Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki

Search on “supernatural” right now and you’ll come up with the American TV show of that name. In fact this site’s posts on the subject come high on the search page.

So, what’s this TV series all about? Here’s the blurb:

“Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester, two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way.

“Sam Winchester is a college student bound for law school, determined to escape his family’s past — unlike his older brother, Dean. Ever since they were little their father has been consumed with an obsession to find the evil forces that murdered his beloved wife, and recruited his two young sons to help them. They have grown up as hunters of the supernatural. Sam escaped this way of life after high school, and now has a happy life with his girlfriend, Jessica, and a promising future career. Dean, however, stayed behind with his father to join him in his ‘hunting’.

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We are now entering the “Dark of The Moon’”, which is an imaginative way of describing a New Moon. Astrologers tell us that we all become more psychic for the couple of days each month that the moon is so near the sun it becomes almost invisible.

Nothing so romantic for Mercury, however, when it starts to slip slowly “backwards” through the zodiac in a few days. That occurrence, which happens for three weeks or so, three times a year, is described as “Mercury going retrograde”. It suggests delays with communication, transportation and commerce.

The advice, then, is to act on strong hunches in the next few days before Mercury starts to play havoc with our communications.

With bird ‘flu striking fear into many people around the world, and politicians flapping ineffectually, as they do, what’s the true situation with this disease?

Normally, we’d seek medical opinion, but that’s split down the middle. Maybe, then, the academic specialists, the virologists? No, they’re fighting each other too. Where can we go for sound advice on bird ‘flu?

On a website called “Supernatural” you’d expect a bit more than physics. A touch of metaphysics is called for here. Where else, then, than Jonathan Cainer, an astrolger we’ve written about before.

Jonathan is quite blunt in his opinions and predictions, which gives you a chance to hold him to them. He was spot on about the aftermath of the London bombings last year. So what are his views about bird ‘flu:

“Bird Flu is not going to be a problem on anywhere near the scale that some folk fear. Nor, though, is it an entirely false alarm,” he says.

The disease will be contained by medical science and may not mutate into a spread-by-human form. We can all sleep sound in our beds and not get too alarmed by reports that it’s on our doorstep.

That’s a relief. The latest case is Europe was just 70 miles from my door.

An ectoplasm face.

Is (or was) ectoplasm a truly supernatural phenomenon, or was it an elaborate fraud, as many asserted?

Ectoplasm enjoyed huge public interest in the 19th century when spiritualism was at its height. It comprised a sort of ineffable substance that (usually) emerged from a medium’s mouth, often forming a human shape. The photograph shown is of a head appearing to come out of the back of the neck of the materialization medium, Eva C. According to the medium, the face belonged to an entity named “Estelle”.

This experiment, conducted with Mme. Bisson and Professor Schrenck-Notzing as observers, was performed December 30, 1911.

Readers are invited to form their own conclusions on the authenticity of the image.