Rise of the Ape Virgin

Last week 16 August Virgin resonators jumped out of the woodwork upon noting Steve Carell and Madonna share Birthdays.

Another 16 August Birthday boy is James Cameron who entrains with Carell (Noah in Evan Almighty) by being famous for his Giant Boat/Ark movie Titanic. The Titanic sank on its maiden or "virgin" voyage.

A week later on 22 of August Kate Winslet makes headlines having saved Richard Branson's, Virgin founder, mom from a burning building. Above she and Branson are fooling around recreating the "Jack, I feel like I'm flying!" scene from Titanic.

The next day August 23 and we enter Virgo the astrological sign of the Virgin maiden...

A rare east coast earthquake hits the US in Virginia, felt across a dozen states and multiple Canadian provinces.

The Washington Monument, a giant modern representation of an Egyptian Obelisk, sustained a crack during the Quake in the top most section or Capstone area.

Wikipedia tells us:



The obelisk symbolized the sun god Ra, and during the brief religious reformation of Akhenaten was said to be a petrified ray of the Aten, the sundisk. It was also thought that the god existed within the structure.

Egyptian Obelisk



We imagine Ra being released by this crack in his monument...

The Obelisk had an earlier progenitor in ancient Egypt called the Benben stone. This pillar or mound was the home of the Bennu bird, said to be the soul of Ra, who topped the sacred phallic object. The capstone part of the Obelisk, cracked on 23 August during the Virginia quake, is thus associated to the resting place of the Bennu whose modern parallel is the Phoenix.

We can easily imagine again how the crack in the Washington Monument is the portal of the Phoenix, splitting to let out the soul of God.

Wiki on Bennu:

Some of the titles of the Bennu bird were “He Who Came Into Being by Himself,”

Wiki Bennu



The Phoenix rising from its own ashes is analogous to the Virgin Birth and thus Virgo.

How perfect that this same day seeing the start of Virgo and the split of the Capstone - home of the Phoenix - is the Birthday of the late River Phoenix.

Virgo is particularly relevant to Washington DC and its Obelisk. David Ovason has pointed out the city was designed with numerous zodiacs and monuments with specific & overt emphasis on Virgo.



"The cornerstone for the Washington Monument was laid at the north-east corner of the foundation in the early afternoon of 4 July 1848. As I have indicated, probably one reason why the Masons chose to lay the stone in the afternoon was because they wished to allow the all-important Virgo to become operative in the chart. Shortly before lunchtime on that day, the Moon went into Virgo"

p 153 The Secret Zodiacs of Washington DC - David Ovason



An individual who is waking up into knowledge of self will undergo ceremonial drama - conscious or otherwise - fitting the temperament and psycho-spiritual associations this individual has with enlightenment and such affairs. The environment - a conscious facet of the self being realized - will self organize, accommodating the needed ritualistic elements to satisfy the criteria so desired by the person becoming conscious of I Am.

In exactly the same way the collective self of Earth is also undergoing initiation into self Nosis via the drama and ritual we call world events.



Wiki:

While Bennu is the common name given to the bird in English, the original vowels of the name spelled as bnn by Egyptian scribes are uncertain, although it may have been pronounced something like *bānana.

Wikipedia Bennu



We see that Bennu/Phoenix (thus Virgin/Virgo) shares resonance with Banana the favorite fruit of monkeys. The association with the "Bird that Rises" and the Banana works well with phallic connotations of the fruit and Washington Monument associated to the Bennu.

Will Morgan aka @satoriallme noted yesterday on twitter that Tim Burton's 2001 version of Planet of the Apes has Mark Whalberg crash landing on The Mall of DC in front of the Ape version of Lincoln with the Washington Monument in the background.

Whalberg's huge Banana is the focus of film Boogie Nights.

Perfectly 'N Sync we note today, 24 August, is Tim Burton's birthday who also made Mars Attacks where UFO's topple the Washington Monument onto a troupe of Boyscouts.

UFO's and aliens symbolize Cosmic Consciousness, coming from the Stars and Heaven, another metaphor for self realization. The saucer toppling the pillar is the symbolic equivalent of what happened yesterday for real in DC.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes deals with monkey revolution, evolution & a virus outbreak. The virus carrying monkey in Outbreak arrives in the US by boat/ark with the Golden Gate bridge looming, a major setting of the similar Rise of The Planet of the Apes.



