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Editorial: Before, during and after, it's all about. . . Give and Take © 2010-11 by Rose A. Jenkins. All rights reserved. Even the tide turns. And so it is. . . Ebb and flow. Sun and Moon pull at the Earth in a gravity dance, and our water planet responds with tides and seasons, a cosmic give and take, a stasis. Stasis may be said to be a harmony of parts in dynamic balance, seen in a healthy body as homeostasis. Homeostasis is a wonderful balancing act, one in which the anabolic forces (building up) and the catabolic forces (tearing down) are balanced: a body without runaway growth (i.e., cancer) or in a downward spiral we call death of an organ or a body. Stagnation represents a disordered and increasingly chaotic state. Simply put, stagnation occurs when there is no energetic flow into and out of an ordered state, while stasis indicates a momentary but profound exchange and equilibrium. The Tao shows us diagrammatically the effects of stasis over stagnation: movement forward eventually must turn back – but it is movement nonetheless; opposites are united or become the "other"; the mighty fall, the meek arise. Again, so it is. This also applies to times when soldiers in battle must retreat or withdraw to repair their forces – to regain strength before pushing ahead, to mend wounds and attend to the fallen, to replenish the fires within. Themes for 2011 These are some of the major themes I feel will come up in the new year of 2011. To that end, I've been pondering the effects of the last election and comparing the likely result of the "red tide" with the requirements of the times (see "Open Letter on the Red Tide Vote," next column). While it would be wished that every nation would set aside a block of votes reserved for the Earth (and those who are able to speak for Her and Her Protectors around the globe), that is not now the case. Nevertheless, Earth Protectors cannot allow themselves to be daunted by the tyranny of ignorance, greed, malice and selfishness. So, we must needs press on, but take the opportunities of respite from activities in the past year(s) and seize what will likely be on offer in the coming year – a year of strategic "give and take." If we simply give-in to tyrannical abuse by governments or corporations so huge they overwhelm elected governments, the predicted result would be a world-wide strangulation of the Will-to-Good, with national stagnation ensuing. Simple cause and effect. Capitulation by those who seek "peace at any price," followed by stagnation or worse. — Therefore, we must needs "take" what is needed to keep faith with our Higher Selves' goals, and avoid a dead-stop in the middle of our Path. As co-creators, we have the ability to make this coming year one of replenishing our strengths, taking care of our innermost needs, seizing opportunities that present themselves, and ridding ourselves of impediments in preparation for the turning of the Ages (and 2012). More to ponder for 2011 and beyond There is a another planet sign change for 2011 – Neptune, who will move from confusing Aquarius (collective humanity) to stirring up the collective astral realm of Pisces. While the Cardinal emphasis is still grinding along, in 2011 we will also see the pattern of eclipses change from Cardinal (Capricorn-Cancer) to Sagittarius-Gemini (mutable mind). The Mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. They describe the relationships between peoples and nations. Briefly, here are the areas they correspond with: (Gemini) communications, transport, siblings, learning; (Virgo) health (or illness), service (forced or given), agriculture, commerce; (Sagittarius) philosophy, religion, law, global financial transactions; (Pisces) confinement, retreat, dreams, mystical revelations. . . Speed up to the current time: insult to injury –Deep Water Horizon. In my view, this catastrophe "happened" because too many people still believed that it was ok to keep plundering the planet for oil (coal, gas); that they could continue to despoil the coast lines, plunge beneath the waters of the oceans and suck up "crude" without a functioning safety net. The failure of understanding by too many people forced millions of us to go along (we are a collective, I keep telling people), with little concern that inadequate planning and design would prove fatal, committing ECOCIDE. With Neptune** and Chiron (who edged into Pisces last April, simultaneous with the Deep Water explosion in the Gulf of Mexico), both in mutable Pisces, the Nodes (the other two mutable arms) promise to revisit many of the lessons of past transits – 4.5 years (Chiron's movement), 14 years (for Neptune), and the 18-year nodal cycle. — Our collective clearing house, Pisces, will definitely need to be overhauled and the rubbish of unfulfilled potential cleared away. Simultaneously, Neptune's presence in Pisces, will be helping to prepare the seeds and deeds that will manifest in the next cycle. Do your best to work with the dissolving and cleansing energy. . . To all this I say: May this year give us opportunities for repairing our relationships; developing the higher ideal of Service; clarifying our goals, and amending our dreams. 
