What an amazing circle. Not just black and white as it were (flattened or not flattened) but shades of grey too. Brilliant. Ron (M19)

It's not that easy to strike a happy balance between keeping the public in the dark, or telling it as it happens. Maybe it's not so much in the telling, revealing all, as in the individual's right to decide how much they want to know. Society is multilayered, so there will be every layer of desire to know or not to know. To see or not to see. It's up to the individual to decide when, for them, enough is enough. Which you did, and I did, and no doubt many others, we left the story. How much is enough? I don't know, I couldn't decide for others, just when I start to feel uncomfortable, like a voyeur. I choose not to be shrouded in fear. I choose optimism, love, compassion. I choose not to be angry with myself, just to notice where my emotions are, acknowledge them, and then take them in another direction. Anger perpetuates anger. I don't want it in my life - except in those circumstances where it serves a purpose, like to stop me from becoming a doormat, taking me out of danger, etc. That beautiful cropcircle immediately said this to me: make more or yourSelf, rise up, add to all the good there is already. Parts of the close-up looked like crouds of people: raise your consciousness, north south, east and west. And yesterday's for me meant the square (Mankind) in the circle (perfection, infinity, the Whole): hope. And today it shows us how to realise it. Rise up, see the bigger picture, add to your consciousness.

I have long been of the opinion that the British news media is a monstrously negative infuluence & the coverage of this latest 'outrage' is an all time low. I decided a while back to limit the time I expose myself to such low vibration/negative energy. Most of the public don't even realise they're being caught up in an establishment led attempt to keep them in a perpetual state of fear (1984 anyone?) Turn the TV off & go find some nature. Tune into yourself, your thoughts, your intuition, your higher self. Have compassion for those in pain & send healing of course, but hold your space. Just keep breathing. S xx

Mad, maybe, but a dog??? I couldn't help feeling bad for him when I saw in the news this morning that he said that no-one cares about him. There must be many people in the world who feel like that, and then go on to hurt other people (which of course is no excuse). We are not seperate, we are all one, and even one person feeling seperate hurts the whole of society. Being seperate and lonely is the illusion we need to break out of...

That's 2 major 'mad dog' gun incidents in the north of England in the last 2 months. What interests me is how they keep the really big news and the really big criminals out of the headlines: BP, Israel, USA, the Banks, Monsanto, Big Pharma etc. - all are currently involved in massive crimes against humanity in which millions either will or have died. THAT's the news, unfortunately, and I do wonder if these individuals are 'triggered' because of the mayhem they cause. They do a great job of holding our attention but they aren't all that's going on. There are both very much darker and much brighter things going on - I know which I want to keep my attention on! Keep towards the Light!

Go heal Steve, methinks you are very good at it :) Perhaps when we see this kind of tragedy unfolding in the media we could try to let that part of ourselves that buys into it, go with the suffering soul into other realms to be healed/recycled with as much love as we can muster. I'm wondering how much longer the person being me can take this tension. I've got a good grip on the theory, my 'process' as it were, and I trust my beliefs, but it's like the very fabric of my being is creaking and buckling, yielding and stretching, ugh!! That was a beautiful light in the sky last night and it certainly felt very important. Do you think it represents some preparatory energy focus for when Mars catches up with Saturn just as it goes into Libra at the end of the month, Venus getting all 'pumped up' as it were? Would it be too far fetched to consider the importance of it making a trine to the galactic centre too? Is that where your crop circle boost comes in? I had a client the other day who had nodes aligned with the galactic centre, and she was definitely tuned into beings from elsewhere! The info that you post is truly inspiring. Blessings x Ella

I know what you mean, it is dispiriting, but I think it's just part of human nature - what stories have been handed down to us from Ancient Greece, for example - the nice ones about people being kind to each other? No, it's tales about someone having his liver ripped out by eagles, or Hercules smashing all and sundry to death with his club. And on another level, I suppose it's down to our fascination with evil... Now why would that be?