The spreading of the deadly virus is symbolic of the ego destroying "threat" of rising consciousness. We inaccurately identify our bodies, lives and the world with the self thus fearing and dramatizing the destruction of these. Tellingly we enjoy these films as they show the symbolic disillusion of the false self.

Our lives, bodies and the world are cherished and sacred facets of consciousness but only the event horizon from which we leap into the infinite.

In Outbreak the disease spreads from the movie theater. Sync is helping realize consciousness, the movie screen having become a potent tool for waking us up to the interconnected and inseparable nature of all existence.

Having entrained with Virgin the day before the Virginia Quake its worth noting Kate Winslet herself is in an upcoming virus film strengthening this theme.



Contagion is released September 9, 2 days shy of the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, the most famous dramatic self realization Mega Ritual.

Last year during Virgo we saw Easy A (and The Towns nuns) entrain with Virgo. Emma Stone was the Virgin claiming to be a harlot in order to become popular at her high school.



See The Rabbit Whole

Our Virgin Emma Stone returns in Virgo with just what out troubled world needs "The Help", the number 1 film in theaters right now. The tagline reads "Change begins with a whisper." making me wonder if these potent signs are relatively small in comparison to what is coming.



Updates pending, flux willing.



Take care.

The state of management

Welcome to another Discuss HR, the blog written by and for members of Human Resources UK.

Time is relative to each individual, but the thought we are about to enjoy the final Bank Holiday before Christmas is somewhat astonishing! The year has flown by for the group too, which has seen member numbers swell by over 50% which is fantastic.  On that note we are looking to grow the numbers of the blog writers, so if you are interested in joining the panel please let me know.

To the point at hand, today John Hepworth looks at why so many organisations treat leadership as a trait we are born with, rather than a trait we are capable of learning. (Ed Scrivener)

The state of management

What makes a good leader?

In recent months, I have been talking to a lot of managers. Some of them suggested that they were in fact ‘leaders’; many of them did not really understand what leadership meant in practice.

Management and leadership; leadership and management. They still seem to be inter-changeable in today’s business world: this, the world of amazing technology (is it only 30 years since the first pc was launched by IBM?), fluctuating markets and “Dragon’s Den”. You would think that by now, with management science being around for at least 150 years – and a good deal longer if we consider the ancients like the Greeks and the Romans – management and leadership would be a good deal better defined, and indeed understood?

I suppose that the simple answer to this question is that the term ‘general management’ is still not seen as a vocation and a respectable profession. Even when we re-brand it as leadership – perhaps as being focus on the future, rather than management of the present (insert your own definitions here – there are so many!) – this is often on the back of ‘entrepreneurship’. For instance, Richard Branson, James Dyson, Peter Jones et al – I’d bet that they are all seen as entrepreneurs, for who management and leadership comes from having a great commercial idea and sense of timing. Not that they get their businesses going through exceptional people management. When do you here any of them chatting about how better people leadership got them better results? I may have missed them, so forgive me, but I cannot recall such a focus recently. If anything, it is all about stocks and shares and their impact on earnings per share or some such (by the by, who selected the risk takers in the City?!).

In other words, management and leadership is a by-product of the original reason they got into business in the first place – to make money.

Even if I look at the not-for-profit sector, I would argue that many are still thrust into the management or leadership positions on the back of their own original vocation – be that nursing, local government or other public SERVICE.

My point I guess is that until organisations begin to value the development of managers and leaders in the same way that they value technical expertise in engineering (perhaps a bad example!), accountancy or supply chain savings, then the profession will still be the business bridesmaid, to quote a phrase.

So in the spirit of the positive psychology movement, what may be done in order to create a better image for the manager and the leader?

Turning aside the obvious process route – we know appraisals work, so do development plans, so does honest and fair disciplinary, and so on – the fundamental is that companies perform better when people are managed and led. And to select the right managers and leaders initially is a good start. It is without doubt clear that selection of managers and leaders is poor; when it does happen, then there is little or no support afterwards.

