Greetings beautiful souls,

DREAMING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD:MAPPING A-MOTHERWORLD

“Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties?
Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope;
perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.”
– Vaclav Havel

I have been struggling to find ways to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

On the morning after the Inauguration, reluctant to rise, “distant from the hope of myself”(Mary Oliver)I remembered the dream: I am outside in a stone landscape, balanced on a great granite boulder. There is a huge auditorium, also gray and of stone, without windows. The roof is sharply angled. It is a fearsome place, reminding me of the stadiums turned into torture and extermination centers, black sites, within the framework of state terrorism in authoritarian regimes. Detention facilities. There is nothing green in sight. Not a tree, shrub, grass. It is foggy and I cannot see far. But I look down and see my boulder perch is covered in a blanket of sweet-smelling golden flowers.  Even here, close at hand, something is blooming. I look up to search for others.

The plant in my dream is called Golden Basket. Basket of gold. A kind of alyssum. A glimpse of beauty and sweetness and aliveness. Perhaps I am not as alone, angry and powerless, as I feel. Turning to writers like Ursula le Gin, Hannah Arendt, Vaclav Havel, and alternative news sources like Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce Vance, the Meidas Touch, Amy Goodman, gives me more solid grounding.

What presents as a national and global political crisis is more accurately a spiritual and moral one. In the USA, we have begun a radical new era of our story, one that will be increasingly impacted by technology. Is it the downfall of the US? Yes, one version is definitely collapsing in accelerated absurdity and destruction. Is this meant to devastate us? Overwhelm us? Or to wake us up to the original beautiful vision and medicine of the USA ideal of freedom and justice?

In this first 10 days of Trump’s presidency, we are awash in a flurry of rapid fire, chaotic executive actions with an ongoing parade of Cabinet Appointees chosen for their incompetence, corruption and cruelty. These are not ideological or political actions. They are deliberate tests of loyalty for the humiliation and control of the GOP. Cruelty, incompetence, greed and corruption are exalted in trump world, with special tribute paid to those who are sexual predators. The path to an oligarchy has been declared, described in project 2025, and is under way. It is about the Grift and funneling power to a very few white men billionaires. It is also a denial of grief and fear. Of death. Of the loss of power.

We are at the edge of a precipice. The edge of emergence into a New Age. The turning of a 26,000-year cycle, a 2500-year cycle, 6-thousand-year cycle of patriarchy and the exile of the Goddess. Either we will collapse into maximum chaos and disorganization, or we will emerge into an expanded, more complex, more harmonious order. What we choose to believe and do at this time is critically important. Remembering that We the People do have power is essential. There is so much help available from the more than human world, and in our joining together. The paths, the diverging timelines, are becoming increasingly and dramatically clear. We are being shown everything we need to know about what is happening, what our “leaders” are actually doing. Not that they are trying to hide it! Don’t turn away from the seeing and the feeling for the harm being done to people, to our beloved planet. But unless this is your chosen work- as politician, lawyer- spend more of your time listening for the call that is yours. the soul assignment looking for you. The story, the dream, that wants to be birthed through you. Listen and carry it through. Get help often. Join with others. Answering the Call and doing your best to live it will energize you. Love your people. Love your calling. Find joy, follow beauty. These are deep truths in the deep time of the long story. Kings are toppled. Empires end. Magic is all round. Synchronicities and dreams and miracles surround us.

Paolo Freire: Let us listen to dreamers who dare to imagine in the spaces made by the ruptures in society.”

It is imperative now to hold onto your visions, your hopes for the future, your heart. Yes, we are seeing in massive heartbreaking detail the fullest expression of a trauma culture, the dying and desperate gasps of the patriarchal order, and also extinction anxiety as we face (or deny) the destruction and damage being done to our beautiful planet.

Vaclav Havel: “We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.”

A few days ago, I dreamed: We are in a large meeting, a conference, trying to understand what is happening and what we can do. There is a panel of speakers. An elegant middle-aged black woman holds up a shiny, oblong object. Is it a small egg? A large seed? She asks: What is the flavor of this time? What does it call for from us? I answer from the audience: Feminine leadership is the seed, the egg, for the future and the conditions are exactly right for it to flourish.”

It seems my dreams and my waking life are coming quite closely together! This is what I believe. And perhaps the small white thing she held up was a knobcone seed. A seedpod from which is only opened and released after being exposed to fire or high temperatures.

In the morning after that dream, I woke and stared for a long moment at the bare branches of the Japanese maple outside my window. Dead leaves, bare branches, not a bird in sight. A perfect resonance with my mood. As I stared, gradually glimmering strands of spider web came into view. Up along the tree trunk. Visible, then not visible. Flickering golden luminous threads that reminded me of how we are woven into the web of the Universe, strings vibrating and resonating, connecting the seen and unseen worlds. I recall my favorite stories of Grandmother Spider Woman and how She has taught me about the unfolding story, the long story, in deep time. Remembering, too, that we are all creators, weaving our bits and pieces, hopes and dreams and fears and doings, at every moment. Seen or unseen, the Spirit World is out there, and there are universes in here. There is a pattern of harmonious order, seen or unseen, in which we are all interconnected. In the truest power of our hearts to the heart of the Universe. Birthed from the great womb of darkness. The black hole powehi: the embellished dark source of unending creation. And we are so very truly and deeply in this together. Becoming homo luminus.

Let’s gather to evoke the presence of our gods and guides, bring our stories and dreams into view, and map another world, A- Motherworld, that will make this present one irrelevant. Kings can be toppled. Empires end.

There is always another pathway. This lunar New Year is the year of the of the Wood Snake. For the first time in 60 years, Snake is bringing the energies of regenerative progress, the weaving path of the Feminine. Transformation and prophecy. The shedding of our old stories and old identities to live an ancient shamanic wisdom we all have within. Snake will help us creatively navigate the path of soul.

We bring the medicine, the magic and our multidimensional myth making capacities to map a new future with feminine power.

“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture.
It is not enough to stare up the stairs, we must step up the stairs.”
– Vaclav Havel

Venus in Pisces with Neptune, North Node: now more than ever we have a collective opportunity to re-dream the world. The pivot point of Pluto entering Aquarius for 20 years gives us all the power we need to birth these visions.

This weekend is a good time to clarify your intentions for the next year. Or twenty. February 3 activates Big Change energies and opens the Gate of Emergence. Set your intentions for a future you would love to live. A joy you want to carry. Clear out and complete this old chapter in your personal life and let go into the direction of a destined change.

We are dreaming at the edge of the world. Anything is possible. February 2 Jupiter will be cazimi, exactly with, the Sun. Go for it! Mars is out there powering up all these planets. Find a pathway where there wasn’t one. A magical doorway is opening. Dream the way beyond.

DREAMING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: MAPPING A-MOTHERWORlD

The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not found in the mouth of any teacher,but grows up out of you like the green seed from the dark earth.– CG Jung, The Red Book

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