The Philosophy Of Cherries
posted by jm at 4:31 AM
Thursday, June 28, 2012
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Ja, well you remember Irma Brombeck's rejoinder,"If life is just a bowl of cherries then what am I doing in the pits."
Pluto and Uranus having a lot to say. Too early to declare much of anything.
Yes. It will come clear in time.
A smoldering fire just got fanned, and unfortunately for me, the election just took an interesting turn.
The court decision is troublesome for all sides. I like that part. Equality and confusion. No screaming euphoria or nasty rage, at least not where I am. The right is calm and immediately looking at it logically. The left is in an emotional fog as usual. I'm really wondering about their intellectual capacity, not to generalize too much, but it's one of the reasons I lost the connection.
So it looks as though it's going to be up to the people to use muscle to strike this thing down. I think they are beginning to get full understanding of the increasing central power.
Very very interesting in that turning it into a tax issue is going to be the trigger. The Tea Party is coming back in spades which fits historically. Neither party is in control of much of anything, but the dems really are in the dark, not realizing the ramifications of what they've done in their blind zeal.
This comment I found sounds accurate.
The rejection of the Commerce Clause and Nec. and Proper Clause should be understood as a major blow to Congress's authority to pass social welfare laws. Using the tax code -- especially in the current political environment -- to promote social welfare is going to be a very chancy proposition.
Now what? How will they pander for votes? And how will social problems be affected? All part of Pluto in Cap and surgery in the system. The people feel gouged financially, and they are going to get inflamed. There will have to be a new way to implement social programming.
Here's another one.
The Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare’s individual mandate is not constitutional under the Commerce Power, which was how Congress framed the mandate to avoid a political backlash from calling it a tax. Congress and the president swore up and down that the mandate was not a tax. Yet the Court upheld the mandate as a valid use of that disavowed taxing power. What Congress said the individual mandate is, the Court said is not constitutional. What Congress said the mandate is not, the Court ruled is constitutional. Everybody got that?
Where does that leave us?
The Supreme Court just enacted a law that Congress never would have passed.
The Court just told Congress it is okay to lie to the people to avoid political accountability.
Things just got complicated. The SC is now making laws, speaking of separation. I don't think anyone knows what's happening, but people are paying attention and working together in ways I couldn't have predicted.
We're stuck in something we'll have to work our way out of. I still think this might lead eventually to a better balance of power and more cooperation.
Saturn is newly direct getting ready to leave Libra after the US Saturn return. Time to stop punching and stumbling.
People are kind of wandering around in a daze, since events are becoming unfamiliar. And I'm pleased to find some people out here who have good minds. People seem to be trying hard to genuinely figure it out. We are in need of new spokespeople.
The continuing desecration of the constitution actually is worrisome, but hopefully it's all part of this cosmic civics class. We can't stand up for our rights if we don't know what they are. Maybe the libertarians can help gently instruct us.
I have to let it be processed by legal minds, but so far today seems to be a win on limiting the commerce clause. This has been the avenue that so much has been driven through in the last many years.
Throwing this back to taxation is politics and that is in the hands of the people if they remember this.
I would have preferred a straight up unconstitutional. Roberts is worth watching on this. He might have a rabbit up his sleeve. Wait and see what the states do. I suspect there will be lots more to come.
There is much much more to come. I think it's going to set off a whole new movement. I don't know what they're up to ... Pelosi, Reid, and the lot of them. I don't like it. This should have been ruled unconstitutional.
The ruling against the commerce clause was good, but the expansion of taxation powers is awful. If we had honest leaders, then taxation would work, but these people are increasingly disturbing me and the theft of sovereignty is worse than the monetary theft.
I always though Pluto in Cap was going to end up in a war between the states and the fed, so this is probably part of the setup. Unfortunately, the Arizona ruling gave the impression that the states are powerless now.
Usually the people just swallow everything, but I don't think the huge tax increases of this law are going to be accepted. You are right. We are lurching toward becoming a national debtor's prison. This law alone might do it.
You have a good point which encourages me. When the lawsuits start pouring in, maybe the courts will act differently.
The executive grab really gets under my skin.
I don't grasp the political motivation of the court.
The law was always a thorn in the side of the body politic, but now it's become a major festering inflammation and the worst is yet to come if it survives to 2014. If it becomes life threatening we'll have to get it out, speaking of health care.
A movement, yep I think so. My son who lives in AZ reports that on his way to work the yellow don't tread on me flags are flying everywhere. BTW he chooses to live in the barrio where he feels more connected to community. Stuff's afoot.
Barrio is full of Native Americans, naturalized and 2nd gen immigrants. Very patriotic group.
The genius might be simple; people accept rule of law, but taxation is by representation. I won't be surprised to see this get unfunded fast.
In a depression, in an election year, concerning a very unpopular mandate...how to vote....and it only takes simple majority.
Interesting report from AZ. I used to live like your amazing son.
Yeah, it's happening. Mitt has raised about 2 million so far today. They're calling it the biggest tax hike in history. Meanwhile, the dems are having a victory party on the hill. A fun do. While the snakes in the desert sun are twisting.
Those patriots are riled. Many think that Fast and Furious was a way to get gun laws tightened. It could get wild. The dems are so far from populism now they are completely out of touch with the people. They think people will interpret the biggest tax raise in history as a sign of how much they care about the ordinary American.
Fast unfunding would be great. A monster has awakened. I think they're having a vote in July, but the ones who think this is the greatest joy on earth will be partying on while the depression deepens. The disconnect is astonishing.
What a quaint idea. Taxation by representation.
Kinda reminds you of the flappers in the 20s doesn't it?
HA! HA! HA! what could be more poetic? Just read that Holder went to disneyworld. What every person would do facing contempt charges. Oy.
The ridiculous is sublime.
Amazing! I've been working on a piece about the flappers.
HA HA HA! That just shows you how seriously they take this government thing. I think it proves the contempt.
Contempt.
"Read the bill to see what's in it."
Lots of contempt.
Meant, "PASS the bill to see what's in it."
The contempt is one of the worst parts for me. It's relentless and defies common decency. I have no idea why people insist on staying in such a subserviant position. Sometimes I see little clips from the speeches and it hurts me physically to experience the arrogance and mind games.
Yeah. Pelosi is one of them. 2700 pages of contempt.
Something isn't real about the goings on. Something's gonna blow. Surprises ahead. Snakes are rattling.
Yes, it hurts physically.
Here we are civil rights activists, your mom, mine, our history, and here we sit bewildered.
How is the smoke in your area today?
No smoke here. Just heat.
It really is bewildering. The truth has a challenge ahead.
I haven't followed the liberal party, which I hear is centered around what a great day for democracy it is. Democracy? Did they not notice that the majority of American citizens are opposed to this law?
The gist of the whole thing seems to be centered around the new massive tax. That's what is jumping out. There's a time bomb in there. No way of knowing what game is being played, but it's not what we think, I don't think. I really shouldn't think at all. Here's an interesting comment.
