I have no doubt that regular visitors of Be Brilliant have been wondering what I've been up to lately, so I thought it might be good to write an article about the project that I'm currently working on and am very, very busy with.
I'm in the process of building a Shopify store calledConnected Life Todayand this webshop (which also has a blog) is the next step in the evolution of my projects under the randythym.com umbrella after Be Brilliant. There are A LOT of people who wonder how I know what I know , and with Connected Life Today (CLT) I take my astronomical knowledge and skill set to the public. You might call it my "IPO" without the listing on the stock exchange.
I'm currently very busy with designing and building the store and thought it would be nice to blog about the store's progress, so future customers can read back and see how Connected Life Today came to life. It might also be interesting for people who want to look into opening their ownShopify storeafter they've seen my store on connectedlife.today.
First and foremost, I have to say thatShopify is an amazing SaaS (software-as-a Service) e-commerce platformwith a wealth of information for entrepreneurs. I decided to build a Shopify store because, as you can read in the article I linked to, Shopify takes responsibility for monitoring and ensuring site security as the service provider. Most importantly and especially when it comes to handling credit card information and payment processing. I useShopify paymentsfor Connected Life Today, as Shopify Payments is PCI compliant and supports 3D Secure checkouts.
TrustedSite.com sends a postcard (that I haven't received yet) to verify the business address which is why that field is still pending.
I am going to register Connected Life Today at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce on December 22nd, 2022 and you can obtain an extract there to review the company's details. The store won't go live until Q1-2023 (..and it might be later) because I'm also going to apply for theDutch Small Business scheme (KOR) to be exempt from having to charge VAT, which requires processing time at the tax authorities.
The domain name was connected to the store yesterday and the SSL certificate has been activated as well, so as far as domain settings go Connected Life Today is good to go! Yay! 🙂 A special thanks again to Rey at the Shopify Help Center for double-checking the DNS settings.
I intend to run Connected Life Today as a global "small neighborhood shop" and due to my availability there is a limit to the number of customers that the store can take on. Just like Be Brilliant I will run it myself from front to back.
Integrity and Privacy are at the core of my business, and as I want to know who my customers are I will not accept anonymous orders or do business with just anyone. Your intentions have to be on the up-and-up and I can smell a troll a mile away so don't even try. Once the store is live you are welcome to browse around, but you MUST book a one-time Intake and Pre-Read session before you can place an order.
Below is a sneak preview of the Featured Services page on connectedlife.today.
I blog about the store's progress on the Connected Life Today blog (..which you will be able to read when the store goes live) and the majority of the text in this article will become the About Page for the store.
Also, just as an fyi, I will not write a post about the Mauna Loa eruption on Be Brilliant because – and pardon my French – I already f-ing SAID in August 2021 that if Humanity doesn't course correct, The Planet will, and Mother Earth-Gaia is coming through loud and clear. If The Planet had a face she would look like this:
Unfortunately this beautiful little statue can only be found on Amazon so I bought it there earlier this year.
That's it for now with regard to the announcement for Connected Life Today, and I'll finish the article by reminding you to Respect Yourself, Respect Life, and Respect The Planet You Live On.
I made this 2-part series earlier this weekend from a number of clips and documentaries I have in my collection. My objective is to shine a bright light on what is now being called (..by some) "the dark night of the globe", and to provide you with inspiration and food for thought for the year ahead.
I will list all the clip sources below for those of you who wish to explore the subjects that are mentioned further, and as I've said many times before, use your own discernment when you review the material. Only follow-up on what resonates with you and leave the rest.
If you want to find out if working with certain sounds can indeed have a positive effect on your sense of well-being, do a keyword search on YouTube for Nature Sounds, Native American Flute Music, Tibetan Singing Bowls, and 432Hz music. Listen with headphones and close your eyes while you listen, to see how these make you feel. Try different videos and if they do nothing for you, that's absolutely fine. In that case, try different kinds of music.
Something else that you can try to improve your sense of well-being is an Orgone pyramid or an Orgone pendant. If you don't know what Orgone is you'll need to do some research on it first, and below are two websites that you can start with. Please note that I'm not affiliated with these stores, but the information that is provided there can help you to find the best store near you.
People who are already familiar with divination know that one of the oldest divination texts/tools known to man is the I-Ching, which is usually translated as the Book of Changes (also see: Creation of binary code inspired by 5,000-year-old text). I started studying the I Ching when I was in college (which is forever ago), and it has indeed been an incredible source of wisdom for me personally.
Last August I bought a book about the Rider Waite Smith tarot titled 'Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot', after I watched a tarot reading for my sun sign on YouTube just for fun, but it turned out to be astoundingly accurate. I'd never given any time or attention to tarot as a credible divination tool, which is why I did what I always do when something intrigues me, namely a deep-dive and in-depth study of the subject.
