Virginia Trip Report

This blog summarizes lessons learned on our recent trip to Virginia. Then watch dates for next week, which is expected to be a busy prophetic week. Finally, a headline review.

Unleavened Bread Week

I hinted last week that Ryan and I traveled to Virginia for our Unleavened Bread week holiday. This trip was as important to us as the trip to Washington, DC, last year. Though this trip was very different than last year. What follows is my summary of the trip itself, along with some of the things we learned along the way.

The Dream

Late last year I read a book called "There is a River" which was the authorized biography of Edgar Cayce. I previously reported about that biography in the 2025-12-26 blog. That blog is linked in the index found on the main page of Paleo.In if you want to review.

When I first started reading that biography I had a particularly strong prophetic dream. Here are the essential details of that dream.

In the dream I walked along the front porch of some sort of brick building. There was some sort of overhang over that porch. There was a main door in the middle of the front wall. There was a glass wall of some sort inside the lobby. There was a receptionist's desk of some sort, also in the lobby. Further into the building there was a grand staircase that went up.

There was a scene change and I was now on the top floor, apparently at the top of the stairs. There was a floor to ceiling glass window wall. Outside I could see a flat roof at the same level as the interior floor. There was a parapet style short wall around the roof, so conceivably someone could walk out on the roof. There was some sort of view over neighboring houses, but that did not seem to be the reason for this strange building design. I also saw someone, an elderly man, appear in that upper room. Then I woke from the dream.

Some readers here who know my prophetic gifting will recognize this as what I call a "venue dream." This is a dream of a place that I will soon be visiting. I have had these off and on for many, many years. I always end up in the venue seen in the dream. At the time of the dream I had no idea where this might be. I usually do not know where these venues are until I walk into them.

Cayce Biography

As I continued to read the Edgar Cayce biography, I read were he eventually moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia. The biography explained various reasons for this including proximity to New York City, future economic development of that region, and prophetic reasons why Edgar needed to be near interior water which was a feature at that particular beach.

As I read through Cayce's move to that area I thought some of the locations in the biography might still exist. So I typed the addresses into Google Maps in order to figure out where these might be. 2 of the 4 locations were once houses, but are now commercial buildings. The 3rd location is a house, but using Google street view, I could see it no longer has any sort of commercial signage.

The 4th location still exists and it turns out it fills the better part of a city block. It includes a building that was once the Cayce hospital. From the satellite photos on Google maps I could see the entire property. On that property was a modern visitor's center built in 1975.

Using Google Maps, once I saw the roof, and the floor to ceiling windows, I realized I was looking down on the building I'd seen in the dream. At that point I realized Ryan and I needed to travel there. The question was when.

I checked their online schedule of events and the first Saturday of each month is the best date to visit because their schedule of events is longest on that day. This year's Unleavened Bread holiday spanned the first Saturday of February, so I knew we needed to go to Virginia Beach, and we needed to visit that location on that Saturday. What would turn out to be February 7, 2026.

Working out travel plans was not particularly difficult. We'd been to Washington DC last year. We did need to dodge weather. The shortest route was across North Dakota and then south of Chicago. But this would not allow easy reroute south to avoid any sort of winter storms. Instead we went via Cheyenne, Saint Louis, Nashville, Durham, and then north into Virginia.

Other than the time at the Edgar Cayce visitor's center, we had no fixed schedule. We did visit Jamestown. We also had time for our normal holiday lot sets. We found a room with off-season rates which had a view of the Atlantic. So we were generally well set for the holiday itself.

The more difficult problem was the event in that upper room, a time for anyone from the public to practice Tarot Card reading. This was a totally cringe worthy destination, and it caused Ryan and I many hours of discussion about doing this at all.

It would turn out to be a highlight of the trip and not all that bad. We learned a bunch of important things. Those lessons are what I want to share here, especially for those who are following along with our project.

Tarot And Tea

The main event was called "Tarot and Tea" which was scheduled for the room I'd seen in the dream. We knew from the dream that room was the location of our main event.

The schedule for the day included other events. There was a tour of the building, which we took, and late in the day was a scheduled video on dreams. We declined the video, as we were still processing Tarot and Tea.

Tarot and Tea is monthly. It is open to the public for those who want to practice their tarot card reading. It is a well attended event. Normally this is in the 2nd floor the library, but that room was closed for cleaning. So instead we were in the top floor "Meditation Room."

