Minogue Times – Gail Minogue

Think and Prepare Like a Warrior

Many years ago I read an excerpt from a book written by John Perkins who had or has a base in New Jersey where he taught martial arts and their mental requirements. I found it pretty relevant to everyday life. His specialty was preparing newly graduated police recruits for the real world of the streets. It wasn’t enough to learn from an academy but to also learn the down and out chaos of the real world.

During our challenging times of anger, chaos, fake news, aggressive and crazed humans, lies, corrupt officials, corrupt corporations and the other nasties in Pandora’s box, I find John Perkins mindset preparations genuinely helpful. I thought you might to. Please remember, if you want this society to improve, you will be required to become involved with improving it. The time has past for complaining and marching. A buildup of citizenry influence is necessary. Make your …

Gail Minogue Monday, October 11, 2021 4 Comments

Let’s Remember to Laugh and Dance to Love

What a crazy funny week this has been. I have to laugh at the nuttiness of it all. Just when you think

the world can’t get worse in the news or social media or any media, you remember a few basic tenets of our current life. This all will pass away. All of us will someday too. So, it behooves us to think on the things that are beautiful, wonderful and kind. The news will just always be negative because that is what sells and people like to be scared or angry or right. The news is plastered with the ending of this phase of Afghanistan’s evolution. It is plastered with covid counts. Gosh, I can’t read them any more. It’s plastered with shootings, car accidents, droughts, excessive heat, floods and other “acts of God”. How about inflation, lack of housing, homeless souls and religious zealots. It goes on and …

Gail Minogue Saturday, August 21, 2021 4 Comments

The Day of Reckoning Has Arrived

We humans love certainty, safety, dependability and trust. We have relied on our jobs, marriages, good health, our investments, our pensions and even our pets. We think we can control our lives by routines and good habits. We never think about pandemics, food deprivations (in the developed countries) and other devastating acts of God and nature. We depend upon this earth world for everything. We look for our perfect mate, our doctors to take care of us, if we can afford it, our jobs, our vacations, our happiness and leaders who will make wise decisions for us.

I can remember when it was possible for the average person to buy a home, go to college at reasonable tuition rates, raise a family and put your children in college without going into debt. This was actually possible. I also remember when cosmetics and certain basic pharmacy brands were not locked up. …

Gail Minogue Wednesday, August 11, 2021 4 Comments

In a World of Noise, Discipline is your Greatest Asset

It was Lincoln who said “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

What can we do to not destroy ourselves through these challenging times?

I had a long conversation (90 minutes) last week with a friend in India. It is interesting to hear the perspective of those dying and those begging for the vaccine. Here in America, we are paying people to get the vaccine. You shake your head when you hear people not wanting the vaccine. How much noise have they listened to or do they believe they will not get the disease?

There is so much noise out there and too many of us are listening to it. There is so much fear out there and too many people are buying into it. It is time to think in a reasoned and …

Gail Minogue Tuesday, June 8, 2021 12 Comments

Every Day is Wednesday

I remember many years ago when my former husband was a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he would say that every day is Wednesday. They bombed every day. It didn’t matter if it was Saturday or Sunday; every day was Wednesday. The comment reminds me of my life today. This Wednesday routine won’t always be the case but it is now in the present and, in reality, that is all I can work in. Saturday and Sunday’s are more of the same as Wednesday. Working from home, self-employed, I can go walk on any day, go to the pharmacy any day, take out food any day, shop at Trader Joe’s any day etc. The only must do week days are doctor appointments. Here is Los Angeles, there are no cultural, sporting events, dining in, open gyms, no pedicures, no hair salons, no bars, weddings, family gatherings of no more than …

Gail Minogue Sunday, August 2, 2020 14 Comments

Stumbling Forward is Still Moving Forward

Sometimes it feels as if we take two steps forward and three back. However, we still keep moving forward and that’s a good thing. Even though right now it is just a a series of bumbling and jerking, we move the ball a bit further and further. In spite of ourselves, we are progressing. It’s easy to be discouraged, frightened (petrified) and exhausted. So many changes are taking place and everything appears uncertain. Where, why and what has happened? This is what big changes look like. The rug is yanked out from beneath and we have to attempt to save ourselves and regain our balance. My motto is “don’t borrow trouble”. Do not go around the block to meet it.

