So — Heather Fae, who inspired the notion ‘light bridge’ just showed up, and she brought along her first short film. She created this as part of her application for Cal Arts. (And she got accepted.) Here you go! Don’t forget to click on Part 2 on the top right when Part 1 is over.

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Following the theory that awareness is the antidote to fear and shadow, I’ve just completed a nuclear news podcast, pulling together the best I can find from mainstream and alternative sources.

Me, today - at Blue Studio

The upshot is that there is still a really big problem at Unit 3 and in truth nobody knows how bad it is. The radiation has spread to some parts of the plant that raise the question of the source — the spent fuel pond or the reactor core.

Efforts are still underway to keep the thing cool, and they’ve decided to switch to freshwater instead of seawater because they are having a problem with salt accumulating and preventing the water from cooling the fuel down.

What we are left with is something that can never be cleaned up — Japan is going to be forced to abandon an significant swath of its very small country, and leave us with a point source of radiation right on the Pacific. The question really is: what are we humans going to do to prevent this from happening again?

Anything? There is plenty that can be done — it’s really a matter of intelligence and will, which seem to be in short supply at the moment; maybe we hobbits can muster up a little where the big people leave off.

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

“… we know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Miffed beyond the ability to reason, last November the American public elected some 16 new state governors, all members of the corporate party. Added to the red states that already had conservative leadership, those numbers now include such hotbeds of Tea Party activism as Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin. Each of these new governors vows that its respective state has unique qualities and challenges demanding fresh thinking and serious solutions, yet their policies replicate one another as dependably as Dolly the sheep cloned her predecessor. Dolly was short-lived. Let’s hope the precedent sticks.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's move to make the state budget "simple, fair and efficient" may instead be leaving the public in the dark about how its money will be spent.

Working in hive-mind, the corporate party is dismantling anything that smacks of FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society. There isn’t a dime in play across this nation that they don’t expect a share of, nor a working class citizen that they fail to blame for the nation’s problems. And while the Congress works to turn back all progress made in the last years, state leaders are taking liberties so questionable that they will surely end up decided in court. In Michigan, new Republican Governor Rick Snyder passed a law saying he had the right to take over any community by declaring it a “financial emergency,” whereupon he would be free to dismiss local officials and declare contracts void. You can almost see him turning to Wisconsin’s Scott Walker with a smirk and saying, “I’ll see your tyrant and raise you a despot!”

Meanwhile, it’s almost a joke how often Republican governors have transferred so much of their state’s piggy banks into the pockets of big corporations that they must then declare a fiscal emergency, hacking at the livelihoods of working class citizens. In Wisconsin, state government declared war upon public servants who had dared to organize into unions, exempting only the firefighters and police whom they evidently still needed. The specter of a greedy kindergarten teacher with a fat paycheck and over-the-top medical coverage has never kept me awake nights, but if you think the Department of Education should be cashiered along with public schools, it makes sense to go after teachers. If you think unions keep the money out of the hands of the ruling class, and the rulers’ good defines your own, then union-busting makes sense as well.

Across the board, states with Republican governors face a coup against public interests and well-being in the name of fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets. Conservatives attack public interests and civil rights with the zeal of brutal theocrats. Reckless, rash policies are being pushed on an unwilling public. Think Progress has listed what the various governors are up to and it’s shocking. The question at hand is obvious: why are we letting this happen?
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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Pisces weekly of June 27, 2003

Recent events have demonstrated abundantly that you can take a lot bigger chance than you thought you could and live to tell the story. You may finally be coming to terms with the fact that the keynote of Pisces is I want it all. The keynote of Mars in Pisces is dare to get it. The only way to dare is to risk. Our world is all about safe sex, safe surfing, safe relationships and safe ideas. Try as you may but I seriously doubt any of that will satisfy your craving to drink fire and breathe water. True, Mars is in Pisces for six months. Which is really not all that long.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

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Dear Friend and Reader:

Planet Waves has just completed a digital compilation of my writing about 2012 dating back to 1987. It’s called Light Bridge: The 25-Year Span. The span extends from the Harmonic Convergence through to the winter solstice of 2012. [Here is an audio introduction. Here is the purchasing link. Note that this is a different project than the Light Bridge annual edition.]

