Open Post

[kimberlysteele]

Please feel free to post about anything and everything, except profanity, which will be deleted.

 

Ash, 1 year old -- we got him in October 2021 from the local Humane Society

Shadow, also approximately 1 year old, is a former feral from my backyard.  I picked him up in late July of 2021 when he was a few months old.  

Comments

[miow]

Hi Kimberly Blessings to you and thank you for this and your Ogham readings. I was just too late to get this question into JMG's Magic Monday, so I was so glad to see your open post pop into my notifications. Long story short. I emigrated from a violent third world country many years ago. My family (mother, sister and her husband and kids) chose to stay/not even consider trying to leave. They have been guilt tripping me for leaving pretty much all the time. I go visit them once a year if I can because they can't afford to travel out of said country. I was utterly relieved not to be able to because of the so-called pandemic last 2 years. Every time I go back things are worse. And I mean really worse as in electricity more off than on. Gunshots heard in daytime not even just at night anymore. So many examples I could name. My family complain bitterly but here's the thing. They keep on staying exactly where they are. Even if they don't want to or at this stage it's too late for them to emigrate as they are too old, cannot leave the country, there are still safer and more pleasant places in the same country they could move to. But every time I raise the issue or suggest they move I get an angry response to the tune of it's easy for me to say. Then follows a list of reasons of why they are "stuck". As if it was easy for me to move, or due to pure luck! It wasn't! It was hard work and me making my own luck. But even if I lucked out, literally everyone else did too. All my friends from high school left the town, so did my sister's. They couldn't all have "lucked out", could they? Anyway, after yet another conversation with my sister where she explained to me why they *couldn't * leave, I did my SOP, meditated and then asked my Tarot: "Is my family safe?" I called on my guardian angel and determined to draw one card only. I shuffled the cards for around 10 minutes...and drew The Devil. You can imagine how I felt and feel. I then asked: "What should I do?" and got the Hermit reversed.
The message I got was loud and clear. Yes they are in dire peril. But no, there is nothing I can do or say.
My question to you, or anyone else who cares to answer, is should I say something?
I must add, my family are Christians. Not the rabid American kind, the softer African kind, but still. My mother was extremely upset when I did a few very accurate tarot draws for them (as in, took it for a bit of fun until the cards showed themselves as way too truthful and accurate). I love my family dearly. They are good people. What to do...?
I make use of your kind weekly Ogham readings, and this was what came up for May: "For the Outcome, you drew Coll or Wisdom ill-dignified. Be extremely wary of what you say and what you agree to this month. Take a hint from Louis XIV -- the fewer words, the better. Also, take your sweet time. You don't owe anyone an answer. Don't be afraid to pass the buck either -- if you don't know something, accept that, fess up, and try to point to another source that may have the answers"

Sorry for the long rambling post. Any and all advice or just thoughts would be much appreciated.

[k_a_nitz]

Sometimes the only option is to wait until the person who needs help/advice asks for it AND is willing to act on it.

Sometimes people are very anchored to place - this can be good and bad. Yes, they may be in danger, but the act of moving may be more dangerous/scary for them (even if to a place thought to be safer). Best to give them your blessings and be ready to help if the time comes.

[kimberlysteele]

I agree with K.A. Nitz. There's not much you can do in this situation. Even if you had the resources to drug them to sleep and air lift them out, they would hate you for it. As much as it sucks, they've chosen this. I can understand why they've done it: I too feel bound by the spirit of place, and that's why I have never moved very far away from the place I was born. The suburbs of Chicago aren't anything compared to what your parents are dealing with, of course, but overall there are far better states to live in than Illinois. In mid-May, yet another one of my students is moving to another state. She's an unvaxxed teenager from an anti-vax family. Every one of her friends has had the vax. Fast-forward a few years: I don't think the vaxxed are going to have normal, healthy children if they can have children at all. MRNA spike proteins sit in the fatty tissues (ovaries) and who the hell knows how long it takes for them to express all of the damage they've got inside them? So yeah, I can see why they moved. I would move too if my children were young adults facing a dating pool of mostly-vaccinated people. Since my children are all felines, I'm staying put. I don't know how bad I'll let it get. Pretty bad, I think. I wonder if John Michael Greer will move away from Rhode Island if these laws pass:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/04/20/metro/ri-bill-would-impose-fines-double-taxes-those-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccine/

Tarot

[(Anonymous)]

