Open Love Letter To Patriarchy.

Dear Sirs and the majority of Madams,

I ask I beseech and bow on bended knee,
Please...
How have you let it get this far?
How is it that you cannot see
That your actions, thoughts and mindlessness
Are NOT building humanity?

Your philosophies, or lack of them
Are not supportive, protective of our Planets' precious cargo.
Whether it is ithe caring for the trees,
Or the provision of safery for your women and children,
Or indeed the bony brow beaten broken chests of yourselves

Can you not see that your waging of wars
Your obsession with 'more'
Takes into no account
That everything and yet nothing is actually Ours?

NO! you have chosen to be limp and flaccid
In your bravissimo banal attempts
Full of lies and deception
Empty oratory
Bred from the imbalance of your heart.

How is it that you have dared,
Over and over and yet over again,
To rock the boats of our safety?
Had the gall to return us to our leaky vessels
To treacherous seas when we finally, flaillingly
Reach safe shores for one mere morsel of a moment?
Is it because of your own petty selfish and unaswered discontent?

Can you not see that on your watch we lie more frail,
Weakened and depleted.
A death mask, a carcass of our truth
Thrown casually to one side?

I protest when you claim your escrow is to protect,
To provide and buffer us from harm.
In the name of personal paltry pernicious desire
For the sorry sake of pretence and losing face
You put us all at risk.
Every single one of us;
Every man, every woman, every child,
Every plant, every beast.

I used to think that if you rested enough
If I fed you well, mopped your brow,
Tended to you with tenderness
You would waken fresh, soft and clear.
But as you lay snoring
I wept. I knew
We became weaker.
Where did that true warrior go?
Why did you leave without so much as a note
On our fresh pressed pillow?
Where and when did you learn to put intellectual principle
Before real flesh and bone
Love and life?
What gave you the right to leave me to mop up all this mysoginist mess?

Your convoluted ideals more warped over time
Leave us with a sorry withered version of thier initial self.
An aneorexic example, clothed in the finest faux fashions of our day.
The moustaches, the beards all
Clever costumes which hide the lying lips,
The chins and faces of imposters
Those who would trick you in to an allegory of deciet disguised as love,
Posing as passion, appearing as honour.

I ask of the Masculine to disrobe
To shave, to un-slave
Us all from the stories that have kept
Death and drudgery alive,
That put blocks and blinders on our eternal right to thrive.

When will you awaken from your soporific slumber,
From your drugged out half baked brains
Which swim in a soup of no soul?
When will you stop handing out pretty palcebos
Pressed from an ethic that has no heart?

I want to rise up and slap your stupid face
And show the gifts you persistently choose to ignore.
The gift of a child who carries your name
That you forget looks to you for guidance but more for love
Who worships the very ground you walk upon.

I want to remind you of the treasure of that woman
Who lies with you night upon night,
Who sacrifices her beautiful body.
She who has likely been torn apart,
Ripped into a million pieces
So you can experience a new life born to be cherished
So rare a peice of Spirit transformed into Matter
In the caring crucible of her warm womb.

Explain to me. Please do.
What is so much more important than the protection and glory of that?

What career?
What piece of land?
What culture, creed or Holy Book warrants more attention
Than the God who lies crying in a dismal cot
In a dark room of a cold hearted creche,
Or bombed out village?

I fail to understand your ways now.
I have tried.
I have given you every benefit of doubt,
I have silenced the inner sanctum of my Self; my most potent intuition.
I taped up my mouth
Muffled countless screams, pangs of passion and
Retreated to the once jewelled cave of my Divine Femininity
For what?!
To allow you to remain asleep?
To permit you to think that politcal programs
Forged from Ego are the answer?
To let you perpetuate the myth that there are special people,
Leaders, more perfect than you or I
Who will set us free?

Are you even ever present to the joy and peace our own small hearth brings?
Are you ever vaguely aware of the invisible, invincible energy
Each act of home-making brings?
Are you oblivious to the vital sense of belonging, the fragrance of security that
My small hands, tiny feet and huge heart work endlessly to create?
So numbed to the energetics of Creation are 'we',
To the fact that we are one Being expressed in 7 billion ways.


From one sail we are all fashioned.
Each individual a shard of glass
Built to catch the Light
Which we send on into all of existence
To shine, to brighten each day,
Each moment.

That thicker skin you possess
That extra muscle and budding brawn you carry,
Is not present to protect you in battles.
It is your gift, your treasure
To use.
To keep the cold from our Collective Heart.

This misguided Masculine needs to stop and take stock.
It needs to sit, be silent and listen.
No more oratory.
No more propaganda.
No more fear mongering.
No more lies disgused as some elusive truth.
It needs not to run rallies
Or march or protest.
It does not need to defend,
For there is nothing out there other than Us.

Let me strip you bare.
Let me see you walk naked with your sanctimonious Self.
Without your Parlimentarian Papers,
Without your heel spurs and swords
Without your clever speech
Without those Holy Books you hide behind.
Without your fancy suits
And well stocked bank accounts
Without your cigarettes and whiskey
Without your cricket boxes, pads and guards.

