BSODmyself

I have financial news on all day long. I’m not actively paying attention to it, but it’s usually on as a background for while I’m working. Occasionally, I flip around during breaks — CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, repeat. With all the bleak economic news, I’m almost certain that turning the news off completely will make me much happier and more emotionally stable. Anyway, one of the segments that I’m finding that I’m usually flipping to (and thus not sure I’m getting all the necessary background information on) is about anecdotal evidence of good signs people are experiencing in their local areas. Erin Burnett calls these tidbit “crocuses” (like the flower) and makes references that someone else (was it Kudlow?) calls them “mustard seeds.”

Now I know what I’m seeing and hearing, but I don’t get the exact significance of it. You cannot really study money today without studying magic, since that’s the foundation of the system that we are presently dealing with. This is even more poignant considering ideas related to creating money out of thin air, such as fiat currency and fractional reserve banking. It’s just a re-hashing of the alchemist’s aim to transmute lead into gold (literally speaking), matter into spirit (allegorically speaking) or nothing into value (financially speaking).

So what does the crocus mean in this context? Damned if I know! According to lists of ritual herbs and their associated powers, the crocus is used in bringing about love and prophetic dreams. Some crocuses are harmful, but others such as the saffron crocus is edible and healthy. It just seemed a strange term to use when referring to these tidbits. Maybe it’s just a reference associated with our journey into spring. I’m kind of wondering who’s realizing the love and prophetic dreams associated this flower’s bloom. That’ll teach me not to be a chronic channel flipper.

Having already been stumped on crocuses, I probably shouldn’t attempt to decode mustard seeds. It’s a Biblical reference to faith (Matthew 17:20), but as most Biblical concepts makes its appearance in other religious and spiritual systems. To complicate matters, there are black mustard seeds (used to confuse and trouble enemies) and white mustard seeds (used for protection and healing). And to up the conspiracy content, there just happens to be a secret Order of the Mustard Seed (with its own secret practices and alleged hidden agendas). My previously consulted list of herbs and their magical properties say that mustard and mustard seeds are useful in hexing, gaining power and performing mental magic. The same questions abound about mustard seeds as are lingering about crocuses, but I can’t divorce myself from a euphemism a relative once used for mustard seeds being some other type of seeds.

The point of the matter is that there are symbols abound everyone. Those in the know about the symbols will be able to access the fine nuances and hidden meanings of things. Or, you can be like me and drive yourself insane by thinking an innocent comment about flowers is a prelude to actions by nefarious powers. It’s up to you which path you choose, I guess.

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