"This is exactly the predicament that comes from one shortcoming of the Constitution, as I've called it before, an Achilles Heel of that wonderful document. A kleptocracy or corruptocracy allows anything to go. When the watchers need watching, when they are the corrupt, then there is nowhere to go. It's like Holder AG of the DOJ. He will not investigate himself, he can never be trusted to turn over self incriminating evidence. The corrupt are in charge of policing the corrupt. It can not work. I always wondered what happens when the SCOTUS rules against the Constitution and the people, now we have a real life example and we'll all soon see."
Another angle...
"After Scott Brown's election, Reid avoided a joint committee and another vote in the Senate by Pelosi deeming the House, while voting on minor matters, to have passed the Senate version intact. The bill that had passed the House much earlier was ignored. Now that the court has said that Obamacare is a tax, I wonder if the Reid-Pelosi maneuver violates the Constitution's Article I, Section 7, which says that revenue bills must originate in the House. "
It will follow the usual pattern for a while, but later I expect some, shall we say, unintended consequences. Or were they intended?
Looking at the players, seeing a set up that was long in the making, I'm going with intended.
Let's not overlook no budget for what 3 years?
We are not a democracy. What ever happened to civics?
You know the reason I did not support Obama was I could see his associations. I know who these people are, have since the 70s. They mixed into the anti-war movement.
A small contingent pulls hard to the left, in the Dems and another using a certain brand of christian fundamentalism wobbles the repubs. Both are enslaving.
As you say most Americans oppose this bill. We are just now awakening to the deception. You and I have both traveled and lived outside this country. Americans have a uniqueness, a flavor all their own. It's not lost in the young. Can we recover our country? I dunno, but there is a strong identity we share and it's not the brand pushed by the Ivy league who sit as newscasters.
Uranus in Aries is the wild card.
We were born on the 4th of july under the star Sirius. Lokasbrenna. Loki's brand. Branded by the great ingenious, creative spark.
"Whatever govt does I analyze their actions from a slippery slope vista. Or, they have laid the groundwork for what in the future? Here comes the boomers (which the govt appears to have forgot about). The wave of health care expenses created by the boomers will be horrendous to an already broke Medicare. So says Mr Liviathan Govt, how can we reduce this expenditure? Remember we will be getting 16,000 new IRS agents. The IRS teams up with the new HHS Independent Payment Advisor Board (IPAB) and launches means testing for senior health care. So if you've managed to save $5000, our rapacious fed govt will adjucate that you can afford your own knee replacement. It comports perfectly, when the money guy meet up with the health guys, there is a reason."
I always thought that the law was a bailout of the insurance industry anticipating the entrance into the system of the boomers. It permanantly privatizes health care, not good for those who long for a nationalized system.
The whole thing is a setup for disaster, and already doctors are leaving. The old would suffer the most, with rationing included. This
is part of the Aries-Capricorn square, where the needs of the young conflict with those of the old. The quality of care would dive dramatically as the government tried to attract cheap doctors.
The one bright spot is the part of the ruling which says that the court is not responsible for the politcal decisions of the people. That sends the job back to us. The idea of making better decisions is a good one.
One big flaw was the rewrite of the law to change the mandate to taxation, although it could be the gold nugget in this battle. He should have sent it back, had the fools rewrite it in Congress, then rule correctly.
This is too arbitrary, it affects a lot of people adversely, and will inflame a large segment of the electorate. That's probably good. It's hard to get our ideas through, but given time and experience, and memories of what this country is all about, we might succeed.
Tseka, thanks you for your revelation. I always wondered why you didn't support Obama. I am so remiss. The facts were all there and you are absolutely right about the antiwar people. Back to left wing tyranny. They took Obama and used him for the agenda, lots of us know that now. Obama is far too enthusiastic, and I'm counting on his destructive nature to do this in. The moon is at 29 Scorpio in the inaugural chart. I'm counting on it.
Yes, both are enslaving and events of late have me really worried. I don't know what we can do. Romney is in the middle so maybe it would be a chance to get our bearings.
I just don't know how close to tyranny we have to come to get free. The people are still so naive.
I still have my optimism. And I find our conversation this time to be compelling and surprising. As long as we realize as a whole what we're involved in and what our capabilities are, we will jump this hurdle.
Can we recover our country? I dunno, but there is a strong identity we share and it's not the brand pushed by the Ivy league who sit as newscasters.
They get to me. The whole left wing intellectual class is dangerous. I came from there, so it's been quite an awakening.
The psychosis they are immersed in now, trying to convince themselves that they have won, that they have gained dominion over the United States, and that every single constitutionalist is as good as dead, is pretty darned awful. The simple democrats have no clue how they are being used.
But the spark has been ignited and the next few months will likely be interesting.
We are not a democracy. No. The question is whether or not we will enter into hard tyranny. Time will tell. Fairly soon, I hope. I think their power grab is excessive now, but people are catching on. So maybe we'll escape before it turns into an Edgar Allen Poe horror story.
People who have escaped tyranny are afraid to scare others, but maybe they should speak up.
My ancestor's stories are too close in time for me to forget that they were hung, burnt at the stake for being unwilling to give up their shamanic ways. Sovereign self/sacred land still is the guiding philosophy. The US constitution has always been defended by all of my people.
It's an ugly moment. The recently arrived who just took their oaths to defend and protect the constitution of the US are flying yellow flags. Snakes rattling in the wind.
We'll see.
Perhaps this will force us to realize that WE are the 4th branch of government. We are the limit not a Supreme court decision by one. There are several avenues beyond vote, there is resistance, non compliance, boycott. And there are creative ways to bring information, just as song was useful in every war. Art, music, film especially. We are in direct contact with each other in ways not dreamed of 20 years ago.
TPTB are using cells to create Arab springs and wildings, amping fear, polarizing. We have the same tools at our command we just have to figure out a game plan.
We'll have a lot to share about the family stories when we get together. I tried to forget the suffering, but lately I feel more inclined to do something. My identification with suffering has been both a minus and a plus.
Yeah. The moment did take a negative turn. The snakes will direct us as long as we aren't afraid.
A supreme court decision by one. It boggles the mind. He seemed to have enjoyed his moment of power. It was instructive. I thought the SC might have been the only branch not yet completely sullied, but now I see. Maybe that's part of the ugly moment. Seeing how far the mighty have fallen.
We'll figure it out. The artists, writers, and all have always led the resistance to tyranny. I think they often sense social and political change before the fact. Noncompliance is going to be used by the states. They're getting ready. But as far as the ACA goes, I don't think it's going very far. It can't be implemented. It's such horrible piece of legislation, a beautiful symbol of the time. It will die by execution or slowly by defunding.
One thing that disturbs me is the erosion of the doctor patient relationship that used to be sacrosanct. But that's been happening for a long time. It could be part of why people are so sick. We need holy medicine people. Maybe if doctors leave, better ones will come in knowing the money won't be that good.
The interesting twist, and it really is something to behold, is how the monster turned on its creator and morphed into the worst possible thing of all .... a tax hike. He's stuck with it and it should be his demise.
Trying to jam that thing into the body politic, and the body pushed it out and back into the attacker. Perfect story. Greek tragedy. Ha ha! The columns!
He created his own trap which is why the 29 Scorpio looks accurate. It's just beginning. The snakes will be aroused by the cool fall air.
The 4th branch. I like that.
I often wondered how that 29 Scorpio would turn out. Snakes and regeneration are part of the Scorpionic imagery.
