Goro goro (rumblings)

So yesterday I saw listed on MetaFilter a brief bit about a woman in South Africa who has predicted that a major earthquake will occur in the Western US next week (Feb. 23rd, the full moon day).

She formulated this statement after a dream that she had in mid-January, and the linked website provides more context for her and her associates' thinking on the matter.

I made note of this and kind of dropped what else I was doing because this was the third (actually, now that I think about it, it's the fourth) item about an impending, high-level Earth change that I've read about since the beginning of the year. I also want to point out that in each of those cases, I wasn't seeking out such information.

One was included (indirectly) in an email sent from a friend with whom I shared sun and hummous in Qatar. That message came to her from a friend in Sri Lanka who lived in the ashram run by Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma). As detailed in the message, Amma had told people "the sea was going to come in" well before the tsunami arrived; she'd also told her students that other events like that would soon affect the US.

Another example was a news story about the tribespeople on the Nicobar or Andaman islands who escaped the tsunami with little injury*. In effect, their representative said that the great sea creature that sets such events in motion "ain't done [my language -- Ed.]," though their concerns and rituals were focused on the local environment, not some other part of the world. Strong (6+) quakes have continued to roil under the Andaman Sea basin since January. They have also popped off around the Philippines, Japan and Polynesia.

The most recent mention of Earth change [before yesterday] came by way of Shelly Wu in her Rooster Year forecast, which I shared last week**.

And then there was the item I read yesterday. SilverJade, the main author, gave particular attention to Mt. St. Helens, though as a trigger that might set off shifts that could then reverberate and endanger California (on a scale comparable to what occurred around Indonesia last year).


A graphic from a Hawai'i Online story
about current volcanic activity

The MSH element, more than anything, piqued my interest because I've known that the volcano has been percolating steadily since October, with an explosive exhalation in mid-January. These assertions about radical change also captured my attention because in the last several days I've looked toward Mt. Rainier -- or caught myself in an internal dialogue about the mountain -- and thought of a stirring from dormancy. That, and thoughts of being here in the apartment as a quake rumbled through.

This has gone through my mind for several days, here and again. But as I said, I hadn't gone fishing for information for the purpose of confirming my feelings. What I'm detailing here has come before my eyes in the last five weeks along with everything else I've read.

Here, I will also mention that yesterday's item was the first to make mention specific places and dates. And then I found out that on Sunday and Monday, there were three stories in the Post-Intelligencer about tsunami and earthquake preparedness around the Sound***.

So... what to do? Live and focus; communicate. Be aware of what signals and senses you receive. Nothing might happen between now and next week... except for what goes on every day.

The night before I read the prediction, I told a friend a quote from a Cascades Volcano Observartory scientist. Verbatim, he said of the Mt. St. Helens' recent activity: "We've learned an awful lot about what we don't yet understand." The same thing can be said to apply here. As always, it will pay to be conscious and creative.


*
"Are there myths or legends that have been passed down through the generations that help the people explain this disaster?"

"The spirit god Pulga is said to live on North Andaman Island, at the summit of Saddle Peak, at 2,418 feet (737 meters), the highest point of the archipelago. The Andamanese tribes fear him, because he punishes humans, causes storms, and "has a way with ancestors," according to Mustafa. In Andaman mythology, Pulga caused the cataclysmic flood that separated the Andamanese from their relatives on the mainland."

**
"If the Rooster year cycles of the past remain consistent, 2005 may go down as yet another uncustomary weather year. Aside from both extreme temperatures and the setting of new precipitation records in various localities; according to statistics, Rooster years are marked by an unusual number of great earthquakes throughout the world. The geophysical phenomena of plate-shifting and release of tension along the Rim of Fire/North American faults remains a concern."

***
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/59911_faultzone.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/211158_tsunamiseattle08.html

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/211473_tsunami10.html