This was exactly the same room I'd seen in the dream. It has a floor to ceiling window wall, a floor level roof is outside of the windows. A parapet style short wall keeps anyone outside from falling off the roof. (Though it does not look like they use the roof, maybe in summer.)

There are roof tops of neighboring houses visible from inside that room. Finally, and most dramatically, there is also a view of the Atlantic Ocean.

Everyone who was there for the event ended up seated at tables set up for 4 people. It was quite a crowd. I am not sure how many were there.

Ryan and I ended up at a table with a host who was trained in the practice of Tarot Card reading. Not all tables had such skilled hosts.

Let me cover the key points here, and why they add to our general understanding of the manuscript recovery process and related exhibits.

Tarot Card Decks

Tarot is done using a deck of 78 cards. These have a modern form going back several centuries. That deck was created using a standard deck of playing cards combined with an additional set of 22 Hebrew Alphabet cards. At the same time as this card deck was created, there was a set of standard artwork added to the face of each card. This artwork was in part because most people were illiterate when this work was being done.

At the time when Tarot was created, standard card decks had 56 cards, not the 52 cards of standard modern playing card decks. Modern playing card decks have lost 1 card from each suit. So a Tarot deck has 78 cards in total.

Once we knew that a derived form of the Paleo Alphabet is part of these card decks, we both realized this was why we were there. We needed to learn as much as we could about the cards.

Ryan engaged our host and it was clear they were using the same Hebrew letter definitions we'd learned in a Hebrew language class many years ago. We did not press on every letter, but we can reasonably presume they have some of the letters incorrectly defined.

At the end of the session I asked for and was given a cite for a text book which goes through the entire set of card definitions, including letter definitions. I was told this text includes both the alphabet letter definitions as well as grids from these cards out to other systems, including the Zodiac.

The Zodiac, of course, is just the constellations around the ecliptic of the stars in the sky. That there is such a grid was also a trigger point for me because the "Star Field" is one of my listed future exhibits. If there is a well known grid, say from the alphabet, to the sky, then perhaps there is a system passed by history that provides a mapping from the alphabet ultimately to the timeline. If so, this is a very serious addition to our general understanding.

Ryan and I both realized that even if there is such a historical grid of the alphabet out to the sky, I will probably end up needing to correct it, just as I did with Hebrew letter definitions.

So a grid of the alphabet to time may have similar errors introduced across history. In any case, this gives a starting point for the Star Field exhibit beyond a simple map of stars in the sky.

I have found and bookmarked the recommended textbook on Amazon. I will order a copy once I am back to my normal routine.

Tarot As Religion

The other component of the day was watching how the Tarot cards were being used. It would cause Ryan and I to have a long running conversation once we were out of the room. We needed a time and a place where we could talk freely.

The first issue was just the vocabulary word. Using a set of Tarot cards creates what they call a "reading." This is the same term as Cayce used with his prophetic gifting, though his gifts were not at all like Tarot. We at least could see where his term came from. So he did not see a reason to distance himself from this practice, which he probably should have done.

We were also struck by how Cayce, who is best described as some sort of Christian prophet, ended up with an organization that is far from standard Christianity. The modern organization that is the heir to Cayce's work seems to ride on his fame, but removes his faith. This would be a strong warning to our own work. Is there something in our work which we could do now to stop something similar happening, say 100 years from now?

It did not help Cayce's legacy that most of the donor money seems to have been from Zionist Jews from New York. Those donors appear in part to have removed Christianity from Cayce. There is evidence in the biography that this was going on, even in the 1920s.

Shifting to what we saw in the room that day, it was clear that many in the room were genuine in seeking a prophetic word from god. Our recent lessons in the Divine Name problem let us forgive not knowing the correct name. But, they also do not know much about him. They don't seem to know details to the level of what Cayce himself wrote about Jesus. So they start at a serious deficit and are trying to fill in much that could be learned just be reading the Bible and paying attention to Cayce's notes. There were many books in the gift shop that would have started them on such a journey.

But then there is the problem of using a deck of 78 cards. It demands a massive amount of speculation on the part of the person using that deck.

Here is where we had to review our own understanding of the lots calculators on the BRB and TT apps. When we got rid of chance lots we shifted to a system where someone MUST get a number prophetically before they can go read a passage. Tarot is mostly just chance, though there is room to argue me. This day helped solidify how it was the right thing to remove chance lots from the apps.

We also make a distinction in terms of the use of prayer. If you do NOT pray before lots, then, you get what you deserve. When you do not pray, you are back to standard games of chance. This is just like all the games that use standard decks of playing cards, which is where Tarot originates.

