John Brown and Me

Today, 150 years ago, John Brown and his warriors, set out to overturn an institution that was denying generations of Black people the right to LIFE, LIBERTY, AND HAPPYNESS! I thank him for his courage and his nerve, and for giving up the one thing he did not acquire at birth, nor did he accept as a consequence of his life, and that is WHITE PRIVILEGE. He is the only white man in the history of this country who gave that up, willingly sacrificing an inheritable position of comfort, a position that would have allowed him to ignore the very trouble his kind was creating for eons to come. Yes, he did not succeed in his ultimate quest to take over the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, but he took a stand that was uncomfortable and stood his ground. That's more than anyone else to have done since given the same privilege and entre in to "white" society that they have not earned. So, Mr. Brown, your position with me is firm, and though your brothers considered you a mad man, I consider you the only one with any sense at all. Thank You.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/16/150_years_ago_today_abolitionist_john

EarthDay Poetry

For Me, From a Friend

"She Ain't Pretty"
by Rudwaan (copyright 10/06/2009) Used by permission

She's beautiful
For pretty is but a temporary look
Like that new cover on a book
Soon to bee worn
Perhaps even torn
She ain't pretty
She's beautiful
For pretty is man-made
A mere copy of that which God-made
mansions but tremble in the wind
while oak trees are but merely swayed
She ain't pretty
She's beautiful
For pretty is as pretty does
Pretty now will soon be pretty was
Pretty dares not show it cares not
For pretty wears that which pretty shares not
She ain't pretty
She's beautiful
Like the air one's lungs long for
She's beautiful
Like the tears one's eyes dare not despise
She's beautiful
Like the years worn by the elder who now peacefully transpires
She's beautiful
She ain't pretty
She's beautiful
Creatress of the heavens and the earth
Giver of birth
Adorned of the Most High
She ain't pretty
For pretty is empty like white is
And beauty is full like black is
She is full and black of beauty
She is beautiful
She is black
She is goddess

Thank you, brother.

Love is a Verb!

When I began this planting, I started to notice love more present in my life. The beings in my garden were loving me, even the bees. Some times they would breeze past my ear, drag their legs across the back of my hand as I worked, or make their presence known in other ways. The ants did not overwhelm my garden, taking only what they could carry and focusing on one fruit at a time. I never needed to worry that they would ravage my garden. There was enough to go around, after all. My family would wander out into the morning or evening to see what I was up to, what fruit I was gathering, what herb I was dancing around. My cat would keep me company and watch curiously as I sat in the dirt pulling up the young sprouts of "weeds". Love really showed up in the actions of my friends and neighbors who kept my garden watered while I was away, and who took home some of the fruit so their purpose could be fulfilled....i.e. eaten!

What I learned from this season of growing is that it takes love to grow a garden. Gardens are not always simply tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. There are gardens everywhere we turn. The most impressive gardens to our eyes are usually well-tended, having a variety of colors, types of flowers and fruits, and no weeds in sight. But gardens are not always so perfect, and need not be. The point is to touch the Earth, plant a seed, grow a plant, give birth to life that sustains you.

During my planting and harvesting, I found myself being planted and harvested. A gardener, of sorts, found a fruiting flower blooming in me, and started to tend me as if I were a part of his garden. He watered me, pulled up the weeds that had begun to grow around and within me, and provided plenty of extra light for me to grow in. Not recognizing at first that this one who came to me was a master at the art of cultivation, I was caught by surprise by the love I felt as my soil was gently turned and fertilized. As Mother Earth, Gaia, must feel when her loved ones sit at her feet, touch her heart, and plant seeds of life within her, I, too, feel precious and considered and important and loved. As this gardner returns to his garden to tend to my petals he brings sunlight and love. My blossoms reach up, like the blossoms of any flower seeking nourishment, to touch his heart, feel his loving hands, and kiss his sweet face for bringing me to life once again, for reminding me that I am a flower bearing fruit. Ah Grace. I am joyous to be in his garden and for him to be the one who tends to me.

Each of us tends a garden where living beings await our care. I speak in metaphors about the acts of love one person brings to another. I speak of a love that can only come about when we pay attention to the love we send out with sincerity. This love returns, this love circles around and seeks its origins and always bring new love with it. In planting my garden, I awakened the heart of the Earth within me. That awakening sent energetic messages to all the minute beings that took my messages, like bees take pollen, out into the ethers finding a caretaker for me, for my heart. Love is in the action of loving. There is magick growing around me, in me, through me. There is evidence that Love, in all its beauty, is best adorned in the acts performed in the little moments. A shared glance. Recognizing spirit. Accepting the giving of wisdom. Allowing a touch. Knowing you need. Giving what you have. Love is a verb. My garden and my gardener are that verb for me. Peace.

