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My most recent game, The Annwn Simulation 1985, has been awarded runner-up in the Storynexus World of the Season Winter 2013 contest!

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Gale conducts regular sessions throughout the year. Please phone for appointment detail scheduling.

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There are really so many life lessons happening in collective consciousness dynamics, it’s a challenge to keep them all in perspective.  With the Presidential election preparations in full swing, the heavy games of politics, it’s a real force to deal with since the transiting Uranus and transiting Pluto indications guide us to pay attention to where we need to watch how over reactive, or out of control emotions/egos can get.  Just observing the beginning of what will be a couple/few years of off/on exact squaring of these two planets (yes, Pluto is still a planet—you can’t tell it otherwise) it can feel like being in a squeeze machine… Pressure seems on pressure seems off, then pressure seeming on again.  So learn to breathe through the “reactions” so you keep a cool head.  And be mindfully aware that not all information is shared about things in the news.  Be an educated consumer/citizen, and pay attention to what’s going on in regards to the operations/governing of the country.  Be mindful of your choices and keep yourself as up to date on your profession as you can.  This is a big year since we’re also in the Year of the Water Dragon.  So Fire and Water are in the mix.  You don’t want to be boiling, nor do you want to put the fire out completely.  Know your sign and element and just be mindful to stay in the flow.  And learn what you need to learn.

The transiting planet Neptune is in ingress, moving from the sign of Aquarius to its home sign of Pisces.  So we’re in flux here too, since Neptune represents altered states of awareness, drugs, escapism, alternative consciousness, water, we’re also brought into an odd feeling indeed.  Maybe this is the dynamic that’s drawing things up out of the unknown to be known.  (Like the recent warnings about the chemical affects of plastics and pesticides that’s showing up in the news reports.  Things not known by the many, broadcast into awareness.)  Or the increase of drug recalls or warning of damages caused by some drugs showing up in the news as well.  Maybe you’re experiencing a weird feeling in the air, or odd dreams.  And the water issues—who owns it, is it safe, where’s the pollution now, the weather—all Neptune issues too.  All Neptune related indications of where we are, and what has the potential to gain our attention and concern/action.  And when you add the continuing septiles between transiting Neptune and transiting Pluto, we have another accordion-like squeeze bringing unknown issues into the media/public awareness.

Most of the alternative, self-help efforts/transformations/work people have done over the past 25-years is leading up to a Saturn Return for the Harmonic Convergence (August, 1987).  The Uranus/Pluto dance of the squares will take us to that Saturn Return.  So how are we doing on our transformation lessons and karmic resolutions?  Many people have taken part in some way in this (albeit subtle forms) awakening.  As spoken about through the 1990’s, cosmically speaking, the energies shifting will make it more difficult to not become personally empowered in some way(s) or other(s).  The choices we make will be lived.  The issues of pseudo victim games being brought into view for attention/healing/resolution are on the rise for these blasts of cosmic force to show where the deep lessons hide.  Addressing one’s karma rather than continuing to avoid or escape it is called for in these times.  We’re showing signs of that major lesson as we watch financial systems drying up, and retirement funds/care programs become the subjects of major discussions and where the funds will come from.  The arguments of entitlement from all sides in a variety of forms are in the news too, all shadowing this theme.  Who has the power, who doesn’t, who plays it, who hoards it, who trades it, who abuses it, happening all over the planet.  All major lessons for life, and some are very challenging.  These two outer planets are transiting for everyone.  Practice being in balance with some form of calm practice, be mindful that there are many lessons in play and chaos is only the lessons in play.  I see much opportunity to do some healing, growth in self-awareness, and a blending of the everyday with the spiritual connection begin to form a pattern for stability… regardless of what [it] appears to be like in the world.  Like in the movie, Contact… “in the center of the chaos, it’s perfectly calm”.  To some extent it’s how we make our choice to go through these shifts.  We will do the best we can.  But, remaining in denial or not opening to opportunities for change, (the changes will come regardless of how deep heads are buried in the sand), we do have a say in how things progress.  It is everyone’s world.  Everyone’s planet.  Everyone’s air. Everyone’s water.  Everyone should be more mindful of being part of the solution and not be part of the problem whenever and where ever and however we can.

We sure are a busy bunch, trying to keep balanced.  We can only do so much, but we need to ask ourselves important questions so we can complete the karmic lessons, and learn how to be a greater effectual force for healing whenever we can. However we can.  Wherever we can.  These are amazing times.  We each have potential to be amazing too.    It’s all in our choices we make in regards to the lessons we are confronted with.  Hold the meditative space for mankind to come to [its] senses so harmony can be the way out of all the chaos.

