Day of 11 Red Spectral Moon
Tone 11 (Spectral): creative power to Dissolve Liberation, action of Release
Red Moon Seal (MULAC): Purifies and emphasizes Universal Water
An article I wrote for allvoices.com on December 11, 2011...
(Which I will repost under that date)
2011 saw a lot of upheavals, upsets, surprises and
activity. Compared to the seeming complacency of people across all
societies in 2010, 2011 involved the reclaiming of the civilian's voice.
Considering modernity and convenience in the world today, it follows that many people do not put thought into how our species arrived here. We are not aliens - depending on who you ask - and we didn't arrive on Earth in a spaceship with everything neatly set up and abandoned. We arrived where we are today because our ancestors struggled, grunted, fought and strived to ensure that some day, some of us would be able to live sustainably.
I'm not sure how sustainable today's world is, but it's certainly more convenient than the one that required making up language, designing everything and truly surviving the wild. Back when the first people of our species woke up to their own consciousness, they had indeed reached a new frontier.
Zoom all the way forward to the present: December 2011. Are we still frontier people? Or have we forgotten our roots and what got us here? In my short lifetime, any year but this one I would have had my doubts. I would have spoken about unrest, but not about action. I would have pointed out dissatisfaction, but not known where to truly locate collective response. 2011 has changed that.
Decisions made in 2011 haven't been pretty, or perfect or even particularly "widespread" (considering the number of people in each country); but what 2011 decisions have been are an example of what happens when people begin reclaiming their choices. Ownership of action is necessary to a frontier person. To explore "the furthermost limits of knowledge or achievement in a particular subject," one must have confidence to act. Having confidence to act requires having faith in one's ability to make one's own choices.
Actively making choices is at the very nature of frontier spirit. To go where no person has gone before requires the desire to KNOW, the ability to ACT and the strength to deal with the futures of those KNOWING ACTS! It is what our species has loved about every great innovator in our history: a seeming lack of fear (or an obvious amount of courage) to try the unknown and to base one's faith in their own existence upon the knowing that only they can see.
It's even harder to innovate in this way collectively, which is why we also see plenty of the "regurgitation spirit." That monkey see, monkey do attitude is fostered by a fear of doing what hasn't yet proven to be successful. Because doing what hasn't yet proven to be successful is a risk, and the frontier is nothing if not a risky place. Many of our species have died in the frontier, died in pursuit or in defense of the frontier; and this stands true whether the frontier was an actual place or an actualized idea.
This year, as people all around the world began to realize that every day of their lives is defined by the choices they make, or the organized choices they allowed to be made; we saw a reawakening of that good old frontier spirit. People were sick and tired, for yet another span of time within their existences, and they decided that beyond being sick and tired, they just weren't willing to take it anymore. Or, at least, they were not willing to take being sick and tired by laying down anymore. Or by turning a blind eye anymore. Rather, they decided to act.
Much like any fertile thing, this inspired idea spread like wildflowers. People were upset about the choices made that governed their livelihoods and so they risked those unsatisfactory livelihoods to demand something better. Something closer to what they felt they deserved as living beings on this planet. People risked their jobs, their incomes, their relationships, their anonymity, their health and their lives. People of our species remembered that lives lived in fear or unhappiness ultimately are not the lives we imagine are worth accepting - or having.
It is not morbid when people are willing to risk their lives for the existences they actually will themselves to have. In a world where the first innovation of our species - language - tends to finish last in the line of import, risking life to truly live is the first step to surviving on the frontier. It is the foundation of a perspective that is necessary to adapting and surviving in a frontier environment. It is embodied by the acceptance that when one goes where no known person has gone before, they may not come back. But it is also embodied by the understanding that one only goes where others have not gone before if one is not satisfied with living just within the means and conceptions of what has been given to them.
Had our species been content to simply live within the means and conceptions of what was given, we would not be typing or reading articles on computers today. We would not be organizing governments and protesting against them today. We would not be here as we are today, because we would have never left the trees we were living in or the wild we were born into.
So what does it say of our future when we begin reclaiming choice? First and foremost, it says we're going into unknown territory. Secondly, it warns us that complacency no longer has a place in our chosen existence.
As 2011 is the year of reclaiming choice, what, then, can we expect from 2012?
There will be no apocalypse that isn't chosen. The Mayans never predicted that is what would happen. If you don't believe that, just ask them! What there will be is a collective change in consciousness. That doesn't speak to some crazy esoteric magical thing - though it certainly could if that is what we wanted.
What should be clear about our species by now, in 2011 on the crest of 2012, is that OUR THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS. When we choose to collectively create or destroy something, we see those things come to pass. So, then, if our collective act is to reclaim our choices, what future will come to pass?
The truest thing about 2012 is that it is certainly unknown, unpredictable and the next frontier of all of our lives. All of us who are living and even those who are dead, but are carried on in our collective memories. 2012 speaks to choices not yet made and decisions not yet organized. 2012 speaks to opportunity, to new emboldened ways of collectively organizing and certainly to new methods of choosing how we live out our existences.
What will we think up for ourselves? Which of our thoughts will we continue to entertain and invest in? Which of our thoughts will become things? What will it look like for each of us and all of us together? What choices will design our dreams?
These are the questions on a frontier person's "To Do" list. These are the thoughts in a frontier person's consciousness stream. They are the opportunities promised, if developed, every day for every human being. 2011 memories are supposed to fuel and support 2012 dreams.