Much sympathy for your distress for your family. I note that many ecosopians have similar concerns for our loved ones over a range of subjects just now.
If I may, I'd offer my read of your tarot results as I understand them. I read from the raider/waite deck.
The Devil is an interesting card with alot of negative connotation, especially for Christians. It suggests bondage to the material with an important nuance, being willingly bound. Please note that the shackles are loose, so loose in fact that they can be removed at any time.
The Hermit, for me, is a very positive card that implies a period of introspection and development, alone time with ones inner light. A most powerful card.
Both cards are major arcana indicating your situation, and theirs, are connected to fate or destiny.
I would read these as your family are willfully bound to their home and now is a time for you to embrace solitary self reflection/development.
As JMG and others have noted, we often embellish the magnitude of a tarot reading. Who knows, maybe the product of this stage of solitary development will produce an environment your family will embrace when the time is right. As they say, build it and they will come.
Gawain

[ecosophian]

Very cute cats, I love them!

I have a very similar black cat, Bats, almost a year old! He looked like a bat when he was little. Picked him up from a shelter last year, he was very shy at first, but he getting bolder now.

[kimberlysteele]

He's a darling! He does remind me of my Shadow guy... tons of energy!

[(Anonymous)]

Here is a very good interview with Nurse Erin, who worked in NY hospital during the beginning of the cov thing.

https://rumble.com/v10qcm9-nurse-erin-411-.html

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate to say it but I think the Supreme Court just won the Democrats 22 and 24 both. By kicking abortion back to the states they are giving every swing state full of previously Democrat voting women who just wanted SJWs to go away a clear signal that they *cannot* vote for a Republican ever until there is federal protection for abortion.

The Republicans seem to have this problem where they think you can solve a cultural problem with laws, completely ignoring all of history which shows that the only thing that happens when you legislate morality when your morality is the minority opinion is you get wiped out by a tidal backlash

[kimberlysteele]

I dunno. I don't like Republicans at all, but there was no threat of food shortages under the previous admin. Additionally, I'm not so sure anyone will take them seriously when they cry "my body, my choice" considering the stance they've taken for 2.5 years on vaccines...

[(Anonymous)]

I have no doubt that that is the intended play, but I think it won't work, for at least three reasons:

a) The SJWs are making the same mistake you accuse the Republicans of making. There are a ton of people who are desperate enough for the SJWs to go away that they will vote Republican almost no matter what at this point.

b) Even ignoring the SJW issue, there are a lot of people who want to severely punish the Democrats for the vaccine insanity; and a good many are prepared to vote for anyone who may prevent it, unless they plan to start World War III or something like that, and even then would need to give it some thought.

c) I'm willing to bet that the last couple years have dramatically shifted the abortion debate; and that bringing it back into the public eye so soon after the vaccine madness will only serve to cement the shift, because the only serious arguments that can be made for abortion in American culture rely on bodily autonomy. Whether they realize it yet or not, most of the big names in the pro-choice movement have shredded their credibility to make those arguments by supporting vaccine mandates; and once people start dismissing everything they say as rank hypocrisy and stops listening, the pro-life movement, who also has some good arguments, wins by default.

[(Anonymous)]

Your cats look so adorable; are they cuddlers, or more like standoffish celebrities? :-)

Shadow reminds me of my cat who died in Dec 2016; I need to remind myself to submit an Ogham question about how my cat is doing in the afterlife.

-Eugene

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks for asking! They're clingers. Ash's full name is Ashley Amore Reed Cockeburr Steele. Every morning, he jumps into my arms multiple times and clings like a burr. Shadow is more of a night-clinger. Sometimes he clings to me while I work out on my exercise bike.

Please feel free to submit that question next time.

Dental stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Kimberly,

My memory gets fuzzy...but did you post something, maybe over at JMG's site, about using a vitamin supplement on your teeth? The reason I'm asking is I have receding gums and bone loss and am looking for things to strengthen my teeth. I'm not looking for health advice, just anecdotes on how people take care of their teeth. My apologies if you weren't the one to post about the vitamin supplements. But if you or other people on this forum have any anecdotes for strengthening teeth and gums, I'd be happy to hear them!

Psychedelic jocular puca

Re: Dental stuff

[kimberlysteele]

Hi PJP,

Yes, I have commented about it at JMG's sites and my own. Basically the goal is to reduce the acidity of your mouth, especially overnight. I do this a couple of ways. I make my own toothpaste out of arrowroot powder mixed with baking soda. I then saturate the mixture with olive oil until it becomes a paste. Usually I flavor mine with mint essential oil and stevia powder as well but those two things are extras and don't need to be in there.

After brushing/flossing, I take one of those calcium supplements that is in a gel-cap. Not the hard pill one, the soft one. If you cut the end off the gel-cap, you can squeeze out the white calcium goo. I take that goo and pack it into my gums, especially areas that have cavities, fissures, etc. For instance, behind my front teeth which used to be cavity central before the treatment. I use about one pill per night, but if I had a larger mouth, I would use two.