Worlds in Collision

There has been a gap between posts here, and for good reason. I had nothing to say as I watched the drama unfold before our eyes. Between the cliffhanger of a presidential election (I jest), the natural wonders of our weather here on Earth, the human response to fear around oil supply and distribution, and the falling of the sky on Wall Street, I simply could not sit down long enough to write. But, I have been having many conversations with people everywhere. It seems, according to popular opinion, that our world has finally changed. Changed? How? You might ask. The obvious changes are hard to miss. The thieves have been in the temple all along. In fact, we gave them the key even though we knew they were thieves. They have left the building and taken the silverware, too. Left quite a mess to be cleaned up, as well. And you know what? They've even offered to come back and clean up their mess, and, it appears, sheeple are ready and willing to let them do it. Doesn't this time and day just simply amaze you? We are actually witnessing the fall of western civilization. How could this be so? Well, when a civilization rests its laurels upon cotton and digitized illusions, it's not impossible for that cotton to burn or for those illusions to disappear once an awakening begins to occur. Awakening? Well, not of an enlightened type do we see in this awakening, more of an abrupt end to sleep. This is not, in my opinion, the stuff of prophecy, this is more like people taking entitlements to other's property simply because those who own the property did not pay attention to the signs in front of their faces that there was a need for them to do something different than to trust those not trustworthy. Now, we stand holding empty bags where once there was, at least, a hope that we had something of value inside the bags. Not any more!
Check this out:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/10/bush_to_host_emergency_finance_meeting

Well, it's not like we weren't warned. There have been many voices speaking to the inevitability of the fall. We live in a circular universe. Cycles repeat themselves. People repeat themselves, and the mistakes people make seem to recur, over and over and over. Folks, look through your history books, not the ones written for you, but the ones you've written and the people you trust have written. Listen to the speeches of those so-called "dissidents" who speak out against the lies of those we have allowed to be in power. We have the right to revolution. It is written in our code, it lays in wait to be activated through our DNA, and our children are expecting us to do something other than consume their lives away. For the people, it cannot be "business as usual". Now is the time for us to take this mess seriously. We need a new way of life. What are we going to do?
Check this out: www.zeitgeistmovie.com.

Return

It is becoming more obvious that the world of man and the world of nature are in a major clash moment. The events in the weather the past weeks have shown that we are on a collision course with disaster. To escape it all, I walked outdoors to my new and budding garden to pick the fruits of my labor. To my delight, peppers and tomatoes, basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano, catnip, lemon balm, and st. john's wort were all waving their little hands at me, ready to be picked and clipped. I felt such a warm surge of love coming from them, and the morning air was fresh and true. I could hear songs coming from every corner of my world, and the sounds of famine, drought, and warfare disappeared, not because I had forgotten them, but because in returning to the garden I had found the peace and cure to all our ails.

The days are hotter now, the wind still blows, the rain still falls, the water still flows, the birds still build nests, the squirrels still bury nuts, the bees still buzz, and through it all, the one being out of step, out of tune, continues to cut trees, build roads, slather on the tar and concrete to heat up his world all the more, people still drive the suv's and f-150's in spite of the signs, in spite of the costs to us all. Take a moment, you lovers of the earth, in the morning, breathe the new air, hear ancient songs sung by the winged beings, the rustling of the 4-leggeds, and you will know you are one with it all as you, too, harvest your gifts from Her.

Order of the Planet

If you listen to information swirling round about your head, if you pay attention to the signs of man and of the Divine, if you see that most people are not paying attention and are being swayed in one direction, you will ultimately have to come to the conclusion that there is a pattern of behavior that is just out of our reach, to some degree imperceivable, but felt deeply by your soul. You know something is not right with the world. You can feel it, but most people are not aware of themselves enough to even begin to be aware of what is outside of themselves.