What I find most curious is how those who chant, "it's our body" would willingly line up for a government declared health provision wherein care is decided by a distant board disinterested in your outcome.
In defense of my fellow physicians, health care providers, everyone is right sick of the regulations that keep one from exercising their training. I read an article recently that said a large percentage of Drs would rather treat medicare beneficiaries for free than participate in the bureaucracy. I believe it.
At least from my place in the world there is a strong desire for a more "holy" or sacred healing approach.
The honest truth is that affordable health care is a pretty easy fix. This ACA is a political nightmare in which the insurance companies and Pharma win big.
Greek tragedy. Ha ha! The columns! HA! HA! Rhea will laugh too.
Ha! These came up and they are apropos.
Members of the president's campaign and White House will stop feeling like what they usually feel like, Team of Losers. The snake-bit White House has for once found a serum.
LOL! That was Peggy Noonan.
Another comment concerning the ruling...
It was a poisonous gift to the Obama Administration from Justice R.
Don't know. The tax collector is certainly one who could easily get poisoned. It's hilarious. The saint has become the tax man. Now that's Scorpionic transformation Ha Ha!!!
The administration could regenerate into something decent theoretically, but given Obama's Scorpio MC and his Moon-Pluto square, it's iffy. But even more telling is his Mars in the 8th and all the underhanded dirtiness that is so much a part of his behavior. Secret criminal connections. The NN in Scorpio is just past that 29 on election day. Destruction is his purpose, and it's our need at this time. The ACA would play a big part in destroying our economy. I'd sur like to slip out of this noose.
He's lucky with Jupiter almost on his ascendant, but I can't see this forced pick pocketing as anything but trouble.
People think that it will all magically go away, but you know Scorpio's tendency to cling and resent. He wants us to forget his blunder and move "forward" but 29 Scorpio doesn't see it that way. The Don't Tread on Me crowd is energized and ready to strike.
You know. Those people we've been talking of. I think he got caught in a dangerous web and now resents the power they have over him. If he self destructs, it serves the dual purpose of releasing him from bondage and getting back at those who have used him.
As a result, we would be off the hook. The relentless grip of the man on the public and his bottomless pit of need are exhausting and depressing. It's a sort of strangulation...the python squeeze of 29 Scorpio.
But then it could be a great transformative moment with a "great leader" emerging. The thing that moves me away from that view is his statement that he is the 4th greatest president in American history. Hell! Maybe he is. I think it's a little premature, though. If his legacy ends up being the ACA he can kiss that notion good-bye
The NN is interesting. It's on his natal MC which the 29 Scorp moon conjuncts. That is auspicious, but what would that mean? A purge that sets him (and us) free? Or an elevation in status. Whatever happens, release in some major way is promised.
I'd look at it this way. If we get loose of this, the 29 indicates that it is a purge of some deep poison. The poison that got us into it, and if we're lucky, a bleeding out of the subversive elements of which we were speaking.
Still. More poison needs to come out as Pluto moves on. Perhaps the 29 is a gate of initiation and we will be slightly wiser, if that can be believed. You know how I feel about the 29th degree. In Scorpio, it indicates the end of bonded personal relationship and the start of relationship with the universe. If we realy really got lucky we could get free of these sick relationships with presidents and start to choose executive talent.
Now, the other factor. Mitt's Moon-Joop which is on that 29 moon. The moon is in the administration's 7th house of open enemies. Mitt the destroyer could be a factor, or it could be the other way around.
It's all worth noting. I can use it for my research on the 29th degree.
I want to meet Rhea. Gemini is it? We could have a cosmic gossip fest.
You are so right! Brilliant. The "it's our body" crowd so anxious to give up autonomy.
The honest truth is that affordable health care is a pretty easy fix. This ACA is a political nightmare in which the insurance companies and Pharma win big.
Yup. The disinterested board making decisions. So frightfully invasive and cold. And it sets the whole precedent. All the children will grow up in a system where their little bodies are sacrificed on the alter of the system. The thing masquerading as sensitive and caring gets to me. Alternative routes are vital.
It cements big business with government and the famous 99% are all for it. How blissfully blind they are.
A big profit making venture that now is lurking behind the biggest tax in history. What a legacy. What a champ.
The problem is ... it makes it so much harder for sacred healing to thrive. Or maybe it pushes it to thrive going against the odds. It will get stronger once the people are penniless and hurt and are truly in need of the holy.
Aha, what was on my mind for the Scorpio was this administration began with that 29 degree Scorpio Moon. That always bothered me.
Now we have the node arriving there.
Hercules in some mythologies occupies that location in the sky. In the constellation Hercules is in deadly battle with a dragon. Lots of ways to interpret the dragon. The story goes, in order to defeat the dragon Hercules must lift him into the light if he severs the head them more spring up where there once was only one. An important aspect is Hercules is portrayed as kneeling and has both hands on the dragon. He is totally engaged with no defense other than himself.
The moon i took as referring to we the people. There's been an enormous effort, one might say a Herculean effer by ordinary people in the blog-world to do just this, pull the dragon up into the light where it can be fully seen and defeated or healed.
OMG, what a great interpretation. You really are a gold mine.
What an accomplishment. To get the dragon into the light. I can see that going on. People really have little understanding of what the story really is. The extremes of right and left are polluting the picture as well as the media. The politicians still think we are dumb.
It's interesting that the moon, representing the people, is in the house of open enemies. No defense other than ourselves fits perfectly. The transits to our Cancer planets indicate learning to fend for ourselves. I suppose that's one reason people are clinging to the familiar. It's kind of new viewing the administration as a force against us. But it's finally happening.
Metaphysically I see Roberts telling us just that. That we got ourselves into this predicament, and we are on our own. We must extricate ourselves by ourselves. The decision was so unusal, so tricky. The responsibility rests with the people. It was a call to vote carefully this time. God knows, we voted on a wave of unthinking emotion the last time. Also, the fact that the court blew holes in the partisan divide might be pushing us to do the same to get past the paralysis.
The law is one aspect of the monster, and I think we're set up to defeat it. First it has to see the light which will be happening now. A list of the 20 taxes is online, and there are many other hidden expenses which will be revealed. The damage to the doctor patient relationship will be clear. The cutback in Medicare should get through the thick skulls of the righteous 99.
We need to learn that we can't give ourselves over to any law the politicians want to impose. When we rid ourselves of this one we will be reunited with our Herculean strength.
Any ideas about the dragon?
"This ruling will impose a massive tax increase during a lingering recession. Twenty-one new taxes are associated with Obamacare, according to the House Ways and Means Committee. That doesn't include the scheduled year-end expiration of the Bush tax cuts. President Obama has said taxes shouldn't be raised during a recession."
Remember. Scorpio rules taxation.
I think we're getting there.
BTW. Thank you Wise 1 for this stellar input.
Wow, thanks for fleshing this out. I just love all your asto wisdom.
The dragon. Yes. Part of our oldest myths. Thinking...
