Wow
Moon Pluto, exactly cavorting as we convene!
on Michelle Obama’s Sun degree…
“Climbing a Sacred Peak, to complete pilgrimage,
making winding changes in direction to complete one’s journey,
inward serenity, outward strain. Journeying on…”
and Eris on descendant, at the letting in fresh air degree…
to tease into the micro-macro realms
of our personal and collective Journey.
Vaccines
I had invited Trickster in to do the booking for my first Corona vaccine
(because we are inoculating our collective body against Royalty)
Co-vid, cause we are learning to live/dance with everything.
And Trickster did a great job…will tell tale…animate that chart,
as I did with lovely woman who gave me the shot…
&
introspectively, I delineated spiky parts of me, aha,
let me be willing to dissolve those.
Let us be willing to dissolve any spiky parts of ourselves,
known or unknown.
In keeping with Venus exalted in Pisces
at the esoteric team degree, presiding over Libra Rising,
reminding us that “Deliberate” comes from Libra,
and two verbs – libare – to liberate, and librare to balance…
To be deliberate is to be in a state of Liberating Balance.
Deliberate participates in the liberating infinite game
over begrudging (finite imprisoning game)
(latter be kinda spiky, can get snagged, or entangled)
with the spikes of others…
“Deliberate” really liberates everyone,
lets synchronicity iridesce into that which is
cunningly disguised as the mundane.
(Again my micro vaccine tale)
And
George Floyd
jury selection in the trial of Derek Chauvin begins today…
Truly all is a larger resonant Mystery Play.
All crime be part of collective dream
as our forensic psychiatrist Council Mate reminds us….
In the Piscean realms, we can all be Culture Doctors,
and together even more so…
Chauvin, from Nicholas Chauvin, so all of the below is on trial…
“Chauvinism is the irrational belief in the superiority or dominance of one’s own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak or unworthy.[1] It can be described as a form of extreme patriotism and nationalism, a fervent faith in national excellence and glory.
According to legend, French soldier Nicolas Chauvin was badly wounded in the Napoleonic Wars and received a meager pension for his injuries. After Napoleon abdicated, Chauvin maintained his fanatical Bonapartist belief in the messianic mission of Imperial France, despite the unpopularity of this view under the Bourbon Restoration. His single-minded blind devotion to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term.[2]
Chauvinism has extended from its original use to include fanatical devotion and undue partiality to any group or cause to which one belongs, especially when such partisanship includes prejudice against or hostility toward outsiders or rival groups and persists even in the face of overwhelming opposition.[2][3][4] This French quality finds its parallel in the English-language term jingoism, which has retained the meaning of chauvinism strictly in its original sense; that is, an attitude of belligerent nationalism.[4][5][6]“
Wikipedia
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get…”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
As a newbie, I was too slow on the keyboard command to jump in at what seemed to be the appropriate moment but…
I’m guessing the George Floyd story is going to continue to be a cultural/political focal point over the next several weeks and if it comes up again as a topic, I’d like to offer some thoughts. These come from someone whose Ashkenazi Jewish great-grandparents built a home and hardware business on Minnehaha Ave. about a mile south of the scene where much of the burning and violence took place in the aftermath of the killing. I lived there until I was nine. My elementary school was less than a half a mile from the intersection of Minnehaha & Lake St. where that violence happened. On visits back, I’d shopped in some of the stores that were burned. So it hit very close to home.
Having joined the anti-war movement in 1968, and then watching Richard Nixon use those protests to strengthen his “Law & Order” campaign and win election, I had deep concerns about the potential impact of the images of burning and looting being broadcast 24 hours a day on cable news. And I spent a lot of time doing research and self-reflection to explore my possible biases.
I like the fact that you (Caroline) used the phrase “police brutality” because I think we miss half of a very significant problem if we only focus only on racism (which is not to say there isn’t plenty of that). Someone talked about how seeing video of the George Floyd killing caused him to become aware of things he hadn’t realized. I experienced that too. I had a different, but similar, reaction when I saw the Dallas police body cam footage of the killing of Tony Timba. Had he been black, I’m sure his name would have been more recognizable than it is to most people.
If you haven’t seen it, here’s that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c-E_i8Q5G0
The callousness of the officers is stunning to see and hear. And they all may be racists, too. There’s no way to know. But it does seem clear that this is much more complex than many people want to admit. And there seems to be more nuance to the George Floyd event than people on either end of the political spectrum are willing to consider.
Here’s another Chandler quote:
“That’s the trouble with cops. You’re all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.”
I’m still very biased against law enforcement—often contemptuous—but because of my professional work, I’ve met quite a few of them over the past 15 years who are very decent people trying to do a really difficult job. I’ve walked alongside of first responders demonstrating how they’d enter an active shooter situation and it’s been a series of wake-up calls for me. Many of them are underpaid, underappreciated people who are very conscious of wanting to return safely to their families at night. And some of the bad actors became officers because didn’t have many options after returning, traumatized, by their experiences in the military. I wouldn’t know that if I hadn’t been forced to consider a different perspective because of my work.
I’m very concerned that the violence that’s likely to come from whatever the verdict is, could help elect more Trump-like figures—only perhaps without his ineptitude. I know you’re exceptionally open to compassionate and strategic perspectives on things so I wanted to share this with you in that sense.