Well.... I am more cheerful today-probably as I have one or two drinks... oh dear.... well- so what it's hardly going to kill me.. anyway I have been thinking of an old motto which was inscribed above the most beautiful Victorian house from Surrey that I have ever seen (where I was brought up)-and the architects of bulidings from that era are to be saluted... this motto says"Dum Spiro Spero" While there's breath there's hope, and even though my entire lifes in transition at present I have been thinking about the good in my life and also miracles, and indeed there has been a minor miracle in my daughters life recently- she was falling apart a few years ago when my partner left and we had serious problems.. and it didnt help that all the universities she applied to recently rejected her. Then suddenly a few weeks ago, one of them (a really good one) sent her a letter saying they had amended their decision and she has been accepted...so both of us were over the moon... its just such a shame that I am swinging from one day so down (because of no proper job/partner /possibly losing our home) to feeling so over the moon for her the next day... but I will say one thing-Thank you Universe for this one very major achievment-she is the most lovely daughter and Im so proud.. But I stand by what I said in my last blog "KINDNESS AND COMPASSION" there are people out there who are really struggling who the universe doesnt seem to be providing for... the starving in Africa comes to mind, as well other people nearer to home i.e my friend who blogs on this site.....another reminder to you all kindness and compassion cost nothing... and how would you feel if you were unhappy without a partner, and no job or money and likely to lose your home, and people just said "Stop moaning".... Well thats my sermon for today, and on another note- I read that the veil between the worlds thins between these two eclipses at the end of June and the eclipse in July, and I feel very strongly this is true...several things have happened to me over these past two months that have really made me ponder....

Hi Circle of Friends, Sipping my tea, starting a new day and sending love to y'all. Glad to hear of you prospering dear Steve, and thanks. bobbi

What a beautiful Crop Circle. It's interesting as to how in the last couple of weeks we have seen two major incidents in the UK of people with guns and the media have lapped it up, the vultures that they are. We have to remind ourselves that 1) gun crime is still a relative rarity, compared to many other countries, simply because not many people have them, 2) the media currency is always to keep us in fear, if we're fearful we're easier to manipulate, coerce. Real power comes when you understand how the world really works and can question how we're manipulated. When you can ask yourself questions that put these vultures on the spot and instead of wanting the impossible, be realistic, they cease to have any power over your life. Also you have to remember that the media have very limited reference points that have nothing to do with reality, just s**t stirring. Enjoy the summer weather :))

Oh and another thought- how can the starving people in Africa remain positive and smile??? How can anyone smile if thyre starving? Or people living in third generation Palestinian refugee camps?....how can they remain positive? just another thought for todays sermon....

This is a poor Blog Post Steve, and well below your usual high standards. Raoul Moat was not a "mad dog"; did you ever meet him? Can you not recognize a UK media frenzy when you see one, full of distortions and outright lies? Can you not recognize the meaning and intent in the "Mad-Max" battle-dress now being routinely worn by Britain's police force? And the SAS being recruited too! What did the yellow-bellied Police think this guy was, an invincible Robocop with a short circuit?? I see that you failed to mention Raoul Moat's name even once in your blog article. Preferring to address him only with an epithet: "mad dog". Me-thinks you have been watching far too much Sky News. It is my belief Raoul Moat is just the latest victim of the war against the male, which has been going on now since the 1970s with ever increasing ferocity. I don't defend Moat's violence, but I would show some sympathy for the events and attitudes that have pushed him into such desperate and self-destructive actions. Recently, his own Mother announced to the world that her 'son' would be "better off dead". What a filthy and treacherous statement from the mother of a troubled son. And the girl Moat shot, his former girlfriend, Sam Stobbart. Why do we let her get away scot free? Was it not her infidelity that triggered Moat's final displays of defiance? Just hours before his death, Raoul Moat complained that nobody cared about him. That is the problem in our society is it not? Nobody caring enough about each other. Big and as tough as he was, Raoul Moat was in obvious need of some love and understanding. But nobody gave it to him; not even his mother or long-time girlfriend. He had also been victimized by the police; possibly assaulted while under arrest for earlier offences. Steve. It seems like you have failed to pause and think this story through. Maybe you need to grab a hold of Raoul Moat's birth details and do a Natal analysis? You might then find he was a victim of our sick and emotionally cold society. Therefore, to call him a "wild dog" is just a cop out: a denial of shared responsibility.