Jane Goodall, the famous primatologist, said “I think people are seeing that we brought this pandemic upon ourselves by disregarding the warnings of scientists,” She was quoted in the Wall …

Gail Minogue Sunday, July 12, 2020 20 Comments

Our Own Role in Our Poor Health

As you know I have been interested in Numerology and other ancient mystery

school information for many years. The more you learn, the more you need to learn. It is an endless loop of knowledge. We as a group are just waking up out of ignorance. As we travel the spirals of lifetimes and civilizations, we pass through the portals of various levels and planes of existence and consciousness. In our “modern” times and I question the word modern, we are learning how little we know. Our ignorance shows up in many forms, belief in superstition, believing without questioning, being dazzled by the sizzle, reacting and not thinking, inability to manage ourselves and inability to change when change is necessary. I guess the list could go on for many pages. There is one area though that is very costly to us due to our ignorance and lack of questioning or …

Gail Minogue Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11 Comments

Stop Borrowing Trouble

I remember several years ago a friend mentioned this to me. Stop borrowing trouble. Don’t go around the block to meet it. These words have saved me from myself many times over. Maybe I am wrong, but in my experience we seem to all love to scare ourselves and go out to the future and expect the worst case scenarios. We are really doing it now in spades with the corona virus scare. This is not to say that it isn’t real or deadly but we are focusing on the “how” we will make it moving forward. How will we stay alive? How will we have any money, food, shelter, safety? When will we be released from our lock downs? When will things return to normal? Will we be kicked out of our apartment? How will I hold myself together cooped up with the kids? What will happen to …

Gail Minogue Sunday, April 26, 2020 17 Comments

Death and Transformation–Looking Beyond the Pandemic

Here in California we have passed the first month of our lock down. It seems to have helped. In Los Angeles you will not be admitted into any essential business without a face mask. In short, if you step outside your house, you need to be masked. It is hard to see a world moving forward in light of these conditions. As we test more, we will raise the number of sick patients. It seems like the world we knew is gone. In actuality, part of it is. Part of it died and is in the process of transformation. We just don’t know how it will change. There are hints and signs of what we can expect moving from the old ways into the new ways. The old ways want to reopen the economy asap and try to get to get back to business as usual. It won’t and it …

Gail Minogue Thursday, April 16, 2020 4 Comments

The Less We Think of the Next World-The Greater Mess We Make of This One

I love this saying. It’s another Irish proverb. You know those Irish. They have sad songs and merry wars. There is an element of truth in their ditties. We keep thinking this world we are now living in is the cat’s pajamas, the real deal. It seems so and we become very attached to all that goes here. We are attached to our stuff, our patterns, our loved ones, our rituals, our religions and our comforts. We panic at the thought of running out of toilet paper, hand sanitizers, hand and counter wipes. I saw a woman whose grocery cart was filled with nothing but pasta and cans of tuna fish. If we can’t get our toilet paper, then we will overload the cart with bottles of water. We live in the world of fear and what if’s. We have an invisible enemy which is lurking and lunging. Anyone could …

Gail Minogue Saturday, April 4, 2020 15 Comments

For What’s It’s Worth–When or will this virus fade away?

Humans will get through this latest test of its humanity as it has been doing for ions. As the corona virus spreads itself around the world, we are finding that politics and politicians really can’t wish it away. Neither can they laugh it off or blame it on another political party, a witch hunt, a hoax or that the dog ate my homework. This is such a critical period for all of us as we get to see how we think and feel about things we can’t control. Not being able to control our own safety is really scary. We wear masks (that for the most part don’t work), we wear gloves (forgetting that now we have the virus on our gloves and we touch our clothes with them as well as all types of door knobs, food products etc. Share and share alike.

We actually become fairly crazy. We …

Gail Minogue Sunday, March 15, 2020 23 Comments

Birth Charts of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders

We are down to the final decision on the two democratic primary candidates. I thought it the best time to take another look at Bernie Sanders and a new look at Joe Biden. I did a chart on Bernie back in early 2016 and nothing has changed since. A birth chart stays with you your entire life. Some transits may occur but the core of you is intact. You can read about Bernie here https://gailminogue.com/bernie-sanders-numerology-chart-what-are-his-issues/

Remember, this was written four years ago.

Joe Biden is a very different chart. His birth name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. and he was born November 20th, 1942. He has the Life Path of the number 11, a Master Number. Master Number individuals are always on an assignment. Former Master Number presidents include Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. There is always the quality of the peacekeeper and they tend to be inspirational …

Gail Minogue Monday, March 9, 2020 7 Comments

Don’t Borrow Trouble–Stop Going Around the Block to Meet It

Don’t borrow trouble. Stop going around the block to meet it. A wise friend told this to me many years ago and it has guided me all my life. That doesn’t mean I don’t worry or concern myself too much with trying to figure out the “how” of everything. I am more conscious now of the “what” and not the “how”. Over the years I have learned the best way to stop myself and waste copious amounts of time is to try to figure out the how.

This leads me to today’s corona virus scare. Fear sells and if it was a corporation listed on a stock exchange, it would be going through the roof price-wise. We could buy thousands of shares and watch ourselves make money. Unfortunately, fear has always been the greatest selling tool and we humans ingest it like it was candy. Now, of course, we have …

Gail Minogue Wednesday, March 4, 2020 14 Comments

Why We Don’t Have Great Leaders

Where are the great leaders? It seems to me I don’t see them in the news, the business world, the government, the social structure or the spiritual/religious structure. What has become of the greatness in our leaders of today? What makes up greatness? Have we succumbed to success and not greatness? Have we measured greatness by bank accounts, celebrity status, the ability to control more people or headlines and tweets?

