{"id":5691,"date":"2008-11-06T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2008-11-08T03:19:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T08:19:45","slug":"well-take-yer-red-hot-ptsd-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/well-take-yer-red-hot-ptsd-right-here\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ll Take Yer Red-Hot PTSD Right Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

I DON’T KNOW\u0412\u00a0about you, but I’m still in a state of shock.<\/p>\n

Things\u0412\u00a0will probably sink in around mid-January when Obama is sworn in as President, but its out of habit: based on the last\u0412\u00a0ten years of\u0412\u00a0political and psychic\u0412\u00a0disaster management courtesy of the\u0412\u00a0Clinton impeachment,\u0412\u00a0“Shock and Awe” in Iraq, the shredding of the Constitution by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, war is peace, dark is light, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice and the entire cast of characters — I’ve had enough for a lifetime.<\/p>\n

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Heather Sphere. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This comes after\u0412\u00a0eight years of Bush the Father, eight years of Nixon and eight years of Reagan. Over that period of time\u0412\u00a0I’ve built a pretty complex defense mechanism. But with the last eight years,\u0412\u00a0more so than others, I’ve been lied to, patronized and had my sense of democracy robbed, my country despoiled, innocent people tortured\u0412\u00a0and the planet furious with us for causing even MORE havoc — all\u0412\u00a0by a bunch of greedy, brutal and sadistic\u0412\u00a0thugs at the very top of the Administration.<\/p>\n

Saying my basic trust in\u0412\u00a0people is shaken is putting it mildly. I’ve been made to sit through another war I didn’t want, and over the\u0412\u00a0last decade I’ve been working to manage my anger and rage at varying levels. I feel like the battered wife who has just left the house in the middle of the night with nothing other than her wallet and her passport,\u0412\u00a0finally through with being beaten every night by her abusive drunken lout of a husband for burning the fish sticks. Looking inward, I feel a toxicity that I need to purge.<\/p>\n

This morning, I got an e-mail from a friend of mine who wrote in response to Obama’s victory, simply:<\/p>\n

Well I feel this – but in even more extreme terms…. Sorry but it will take some time for my fury to dissipate over the last 8 years. I am not there yet – obviously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A couple of weeks ago, I started a discussion thread about living in a PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)\u0412\u00a0nation. I asked what do you\u0412\u00a0think healers will be faced with? Crisis hot lines? Classrooms? Now that the election is over, and a new President from the other party will be taking office, what are your thoughts about what happened to you these last 48 – 72 hours?<\/p>\n

How has your consciousness changed? How has it not? What feels different? What feels the same? There are politics and there are personal politics. For the sake of continuing discussion from the previous weeks, let’s stay on the personal.<\/p>\n

Where are you at? What’s going on for you?<\/p>\n

Yours and truly,
\nFe Bongolan from San Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: I DON’T KNOW\u0412\u00a0about you, but I’m still in a state of shock. Things\u0412\u00a0will probably sink in around mid-January when Obama is sworn in as President, but its out of habit: based on the last\u0412\u00a0ten years of\u0412\u00a0political and psychic\u0412\u00a0disaster management courtesy of the\u0412\u00a0Clinton impeachment,\u0412\u00a0“Shock and Awe” in Iraq, the shredding of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1,533,532],"tags":[36,297,52,534,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}