#VoteBlue – Bee the Light

Sowing the Seeds of Love

What a remarkable thing it is to wake each day wrapped in the glow of the love that surrounds us and burns within us. My spiritual journey began in 1992 with the introduction to the feminine divine at a weekend workshop with Margot Adler. Though I had grown up in the Unitarian Church, I never met another Unitarian at school from kindergarten through senior year. Growing up in the bible belt (Central Florida), I was surrounded by many young people of varying Christian faiths, so I was often informed that my lack of faith in someone else’s belief system meant that I would burn in Hell. Of course, that didn’t scare me because I didn’t believe in that human construct either. But so much talk of a hateful God who would send good people into an eternity of suffering was a real turn-off. Frankly, I’m not into abusive relationships, so I moved on.

So, the idea of a faith or practice that included a Goddess and a God was a revelation at age 23. Admittedly, I continued to struggle with the ‘God’ relationship and decided to just ignore it for a while. There have been far too many experiences with toxic masculinity that offered objectification, disrespect, and misogyny to enable a relationship with a masculine divine. So, I focused on my relationship with the feminine divine and spent a couple of decades figuring out how to find Her within myself. I could really feel the goddess rising through the MeToo movement and the PinkPussyHat movement of recent years. What I could feel in my being is that She is kinda pissed, y’all.

In the age of constant news of white men in places of power working daily to rape and pillage the rights and bodily autonomy of women, it’s especially difficult to nurture a kind and loving relationship with the masculine divine. Though I have a good number of remarkable men in my life, I am a happily single and joyfully childless cat lady, so… I was beginning to feel that this was a relationship I wouldn’t get to explore in this lifetime. But that started to shift at the beginning of this year.

A young man in my life invited me to hold space for his suffering and vulnerability. Through his courage and emotional maturity, I got to see the beauty of a soul that lives in truth with respect for women and for himself. He strives to be a man of integrity and compassion. When he suffers a setback, he honors his grief with the support of a therapist and with the counsel of elders who love him. Instead of allowing his hurt to turn to bitterness, he chooses to go deeper within to become an even better version of himself. He has become my personal symbol of the masculine divine. My most Noble Truth. My honorary godson.

That divine nature is also visible in the deeply compassionate and sacrificial nature of our President, Joe Biden. Talk about a sacrificial king. For the sake of our democracy, he came out of retirement to use his half a century of experience and across-the-aisle capability to regain a sense of integrity and dignity for our country after four years of terror. And though he surely would have won another term to finish all he sought to accomplish on our behalf, he chose to step aside and elevate the feminine divine we find in his partner and VP, Kamala Harris.

Within a single week, the energy that surrounds this pending election season was elevated to a whole new dimension. This moment is way overdue, and we are fully engaged and ready to celebrate getting to vote again for a woman and this time to see her elected as President of the United States of America. And now, just a couple of weeks after that, we are steering by starlight. Kamala Harris has chosen a healthy father figure to join her in leading us out of the darkness of threatening fascism which already has a tight grip on our democracy. I live in Florida, so we feel it and see it every day in the toxic masculinity that runs rampant in harmful and oppressive policies pouring out of our state’s capitol.

The thing about the rise of the feminine divine is that unlike in patriarchal systems, there is more than enough room for the masculine divine. I mean, She is the Mother of us all, how could She possibly want less for Her Sacred Sons than for Her Beloved Daughters? There is archaeological evidence that women were worshipped and revered for tens of thousands of years, but for the last two thousand years of the Piscean Age, the world has been victim to the diminishment of women in society and the Earth has paid a lethal price.

The world is now getting to see how a brilliant woman leads with strength and joy, and how a heroic male counterpart who lifts her and supports her is invited to shine right along with her. Beloveds, I am so excited for all of us and the bright future that awaits. Tim Walz was completely unknown to me a week ago, and now he is among my favorite humans. I delight in knowing that girls are finally going to see themselves in the highest role within our country’s leadership and that boys, girls, and non-binary beings will benefit from the loving kindness and healing compassion to be delivered by the Harris Walz Administration. This is gonna be so good!

