Joining the Dots- The Wayward chronicles.

                                       
                             The Wayward Chronicles - Joining the Dots.

We roam through the world and the lives we've created like work horses wearing thick blinkers designed,ostensibly,to stop us from being spooked.Scared horses might
 rear and bolt,upsetting the applecart and causing chaos, they might even actually escape and become the wild animals they were born as ,then where would we all be ?

What we can't see is that our current masters are whipping us into a minefield littered with the carcasses of civilisations, far wiser than ours, that too broke down in the face of greed and politics or fell foul of Mother Earth,destroyed by her ultimate power.

Once you begin to question the accepted truths about the world we inhabit, you start to see everything in a different light and suddenly you find that actually,all the evidence is right beneath your nose,you've just been conditioned to only see it through the narrow slit.

If you've travelled you'll have no doubt stared,on one continent or another, at the ruins of a once great civilisation.Amazing as they all are to marvel over, it transpires that, through the relatively new medium of Space archeology - https://www.wired.com/2016/02/sarah-parcak/ - that the ones we can see are just the tip of the iceberg.
According to the pioneer of the medium Sarah Parcak, history as we've been told it, has hugely underestimated the size and scale of past human settlements.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/996220-ancient-egypt-illuminated-by-electricity/

We've been living under the misconception that this modern society is the most highly evolved but contrary to our general understanding Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison are not the fathers of electricity, the ancient Egyptians & other cultures had all ready been making it,indeed overwhelming evidence of batteries and light bulbs aside,there are theories that the Pyramids are not just monuments at all, but power stations,creating energy that we have yet to fully understand.

Did you know that there are pyramids in Bosnia and that China is also littered with them?

 We've all questioned how they could build the pyramids and the other wonders of the world with primitive technology when evidence, in fact, indicates these societies were no more primitive than we are today and some would argue we are the ones lagging behind.




It doesn't take long for the earth to reclaim things no longer being used-
http://askwhy.co.uk/dinosauroids/?p=480 -

I may have mentioned Viceland TV's  series  "Abandoned" a few times- ( Love McCrank- whole channel is a must watch) but if you want to see how quickly the natural world will reclaim a disused spot then this series has completely opened my eyes. As seen in the episode on New Orleans,after hurricane Katrina, it only took the trees ten years to  take back over and for wildlife to reclaim the turf. I find this information oddly reassuring that in the face of human extinction the forests will regrow and Mother Earth might get her balance back.



Once you start looking clearly, there is overwhelming evidence everywhere that the Earth has seen many a civilisation, some much greater than this, totally disappear under the rubble and weeds, is it so unbelievable in our modern arrogance that we could be next?



The conspiracy theory that we are all being played by a New World Order is an old one and like every fairytale it hides a truth within the many stories. The recent political turn of events is just another red flag as to who really has all the power and it isn't us.Why and how can one family be so wealthy and have so much control? Precisely because us work horses keep plodding on,we've got bills to pay remember.We have to pay a mortgage or rent to live on land that no more belongs to anyone but the earth itself.We pay heavily for food that we could grow ourselves,pointless insurance against events that don't happen and for a plethora of utilities at a cost far outweighing their production.Nikola Tesla wanted electricity to be free and was squashed by those seeking to make money from it.


History, as we are taught it, may have been skewed to an agenda, but thankfully evidence remains of our rebellious natures. Humans have staged uprisings at many critical points in history and have toppled the dictators of the past. Inside all of us is a seed that recognises freedom as an intrinsic human right, even if our fear ( False Expectations Appearing Real) prevents us from doing anything about it.

 No doubt we are currently at a critical turning point, NWO and the evidence of our slavery aside, Greenland is melting ,rapidly, along with both ice caps,at an unprecedented rate, all ready way out of control.  http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5056
This is not good news for over a billion people who will be directly affected by rapid sea level rise as their homes go under water. Displaced refugees are all ready desperate, add a billion more to the problem and see how the system copes.

Ironically if all predictions come to pass and the 6th extinction wipes us all out, except the Rothschilds I'm wagering, who must have a hell of a vault to hide in, it will not be the concrete structures of our recent time that survive, modern building methods degenerate
way faster than ancient brick built monuments do, oh wait...

All the single ladies...

I'm coming up 9 years as a single parent and five since I was in close proximity with a male of the species and if you had told me that 10 years ago would I have maybe,made different choices?

But ten years ago I was still waist deep in the lure of love and I had no idea that being single would be the most empowering thing I could be.I was an insecure girl,validating herself by the men I chased around constantly in my head,looking for a soul connection outside myself,with a tinge of fairytale and happily ever after.I couldn't know then that it would take those single years for me to actually achieve dreams that had been half arsedly pursued in the heady 20's and that went missing,presumed dead after having two children in two years.That's not in a bitter way by any means,I was just too busy changing nappies to give them head space.

I had always wanted to be a writer as a kid but insecurity convinced me I wasn't good enough,not realising I could learn, and I chose the safer path,teaching,which I was hopeless at at 18 years old and I dropped out with my hands firmly up. I was always coming up with ideas for books but never finishing any of them, distracted by boys,work & just living.

I was never single for long and I didn't spend much time alone.

In the last 9 years since it's only been me and the kids at home, I finally wrote that novel,then started a second one, decided it would make a better film script,went to a script writing group to learn,won a film competition with the group, wrote a treatment & submitted it (with zero expectations) to a short film making scheme,got accepted,went on to get a contract to develop it as a feature script, got paid to be a writer,went to BAFTA, got a shortlisted for some other schemes,started a novel and a blog, then got a place on a BBC /BFI scheme with a different film,then churned out a 3rd script, got knocked down, several times,got up again,started my own vintage fabric/sewing/design business oh yeh and all be it too briefly, owned a vintage VW camper van. Bucket list tick,tick,tick.

