of America reinventing itself in order to get rid of old patterns that no longer served itself. It was during this Revolutionary War period that America was inhabited by Germans who came to America to fight alongside the British. Germans participated on both sides of the Revolutionary War, with approximately 30,000 German auxiliaries, known as Hessians, fighting for the British. We already had German colonists in America who sided with the Revolutionaries. I mention this as Benjamin Franklin complained that we were being inundated by foreigners who didn’t speak the languages and changed the street signs to German from English. From the get go America had issues which they perceived a threat to their culture. This pattern would continue as part of America’s ongoing struggle to learn assimilation.

I have always been intrigued by the history of empires as well as the history of ancient civilizations that have been forgotten or barely studied. If we read these histories, we begin to see a pattern of civilizations that were very advanced even to the point of using ancient high tech. Of course, it is easier to trace empires that have been in existence over the last 4000 years. When we do, we see the pattern of each lasting no more than 250 year. Even as the Assyrians could only advance with spears and walking as their main tools of warfare, they lasted about the same amount of time as more advanced empires. The British empire lasted 250 years with large ships, cannons, guns and more modern warfare. They conquered more land and countries but still lasted the same amount of time. One of my favorites authors is Sir John Glubb who wrote the book “The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival”, points out the characteristics of the empires over the last 4000 years. Included in this follow up is the American Empire created in 1776 and launched in 1780. This would put the completion of the American Empire in current time ending in 2030. As we watch America recede from being the world’s caretaker and dismembering internal institutions, we see it taking on a more arbitrary and solitary role in the world. We are bullying allies and acting alone in world governance. Since other nation are rising in

by Wendell Berry When despair for the word grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be. I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

As we move from day to day fixated on the man-made world and our house payments, inflation, tariffs, loneliness and fear, we forget our connection to the Sacred, Eternal and Divine. We forget that all of this stuff is stuff. We forget that our time here is a culmination of decisions we made or didn’t make, love or lack thereof, disconnect from our source and amnesia of our plan for our life. We have allowed ourselves to be seduced by urgencies versus importance. We mistake money for piece of mind. We operate on a competitive level instead of a creative level. We have no enlightened leader. We have competitive individuals who have cut themselves off from the Sacred, Eternal and Divine and, therefore, can only lead based on winning, In studying Abraham Lincoln, one realizes how lucky we were to have him save us from ourselves and and who operated from wisdom. His connection to the Sacred was profound… so was his Mother who was clairvoyant. The following passage, author unknown, is entitled “How God made Abraham Lincoln” “Seeking a deliverer and savior, the great God in His own purpose passed by the palace and its silken delights. He took a little babe in His arms and called to His side His favorite angel, the angel of sorrow. Stooping, He whispered: ‘O Sorrow, thou well beloved teacher, take thou this child of mine and make him great. Take him to yonder cabin in the wilderness; make his home a poor

We are being consumed by threats to democracy, deportations, tariffs, conspiracy theories, Ukraine, Gaza, price of tomatoes and government layoffs, corruption, abuses of power and on and on and on. We think we are stuck in a downward spiral run off of relevancy by AI and drowning in social media. But, hark, a light shines on the hill!! America handles this drama well. It looks like we will never have our normal back or even our less than normal back. Instead we are experiencing the necessary shakeout while we create new or modify our existing institutions. It is an extreme shake out but this is what we do every 80 years. We are looking at what we have created since the end of WWII. This includes all the agencies created since that time, including the social programs we have created, the economic as well as the financial programs we have created. It has been the age of the experts and now we wonder who are the experts and can you trust them? This is a one-term period of disruption so that we can reinvent ourselves once it ends. It will end. We will come out the better but it seems right now that we are fatally ill and there is no cure for our disease. Not true but we have to still get through this period. There are many exaggerations, embellishments, lies, and general bad behavior. We are experiencing the worst in 2025 and 2026. Things begin an unusual course

