An X17 solar flare headed our way and perhaps you may have noticed that much of California is "scorched" (Including some of my friends who live(d?) in Scripps ranch, a wealthier suburb of SD which has streets so densely lined with tall, dry trees that it was a fire disaster waiting to happen) and that many folks are in a pretty traumatic way right now all over the world.

This one kid had it right even though his mother didn't understand him:

San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium housed 3,000 people who fled the firestorms. The fires also displaced the professional football game between the hometown Chargers and Miami Dolphins last night to Tempe, Ariz.

Over the stadium, the choking smoke blowing down from the nearby communities of Tierrasanta and Murphy Canyon turned the sun into a hazy, golden orb. With a soot-smudged face, 3-year-old Evan Jones stared straight into it. "Mamma," he cried, "The sun. Fire now!"

"He's been absolutely terrified of it ever since we left and saw the fire raining down on us," said Evan's mother, Kristine Lannes. "He thinks the sun will bring fire."

(Murphy Canyon is right alongside FWY 15 and is a Navy Housing project just south of Tierrasanta. It's a nice neighborhood and lies a few miles south of Scripps Ranch)

Sometimes kids say the darnedest things and adults brush them off to childish lack of knowledge. But in this case the kid is intuitively correct. The earth-sun relationship is much more complex than his mother or we can imagine and our history here on earth is tied in closely to the motions of the sun which helped to form this planet. When the sun is disruptive, not surprisingly things are disruptive here as well. Technically, one can link the high winds with the intense solar weather and it's hard to ignore the symbolic parity of the lost hunter's "flare" which started the San Diego fire with the abnormal sunspots and solar "flares" of the past week.

We generally don't think in a greater scope and see our history down here as isolated from the greater movements of the universe when life here is closer to the tail of the dog than the head. The climate that allowed earth to develop life can also take it away and the sun worshippers may have been ignorant but they, too, knew of the sun's great significance to their lives and survival.

This out of season solar activity is somewhat disturbing and shows we don't understand the sun as well as we'd like to. I would hate to see the 11 year sunspot cycle shortened so significantly or to emerge with stronger subcycles as this would not bode well for our planet's weather or humanity in general.

Humanity hates to be dependant. It is scary to have to rely on something so utterly out of our control and which we only vaguely suspect we understand.

Here's hoping everyone in CA and elsewhere rides out this cycle and motion of energy with the least turbulence.

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