“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.” –Sophocles
The thing about secrets is that the truths they enshroud always and I do mean always find a way to leak out.
Like, in my family we would tell ghost stories during the winter at family gatherings like Christmas parties or at family dinners. The common theme seemed to involve people who buried their victims in the basement and ghosts who were attracted to the water.
Years later I found out that my Great Grandmother’s childhood home had served briefly as a funeral parlor when another family owned it and indeed the mortician’s work was done in their basement. The Funeral Director died on his way to a cemetery. He had heart attack they said.
My Great Great Grandfather ( her Father ) died under mysterious circumstances. His body was found in Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada. He had been in Ottawa to attend his Mother’s funeral.
Neither of these incidents were talked about outright, but shades of them turned up in ghost stories.
These threads haunted us I suppose.
“Jemma” October 2023 Photo: A..M. Moscoso
Last week my family visited an attraction in the Dells, Wisconsin called “The Upside Down House ” The Upside Down House is the White House-
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House ” Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
And it is being guarded by big scary robots-
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
The secret wasn’t what was on the main floor- you paid the admission and you could walk right in.
What you did was to discover the secret look straight ahead ( which isn’t as easy as it sounds because you are looking up so much that when you look down you go your sense of balance goes wonky ) to find the holes in the walls, from there you had to walk through these forced entries to find the secret that was hiding in the Upside Down House.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Then you had to follow the signs, like my son did.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House ” Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
This is where things got good.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
What are they hiding in the Upside Down White House? What is the secret that has leaked out?
Why, the secrets is all about Aliens of course.
Aliens are in the basement of the White House and they are in the midst of conducting medical experiments.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
What were the Aliens trying to accomplish in their experiments? What were they trying to achieve?
That’s a secret they’ve kept in the basement of the Upside Down House and if we are lucky, it will stay down there.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
When I was little and my family went to the Zoo back in the days when
people use to throw junk food into the exhibits.
You could buy peanuts and use them to make the bears beg for treats.
BEG.
It was pretty horrible.
I wonder what those bears saw when they looked over at us with our bags of peanuts in our hands. I’ll bet what they saw was the stuff of nightmares. How could we not have looked like monsters from the worst nightmares you could dream to them?
AI ART BY CURSEJOURNEY
I remember that the Primate House was awful. When I was a kid, I really hated the Primate House.
The gorillas and the chimps would sit behind glass in rooms that looked, I swear to God, like an execution chamber in a prison. The tile, the color, the rope swinging from the ceiling. It was grotesque.
Since those days, I have watched hours upon hours of gorillas and chimps in rescues and at modern Zoos where they can go outside and hang out in their own private green habitats or look through the glass and interact with the public OR they can go into their rooms and ignore zoo visitors all day long if they want too.
Even though things are better in these places ( I hope against hope they are better ) for our Primate cousins, I still wonder how they see us on the other side of the glass.
They probably still see us as monsters, but I hope they see us as the kind of monsters that have a touch of humanity in our bones.
In Astrology, the planets in our Solar System all play roles. Starring roles in fact.
I’d rather understand these wonderful worlds on their own terms.
Without us slapping labels on them, they are shrouded with mystery and in the case of Venus, her atmosphere could smoosh you like a bug and Jupiter would give you a lethal dose of radiation in hours ( which seems WILDLY optimistic timeline to me ) .Once I heard the colorful phrase ‘rapid cell degeneration ‘ to explain what would happen to you if you stood on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. I have actually spent nights staring up at my ceiling trying to picture what that would look like.
My point is, each of these worlds could turn you into a chalk outline in some pretty creative ways. They don’t need to carry traits- noble or otherwise- for us.
Here are some wonderful images for you to enjoy and maybe ponder over:
Mars: Sunrise
View of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft from the south. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran
Natural-colour view of Saturn, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on January 2010. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.)
Original caption: “NASA The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury’s spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there.
NASA/Voyager 2 Team – Neptune
Uranus as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute PLUTO
Data visualization of the Sun from the Moon as seen from Hadley Rille, the Apollo 16 landing site. The topography and shadows are scientifically accurate. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Ernie Wright