There is still much work to be done, for darkness still looms in the shadows despite all of this light. The age of Aquarius is upon us and we are bearing witness to the WE movement through communities that are gathering and building momentum in various groups on social media. There is so much love there, I hope you are finding it and feeling it, dear ones. People who are physically surrounded by cult members are finding comfort and solace in these spaces where we arrive for a common cause, to not go back, and to fight to win. What I especially adore is that people whose lives have been made physically and emotionally unsafe by the hateful rhetoric of the oppression party are bravely stepping into community spaces in their authenticity and are finding acceptance and celebration, as should we all. I LOVE THIS FOR ALL OF US! We deserve to live in a world where we are all accepted and celebrated for who we are.

So enjoy this beautiful chariot ride into liberation, friends. Keep showing up, keep speaking up, keep rising up, keep lifting up – not just Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as our next President and Vice President, but one another, as well! This is how we form a more perfect union. And if you’re interested in joining me and my tribe for our mindful practice of visualizing the future we deserve and command, below is our Blue Flame Spell for the Protection of Our Democracy.

When a Blue Wave moves through it leaves behind a lot of muck and debris in its wake, so we are invoking a controlled burn with this Blue Flame to burn it all away so that the light that is revealed can shine brightly upon our sacred foundation and give rise to the seeds of a loving society where we all have all we need with plenty to share. Just light a blue candle and speak these words each day between now and the election.

By this Blue Flame, we conjure zephyr winds, cleansing fire, healing waves, and stable ground to lift us, purify us, clarify us, and hold us as we witness our Nation’s joyful new beginning with the flawless election of Democratic Representation from the White House through each Statehouse. We activate and fully engage our highest selves, our devoted guides, and all unemployed angels, to awake and arise with the spirit of our sacred ancestors to deliver us from obstruction, oppression, and intended destruction. The feminine divine did rise, and will not tolerate patriarchal demise.

Blue Flame, burning brightly illumines the peaceful and respectful transition of power from the compassionate father to the fearless daughter. One saved us from drowning, providing healing respite, the next gave us wings and took us higher into flight. When women lead, the world is reborn. We celebrate the arrival of effortless flourish and flow, nurtured by truth, justice, abundance, wisdom, empathy, caring, and compassion for all beings great and small. Together, we are dancing, sharing, loving, and caring. This is the arrival of our new age as we rejoice, renew, and rekindle ancient wisdom,
progressive sage.

This Blue Flame burns away the ME and elevates the WE, aligning the earth with safety, security, equity, equality, liberty, harmony, transparency, integrity, unity, community, multi-dimensionality, and reciprocity.
Our time has come. We have overcome! It is done. It is done. It is done!

Thank you for walking this path with me. I love knowing you are here.

This quote from a longer poem spoke to me, as does this stunning artwork
by a favorite artist whose work is found on Etsy, Autumn Sky Art.

A Better World

As an Aquarius born at the end of the 1960s, I have spent my entire life looking forward to the arrival of the Age of Aquarius. It feels like it has been ‘dawning’ for a terribly long time, and surely it must be on the verge of bursting forth from the horizon. I mean… SHEESH!

When I was first introduced to astrology in the early 90s, a friend explained the transition from one age to another has a shadow period (the way that Mercury Retrograde can be felt 14 days before and after its seeming back-track in the night sky). I guess if an age can last two thousand years, the shadow might be excruciatingly drawn out. In my lifetime, we certainly have seen some darkness, but also… quite a bit of light.

Many of us could see the shadow moving in through the degradation of the GOP, as their rhetoric villanized those who struggle in the world through the patriarchal oppression of systemic racism and systemic misogyny. It is difficult to make sense of such hateful actions (far too many to name), but one can come to understand that the schoolyard bully picks on others so that no one will dare pick on them. They are basically afraid of everything and devoid of self-love.

One theory we’ve discussed is that those who have benefited most from the age of Pisces (the age of ‘ME’) marked by money, power, and patriarchal control are like rats in a toilet bowl scratching to remain on the surface before they get flushed by the age of Aquarius (the age of ‘WE’) which heralds increased harmony and deepened spirituality.