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Gale is also sharing her unique photographic eye through her photography.  Her quality and creative edge is of essence viewing.  Gale does not use any computer-enhancing effects to create the look of the photographs.  No special lenses, no manipulations of any kind.  Gale chose to take the energies of her once feral cat, Bootsie, and initiate the awareness of the healing power of animals, through the Chinese New Year celebration of the Year of the Rabbit (Cat), of 2011.  Gale’s ability to capture the essence via the camera is reflected in the works of this 21-year old feline (as of spring, 2012).  Since Bootsie was a stray, and is a legendary queen of Ephraim, Wisconsin, along with her love, the Big Daddy Boy.  Bootsie deserves a place of honor in the form of art that reminds people of the importance of caring for animals in need, and the TNR efforts way to help the “one-cat-at-a-time approach”.  Photos and Giclée prints are available for order/purchase.
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She is 20 years old (2011) in the photographs. Lived in downtown Ephraim for 12 of those years.  Gale met her within 2-months of moving to Door County. Bootsie was 7-years old according to people that knew her, but no one really owned her.  Gale took over the feeding and daily feedings for the next 5-years.  When Bootsie turned 12, and the love of her life passed over (the Big Daddy Boy, another legendary cat), Gale took her in to be an indoor cat for good.  Gale made sure it was Bootsie’s decision to become a full time indoor cat.  After all those years of living under buildings during the coldest of winters, and having litters for 8 of those years, making the second half of her life the pampered, spoiled one every cat deserves, is a joy for the pet psychic.  Bootsie’s age began to show and a health issue began to slow her down. (at more than 100 years old) she carried on well.  Bootsie passed over to the Loving Light on May 2, 2012.  We await her return after her time to rest and enjoy the peace with her feline friends. .

Gale has always had a dog in her life in one way or another, and grew up with a famous trick poodle.  Her family owned horses and the trips to the ranch were special ones for Gale.  So many animals and open area to ride and play with the dogs and cats that lived with the ranch manager and his wife.  But, the first celebration year is for the special love of the feline friends that sleep on our heads and barf up fur balls on our favorite linens.  It may sound obsessive with the Toots-n-Boots (and her many aliases captured on film), but cat lovers know the longer we live with them, the more we learn from them as they rise to the top of our hearts… In Ephrain Bootsie is legendary.

The photographic works are printed as either a photograph on high quality paper, or a giclée print on select quality paper.
Are mounted professionally, ready for matting and framing.
Works already matted and framed are available at the White Rose Healing Arts Studio.

Photographs and prints, Prices are subject to current development/supply costs.
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The Kissie (Der Kuss, Gustav Klimt for felines)

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Workshops at this time are being formulated to align with major planetary shifts taking place.  Workshops can be created to fit your particular group focus.  The overall theme(s) for workshops Gale creates/facilitates are on healing intuition, and expanding creative/healing potential in many forms and practices, and a multidimensional view of the subtle world dynamics.  All workshops are experiential and self-enlightening.  Group sizes can vary, depending upon the subject matter being facilitated.

To be announced at a later date.  If you are interested in a retreat, please contact us here.

Presentations for your special group can be formulated.  Alternative topics from new views of astrology, healing intuition, cosmic shifts, alternative healing concepts/variations, the psychic world of animals and relationships, and energy dynamics of subtle energy and consciousness of many views are some of the presentation criteria Gale has presented.  Phone for more information if interested.

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Planning for yesterday: why are we building as if we live in a stationary climate?

Contributor: Will Bugler

When planners, architects and designers build major pieces of infrastructure they, very prudently, consider the impact of future extreme weather events. However as thousands of flood victims in the north of England (and millions more around the world) found out in 2015, these measures do not always prevent failure. The reason for this is that it is becoming harder and harder to predict the frequency and severity of extreme events, and much of our infrastructure is still being built using outdated assumptions about the stability of our climate.

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Infrastructure developments balance the need to protect against severe weather events, with the cost of construction and consequences of failure. Therefore they are not designed to withstand all potential extreme events – to do so would be prohibitively expensive. Instead, infrastructure is designed to withstand events with a specified ‘return period’, often expressed as ‘1 in x number of years’. Building a floodwall, for example, to withstand a 1 in 10-year flood is much cheaper and easier than building one to withstand a 1 in 1000-year flood.