And I am not referring here to the larger companies in the UK. With over two million defined as small businesses, it is here that the selection and development of managers and leaders is at its worst. This sector needs to address this issue sooner rather than later and see selection and development of their management / leadership cadre as much more than ‘the job is yours because you know the product / client / customer’. People management through management and leadership is a worthwhile and difficult technical skill – but boy, do you see the benefits when it done properly. With the current economy, the survival and development of small businesses surely is the way forward, especially as most of us are employed in them?

SME management...

For the small business market, the Government incentives that include LMAS funding are welcomed but nearly every time I have used the facility supplied by LMAS, small companies do it because there is funding – and not because they need to improve their people skills. We need as a group of HR professionals to ‘sing from the rooftops’ about the benefits of selecting better managers and leaders – we all need to get ‘blogging’ about best practice and network to share the ideas that work. We need to show leadership and influence to prove to the clearly profit-focused and energised CEOs of this world that all elements of employee engagement are worthwhile – and that they come through good managers and leaders.

We have a responsibility to lead this debate and pull it away from how much funding is there, what free development is available and so on and be evangelical in our promotion. Management and leadership is a profession to respect and nurture – but let’s make a noise about it!

About the author

John helps organisations, especially in the SME sector, achieve competitive advantage.  He has a particular interest in translating strategic HR management into practice.  Typically, this has meant focusing his efforts on recruitment and selection, performance management and training and development activities.  John sees the challenge of matching the development of internal competencies with the externally driven demands of the market place as one of the key themes in developing organisational engagement, capability and performance.

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Your Blog Needs You!

If you are reading this the chances are you are familiar with the concept of Discuss HR.  It is the blog for Human Resources UK, the leading LinkedIn group for those involved in HR in the UK.

The blog is intended to do exactly what the name says Discuss HR.  We write about issues affecting the world of HR and we like to think we are slightly different to the norm with the occasional contentious, irreverent and humorous view.

So why am I telling you this?  We have a spot available for a regular writer.  There are presently 7 writers (see Who We Are) and unfortunately one of our regular writers will be undertaking a global project which will curtail her blogging career.  Therefore, we need you!

You do not need to be an active blogger to be considered, simply interesting and from the world of HR.  You need to be a member of LinkedIn, from the UK and able to commit to writing an article once every 8 weeks, plus other ad hoc work.  If you are interested contact me and let me know what you would write about.

Ed Scrivener (or Ed the Ed as I am becoming known!!)

Sounds of Sherwood Podcast; Sync Call 1.23.10

Over a year after it was recorded Sounds of Sherwood presents the first attempt at a sync conference call. Hilarity ensues as James Ratte host a campfire chat at Camp Kumbaya. This talk involving most of the Authors working on the Sync Whole on the 23rd of January 2010. Roll call includes Tyehimba Garvey Toure, Jake Kotze, Kevin Halcott, Jim Sanders, Jon Kidd, Richard Arrowsmith, Douglas Bolles, and Will Morgan. A donation if you please for passing through Sherwood forest. Please enjoy and look for part 2. Art concept by Will Morgan Executed by Richard Arrowsmith,

Accountability: are we getting it right?

Welcome to this week’s Discuss HR.

Today thousands of teenagers have been put out of their misery.  Unfortunately Jedward haven’t retired, but the latest A level results have been published with many attending University and hopefully being the next generation of HR – for those that didn’t get the results they wished a career in recruitment is always an option!  In recent weeks we have seen the darker side of a very small section of teenagers (and more besides) and numerous debates have arisen as to who is accountable.  Today Dorothy Nesbit looks at accountability in both social and HR contexts.  (Ed Scrivener)

Accountability:  are we getting it right?

A similar site recently greeted Dorothy

On Monday evening, 8^th August I was at home in a quiet side-road in the suburbs of South East London when I became aware that there were far more people on the pavements than I am used to seeing.  Looking down the street towards the Shopping Centre (which is just two minutes walk away) I was shocked to see a line of police officers carrying riot shields.  I watched the scenes that unfolded, which culminated in two cars being set alight before the young men and women involved moved on.

The implications for the organisations we work for have, without doubt, been significant.  A variety of organisations (magistrates’ courts, prisons, the police etc.) have played a very direct role in restoring law and order.  Retailers have been coping with damage to their property as well as the cost of stolen goods.  Diverse employers have had to make decisions about employees who have been identified as participants in the riots.