Suffice to say that as the ages shift the dragon takes on new characteristics. The Hercules myth is southern - not ours. But it gives the flavor of what needs doing, lifting together...It's worth remembering that lyls or leylines are known as dragon lines. Perhaps this is the way to say, yes, okay... Dragons in a previous cycle were associated with feminine energy, wisdom, the lyls (ley lines). As the time changed, outsiders arrived, roads and churches were built over the top of the lyls and the holy wells. Look at crests and flags to see who is the dragon now.
We have our own way of marking long cycles, this Venus rx with the winter sun in the center of the GA along with many other correspondences to the stars tell of a change. For us this is natural, gradual, it's a return to union.
One last thing, the NN SN were known by all the ancients as the head and tail of the dragon or the masculine feminine dragon. Which is amazing in light of where the NN will be on election day.
Something else, the namnsdag for November 6 is interesting. The meaning is noble wolf. It is a celebration day for Gustav Vasa. Worth reading about his story and how he got the disinterested Dalecarlians (Svea) to assist him in liberating Sweden. It was the birth of the current country.
A tidbit about the Dalecarlians (our CroM buddies)
http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/provincial/dalarna/history/
Also, I'll be paying attention to the fact that the nodes will be direct on election day.
The Dalecarlians keep alive the runic language btw, still teaching it in school.
You might call this one vision of "home" http://www.scandinaviantreasures.com/
from Dalarna
One last thing, the NN SN were known by all the ancients as the head and tail of the dragon or the masculine feminine dragon. Which is amazing in light of where the NN will be on election day.
OMG.
So we're going north on election day. Keep your parka handy. What a great thought about the wolf and liberation. The birth of a nation.
It is kind of interesting how the characters involved are converging on that spot.
The crowd is totally befuddled right now. I love it when no one knows anything.
I've given it a minute and it doesn't look good. I would like to face reality and not resort to Pollyannaism concerning my country and the political situation. That's not to say that my trusty big picture everything-is-okay philosophy is entirely inactive. Things have a sneaky way of working out.
A lawyer explained it in understandable terms...
I’ll close with a simple analogy. Are these cases substantively the same?
Case A: I incentivize you $100 for mowing my lawn (activity).
Case B: I go to your neighbor’s house and rob them of $100 for not mowing my lawn (inactivity).
After all, the end result of either case is that you are still $100 richer than your neighbor.
Are these cases substantively the same? I think not. Case closed.
Now there is no Constitutionally enumerated federal power. The federal power is now unlimited through coercive taxation which not paid can lead to incarceration.
Inactivity can lead to incarceration. Freedom is dead.
It all sounds so oddly familiar. The monarchy has returned. I looked further into the ACA and it's brutal. It's not just the mandate and "tax". There are all kinds of underhanded ways the law is designed to extract our wealth. The bad part, is that it makes health care worse.
I'm not ordinarily paranoically inclined, but we are in a fix. It will be an interesting path out.
I know JM,
For awhile I simply believed that there was something I was missing. How could this stand? I ended up like you; aghast.
One fell swoop.
Meanwhile at market a friend and I were talking about this decision and some local ones and the word he used was draconic. Exceptionally harsh judgement also of course of the dragon.
It was an OMG moment.
Did it get lifted into the light? We probably need to keep lifting and keep the light shining.
Oh dear. The dragon. God I hope it got lifted. Yes I think it's in the light. The battle really begins.
It won't stand, but I don't know how long it will take to find our true strength and, hopefully, use the energy for something greater. We have fallen. I've felt for some time that I'd stumbled into a hole and as hard as I've tried, I've been unable to climb out. Now I see why. Maybe it's time. The rescue rope, please.
There is incredible talk going on and people recognize the gravity of the situation. One good thing. The cute Obamacare label is disappearing and being replaced with ACA. I can't find the word to describe this monster. How did we create it? Pass it and we'll see. Well we are seeing and it's just beginning.
Very very harsh as only Pluto in Capricorn can be. I will forever have infinite empathy with Capricorns from here on out.
You know. I have a brilliant Sagittarian friend with a Moon-Saturn conjunction in Capricorn. One day were talking deeply as usual on some subject and she said, "I am not optimistic."
I remember feeling envy as if I would like to be as pessimistic as she so often is without shame or fear. I think I might have arrived.
It's taken an amazing turn. I felt so much grief in the last decade with my personal losses and then collective disappointments, and now I grieve again. How much more will be lost? I cannot say. It's very interesting seeing how quickly the wise and honest among us are accepting this reality. The denial is almost non-existent. The upward push is forthcoming after the light shining. With this new and common understanding we should accomplish what we need to step by step.
The swoop is a culmination of lifetimes. I'm glad to see people not blaming the court so much, but blaming we the people for allowing this to creep up as it has.
We must keep lifting. I am glad you are out there in the market doing our work.
Ya Hoh.
OMG!!!!!!!
Some Revolutionary War research.
In the following months and years, as we know, the Sons of Liberty became increasingly resentful of English interference. And as the tides of American public opinion moved closer and closer to rebellion, Franklin's disjointed snake [don't tread on me] continued to be used as a symbol of American unity and American independence. For example, in 1774 Paul Revere added it to the masthead of The Massachusetts Spy and showed the snake fighting a British dragon.
Jeeze. Will pursue.
Yes.
The British monarchy and other monarchies are using the dragon imagery.
Who holds power. Once it was the "red dragon" divine feminine.
If you follow this very far you will learn a lot about many family lines. Not just in Europe but elsewhere. I don't even know how much should be said in a public forum.
In Le Mort d'Arthur there is a very important sub-story. Much of what Mallory did was hide some truths in plain sight, and he knew them because of the royal line he belonged to. The story of Elaine is very important, she represented the "sovereign self" where Arthur was the king "married to the sacredland". Elaine's family name was Pendragon. Holy blood, holy grail. Their deaths were the end of a time. The dragon emblazoned flags flew over other palaces that agreed to the "protection" of the nights. Enforcers really of the Holy See.
Part of the story has to do with certain bloodlines. Looking up O neg gives some other clues.
The British Royals are O neg
But there are others (that CroM connection) outliers who are rebellious independents.
Sovereign Self / Sacred land has much greater meaning.
I hope this makes some sense. It's a milennia long battle. Longer.
How America has maintained itself for so long has seemed something of a divine blessing.
The tree of life.
My theory rests on US SN in Aquarius. I feel we never truly severed ourselves from the British monarchy. The Aquarius node indicates subservience to and cooperation with the European imperialist monarchies as a group. We've democratically done what the group said we should. And now the nations are losing their sovereignty as well as their misbegotten wealth. We still have resources left just in case we get free.
The Leo North is our unique identity, and perhaps it will awaken with the Pluto-Sun transit. We've been tied to the purse strings of the European banking families, but now the purse could be emptying. The Middle Eastern purse is the fat one and there seem to be connections at this point with those royal powers affecting our sovereignty. Some think this president is a puppet of these kingdoms. The re-colonization of Africa seems to be involved. His pitting of all the groups within the country against one another is weakening our self defense. The hatred goes against the Leo need for self love. I wonder where the source of our self esteem lies now. It could be our protection against the usurpers. Pluto-Sun could reveal power struggles and lead us to their derivation.
Maybe it's time to cease being the melting pot that identifies with all other groups. Could be the time to live in the destiny of being uniquely American whatever that means. Maybe that's why we're hearing rhetoric about America being America and undergoing a restoration.