We're in deep, according to history, and the patterns of possessing power that have taken shape over the past 13 centuries. That's right, 13 centuries. Count from about 700 a.d. 13 is a magic number but most of humanity is afraid of it. More on that later. It would be difficult at this stage to indoctrinate the common people into the history of the royals on the planet, not just europe, their governing body, their halls of knowledge, justice, finance, and worship. Most of us are completely oblivious to the fact that the dramas unfolding before us began so many centuries ago, and represent an unbroken chain of murder, deceit, fraud, lies, subterfuge, and espionage, not to speak of intermarriage, arranged marriages, and the marriage of fortunes to fortunes.

What began some 1300 years ago has its roots in the powerful civilizations on the continent of Alkebulan some 13 centuries before that with the changes in power that ultimately left it open to domination by the Romans, who, high on violent savagery as they swept across Asia, Europe, and into Alkebulan, destroyed and maimed the hope of the planet to ever live to its highest potential. The seed planted, these savages and their future children were to bring into the world a form of domination that would require the basest types of behavior coupled with varying forms of greed, selfishness, and favoritism based on skin color and bloodlines. Solomon said in his "Songs" that there is "nothing new under the sun." I believe this.

Many of us with the genetic basis to "know" intuitively that this is more than meets the eye are responsible for ourselves only. I said it. For many moons now I have spent my days and nights warning the people I speak to about the coming downfall brought on by our own agreement with these "evildoers". It is very obvious that we can no longer ignore what is apparent. So many people feel the loss of control over their personal finances, what most people base the quality of their lives upon, that it is just a matter of time before all hell breaks loose. What then? By then, the NWO will have been fully implemented. The fascist state will have a firm foundation for the next phase of power-controlled domination, and we may find ourselves hiding like the Jews from the Nazis.

There is a movie everyone should watch as soon as possible. It was shot during Hitler's rise to power, after he'd been given power and as he laid the foundation for the Nazi party's "final solution." Ask your local public library if it carries this movie. It's called "Triumph of the Will." Shocking really to watch this and be able to see the slow but progressive creation of every aspect of fascism take shape among the young, the women, the men, the girls, the boys, and all the while this skillful manipulator was preparing his country to do a thing so against humanity it would make the world shake. I kid you not. Along with that, you really should watch D.W. Griffin's "The Birth of a Nation" for the tenor it sets about the way society in this country is truly set up. Even though we call it "segregation", it really is simply the establishment of two societies. One for the "white" and one for the "colored". Call yourselves what you will, if you are not pink, red, rednecked, or a hillbilly, you are a "colored" and there is a society for you. But, it's a secret to most of us. Many of us actually believe that there is only one society in the u.s. Go back and read the post "9 Simple Rules."

So what of this order of the planet? It was here before we were born. It lives off our fears and our doubts and our need to believe in something or someone greater than ourselves, greater than the whole of man or mankind. It will live on so long as we breathe life into the dead, lifeless body attached to a head that has never been dealt a fatal blow. It assures its longevity by scaring us into submission and daring us to take up arms against it. We feed it with our tax dollars because we are too afraid to stop paying tribute to the beast. We train our children to fear and love it, too. We believe, even today, after it has sent many millions of us out into the void and others out into the fields to work as slaves once again, that it will be compassionate and come back to save us all. The signs show otherwise. We are on our own. No one is going to come and help us. What is so ironic is that we, the people, sat in silent awe as Bush I gave us our marching orders September 11, 1991, and told us that he (and "they") were installing a new world order. Somebody was about to take power from someone else. He said it was more than just about a small country (Iraq), it is about their future hegemony, a despot, a dictatorship that believes that you and all the rest of us are too unimportant to be trusted with governing ourselves. They, and only they, are the rightful heirs to ALL the Earth's resources. And to whom they decide a little bit shall go to, they shall get a little.

It was like a timebomb, a repeat of a show we watched 10 years before. September 11, 2001. Another apparent step toward the NWO. Did they know? Of course "they" did. Most of the people reading this post are thinking people. I know that you are already there. For the rest of the people who still believe what these beasts tell you to believe, I say: Take heed of the signs. They are all around us now. As the veil is lifted, the mask is lowered, the curtain is pulled back, you will discover that Oz is a place where the colors change according to the mood the masters wish to set for the people. Oz is a place where most folk are conforming and complacent hoping the Wiz has all the answers. Of course, the Wiz, the all powerful, is simply a man who will ultimately leave the people behind to return to his own humble roots, but the people will be left to discover what is actual for themselves. Those few who are truly radical will be the ones to pull the Wiz out of his curtain-concealed haven. It will take more than a few of us, the brave, the genius, the curious, the loving, and the light (Toto) to lead those who wish to depart the nightmare to slay the beast.