Let me take you out of glass walled buildings which stand
Imposing, penile and tall above us all.
Let me bring you down to the place where I live
Amongst the soil and flowers
Where the ants of amore bite my tender toes.
Come sit with me
In the flow of my menstrual blood
That fed you ALL.

Let me show you how the feed this hallowed ground beneath your feet.
Let me help you seep into our Earth
To find your roots and true strength there.
Put your hands upon my face
Close your eyes and feel my skin
Breathe the sweet air I expel
Travel down my tender neck
Touch my breasts
Feel the fullness, the abundance, the force of  all Life
Always there.

Feel how I feed the soul with soft embrace
How my love when stripped back to its barest bones
Is unconditional.
Sit at my feet and listen carefully to the wailing whispers
Carved from my special shortened vocal chords
That will sing lullaby
To nourish every cell, every imagined embryo.

Please I beg on bended knee
From my most servile place
Please stop this pointless pillage
This impotent pretence,
This play, this staged, stooge filled situation.
I can see your scam in every man
In every woman and sorrowfully now in every child.

This is the global health care we truly crave
The salve, the balm.
The treachourous torturous illnesses that ravage our
Hills, our plains, deserts and cities
Stem from one deadly virulent virus;
A lack of Heart.

The most potent of all vaccines is love
And its cousin, compassion.
No strain of bacteria can survive a clear and open heart.
No war, no battle no soap box speech
No policy, no intellectual discourse can protect us
Like the touch,
Like the look of,
Like the surrender to love.

Your ways are not safe.
It is not protection.
It is not manly Manhood.
It is madness!

Dear Sirs and the majority of Madams.
I ask, I beseech and bow on bended knee
Please....
How can you not see
That your current actions, thoughts and mindlessness
Are NOT building humanity.

Yours Sincerely and with love.

The Lion Does Not Sleep Tonight: Love and Luminescence.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Before all you cynics and Hallmark haters walk away, yes I will talk about love, I always do, but as usual it will be from the inside out, from the bigger, deeper and wider picture.  This won't be the chocolate box version of corny cupids' story.

I find it no accident that this much maligned,  often saccharine sweet day that gives many of us toothache and indigestion, brings us a magnificent Full Moon this year. Timely.

Today's Full Moon sits in the sweeping savannah of the regal, "look at me, love me, aren't I just grand" constellation Leo. Its' full- fat, feline face flanked by its luminescent, auric mane, is lit up by the freedom seeking, individualist, care if you dare, Aquarius Sun.

What a lovely Moon to have for February 14th 2014.  So what energies, what enlightened enquiry does our Leo Moon bring to this day of love, roses and cupcakes?

The lion symbolises supreme self love.  He sits gazing proudly upon his pride, upon his 'accomplishments' , or lack of them, (we all know he is quite a lazy bugger) without so much of a tinge of guilty conscience.  The only guilt he ever accepts is gilt.  He knows without thinking that he IS gold, that he is enough and therefore he also has a heart of gold; the ever proud lover of his Pride, excited by their mere existence.

Leo loves himself without reservation and finds it annoying that the rest of us don't know how.  This can be interpreted by us cup-not-so-full mortals as arrogance. I mean who sits up high on a self built podium without feeling the need to justify his existence or lift a royal claw?

This Full Moon is so infused with love of all kinds.  It calls us to take a breath, sit back (preferably on a hillock of some kind) and bask in our own glory.  It begs us to not to tell people about suffering but instead to remind them they are free (Aquarius).  It's time to feel "full' of ourselves, to have the courage (Leo) to be our biggest fans without reservation, to feel the energy of entitlement, of wonder and awe for ourselves.  It is the aristocrat of moons.  A time to eat cake, preferably chocolate and ditch the pious diet of stale bread or humble pie.

The Leo flame of self adoration and the whole of his life (Pride) is consistent, loyal and as pure as 24 carat gold. It truly comes from his big heart. Add to this the illuminating Aquarian Sun that taunts us to set ourselves free, pushes us to attach ourselves fully to our individuality, our YOU-nique expression of Selfhood and you have a likely outpouring of chocolate box emotions for the wonderful that is You.

"As above, so below."  
                                                    
The current cosmic configurations are a call from deep space, that place beyond deep, inside our hearts, that reminds us of the laws of Unity Consciousness, the Law of One.



Leo Full Moon energy highlights these these Laws.  As you set yourself free, as you dare (very Aquarian/Uranian energy) to dream of what you would really do if you had the courage (Leo lion heart) to set in motion a life path that was more free, then you,  in doing so,  begin to set the whole of humanity free.  It's not rocket science, or mushy gushy romantic idealism its actually just quantum physics.

Pardon the pun but todays moon is an Armstrong Moon. One brave step into this Moon's calling is a giant leap for Mankind!

