Aug 29: Quick updates...

Russia-Georgia War:
Aug 08 Russian tanks enter South Ossetia
Aug 09 Georgia declares state of war with Russia
Aug 12 Russia 'backs Georgia peace plan'
Aug 15 Georgia Signs Cease-Fire With Russia
Aug 22 Russia says withdrawal complete

US-Poland missile defense shield deal:
Aug 14 US and Poland agree defense shield deal
Aug 15 Russian anger at US missile deal
Aug 15 Russia warns Poland; Georgia awaits cease-fire
Aug 20 US and Poland seal missile deal
Aug 20 Russia condemns US missile deal

Also:

US Presidential Race:
Aug 23 Obama picks Biden as running mate

[From August 13 note: "I'm interested to see if 0bama will announce his Vice President pick on August 15 and McCain his on August 23."]

And some timely stuff...

See Aug 13 note below for context...

Cross-quarter Fire:

Timing-wise, both the Beijing Olympics and the Russia-Georgia war started on August 8th ('8/8/8') - the orbital 'Lughnasadh' cross-quarter day or the halfway point between summer solstice and autumn equinox. The 'horizon' version (same halfway point but based on sunrise/set angles) shifts it to ~August 23, coinciding with the closing ceremony in Beijing (Aug. 24). These are cross quarter-driven Games in Beijing.

Spatially, Georgia is right in the middle of a region known as the Caucasus (map), where according to Greek mythology Prometheus was chained to a rock for the transgression of giving fire to mankind - the same fire the Olympic flame signifies.

The last time the Georgia and Russia clashed and made international headlines was back on April 20 when Georgia's drone spy plane was apparently shot down by a Russian fighter jet, fulfilling our projected echo from the US Navy spy satellite shootdown on February 20.  Both were key 'fire' events anchoring two corners of a horizon cross-quarter 'fire box' I've been closely monitoring since last year.

Apr 20 Russia 'shot down Georgia drone' (spy plane) Sunday
Apr 22 Georgia turns to U.N. after spy plane shootdown
Apr 23 US reassures Georgia over Russia
Apr 25 Drone Shoot-Down Sparks Worldwide Spat
Apr 30 Russia warned over Georgia move

As you can see, the CQ 'torch relay' began with wildfires in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of the Olympic Games, starting around August 23 (2007), this year closely coinciding with the extinguishing of the Olympic flame that was ceremoniously lit at the stadium the day Georgia and Russia started a war, together commemorating the cross-quarter day (astro/orbital). Both flames are en route to ~August 23-24.

Cloverfield
Extinguished flame & decapitation...
Film released on St. Anthony day Jan. 17/18...
Series of decapitation events around August 1 or traditional Lugnasadh cross-quarter day...

Jul 30/31 Man decapitated on Canadian bus
Aug 01 Brazilian man confesses to decapitating British girlfriend
Aug 03 Gruesome decapitation shocks Greek isle

Fire in the Sky:

A 'Fire Alignment' is set to form in the sky around August 24 (discussed here months ago).

The Feb. 20 spy satellite shootdown was another major 'fire in the sky' timed to precisely coincide with the peak of a total lunar eclipse right in front of Leo's heart star Regulus, expressing 'arrow through the heart' - see 'Phoenix Impact Through the Looking-Glass'. 

2/20 Navy shoots down spy satellite
2/21 Space Arms Race Heats Up Overnight

On ~August 23, the heart of the lion is exactly where the Sun will be, diametrically 'mirroring' where the Sun was on Feb. 20 (i.e. 180 degrees apart)... as in 'through the looking glass' or 'mirror, mirror on the wall...' which is an overriding multicontextual theme at this time.

It is precisely in this context that we'll have the film 'Mirrors' debuting on August 15, St. Anthony of Padua birthday... along with 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' (clone as in mirroring).

      
[Mirrors & The Clone Wars released August 15]

Mirror, St. Anthony, and Mars/Phoenix have always gone tightly hand in hand...

...continued on August 15 with 'Star Wars' being an allusion to Mars, not only a 'fire planet' (thus 'fire in the sky') but also traditionally the planet/star of war, a 'Star War'. And the instruction is to 'clone' it ('Clone Wars'), reinforced by the simultaneous 'Mirrors' release.

The trick here is to go back one year - August 15, 2007 (marked by the start of Burma's Saffron/Orange Revolution and Peru's 8.0 earthguake). Observe Mars' position then, and observe the mirrored/cloned position of Mars.... on ~August 22, 2008!

So that's where we are and what's immediately ahead inside the Hall of Mirrors 2008. More clues to be dropped 'from the matrix' on/around August 15.

P.S. It is multicontextually suggested that we are to pay close attention to the fact that ~August 23 may be converted via the Julian calendar running 13 days behind into ~August 10 (Russia-Georgia war Aug. 8-12) and ~September 5. This is large part of the reason for our late August-early September 'radioactive window' which will tellingly coincide with the Democratic and Republican National Conventions (both 0bama and McCain are 'phoenix' figures).