The rhetoric of politicians has been predictable.  Prime Minister David Cameron, following his first emergency meeting, was quick to condemn the acts of rioters, setting up a moral dichotomy between the bad guys and the good guys (those who took part in the riots and those who were in some way affected by their actions or involved in responding to them).  Having quickly coined the term “broken Britain” he laid out plans on Monday to “turn around the lives of the 120,000 most troubled families” by the next election.  As well as recognising the direct impact on many organisations of last week’s riots I invite you to consider what politicians’ responses tell us about the dos and don’ts of accountability.

Accountability is a tricky term, with multiple meanings and applications.  The banking crisis in 2008 highlighted questions of accountability between organisations – the banks to governments, for example, and governments to their electorate.  Within organisations, it raised questions of who is accountable to whom – and how to hold people to account.  When we get accountability wrong, we mask the problems of our organisations even whilst appearing to take action.  This is the “sound and fury” approach to accountability, characterised by vociferous complaints and maybe even decisive action – without ever taking long enough to get to the root causes of a problem or issue.  It has its benefits – at least on the surface:  in particular, it can protect an organisation’s leaders from the pain and vulnerability that comes with owning their mistakes.

When we get it right, something deeper and more lasting occurs.  Accountability is no longer a matter of blame and condemnation when something goes wrong.  It is an ongoing dialogue between parties (a manager and employee, one team and another, or members of the Board) about desired aims and outcomes, who will do what and when in order to move towards those desired outcomes, what’s working and what’s not working and what needs to happen next.  In an accountable organisation, for example, feedback at annual appraisal time comes as no surprise and is openly shared as the basis of a discussion, rather than given under the cover of anonymity as a stick used to beat the unsuspecting employee.

It seems to me that there is a paradox at work at the heart of every effective system of accountability.  When we strip out blame we create the opportunity for a deeper and more productive mutual dialogue because we make it safe to be “in the wrong”.  At the same time, in a true system of accountability, each party knows that it may be them who has the hardest lessons to learn.  By creating safety for everyone involved we make it possible to engage in the very depth of the dialogue needed to hold people to account.  In other words, true accountability is safe – but not the easy option.

If our country’s politicians act with wisdom in their response to the recent riots, they will understand that the louder the sound and fury, the more key people are likely to be let off the hook.  I hope they will take time to investigate the complex factors which, together, stimulated the riots and to take the most difficult learning for themselves as well as to mete out justice to others.  Closer to home I wonder, how has your business been affected by the riots?  What do you see as the key lessons in organisations if they want, truly, to create effective systems of accountability?  And what is the role of HR in facilitating accountability in their organisations?

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Dorothy Nesbit, Leadership Coach, unleashes innate leadership potential through powerful, compassionate and authentic relationships.
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Cloud Nine: "Ah, Venice"

I had this weird dream that Jake Kotze and I were looking for Lions. With all the crazy shit going into my head I was thinking this could easily be understood as just sub conscious regurgitation. Of no importance. However that night Ghost and The Darkness was on. I am getting messages here, time to pay attention. I only saw a little bit of Darkness but I did see this guy tore down by a lion.



Something about his voice totally gave me brain movies and I instantly realized that the actor was this guy in Rob Roy.
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Brain McCardie his name. I mean the actor not the Character. See in Darkness he is preaching about Jesus with his hands slashed by thorns and then the next day is killed by a symbol of god the Lion.


Aslan is a symbol of god voiced by Liam Nesson who is also a god father as Zeus in Clash of the Titans. My mind jumped connection after connection starting off with Jessica Lange having her first movie with King Kong in '76.

Man In The Mirror from William Morgan on Vimeo.

I understand completely the connection between Apes and Lions due to the symbols on the Tarot card for strength because of my research making the movie above. I jumped to Tim Roths composite character because of his involvement in 2001's Planet of the apes and fell asleep thinking about LEOnardo Decapro and something about Abe Lincoln.