Our host at our table knew this problem, and insisted on prayer before the Tarot cards were used. (Of course not knowing the Divine Name.) This practice is in the right direction, even if the Tarot cards are quite crude. This is perhaps why we were at that particular table that day.

Ryan and I did have fun entertaining how the cards drawn on each of us probably were mildly prophetic. They were not particularly actionable, unlike our own use of lots, but those cards did appear to be very mildly descriptive of stuff going on with us.

The other main difference that we see with lots is how they form clear stories. The better you know the text, the easier it is to follow a story that forms in a typical lot set. Lots reward the study of scripture. Lots work best when the symbolic vocabulary of the text is well understood. They work best when there is a ministry reason, not a selfish reason, to use them.

Finally, we both felt that we gained enough understanding that we could eventually witness to people who currently use Tarot. We could potentially walk someone out of that world and introduce them to Joshua instead.

Joshua did add a final point. Those who practice Tarot are not generating any sort of spiritual fruit. The time they spend on this practice would best be spent in other ways. Tarot is ultimately a child of the Jewish religion.

Once we were done digesting our time at the Edgar Cayce visitor center, we were then able to let Joshua speak to us about other things, especially about our project schedule and then about Virginia itself. These are worth noting here in the blog for future reference.

Project Schedule

As I hinted at in previous blogs, Joshua was taking us to the topic of manuscript audit work and eventual cipher work. We were told not to rush this, that we have at least a year and a half ahead of us on these topics. We need to take them in order, with audit work now, and then cipher work later.

We had a long discussion, especially on the trip west, about the work flow needed to perform the audit work. I will be working the code for that work flow here soon. I have some changes to make in our diary system first.

In all of our previous conversations, including side conversations with folks who follow this blog, we have described the manuscript recovery task as finding the inspired manuscript which exists buried within the manuscripts of the Bible as passed to us by history. This sounds simple enough, and sounds easy enough to go code up. As some readers here have proposed, this could maybe be done using some Ai system.

Ryan and I were seriously corrected on our understanding of this goal.

This definition is easy to understand, but missing a key point. We are out to recover a lost language, which has both a lexicon and grammar, and also recover a lost manuscript written using that lost language. It is not strictly Aramaic converted to Paleo letters. The Aramaic grammar is similar, but NOT the same.

So the recovery process is not just an audit process. It involves a very different set of work steps and thus a very different work flow. The goal is to recover both the lost grammar and manuscript of the inspired parts of the Bible. This is NOT really an Ai problem. It is not just a problem of geometry following a pattern written on paper. It does not flow directly from the 3d work.

Hint: It actually naturally builds on the work Ryan has been doing with the BRB and TT for several years. I will remain his technical support. We will build out the needed tooling to add more power to his current setup. We were given a detailed prophetic download about how to conquer this problem. More on that in future blogs.

War

Our Unleavened Bread holiday week took place at Virginia Beach, Virginia. While we were there, the United States was moving around heavy weaponry in order to attack Iran. Much of that hardware was naval.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is one of the big pieces in that build up against Iran. The USS Gerald Ford is the other. That second aircraft carrier is expected to arrive in the middle east about the time this blog goes out. We are likely looking to a start of this war on the next watch dates. More on that below.

Because we were at Virginia Beach, Virginia, Joshua wanted to use our time there to speak to us about that location. He adjusted our understanding of what is going to happen to the future geometry of the USA as this war slowly unfolds. Before getting into the new stuff, let me review what we know so far.

Western Boundaries

For many years Ryan and I have traveled the western USA. We have learned from those travels that the future western boarder of the USA will generally follow the Missouri River. A Chinese ground invasion is what will redraw the map. I have covered this in the blog in years past.

There is a carve out in Texas. So the triangle of Texas survives the ground invasion, this includes Austin, for example, which will remain American.

We do not know what becomes of Louisiana. So we don't know if Texas will remain geographically part of the USA via a land bridge or if there will be a gap. There are also still open issues for us along the Canadian border in states like Montana.

We don't normally travel the east coast, so we have had no reason to think there are similar problems on the eastern seaboard. That started to change this past week. We don't have a complete map. But we have a start.

Virginia Beach, Map

The link here is to Google Maps, with the target location being Virginia Beach, Virginia. Readers of this blog on the east coast may know this location well, readers elsewhere may not know this area at all. You can zoom in and out and scroll around in order to learn the overall lay of that land.

