Bless you, allyn, and all of you. Allyn I read your post twice and it so lifted my spirit. I am finding this full moon so heavy in my head. And it sounds like many other do too.
I keep remembering that this was always going to be a tough period. That darkness would really hit like a great shadow near the end of 2019. That democracy would take a beating but it would come back. @lynn, I'm grateful to you for bearing your heart to us. It helps to know that we are not alone in feeling the heaviness and darkness of this time.
It helps me to think of all the heroes right now. I want to be strong for them. I am so grateful for Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, the many staffers around them, and all of the dems in the committees and on the floor who are standing up together to say no to corruption. Also the reporters working round the clock to help us see the truth.
HERE IS A WAY TO HELP THE HEROS AND YOURSELF:
Let's send them all strength.
1. Go ahead and take a deep breath, then another and feel your strength returning. Feel your chi, your life force, your energy building up with each breath. Stand up and stretch your arms if you need to and open your heart and breathe.
2. In your mind, find an angel, a spirit guide, or a star way out there in the universe, or all three. Or find whatever source of light you can.
3. Keep breathing and see that star sending streams of light to you/filling you with strength. Then send that light to all of us, your family and friends, and all those who believe in truth and justice.
4. Then send a big blast of light to the House leadership, the House dems, the staffers, the reporters, and all the people who want to see justice now. Fill the Capitol with light.
4. Finally send a blast of light to the Supreme Court justices, especially Roberts, to do the right thing and release those tax returns.
Fill them all with strength, and then fill yourself with it too.
Hi I am a friend of Jeanne's. First time posting but read regularly. I want to share something with you all. But first I want to let you all know that Jeanne has been a kind, compassionate patient loving friend and mentor with an amazing gift to me for many years. I am so grateful for her. Her insight is like a laser beam. This community that she has created and embraces is a gift to us all. Thank you dear friend.
I saw the Buffoon on the news the other morning. He was describing the lack of water pressure in toilets, bathrooms and showers although he couldn't articulate it as such. I felt a bit of empathy for him for the first time. I have several members of my family with dementia and Alzheimers. I remember protecting my Aunt when she spoke in such a way. Filling in the gaps, explaining with the words she could no longer bring to her lips. The BIG Buffoon clearly has dementia and I feel grave concern for our county. I wonder WHY? HOW? is noone removing him from office immediately. Setting aside all of his shenanigans, this is now even more dangerous for all of us. Then it occurred to me that when people are put in very visible places - put on the "stage" for our world to really SEE - I feel that this is something that we as world citizens all need to be woken up to and make serious change. When it gets to this BIG world stage - it means that it has gotten to this point because it has been ignored in the less visible places and has been percolating for some time - so much so that now it can't be ignored. I feel Moron is a trigger for so many things we have been pushing aside, ignoring like climate change, increasing dementia rates, TRUTH, and much much more. If I step back and look at it from the lens of a video camera it feels less scary. The observer in me says change is coming . Have faith. We create our own reality and can shift it. We will lift ourselves up and out of this crisis. I just know it.
It's a big deal to get impeached. And McConnell's move will be seen by half the country as truly subverting the Constitution.
actually I did hear something positive tonight - it appears Bloomberg is pouring a lot of money into Democratic races in Trump territory. So that's something.
I don't know about y'all, but I'm betting some of you have an Uncle Bertrand in your family. Imagine him as a collective archetype, if you will. He's the one that still lives out in the bayou—I'm talking in the middle of a swamp—because the man distrusts the government, is suspicious of toll roads, or anything larger than a convenient store for grocery shopping. (He eats a lot of SPAM and catfish.) Maybe Uncle Bertrand has surprisingly new anti-war opinions, or a gentle manner with dogs, but he's 100% convinced the Earth is flat and the moon landing was faked by "them Jews out there in Hollywood."
Worse, Bertrand is convinced that people of color, religious minorities, and the entire LGBTQIA+ rainbow are, categorically, pedophiles, most of whom, he's dead certain, are involved in "Satanic practices," headed up by the Clintons and sanctioned by Obama (who is worse than Satan, apparently).
Never one to play to type, Uncle Bertrand is somehow both aggressively anti-social and a board member of his local Chamber of Commerce. He has founded, operated, and successfully sold off a string of title loan companies. He "plays the stock market" and heavily donates to the NRA. Bonafide lifelong member.
Now, every few years when someone gets married or drops dead, you run into Uncle Bertrand. He demands too much time and attention, drinks too much Southern Comfort, behaves inappropriately toward young female relatives (which everyone either laughs off or chooses to ignore), and then—without fail—regales all in his presence with an unbridled rage about the new "lady sheriff" as well as a string of over-the-top conspiracy theories.
