Hi SOUL Hi! Lovianhal!
How you? I’m glad you’re here. I’m here too! I love you.
Since last Friday’s conversation on TEMS, I’ve brought back #stopdropandmeditate. Monday through Friday from 11:11 am to 12:12pm ET, I hold a virtual sangha on Facebook Live where I sit in meditation and hold the place where others can come through and sit with me if they so choose. I started this practice during Voldemort’s last presidential term and continued daily for a little over two years. I have no clear reason about why I stopped. Something in my consciousness shifted. Life was shifting. And it was time to move on…
For a while now, the call has been coming to begin again. But the sense of urgency only began after our enlightening conversation with Oneika Mays last week. I was asking what is mine to do during these times. I was asking, in essence, what is the path through all chaos already unfolding to the kind and just society that works for everyone that we incarnated to birth?
The answer came that consciousness precedes form.
So on Monday at around 10:30am, I collected myself and one of a half a dozen phone tri-pods that had been collecting dust for too long, found myself a comfortable seat, tested my angles, lit some incense, called forth the powers that sustain my existence and then at exactly 11:11 pressed the “go live” button and began.
Today was day 5 of the new #stopdropandmeditate journey.
Something powerful resonated in the field today. Something I had contemplated, but had never really sat in resonance with before this morning.
I am dying.
Not from any disease or condition (that I’m aware of). I’ve been dying since I was born on this Earth. As are you. As we all are. I finally, really and truly began to connect with the finite nature of my body. It is the human condition that our souls are eternal, but our bodies are not. And even though I have witnessed the body’s decay in others. Even though I have done the work during Practitioner training to plan my own epic funeral, it was not until this morning that it truly rang through me that the time is nigh. I may not know exactly when, but the time is nigh…
I’ve been inspired by a few things. I watched The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. I marvelled at how when Ptolemy was gifted with roughly 4 weeks of having his whole mind back what he chose to do with it. How he chose to live what he knew was left of his life.
I’ve also been inspired by Joseph “Nana Kwame” Awuah-Darko and his “The Last Supper Project“. Joseph is dying. He’s choosing to die as an antidote to living with debilitating BPD. He also happens to live in a country where human euthanasia is legal. He uses his instagram as a last will and testament. As a way to get his affairs in order. As a way to connect with this world that he is ready to leave as an inspiration to others to LIVE their lives to the fullest before they leave here too. To LIVE before they inevitably die. The process, as he’s expressed, is cathartic. It helps him move through his pain with more ease. It helps others who have experienced the pain of loved ones who have also died by suicide, but didn’t have the chance to truly say goodbye. It is a powerful journey Joseph is on.
It is not lost on me that my own revelation of the finite nature of this body faced me in meditation today as I watched the parts of me trying to hide from my intentional internal gaze. How my ego– the part of me that doesn’t want to be seen– The part of me who is afraid of being judged. The part of me who thinks she’s safe if she’s quiet. The part of me who refuses to ask for what she needs and wants for fear of— God only knows what. It’s not lost on me that part of me that’s attempting to keep me from dying is also keeping me from living in my true POWER.
And then the thought came–
what if 2025 is my last year on Earth? What if on December 31, 2025 at 11:59– I take my last breath? What if I’ve been given the grace of knowing when– but not how…
What will I do with the time I have left? How will I live this year with POWER and purpose? How will I LOVE?
These are questions of our own mortality I wish was more a part of the collective consciousness. I believe if we talk about our death more– we would feel brave enough to LIVE more. To not waste what precious time we have on Earth giving our power away to the powerless. I believe we would want to complete our mission of bringing forth the kind and just society that works for everyone we incarnated to create. We would no longer need to focus on survival because the precious time we have left would be sacred. Is sacred. And maybe in this realization, we would move through the rest of our lives as though we have nothing but fear to lose.
Much to discuss tonight about Living in POWER…
Tonight’s Starfolk University staff:
Rhonda Johnson – Dean of Astrological Arts
Bunmi Moses- Dean of Brilliance, Luminosity and the Shamanic Arts
Nina Jones- Dean of Big Pirate Energy
Sylvie Spielman-Vaught– Dean of Goddess Studies
Dr. Carol Penn – Dean of Spiritual Legacy
Of course, Jordan is in the WuWu Metaphysical Studio with me, so Join us tonight 7-10p on WURD! Bring a journal, pen and 3 frens…
#starfolku #starpeopleish #comegetfree
“We born dyin’…But you ask a man an’ he talk like he gonna live forevah.”
“That’s how powerful you are, girl…You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that’s like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can’t bear to see you go.”
― Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
You can listen live with this link and/or on the WURD App. We ARE Live on the FB Live OR Twitch too tonight!
Per usual, in EVERY single thing we do, the intention is transformation. And well moisturized legs.
Pssst! This month our #shiftprompt is:
The Art BEing POWER
Acronym:
Peace
Opens
Worlds
Eternally
Remembered
(It’s true POWER destiny)
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The WuWu Metaphysical studio begins Friday night at 7p EST on WURD 96.1FM Philly + The FB LIVE (worldwide). See you then yes? Oh! Bring a journal, a pen and 3 frens! WuWu is best done together. 🙂 #comegetfree
Lovianhal,
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