The easiest features to spot are the 2 big bridges that go north and then northwest from Virginia Beach itself. US-13 goes north across the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. That bridge is about 17 miles long. The other important bridge going out from Virginia Beach is the bridge for I-64 going to the northwest. It crosses the mouth of the James River where that river empties into Chesapeake Bay.

Note how Norfolk is the main city just west of Virginia Beach. Virginia Beach has a higher population so it shows up quicker on some national maps.

Note how this is on the south side of the Chesapeake Bay. Upriver on the James River is Jamestown, where the USA was first founded. Ultimately Washington DC, the current national capital, is also upriver from Chesapeake Bay.

From our motel room looking out at the Atlantic, we could see large sea going vessels that were coming and going from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. That river complex is an important shipping hub.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge

The link here is to a Youtube video that explains the construction of the bridge that you see on Google Maps as US-13, it goes way north over the water.

This video answers the question, Why did this bridge need to go under water? There is currently an expansion project under way there to bring the bridge to 4 lanes all the way across the bay. That expansion is a hard problem, as the video explains, which is a fun reason to watch.

Hampton Roads Bridge

The link here is to another Youtube video dealing with the I-64 bridge that crosses the James River north of Norfolk harbor. We drove this to get to Jamestown. We drove it again when we left the area on I-64. This bridge is also undergoing a massive expansion, going from 4 lanes to 8 lanes because of commuter traffic. This work is also being done under water with a massive tunnel boring machine.

This bridge had the same problem as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It needed to be built under water. Why?

Naval Station Norfolk

The link here is to the Grokipedia entry for Naval Station Norfolk. (This is my first use of a link to Grokipedia, just for the fun of it.) You can read through that article for details on that shipyard.

The key point is this is the world's largest naval base, home to 105 ships. There are also supporting installations from other branches of the US military spread across the area.

The primary history of this base goes back to World War I. It allows the USA to project naval power across the Atlantic. It is a source of power over all the earth's oceans.

Note that the American land war against Russia in Ukraine is being lost. So that war is shifting to a sea war against Russia. Norfolk is one of the tools that makes this shift possible.

The next largest US Naval base is Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Third largest is the Kitsap family of bases in Puget Sound in Washington State.

So why did those 2 bridges need tunnels?

So no falling debris from a bridge collapse could interfere with passage of Naval ships to and from this Norfolk naval base. Especially important was that those bridges could never interfere with US Aircraft carriers.

My point? Get your head around how important Norfolk is to the future World War that follows the story of Noah.

Prophetic Future

We learned about that area once we arrived in Virginia Beach. About what you can learn in the links above. The main industry is the military. That Norfolk harbor is the home port of the US Navy.

The prophetic added a different vocabulary, one we had not heard before.

Using the vocabulary of scripture, the main industry of that area is death. Those who live and work in this area are in the shadow of death.

As a culture, Americans use the term "defense" as the title for this industry. Joshua uses simpler terms, their industry is death. This extends upriver to the Pentagon. The main industry of most of northern Virginia is also simply death.

Think about the Epstein files. Their industry is also death.

Strange, this all links back to the Garden of Eden. That was where death entered the world. The Hivite, so cousin of the Jebusites, so modern Pharaoh, so the war against Iran. All connected. Death.

Nuclear War Targets

After several days of listening to Joshua about the Virginia region, we came to understand that all of the military installations in Virginia are nuclear first strike targets.

When the war goes Nuclear, we believe starting in 2029, these locations will be targets for the biggest weapons ever created. Those locations will simply cease to exist. They will go up in nuclear smoke.

The coastal plain of most of the state of Virginia as we know it now will simply go up in smoke. What remains will be a few survivors in the mountains of western Virginia.

The New Virginia Plan

The link here is to an article on Unz that I found AFTER we gained this prophetic understanding. There is a map in that article that amplifies our prophetic understanding of what survives.

Last fall the Democrats regained control of the government of the state of Virginia. This is a very, very woke bunch. There is now nothing left of the Christian heritage first seeded into Virginia soon after the 1607 landing at Jamestown. The Jebusites have fully taken over.

The strip of counties along the state line with West Virginia are where the woke mob does not have full control. That article explains these are candidate counties for joining West Virginia, though that will not likely happen as it would take a vote from the Virginia legislature.

As we drove out of Virginia we went up through that territory. It is the mountainous region that was traditionally part of Appalachia.

Our line along the Missouri River in the western USA now has a line in western Virginia going the other way. Imagine a line in Virginia, 1 county in from West Virginia. The territory east of that line becomes smoke.

