{"id":77215,"date":"2014-06-08T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77215"},"modified":"2014-06-08T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:19:56","slug":"an-introspective-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/dream-diary\/an-introspective-question\/","title":{"rendered":"An introspective question"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know from my own experiences of freezing up just when I wanted to say something how difficult it can be to speak up. Anyone speaking out is progress in this world, where we’re so persistently silenced and pruned. This is especially true when discussing one’s own pain and struggle. In that respect, whatever it takes. The struggle with silence is massive for many people and any choice to raise one’s voice can feel like a miracle has happened.<\/p>\n

Yesterday a friend (who you’ll be hearing from on Planet Waves FM soon) who went from being a record industry PR guy to being an urban farmer, asked me what was up at Planet Waves and in the sky. I told him about the gender discussion happening here and many places on the Internet, and its relationship to Mars in Libra. He asked if there were any new approaches or new models arising in the discussion, rather than just discussion about the problem. That’s a good question. I told him that on the new model subject not yet, that I had seen.<\/p>\n

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Redwood root. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, many points of discussion that I’ve seen here the past few weeks would lead the way to solutions, because you have to see and identify a problem to solve it. The discussion on Friday’s daily post was a significant step in that direction, as it began to address the struggle people have had with their fathers, and I have seen that just being aware of this material is a step on the road to healing. That is the direction we need to take the whole discussion here — from awareness to healing. <\/p>\n

For every hurt or struggle I’ve seen raised so far, I’ve encountered a healing process or therapy tool. We don’t have to live with these struggles. As the poet Adrienne Rich has said, “There are methods but we don’t use them.” We need to be aware of them and we need to use them. Many readers have had success in healing process, and people here would benefit from hearing from you.<\/p>\n

Many people in our audience are trained as practitioners, facilitators, midwives and doulas (literally or metaphorically) of some kind. Many others have spent years devoted to self-awareness and study. Many have spent their whole life, or lifetimes, preparing for this moment when their talents and calling would be needed. As we enter the Mercury retrograde, please bring out what you know, what you’ve learned and your vision for how the world can be. If you have an idea for a way forward, please step forward and share that with us. This is the moment, and we are listening eagerly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know from my own experiences of freezing up just when I wanted to say something how difficult it can be to speak up. Anyone speaking out is progress in this world, where we’re so persistently silenced and pruned. This is especially true when discussing one’s own pain and struggle. In that respect, whatever it … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77215"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}