Leo points to an awakening of our own royalty where we as a people could call the shots and determine our destiny. Self rule. The ethnic wars within have brought down many a nation.
All excellent thoughts.
The same urge to return to "self" seems to be happening elsewhere. Notice the Icelandic peoples who went out on the ice four, iirc, years ago and said NO to the big Euro Banks thank you very much we'll eat herring. We survived ice ages we can do this again. And have. The Finns are in the same moment, the true Finn party is growing in popularity despite being called the equivalent to our redneck.
For me it's like watching a teenager who it tying on roles mature back to his true self.
I hear it in the US too the states pulling their identities closer.
I'm completely convinced we hold the answers for our survival. We got pretty strung out wanting the shiny thing but sober days lie ahead.
Good it is to share this moment in time with you.
It's amazing Tseka. This unexpected shared moment. We've gone to another level, both higher and deeper. And sober.
The states are motivated. A lot ahead. They are so different and in a way, they are in need of sovereignty too. The recent events have revealed just how important it is for the states to defend their rights, especially now that federal power has slipped past the acceptable line. I have respect for some of the governors when I watch them work so hard getting their states to function well. It's been a challenge with no help from the fed, but the revolt is in motion. It started in 2010. Arizona has NN in Aries, right out on the frontier of "self".
Return to self is happening worldwide and with it a return to nationalism. Interesting about the Finn party. The traditional divides are breaking down everywhere.
People rejoiced when a socialist gov't was elected in France, but now it seems he wants to tax computer screens. I smell revolt. We all no that no system works.
Neptune in Pisces favors social welfare, but Capricorn does not, only if it would benefit the efficient operation of the system. The bare bones nature of Capricorn might have the upper hand.
Yeah. The ice people are something. They have weird astro charts.
HA HA Ha! yes the arctic people do have weird charts, born at winter solstice near the pole and hold your breath- you just missed the complete transit of your second house!
Maybe that's why they chose to operate under a different map of stars instead of planets.
AZ has Aries NN? yowzers. A just told me that as a territory they were part of the confederacy. It certainly is true that AZ and TX march to their own drum.
LOL! The second house transit!
Texas, man. People used to ridicule Texans, but now they are mentioning Texas with envy. Everyone wants identity and verve. I love Texans. There are a lot of them here and their grandiose ways appeal to me. Big and generous.
Texas: Mars, Uranus, Pluto in Aries. Sun and Moon in Capricorn. Fits the time. They'll probably be in the vanguard of the rebellion.
I think Rick Perry is hilarious, political differences notwithstanding. He's himself and apparently unconcerned about what others think and say. I think the typical overused accusations roll off his back.
HA HA!! Rick Perry: NN in Aries.
Yep, Texas.
Texas constitution:(in Article 1, Section 1) that "Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States..."
Not congress, not the president, etc. I guess that's why you always hear Texans talking about right of secession. It's part of their "chip" and they mean it->free and independent state.
Then there's all that power in Aries!
Secession is going to come up. People are highly frustrated. I just heard a man on the radio crying and crying and crying about losing his home. When a man really cries, it grabs me.
The ACA is already putting people out of business and it's about to get worse, unless something is done. For one person helped, three are hurt. It's hard to see people so callous to the plight of others around the country. They talk a lot about helping the suffering little people but political gain trumps empathy when it comes down to it.
I've seen some state agencies do amazing things, so we'll see.
Yes, you may recall that my brother moved into assisted living in Oregon. What that state does compared to this is awesome. Awe inspiring.
Oregon had a waiver from the fed gov to use all the monies from medicare for it's own purposes and has and Oregon plan that is wisely rationed and administered.
For example they might buy a large Victorian in Portland area and turn it into an assisted living home for people with Parkinson's. Only Parkinson's. All the aides are trained to be care givers with a focus. The residents are a homogenous group and the staff understands their particular needs. Friends and family are well supported by this too.
And...it's cheaper.
Quietly here, we are sharing skills, not calling it trades even.
I can give up some space for someone who needs it temporarily or loan the use of tools. It's how it used to happen and people are swimming to it like swans. It's the first time I've really seen this work fairly. No one is worrying about direct exchanges just participating with best intentions.
Like this: Someone needed a waterheater, I had one that was perfectly good, someone else provided the handyman to help me take it out and install it elsewhere. The person with the handyman picked up a wonderful craft as a gift, and around it went.
Wonderful. Yes. The states can do it and they know.
Your exchange is proof of my theory that we are going to thrive being thrust out on our own.
The residents are a homogenous group and the staff understands their particular needs. Friends and family are well supported by this too.
More proof of my feelings about diversity not always being the answer. Focus and consolidation can work too.
It does seem like the pendulum will swing back.
Netherlands is talking about cultural diversity being a failure, even Sweden is voicing this now.
Growing up around the disabled community mainstreaming seemed like a good idea the social exclusions were pretty cruel. But where it went was beyond helpful.
I thought that diversity was always good. But you're right about swings.
I was thinking that diversity in natural selection ensured that the right pattern for the place would get chosen. But even with a few choices, the correct patterning could still take hold.
Very very interesting about the Netherlands. They're usually in the vanguard. The problems encountered might have something to do with social engineering which they love so and always fail at.
I long have thought that immigration would diminish as nations and borders were reestablished in Capricorn. Boundaries demarcated. Some countries are easy, some not. But I think there is social pressure in that you have to be a nice country and accept other people openly and with little limit. Well, not if it puts a burden on the system that overwhelms.
In cities, I think the diversity is stimulating and exciting, but also tense and sometimes dangerous. How much should a group adapt to create harmony yet still bring knowledge? And what exactly is wrong with predominate types?
I'm really interested in the Netherlands findings.
Pretty much just what you said; social engineering vs natural selection.
Check this out Tseka. It's a reassuring view of the ruling.
It Ain't So Bad
The people against ACA offer seem to offer nothing in return. If it gets repealed won't the issues it addresses just return again?
Apparently it will be very difficult to repeal, but it will likely not work because of the burden on the customers, which is every living citizen now.
I objected from the start because I knew people wouldn't be able to afford it. The expense of going after those who prefer the tax would be exorbitant. Businesses are dropping coverage or shutting their doors instead of going bankrupt. They're having to fire employees they like. In some cases, the employees are being stuck with the increases rather than big businesses. It's just basically going to price insurance out of people's reach which will probably leave more uninsured than before. The massive bureaucracy would cause that to. Another problem I see is money being siphoned off everywhere in theft, further leaving people out in the cold. It's too massive and badly constructed. There's too much room for cheating. It's not that I'm against health care, I'm just against this particular law. The profit would be made by the insurance companies and we would have to pay for it while not getting good care. A panel of businesspeople would be deciding on your treatmenet, and I am very concernd about that. Rationed treatment is the result, as well as long waits for procedures.
So that leaves you with what they call a two tier system where the well to do get good care and everyone else gets shoddy treatment if any at all. It defeats the whole purpose.
One of the worst parts is the shortage of good doctors that is predicted. Already they are leaving and many are dropping Medicare. Cheap doctors will have to be imported and people won't have the freedom to choose what they really want in health care and will have the heartbreak of losing their beloved and familiar physicians.