But most of this is an act; the man is a troll. He has a dark fascination with absurdity and literally gets off on dominating and intimidating "the weak." (Bertrand is a diehard Social Darwinist.)
If you haven't seen him in a few years, maybe you managed to forget about Uncle Trickster's antics. That's your first mistake. His aim is to hypnotize you into a stupor of angst and frustrated ill-at-ease-ness. The more upset you become, the more energy you send in his direction, which means the less you have in reserve. And the weaker you are, the easier you are to feed on.
If you insist on fighting back with facts, getting yourself all riled up and indignant, you're just throwing scientific rationalism at him like undercooked spaghetti at a brick wall. See, everywhere he goes, he warps spacetime and that kind of distortion is infectious.
Bertrand wins power by making the people around him feel anything other than in control, anything other than consciously—especially humorously!—aware.
The Cajun uncle in this scenario is an allegory for DJT, the (alt-of-right) GOP, and Faux News, which have taken over the party like a mind virus for which there is presently no remedy. But it's all the bluff and bluster and aggro-spiral spin machine conspiracy bs.
Right, we know that.
The purpose of it is to depress and intimidate the consciousness of the populous—to manufacture defeatism and fear and confusion. Because when enough people feel that low, vibrationally speaking, it benefits their agenda.
Together, we generate a morphic field. However it is that we're thinking and feeling t o g e t h e r creates a powerful resonance, which has creative potency. And if we're not using that potency to our advantage, we can be sure that they are. I mean to say that morphic resonance (enough people all feeling and thinking similarly) literally creates consensus reality. And those guys know damn well the shade of blue that's just over the horizon, so they're pulling out every stop to alter the timeline, even if it destroys their own country.
Best thing we can do: Take heart. Laugh. Kiss a baby and put our bare feet on the Earth. And for goodness sake, pull our attention away from the bad news machines regularly and often. Stop allowing the headlines or the talking heads to dictate the field. We're in the heat of an intense astrological event that feels like new gravity. It is breaking open every corrupted, outmoded, self-oriented cog in our systems and institutions. It's up to us what we do with them when that happens. So, if you're feeling head pain or pressure, joint stress, or your body just feels heavier than usual, or if you find yourself worrying a lot more about security and resources, just breathe. It'll pass.
P.S. Like Bannon and Miller, many of these guys believe in the so-called "Fourth Turning," a (questionable) generational theory of time cycles which suggests that we are marching toward global financial crisis, climate crisis, oil and water wars, and WWIII—all by 2025. And they want desperately to be on top to reshape the order of things after the fall.
I too have felt the darkness, especially today. It was so heavy. I turned off the news and focused on getting things done around my house.
Today was weird. It was an entire day of taking steps backward before steps moving forward. Most unusual.
It began with our router dying in the morning which meant no internet until around 7:00pm when we were able to finally install a new one. Big step backward without internet but a big one forward when it returned.
The next was the darkness of the House Congressional hearings today. As I mentioned, I had to turn off the insanity. . Later, while I was in the car running an errand, the Senate hearings were on the radio and Kamala Harris was speaking. OMG was she fabulous! Her "calling" really is law and she was brilliant. As I was listening to her I once again felt she would make a great US Attorney General however, a new thought soon entered my head while listening to her. Supreme Court Justice. She would make a fantastic one!! The backward (scary backward)) step of the Congressional hearing suddenly became a huge step forward listening to Kamala in the Senate hearing. A huge white light and a bright future of possibilities. Hope restored. Hope is so very important. I then turned off the radio to keep the hope flowing in my soul.
My third step backward was when our Christmas tree in the family room fell over tonight. It is a fake tree ( we get a real one for the living room) and it is quite old. Luckily, no ornaments broke. 2 years ago our real tree fell over and broke MANY ornaments. Well, I was not about to have the fake tree fall over again ( it was now leaning) and thus chance a new round of breakage, so off to find a new tree. I found one, took off all the ornaments from the old tree and with some family help we got the new one up, lights strung and ornaments on. Step backwards and step forwards.
So, our country is dealing with some major steps backward at the moment. If my day is any indication, the big forward steps are just on the horizon.
That was so amazing and well put. I think you are correct. They (the GOP) are very good at getting their collective to feel and think the same thing all at once. That has been their ace up their sleeve and talent for so long. They tend to be louder and repeat repeat repeat something - no matter how insane - until everyone thinks it and ultimately believes it.
WE can do the same thing, but in a positive way.
Jeanne: I'm up for participating in a zoom evening to help the collective! Count me in!
I've posted two full moon meditations from last Spring's Circle of Light. One is an uplifting Self Healing to help you when you feel discouraged. It's on the upper right side bar of this page.
The other is a healing of our world. https://vimeo.com/379065173
I will get back soon with a date for another Circle of Light for us.