I think we really felt that proverbial dawning of goodness in recent years when we got to cast presidential ballots within the last two decades for both a black man and then a woman. I remember the shadow that descended when we heard the news from the UK about Brexit and realized that our woman would not win. It was devastating. We sobbed through the concession speech, as we could already see the future that would come to pass, women’s rights stolen along with the respectability of the judicial court systems. I have to admit it was worse than some of us predicted.

But now, there is new light reaching our eyes, with the rejection of tyranny in England and France. The good news of accomplishment from our current administration is astounding considering how close to the brink we were at the end of 2020. We’ve got the right leaders to bring us home to even greater success in the coming years as the work they’ve already done comes to light.

In just three and a half months, our country goes to the polls again to choose our leaders for the next presidential cycle. It seems like an easy choice, right? I mean, one guy is a notorious felon who cannot speak the truth and could not be hired as a server in a restaurant, while the other is actively doing his job of leading our country and working with world leaders to keep us safe and to seek safety for others while improving the lives of all citizens, every single day.

And yet, there are disappointingly vocal people in our party who are asking the very successful guy to step down, with no one lined up to take his place, nor with access to the funding to make it possible. They seem to have forgotten that earlier this year, 87% of Democrats who voted in the primaries chose the Biden/Harris ticket. We all knew the age of our incumbent leaders when we chose them. We all knew that they were leading our country in the right direction and that there was no other candidate more capable who came forward.

Furthermore, it seems the whole point of having a Vice President is to ensure consistent leadership should something happen to the President. We could choose a fifty-year-old presidential candidate tomorrow, and if they were to win (which is no guarantee according to the “Keys to the Whitehouse”), they could die of an aneurysm ten days after inauguration; and then who would lead? Oh, yeah… the Vice President!

So what I would like people to reflect on, who may be leaning toward asking a successful leader to step down when we are far too close to the edge of oblivion and Project 2025 to consider their own implicit biases. In my eyes, if our guy does not make it through another four-year term, we already have an amazing leader to fill his shoes, only she will do it in stilettos.

Professor Allan Lichtman has successfully predicted every Presidential election since 1982. Including the one none of us saw coming and the one that should have been, but was broken by the Supreme Court. Here is a podcast discussing the Thirteen Keys to the Whitehouse, and how our guy has already won. He won’t officially predict until after the DNC, but if we were to vote today – Agenda 47 would be put to rest for good. He says that the only Plan B possible would be for Kamala Harris to run as President, and yet somehow, in a time when women have lost bodily autonomy, it is hard to imagine systemic misogyny and internalized patriarchy will suddenly be resolved in our country.

I started following a few intuitive readers from all over the world several years ago when I was seeking messages of hope for our future. (It’s interesting to learn how invested in our country’s wellness citizens of other countries are.) It may seem ‘woowoo’ to many, but I’ll tell you that they were right about most things even when they seemed unlikely or impossible. As a skeptical believer, I decided I could believe in good news that soothed my soul, and allow it to manifest with gratitude. They maintain that love wins and we will be celebrating with great relief in the new year. One of my favorite messages from the future is this: “By doing this (choosing 45 and his running mate, creating a platform from Project 2025, stacking the courts with unethical judges, etc.) the GOP brought about a better world in spite of themselves.”

My glass remains half full, dear ones. Aquarius may be a slow-to-warmer, but she is certainly inching her way into our joyful new beginning. I hope you’ll consider joining our energetic experiment to secure a better world, as found in my previous post.

Now, all we have to do is VOTE BLUE IN EVERY CATEGORY and
“LET THE SUNSHINE IN!”

Half Full of Hope

Yesterday, a needle pierced my throat four times. I had a biopsy on my thyroid to get a better look at the discovery of a nodule that showed up in an unrelated MRI of my cervical spine. The second jab was the most uncomfortable, but it was hard to describe. We decided it may have involved hitting a nerve, and my reply was, “Well, I’m glad I have nerves.” My biopsy tech decided that I was a ‘glass half full’ patient.

