Like most of us, I’ve had conversations with hundreds of thousands of people. The vast majority of my interactions have been positive, kind and sweet. On email here in the office I find you to be earnestly trying to take care of your beloveds and working hard to be a force of love and light in the world. You inspire me and brighten my days.
In truth, it is a very small minority that makes trouble for most of us by behaving as if they are better and more deserving than the rest of us and by pitting us against each other so as to conquer and divided.
The only way we believe that we are a divided country with everyone at each other’s throats is if that is what we are repeatedly told. The vast majority of us want everyone fed. We want education to be available to all. We want health care for each other. We manage to get along at our Thanksgiving dinners regardless of our differences. We are civil to those we disagree with.
Yet constantly we are told this is not so. Dividing us and making us believe we are a warring tribe is the playbook that works for robber barons. A lot more of our resources and peace of mind can be stolen from us when we are in chaos or confusion. Telling us we hate each other is confusing.
A very small minority don’t want us to cooperate or see the good in each other because it serves their greed.
How do we deal with this?
While things seem to exist in a duality of better than- worse than, this is not true. We exist as one energy. So reminding ourselves that no one is better or even separate from anyone else is good to do. This idea of duality is a patriarchal wound. We will become our very best selves when we let this illusion go and never wobble into believing what that small minority is telling us. It is powerful to stand in the truth beyond this illusion of duality.
As we stake ourselves in a bigger truth, Golden Armor and the Sovereignty Set help us hold our own energetically despite the pressure to believe and absorb all the propaganda.
I don’t know about you, but I am finding the AI overview that crops up when I ask Google any question to be bonkers as well as annoying. The weird answers I get when I ask a knitting question alone make for endless head scratching. Even finding a latin name for a Flower has gotten dicey. Discernment about everything we are being told is true is vital.
Spiderwort is one that helps us examine what we are being force fed to see if it is really true.
I have also begun to think of our country as purple not blue or red. Purple is what we really are as we live with people of all persuasions all around us in such close proximity that the two colors blends to purple.
Purple is the color of forgiveness and transmutation. That is a good thing. The Violet Transmuting Flame Violet can be used with the Violet Flame to wash the whole country in this light of forgiveness and transmutation. We will rise up from this time and forgiveness help this process.
It is also time to put our cynicism aside and think of all the instances where despite our differences, we get along just fine.
Our town holds two town meetings each spring to consider and vote on the town budget and the school budget. Our town is not a homogenous group of people, yet we always manage to get through the town meeting and find consensus. The rules of the meeting keep us in order when things get testy, but we also rein it in because we know we will have to see the person we disagree with the next day at our village store or post office.
Just as in our small town, our country and our planet can only move forward together.. It helps to hold fast to the vast majority of kind interactions we have with each other. It helps to question what we are being told is the truth. It helps to know our kindness to others matters.
I for one have appreciated all your loving kindness so much and thank you so much for all you have shown me about human goodness.
