BULLETIN ITEM: Earth Changes Bulletin Weekly Update: Have A Happy New Year

Have a Happy New Year, if you are still celebrating its arrival on Jan 1 in twain with the mass. Mine starts on December 22, the Winter Solstice.

I spent the holy days in Snowflake, watched more movies with the kids than I have seen in two years, did not watch CNN or used almost no computers, had a great time, and frooze me buns off. A good start on the new year. But the temperature and altitude changes seem to have set in motion a major severe flare up of a lower jaw tooth infection and I am currently in an IBUPROFEN haze barely covering the trauma of a very sore, aching jaw line. I am busy slamming it with all known powers (at least a dozen different remedies including penicillin, crystals, ascorbate acid, and a variety of things to promote death of germs and metabolism of white blood cells) and I think that the worst has already passed (not completely certain). Learned one thing: slamming guns and jaw with oregano oil causes a rapid major swelling and exceptional pain, will not do that ever again. Better now but I am not at all inclined to survey the planet and write a formal weekly update. Not all that much is really happening to enliven a survey. But here are a few tidbits from a quick 30 minute peruse of the www.

Sunspots zip, though the Sun is energetic with CME storms. Sunspot activity has been zero for the last ten days.

Solar Flux: slight increase: probably signifies impending increase in Sunspot Count

Fluxgate: little disturbance seen at moment

Polar Motion: about normal

Volcanic Activity: about the same as last few weeks. But now Etna is silent, Kilauea is slowing down

La Nina: cold pattern on the equator is still broad in area but the temperature is warming slightly, suggesting a gradual break-up

North Atlantic Oscillation: warm patches are breaking up, ocean temperature is beginning to normalize.

North Pacific Gyre: beginning to reform warm patch

Northern Hemisphere Weather: Should begin to become more moderate very gradually

Seismic Activity: Widely scattered, frequency beginning to accelerate after a two day lull. Most likely overall activity will be higher through to about February due to the Perihelion gravity field of the Sun (Earth is closest to the Sun about January 6).

Planets & Moons: No new charts yet. Will work on the ephemeris this coming week, I intend to do several years ahead this time so we can scan throughout the coming Solar Cycle 24.

Geopolitics: Geeze, after not watching the global keystone kops kartoon for a couple of weeks, those clowns seem daffier than ever. The main issue of the day is: how do we throw those idiots in the lunybin and throw away the key?

Sicko: I finally watched the movie with the kids. Saw it twice. IT IS EXCELLENT.

May the answer come to you in your dreams. Have A Happy New Year!!!