Today's the darkest day of the year. Mercury is in retrograde. In Western Astrology, Mars has entered Pisces. Persephone is back with her husband, and Demeter is sobbing at the absence of her daughter. It's only been four to ten thousand years, maybe it's time that she gets over it.
And that might be the case, Sea Ice reached record lows for November, since at least the 1980s. The antarctic shrunk more than usual, and the arctic did not grow as fast. Decades of war continues to spread across the Middle East and Africa. The areas around the edges of the world's deserts have been in constant conflict. The Iraq War, Boko Haram Insurgency, Syrian Civil War, the Mexican Drug War, Darfur, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Sinai, South Sudan, the list goes on. Saying that these conflicts have nothing to do with climate change is kind of like saying the American Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. The world is heating up in a lot of ways.
Yesterday, the violence spilled over into Germany, when a man drove a truck into a Christmas market. ISIS, a group taking advantage of the Middle East violence, claimed responsibility for the attack. There have been other ISIS inspired attacks, previously: Paris, Orlando, and Brussels.
In the words of Dirk Gently: Everything is connected.
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