There are better ways to care for the population. Those who favor repeal want to replace it with some other solutions. They have to be tried to know if they work. They have to be carefully studied.
We simply can't afford this massive privatized system at such a low point in our economy. It's an overload. The problems resulting would be worse than what we have now since there are virtually no price controls in the law. Big business and Big Pharma stand to profit while the middle class would get hit the hardest. It's supposed to be fair but it's just the opposite.
There are all kinds of ideas. With the Internet you can look around and hear what people have to say on all sides. There are good testimonies about what people have had to go through already trying to comply. One person I know who used excellent doctors now can't find them since half left their practices. And things will get worse after 2014.
For a populace who is used to getting good treatment when they want, the new system would be a cold hard shock. But I think it will fall apart due to the impossibility of its implementation. There are many many details in the 2700 page law that make it impossible to work.
I don't really believe that the country will allow people in need to suffer, so things will work out after the law is gone.
Some people are benefiting greatly from the law, but the majority won't after it kicks in, if it does, in 2014. The coverage of pre-existing conditions is something both sides agree upon. We do need health care reform, but not a massive governmental overhaul. If we have national health care it will come in due time. Letting this law die increases the chances since it permanantly privatizes health care. We need to proceed carefully and the needs of the states are all unique. They need to have a big say.
A good example was in a letter to my paper last year from a local physician.
A patient came to him to get a boil lanced. He charged him $60 cash. He said that if he had had to go through the insurance companies it would have been $1200.
The doctors want to cure our ills and make their fair share but it's getting increasingly impossible. And so they are leaving.
The complaint is that a wealthy nation like ours should have health care, but in the same vein, a wealthy country like ours shouldn't have substandard care. Around the world, some countries are coming back from full socialization to a partially privatized system. I would support any system as long as there is dignity for the patient.
I'm not at all an expert on this law. But.. I know that the cost to business for employee healthcare is exorbitant. I can't speak to whether ACA would make this better or worse.
The insurance companies have everyone in a pickle. You can't opt out of your company's insurance plan and get any money for it if you prefer to purchase insurance on your own so everybody opts in regardless of the quality of the coverage. The insurance companies make sure that this is impossible for companies to gain by allowing employees to opt out. This is done by charging more money to companies when less people are in their pool and probably other means I'm unaware of as well.
So either way, they win. And then you still have to fight for coverage you've paid exorbitantly for. The insurance companies mandate what your doctor can prescribe and refuse to cover many things. It's a horrible system. Would the government be any worse at it? Maybe if businesses dropped their insurance this would actually be better?
Exactly, and the costs are going up a lot. The government would be the same because all the ACA does is backup the already existing insurance stranglehold. They are creating what's supposed to be cost effective insurance exchanges, but they won't be. And people who like their plans are going to find them gone or drastically altered and far more expensive. The government subsidies won't cover most woking people.
The pre-existing factor means that the companies' payments will be much higher and the cost will fall on all of us. You're right. We lose. It's too much intrusion into our personal lives and it dictates how we must spend our money.
You're also right about businesses being better off dropping insurance. Then they can pay their employees more. Now they are keeping their workforce under 50 employees if they can to get out of the trap. If their employees are unhappy, everyone suffers.
I don't know. I do know that small businesses are in a panic and more trouble is ahead. The ideal in a privatized system is for the consumers to have a wide choice of plans and freedom to buy their own.
The people are against the ACA and the best thing is to figure out how we can get free of it, before it breaks our backs. Repeal might be best and now the lawmakers are on the case. They want to put it together piece by piece and get right on it.
I hope the people win this one.
Me too...
Seems like HC is like oil and defense contracting, there are incredible amounts of money to be made and a captive audience. The people profiting would not want this to change. The profits are staggering.
The imbalance forces so many other worthy ways of life out of existence.
I hope the people win this one too. They spoke very clearly and were over ruled.
Perhaps that's the best part of all of this, the Uranus factor.
There are things in the background like codex alimentarius trade agreements to limit or eliminate over the counter supplements, remedies, etc that many of us favor which could with a pen stroke be wiped out. It's really up to us now.
The imbalance forces so many other worthy ways of life out of existence.
completely agree.
The imbalance forces so many other worthy ways of life out of existence.
No truer words.
Speaking of the people, I had one of my flashes of insight. If it's been said elsewhere here already, please forgive. :) I'll try to articulate the thoughts that popped into my head.
Full Moons are said to signify an ending. The Moon represents the people, the masses, and in Capricorn, I'd venture to say it signifies a restructuring of our habits of emotional responses. And our national birthday is tomorrow. How fitting is this? Are we witnessing the start of a new cycle where the nurturing Crab gains some emotional discipline? Taking stock and figuring out what resources are available? Reading the comments here and elsewhere inclines me to think so. Some emotional pushback is glowing on the horizon, like sunlight being concentrated by a magnifying glass.
Something like that. I don't quite grasp the full astro-details, but I know something's up with the US Solar return and the Cap Moon. I just can't express it right.
On a personal level, I've been battling work-related burnout all day, but feeling forced to keep slogging, because I have to bring in the paycheck. Natch, the Moon/Sun opp occurs in my 8th/2nd houses respectively.
I agree too.
Yeah. They've been trying to do that supplement thing for a long time. There must be a lot more hidden in that law we are about to discover and weep over.
This Independence Day is something quite different. The first phase of the Uranus-Pluto square.
Such is life.
Following on JM's comment above about the cost to lance a boil, paying with cash compared to the insurance cost being 20x more...as things stand right now there is no standard whereby one knows in advance the cost of service.
If you are hospitalized for something your entire bill may be 3000.00 to your insurance. while the guy in the next bed with another insurance policy might be billed 30,000 for the same care.
In addition if you do not have insurance and you are billed that top amount but can't pay, the hospital may "forgive" you of say 27,000.00 then send you a 1099 for that amount for which you have to pay taxes as income. The IRS will be happy to collect and if you can't pay tax on that "income".
There's a lot that needs fixing. But not much in the PPACA did anything for health care nor the citizenry.
I personally would like to see people pay out of their pocket directly to the health care provider of their choice for most of their health care needs. This is how it was done a few years ago with insurance being reserved for catastrophic medical events. That is how insurance is supposed to work; as a pool of money for an unanticipated event. Once we include layers and layers of people who get paid but do not provide care too many dollars are required to lance a boil. deliver a baby, take out an appendix.
I also favor allowing short term disability for low income people who have suffered a catastrophic event through a small increase in taxes to fund increased state medicaid. When you find out that most of the people who lose their houses, go bankrupt from medical events are insured, well, it does not speak well of that system.
Wow Joe. I think you are on to something accurate. I haven't tied in the full moon yet but I'm ready. The solar return and the Cap Moon. Yes. Emotional maturity. I ran across a video of a shrink talking about the childish role we're playing with the government now.
Cap Moon. It's taken a serious and sad turn. I believe you are right about emotional pushback. It hurts. We react. The pushback and recognition of our loss of freedom and need for sovereignty are apparent. I hope more and more people come around to realizing it's not a fun game anymore. Time to get serious. Capricorn. Good connection. I'm less afraid to be emotionally honest now.
