By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
There’s a revolution brewing and we all own a piece of it. That’s because we collectively created the conditions that have proven so catastrophic to a nation struggling with poverty and joblessness, growing in rancor and division. Slowly but surely, as the trappings of daily life we’ve depended upon shift and dissolve, we’re changing our minds about how we want life to look. What’s political about that — a new iteration of human experience dropping down in the birth canal, positioning for entry — is how to go about reconfiguring the legal and ethical limits of government. We’re not there yet, but we can feel the waves of movement pushing us along.
All creatures eventually outgrow who they have been and transition into something else: we call that evolution. We are poised on an evolution of consciousness, letting go of what used to serve us to allow for a new sociopolitical understanding. The channelers have it that we’re going to accomplish this shift of Ages without taking the world’s population down to scratch, as has evidently happened in epochs past. With climate change looming, one might wonder about our ability to survive, but still, there is an indefinable “something” that pushes back fear and seems to inform this period from deep within the soul.
What is new is coming into view, slowly shaping itself in our mind’s eye and encouraging us to keep our hearts open as it reveals itself. What is old and known is no longer useful to us. We’re moving past the old way of perceiving things, reconsidering the old ways of doing things. Let’s be sure to remember what we’re being called to do. Let’s remember that “the way we’ve always done it” is yesterday’s news. We must walk a high wire between the pragmatics that drive us forward and the idealism that inspires us. We must make this a spiritual endeavor if we are to have the needed spiritual result for which our hearts thirst.
Because of the astrology tying this period to the dramatic struggles and cultural revolution of the 1960s, we have looked to the Tea Party as this season’s version of the hippie. Suddenly appearing last summer like a new and unexpected brand of conservative, the t-evangelicals were sold as a populist movement, which they aren’t, independent of the Republican party, which they aren’t. They are neither populist nor independent, but are regressive to the point of anachronism and express their collective outrage to the point of psychopathy. The Baggers have hostility all sewn up, gun-carrying revolutionaries willing to break with the republic as currently drawn. Compare them, if you will, to the Wall Street occupiers who have a library, a newspaper, and the likes of Deepak Chopra leading protesters in meditation.