Business Voodoo  

Music:
"Tears" by Velvet Babies ... available on iTunes, Rhapsody or CD Baby
"For What Its Worth" by TransPhat ... soon to be released CD
"Come Along" by Himself

Books:
"Retrograde Planets" by Erin Sullivan
"basic call to consciousness" edited by Akwesasne Notes (also available from Amazon)
"Awakening Earth" by Duane Elgin
YES! Magazine

As you see the monoliths of external structures fall down, look at what was built behind that which blocked your view . . . that's the new reality we are living in now.  Whether it is the imploded economy or merely an old view of reality that is now gone within you, this process will continue over the next couple of years.  Don't be too attached to what you think is real, especially if it is historic and you've known it to be "true" for some time now.  Embrace the unknown and the chaos that seems to be all around ... in that lies our new reality, our hope for the future, and a brighter day!

peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'

Everything in life is perfect.

Well, as 'perfect' as your perception allows it to be.


 
But the truth is, isn't it, that you chose to be the creator of your life.  Is it that truth -- that this life you lead is indeed your's?


Or is simply this existence plucked out of eternity ... it is somehow unconnected with what was before, what will come next ... just a blip that will come and go away just like that.  Perhaps on some levels, that is the truth, but when you think about the core of you, that which is connected with "god" (whatever that means to you) you know that this life is just a "time" of existence ... this 3rd dimensional experience designed to teach us about our potential so that we can grow to break the glass ceiling into a new dimension of experience, existence and identity.

You chose your life before you came here, otherwise, why are you here?  Seriously, did you come here to waste your time, or did you come here to live the life that you chose?  Or was the existence that created this one not based on free will as well? 

You cannot change the life you came here to lead -- the stream you find yourself, is the stream of your life.  You have come to learn how to live it, and do it.  You propel your journey ... in the calm waters, you can row fast, smooth and gentle ... in the roaring rapids, you need to bring the oars in and allow the boat to find the flow of the river and allow it to just ride the rapids as you may want to steer it as you go.  One of the most fascinating events during the Olympics was the white water rafting kayaking ... that was amazing.  Finding the sweetness of the water, and then when you had to "go get something" you paddled and used your energy to turn the boat around, go around the marker and get back into the flow of things.  You steer the boat, only when you have to ... as little as possible to stay within the strongest flow of the current.  Your life is that way too.

Saturn/Uranus Opposition occurred on election day ... this is the first of many direct oppositions of these two planets over the next couple of years.  This is going to shake us up, break up the structures we have in our own life that no longer serve us and bust through our ceilings of limitations.  "Saturn is the guardian of the real, while Uranus, the unyielding ideal."  (Read the Baron's Blog on the opposition.)  Uranus has lightning bolts, the earthquakes, the shock waves to immediately and completely bring to rubble that which is being held onto for far too long.

OK ... now I'm going on a bit of a rant ...

This is the first opposition of these two planets we are going to experience over the next two years and what does that forbode? 

Ok, there's the obvious one ... FINALLY, many people for the first time acted like they knew ... they did indeed act like homo sapien sapiens.  The evolution of our conscience is happening right before our eyes.  And, you know what ... that relief you feel all around you is real.  it is perhaps as great a breakthrough as it was when the signers of the Declaration of Independence finally got all the pieces of the puzzle in place and said "YES, LET'S DO IT!  SCREW GEORGE AND ALL THE THINGS HE IS DOING TO US, LET'S FORM OUR OWN NATION!"  We know that racism is wrong ... we know the truth that all are equal and the color of skin is irrelevant.  We've know that for a long, long time.  And, on November 5th, we were able to, as a nation say, yes we can.

AND ... you know what else, for me, this was the first election I had a choice that would have put power behind my vote ... ever.  I've never had two candidates who were concerned about the issues I was, who were adamant about eliminating violence as a form of resolution of conflict.  Obviously, you now know I did not vote for President Elect Obama, I voted for Cynthia McKinney, the Green party candidate who happens to be a woman and who happens to be black too ... it was her or Ralph Nader.

But, I hope you understand the significance of the fact that not only was Obama history, but we had two non-violent presidential candidates ... now imagine the future we can create together from here.  We were, collectively, about 1% of our voting population, but we know that's all it takes, now don't we.  "Wasted vote" ... someone asked me, why are you wasting your vote?  Are you kidding, I'm putting all my power behind my vote for the first time in my life ... it is a ride on the golden spiral ... the result is not what matters, it is the journey.

