Signs Below And Above?

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Let’s call this “odds and ends,” as we do on occasion.

And we’ll start at what some may interpret as signs of the times—whether warning or promise—in the sky.

You have perhaps seen this one of the sky above the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and behind the Washington Monument before recent celebrations and more to the point, two days after the nation was consecrated to the Sacred Heart by a gathering of U.S. bishops at Mary, Queen of the Universe Basilica in Orlando.

We ran it by both ChatGPT and Gemini to check, as we often do, if it was A.I.

Gemini said it was authentic. ChatGPT said it was computer-generated. A second try with Gemini said the picture was legitimate but had been enhamced with articifical means, which amounts to both chat engines being correct in their own styles.

It turns out—or at least we are told—that the original was more like this (seen on “X”):

Actually, the rainbow may have been on June 12. The widely disseminated photo  captures a striking, real-world meteorological event that occurred over Washington, D.C., during a severe evening storm. The dramatic sunset rainbow paired with active cloud-to-ground lightning behind the Washington Monument was widely witnessed and captured by numerous local residents and professional photojournalists. ChatGPT said it was enhanced color and sharpness.

On June 12, 2026, a stunning rainbow—and in many areas, a double rainbow—appeared across the Washington, D.C. skyline following severe thunderstorms.

Because the severe thunderstorms struck late in the evening on June 12, many of the most striking photographs—including shots of lightning spidering directly above the monument alongside the double rainbow—flooded social media and news outlets the next day, June 13, leading to some confusion about the exact date.

The storm system moved out overnight, leaving June 13 relatively clear, though another separate round of stormy weather and a sunset rainbow returned to the National Mall a couple of days later on June 14.

What if anything did/does it mean?

There is the promise in a rainbow (dating back to Noah) while lightning is usually more associated with judgment.

Some saw an angel. Some a demon.

You discern. (Some saw it mainly associated with the Monument; others with the Kennedy Center.)

The same can be said of the smoke rising last week (June 19) from a massive wildfire near Miami. Is there a serpent with mouth open (a “gaper”)?

Here is simply the sky as from a “cold blob” responsible for potentially catastrophic shifts in India’s monsoon season takes hold. It could affect one billion people (prayer need). The abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.

Young people play volleyball in a flooded field in India during the summer monsoon. The sky is full of dark clouds.

When it comes to looking up, here are two seers on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje viewing the Virgin Mary at the same time—unusual in that the three remaining seers who have daily apparitions usually do so apart.

Rare is the person who has gone there and not come back a believer. (Very rare.)

But common it is that the great skeptics never have been. Perhaps one can call it “armchair discernment.” Many make snap decisions in our times, at times rafting the cascades of information (and misinformation).

Be careful with posts and podcasts. They can be great and they can be misleading.

At any rate, stay tuned. The times, and signs of the times, as a singer once sung, “they are a’changing.”

[resources: Future Events and Lost Prophecies]