I'm not sure about anyone else, but I have the feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Not like I'm waiting for another ruling to drop, but something else is coming. Anyone else getting something on the horizon?
My tarot reading last year - there's something this summer (or lots of little things that build into big things) - I don't feel we're on the other side of it yet but I did note my anxiety and depression disappeared this week - odd, especially given what's happened but - I feel like I kicked a few rings up the spiral so many people here have talked about and my body finally said "enough is enough - you know this turns out okay."
And I do. I still know this turns out okay.
With all great respect and love to you, I don't agree that we are in a civil war. That's an extreme view and you can have your view, but I do not agree with it.
@cindy Yes! There is another shoe. We're not nearly done. I took a course with Jeanne this spring and we did a read the future. I and many others see an upsurge in violence at the to end of this year going into next. "Hold onto your butts" as the saying goes.
And your reference to labor is right on the money. I believe our government has failed. While I will continue to vote, I don't think it will solve the issues we are facing; BUT, we are working on giving birth to a new and better way of governing ourselves.
Labor is as personal an experience as death. We're in it alone, but supported by those around us. The turning is about honing ourselves through personal pain and finding a way through, then sharing our solutions for the betterment of all and celebrating this joyous miracle we have given birth to.
So, hold onto your butts, don't forget to breathe, and keep going.
@jeanne-mayell Thank you Jeanne. It is an extreme view. I'm feeling extreme, as are many of us, and I personally need to breathe back to center instead of stoking extreme view points. Radicalization doesn't really help anyone.
There was a prediction made some time ago about the SC becoming irrelevant and the power going to the states. I wish I could find it.
My predictions for mid-late 2020's showed a decentralized US due to a corrupt and out of touch central government. I wrote each year from 2014 to 2020 in my summary of the decade: "California will be come as close to a separate country as possible." I will attach some of those predictions written on a paper towel while I was on a silent retreat. I then would make Predictions for the Decade on the website's main Prediction page and always included a section saying that eventually the country would become decentralized as the people lost faith in the federal government. This was all posted in the earlier days of this website. I am going to revive those now because they are quite long-term and have been coming true.
@jeanne-mayell I remember your early predictions on the site and they resonated deeply with me. I think you commented recently about two things that can seem opposing ideas and yet still be true. You didn’t see things getting better in this country until 2028. Considering how deep the divide is, even with Biden as president, that’s not enough to get our country back to normal. So we have had Democrat gains in Congress and a Democrat as President, but we are still going through tremendous turmoil from the disastrous policies and appointments by TFG. And we are still dealing with radicalized congressmen who supported insurrection and the terrible influence of Fox News brainwashing millions of people.
I’m glad you’re getting these predictions back out. You’ve given us a lot to consider.
I so love that song. My first husband, father of my children, and I had it as music at our wedding (1971). He was 19 and I was 21 & no I was not pregnant. It took two years for me to get pregnant and overall I had three miscarriages before our second son was conceived and came to stay. We divorced after 12 years. 51 years after that marriage we are still best friends, loving parents to our two grown sons and always there for one another. Our eldest married a pro-birth woman, but someone I love nonetheless. She and I give each other the space for beliefs without demanding the other be "convinced" to change. Our youngest, like his father and myself, is very liberal. Our daughter, born 46 years ago, was the result of an IUD pregnancy. She chose to be born at 28 weeks, she lived only two minutes, & she taught me more than I can say. I chose to go forward with the pregnancy. It was not a forced birth. IT WAS A CHOICE.
I have been obsessing over the reality that from yesterday on, my miscarriages, although natural events, ALL THREE OF THEM, might today put me in prison. The IUD pregnancy most of all. Washington State is very progressive. BEFORE Roe, because Roe came AFTER I voted in Washington State when I was 21, voting for the first time. When we knew the IUD had failed I did consider abortion, we were not very financially solvent. Abortion wasn't for me, but as you will see in the poem I am going to share, that had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with Love and spirituality. AND CHOICE! I had the LEGAL choice! Later in life I had to have a hysterectomy for my health, not for birth control, and I wonder now, will they try and make that operation illegal as well? IUD miscarriage, were it to happen now-- if the darkmen and women who want to control women's bodies have their way--will hysterectomies be perceived as premeditated murder?
I see my daughter-in-law, not as dark but as confused and mislead, but many of that belief system are indeed dark, and they will in Spirit's time and their own karma have to face what they have created here. Even in anger I am unable to condemn them to eternal darkness. When I cannot send love, when Light seems to fade, I ask Spirit to take my anger, transmute it with the Violet Flame, and the Creator's Love, and because they are able to love all, even those who are evil or lost in delusion and manipulated vibrations, I know that evil is acknowledged, transmuted, and sent to the Light to heal.
Yesterday, I fought depression and nausea. I had an incredibly physical reaction to the news. There was no "be prepared." Like the death of a loved one with a terminal illness, the actual passing can still send shock waves through the hearts and bodies of those who remain on earth. Shock was pain and it was unbearable yesterday. Yesterday was also my granddaughter's 11th birthday. I fear for her, and so many from her age & up who now have to worry about all the emotional factors, the physical factors, the legal factors for the interim. It WILL BE an interim-- albeit a ghastly one.