But that's all the light of that day ... now, let's creep back into the darkness that we experienced that day.  EVERY SINGLE BALLOT ISSUE -- across this nation -- to support the joining of two human beings who happen to be off the same sex -- whether through marriage or union -- was defeated.

Every discriminatory, I guess I can't use race but gender assault on the rights of gay people have what anyone else has ... DEFEATED.


It is interesting to note, that from the conflict between Uranus and Saturn, Saturn castrates Uranus, and into the ocean falls the gonads of Uranus to rise up as Venus.  The last time this opposition happened, the 60s, the rise of the feminist movement, and before that, the 20s, the rise of woman's suffrage.  Venus, our only sister in our solar system.  Venus and Earth are the only two feminine energies and Earth is the mother.  Venus is the feminine and boy, in his nation, you know that it is our Venusian brothers who this assault was against.  Because, let's be honest ... seriously, if we were talking about two women getting married or creating a legal union, there would be no problems.

Ok, rant over.

Icosahedron ... with both the pentagon and the hexagon in its form and shape ... this is the current energy we are experiencing ...  Gordon Plummer in "The Mathematics of the Cosmic Mind" relates the icosahedron to "Purusha" ... the seed image of Brahma:  ok ... so what the heck is that?  And this is an extremely simplification of this concept, here's a definition from Wiktionary:  Brahma is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools.  Basically, and again, extreme simplification, Brahma would be the piece of the trinity known as "God The Father."  How do we use this energy practically?  Icosahedron is related to water ... what did Obama's symbol look like?  Here in Las Vegas, his symbol was a wave of water.  His universal one had a red wave with a blue back drop.

We've had the pentagonal energy for some time now ... with the advent of the technological age, we are truly becoming the new human beings ... the homo sapien sapiens ... which is our next promised evolution.  now that we know ... we must act like we know.  This is about personally empowering yourself ... which empowers the earth's grid, and wherever you are attached to at any moment in time so that you can be charged and bring its energy flowing through you to manifest what you want.

When we are ready to that, we will individually and collectively begin to shift our relationship with time, and in a practical sense, the calendar.  There is a global calendar reformation movement along with all the changes we are trying to effect right now.  There is a proposal for a 13 moon calendar which highlights 13 different 20 day "months" based on the moon, plus a day out of time to adjust annually to our planet's interaction with the cosmos before moving on to fix the time sequence for the next year.  It is based fundamentally on many of the Mayan calendar calculations.  (Read more about the calendar reform here.)

Why the 13:20 frequency shift is so important is that 13 is the "next octave" ... we've been programmed with this 12:60 time frequency for a long time, and its time for a new time shift ... one that's more accurate, one that's more alive with the shifting and wobbling of the planets in their natural individual interactions ... no longer static in the "Saturnian way" we calculate time so that every 4 years we have an extra day ... pulling us out of our innate natural rhythm with the earth, just slightly, but just as the Fibonacci series grows exponential after just a few revolutions, so too does the slight misalignment with time brings us to an EXTREME variation from what is reality.


The thrill of riding through life on the golden spiral is one that everyone has experienced at some moment in their life ... some have done it occasionally, some do it frequently and consciously, and some live on the spiral.  Where you are is not important, that you even know about it is.  You've been there, when everything just went perfectly ... all the lights were green and time seemed to stop on the clock and you miraculously made your flight you were an hour late for ... and the plane took off on time.  Or the time when you went through an entire day of work with everything resolving and working out perfectly without any effort.  Or the wedding that just happened without a hitch except for those that made it the most memorable day of your life.  Or the time when you don't remember driving home, yet there you were ... and not that you were drunk, but because it just happened.  The day when all your horses won.  The day you hit on the roulette table three times in a row.  I live here in Las Vegas and you see all around you the ways and means by which they manipulate you so that you are not riding the spiral energy ... because if you did, they would not survive.  


The golden spiral is defined by a ratio called the Phi ratio ... or the golden ratio ... it was, in our history, defined by an Italian, Fibonacci ... it is most represented in the dodecahedron, which represents the universe.  We all know the dodecahedron as "the soccer ball."  The dodecahedron is related to prana -- breath, life force, or Qi.

Do you really think the world is out of balance? Or do we just need to realize that the balance we see or don't see is a projection of our own. As the Saturn-Uranus Opposition tears down old monolithic structures, we see the one's being built on the other side of those that fall. As we see more and more of our new reality, we are challenged to ask ourselves, what can we do with it?