P.P.S. I'm interested to see if 0bama will announce his Vice President pick on August 15 and McCain his on August 23. I also wouldn't be surprised if NASA made some kind of significant Mars/Phoenix announcement on/around August 15.

Jul 31 NASA confirms water on Mars

The 'real' signal here is 'Snow White'. That's the name of the trench where Phoenix scooped up the dirt sample. (The sample itself was dubbed 'Wicked Witch', evoking The Wizard of Oz.) This was, quite literally, 'Phoenix Impact Through the Looking-Glass'. The 'mirror' theme, originally derived from Narcissus and Alice, had shifted its focus more toward Snow White - another fairytale featuring a 'magic mirror' - during the recent Orangemen's Day window July 11-12, discussed here. It gave us the death of former Bush White House spokesman Tony (Anthony) Snow who was a 'Snow White' figure and a 'St. Anthony'. Timing-wise, as you know, Phoenix's landing on May 25 was a 'mirror' point of St. Anthony's feast day, January 17th.

Today's Martian water announcement 1) juxtaposed Phoenix with 'Snow White', and 2) came practically on the first anniversary of the 'St. Anthony Falls Bridge' (I-35W) collapse in Minneapolis. As such it was an unmistakable confirmation/continuation of the said pattern. In a non-leap year, the 213th day (= July 31 in 2008) is August 1st (highlighted by a total solar eclipse this year). Part of what is now Minneapolis was originally a city named 'St. Anthony'; Minnesota is the 'North Star State'; the North Star is situated directly above the North Pole; Phoenix landed near the Martian north pole. It's all very heavily intertwined. (See 'St. Anthony Code'.)

Looking a little ahead, the Beijing Olympics will begin on August 8th under a celestial 'Orange Alignment' (Aug. 9) followed by the 'Glorious Twelfth', August 12-13, interchangeable with Orangemen's Day (July 12) associated with Snow White and all that. It's also the phi division ('Golden Ratio' = 1 : 1.618) point of the year which has all kinds of significant associations (Venus, Apple/iPhone, etc.). Then comes August 15, the birthday of St. Anthony of Padua, last year marked by the start of the Saffron/Orange Revolution in Burma and a deadly 8.0 Peru quake. This year we're going to see, for one, the release of.... 'Mirrors'... on St. Anthony's birthday! (And yes, it's a story about a 'magic mirror'.)

[See preview at official site]

The next day the Moon will be full, setting off another 'Full Moon Fever'... on 'Deep Impact Day' (August 16 is impact day in the film 'Deep Impact'), 

And then we'll enter a 'radioactive' window, ~Aug. 22-Sept. 8. That's the window I've been paying a lot of attention to for many months. For one, February's 'Deep Impact' events including the spy satellite shootdown is going to be echoed there...

June 18...
Full Moon at Galactic Center

Firefox 3 'Download Day' (June 17-18)

[Firefox 3 sets Guinness World Record]

  
[Firefox logo left & NASA Phoenix mission logo right]

Firefox was originally called 'Phoenix'

2008 Phoenix Super Bowl halftime February 3rd - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers performing songs off 'Full Moon Fever'

Accompanied by arrow/missile piercing heart/Moon/satellite foreshadowing US Navy spy satellite shootdown on February 20 at peak of Full Moon/total lunar eclipse, and arrow of Sagittarius aimed right at the Full Moon at Galactic Center on June 18/Firefox 3 Download Day...

[Firefox/Phoenix 3 Download Day logo -
arrow through heart]

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July 18...
Full Moon and 'The Dark Knight' release

Demonic 'Joker' played by late Heath Ledger - found dead on January 22, Full Moon day, accompanied by Comet Holmes passing right in front of 'Demon Star' Algol

Ah, the innuendo...

Oh by the way, a 'Dark Night' is coming on August 1st (New Moon) - accompanied by a Dark Sun... a total solar eclipse in Cancer

Jul 15 Mars Lander Exposes More Ice

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its robotic arm to expose more of the hard icy layer just below the Martian surface so that it can more easily gather a sample of the material for analysis.

The trench, informally called "Snow White," was about 8 by 12 inches (20 by 30 centimeters) after digging by the arm Saturday. [...]

As the robotic arm was extracting the fork probe from the soil on Saturday, it came into contact with a rock called Alice near the trench.

Jul 17 Mars Lander Successfully Collects Ice Sample

Mirror, mirror on the wall... Can you say 'Phoenix Impact Through the Looking-Glass' (title of my latest article posted May 18)?

Tony/Anthony Snow's death on July 12 was a 'Snow White' event and a 'St. Anthony death' event (as discussed below), 'reflected' here by the fact that the May 25 landing of Phoenix on Mars was aligned with the feast/death day of St. Anthony the Hermit 'through the looking-glass'.

The trouble-laden launch in 2008...

