By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
“Even today there is a dictatorship of a narrow line of thought which kills people’s freedom, their freedom of conscience. This is the drama of the closed heart, the drama of the closed mind … and when the heart and mind are closed there is no place for God.”
— Pope Francis“Should you perceive a problem, you surround that problem with love. You define it in love. You recognize that it is caused by the lack of love that lies behind all problems. And with love, you introduce the understanding that provides the solution.”
–Ken Carey, Return of the Bird Tribes
Well, ain’t we got fun these days, with the heavens full of goads and graces, obstructions defined, barriers readied to storm on one hand and beckoning doors flung wide, on the other? We can always trust Aries to be the sharp point of the spear, now pointing us toward the coming Cross, our opportunity to experience all four of creation’s elements — earth, air, fire and water — at cross point. And just now, even as I write, Venus is conjoining with Neptune in Pisces, joining the water trine along with Saturn and Jupiter, opening up a transcendent path to those willing to reach high enough. If that wasn’t enough, the coming pair of eclipses will bookend this energy nicely, perhaps for the history books.
With weather uncooperative, with violence all around, with obligations (taxes) looming, it’s easy to get carried away by this dramatic soup of energy: the personal, the public, the political. Let’s see if we can sort it into its various vibratory signals, assess where we are as opposed to where we’ve been, and ready ourselves for action. From the mundane to the profound, then, let’s determine if our movement in these last few years is actual progress or just another loop of more of the same. Are we clearing the cobwebs? Or are we creating them? Are we doing the inner work? Confronting the illusions? Telling ourselves the truth?
First, let’s give the regressives their due. The full compliment of crazy is out in force, almost maniacally engaged in nonsense without a twinge of embarrassment, even when they’re proven wrong — or wrongheaded — which is almost always. Eric Holder has been accused of wanting to make gun owners wear tracking devices, a Senate sub-committee in South Carolina wants to extend their Stand Your Ground defense to embryos, and Pat Robertson has publicly petitioned Gawd Almighty to deliver us all from “this president.” True to their austerity ideology (for people, not corporations), the House wasted time and resources by approving Paul Ryan’s most recent budget proposal, which will rid the nation’s health care and food stamp recipients of “paternalistic, arrogant, and downright condescending” assistance from the state. And true to their calling, Limbaugh, Beck and O’Reilly continue to trumpet more hot air to a quickly warming planet.