The election of 2008 was historic, but looking around at the wake of this election and the reality of our world, what is its context? Time is an underlying theme in this discussion of socio-political events.

The election in 2008 was historic. This episode looks at that election in Business Voodoo style ... what does it really mean? What challenges has it presented to us for our future? Proposition 8 and other inconsistencies of our collective statements.

As if you didn't believe it, you gasp and cry in the amazement of the reality that it "actually happened."  Or, perhaps it was relief that it actually came to pass ... this dream you so hoped would become a reality.  Perhaps this is why I did not vote for Obama. 

And now as so many are beginning to chant:



I don't know, and I realize that I am strange ... and PLEASE don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled Obama won, I knew he would the moment he won Iowa.  And, I did participate in making history as I voted for a candidate who also happened to be black and happened to be female:  Cynthia McKinney.  She was the Green party candidate who actually really represented the kind of change I believe we need to make now. 

I realize that Obama DOES represent a kind of change we may only be ready to recognize now, one that many people had to simply experience it to confirm it for themselves, that, yes, it is indeed true ... and so I am happy that has happened.

To be honest, for me, it didn't matter who won ... first, I already knew Obama would win barring thievery on such a grand scale it could not be covered-up.  But, on all my key issues, the main one being:  using violence to resolve conflict, both the red and blue were the same ... I saw no substantive change he was offering.  Obama is going to continue down the same path we are on, only in a different way ... which I suppose is good enough for now.


Unless Obama opens up a discussion about and addresses:

1. the spread of disaster capitalism principles throughout the world
2. the perpetuation of the use of violence to resolve conflicts
3. the expansion of the debt-based economy to the global infrastructure (such as is being formed in the Security & Prosperity Partnership aka the American Union), and
4. the nearly non-existent individual and states rights and re-integration of Constitutional rights and values in America

Ok, so he's raspberry gelato instead of pistachio ice cream and boy, we were tired of pistachio and we are highly lactose intolerant!   Yes, it is historic ... but once we get over that ... what kind of change are we going to lead him to take?


Most people are not inherently racist and in our nation today, within the walls of the majority of people's minds, we know and understand the truth of equality amongst people.  And, for those who may have been slightly challenged by the programmed racism that still exists today, the truth of the unsustainability of our future was so real, people voted for whatever straw of change that was being offered.

With the complete black-out of other voices of real change coming from major political parties such as the Green Party and the Independent Party, and the system of control the ruling party, a singular entity comprised of the Republicans and Democrats, has here in America:  you mush ask yourself honestly ...


It is like teaching children only how to add and subtract ... without ever teaching them the way to exponentially calculate using mulitiplication or division.

 ... but as I sat and watched the silent tears come down my husband's face and I asked "why are you crying?" and he responded, "I just really can't believe this is real."  *Knowing* the truth:  anything is possible; and *Understanding* that truth is a definite line that many Americans crossed in this election.  We now not just understand this possibility, we UNDERSTAND its reality ... Shakti Gwain teaches much about this in his teachings on visualization.  A shift has happened in America with this election.

The day my daughter was born, I had to UNDERSTAND what Obama's mother understood ... not "yes, maybe you can"; but "yes, you can" without question, without doubt, without wishing, without hoping and without dreaming.  Possibility became reality in her small body ... right then and there.

My daughter was just under 2 years old when I introduced her to the White House . . . as I watched her toddling around in front of the residence, I told her, "baby, if you ever want to live there ... I will do whatever it takes to make that reality for you."

I think we really need to take a look at ourselves and see if we are REALLY still only ready for addition and subtraction ... or whether we can help Obama be the real change we need using higher math than what he had to use in order to secure his position in the White House.

I don't know if he is capable of leading me and others like me who see the path to REAL CHANGE.  But, given the tenor of his acceptance speech and the words I heard him speak, I have faith in him ... what I question is  ... now that you UNDERSTAND that we are past the critical mass of this simple mundane, outdated and obsolete belief that race is a limitation ... and proof of that is nice ...



Who is willing to voice our truth and challenge ourselves to rise above even the historic measure of what has been accomplished ... Obama cannot lead where the people are not ready to go.  But, I do believe Obama will take us there if we tell him we're ready for more and we are ready to do the work he has asked each of us to do to help us get there!


peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'