Kinda sick, and the social media remarks are even worse!
I honestly could not believe the predictions regarding extensive federal action to harness to free speech. Now, I see the makings of it: Trump refusing to call out white supremacists and placing blame on protestors, and Pruitt carrying out his EPA agenda in private to protect himself from "leftists" and moving "to curb certain public information, shutting down data collection of emissions from oil and gas companies, and taking down more than 1,900 agency webpages on topics like climate change, according to a tally by the Environmental Defense Fund, which did a Freedom of Information request on these terminated pages," as reported in NYT. All the while, China and anyone with a brain is telling Trump to cool his mouth and tweets. There is such absolute symmetry in projection here; it's like the world mirrors Trump's ego and that's all he's got: a projected reality that everyone else has to live in. I guess it's up to us to ... what do you do to make a mirror go dark in the psyche ... you can't crack it ... creates too many shards. How do create a black cloth in the psyche? How do you play with darkness without getting into nastiness? Mirror the mirror. Blinding white light? The eclipse! I'm going to draw moonlight into my palm chakras and imagine it eclipsing Trump's mirror. There, I feel better now.
Gracesinger and Meghan, I love your posts. I love your metaphors and your passion. Keep them coming. They make me feel better. When you ask about Trump's mirror, I am hoping that Robert Mueller is going to crack Trump's mirror. I've felt now since January that we'd have violence in protesting that would lead to state of emergency and end of protests.
Today people on both sides of the aisles condemned the White Nationalists, all except Trump himself.
Thanks, Jeanne; it is comforting to think of Mueller cracking Trump's mirror. I continually find myself experiencing a knee-jerk reaction of outrage to the redundant drumbeat of 24-hour news cycles. I keep returning to diana11's 07/26/17 post about the critical need to regroup and spending a considerable amount of time figuring out how to do so. I like coming here and seeing myself in others' reflections. I like remembering that there ARE grown-ups out there, like Mueller, and find comfort in listening to Rachel Maddow describing the work of investigative journalists and Mueller's team to sort it all out and explaining how their combined efforts may inevitably lead to Justice, at least for some.
I always feel myself cautioned to watch what I pray for and to examine how I use my own energy in response to the stimuli that often seem to overwhelm me. Jeanne's insights have helped me see that my prayer, communication, thoughts, action, and energy are inextricably linked. Duh. Okay. So often they feel randomly disconnected, but they do find synthesis in me and my relationship with the universe.
I struggled yesterday; I felt outraged by the president's and his administration's actions. I don't want to feed the fear or rage and inevitably feel so powerless as an individual. Simultaneously, I continually find myself studying the concept of how humans project their stuff onto others, who become their shadow selves. Part of my attempt to regroup is to locate that concept in my own thoughts and actions. Anyway this all seems to relate to the archetypal energy mapped out in the eclipses. Even these words are borrowed from this video I watched last night @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hneV4DL13As. I don't know anything about HoloKompass Astrology, but Robert Ohotto's thoughts helped me regroup. This morning I woke up and discovered my prayer; the way I imagine myself in relation to the archetypal Trump in the image of a grown-up quietly approaching his arm and using my energy to calm a fearful old man and listen to his boring ego-absorbed stories about himself and then go get on with adult tasks in the mundane, which seem to be calling my name. Best!
Hi Gracesinger,
I feel you. I spent most of yesterday being angry and disgusted, and I'm still disgusted at Trump's inability to call out Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists. We are humans ruled by our emotions and that is normal. I feel it's best to let those emotions run their course - feel them, mull over them, taste them, and when you're ready, let them go. I think it's important not to suppress them and to not let them steal our inner peace and turn us into an angry person, which is what happened with the guy that ran over the protesters. Anger when channeled properly can be a useful emotions because it can energize us to pursue good and rightful action. I have no doubt that you will find your center and peace again today, as I am doing. You are not alone in your struggle ♥