"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall"  R.L Stevenson.

Full Moons occur when the Sun and Moon are in direct opposition, where the Sun shines his torch on her big round face so he can see just who she is, what she wants for (us)today.   Whist the Full Moon is largely associated with the feminine, the feeling, the emotional life within, it is actually also an opportunity to learn how to use the complementary Masculine energy from the Sun sign one is in, and combine it with the Feminine vibrations of the sign the Moon is hanging out in.
Full Moons are a time where the divine aspects of both the Feminine and Masculine are literally shining and reflecting to us at their fullest and most radiant, illuminating the beauty, wisdom and talents of both.  This sacred cosmic marriage gives opportunity to birth more of our own wholeness, allows us to dip into a greater sense of completness.

"Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain."  Hoagy Charmicheal - Stardust.



Daring to love our Self fully is not selfishness but merely a sign to drop all disguises, all masks to our own truth, our own authenticity.  We carry around a hefty amount of fakeness due to the fact that we have been conditioned from the moment we were born, to respond to the outer world, the external, rather than to take cues from our internal guidance system which would always tell us, if we'd listen, that we are more than magic; made of stardust are We.


Todays' wisdom lies in dropping all external 'coverings" (this is where the word mooning comes from!) so that your true 'light' can shine.  It is a good time to embrace full self acceptance warts and all. There are no deficits or need to make changes.  In the light of unity consciousness there are no 'good' or 'bad' parts of us, we just ARE who we ARE and who we are is already whole. How scary liberating (Aquarius) is that?!

To set your self free by loving all that there IS about you is the ultimate version of Love. The best Valentine's gift you can give yourself.  Once  you afford yourself this upgraded version of love it becomes more than easy to offer the same to others. Bingo! Utopia! Everybody's happy.

Do you see what I see? Reframing.

Interestingly though not surprising, is that  right now, we also have Mercury in Retrograde; the chance to review our past.  Mercury Retrograde is sometimes seen as pain in the bum because it seems to cause delays or glitches or repeat episodes of scenarios we are sick of.  What  his apparent backward movement actually does, is give rise to a kind of  meditation, an inner stalling so we can see in slow-mo "stuffs" gone by.  Its a great window to clamber into the powerful art of re-framing. Any energies vibrating in the frequency of duality that you still lug around, that still influence and colour perceptions about decisions or circumstances you might have been through, are ready for dumping.  The garbage man will be around for a few more days.  Get a few bin bags or even a skip and get rid of it now!

If you are feeling antsy, irritable, unheard, awkward, hurt or angry at the moment. If you seem to be dredging old wounds with stinging, intellectual antiseptics, its time to let go and reframe. It's opportune to don those rose coloured spectacles that everyone told you were useless and offer yourself a  revised version of the incident/feeling/circumstance that allows you to bask in the glow of your own glory, in your true humanity. There are no mistakes only learning experiences.  Really, its time to kiss it all better, love yourself up and carry on.  The giant heart of the King of the Beasts is here to help you swell that self love and admiration.

Our hearts and our world will benefit from this unreserved, embarrassing, surging love.
                       
You may have noticed an increase of posts and sharing of information regarding cruelty to our magnificent animal kingdom.  Calls to provide unconditional love and homes for animals in shelter, outrage at beyond belief shark cullings, whale hunting and everything in between.

Where is this increased compassion and fierce passion coming from?  Yep you got it- that boring old thing called self love. Sorry!   True power without ego comes from within, from filling that pot (belly) of self love I annoyingly keep banging on about.  This is where momentum picks up  and facilitates a more appreciative, connected, and wise planetary experience.

It's time to dissolve the barriers to the beauty of who we are. It's time to amplify our courage to speak up (Mercury) with love (Leo) and dare to bust out of this no longer tenable, inhumane system, to flow into our divine right to freedom and appreciation.(Aquarius/Leo).  Atrocities of the past (retrograde) and present can no longer be muted or dismissed.  We are here and we will roar! (coz we love ourselves enough finally?).

The focus for this Full Moon is to concentrate of the things that feel good; that unite us rather than divide us. Just as Epigentics (google Bruce Lipton) has proved how loving a damaged, sick cell can be healed through offering it compassion, love and visualising it "well", holding awareness and becoming an awake, conscious, truly effective co-creator does not involve coming together in anger or indignation. It is not served best by highlighting horror or illuminating tragedy.  We become more powerful to manifest a more equable existence by rallying together in love rather than in hate, by bringing focus to the miracle that we are, the power that we are, rather than homing in on our deficits or those of the world.

So Happy Valentine's Day! Love this day for what it is, what it brings into focus. Enjoy your chocolates, your cards, your cheesy poems and tokenistic red roses.  It is indeed a day to drop into love, give in, roll over and receive.  Dive deep, go beneath the commercial, consumerist surface in a soul-full, powerful way and love us all into wholeness, into wellness.

May your love for self be as full as this regal Moon.

Shine on!