Connect in a disconnected toxic world
First we disconnected from our Earth –then from our soul’s purpose and our spirit. We stopped ‘being alive’ and we created the perfect storm. We were ready for the virus.
This New Moon in Gemini invites us to see connections to everything in a new way. Geminis love to gather information, disseminate it and join the dots. This is a highly sociable sign with a curiosity about everything in life. Making connections is one of the most important things in a Gemini world, but it is also becoming increasingly obvious that we live in such a disconnected world. Disconnected from our food, disconnected from how our plants and vegetables grow, disconnected from how the animals we eat are nourished as well as slaughtered, disconnected from the air we breathe, disconnected from where our goods come from – disconnected from harmony. And now with the virus we have finally been disconnected from each other.
I want to connect you today with an American doctor Dr. Zach Bush – a physician involved in endocrinology and hospice care. He is a respecter of death as a rite of transition, and his blending of the medical with the spiritual makes his message profound.
Firstly the technical bits. Viruses have been around since before man – we are built from viruses and we probably have several viruses hopping around our insides at any one time. Zach Bush gives most viruses a two year life span in general – they usually just disappear on their own. In our bodies we have a chemical called ACE2 (Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2). This is an enzyme that generates small proteins which in turn regulate functions in the cell. ACE2 is present in the lungs, heart, blood vessels, kidneys and liver. The ACE2 receptors act like gateways within the cell membranes - but the COVID virus also loves these receptors. The virus can only live if it finds a host and these receptors are the virus’s chance to get into the body. As we age we get more ACE2 receptors, just as we do if we are unfortunate enough to get lung disease, such as COPD or emphysema. So Big Pharma invented drugs which were ACE inhibitors. These drugs were initially for the treatment of high blood pressure, but they were also prescribed for lung disease, diabetes, kidney disease and cardio vascular disease. Big Pharma also created Statins, which many patients were encouraged to take, mainly to reduce cholesterol – they were punted out like Smarties at one point. However, a knock on effect of both these drugs is that your ACE2 receptors increase in numbers – Christmas and birthday all at once for the virus - and all those with diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease and high cholesterol became sitting ducks for COVID.
Deaths from the COVID virus do not seem to be presenting as a normal pneumonia as might be expected. It has been reported that first patients turn blue; they are suffering from a lack of oxygen - hypoxia which resembles high altitude sickness and cyanide poisoning. The Haemoglobin can’t carry the oxygen around the body. Additionally the initial treatment was a ventilator, but if the body cannot absorb the oxygen you are merely adding to the problem.
Now the virus’s best buddy is pollution and toxicity. Not only will both of these reduce immune function, the virus binds on to the microbe particles within the polluted air. So, in addition to all those sitting ducks I just mentioned, we add in the perfect storm of toxic air, toxic land and our own unhappy individual micro biomes. In one of my earlier articles I spoke of the perfect storm of planetary aspects too – I just never considered that our current situation would be a manifestation of the perfect storm. I also spoke before that we have been tasked with the job of caring for and tending our garden – planet Earth. And what we have done? Pumped polluted air in the atmosphere and put toxic chemicals into the ground where we grow what we eat. Nature right now appears as a ‘toxic stew of dying soils’ as we spray it to death with glyphosates and Round Up. God only knows what that does to our own micro biome as we ingest it all into our bodies. Toxic diets produce inflammation in our bodies. Increased inflammation goes hand in hand with an increase in ACE2 receptors and, therefore, hand in hand with susceptibility to the virus.
In our desire for maximum ground use and some form of perfection we eradicated weeds. But the ground is actually meant to have weeds because they have a job to do in rebuilding the ecosystem and the bio diversity. We have forgotten that we don’t just live in the ecosystem - we are the ecosystem – we are a fundamental part of it. But we chose to disconnect ourselves from it. In Zach Bush’s opinion we are forcing massive adaptation because of what is happening within nature and it all creates the perfect environment for this virus. The virus needed the perfect storm of toxicity in the mix to ratchet up the death toll.
We all noticed how the quality of our air improved as lockdown began. As human activity slows, the air becomes less toxic, the cyanide comes out of the air and lo and behold the deaths fall too. And why have the US and the UK had high death rates? Both follow similar rubbish diets, follow toxic agriculture practices and both have high numbers of the ‘functioning walking sick’, living on a cocktail of drugs which not only keep them alive but now it seems contribute to their death also.
As Bush says, nature’s goal is biodiversity and sustaining life – but we have not only put ourselves against nature, we were arrogant enough to think, as we destroyed it, we could also beat it and make up our own rules. Toxic air and toxic soil are things we can control, whereas the jury has always been out for me as to whether we had a Scooby chance of controlling climate. Nature will always fight back and she is much stronger as she will surely show us. It is highly likely that we will also be looking at some kind of earthquakes or other disruptive events on top of all this before too long as we enter eclipse season.
When there is bio diversity we can maintain eco balance but now it is our own ecosystems that are deficient. We are paying the ultimate price. This virus, Bush says, is now unmasking the toxicity of our environment. Interestingly Wuhan and Hubei province have very high air pollution – as does Northern Italy. Northern Italy also has a very aged population.
Disturbingly also we are behaving as though we are at war, constantly referring to our health workers as being ‘on the front line’. But one of the first rules of war was that at all costs you never left a comrade to die alone on the battlefield. What fear have we created that we tear apart the very fabric of society by allowing the last rite of transition to ‘the other world’ to be done alone? Not only do we have a disconnected society, we have a divided society that appears to have lost its basic moral behavior.
We are told we must wait for a vaccine but we are not told that no one yet has ever successfully created a half decent coronavirus vaccine. And Gates has said that his vaccine will be a retrovirus vaccine capable of re-coding our DNA. So far no retrovirus vaccine has ever got past the animal testing stage, but even thinking about the possibility of something that could gain entry and re-code our DNA sounds Frankensteinly frightening. Once again, rather than go back to the root cause, we want to put another sticking plaster on our broken way of life. Why can’t we clean up our act, become proper members of a community, create an ecology of harmony in the air and carry out regenerative agriculture? Then we can strengthen our own microbiomes and reduce the chronic inflammation in our bodies. The virus then won’t find a host so easily and our own immune systems will come into play just as nature designed us.
We need to remember we are part of a whole and we need to be working for the whole. As I have said a few times recently we need to find our own roles in society and become part of the fabric of society. We are sterilizing ourselves from everything including death – we have toxic food, toxic air, we have the blue light interrupting our circadian rhythms and we have disconnected ourselves from the fact that we are spiritual beings.
This New Moon is in a ‘conflict’ angle (square) with Mars (the virus) and Ceres (Goddess of the Harvest), so this reiterates what I have said about the undermining of our planet and its resources. Mars is also about risk and it is nigh impossible to make decisions that remove all risk. Either we face the virus or we face economic collapse – either way we get consequences and deaths. Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter and Venus are all now retrograde, to be followed in June by both Mercury and Neptune. That’s good in one way because there is plenty of energy to reconsider our actions but by the same token there is no forward motion energy either to take action. As Bush says, we need an evolution. And the planetary line-ups back this up too, suggesting that we have an opportunity for some kind of psycho/spiritual rebirth. But we are on knife-edge as to which way we use it –the red pill or the blue pill?
As Bush says, we need to see the beauty around us – the virome, the microbiome but most of all our planet – they are all things of beauty. In Bush’s own words, the planet just needs to be allowed to breathe! And we need to ensure that life becomes life.