Great points Tseka. It's so good to be exchanging ideas geared toward a solution.
as things stand right now there is no standard whereby one knows in advance the cost of service.
Very very important. That's what the free market people want to fix so medical care as a commodity is treated as such and we are knowing consumers.
That is how insurance is supposed to work; as a pool of money for an unanticipated event.
Hallelujah baby!
The system is so far off it's even obvious to those who'd rather ignore the problems. A lot of different things can be done if the will of the people is followed, the law is repealed, and real serious democratic discussion results. It was all done in secret and most of the lawmakers were not allowed to contribute. It's time for an alteration.
I've always favored well run clinics. They can still provide some profit for the businesses, but government resources could be used more efficiently theoretically. Small clinics in shopettes could care for minor problems. Wonderful humanitarian docs could staff them and it would eventually be part of our consciousness that we are covered.
Funds for emergencies through tiny taxes appeals to me and paying out of pocket is essential.
I also think children should be taught self care and first aid in the schools. We need to develop a consciousness that says we'll care for one another and not leave it out of balance in the hands of cold greedy monsters who capitalize on people's misfortunes.
I'm dreamimg again.
If we can impact the election in a big way due to this issue, we're on our way. That was the message of the ruling. We're on our own and we're responsible for what comes our way politically.
Proceed with caution, and as Joe suggets, with emotional discipline.
But not much in the PPACA did anything for health care nor the citizenry.
It's time for everyone to face that reality beyond the partisan paralysis.
I like your dreaming JM
And I love your astro-contemplations Joe.
All good stuff.
I'm hoping that this is a step up for maturity for the US.
Getting things into the open, calling a tax a tax is an important first step.
A big painful something or other has been rammed into the body politic and the reaction is to recoil at first, then try to pull it out. We'll have to get it out unless the body accepts it and learns to live with it. Otherwise, a good clean surgical procedure might work. So far it's having a hard time getting all the way in. It's a poison dart. There must be a healthier way and with calm emotional maturity we might find it.
Of course, many people want to take the assault and think about something else using all the painkillers on hand. We should know soon enough whether or not this is a potentially fatal threat. It's been trouble from the start.
Ja, and as is so often the case in the individual the average US citizen is ignoring symptoms of distress. The treatable but serious illness shrugged off as too much pizza and beer last night. Making up all sorts of reasons and excuses. Until....
It's true isn't it; some are doers and some are avoiders.
Happy Independence day.
It's raining here, hot and shocking to the system. How do people in the south survive this stuff?
I couldn't survive even visiting the south what with all the bugs and mildew and oppression. M was from North Carolina and the time spent there will be vivid in my mind forever. One day I'll tell you how they survive. Church and music are two less than shocking ways. Asheville, though, is heavenly.
Happy Independence Day to you too. I know I'm relieved that the dangle on the end of the stick is over with this monster. It's in, and it's course is yet to be determined.
The treatable but serious illness shrugged off as too much pizza and beer last night. Making up all sorts of reasons and excuses.
No Foolin'. Even worse, shrugged off as god's gift to humanity. What a web we weave.
My confidence is slowly rising, though, and I'm actually interested in the plot. For now. After the holiday I think the story is going to take a new direction.
Thank you St. B for your elevated addition to my experience.
kisses to you my friend
And a big thanks for opening the cafe in our time of need.
I wonder how long it will take for my well educated friends to get that it is NOT a health care plan but a gov mandated plan to buy insurance from gov approved companies PLUS thousands of pages of new codes of federal regulations that have not an iota of relevance to health care, such as 3.8% (iirc) federal tax on selling your house.
As Biden said gird your loins.
Oh dear. Need isn't easy, but giving in is good sometimes. It renews my trust in the protective hand that guides me.
Kisses back.
I wonder how long it will take for my well educated friends to get that it is NOT a health care plan but a gov mandated plan to buy insurance from gov approved companies PLUS thousands of pages of new codes of federal regulations that have not an iota of relevance to health care, such as 3.8% (iirc) federal tax on selling your house.
Heartbreaking. I've given up on those wise asses. Education is suspect. They have so much invested in their expertise and their lack of individuality and critical thinking. I don't think they teach that anymore.
It's beyond my comprehension. A new housing tax at a time like this? By all estimates, the economic contraction is real. All of these new expenses are going to sting in that poison dart.
I was surprised at how opposed to this law I was in the beginning, but now I see clearly. Would that the brainy among us could too.
I'm not sure about the plan. I don't like hammering points that aren't findng a home, yet they need to comprehend and prepare for what's ahead.
I guess holding the dragon in the light is necessary.
29 Scorpio will guide.
OK.
It's time to break out the root beer and cheetos, no licorice unless Kadimiros shows up.
A few fireworks might be just what we need to light up the dragon...and isn't it interesting that DC has been in the dark through all this?
Omg!!!! Of course. DC in the dark! I feel good. Pass the twizzlers please.
From what I've read, the 3.8% house sales tax only applies on gains from selling a house that are greater than $250,000 for single people and gains greater than $500,000 for married couples. I personally don't know a single person who would be affected by this. I doubt any of us will ever know such abundance... but I could be wrong.
Here's an article that explains the 3.8% tax.
Well that's good news.
Whew, you keeping cool over there?
We may need to break out that supply of orange Nehi.
Just thinking of you. :)
Yes!! It's much cooler. What a relief.
But my toilet tank sprung a leak and flooded my bathroom, so I'm distracted by that. I'm on my way to get the replacement part.
Oy, toiletology. I've spent waay too much of my life fixing plumbing.
Good luck, I hope it's a simple and cheap fix.
Ha! Toiletology. Yes. A simple and cheap fix. It's amazing how these moving parts work as well as they do. It's one item that still isn't digital. It's only recently that I switched from the ball cock to a more modern flush valve.
A life of waste.
Yes, but waste not want not, does not apply.
Glad it worked out and you are back with the flush again.
You know a philosophy of cherries and all....
I'm flush.
Yeah, I'm glad to be reminded of the philosophy of cherries.
It wasn't such a pleasant life back in the days when waste got chucked out the window. Life wasn't a sweet bowl then.
Cherries and Pits philosophy..
I had dinner last night with a fellow who was one of the athletes on the 1980 Olympic team. Remember that? US under Carter boycotted the games held in Russia because they invaded Afghanistan.
It stuck me as incredibly ironic.
Then notice who is on UN council of women's rights, UN arms treaty council, etc and the world seems more a snow globe that got tipped upside down and shaken hard.
I forgot about that!
I need a litle help with the UN connection.
Do you mean Iran's election to the commission on women's rights? Iran is also on the arms treaty council. I begin to see what you're saying with the snow globe metaphor. And I'm wise enough to know I know very little about how the balance of power is shifting.
I was thinking of Saudi Arabia being elected to Women's Rights commission.
And US is now the one in Afghanistan.
The severe heat has broken with wind and some raindrops hitting the window panes. Everything sighs with relief.
Ahhhh. I see the snow in this upside down world.
We got cooling rain and now the heat is rising again. Enjoy the moment.
Heh a little of everything - earthquake here in the ridge behind the house.
Holy Toledo!!!
A world in flux. It's been a hyper agitated day so far. It's the end of the first exact Uranus-Pluto square, so the message is being driven home. A moment of relaxation would be nice. It should be forthcoming.