Next day or two after I'm loading up my MP3 with much needed Red Ice Creations audio with Richard Hoagland. I am taught by he that Comet Elenine is a sync bomb and a half, I'm paraphasing him of course. My ears turn up when he says that a man named Leo found Elenine in the house of Leo's constellation. I never checked this but regardless my mind was blown.Rise of the Planet of the Apes comes out featuring a smart savior ape called Julius Ceasar, obvious Jesus Christ reference and source of where we get the name of the month for Leo's sign. Julius Ceasar named a month after himself. (the Roman Caesar not the monkey). Julius is July.The guy plays Gollum in 2001 King Kong in "05 and now Julius. His mother in Apes is called 9 and alarm bells go off cause, Elijah Woods or Gollums opposite in Lord of the Rings, was in the movie 9.See this is interesting cause the symbolism is the same for both LOTR and 9's. The Fellowship of the Rings is a group of 9 and Elijah Woods can be seen as opposing the state or Illuminati hinted at by the Eye of Mordor, like its the same as that on the One dollar bill. He's with J C Rielly and Jennifer Conlley in the movie 9 and thats just a head scratcher cause those actors are very powerful syncwise. But once again the J C present and accounted for.

Side note is that R R or Double R's(Rob Roy) is a node for sync discovered by Steve Willner. As R is the 18th letter and 1 + 8 is 9. He used this with Ryan Reynolds.Who plays a Nine out of Ten in the game of being a god in the movie The Nines. I probably need to see this one but haven't.Its interesting cause the 9 wants to go full circle into the 10. Which is something I could go on about but one thing is for sure, the ring is vivid here."On May 10, 1998, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovers an unusual object near the stars Mizar and Alcor at a star party."- Wiki

Jake:

I was in Venice for two days earlier this month around 7 August while touring through Italy.
Remember looking up at this giant zodiac clock topped by the symbol of Venice (the winged Lion) trying to figure out what sign we are in currently.
Jim told me we are Leo when we were looking at Lion carvings in the Manitoba Legislature (a masonic built representation of Solomon's temple) on the 15th.

When I saw the waxing moon behind the lion column in Venice I started wandering if the full moon would be happening around the same time I head back to Winnipeg. It was full moon when I flew out originally to South Africa months before.
The next day, 16 August was the birthday of Virgin resonators Steve Carell and Madonna. Went to watch Carell's latest Crazy Stupid Love the evening before. Ryan Gosling tells him he is wearing the wrong sized suite and needs a "42 regular". Needing the right size suite (a 42) becomes a metaphor for his transition and facing of fears, an image used a few times in that film.
16 August (yesterday) was also the Birthday of James Cameron. Interesting that both him and Carell resonate the giant boat or ARK. A theme I've been noticing recently (saw on twitter that @true is also picking this up). Leo and Lion are present on these posters...
Leo Madonna's Like a Virgin starts and ends with a full moon above the WTC. Above Madonna our "lioness virgin" merges with the Twin Towers. We can think of the Lion as Christ or God and the Virgin as she who gives birth to It in the material world. The 911 event signaled a dramatic phase of this birth and the pillar of the WTC can be though of as a doorway. Solomon's temple had two iconic pillars just like the WTC. I think of the WTC as the old temple and Manitoba's Legislative building as the new Temple. Actually there is an even newer Temple being built in Winnipeg right now, we'll get to that soon, no doubt.

Madonna is kinda like Sun (Lion) and Moon (Virgin) in one. Solomon. SOLo (SUN) MON (MOON).
The rest of the video is Madonna in Venice, riding a gondola and interacting with a lion and a man wearing a lion mask.

Here's a pic from my gondola ride in Venice. The girls lucked out & loved our gondolier.
Enjoying this poster for Where No Angels where today's (17 August) Birthday boys both Robert De Niro and Sean Penn are striped like gondoliers.
This is a picture from Rome taken on August 10. We see the Arch of Titus built in 82 AD to honor Titus' victories including the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The arch is the inspiration for future such triumphant arches including the famous Arc de Triomph in France.
Our guide pointed out the "Spoils of War" panel with objects taken from the Temple of Solomon including a giant menorah and what some argue is the Ark of the Covenant.
Here we see it better.

Either way we have an ARCH associated to the ARK and this was when I started seeing these kinds of syncs.

Will:
New version of Man In The Mirror Sync Vid

A Syncromystic trip into the Beauty and the Beast theme.

With narration by Will Morgan. Edited by Will Morgan.



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