There are many, many omens written within the pages of my latest release, The Constellation of Omens: The Signs of the End of the World, published on Jan. 28, 2009.  For those of you who have not read my book yet and for those of you who have, I came across a news article today that caught my attention.  I immediately recalled two of the omens written within the pages of my book, within two separate chapters, and correlated the two very separate omens to the one news article.  The omens and a snippet of the article are listed below:


Omen 1:  Hunger shall strike catastrophically and with great ferocity…

Omen 2:  Africa shall suffer mortal chaos

In the News:

Sudan Expels Aid Groups While Millions Thirst, Starve

NEW YORK, New York, March 9, 2009 (ENS)

The United Nation's top humanitarian official said today that the world body is striving at all levels to reverse the expulsion of 13 major aid groups from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region ordered by the Sudanese Government.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator John Holmes said that at the same time UN agencies are urgently planning to cover gaps in life-saving assistance that is essential to 4.7 million Sudanese - including 2.7 million internally displaced persons.

The UN estimates that the expulsions would leave 1.1 million people without food, 1.5 million without health care and at least one million without drinking water….

Sudan's decision to begin ejecting the non-governmental organizations came on Wednesday, immediately after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar Al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur.

The first sitting Head of State to be indicted by the Court, Al-Bashir was indicted on two counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity. The Hague-based ICC's pre-trial chamber found there was insufficient evidence to charge him with genocide, but stressed that if the prosecution presents additional evidence the warrant could be amended at a later date.

"He is suspected of being criminally responsible, as an indirect (co-)perpetrator, for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property," according to a press release issued by the Court. …

Complete News Story: 

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2009/2009-03-09-01.asp

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If you have a copy of The Constellation of Omens, I would ask that you please reread the Disasters chapter and The Great Famine within the Apocalypse chapter.  If you do not have a copy of the book yet and would like to get a copy, please visit the Constellation pageat my website located at www.abrightertoday.com for purchasing options, including Amazon.com and for ordering through your preferred bookstore.

As I am sure everyone has been witnessing on the news, there have been very recent perilous acts of nature occurring in all corners of the world - brute quakes in America and Europe - notably, the recent devastation in Italy.  Eruptions of volcanos - such as the latest one in Africa and shifts in the ocean floor, to name but a few.

There have been severe shifts in weather patterns across the globe causing major devastation, not to mention the very irregular pattern of the sun as of late.

Are these natural occurrences just a normal sequence of events for our times or do they mean something else? What other disasters do we have to look forward to?

The disasters and the erratic behavior of the weather that plague our modern days are no normal sequence of events. Find out what else is coming our way.

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I found myself caught up in poetic thought today. As I did not have the time to sit and formulate words into a piece of poetry, the thoughts just accumulated and formed a muse of their own.

So, the first thing I thought of was what if love was laughter? What if every time you laughed, that meant you were internally fulfilled with eternal love? And then that one thought escalated into a deeper contemplation. What if even if you laughed one time - that meant that love fulfilled you eternally, needing laughter no more? I thought, wow, what a concept – you could laugh at your own senselessness and be content. You could laugh at the idiocy of others and be satisfied. If love were laughter, love wouldn’t be sought after it would just come effortlessly – without game, without malice and without compulsion.

The next thing that crossed my mind was what if you could turn your favorite memories into today’s reality? What if you could reach into the vastness of your mind and pull from it, into your hands, your most favorite time, place, person or event from your past and place it down in front of you to live again? And, what if you could live in it forever? If rejuvenating memories were possible, there would be no misery, no wanting and no need –today would be the beginning of a beloved forever.

And then, I pondered, what if rain fell to quench your desires – all of your desires? What if every time it rained, you could stand outside and relieve your internal thirst? Being drenched in a blanket of rain would devour your yearn and replace it with completeness. There would be no need to desire, but only to look forward to the next rainfall to saturate your core in wholeness.

And then I had my final consideration of the day.  I thought what if the sun was an affectionate companion? What if the sun were affection, a hug, a kiss or a kind word?  Every time you walked out under the rays of the sun you would be embraced in arms that wanted you, that needed you, that adored you. You would be held by purity, spoken to by honesty and kissed by rays of devotion. If the sun was an affectionate companion, each day would be bliss.