The return period itself is misleading when expressed like this. Many people make the perfectly reasonable assumption that a floodwall built to withstand a 1 in 100-year flood will only be breached once every 100 years. That is not the case. In fact (in a stable climate) a 1 in 100-year flood event has a 1% chance of occurring each year. This means that it has a greater than 63% chance of occurring more than once over the course of 100 years.

However severe extreme events appear to be occurring far more frequently than their return periods suggest, with multiple 1 in 100-year events separated by just a few years. This suggests that our ability to predict the severity of extreme events is getting worse.

In 2015 the insurance giant Munich Re estimated that insured losses from natural disasters topped US$ 90 billion. If uninsured losses were added then this figure would be an order of magnitude higher. Extreme events are devastating for those who are affected, damaging livelihoods, property and taking lives. So why is it that, even in rich countries, infrastructure appears to be failing more often when faced with severe weather events?

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To answer that it is useful to understand how the likelihood of an extreme event occurring is calculated. It is based on the (relatively) simple mathematics of Extreme Value Theory. This branch of statistics emerged in the early 20th century, as a way for English statistician Leonard Tippett to improve the process of cotton weaving.

Factory owners were frustrated that the cotton looms had to be stopped each time a thread broke on a spool. The cumulative stoppages were costing the industry a lot of money.  Tippett found that it wasn’t the average strength of the cotton in a loom that was important in determining the breakage rate, but the strength of the weakest threads. It was the extremes that were decisive. By recording data about breakages over time, Tippett found that he could predict the number of very weak threads from the spread of the stronger ones.

Since then extreme value theory has been used for a hugely diverse range of applications, including for predicting extreme weather events. So when a large infrastructure project is built, extreme value theory is used to determine the return period of relevant extreme weather events.

When building the Thames Barrier, a huge tidal barrier that protects London from flooding, planners had to decide how high they would build the retractable wall. They used extreme value theory to help them.

By analysing 100-years worth of historical flood and tidal surge data, they were able to calculate the likelihood of various storm surge heights. This enabled them to build a barrier that can withstand, according to historical records, a 1 in 1000-year flood event (an event that has 0.1% chance of occurring each year).

A new normal

But extreme value theory has a major problem when applied to weather events: It assumes that the future will look much the same as the past. Because extreme value theory uses data about past extreme events to predict the likelihood of future ones, it cannot account for changes to the base conditions, especially in systems as complex as the climate.

In the past extreme value theory has been successful in predicting the likelihood of extreme weather, in part because humans have enjoyed a relatively stable climate for around 10,000 years. The storms of yesterday looked much like the storms of today. However, climate change changes this. We can no longer be sure that the spread of historic extreme weather events will look like those in the future.

The significance of this is profound. It is not just that our infrastructure will have to stand up to more sever storms in the future; it is also now far more difficult to predict the level of protection that is needed. The principal calculation that we use to determine the safe limits for our infrastructure developments is now inaccurate.

Beyond theory

The problem is far from just theoretical. In 2009 report the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warned that,

most existing systems for water management and other infrastructure have been designed under the assumption that climate is stationary… New infrastructure is typically designed on the basis of historical information on weather and climate extremes. Often the maximum value of a particular variable in the historical record is considered to be the normative value for the design.”

The implications of our inability to account for the shift in base climate conditions when designing critical infrastructure could potentially be huge. In just one example a study by Dutch researchers found that at least 15% of the Netherland’s primary dyke system does not meet the safety standards that are set down in national law, due to changes in sea height extremes associated with rising sea levels.

The danger of building defences that do not protect to the levels that they claim is compounded by the fact that other areas of planning policy depend on their stated protection levels. So if a flood barrier is built that claims to protect against a 1 in 1000-year event, planners would be comfortable building substantially more high-value assets (such as houses, offices, factories and roads) behind it; assets that would never have been built had the impact of climate change been considered correctly.

It is possible to account for climate change when analysing extremes, but there is still some debate amongst scientists as to the best way of doing this. However, it is vital that infrastructure built today take decadal-scale changes into account. Adaptation strategies should be put in place that allow for frequent review of infrastructure preparedness in light of the latest climate change information. Additionally, critical infrastructure that has very long lifetimes should also be built with a substantial margin to buffer the impacts of climate change and high-carbon climate scenarios should not be discounted entirely.

Climate change is pushing us into a new world where the old rules do not apply. We must begin to plan and build for a future that may look very different from the past.

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