I have headline fatigue. Every day is another urgency or scare. What will happen due to the chaotic tariff situation? Immigrants locked up in more detention camps, price creep on food and services, doctors dropping out of Medicare, podcast crazies, crude, rude and vulgar behavior, flooding in Texas, heat wave, fires and droughts. Sounds like the sky is falling chicken little. It would appear so. It overwhelms people and leads to complacency. This year and next are extremely hard for Americans. We just didn’t think we would have all this coming at once. BUT, we did vote a person who reflects our society. So, we will make it through all of this and more until we reach the end of 2028. Things don’t last forever–well death and taxes do–so this won’t last either. We just have to be wiser in our decisions and follow our own personal year energy and use it to help us. I know I am in an 8 year so my activities this year revolve around money and contract decisions. I’m having a new website designed as I write this. I am booking places, have several ideas for the new site and to launch items. I’m engaged more in strengthening my body, more weights and more movement. In short, the world may be convulsing but I am working towards a goal. I suggest it is healthier to work with your personal year and not to get caught up in the headlines. Much of the headlines and

I keep striving in my mind to keep America’s greater plan in place. Today I was in a car search near my same busy route home from shopping. They are grabbing people out of cars or walking in a parking lot. When you hear that they (ICE) and Border Security are capturing criminals, think twice. Most of the people caught up in their stings are just going to work or schools or doctor appointments or coming home from the stores. Most do not have any criminal records. Even my daughter, who is Vietnamese and came on the famous Orphan Air Lift 50 years ago, carries her proof of citizenship. She is afraid to walk her dog. Her husband, who was born in the US, has parents born in El Salvador and Guatemala. He has to carry paperwork that shows where he was was born. It is not enough to have a driver’s license. It is not enough to have a work permit or temporary status papers, they are grabbing you anyway. Today, in the Los Angeles Times, another man was taken to the ground and held down by three men. He went into convulsions on the sidewalk. A young woman hugged a tree as 3 men kept pulling on her and dragging her into the SUV. The officials show up masked with no identification and no markings on the vehicles. They are putting out want ads looking for construction workers and gardeners trying to trick them into applying. This is

Robert Francis Prevost, also known as Bob, was born on September 14th, 1955. He has an excellent chart for the career choice in this lifetime. I am not a practicing Catholic but when someone has a blueprint like his, it is a cause for celebration. He is really a decent human being who has a big 11 destiny number from his full birth name. He is a worker of the light and can inspire many others. His ability to channel is a powerful gift. The number 11 destiny is known as the “peacekeeper”. It is the person who can see both sides of an issue. Again, an important quality for the role he plays. His birth path is the number 7 taken from his entire date of birth. This is the path of the teacher of ethics, the thinker, the scientist, the person who wants to know how it all works. It is the person not easily fooled by appearances. He can spot a lie and a liar. It is a natural path to follow for the mystic or the intellectual. I would assume he gives and gave very good advice to his “flock”. His personality from his consonants is the number 6. The six is known as the responsible one, the caretaker, the teacher, the nurturer, the person who sees that you have a ride home or a coat to wear. No doubt he delivered some much loved care to his parish in Peru. Another quality of the number

In my zoom programs and earlier posts I have written about these “days of turmoil”. It is easier to write about them than to live them. However, live them we must. What we are experiencing is the slamming together of the big 80 years institutional cycle and the social and cultural 50 years cycle. It is a game changer and we have to decide how we want to play this game. Not only are we watching institutions of our nation built over the last 80 years since WWll but we are also experiencing the ending of the Reagan era than began in 1980. We began this shake up in 2015 when Trump came down the escalator in NYC. It is over by 2033. The hardest years are 2025 and 2026. 2026 should be easier. The next election in 2028 was always the one to watch. The election of 2024 was intended to break up the old systems so the new can come in later in the 20’s. It’s not here now. There are just the disruptor years. Trump’s job was to disrupt. In that respect he is doing a good job. The global system’s hair is on fire. The reminder for the American people is to ask themselves how they want their country to operate. The people’s body is the strongest power of the nation. It will have to make some essential decisions. What does it want? How will it move forward? What type of government does it want? Will