Jul 11 Glitches hamper iPhone launch
Jul 11 The 'iPocalypse' is at hand

...was perhaps designed to evoke the 'Apple of Discord' as was called the golden apple that caused the Trojan War in Greek mythology. With its inscription 'for the fairest one' the introduction of the Apple of Discord leads to a goddess beauty contest judged by Paris who crowned Aphrodite or Venus who had promised him the love of Helen. It's a hyperlink to Snow White, i.e. 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?' - a fairy tale featuring another apple. (The 'mirror' theme originally had to do with Alice's 'Through the Looking-Glass'.) The story goes that the Queen gives Snow White a poisonous apple which puts her in a deep coma. Everyone thinking she's dead, Snow White is put in a glass coffin - not dead, not alive, waiting to be resurrected like King Arthur in Avalon (= 'isle of apples').

Say hello to Apple's glass-cube store in the Big Apple!

It's in this context that Tony Snow, former White House spokesman, died on July 12/Orangemen's Day. Snow, whose hair turned white in the White House, was a 'Snow White'.

Jul 12 Former Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies of cancer

As above, so below: It coincided with Venus entering the astronomical (not astrological) boundary of the constellation Cancer.

It was accompanied by Miss Venezuela (=> 'Venus') being crowned Miss Universe 2008 on July 13; in other words, 'Venus' winning the biggest beauty contest (=> Apple of Discord/'Judgment of Paris'). [July 15 UPDATE: The new Miss Universe is named 'Dayana' or... Diana! Further UPDATE: She was even once kidnapped!] 

'Apple of Discord', or 'gold of discord', was also expressed through major discord in the financial markets...

Jul 11 Dow dips below 11,000 for first time in 2 years
Jul 11 IndyMac is 2nd-largest bank failure in history
Jul 12 IndyMac may be costliest bank failure ever

'IndyMac' was the most direct acknowledgement of Orangemen's Day, not so subtly alluding to the bloodline of Princess Diana, a direct descendant of the Stuart kings (replaced by King William III of Orange and ensuing German rulers including the current House of Windsor). 'Indy' would be 'Indiana' or 'In-Diana', as in 'in Diana's womb', and 'Mac' would be 'son of' as in McCain meaning 'son of Cain'. 'IndyMac' as a whole therefore implies 'son in Diana', i.e. Prince William (and Harry) who came out of Diana's womb. Diana now gone (car crash in Paris), Prince William represents the 'lost king' - 'King Arthur' - set to return to the throne quite plausibly in/around 2012... like Snow White - a princess - waking up from her coma and reclaiming her rightful place.

It's a story of the 'Grail bloodline'... the Underground Stream. Hence Tony Snow was Anthony Snow, making his passing a 'St. Anthony death'. More on that perhaps another time...

• July 11: Apple releases new iPhone released - 'Ground Zero' glass cube in Manhattan ('Big Apple')
• July 11-12: Manhattan streets aligned with sunset
• July 12: Orangemen's Day

Last time the (original) iPhone was released, it was right at the Golden Ratio (phi) division of the current 'Mayan' Venus Transit pair... coinciding with two terror bombing incidents in the UK (one averted, one successful).

The combination of 'Apple' and 'Orange' evokes the 'Golden Apple' (in some languages oranges are called 'golden apples') - in Greek mythology the ultimate cause of the Trojan War (ancient world war and a euphemism for WW3). Manhattan was once called 'New Orange' in honor of King William III of England/Scotland who defeated the Jacobite forces supporting the deposed Stuart king at the Battle of the Boyne (Princess Diana was of the Stuart royal bloodline, as is Prince William, soon to be 'King William') on July 12, 1690, now celebrated as 'The Twelfth' or... 'Orangemen's Day'.

The new iPhone was officially announced back on June 9th in San Francisco (Golden Gate city) right at the time of the Venus Transit pair midpoint and Super Orange Alignment.

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Update - June 11-12 events:
Glitches mar Apple's iPhone debut
IndyMac is second-largest bank failure in history
Former Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies of cancer
More on these later...

As above...

June 7-9: Venus-Sun/Orange Alignment at Galactic Meridian -
longitude zero of celestial 'flood' (Milky Way)
June 20: Sun at Galactic Equator (center of celestial 'flood'),
summer solstice

So below...

June 7: Start of Midwest/Iowa 'Great Flood'
~June 20/summer solstice: Worst over (cresting rivers)

Iowa - Midwest Great Flood Ground Zero - is where 0bama's surprising march toward Dem. nomination began... on January 3rd (Iowa caucus) - day of perihelion (Earth closet to Sun) and day before sunspot Cycle 24 ignition. On June 7 (= Venus/Orange/Phoenix day) 0bama officially became presumptive Democratic pres:dential nominee as HiIIary made her exit and endorsed 0bama.

Perfect time mirroring...

[See 'Phoenix Impact Through the Looking-Glass' for context] 

Coming up next us the 'Phoenix' full Moon on June 18 followed by the summer solstice (6/20).