Wow. Ok. That was - a Depth Charge. i'd ask if anybody else felt it, but i already know others have and are, thanks to thee majik ov thee astral intarwebs. Which is not to say i don't want to hear about it if you did; comments of that sort are *most* welcome.
Actually, i think noting a small but really definite ripple amongst a certain strata of folks is what made me snap to and take notice: hey, people are being Affected, Pay Attention. Of course i was one of those affected, which put its own filters on things.
Driving home tonight, after a day when the things that hit, hit only as aftershocks, i started thinking about this wave of negative, really depressing energie that has been sweeping through people. Sort of idly going over Uranus going into Aries, Mercury going retrograde and i don't even know where the moon is; let's see what else has been going on.
What else.
Yeah i know, i can be a real DUMBASS sometimes. Maybe i should have phrased it, What HASN'T been going on?! Tsunami and earthquake? Nuclear crises? Right-wing takeover of state governments? Freak snowstorms? i'm not even *trying* to keep track.
What i'm hearing is people feeling overwhelmed, people feeling down, maybe even way down. Too far down. And yeah, i don't just Hear it, i Feel it. It got me too, kicked my feet out from under me. Literally, as it turns out; the stepladder i've owned for 25 years collapsed under me and dumped me into a sadeladder pretzel. i've had Personal Shite that i haven't wanted to deal with that just won't go away by ignoring it, come due and demand i Recognize it. Wah wah poor widdle me. Meanwhile halfway across the globe people are DYING, and you don't think maybe the sudden ascension of how many thousands in Japan might release some crazy shock wave?
i could continue to detail effects of the blast. Its taken people out over here as well. Nowhere near the numbers, obviously; but the impact has been that intense on some folks. And i'm not saying that's *why* people have gone out. i don't even know 'why' for most of the cases; they're just gone. Almost as if our flanks were being attacked, take down the ones you can. Almost.
i Choose not to Believe that there is an organized conspiracy of black magic out there going after folks on 'our' side (and no, i don't think i can define that right at this point) - but i also see where one could just about make a case. Whether this notion is real-in-some-sense or not doesn't really matter. What matters is what we do about it. How we respond. What matters is that we not let it derail us.
i had a short but very interesting exchange with someone i'd call a - Peer? We don't really know each other well enough to be tight, but certainly better than mere acquaintance. Anyway, apparently some while back, we had had a disagreement on a discussion board over the usefulness of Hope. i was and am adamantly For it; he, at the time, was not but wanted me to know he had changed perspective on things. That may sound like something trivial, but its the node around which a pattern accumulates. And Oh my friends, That may be just the thread i am looking for.
A wave like the one that just passed through is difficult and intense; but the point is, it HAS passed. And we are Still Here. Battered? Oh hell yes, but you know what? We are STILL HERE. We Survived, and we can get just a little bit smarter from that (tho ok, a whole lot smarter would be preferable). We *need* to get smarter from that. And we can.
That's what Pattern Recognition is about. PAT-tern re-cog-NI-tion is a LARGE part of the GAME. When you begin to understand the pattern, you are, in effect, unraveling the source code. Maybe not of the Universe - seriously, dude, do you really *want* to jam your brain fulla that? - but perhaps of certain quantum local realities. Which in some cases might be global in scope. And the cool thing about the source code is, its actually open source. That means We Can All EDIT IT.
And you know what that means? If we don't like the places the world is headed, well, we have a say in that. We absolutely have, in our hands right now, the ability to Manifest a future we want to live in. People Have The Power. Patti Smith told us that thirty years ago. OK lots of people have been telling us in lots of ways for a long long time. Are we ready to listen yet?
Every time the polar bear excrement interferes with the machinery, we have to up the blast of positive, healing, loving energie we send back out. If we get hit with a wave like just came through, acknowledge it. Speak it. Share it as much as you can from wherever you are, with whoever you can. Use your own definition of who you can share with, but stretch it out a little. Look around. Is there somebody you know that seems like maybe they'd Get It? Send a few feelers by them, see how they react. Maybe they'll be grateful for the chance to share back; maybe they have something *you* need to hear.
And wherever you can, as soon as you can, bring the vibe back UP. Throw a potluck, break the dancefloor ice, wear colors and clothes that make you and others feel good, share energie. Do art, make music and food and love. Raise the energie. Blow bubbles. Sprinkle faerie dust. Wear bells. Radiate joy. Give hope. Take hope. Heal each other. Heal yours'elves.
And please please please - if you read this, if you like this, if you agree and especially if you Do Something About It too, let me know? Post a comment, click like, share the link. Let's get a feedback loop going, start a nodal point. We're beyond wondering if things are going to change; things are changing. Please help to make that change one that will benefit us all, every one of Mother's children, every being of consciousness around us. What i tell you three times, three times, three times..
