Mercury is retrograde - la de da

I celebrate today.

I celebrate today that the House didn't give away all the possible funds this country might have for the rest of my life to Wall Street assholes who through ignorance and arrogance got themselves pickled. I say let them fall into the brine. At least if the country hasn't spent every possible future dollar maybe it can help working folks out of work, hungry people needing food, sick people needing medicine, and cold people needing fuel. Maybe if the government doesn't sell us into complete economic slavery we can save this country and its land and resources. Maybe.

So hope hangs on a maybe. I can live with that. Rise up, Gaia, and keep these stubborn and out of touch men from destroying what potential we have to help ourselves. And help, all you Earthly allies, and any above or below. We need all the help we can get.

I trust.

Seasons change

It has been hard to blog. The Democratic convention happened. Then friends, and other folks protesting the policies and plunder of the Republicans at their convention in Minnesota, began to be arrested. There was injustice, arrogance, fascism, and riot gear. My need to breath and transform my own fear took time. My desire to help transmute the hatred into peace in the very air we breath took energy, time, and self-awareness.

I find my reaction is to continue to believe that balance will be restored. My individual life is part of assuring that balance. In fact it is the part I can affect most. But it’s not all I can do. I can also have an effect magically, working alone and with others. I can have an effect in every purchase I make, every priority I set. I can change much by shifting and sharpening my focus. I can let my voice be heard.

We are entering a time when less and less will people be able to deny what is happening to our personal freedoms, our open society, and our county’s resources. I don’t know what the outcome of that increased knowledge will be. Survivalists? Fundamentalism of various sorts? Strong local community ties? Increased reliance on local answers? I don’t know what the outcome of realization on a much broader scale will be. But it is necessary for change to come. Because for us to change these larger situations we need more people to make it happen.

Now as the season changes, there is guidance in how the forest prepares for winter. The energy of the sun is stored and as the chill grows each day that energy is stored deeper within the roots. The lovely leaves of summer change for one last show of beauty, releasing their moisture and falling to the ground above the roots. They blanket the roots and begin to decompose releasing more life back into the soil.

What should I gather, what is the nutrient source which I need store for this coming season? Where are my roots? Are my roots ready to hold the sustenance needed for the coming season? Is there an act of beauty, a creative project, a manifestation of the pleasure in this time, that needs to be done? What can be shed, and by its shedding enrich my life?

I don’t know what is coming but I do know that the elements are teachers and the turning of the wheel of the year holds much wisdom. Let’s enjoy the ephemeral fall.