He said that it likely was an unnecessary procedure since benign nodules are pretty common. I told him that I have a friend who caught covid before the vaccines were available and that a scan of her congested lungs revealed that she had an aggressive form of ductal breast cancer. I told him that I was not mad about my doctor being overly cautious. When we finished up he said that he was sure it was nothing to worry about and that he was sorry for whatever I would have to pay for the procedure. I touched his arm and said, “Oh, don’t worry. I have Obamacare!”

This was after he expressed dismay over the current climate in our country and his desire to immigrate elsewhere. I reminded him that most places in the world are going through something similarly distressing and that the best thing for us to do is to stay and work toward creating something better.

As I drove home, I was learning about the latest travesty committed by the US Supreme Court, while also reflecting on a recent conversation with my honorary godson. He and I are from different backgrounds with obvious differences in life experience and perspectives. While we frequently have deep conversations on belief, we have not previously dared to delve into politics. We each voice-recorded messages with our thoughts, and as expected, I got a little extra expressive on the ways that people can vote (or choose not to vote) which is ultimately harmful to society, and especially to women.

That poor kid, half my age, re-recorded his reply to me multiple times before sharing and declared it the last time he ever wanted to do that because it felt ‘icky’. His reply wasn’t divisive in any way. He just really wanted to know why he should vote when he felt there really wasn’t a choice he felt could represent him. Like many (his age or not), the choice of two elderly men has no appeal to him, and feeling limited to one party or another fails to reach what he longs to see in the form of our country’s direction. [This is actually a pathetic summary of a brilliant oratory, as his brain is far more capable than mine of thoughtful expression. I’m still overcoming brain fog that has blocked my writing for some time.]

What I could offer him, a young adult soon to vote in his second presidential election, is that if you want to see the country move in the direction of your dreams, the only choice at this moment is to vote for Democrats across the board. They may not be what you want for leadership, but if you want change that will serve you down the road, they will be the party to enable it. Abolishing the Electoral College will not occur under the party that most benefits from it through gerrymandering. Free and fair elections will not be possible with the current state of the Republican party, now so far from any form of ethical or civilized behavior, it boggles belief. The courts are corrupt, a direct result of proud efforts by the GOP, and that reform will not come with their majority in the halls of Congress. When a party shows you who they are, believe them. Then set a healthy boundary.

If you want to see a future with more than two parties that lead to a viable chance of representation that serves you best, your only hope is to vote Blue in every race and keep doing so until progress is allowed to transform the broken system we currently maintain. Ranked-choice voting to remove toxicity and improve choice, which is offered in some left-leaning states could grow, offering you a greater sense of inclusion in democracy. It won’t ever expand if you don’t vote Blue.

Speaking or writing on politics is not within my list of strengths, and yet it feels irresponsible for any of us to sit in silence while witnessing the rapid decline of social justice and democracy. It’s okay to be mad about the choices before you, but it is not okay to act in a way that furthers that cause.

As an Aquarius, it feels impossible to lose hope in a brighter future. I believe in the goodness of humanity and our ability to care deeply for one another. I believe that we are meant to be interdependent beings. We are not in this earthly realm to learn how to fend for ourselves, we are meant to learn and grow toward the truth of our souls. When we return to energetic form, we flow back into oneness. Our challenge in human form is to remember that we are all one.

Harming ourselves or harming another is an act of violence against us all. From this moment in history, voting for any Republican is an act of violence against humanity and the greater good. To be apathetic and not vote against your oppressors is an act of self-harm. Such negligence may mean that you never have the freedom to vote again.

When I come back to the image of my proverbial cup, despite the chaos of darkness that threatens to swallow us whole, I still find it to be half full. I know that even with what is happening in our country through the corruption of the highest court enabled by the GOP, with the loss of privacy, safety, and security in women’s healthcare, among a million other transgressions, there is hope. I believe that people who love themselves and others will rise into action between now and November to ensure we have the opportunity to continue the experiment of building a more perfect union. I believe in us! I believe in love! I believe this cup is filled with the light of love and that there is enough to nourish and illumine us all.

Thanks for walking this path with me, dear ones. Cheers!