To the 19:49 poster, can I say "I'm sorry". Yes Moat was a mad dog. Who or what made him that way is perhaps another question. But I am sorry, I had forgotten for a minute that the victim is always to blame, and the police are always wrong to protect the public. Steve, you have my full agreement to your blog, and if you decide not to allow this post through I will completely understand. Ron

In reply to 19:49, I would add that while I agree that masculinity has been under growing pressure not to express itself since the 1970s, I don't think you can follow that statement by portraying Moat as a victim. Of course, we are all victims of our circumstances, one way and another, but part of what it means to be male is, surely, having the strength to curb your rage and violent tendencies. The poster seems to want to have his cake and eat it - he laments the anti-male elements in society, but then sets up Moat as someone who is only reacting, never acting, and thus not responsible for his terrible acts.

Unless you have actual proof that what you are saying is totally correct, I beg you to not restrict your compassion and love to the one who did the killing - for that is what he did. There are millions of people in the world who are 'unloved and undervalued', but this is no excuse whatsoever for going around taking the lives of others. Don't forget that this man also vowed to keep on killing to the end. I have a question for Steve. Is there any reason astrologically why so many men (and women) are killing their own children now? Selfishness appears to be the reason in many cases, 'if I can't have them/her, then no-one will'. This is not love, this is monstrous ego. If we can help those who are twisted in their thoughts to come back into harmony through counselling or whatever, that would be ideal. In the meantime, yes, we can all send thoughts of love to those who we think need it, and to the earth, and to societies in general. And we can love each other, and our so-called enemies. This is what unconditional love means. Because love exists, whether we decide to tap into it or not. But when we do, it changes our perspective, makes us nicer and impacts similarly on those around us. Long live love - give it freely, to all.

Have to say, I agree with the 19.49 poster. Raoul Moat didn't just spring out from behind a blackberry bush as a fully formed Evil Person. He would have had his own, probably desperately sad story to tell. I don't in any way defend his actions either, but I can't imagine how much you must have to hate yourself to kill yourself with a shotgun. He came out of the society I am part of. So long as we abandon some people as beyond hope and help, there will be others like him.

We will never know if it was self-hatred that made him kill himself. It could have been lack of options. He could have felt it was his only way out bar what was in store for him if they took him. Who can say?

Hi Steve and all, I have read with interest some of the posts about Mr. Moat. Firstly I am not in England so I am unaware as to how this issue has been reported or what the circumstances are. Rather than trying to decide who is right or wrong in this argument is it not more productive to ask the question has he been let down by a system and if so what can be done to improve the system so it does not happen again? I have read one website which says he had been discharged from prison, I am unaware if this is true. If he was, I wonder if he could have had a serious mental illness which was not treated in prison? Was he discharged from prison into nothingness or was he discharged into the care of mental health professionals? It may be worthy of note that many people who have a serious mental illness do not have insight or are unaware they have the illness which makes it difficult for them to adhere to medication regimes on their own. I have a gorgeous, placid son who happens to have a serious mental illness. If I did not administer his medication daily he would be quite a different person, this is due to no fault of his own, nor is it the fault of his family or his upbringing, it is just the result of a cruel illness. I think I would be correct in saying that in Australia we have laws which govern how suicide is reported in the media, and I believe mental health organisations also monitor media coverage. The reasons are clear, terms such as "mad dog" can create stigma and could have an adverse effect on another person who has a serious mental illness but has never harmed anybody. Reporting of details of suicides and information on methods can also lead to "copycat" suicides. I believe however suicide should not be totally brushed under the carpet, and that there is a place for responsible use of figures to be used for improving mental health services.