Tuesday, July 14, 2026 in numerology is 22/4 and it is represented in tarot cards by Death and the Emperor with a theme of releasing the past and being accountable for the present and the future. Combined with the day's destiny cards and the Mayan long count date I feel that a significant shift is imminent. It's 4953 days since the original notion that the Mayan long count calendar at 13.0.0.0.0 signified the end of the world on December 21, 2012 and 1,876,953 days since the inception of this calendar. In the Mayan haab calendar today is the seventh day of the sixth month of Xul (dog) associated with transformation and rebirth. My previous post about the Barbault basket ties in with the energies which will be peaking in six days time when Jupiter in Cancer makes its exact opposition to Pluto retrograde in Capricorn - a powerful aspect which could easily be translated as the people vs the establishment and a bridge between endings and the establishment of a new foundation. Does security

The hot summer days have seen me lazing in my hammock by the canal but when the winds get up and the towpaths become busy with the myriad visitors to the town I escape to the hills on either side of the beautiful Calder Valley where hardly a soul can be seen. Yesterday (Sunday) was such a day and my heightened state wasn't due to psychedelics of any kind but the release of endorphins resulting from the exercise, being out in nature, soaking up the vitamin D and a view of which I never tire. My only company on the two and a half hour walk was a flock of sheep. Yes I was high above Hebden with views stretching across the valley to Heptonstall, up the valley to Stoodley Pike and down towards Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale. There's always a new trail to discover and yesterday I got up to the peculiarly named Butts Bottom - a short stretch of lane which, going down hill is preceded by Haven Lane and followed by Dole Lane and Spencer Lane - before venturing on to a track on which the sheep encou

Living by the Rochdale Canal I am fortunate to enjoy the many goings on both on the water and the towpath opposite my boat. Having recently completed two four hour walks along sections of both the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the Lancaster Canal I have been inspired to create a new series of posts based primarily on my encounters with the creatures native to the environment of the frequent towpath walks I undertake and also those on the mooring itself. 'Tales of the Riverbank' was a children's TV series narrated by Johnny Morris in the early sixties and originally, having sighted a herd of cows by the Lancaster Canal, I had thought of calling this thread 'Tails of the Canal bank'. Whilst the TV series did feature mainy creatures with tails it is rare to actually see rodents thus the more fitting title for this thread which offers greater scope. Having said that there are plenty of fish in the canal (I saw a shoal of mature tench the other day) and also numerous species of birds in the i

Off on a tangent today following my attendance at a presentation on Monday evening at New Horizons in St Annes on Sea which has led me to digest and contemplate the subject matter: 'The Theory of Everything: Prime numbers' and in particular to its relation to the number 24 which is represented in the image above which since July 22, 1947 has been at the centre of the Indian tricolour or Tiranga. (The numbers of July 7, 2026 add up to 24). For more information on the Ashok Chakra go here. Symbolically 24 is about aligning your heart with your actions, finding a sense of balance and peace, and enjoying the beauty of life. It's a hugely spiritual number and one that encourages high vibrations, awareness, and trust in the beautiful journey ahead. The presentation expanded on the fact that time is neither linear nor cyclical but a helix spiral. Rather than analyse the various associations that the number has the key takeaway from the presentation was the revelation that all prime numbers ha

On July 3, 1976 the UK saw the hottest day of that long hot summer (a continuous heatwave from June 23 to August 27). On the very day I jetted off to cooler climes - taking my first ever solo holiday in Arenal d'Castell, Majorca with Arrowsmith Holidays, flying with Laker Airways (BAC1-11) and staying at the Apollo Hotel. In those days as you disembarked the aircraft a photographer would be on hand hoping that when you left the island you would purchase the photo! It was my first full year in the travel industry which began in April with an educational trip to Tunisia hosted by Thomson Holidays and the Tour Khalef Hotel in Sousse; in October I jetted off from Gatwick to Los Angeles on a British Caledonian boeing 707, refuelling in Edmonton, for a week long exploration of California based at the Holiday Inn on Hollywood Boulevard; I closed out the year with a flying visit to London to collect an award from British Airways for an outstanding 100% pass in their agent qualification scheme.

The 'Burnham question' on many peoples lips right now and rightly so - it's now a case of 'Ju-ly or Ju tell the truth?' Let me preface this post by saying I have absolutely no politicial inclinations and this perspective has been published to provide an overview of what Andy Burnham's role maybe and how it will impact both the UK and the rest of the world. I have spent the entire afternoon expanding on a presentation I created two years ago entitled 'the path of Pluto' in which I reviewed a series of astrological events which will climax in the summer of 2027. At the time I was looking at it from a Western tropical perspective since when I have adopted the true sidereal approach which sheds a different light entirely on how these major aspects are likely to impact our world. Today there is a veritable cornucopia of media posts on the turning point that is the month of July 2026, The difference with this one is that is not based on the tropical astrology planetary positions but the actu