Note importantly how we are measuring this by nuclear targets, not by ground invasion. So the timing and tech are different. There are presumably other nuclear targets scattered around which we do not yet understand. But we can see the basic parameters of what is going to happen in that region. The future there is not good.

Watch Dates

We are currently watching a cluster of prophetic dates starting on Sunday, 2026-02-22. This is the Sunday after this blog goes out.

That particular date is the replay of the last year of Solomon's reign. So we would more likely be looking at Monday, or the change in date from Sunday to Monday.

The following date, so Monday, 2026-02-23, is the first year of Rehoboam's reign. Famously, that reign started the civil war that broke the ancient nation into 2 parts.

Note we recently spotted a story in Isaiah 8:14, where the ancient nation was considered 3 distinct parts. Both houses of Israel were distinct from Jerusalem, home of the Jebusites. Jerusalem was never a covenant people.

Note that the north/south split that began at that civil war is now the split between Russia and the west, specially NATO. How this ancient split in the kingdom unfolds in headlines is going to be the main question to answer given headlines next week.

The modern replay of that ancient Civil war is over by 2026-02-06, so the Thursday after this blog goes out.

Also, curious to note. These prophetic dates are almost exactly 3 calendar YEARS from the Noah related stories in 2029. Those 3 years of civil war amongst the tribes that we are seeing for next week might mark the start of 3 years of war ahead of nuclear war. It will be easier to judge this once next week is over.

Iran?

We remain focused on the US military build up against Iran. We have been watching this for weeks. Iran is still the first place to watch for possible fulfillment for this cluster of watch dates.

Jews don't generally like going to war on Sabbath, so they may wait until the Sunday after this blog goes out. The timeline would point more strongly at the Monday after this blog goes out. We'll see.

If something is active by the Monday after this blog goes out, it should lighten up some by the following Thursday.

The net outcome of this should be some sort of east/west split. China and Russia are both helping Iran in various ways. Should Iran at least survive, the west may find itself at war with Russia and China in some more formal way.

There has been much speculation on X that the USS Abraham Lincoln might be used in a false flag against Iran. This seems silly as the Iranians may simply target that ship.

If Iran significantly damages American assets, this may be used in the US Congress for a more formal declaration of war, which of course would run 3 years as per the prophetic story.

Travel

We returned home from the Virginia trip on Thursday. These long drives leave a feeling like Jet Lag. It will take a few days to get rested and return to a normal routine.

Scripture Apps

Ryan will be updating scripture apps as this blog goes out. This week's updates are mostly bug fixes from stuff we saw while using the apps on the road.

Headline Review

The following caught my attention this week.

USS Gerald Ford Deployed

The link here is to a post on X, dated February 12, 2026, that dates the order to deploy this 2nd carrier to the Middle East. These are always a little fuzzy in terms of dates. The military itself does not always immediately release these sorts of orders to the public.

Epstein List

The link here is to a post on X with a longer list of names in the Epstein files. This list only goes through S, so no T names. Think Trump. This is at least a hint as to the scope of Epstein's work.

2001 Epstein Canyon

The link here is to a post on X showing Epstein files by year. There is a gap across 911. This is one of several data points suggesting he was involved in 911 because his files are being scrubbed. Think dancing Israelis.

Satanic Olympics

The link here is to a Gospa News article dealing with the Satanic symbolism in the opening ceremony on February 6, 2026. I previously posted that this is common, but that I had not yet seen anyone review that ceremony for this year.

This year was much more toned down than in previous years, but satanic symbolism was still there.

xAI All Hands

The link here is to a post on X by Steven Mark Ryan. It is a super cut of an xAI event that summaries current status in Elon Musk's AI platform. The video has about 38 minutes of xAI material.

This includes some limited video of the data center itself, located near Memphis, TN.

This is the center location on the Qu Map of the USA, and this is likely the fulfillment for a "brain" located at the center of the map.

We previously pointed at Saint Louis as a possible venue for such a thing. Saint Louis picks off the idea of mapping, a subset of the skills needed to think.

Anyway, this video provides curious details on what Musk's AI team is currently doing.

This work is now part of SpaceX. This means cash flow from Star Link will keep the xAI work funded even as there is a collapse in venture capital for most other AI related work. So shifting xAI to SpaceX was also a very nice financial trick. By providing steady funding, Musk may have just won the AI war.

If you must, then trade secrets are better than patents. The Coke formula survived much longer as a secret than it would have if it had been patented.

More Later,

Phil