Thirdly, an alkaline diet helps teeth. Eating huge amounts of fruits and vegetables will strengthen your teeth. Don't seek to stop eating junky, stodgy food, instead seek to eat so many fruits and vegetables, you don't have room for other food. Eventually the interest in the junky food goes away. "Dinner" size salads have become a quaint thing of the past for me: I eat a salad or a giant pile of fruit in my mixing bowl and that is my meal. Stodgy meals should always be in the beginning of the day if they are going to be there, with fruit or salad meals at the end of the day so the digestive system can rest. It's also not a bad idea to taper off the amount of food you eat over the day: breakfast/brunch like a king, lunch like a knight, supper like a pauper.

Allopaths are either ignorant or lying when they say teeth cannot be re-mineralized. Teeth are bones just like anything else, and bones can be built up and healed.

Re: Dental stuff

[nightwatchwaits]

This is MY EXPERIENCE and not health advice. Thank you all you lovely people for contributing to this blog.
My teeth show a lot of damage after years of poor fats, sugar & refined carbs. I think I have saved them by a gradual change in my diet over many years and then some big teeth related changes around seven years ago.
I am conscious that I am writing on the blog of a vegan. My diet is in the 'ancestral'/'Weston A Price' area. I think cutting sugar & refined carbs and eating bone broths & raw milk (+ lots more) were very significant for my teeth. A vegan version may be to eat soaked & dried nuts ('crispy nuts'), olive oil, coconut fat, avocados... good fats. The big book for this may be Sally Fallon's 'Nourishing Traditions'.
I also consume huge amounts of fermented foods & drinks - I think the good bugs in them push out the bad in one's mouth & digestive tract. They also up digestion so one absorbs the nutrients one's teeth need.
My thinking is that oral hygiene is secondary to diet, but useful. I found the OraWellness website useful in developing a cleaning system.
Please ask if you want to discuss more.

Re: Dental stuff

[(Anonymous)]

My dentist says that the number one thing you can do for your teeth and gums is ridiculously simple, and almost no one will actually do it, but it WORKS. Use an electric toothbrush and ***NO MATTER WHAT*** change it every month. Works for me.

[(Anonymous)]

First, I would like to present an article by Glenn Greenwald about the supposed pending overturning of Roe v. Wade: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-irrational-misguided-discourse?s=r

Greenwald’s reasoning about Roe is quite correct. I think the Ninth Amendment that grants rights not specifically enumerated elsewhere in the Bill of Rights is a good one, but using that as a basis for Roe always seemed kind of sketchy. The Ninth Amendment is useful for anti-discrimination laws (this is why the “state’s rights” trope is frequently associated with racist segregationists) and protecting negative rights (“bodily autonomy means the government can’t coerce you into getting a medical treatment you don’t want”), but I’m not so sure about using as a basis for granting new positive rights (“bodily autonomy means you have a right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy resulting from consensual sexual intercourse”).

Personally, I’m pro-choice for the first trimester of pregnancy as far as making laws is concerned, even though I think abortion in all but the most extreme cases including rape is a very serious spiritual error. Yet, I am not able to equate aborting a 12-week-old fetus with smothering a newborn baby in its crib the way conservatives do. From a legal perspective, such an equation seems an invitation to opening a Pandora’s Box of all kinds of crazy patriarchal legislation concerning fetuses in the womb. And besides, it just seems counterintuitive to any scientifically valid way of looking at the matter.

One thing is for sure, though, the militant pro-choicers are going to be very surprised and dismayed at how thoroughly they cratered their credibility where bodily autonomy is concerned by getting behind the attempt to force experimental gene-therapy on everybody!

[kimberlysteele]

I think vax hysteria was blowback for the heavy handed way the Religious Right acted in the 80s and 90s: Satanic Panic, censorship. Now we are on the left side of forced vaccines, censorship. It is a pendulum of oppressive behavior that keeps swinging from one side to the other.

Planetary music

[ecosophian]

Something else I wanted to share, is some notes I took on planetary music. How music can help one attune to planetary energy.

I know you've put a number of Orphic Hymns to music (and they are very well done), but that's different, I'm talking about music that itself carries planetary energies in it.

Maybe you'll find this list amusing, comments are welcome:
https://ecosophian.dreamwidth.org/3824.html

Big idea!

[(Anonymous)]

I saw an advocate of the COVID-19 vaccines post the following on Facebook after the Supreme Court leak:

There is a Supreme Court decision from 1905, Jacobsen v Massachusetts, ruling that the State can compel a citizen to be vaccinated. This was used to force people to get the Smallpox vaccine against their will. Held down, if need be, gashing the arm then daubing the wound with live virus..