If 2011's memory is that of reclaiming our choices, then I can't help but imagine that 2012 dreams will have a renewed frontier theme...
Considering modernity and convenience in the world today, it follows that many people do not put thought into how our species arrived here. We are not aliens - depending on who you ask - and we didn't arrive on Earth in a spaceship with everything neatly set up and abandoned. We arrived where we are today because our ancestors struggled, grunted, fought and strived to ensure that some day, some of us would be able to live sustainably.
I'm not sure how sustainable today's world is, but it's certainly more convenient than the one that required making up language, designing everything and truly surviving the wild. Back when the first people of our species woke up to their own consciousness, they had indeed reached a new frontier.
Zoom all the way forward to the present: December 2011. Are we still frontier people? Or have we forgotten our roots and what got us here? In my short lifetime, any year but this one I would have had my doubts. I would have spoken about unrest, but not about action. I would have pointed out dissatisfaction, but not known where to truly locate collective response. 2011 has changed that.
Decisions made in 2011 haven't been pretty, or perfect or even particularly "widespread" (considering the number of people in each country); but what 2011 decisions have been are an example of what happens when people begin reclaiming their choices. Ownership of action is necessary to a frontier person. To explore "the furthermost limits of knowledge or achievement in a particular subject," one must have confidence to act. Having confidence to act requires having faith in one's ability to make one's own choices.
Actively making choices is at the very nature of frontier spirit. To go where no person has gone before requires the desire to KNOW, the ability to ACT and the strength to deal with the futures of those KNOWING ACTS! It is what our species has loved about every great innovator in our history: a seeming lack of fear (or an obvious amount of courage) to try the unknown and to base one's faith in their own existence upon the knowing that only they can see.
It's even harder to innovate in this way collectively, which is why we also see plenty of the "regurgitation spirit." That monkey see, monkey do attitude is fostered by a fear of doing what hasn't yet proven to be successful. Because doing what hasn't yet proven to be successful is a risk, and the frontier is nothing if not a risky place. Many of our species have died in the frontier, died in pursuit or in defense of the frontier; and this stands true whether the frontier was an actual place or an actualized idea.
This year, as people all around the world began to realize that every day of their lives is defined by the choices they make, or the organized choices they allowed to be made; we saw a reawakening of that good old frontier spirit. People were sick and tired, for yet another span of time within their existences, and they decided that beyond being sick and tired, they just weren't willing to take it anymore. Or, at least, they were not willing to take being sick and tired by laying down anymore. Or by turning a blind eye anymore. Rather, they decided to act.
Much like any fertile thing, this inspired idea spread like wildflowers. People were upset about the choices made that governed their livelihoods and so they risked those unsatisfactory livelihoods to demand something better. Something closer to what they felt they deserved as living beings on this planet. People risked their jobs, their incomes, their relationships, their anonymity, their health and their lives. People of our species remembered that lives lived in fear or unhappiness ultimately are not the lives we imagine are worth accepting - or having.
It is not morbid when people are willing to risk their lives for the existences they actually will themselves to have. In a world where the first innovation of our species - language - tends to finish last in the line of import, risking life to truly live is the first step to surviving on the frontier. It is the foundation of a perspective that is necessary to adapting and surviving in a frontier environment. It is embodied by the acceptance that when one goes where no known person has gone before, they may not come back. But it is also embodied by the understanding that one only goes where others have not gone before if one is not satisfied with living just within the means and conceptions of what has been given to them.
Had our species been content to simply live within the means and conceptions of what was given, we would not be typing or reading articles on computers today. We would not be organizing governments and protesting against them today. We would not be here as we are today, because we would have never left the trees we were living in or the wild we were born into.
So what does it say of our future when we begin reclaiming choice? First and foremost, it says we're going into unknown territory. Secondly, it warns us that complacency no longer has a place in our chosen existence.
As 2011 is the year of reclaiming choice, what, then, can we expect from 2012?
There will be no apocalypse that isn't chosen. The Mayans never predicted that is what would happen. If you don't believe that, just ask them! What there will be is a collective change in consciousness. That doesn't speak to some crazy esoteric magical thing - though it certainly could if that is what we wanted.
What should be clear about our species by now, in 2011 on the crest of 2012, is that OUR THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS. When we choose to collectively create or destroy something, we see those things come to pass. So, then, if our collective act is to reclaim our choices, what future will come to pass?
The truest thing about 2012 is that it is certainly unknown, unpredictable and the next frontier of all of our lives. All of us who are living and even those who are dead, but are carried on in our collective memories. 2012 speaks to choices not yet made and decisions not yet organized. 2012 speaks to opportunity, to new emboldened ways of collectively organizing and certainly to new methods of choosing how we live out our existences.
What will we think up for ourselves? Which of our thoughts will we continue to entertain and invest in? Which of our thoughts will become things? What will it look like for each of us and all of us together? What choices will design our dreams?
These are the questions on a frontier person's "To Do" list. These are the thoughts in a frontier person's consciousness stream. They are the opportunities promised, if developed, every day for every human being. 2011 memories are supposed to fuel and support 2012 dreams.
If 2011's memory is that of reclaiming our choices, then I can't help but imagine that 2012 dreams will have a renewed frontier theme...
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