Eagle Pass, Texas: Astronomy, Astrological Omens & Sam Houston

This is not predictive. It is a thought experiment. Oh, and it is personal.

The following is based on data that is true, but symbolically, one hopes the best futures come from current events ongoing in Texas.

According to the National Park Service (US government website):

Two spectacular solar eclipse events will be visible from parks across the continental United States in 2023 and 2024.

On October 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse crossed the sky from Oregon to Texas. On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible as it crosses from Texas to Maine. The map below shows the path of both eclipses. Many national parks will offer an amazing setting for watching these eclipses, find opportunities in the event calendar on this page.

Eclipses were omens in ancient times. Such events are not visible everywhere in the world, and the world was much different 2, 3, of 5,000 years ago. So such events evoked fear and apprehension to the useful and exploitable advantage of those in charge - kings and “self-appointed gods” alike.

To the present, the crossroads of these 2 spectacular eclipses occur literally Deep in the Heart of Texas. Texas, as we know, was born out of an intense struggle in the 1830s that was won, in part, by a forefather of mine: Sam Houston.

[Down below is a piece written over 15 years ago.]

What could be the symbolism of Eagle Pass, Texas standoff/conflict/invasion?

Simplest idea: The Eagle is the United States of America’s enduring symbol. It is everywhere (U.S. currency), and killing an eagle will get you a lot of time in jail or prison. Or at least it did - until Joe Biden took office. Law doesn’t matter under Treasonous Joe. (The border numbers reflect that.)

Pass - does that mean Past? That which once was, but is no longer?

Eclipses, in astrology (yes, I know, occult, not of Christ, but bare with me), are thought to shut things off - old traditions, virtues, behaviors, depending on where they occur in one’s chart - and that’s something I don’t know enough/ anything about - I stopped looking at astrology in any detail 30 years ago. But I do enjoy listening to people discuss it. I do Internet Know someone - who I find entertaining and he is not your ordinary touchy-feely astrologer, he looks at historical events too - one Leo King.

Do those shut off energies entail?

• Patriotism

• Liberty

• Rule of Law

• Sanity

• Peace

• Morality

• The United States of America as we grew up in it

One doesn't know, but we are in much different times than we’ve ever been in my lifetime at least. There are cycles in life, and in countries & “empires” - whether they are called 4th turnings, Thucydides traps, or something else to sell a book - but they DO occur. We KNOW it, but we don’t always have the words or the depth to identify all these tumultuous events coming to a nexus.

Sam Houston Short Bio

Snippet from a 2008 blog…remember: I was more a liberal then.

Samuel Houston (1793-1863) was a hero at the Battle of San Jacinto where Mexico’s Santa Anna surrendered to Houston-led forces, thus winning the war for Texas’s independence. A large and imposing figure, 6'2"+, Sam Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, but grew up in Tennessee as a teenager. He ran away from home at 15, and lived for nearly three years with the Cherokee Indians in eastern Tennessee, where he took the name Black Raven and learned the native language, skills, and customs.

After he left their stead, Houston soon enlisted in army, led by General Andrew Jackson, that would fight the Creek Indians (close cousins to the Cherokee) and also in the War of 1812. After his military service, where he reached the rank of Major General, he studied law and practiced in Lebanon, Tennessee. In 1817, Houston became a U.S. subagent assigned to manage the removal of the Cherokee from Tennessee to a reservation in the Arkansas Territory. (A prequel to the 1830’s Trail of Tears forced removal.)

[Note: echoes here as well. The removal though was best of bad options - because the conflict ongoing could have escalated to eradication of all Cherokees. Cherokees were allied with South and the very last to surrender in the Civil War.]

Sam Houston returned to Nashville to practice law and from 1823 to 1827 and served as a U.S. congressman. He was elected governor of Tennessee in 1827. After a brief, unsuccessful marriage to Eliza Allen in 1829, he resigned his public office; he again sought refuge among the Cherokee and was formally adopted into the tribe and began a bout of heavy drinking – though it is likely he was always fond of the bottle. He also remarried a Cherokee woman, Tiana Rodgers who he met at a dance.

He twice went to Washington, D.C., to expose frauds practiced upon the Indians by government agents. In 1832, Houston was sent by Pres. Andrew Jackson to Texas, then a Mexican province, to negotiate Indian treaties for the protection of U.S. border traders. (Meanwhile, President Jackson was at the forefront of removing the Cherokees from land granted to them in Georgia by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark decision. Jackson usurped the authority of the highest court. The “Trail of Tears” saga was born.)

It can also be said that Sam Houston had quite a temper and engaged in several duels in the course of his lifetime, once wounding a general, General William A. White, in a duel fought 6 miles south of Franklin, Kentucky in September 1826. After one such battle, in which he beat U.S. Representative William Stanberry of Ohio with a cane, he would hire Francis Scott Key as his attorney. Houston was the loser and was fined $500 but never paid it.

He would be sent to Texas to do negotiations on behalf of Andrew Jackson in regards to Indian relations, communicating via dispatch.

From there, Houston’s personal travails are uniquely tied to Texas independence; his nomination as 1st President of the Republic of Texas; 1st U.S. Senator of Texas (1846-1859); and later, last governor of the great state of Texas on the cusp of the U.S. Civil War. He fought against secession of the state – which led to his removal as governor by the Confederacy in 1861 – and much of his final years were spent trying to resolve the inequality battle in America between the races. Houston died in Huntsville, Texas in 1863.