Our prayers and nightly vigil on the internet at 7 PM are working, along with all of the work being done by other groups, Traditional Shamans in the region, and your prayers as well. Thanks so very much. They have abated the fires and they are almost all contained now.

PLEASE KEEP YOUR PRAYERS COMING.

We are not yet out of danger and we need a good wet rainstorm throughout the Southwest to drop a good inch of rain. As a group, every night at 7 PM we are doing an "All Faiths Prayer Mantra". The web page for the it has a satellite view of the clouds in the Pacific Ocean and Southwest which a Phoenix Quest Circle is meditating on every night to bring clouds over the Southwest. Please join in then or ANYTIME, by going to

The original memorandum has been vastly expanded to incorporate everything we have been focused on during the past several months, along with great graphs of the sunspots cycles, the current one, how they correlate with human aggression, violence and wars over the past couple hundred years, as well as the weather patterns of the past several years.

The First Question Is What is common to Forest Fires Drought Weather Farms Food Economics Stock Values Global Warming El Nino Terrorism War and much more.

The Second Question Is What are the likely daily averages of sunspots for the remainder of the year and what are the most likely impacts of the sunspots for the next six to twelve months on

Forest Fires Drought Weather Farms Food Economics Stock Values Global Warming El Nino Terrorism War and much more.

The Answer is in the Oak Tree Memorandum. From the past 100 years of data related to sunspot cycles, a lot of the most likely probabilities for the six months can be laid out in a comprehensive "Big Picture" in a form which the average farmer, stock owner, consumer, reporter, fire fighter, and rural business owner can readily understand. Even some scientists and weather prognosticators might understand it.

THIS INFORMATION OFFERS A LOT OF CRITICALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW YOUR POCKET BOOK IS LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED IN A BIG WAY. Among other things, it will confirm exactly what you need to know about stocks and prices, especially food prices, and recessionary winds. Since all of these pressures will have big political consequences, you will be able to see that is happening politically long before the media gets the whiff..

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For those who have not made donations to support the Earth Changes Bulletin, the e-document price is $6.00. Print versions of this document may be purchased for $8.00. Just click on

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WEBSITE HOUSE KEEPING

New charts for the sunspot cycles have been added to the Earth Monitor Website. Just go to

http//www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/

and find COSMOS in the Menu, then underneath it you will see the link for the Sunspot Index.

The charts on the internet for sunspots lacked the right kind of perspective, so I downloaded all the numbers, ran them through Excel, and made up some great charts, including a giant scrolling horizontal graph for the last one hundred years. If you want to check on the relationship between sunspot numbers and most anything else, start with these charts. Get your kids involved!!!

The "Latest News" section on the Earth Monitor page will now provide URLs to the Weekly Updates, such as this one. The increasing instability of Yahoo’s services behooves have alternatives.

EARTH CHANGES BULLETIN ACCESS

Many many people on fixed incomes, retirement pensions, and low incomes have written to me and asked me not to remove them from the subscriber list. My heart is touched. I did not realize there were so many handicapped people or people reading the Bulletin from places from libraries who really want to read these bulletins. So I am going to hold with the origninal policy and provide access at no charge. I will continue hoping for donations and occassionally I will request them. And occassionally I will offer Special Reports for a small fee like the Oak Tree Memorandum which can be sold to many people. I hope to sell far more of these during the next month than I have of all my books. But to do so I will have to reach far beyond the shores of the few email lists in which I normally make announcements. So wish me luck in that department.

SITE ACCESS FOR EBOOKS AND EDOCS

Access is now engineered for all who have subscribed with the requested donation of $24.00. Your donation confirmation will be returned to your email address and it will include the data for how to access the site. Please allow up to next week for me to get all the physical mail and email caught up on this.