After nearly a year of research into tarot and oracle cards, buying many decks, and doing many readings for myself, I can only confirm that tarot and oracle cards are indeed an incredibly useful tool for meditation and divination. What I also learned is that even people who have worked with them professionally for many decades, can't explain exactly how and why readings often turn out as accurately as they do. Even though tarot cards look quite simple, tarot as a system of divination is incredibly complex, as the symbols carry many layers and meanings. You can get a lot out of it though even if you don't study the symbols in-dept.
Here's an excerpt from chapter one of Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith Tarot (RWS):
The RWS deck is the best-selling tarot deck in the world to date. The RWS deck is referenced in literature and used in all forms of media, including film and television.
If you're asking huh?, in television?, I've never seen it used in television, the answer is yes, you probably have but you just didn't know what you were looking at. Look what shows up after the closing credits in every episode of the tv series Mad Men:
It's the number 19 card of the RWS tarot, titled the Sun. You can look this up yourself if you find a stream of the show online and go straight to the credits.
Excerpt from chapter one of Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider Waite Smith (RWS) Tarot, continued:
It (RWS) is often a beginning readers' first deck. History, evolution, and circumstance created an extraordinary device that people use for fortunetelling, self-knowledge, and art. Tarot decks with new themes are created by the hundreds, maybe thousands, each year. New decks with differing themes are usually called RWS clones. Clone decks' illustrations are derivative of Pamela's RWS illustrations. […]
The RWS deck is an enigma. It is a complex tarot deck filled with esoteric symbols and secret meanings, yet the illustrations are surprisingly simple. A beginner can use the deck as easily and deftly as a professional. The deck is a perfect artifact of the year of its creation, 1909, yet remains shockingly modern and perfectly usable over a hundred years later. The RWS deck is a Modernist art object as important and impactful as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or Edward Munch's The Scream, also painted in 1909, yet the RWS deck does not haunt history by hanging on the wall of a museum. Anyone in the world can buy, borrow, or own a copy. The RWS deck is tucked into backpacks, wrapped in silks, consecrated on alters, stored in college dormitories, and stocked in bookstores around the world.
What I was most surprised to find out is that tarot and oracle cards are indeed widely used by many as a divination tool, to this day. There are thousands and thousands of decks available, and an equal amount of reviews of tarot and oracle decks on YouTube by amateurs and professionals. These reviews are very useful because you can have a look at all the cards before you buy a deck, to see if the artwork on the deck and the card quality are appealing to you. Even though I don't support Amazon in any way, shape, or form, it is fair to say that you can find almost every tarot and oracle deck and book you could possibly think of there, and the customer reviews are often helpful to get a first impression before a purchase. Get your decks from your local bookstore/online store though if you can.
There are also countless YouTube channels where readers (male and female) provide online readings and some of them are also run as a business. Many professional readers provide free readings (for specific sun signs or about other subjects), and extended readings can then be purchased for a (usually) small price. There are tarot readers on YouTube with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
I strongly advise you however to be careful with readers on YouTube and in general. There are many readers who can be contacted for personal readings which they provide for a fee, but this is a double-edged sword. If you find a reader/readings that strongly resonate with you, but you don't know how to interpret tarot cards yourself, you leave yourself wide open to manipulation and deception. Let's say you're in a relationship or married and the (or a) person you are involved with (could also be a friend, relative, colleague you-name-it), knows which YouTube channels are your favorites. It is very easy for them to contact those readers and have them say whatever they want, which you will probably take as good advice, to get YOU to do whatever they want. I'm not saying this is a frequent occurrence, but it has been known to happen so be careful. That being said, watching several random online tarot/oracle readings can give you a good impression of how to shuffle and interpret the cards.
(Update 15 August 2021: Nothing added to the article here, but I removed the list of recommended online readers, as most of their recent readings are highly inaccurate. (I run quality checks) Nothing can surpass what comes out when you pull your own cards, but you can of course run your own searches for tarot readings on YouTube to find the ones that resonate with you.)
Although the videos can be very helpful, YouTube is certainly not the only source where you can learn more about tarot and oracle divination/meditation. There are also innumerable websites that explain the history, meaning, and use of tarot and oracle cards. The cards are used for career and financial readings, any type of relationship advice (husband, wife, friends, family, colleagues, potential love interest, you-name-it), and advice for every other situation you can think of. That's why they're so popular and widely used. A deck that I found particularly interesting for business and financial tarot readings is the Money Tarot Cards. A review can of course be found on YouTube.
A few sites that are nice to start off with for general orientation are:
If you decide to start exploring tarot, I highly recommend that you start with an original RWS deck and resources that give good explanations for the cards.