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Open Letter: Red Tide Vote of 2010 by Rose A. Jenkins During the atomic bomb atmospheric testing era, anyone with a brain heard the Oblivion Clock ticking away, and this "death watch" became identified with the catch phrase "one minute to midnight," showing the dire state of humanity with too many nuclear weapons and too much mutual hostility. Since the November 2nd election, with the election of too many people willfully unaware of the worsening ability of the earth to sustain groaning billions of human beings, those who are aware of the climate catastrophe awaiting us, are appalled at the depth and breadth of the foolishness revealed in election outcomes. The "red tide" that overwhelmed the House reveals an astonishing depth of ignorance on the part of the voters who proudly deny that we are all living on borrowed time: Ninety percent of the seas have been over fished and are becoming dangerously acidic due to dissolved CO2 (a climate changing gas present in increasing amounts largely due to fossil fuel combustion); habitats and species are disappearing at a "fast forward" rate not seen since the great exterminations revealed in the fossil recordÉ Billions of people are desperately poor, and there is a growing body of displaced, poor and jobless people here at home. All the while the "banksters" have made out pretty well; CEOs still have extra homes and the extras that come with great, conscienceless wealth Ð wealth they used to buy this election. Harsh? Not harsh enough. Yes, Dorothy, we see before us another two years of gridlock, as voters hedged their bets by retaining a Democratic Senate (which in retrospect accomplished very little during the past two years due to serial filibusters promulgated by the Republican leadership) and replaced many in the House of Representatives who made compromises necessary to keep people working, protecting a financial system in free fall, extending unemployment benefits, and so on. The Health Care fiasco probably played a one-issue, pivotal role in this tide, as many people hated the compromises that pulled Single Payer Universal Health Care and Public Option off the table, mandating that everyone buy insurance, but leaving insurance companies free to continue raising rates with a few caveats thrown in to assuage those without healthcare options. Politicians always praise the wisdom of the people (to get elected?), but I am baffled: What wisdom are they referring to? In the face of the coming gridlock and assaults on working men and women (through outsourcing), gridlock or attacks on Social Security, environmental destruction arising from more drilling or blasting in fragile habitats, increasing mountains of debt as the greediest, or if you prefer, wealthiest Americans demand that they continue to receive tax cuts even while adding to the deficit, coyly saying we donÕt need to count its cost. What wisdom do they mean? Did Tide Voters forget that BP, Halliburton, TransOcean and others unleashed the worst environmental disaster in our history, that the blowout was due to gross negligence and uncaring corporate greed made possible by a defunded, diminished governmental oversight? What about ending the trillion dollar war(s), and counting? What about safeguarding the right to privacy and ending governmental domestic spying? What about protecting organic food standards, aggressively removing toxic chemicals from food and water? Do the Tide voters think Republicans* will work on their behalf? If they do, theyÕre sadly deluded. (*I purposely avoided mentioning the Tea Party, as it is basically a splinter group of Republicans who are self-declared deficit hawks outraged over TARP, a policy response to the largely Republican-made financial crisis, put forward by the Bush economic team.) Where was the outrage over deficits during the Bush years, when the debt bomb was deliberately detonated?) Perhaps as the days pass into weeks and months, Red Tide voters will recover their senses and acknowledge that the abysmal state of our nation, which Obama and the Democrats inherited after the Bush years, could not be easily fixed in two years. Then, perhaps weÕll see a different kind of tide in 2012. top |
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