Every so often we need a verdant oasis in this arid political wasteland. I am in love with this blog (oh and this one too, dear JM!) and wanted to share it.
http://teacupchronicles.com/
No cherries yet but they'll be along, I'm sure.
Joe, that is beautiful. Thank you. We need more of this, and I, too, long for an oasis in the wasteland. I love the simple and open feel of the teacup chronicles.
It's getting scary out there. This little spot feels good with a handful of good souls around to share moments of relief with me.
I will do my best to maintain the peace and leave an open door. Thanks for occasionally stopping by with your wise words and timely additions.
Love. An amazing concept.
I'm loading up the teacup chronicles.
We are grateful for your little spot that attracts the good souls JM.
Around me are very extraordinary people another little oasis of sweetness.
I passed the Weeping Camel on to a friend who is a percussionist, a very accomplished drummer. He began a drumming circle here to foster community. It meets at the full and new moons. As a result, he has been invited to work in some of the hardest healing centers in this part of the world. In his seventies with flowing white hair,and dancing blue eyes he carries joy into dismal places. He is doing something transformational with people who could best be described as the wreckage of twisted humanity.
A lot of his work takes place behind locked doors. He speaks to them of breaking out of their own prisons. Every man carries his own drum he tells them, then raps out a pattern of sound on his thighs. He teaches them to find a pattern and when the internal voices grow too loud, break into rhythm.
He tells me that giggles are often heard now. It makes me get sparkly eyes listening.
He sent your camel vid to over 600 people...extensions of healing from the Jazzrap Cafe. He wanted me to recognize you for that gift so, from my friend Sam, thank you.
Oh Joe that's lovely.
One of my favorite things is Saft Fläder. A drink made from elderflowers. There is nothing like it in the world.
My grans both made saft, a concentrate from usually grapes or currents or elderberries. Then they canned the elixir for winter. You add water and drink like a soft drink. I've always wondered if that is where soft drink comes from as saft sounds like soft.
You're both so very welcome. The blogger's writing style is very elegant and graceful, I've found.
That is so cool about Sam. See how one action ripples outward forever to touch others!
I will remember his advice about breaking into rhythm because the population I work with sometimes suffers from auditory hallucinations or "voices" that are intrusive and upsetting. I wonder if those voices would be disrupted and silenced if the person starts tapping out a tune or a beat. I'll look into it.
I just remembered... someone once told me that when people drum their fingers or tap their foot impatiently, they're stressed and unconsciously trying to recreate the soothing rhythm of mother's heart while in utero. At the time, we laughed, but there could be something to it.
Tseka, OOMG!!!
I am shocked and moved by your story. And amazed by the significance. I am so happy to meet Sam. One never knows. The smallest act can become so big. 600 people! Unintended consequences. Perhaps they should become intended.
I love that film and I always want to share artistic experiences but seldom does it happen as much as I'd like. It' the deepest soul sharing I know and I didn't expect this. To be recognized as a gift giver is ... well, you know. To touch 600 people is food for thought. It's related profoundly to what I was doing last night.
Sam is sending me a message through you, the great communicator with spirit. Percussion is the most important thing musically for me, as is escape from bondage. I have been parted from my spirit and it's time to connect again in a bigger way that spreads joy. Rhythm is everything.
"Carrying joy into dismal places." I completely understand.
I've been waiting on the cusp of something artistically and it's time to leap. This is the message. It can be done. I can move beyond the sometimes paralyzing doubt. You and Sam have given me inspiration. I never knew just how big a responsibility it is to be a serious artist.
He is doing something transformational with people who could best be described as the wreckage of twisted humanity.
All in a day's work. A perfect description of people in the world as I know it. I feel the burden of humanity's sorrow epecially strong lately. Now I know something can be done.
My god in heaven. You, Sam, and the 600, and the weeper.
Thank you my dear one from the bottom of my tiny being. I am stunned by your knowledge, timing, and sensitivity.
Exactly so Joe, Sam's population is the same as yours. His gift is that he guides them to a rhythm that is uniquely theirs but lifts them emotionally. Very centering. I think he is on to something wonderful.
Joe! OMG again!!
Please look into it. People with severe Parkinson's are able to forget their disability and dance when given music with strong percussion. People who can't otherwise walk.
When I perform, the children come up and dance together in their own little worlds.
I just remembered... someone once told me that when people drum their fingers or tap their foot impatiently, they're stressed and unconsciously trying to recreate the soothing rhythm of mother's heart while in utero. At the time, we laughed, but there could be something to it.
Oh my brother. How much you know.
Hearing is the first sense to arrive in utero and the last to leave. Our hearing doesn't shut down until an hour after death. Just think about it. It's our connection to the world before birth. Welcome to the world of the hearing, my dear friend. You've opened my eyes.
Oh dear. Mother's heartbeat.
How did I find you two? Prayers are sometimes answered when I least expect and demand a response. I can ask now. The gods are generous as the NN leaves Sagittarius and reminds me who I am.
Yes JM, when Sam dropped by market I told him about the Weeping Camel, how it came from you, another kindred who understands that music, dance, art, etc are the true shamanic gifts.
His life took a crazy turn much like so many of us have experienced in the last few years. He lost everything and I mean everything, destroyed in fire. AND only his drums survived! It was a bend in the road. Or maybe a bumping off one path on to another.
Ya Hoh. We lift together.
An hour after death? OMG. That explains so much. Thank you.
In Alzheimer's it's the same the access is through sound at the end when nothing else can penetrate. I've seen a group at end stage respond to music of their youth, swaying and almost physically transformed with release of tension.
Music, medicine of the gods.
What magic. Losing everything but the drums. You must have found a special spot in this world. They attract unusual people. No wonder your market is so good.
Lifting together.
It verifies my concentric circle theory. That if we stay positioned in ourselves in the center, others will come and build their own circles, making one big vibrating spiritual source destined to keep attracting.
The maternal heartbeat is also related to the cradling and rocking motion of the mother who often sings to her babies. It prepares us for the uncomfortable world we face, I think. The reminder in music always helps us through.
Yes. An hour. That's why people who assist in death recommend talking to the dead after they shut down.
In Tibet they keep the body for 40 something days and talk to the body saying, "Do not be afraid." They pray and help the soul through the lands spoken of in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It's amazing how well mapped out their concept of life is immediately after death.
Yes, I also do the 40 day prayers, "Do not be afraid, Daughter (son) of radiance, walk into the light."
I make the offer of a tether if it is needed for safe passage.
It's true about the circles. Here was not always so nice, in fact not nice at all. The change has been recent. It's more like as the scales fall from our eyes we can more clearly see each other, while others remain blind. My son report the same is happening around him. In his case this is very recent
For me it's a hopeful time of people who are already finding the new path forward. Almost everyone in my circle has "lost everything" in one way or another we've been stripped to essentials. Integrity and trust.
Almost everyone in my circle has "lost everything" in one way or another we've been stripped to essentials
I'm there. And I always thought our lovable nation was headed in that direction with Pluto stripping away pretension and superficiality.
If enough of us see clearly, we can carry the blind with us willingly.
Ya Hoh.
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