That ruling still stands today, except that now, more than a century later, the court has set precedent on a number of contrary opinions that stipulate how our bodies are our own. These include freedom from arbitrary physical restraint, freedom to use contraception, and freedoms regarding family relationships, child rearing, and education. The Supreme Court insists these Rights to Privacy shall not be infringed. In fact, even though that old opinion from 1905 is still on the books, it has not been defended since 1973 because another case that year essentially overturned it, explicitly guaranteeing a person's autonomy over their own health decisions. That case, Roe v Wade.


We learned today that Roe v Wade will be overturned, thereby giving the State ultimate authority over our body. And Jacobsen v Massachusetts is dusted off as the law of the land again. All the contrary precedent is gone—struck down like a house of cards.

Whatever anybody's grievances against the Democratic Party and/or abortion may be, we cannot let Roe v. Wade be overturned. The overturning of Roe v. Wade, if it happens, is going to be used to make vaccine mandates unstoppable.

Many cities now have protests against the proposed overturning of Roe v. Wade. I considered going to one in my city earlier this week but was put off by a warning on my city's Reddit page asking people to only attend the protest if they were vaxxed and boosted. Attendees were asked to wear N95 masks as well.

Since then, I've come up with a better idea: we could all go to the protests in our respective cities, but, for the comfort of other protest attendees, we'd stand a few feet away from them and hold prominent signs that said, "The Unvaccinated Section of the Protest for Bodily Autonomy Is Right Here: Uphold Roe v. Wade!"

Cross-posted at: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/181151.html?thread=29548447#cmt29548447

Re: Big idea!

[kimberlysteele]

It makes sense that this was the agenda behind overturning Roe Vs. Wade all along. The timing did seem awfully fishy.

Woke Doctors and Medics Being Flummoxed by Black Guy Who Isn't Woke

[kimberlysteele]

I'm pro-choice but this guy has a very legitimate point.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/utW9qJeXHWSa/

Re: Woke Doctors and Medics Being Flummoxed by Black Guy Who Isn't Woke

[(Anonymous)]

Wow did you see that one woman getting on her knees for him as he was calling out for BLM and then as soon as he asked them about unborn black fetuses she stands back up?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kimberly,

JMG has mentioned that eating meat can ground a person. I’m vegan, so I was wondering what you eat or do to ground yourself? I’ve been ‘spacey’ my whole life, even when I ate meat.

[kimberlysteele]

I honestly don't think JMG knows what he's talking about in respect to that subject. He believes eating meat grounds him so he blanket presumes every human body and brain works the same. I was far more sensitive and the very opposite of grounded when I ate meat -- that's why I was so tortured by my own hypersensitive state and it's a big part of the reason I wanted to kill myself at age 14. When I quit eating meat, dairy, and eggs, I was finally able to regulate my blood sugar and with it my sensitivity. Adding the Sphere of Protection did not decrease my sensitivity -- it simply enhanced the parts I wanted and enabled me to block what I didn't want, kind of like turning off a television. He seems to have a great deal of dissonance when it comes to the subject of eating animals. It's one of his few mental blocks.

[(Anonymous)]

Here is the Dinesh D'Sousa movie 2000 Mules.

https://odysee.com/@DisclosureLibrary:2/2000Mules:1b

re 2000 Mules

[(Anonymous)]

.. p.s - make sure it begins at the beginning, because i was checking it to make sure it is the full movie, and it might start in the middle.
it has been taken down from rumble and a lot of other places, so it is not easy to find now.
hopefully it will still be up at this link.

[(Anonymous)]

Here is a great interview w/Lara Logan

https://rumble.com/v13vike-full-kerrville-event-speech.html

and also, an article about what the WHO and many countries are doing.. this is not good.

'On May 22: WHO will have authority to lock down all of America'

“This authority that they will be given will impact 99.4% of all the people in the world,” Bachmann said. “There are 193 nations belonging to the UN. The Biden administration is bringing amendments that were proposed that all nations of the earth cede their sovereignty over their national health care decisions to the WHO.”

“This means that the WHO would have decision-making authority to intervene in the United States government policy and any nation of the world without our permission. For instance, the lockdown where you see 26 million people today locked down in Shangai, China. They can’t leave their apartments or homes. The WHO would have the authority to be able to enforce that here in the United States, on whatever pretext they want. They don’t have to show data. They could do this.”

https://www.israel365news.com/269274/on-may-22-biden-to-hand-over-american-sovereignty-to-who/