Sunspots were sagging down to 85 from 100 just before the huge prominence yesterday shot out towards Venus. The "magnetic" explosion created an enormous magnetic loop or arc about the size of 40 Earth-diameters from end to end. It was filled with glowing-hot gas which lifted off the Sun at an enormous rate of speed.

There was another X1 class flare today to add to the pyrotechnics, but it is not headed towards the Earth. The Earth should not be much affected by this event or the prominance.

BUT

This week there is an approximate square alignment of the four inner planets like this

             Mars

Venus      Sun        Mercury

              Earth

This spread is probably reducing the sunspots we can see from the Earth because the greater numbers of them should be bunched up to follow Mercury and Venus. The solar flux is headed back up to 150, which demonstrates that there is a lot of juice left in this sunspot peak Most likely the sunspot numbers will follow along after the Coronal Hole passes. I expect the numbers to jog back up again into the plateau region above 100.

This is probably a great opportunity to see the sunspot numbers change as the planets move. This is probably at this moment the lowest LOW for the numbers caused by the spread of the competing electromagnetic pull from all angles on the Sun. As the planets continue to orbit from this point on, you should see them beginning to bunch up again as the planets move closer together. Mercury-Mars will come together next month and Venus-Earth will come together in late October 2002. Numbers now should increase on the Earth side slowly and get really peaked in October. But the Mercury-Mars alignment should cause a dip in the numbers on the Earth’s side.

This is a really classical "moment" to get to the bottom of the relative attractor power of the inner planets. The precise orbital numbers and sunspot behavior ought to permit the formulation of some powerful equations for predicting the rise and fall of sunspot numbers.

POLAR MOTION Stable, no new news.

VOLCANOES Overall, activity is about the same as last week, but HOOD may become active

Numbers from the Southwestern Volcano Lab are roughly the same as last week seven on restless list, 30 on alert list, 16 on active list

In the last 24 hours, the overall activity of the Popocatépetl volcano showed 10 small to moderate exhalations, very similar to a week ago. Elsewhere Kilauea was reported to be spilling over again with lava flows, as it often does, and Etna is busy smoking with steam and ash as it has been for the past few weeks.

Most importantly, extensive quaking struck the base of the stratovolcano Hood near Portland, Oregon. Hood is Oregon's highest peak. An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 shook the Hood area Saturday (June 29). There have been two aftershocks of magnitude 3.8 and 3.2. and dozens of micro-tremors.

JOB (Jim Berkland former USGS geologist before retirement) reports "It should be noted that at least two of the Mt. Hood quakes on July 1 had a focus of 0 km (epicenter = focus); also at least one 2.3M quake was directly under the peak, rather than 3 to 5 miles south like most of the others. This is not just an ordinary swarm. Stay alert." He also wrote "My thoughts are that this seems almost identical to what happened at Mt. St. Helens on March 20, 1980, when a 4.4M quake was followed by several others within a week, at least two of which were around 3.5M. On March 27th it began to erupt simultaneously with my being interviewed by a TV crew shooting "The Invisible, Earthquake and Volcanoes ". When I was asked about Mt. St. Helens I told them I thought "that peak means business and there was at least a 5050 chance that it would erupt before the year was out, and become the first active volcano in the lower 48 since Mt. Lassen from 1914-1917."

USGS Earthquake Charts for the Pacific Northwest shows and counts 77 quakes of 1.0 mag or greater for the preceding two weeks, 58 of them occurred during the last few days of June at or very near the base of Hood.

WATCH THIS SITUATION CLOSELY. WATCH HOOD ESPECIALLY IN RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NEXT FULL MOON.

EARTHQUAKES

The peak of the syzygy surge was on June 26 and 27. The biggest jolt, a 7.2 quake in the Russian Far East just to the North of Korea along the coastline, waited almost until the last minute to appear. The deep quake (540 kilometres or 340 miles) was widely felt but there was little damage reported.

However, the earthquake shook a large part of northeastern China and was even felt by occupants of high-rise buildings in Beijing, almost 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) to the southeast