Editor’s note:В There are people you meet with whom you can carry on a lively conversation for an hour and feel as though you’ve made a wonderful discovery for that moment in time. Then there are people you meet whose interests, philosophy, and open-wonderment about the world make you feel as though you’ve met long-lost family. That’s the feeling I got meeting Rahmana (pronounced “Rahk-mana”) Finney.В From politics to astrology, Rahmana’s got a lot of things covered, and its my pleasure to introduce her to our Planet Waves community.–Fe Bongolan.
Dear Friend and Reader,
YOU KNOW HOW IN HORROR MOVIES, the haunted house is always built on a mass grave of people who died horrible and unfair deaths? Our country is built on a foundation of slavery and genocide. As we have all this astrological activity in the sky with Pluto, the planet of change, moving into Capricorn, an earth sign—foundation/structure—it seems the cracks in the foundation are really showing now.
I had this dream once based on a book I read by the late great Octavia Butler, an African-American science fiction novelist. It was called, Pattern Master. The lead character in the book was a woman who could literally see the connection between all humanity as this golden thread that went through everyone which connected us all to each other. It was a golden string that went through people’s middles into other people’s middles like an energy thread in a huge quilt. It felt like what ever sickness or suffering that came out of one person could somehow affect the next person their thread went into and so on and so on.
I think what’s going on in America right now — the recession that no one will officially name and all the financial drowning related to it, the environmental woes & natural disasters, the wars — has a lot to do with the karma of this country. My grandmother taught me that there are three types of karma: individual, family and national. What you do comes back to you.