As I drove out to the library yesterday, my heart heavy, my stomach queasy, angry and frustrated, I saw an Angel in the sky, formulated by clouds. My breath stopped, but I was not in a place where I could pull over, so I asked Spirit and was told, We are HERE. This too shall pass. My daughter, who has stayed ever with me over nearly 46 years, a Master Teacher of Light, told me this was a fleeting moment in time, NOT a conclusion. I laughed -- a little warily -- because Spirit does not have the same "time" concept we do, so I knew that "fleeting" may seem horrendous and unending to us, but I did take heart and my body reaction seemed to ease.
Today I am still struggling with anger and frustration. I am in my 70s and so much of what I fought for in my 20s has been tarnished or outright destroyed these past years--decades if I am to understand what Heather Cox Richardson has taught me through her daily summary or history and the present. This community has brought me hope (tho I often only read, and do not post). I am determined to hold onto the Light this Forum wraps us in, and to help extend it out to the world.
I'm supposed to be editing an archeological document right now, but I had to write this out before I could concentrate! Thank you. What follows is a poem I wrote in 1976, for my daughter. I had been writing a young adult novel about death as a birth and community as the way forward for humanity.
My eldest was born three weeks past his due date (no scheduling births back in those days!) and I was in labor off and on for far past one day. He finally emerged but the very thought of labor terrified me--until his sister made her transitory appearance (moments only, she fit in the palm of her Daddy's hand, perfectly formed, but her lungs, after one breath, were not ready for prime time) and took my fear away. My youngest was born four years later, no trauma--he popped out on his due date within hours of labor starting.
Teachers come in many forms. This was one of mine.
Little One (for my Daughter, July 1976)
Little One.
You came upon me so unexpectedly,
Slipping past defenses I believed invincible.
I knew almost immediately you had come,
So when he told me the test was positive
I was not surprised, but I tried not to believe
You had conquered my being as well.
I remember apologizing to you
As I planned abortion—
But I could no more tear you
From my body than I could deny
Your presence within my heart.
Torn between exhilaration, terror, and dismay
I called upon Anger to sustain me.
Little One.
My anger was so intense
It opened doors I had hidden even from myself.
Angers I had denied, hurts I had discounted,
Irritations I had shrugged away
rose up to berate me.
As anger threw its violent colors around me,
I screamed silently within as terror at your
emergence‑to‑be, slowly surfaced.
My love, obscured by both,
Waited for fulfillment.
As I wrote the words you sent through me
Of birth, death, and celebration; your presence
encouraged me to acknowledge my fears
while crystallizing long‑shadowy philosophy
and I am today, peacefully unafraid of mortality.
Little One.
In my sleep I dreamt
Of your life outside the womb—
Seeing you somehow unfinished,
Damaged by the IUD or just, inexplicably hurt.
I watched my belly burgeon
And braced myself for forty hours of pain.
(For your brother was a painful slowpoke
Whose journey traumatized me unbearably)
I looked at dresses and ruffles, knowing I knew
Skeptical at that knowledge,
Yet certain you were a daughter.
Little One.
My body signaled your journey
From your time, not mine.
And though I believed you handicapped
It did not occur to me that you would not stay.
You chose to leave early, pushing your way
out of my body two months before term.
Your journey,
(A lesson in fearless childbirth)
Lasted but six hours.
You paused in earth's life
Only long enough to define reality,
While I rejoiced and wept, at once.
Little One.
I love you, achingly.
I miss you, with tenderness and pain
Yet I accept your being with joyful understanding
for you are a tiny Teacher, who
in the Wholeness of the Beyond-Self,
Taught me of Birth beyond life.
KLW 1976
Someone else on the forum used birthing as a metaphor. I do believe we are in the throes of labor, and it is a challenging and scary birth---but birth it is, and a wondrously live, healthy, powerful vibration of LIGHT it will be. Be not afraid, for Spirit is indeed with humanity, and Light WILL prevail. It will manifest in part as Blue -- (Spirit smiles at me as I type that) and the autocrats, the controllers through hate both in, and beyond our country, will be constrained. This ruling is a contraction. A huge, heavy, it's OK to scream(!!!), contraction! IT HURTS! This Labor is part of the great birthing that becomes the Great Turning.
It behooves us all to continue to be birthing coaches (healers) to and for the new paradigm.
Thank you for being here in my need to write-it-out.
❤️ 🌼 🌻 🌺 Blessings,
Karrie
Another point of light today. Several companies have come out and stated that they will pay expenses for any woman seeking reproductive healthcare. (Including Ducks sporting goods, which is somewhat ironic due to the name).
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According to Politico, the Pentagon is weighing its options for how it can legally provide health care to its service women who comprise 20 percent of the arms services. After Roe's Fall, the Pentagon has no answers for female service members.
The Supreme Court’s momentous decision to strike down Roe v. Wade today has left some service members who are set to transfer to postings in red states scrambling to find alternative positions.