The order of the planet calls for us to wake the hell up. Turn off the tube. Keep what money you have left for a time when you'll need it to get across some other border. Talk to each other. Learn how to shoot a gun. Pack a bag just in case you do have to run. Learn how to grow food. Ask for help! Tell someone else. Tell the truth! We are all waiting for each other. Liberty is just around the corner, but we've got to step across the line drawn in the sand to reach it. Stop the rise of the new world order now! Peace.

What Lies Beneath...

This morning my sister called to tell me that she was sending me a new phone; one to share with her because she has thousands of minutes and she'd love to be able to connect with me anytime, anyplace. I have the same cell phone that I've had for 6 years. I don't mind that the ringtone is elementary or that the phone itself is not "flashy" with all the add-ons like speakerphone, etc. Something Alice Walker said in one of her pieces on our relationship to the planet struck my soul and, it being firmly planted, I have chosen not to participate in the incremental advances in cell phone structure and function. She said, and I am paraphrasing, that the materials that are used to build cell phones come from deep within the earth, and that there is a reason why these elements are buried deeply. She said that there must be a karmic debt paid by us for bringing these things up to the surface, and that we will also be held accountable for the destruction of the people native to these lands, who slave for us to have these comforts, and for the destruction of the land itself. I do believe this to be true. Much like the destruction of the rainforests, lying deep below the surface are microbes that are meant to stay under the surface, but man's activities bring them to the surface. We wonder from where the new and emerging virulence comes, and few of us think far enough down to understand that some things were meant to stay buried. Take oil, for example. Yes, we have converted it to our own use, but above the ground we are all suffering the effects of that use. Today, the emissions in the atmosphere that humans and all other air-breathing creatures need to survive are choking the very life out of us. People who never had problems with asthma are now sufferers of it. Children can't enjoy the blue sky we did in our youth (if you were born prior to 1968 you might remember a different color of blue). The sky is filled with junk, the space above our heads is filled with space junk, including satellites and the remains of certain men's toys that have not benefitted but a few. This planet belongs to us all. No one people has the right to claim it as their own. All of us have the responsibility to demand that the destruction of our planet cease. But what of our appetites for pleasure, for instant gratification, for "keeping up", for being first, for having it all?! Truly, I tell you, unless you deal with your wants, unless you squash your desires, unless you be the one to say "no thanks", and encourage your neighbor to do the same, man and mankind will collectively drown in our own disbelief as humanity's day of reckoning IS close at hand. We may not be able to stop the train from crashing, but we can slow it down. Use what you already have. Accept that you already have enough. Learn how you can live with less, and more simply. Believe that one person can make a world of difference, and that a small group of people you join up with can make a bigger difference. You can do without, you can grow tomatoes, you do look great with a natural, you can take a walk and park that car, your children will love the change in you as your change will allow you to turn to them and play with them, perhaps, for the first time in their lives. When we simplify, slow down, take less, we gain time. Isn't that what all this is about anyway? Time? Our technological addictions are killing more than just animals, the Earth, and time itself. It's killing people, childhood, and dreams. Do you truly need another cell phone? If you knew what people a world away have to go through in order to supply you with that new phone, would it matter? Would you choose a different path? Would you be happy with 1? Don't use the argument that your demand for a new phone fuels the market economy which creates jobs for people who might not have one. Consider the job, consider the benefit, consider the detriment, consider who really is getting paid. Not these people. In fact, your cell phone spawns wars. Are we warmongers now? So, to my sister, thank you, darling. My old phone works fine. I love you.

Stargate 11-19-X

Happy 83rd Earth Day Brother El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz! This day is a special one indeed! The 2nd Full Moon in Scorpio! There is also an abundance of 11's influencing this day! The Moon and the Sun star are both at 29 degrees at the time of its Fullness! That's an 11. Brother Malcolm would have been 83, that's an 11. The Full Moon moment is at 10:11 EST, 1-11. AND, there is a Grand Cross in the Sky. This Grand Cross is between fixed signs, Leo, Scorpio, Taurus, and Aquarius. The planets involved are the Moon in Scorpio, the Sun in Taurus, Venus in Taurus, Neptune in Aquarius, and Saturn on the Leo/Virgo cusp (1 degree Virgo). Wonderful! First, let's consider the Full Moon in Scorpio at 29 degrees and in the 11th house from where I sit. There's that 11 again!

