Peak Oil

Here’s a fabulous article about the importance of oil and coal to the future of the Planet: http://www.raremetalblog.com/2010/08/media-rare-resources-key-in-power-battle-.html, and another example of how squabbling over how many SUVs each family gets to have has kept the USofA stuck in the 1950s for the last half-century.  Even if you’re bored shitless by the whole topic of Political Economy, there’s a bunch of meat in this article – about the old paradigm of competitiveness versus the new paradigm of collaboration, for instance.  Also saw a well-done movie on this subject recently, My Dinner with Schmucks.  In the heat of the noon hour, a man takes a siesta.

Pretty wild Full-Moon energy, eh?  Jupiter is still dancing with Uranus.  When Uranus is lit up, don’t even try to sleep when you aren’t sleepy, do something fun or creative or both instead.  That’ll restore you more than sleep, and catnaps will work much better than they usually do.  You’ll exhaust yourself trying to sleep when it ain’t the program of the day.  This energy stays prominent for a while (like a year or so), so it’s a good time to invest in a new hobby, or better yet, explore some new endeavor that you’ve always dreamed about doing, or never dared to dream about doing.