But so far, the Pentagon does not have any policy to announce for accommodating female service members stationed in states that have outlawed abortion, officials tell NatSec Daily.
Female troops seeking the procedure already face steep hurdles to getting the care they need: They cannot get abortions at military medical facilities, and federal law also prevents troops from using their Tricare health insurance to cover the cost of the procedures at private facilities, unless the life of the mother is at risk due to the Hyde Amendment.
Another challenge is that women in the military can’t easily — or discreetly — leave their stations to travel to a different state to obtain the procedure...
Interesting that military women seek 50 percent more abortions than the rest of the female population.
“The biggest challenge currently is the lack of complete freedom to travel when you want to travel without having to get permission from a supervisor,” said RACHEL VANLANDINGHAM, a professor at Southwestern Law School who formerly served as an Air Force judge advocate.
“Now, women serving here stateside are going to be subject to the whims [of the states] that they are involuntarily assigned to.”
The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force have existing policies in place to help troops transfer if they feel “unsafe or discriminated against,” report KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and THOMAS NOVELLY for Military.com.
But those rules are all up to the individual services. Defense Secretary LLOYD AUSTIN’s office is taking the lead on formulating any new policies for how female servicemembers stationed in states that have outlawed abortion can or can’t transfer elsewhere or receive the procedure, two defense officials told POLITICO.
No one wants a repeat of the last two years of service-by-service Covid policies that were confusing and in constant flux, according to one of the officials.
In an afternoon statement, Austin said that “nothing is more important to me or to this Department than the health and well-being of our Service members, the civilian workforce and DOD families. I am committed to taking care of our people and ensuring the readiness and resilience of our Force. The Department is examining this decision closely and evaluating our policies to ensure we continue to provide seamless access to reproductive health care as permitted by federal law.”
Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, are working to shore up protections for these troops, but their effort faces stiff resistance from colleagues across the aisle.
As part of budget deliberations before the House Appropriations Committee this week, Democrats passed a measure that would effectively bar commanders from denying leave to troops who are either seeking or helping others to get an abortion, our own LAWRENCE UKENYE reports. Democrats also beat back a proposal that would have stripped the original measure from the Pentagon’s annual budget bill.
What an incredible post Karrie!
Your powerful poem to your daughter is loving and full of strength.
Your love for all your children flows as does your love for humanity.
I am of the Gen X generation and Roe became law when I was 7. It was so new and fresh that by junior high, we understood it to be something that had been hard fought for but a right right which we had not actually participated in obtaining ourselves. It was a gift to us from our grandmothers and mothers. My children are far removed from that original fight, but now understand how a hard won right can disappear at the whim of an extremist court. They will never take rights for granted. Their world is now a different one from which they entered. One daughter will now live in a most restrictive state and the other, a state not a whole lot better once things get sorted out with new laws to implement.
But they are fully aware that they have a support network of relatives who will go to great lengths to make sure they have the ability to make choices and have control over their own bodies. It is a luxury now and they know it. They have the choice to move to a more progressive state or fight in the states they currently reside.
Karrie, I am glad the song had meaning for you. It had great meaning for me while growing up and a profound new meaning today.
Teach your children well indeed.
We are all connected.
So get this, I overheard a conversation tonight in which a nurse practitioner who had previously worked at a medical facility that provided abortion services (among many other services), said that she walked past abortion protesters every morning when entering the building to go to work.
One day, she was surprised to see a regular anti-abortion protester in her office seeking abortion services. After the procedure, the patient told the nurse that her own circumstances were exceptional and that she was still opposed to abortion. A few days later, the patient was outside the clinic protesting again.
This medical provider continued to say that she was surprised to learn from her colleagues that many of them had similar experiences and that it was well known within their professional circles that anti-abortionists seek abortion services for themselves or their pregnant daughters but politically continue to work to make it illegal! Hard to get my head around this...
I live in PA, my coach is open for anyone who needs it ,plus im in for the Underground Railroad if needed
Love & Light
Dracaena
Hard to get my head around also.
Seriously?!? It really makes you wonder.
It's HYPOCRISY.
"Punto e basta" as my nonna used to say.
https://twitter.com/yahelnyc/status/1540570646559789057?s=21&t=O_ptyLYyHanzcculcuomzg
this makes the most sense.
@jeanne-mayell Hi Jeanne, as far as de-centralizing the US is concerned, the Texas Republican Party listed the possibility of their state seceding from the union in their recently adopted party platform.
@jeanne-mayell Hi Jeanne, as far as de-centralizing the US is concerned, the Texas Republican Party listed the possibility of their state seceding from the union in their recently adopted party platform.
For them to do so would require calling a convention of the states to vote on whether to let them go, which will never happen because the Sedition Act of (18__?) makes it illegal for any state to secede, regardless of what they think or even call themselves.
If they choose to do so unilaterally, the Union regards it as an act of war and thus Civil War 2.0 becomes official. Vide: Fort Sumter/South Carolina, 1861.
Signed,
Resident of the California Republic