From my own research and readings, there are currently only three sources that I can list with regard to detailed meanings of the cards, which also give highly accurate readings, but you'll have to explore and decide what works for you.
2) TheTarotGuide.com'sMajor Arcana and Minor Arcana. This site is my absolute favorite with incredibly accurate meanings for the cards. Unfortunately, the descriptions aren't available in printed form so you'll have to look the cards up online. (or copy/paste the various descriptions to a text file and print it out)
An excellent tutorial about the (historical) meaning of the cards in the original RWS deck. It was posted in February 2013 and to date, 22 July 2021, part 1 has had 1,581,953 views. Part 2 has had 306,846 views.
7)The Tao OracleThis oracle deck is a very accessible and easy way to get acquainted with the I Ching. The guidebook is very detailed and stands well enough on its own, but if you would like to know more I can recommend the I Ching translation by Hua Ching Ni titled 'The Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth'. Be mindful though that given the age of the I Ching some of the views, particularly with regard to women, are very outdated so use your discretion when it comes to interpretation.
A deck that is currently on its way to me from the UK is the Bright Future Tarot deck incl. Workbook and Journal and I can't wait to do a reading with it.The Tower card in the 1st edition is represented as the Twin Towers on 9/11, which could not be more appropriate given the meaning of the Tower card in the original RWS deck. The 1st edition is almost sold out and some of the cards, including The Tower card, are different in the 2nd edition. If you want to get the 1st edition, contact the store before you buy this deck to check if it is still in stock. By default, the 2nd edition is currently shipped.
Tower card in the Bright Future Tarot (image is from a review on YouTube)
Other decks that are contemporary versions of the original RWS deck, which I didn't get because the artwork/images don't particularly appeal to me, but which nonetheless deserve to be mentioned so you know what's out there, are:
*Heaven & Earth Tarot Kit(note: if you like this deck and want to buy it make sure you get the kit. Like the Vice Versa tarot, the regular version doesn't have the elaborate guidebook)
Once you feel you've mastered the images, symbols, and meanings of the traditional RWS enough and you're ready to move on to something more abstract, there are two contemporary decks with silhouettes that are interesting to check out:
I am adding 2 other tarot decks I have in my collection to this article (the first two on the list), and a couple of interesting decks that I came across yesterday:
* The Moonchild TarotI had to order this deck from an online shop in Australia last year, as it is an independently created deck and, unfortunately, the designer doesn't ship to Europe. Beautiful artwork and well worth the wait to get it all the way to Amsterdam. This is the Moonchild Tarot's website.
* The Good Karma TarotThis deck is a super beginner-friendly, fun, and playful tarot deck for people who want to learn something about tarot without immediately diving into the original RWS deck. The images in this deck are all related to the RWS meanings of the cards, but without the complicated symbolism. RWS will have to be the next step though if you do decide to get serious about tarot. The Good Karma Tarot is a tarot deck with "training wheels". 🙂
Don't forget that the RWS meanings also apply to all the other aforementioned tarot decks, and very often the creator of a deck adds his/her own understanding and interpretation of the cards in their guidebook as well. When it comes to selecting decks the only thing that really matters is which images and artwork appeal most to YOU.
I'll also list a few more oracle decks I have in my collection:
In my teens and several years after that, I read 3 books by Linda Goodman (1925-1995) that gave me valuable insights into astrology and even more esoteric subjects. The books I'm referring to are Sun Signs, Love Signs, and Star Signs. There is a potential for an increase in the intensity of events in the days and months ahead, so as I mentioned in another article, Stay Grounded, Stay Sane, Stay on the only message that matters which is, Refuse All Fear Narratives.
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These are some of the most popular publishers of tarot and oracle decks (but there are countless others):
Tarot and oracle cards reflect the energy and (hidden) undercurrents of a particular situation, and/or the character and intentions of the individuals involved. Yep, no kidding, you can learn things about people and circumstances you didn't even know were true, but which later turn out to be spot on. I will not go into details about my own readings but you can explore this yourself, with your own readings.
Get an original RWS deck that you like, and ask your Higher Self a question like, what should I know today?, or what should I know about [relationship/person/situation/problem]?, or what is the best course of action with regard to [relationship/person/situation/problem]?, or what is the most likely outcome of [name situation X]?, or what will be the most likely outcome if I [do X]?.
Shuffle the deck like you would any other deck of playing cards and then pull 1-3 cards in your own way. Some people take the first three cards, some people take every seventh card, some people fan the cards out in front of them and pull the ones they are most attracted to. There really is no fixed system; you can experiment with this and find out which way gives you the most accurate reading/advice. It's all very intuitive. Sometimes 1 or 2 cards spontaneously fly out of the deck when you shuffle, and they provide the perfect answer to your question. Nearly all decks come with guidebooks that also provide examples of spreads.