Why is it so difficult today to create greatness? What does it take to foster it in a person? What has happened to our society that we care so little for it and are happy to confuse wealth and power with greatness. Are we more naive? Why do we demand so little of our leaders. Why do we settle? What does it say about us?

I turned to my old companion for answers, “The Wisdom of Wallace Wattles”. …

Gail Minogue Sunday, February 23, 2020 6 Comments

Kobe Bryant-A Shooting Star

The world was shocked and saddened last week by the abrupt departure of one of the world’s best basketball players and princely figures. That someone so popular, charismatic and young could just quickly leave our human condition demonstrates again that we live our lives from moment to moment. We think our lives from days, weeks, months and years but the truth is it could end in a flash and, and for some of us, it does.

Kobe Bean Bryant was born in Pennsylvania on August 23, 1978. He squeaked inside the sign of Virgo but still has quite a bit of Leo energy in his planetary energy package. In numerology his life path, from the total of his date of birth, was a master number 11. He was born to lead, inspire and shed light. In the scheme of things, 11’s are late bloomers and can have a fabulous career …

Gail Minogue Sunday, February 2, 2020 6 Comments

Nancy Pelosi’s Birth Chart–What is her power?

In astrology the natural leaders’ signs are Aries, Leo and Capricorn. There is a great deal of power in these three sun signs. We look at many of those in office to see who are the natural leaders. One of these is Nancy Pelosi, an Aries. You can easily see her controlled power when she speaks and how she carries herself. You understand why she was chosen as Speaker of the House and why she was able to guide the Affordable Care Act into passing by a challenged Congress. She is a force to be reckoned with and you can see the distance Trump stays away from her. He knows she can run circles around him.

What attributes does she carry to make her so successful? She was born March 26, 1940 and will be 80 on her next birthday. She still wears the 4 inch heels and walks like …

Gail Minogue Friday, December 6, 2019 25 Comments

An Endangered Species–The Middleman/Woman

The world is on a disrupter tear. It is disruption all over the world. This has been in the works for some time and has many causes. One of these being the changeover from an industrial age to a technology age. Land, labor and capital is not enough to succeed today. You must also have “knowledge”. For areas of the world that don’t have knowledge, these areas will wither in progress. We see this quite easily in the United States where the bulk of new jobs and progress is being created in city hubs. These provide educational opportunities, corporate activities and networking for those who reside in them. Areas of the US that don’t have these qualities are being left further behind. An overall disruption is taking place throughout the United States. It is easy to see the areas already disrupted and the areas that will soon be disrupted. …

Gail Minogue Saturday, November 16, 2019 5 Comments

Thinking is No Longer a Luxury

As we move away from the Piscean Age into the Aquarian Age, we are learning the process of thinking. The fading Piscean Age was very different in that its characteristics were built more on emotions than on thought. That is not to say there weren’t some great thinkers over the last two thousand years. The masses, however, were poorly educated and most could not read. Scribes wrote the letters. The printing press started to make writing more available but it wasn’t until the dawn of the Age of Aquarius in the early 1800’s that the education of the masses began to take shape.

The old philosopher, Manly P. Hall, wrote many books, gave many lectures on this theme. He states that “today philosophy is one of the most important areas of our mental life. It is the only instrument we know by which we can organize the purposes and reasons …

Gail Minogue Tuesday, September 3, 2019 3 Comments

A Glimmer of the Worm Turning

It’s interesting to watch the world go through all types of twists and turns as it adjusts to heavenly transits. The big Pluto in Capricorn transit has been haunting our lives since it began in 2008. I have kept the same drum beat rolling that until it was done with us, there would be little peace and sanity. The hardest days were to be 2015 through 2019. The ending would come in 2024. We are right on time!

Whether the United States realizes it or not, it is the catalyst of change for the world and that was part of its purpose. Inside the United States, the catalyst is California and it will change the United States. So we must go through these challenging times always realizing that a higher purpose is in play. For America to evolve and understand how to assimilate it has had to be disrupted …

Gail Minogue Tuesday, August 20, 2019 11 Comments

Unintended Consequences of Aquarian Age Changes

In all that we do and all that we plan, there is always a parallel, invisible tract running alongside our plans.

We plan for our safety; we try to plan for the roof over our heads, our income, our health and so on. We buy insurance, we work extra hours, we raise our families, and we try and date the better people. In short, we act as if we are somehow in control and if we do this (invest in the right stocks) or we do that (buy more life insurance) that we can be safe from future calamities. But time after time life will show you the parallel track that has been running with you all along. It can come in a sudden diagnosis of cancer, the drowning or accidental death of a child, a city condemns your property due to toxic leakage, your pension plan is cut …

Gail Minogue Wednesday, August 7, 2019 13 Comments