The articles in the collection are drawn from a number of sources, including Planet Waves and our various annual editions, as well as blog entries, my notebooks and one from an earlier book called 313. The book begins with a new piece that covers the history of the Harmonic Convergence and its possible influence on world events. I then present a retrospective of writing describing events that fit the pattern, either historic or philosophical, of how we approach the topic of irrevocable change. Even if you’ve read some of this writing before, the pieces will now come together when you see the ideas in context.

I have consistently treated the concept of 2012 as something we are creating now, even as time accelerates and we race toward the future. Different articles offer perspectives on the Mayan day count as well as the Western astrology associated with 2012. I am not making predictions; rather, my intent for all of these articles has been to focus our minds on the present moment and enter the future through immediate awareness. I am describing the process of opening up to the moment.

The book is beautifully illustrated with Mayan-inspired glyphs created by Carol McCloud. These are like no artwork you’ve ever seen before. Light Bridge: The 25-Year Span comes with a separate file of historic charts. We have done our best to leave links to other sources embedded in the text.

As you may have read, Jose Arguelles, who created the Harmonic Convergence and first called attention to 2012, died Wednesday. According to his website, before he departed he said to his apprentice, Stephanie South, “I have done all that I could on this planet. I am being called to assist in the closing of the cycle from the Other Side.”

Arguelles was the author of The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, which became a kind of platform for creating the Harmonic Convergence. He was also author of Dreamspell: The Journey of Timeship Earth 2013 which was a book and a game that came out in 1990. Dreamspell is an interpretation of Mayan daykeeping that teaches one to use the Mayan calendar in a practical, accessible way. Arguelles was the father of the current movement to adapt Meso-American calendar systems and other alternative models for considering time. In a sense, what we think of as time is really a prison that locks us into a time/money orientation of consciousness.

I was never Jose’s student, but his ideas have touched my life and informed my astrology through different teachers, friends and colleagues. We think it’s an intriguing synchronicity to be making this work available when so much attention is being given to Jose’s ideas.

Here is ordering information. Delivery is instant. The format is a downloadable PDF with images solid enough that they will print nicely.

Thank you for your interest. I think you’ll love this project. It’s been a lot of fun to create.

It’s only change –

When last I looked, before being interrupted by a planet-shifting major earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster in Japan, Middle America was protesting on the streets of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio.

In Lawrence O’Donnell’s interview on March 10, 2011 with former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich and columnist Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post he asked both what they thought was the meaning behind Republican governors’ moves against unions. Both said the day Wisconsin Senate Republicans stripped their union-busting bill of budget provisions and voted to neuter collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin’s public workers, they sent a signal from the national Republican party fulfilling one of the goals of their leadership. This was, as Rachel Maddow aptly described, a mission to destroy a principle Democratic-leaning money base — the unions — ultimately destroying the Democratic Party.

This move is a deliberate attempt planned to incense unions and workers enough to overreact, to make them appear radical to moderates, independents and swing voters, with Democrats paying the price in the end game — the 2012 general election.

Politics is a matter of framing the debate, and a means to sell your ideas — exactly like advertising.  If your product A is the same as product B, one way you sell it is through negative advertising: ‘better than the leading detergent in getting out grass stains’. ‘Radical’ is not an apology or an admission of a crime. It is a label to sell, used to define the extremity of opinion, perspective, gender or political belief, ostracizing the radical from the rest of the community. The Other.

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The new edition of Planet Waves covers the Aries New Moon and the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, and includes the April monthly horoscope.

To read the rest of the lead article on all this fiery action in Aries, along with the comprehensive April horoscopes, you may purchase this individual issue here. You can light your own fire with a whole season of new issues of Planet Waves Weekly as spring warms up by subscribing for three months here.

An announcement! We are close to publishing a compilation of my writing on 2012 called Light Bridge: The 25-Year Span. This is a collection of everything I’ve written about 2012 and related themes going back to 1987. This short audio presentation introduces the project. Watch your email today or tomorrow for an announcement.

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