The Full Moon is of course the "high tide" for human emotions. It is the point at which we are the most sensitive as a species and the most receptive. Scorpio is a sign ruled by Pluto in its highest manifestation: transforming power, intense concentration on one particular thing, sexual healing, instigating for the purpose of renewal, heated interactions for the sake of searing together and tearing apart, and its polarity, Taurus, is ruled by the lower vibration of Venus: materiality, earth, fruitfulness, sowing seed, mating, standing still, being steadfast, being pregnant. The need for us to be creative, fruitful and multiply, is the essence of these two forces together. On the one hand, this is the time when all creatures in nature are birthing young, nursing them, and doing what is necessary to populate the Earth with the species that make up the planetary being. This productivity is not done with any "thought" because it is instinctive, intuitive, and natural. Of course, Scorpio and Taurus both epitomize instinct to survive, intuition and the natural being. No surprises. The best use of the energy of this Full Moon is to be as productive, pro-creative, and natural as one possibly can be in the habitat one has built around them. With the mate/s one has in their life, and to be as high-minded as one can given the influences of Venus and Pluto in shaping our relationships, for good or ill. Given the presence of Mars in Scorpio's profile, one should be aware of creating any discord now within relationships of any sort. Paying attention to the needs of others rather than our own needs sometimes is just the remedy we need to bring our relations closer to the place we want to see them go. Still, one must stay within the realm of reason.

The Grand Cross is in the fixed group of signs. Imagine a large T in the sky between these prominent planets: Moon, Sun, Venus, Neptune and Saturn! Whew! The fixed nature of the signs indicates that we must be aware of our tendency toward inflexibility and also the need for structure in life so that we can see exactly where we are, where we are going, and who we say we claim to be. It is certainly a sign that we will have much to endure, and that the energies can be confusing to the immature mind causing it to be unsure of what direction it should take.

The Moon and Sun are naturally in opposition to one another during a Full Moon, and combined with the Sun in this config is Venus bringing the need to be physical, to touch another and to touch the Earth. With Venus in opposition to the Moon, however, some may receive approached from those they really aren't in tune with. With Neptune in square to the Moon, we may have dreams that are clashing with our reality. We may want the "perfect" love or expect "perfection" in our loving, and we may need to step back to see our surroundings, our lovers, our selves, in a truer light. Of course, Saturn tends to help us break out of our illusions that Neptune helps us to build. Perhaps that is why the Omniverse put Saturn right where it is at this Full Moon moment. Saturn's opposition to the Moon warns us not to take our emotional frustrations out on those closest to us. It tells us we need to pay attention to how we are nurturing ourselves, and especially those most needful of our healthy emotional state....our mother, our children we mother, our creations, our own hearts. Saturn's opposition to Neptune will help you tether your own tendency to drift off in daydreams and illusions. We will all be more likely to keep our heads out of the sky, but we will be leaning toward learning more about mysticisms and world religions....

Saturn and Neptune are squared to the Sun and Venus during this moment of time. Saturn tends to take some of the spontaneity away from Venus' love for play and freedom because sometimes we need to work, but Venus' pairing with the Sun suggests we need to resist working too much and find the time to play, be free, touch the Earth, preferably with someone we love and want to be loved by. Neptune suggests in this config that we pay attention to what's real, not to get too heady over being loved and making the wrong choices about who we are loving, or denying ourselves the love we need out of some crazy notion of "perfection" that does not exist.

The Stargate I call 11-19-X is simply a suggestion that this planetary configuration, the influence of the number 11 and this being the day (perhaps the moment) of the birth of our Shining Black Prince, is also the opening of a Stargate for spirit to come and go, in and through those who are aware and awake enough to feel the vibrations of Love, Ideal, Truth, Knowledge, Virtue, and Fruitfulness. 11 is a Master Number of Unity. When the pattern repeats, the request is clear: unify to protect one another from treachery that comes from illusion and emotional disturbances. Harmony can come when we know what is discordant within us and between us and then to seek compromise between what is conflicting within before we seek to compromise with what is conflicting outside of ourselves. These two forces must ultimately unite for happiness. The two are not 1, and remain separate, though joined, each maintains its own unique worth. In order to understand, meditate upon the meaning of this: 1+1=11, not 2.
It will come to you in an instant. Peace.

Walk for the Water

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