As this is another DIY Research article I will end the introduction here by saying, have fun exploring and prepare to be amazed!. 🙂
As I don't have any "COVID-19" updates planned for the site, I've thought of a new feature, namely DIY Research. The first article in this series, for those who are serious about educating themselves, is about Deep Fakes. The bottom line for DIY articles is that I know what the proposed subject matter is about, but I'm not going to tell you; you'll have to look into it yourself, hence DIY, Do It Yourself.
I've spent more than a decade and incalculable hours on research and writing for Be Brilliant, and I'm now pursuing other creative projects which also take up a LOT of my time.
The videos and links below are just to get you started. Deepfakes is a very important subject to study if you haven't done so yet.
Everybody Can Make Deepfakes Now!
Deepfake Videos Are Getting Terrifyingly Real
Deepfakes – Real Consequences
Physical Face Cloning (video from the DisneyResearchHub YouTube channel)
An example of highly advanced VFX: Disney's Jungle Book, 2016. As director Jon Favreau says in the video below: " The goal here is for people to not know what's real and what's not real." This statement can be applied to EVERYTHING you see, read, watch and hear in the world around you.
In Jungle Book 2016, the entire jungle and all the animals are digital creations. Other than the character Mowgli, nothing in the scenery of the movie is real.
Just so you can compare: this is what VFX looked like when CNN faked a Gulf War news broadcast in 1991. Do you really think they stopped doing it since then? If you do, there really is no hope for you.
CNN Fakes Gulf War coverage in 1991. You don't need a blue screen behind a reporter when he is ACTUALLY on location.
Watch this footage of "Pope Francis" disappearing into thin air on live television on April 13th, 2020. What you see in the video below is the exact same moment in time, recorded by two different cameras from two different angles. For more on the advancements in 3D Holographic Technology read the article listed below titled When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing. Once again, don't take my word for it, look it up yourself. Also check out this website: holotronica.com
The Vatican Uses A Hologram Pope
Welcome to Reality, formerly known as Science Fiction.
I've written about and given examples of predictive programming through television and movies, especially in the science fiction genre, in several other articles. If you've never "been into sci-fi", but you're wondering why it was so easy to predict the attempt of Big Tech and Big Pharma to literally take over the world, you should go back and watch how the public was warmed up for this agenda subconsciously through predictive programming decades ago. The image below is an IMDb review of The Outer Limits, but it also applies to the other series and movies that I will list below.
If you want to expand your mind, familiarize yourself with the unusual, and see what could lie ahead if humanity doesn't get its you-know-what together, get some popcorn and start catching up on what you've overlooked in the past 25+ years.
If you can't find these shows and movies on Netflix you can still find them online on sites likehttps://watchseries.mn. Don't forget to use an ad blocker on this site for pop-up and overlay ads. On some sites the ads open in a new tab or a new window so just ignore these too.
Not all of the IMDb reviews that I've linked to are as positive as the one that is mentioned above. Keep in mind that when most of these series and movies came out, people had no idea that the scientific concepts, technologies, and societal structures that are shown, could ever, ever become a reality. Recent developments have of course proven that truth is stranger than fiction.
Fringe (2008-2013) Pay attention to product placement by technology companies in this series and also pay attention to the closing credits. Ask yourself why so many technology companies, including Microsoft, sponsored episodes of this show. Quite obvious in hindsight, right?
I'll give you another clue. The words in the opening credits change every season, and below is a screenshot of some of the words that are featured in the opening credits of season 3. Look at the last two words on the bottom of the image. Coincidence?, I don't think so.
Also, notice the words that are used in the opening credits of season 5, and put them in the context of what is happening in the world today. That goes for all the episodes of season 5 actually.
Survivors (2008-2010) Guess what this show is about: An unknown virus pandemic kills more than 90% of the world's population. Those immune must strive to survive and overcome the difficulties of this new world order, hoping that the virus will not mutate. Predictive Programming on steroids.
The Matrix – Part 1 (1999) Needless to say why this is Number 1, but I'll list it here in case there is still someone on the planet who hasn't seen it yet.
Anon (2018) Imagine a world where privacy has been erased.
Transcendence(2014) Guess who makes a cameo appearance in the audience in the auditorium at 07:40 into this movie: Elon Musk. That's right, as in, Elon–SpaceX-already launched 4425 5G satellites into space to fry humanity and the planet-transhumanism architect pur sang-Musk. As I said, you'll have to do your own research but I'm pointing a few things out because they're easily overlooked. As with Fringe, there is a very important reason that these technology companies and individuals are so invested in certain areas of the science fiction, now science fact, genre.
, and with Connected Life Today (CLT) I take my astronomical knowledge and skill set to the public. You might call it my "IPO" without the listing on the stock exchange.
