Oh brilliant one, it takes the brave to enter the darkened cave. Please know that you do not journey alone. You are held and protected by all of us. Godspeed! We all are waiting with anticipation what insights you will share. We are all one and the same, for we are that too!
We will miss your presence here, but understand your need to follow where Spirit leads. May this be a time of revelation for you and may you recognize the protection that shelters you wherever you go, whatever you see. Be well, dear friend.
Heartfelt greetings to all the beautiful souls here at the Forum, and especially to you Coyote with much gratitude for your profound insight and courage! You truly are an ancient soul and a torch bearer ...???
As the mighty Jupiter is exactly conjuncting Pluto and Pallas Athena today, your post is perfect in soulful synchronicity! Chiron (the great healer) is in Aries as well, offering you guidance and protection on your journey .....
The Phoenix is rising, and we can all look forward to the alchemy of the transformation on this soul path to union, and loving abundance ...
The full 'Pink' super moon is coming around again on April 7th.... in Libra!
PEACE my friends... ?
i want echo what everyone has said here so far - blessings on your journey, wisdom, protection and gratitude for sharing what you share with us. We look forward to your return. I can’t help but see parallels in some ways that you are posting about the deep dive into the darkness as we approach Holy Week in Catholicism today, starting the descent to Good Friday. Looking forward to your rising in the light. Be well!
Price gauging in the Trumpian age of Covid. https://www.propublica.org/article/a-company-promised-cheap-ventilators-to-the-government-never-delivered-and-is-now-charging-quadruple-the-price-for-the-new-ones
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As many have spoken here about THIS MOMENT IN TIME, I am reminded that WE are feeling THE PAIN OF THE WORLD. We are feeling this because we are EMPATHS. It is a heavy burden. I cry daily for the WORLD. It is a journey WE HAVE CHOSEN BECAUSE OF OUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. We see the world as worthy. WE ARE NEVER ALONE. WE ARE LOVED.
I'm going to use this thread to post some of my more spiritual musings about the virus. Tonight, I want to talk about the language we use when engaging with the pandemic.
Ever since March, when most of the industrialized world (beyond China and Korea) woke up to the public health crisis we're facing, I've been bothered by the use of militaristic terms to describe the pandemic: the "battle" against the virus; "defeating" the virus; being "at war" with the virus. We're 10,000 years deep into the Age of Separation and its attendant mentality of war, though, so it's not surprising we've reflexively resorted to these antagonistic memes.
Martial memes bother me because I've come to understand that every biological illness is the result of an imbalance in the wider collective, be it a family, a town, a nation, or the global whole. Thus, illnesses have their own spirits, and when we declare ourselves to be at war with an illness, we're repudiating potential lessons about spiritual imbalance. One of the practices that has helped me begin to heal from my own medical condition (NF2) has been linguistic reframing. As with cancer patients and their families, it's common for people in the NF community to talk about "fighting" their affliction. But for the past three years, I've been thinking about my NF2 as something that can be healed (not subdued) via integration, and that process has helped me remember that my higher self chose to be born into a body with NF2 so that I could understand how the separation of human souls from each other and from nature leads to systemic global crises.
Anyways, we're already discussing on this forum how the novel coronavirus is the result of a global imbalance where humans no longer engage in dialogue with other-than-human nature. So if we're declaring war on the virus, then we're also declaring war on ourselves. So potent is human language and storytelling when it comes to altering the quantum field of reality, the virus will also respond to a collective narrative of war by behaving like a true wartime enemy: it will ambush us again and again, it will gather "intel" so that it eludes all of our offenses. It's better, I think, to talk about "taming" the coronavirus. There's nothing militaristic about taming, plus taming an illness still allows room for integration. From integration we can move on to healing.
By all accounts, emergency rooms in regions hit hardest by the pandemic resemble war zones, and medical workers there are being forced to make decisions that were once relegated to battlefields. But CoVid-19 has become so rampant through a combination of governmental ineptitude plus an unwillingness of the global elite to slow down our late capitalist economic engine (there was hardly a murmur of calling off Milan Fashion Week, even after it was confirmed that the virus had a toehold in northern Italy).
A letter to the editor published in the New York Times on March 31st captures the inappropriateness of military language in this situation, at least from a doctor's perspective:
"Military rhetoric in this and other articles is clouding the public’s understanding of what it is like to work in a hospital right now. Medical staff are not soldiers “fighting a war,” and we are not “in the trenches” or “on the front lines.” We did not sign up for this; unlike the military, medicine is not a career for which we ever expected to die.
"Medical staff are being forced to work in extremely unsafe conditions. Furthermore, the burden of care often falls on the lowest-ranked workers. Resident physicians, for example, work 80 hours a week with one day off. Opportunities for residents are scarce outside of hospitals, so we cling to our jobs to avoid ruin.
"Medical workers have already died in the United States, and more deaths are coming. We will be called “heroes” to hide the truth: We were killed on dangerous job sites."
Yes this is a great framing of semantics- how we talk about this matters if we are going to see it as an opportunity instead of a problem to be fixed so that we can ‘go back to normal’. I love that you wrote this as I’ve seen this militaristic language being challenged in other ways over other things and how often we use these terms and then reframe the issue in ways that disable us from seeing the real opportunity in a struggle. Struggles are presented on our path as a learning opportunity but in order to learn we must see it for what it is.
you use the word taming but I also like acceptance- we have tamed the wilderness and we have caused climate change- through another lens this is a rebalancing of man v nature. We can see that when we pull things to far one way and things become unbalanced nature will right themselves and this we need to see and accept if we are collectively going to change things. We have adopted enough measures to see that our behavioral changes have had amazing effects on pollution and emissions - all of which will be lost if/when we go ‘back to normal’.
anyway, in 20 years of thinking about semantics this is one of the most critical areas it matters.
I like "acceptance" too on the individual level. But we're a long way off from any elected officials or public health authorities giving speeches about how we must accept the novel coronavirus.
I've been thinking about how you saw the virus embodied in the form of an enraged feral cat, a reptilian monster, and then as an impoverished peasant woman. Perhaps you were seeing how our cultural meta-narratives will determine the behavior of the virus: if we declare all out war on it, then it will mirror back our antagonism and wreak havoc like Godzilla. I think the peasant woman (crone) is the true spirit of Covid-19. She might be unsightly, but the lessons she has come to instill are motivated by a benevolent desire to see her children's behavior corrected.