LYRID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is approaching the debris field of ancient Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on April 21-22; a nearly-new moon on those dates will provide perfect dark-sky conditions for meteor watching. Usually the shower is mild (10-20 meteors per hour) but unmapped filaments of dust in the comet's tail sometimes trigger outbursts 10 times stronger. [video] [Lyrid chat] [more]

NO CME, NO PROBLEM: A CME expected to hit Earth on April 9th missed, but the Arctic lit up with auroras anyway. Yuichi Takasaka sends this report from the Northwest Territories of Canada: "Even though the CME missed, we had three outbreaks of Northern Lights at Prelude Lake." Here is one of them:

The source of the display was the IMF (interplanetary magnetic field), which tipped south on April 9th, opening a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in and fueled the auroras.

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Yeshua and Michael

We speak to you now as major earth changes are occurring.  Long forecast, and after a steady building period, these pressures are being released.  Your Mother Earth is trying, as much as possible, to limit any harm to her creatures, but the plates are where they are, so the choices are limited.

Many, many of your star brothers are in the area using their technologies to allow Gaia to do what she needs to do and still not cause an extinction event.  There is a great deal of built up pressure which she must release.  There have been several hundred quakes around the world each day for a while.  And most of your volcanic mountains are also releasing pressures.  These have all been lessening the effects of these changes.

We got a message from a reader asking to give them an idea of what they "need to do" to assist. The following is the answer we sent:

First, there's nothing you "need" to do. Everything automatically occurs as "needed", though your Conscious participation within that is certainly encouraged. A person's mission in life is never really a secret, your whole life has prepared you for it, though seeing the bigger pattern may be difficult at first. Simply be open to what the Universe is telling you, and this is done by discarding all beliefs about what's "supposed" to happen and what it's "supposed" to look like.