 I know in my heart that had I stayed as I was, for the sake of being in a relationship I thought I so desperately needed, none of those things would have happened,because what I really needed to come into my own was to be alone.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/when-you-start-enjoy-being-alone-these-10-things-will-happen.html 

It's not all been smug quality time with myself, I've buckled many times under the weight of juggling a job and raising two kids coupled with elderly parents, the so called 'sandwich' generation and between all the achievements, I had plenty of insane crushes and broken hearts,some that took years to heal.For years I wouldn't have classed myself single by choice, more unlucky in love.

I've been working alone from home for a year now and apart from my son,Dad and brother in law I've spent no time with any men and frankly, I feel like it's been the making of me. I've never been so focused,so well informed,so content,so thoughtful or self assured,so able to look in a mirror and not criticise,so clear about life and mentally strong.

Am I missing out? Someone said to me yesterday about them being happily single," but I don't want to look back at 70 and regret it." I shrugged,that could happen. (My gut reaction was as if you think the planet will still be here by then...)

I haven't given up on Love by any means but one thing I've come to see is almost how secular our beliefs on male female relationships are.

Kate Nash says it succinctly

https://youtu.be/ryH5cga0yUI

Every man I've lived with (and at one point I lived with 6 of them at once) has been pretty much messy,lazy,smelly and has complained constantly about having the heating on, which, on the flip that makes me a nagging neat freak who can't sit still,is obsessed by cleaning and has the house too stuffy.All true in balance,so maybe this outdated notion that you have to live together needs to go bygones, I've always believed women with young children should not live in isolated pockets,ditto elderly women who mostly out live their men folk. Society would work much better if we went way back to our primitive ways of small female led communities. It does take a village to raise a child to ensure that child is nurtured,in turn to keep society strong in the future. Putting us in pairs, in little boxes (that we have to borrow huge sums of money to live in & never really own) makes us weak and thus easy to control.

Divide and Conquer has so many truths across the world right now but I digress.

Spending a huge amount of time alone has meant I've been able to dig back through the layers of who I became whilst chasing my elusive soul mate through the years,not realising that if I sat quietly and listened carefully,I would find my own soul and become mates with her and maybe that's all I'd been missing.

I guess what I'm trying to write is almost an addendum to my teenage self who would have seen five years without being kissed as a terrible tragedy, and not the best thing that could have ever happened for me to really know me. 

The Wayward Chronicles- And now for some good news...

https://youtu.be/qSwF-StQHSk

https://youtu.be/5HL1BEC024g

I don't know about you but I've had a long fascination with natural disasters, I know I'm not alone by the huge online community out there capturing,monitoring and speculating on them, all that science though and we still can't stop them from happening, despite our white knuckled grip on the controls.

The effects of climate change are all ready kicking us back with flooding, extreme heat, species extinction and unpredictable weather patterns. Have you noticed how wrong or vague the media weather reports are these days? It's because the weather is behaving outside of all predicted computer models making it impossible to predict ahead of time anymore.

Grave predictions of the rise of violent natural disasters such as super volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis that will drown coastal cities, are everywhere when you research the oncoming effects of climate change.

And they may well be right and quite frankly, I think we deserve a good punch in the face from the planet that most of us have thoughtlessly ruined in a very short space of time. I don't wish for innocent people to suffer the consequences but actually millions all ready are in the thick of it,
 when you look at what's really going on in the world, so more of the same before we claw it back seems horribly inevitable.

Mega Hurricanes & Donald Trump's administration aside, however, amongst all these dire outcomes, there are some huge,positive changes happening in the world right now. 

Watch the great episode of Viceland above and the TED talk by Taylor Wilson and you'll be blown away by his genius solutions to clean energy, all be it feeling like you totally wasted your teenage years...

+Elon Musk  crops up everywhere, thankfully, these days which means what he's doing is working.He has invented many solutions using clean energy that are slowly filtering out into the mainstream, may he nail them all & get us out of this mess.

The Women's march on Washington, inspired by opposing Trump, was echoed around the world when over a million women took to the streets to protest for human rights. Trump is proving to be perhaps the exact catalyst required to get people to change, almost a necessary evil, his repugnant face is like a sharp spike prodding us to get up & stand up for what we believe in. The world should not be in the hands of misogynists. Only good things come when women gather peacefully to change things. Women rights have never seen such widespread support, there is a long way to go in some cultures, but as more women get a voice it empowers others, that's how we roll.

The global powers that be are actually making clean energy changes, but being in such unprecedented times no one knows if it's too little too late.What did strike me though,whilst watching the Viceland   Clean Energy documentary, was that this situation has almost developed at the right time, if there could ever be a right time for destroying our natural resources... When Nuclear power was first touted in the 1940's we obviously didn't have the knowledge we have now, in order to fully utilise it's potential in a safe way. Nor could we pay such attention to the value of the earths resources.

 Now thanks to the information & development age we live in today we can quickly build on these discoveries ( hello,err, the windmill...) with advances in technology we never dreamed of in the 1940's and, like the Trump catalyst, perhaps it takes us a brush with some natural disasters to really consider what's best for the environment and make those changes.

What also struck me was that the argument for green energy is driven by a somewhat skewed demand for a life style that has a huge need for energy but saying that, my kettle is boiling,the heating's on and my mac is plugged in and in the scheme of things I'm low impact, so they have a valid point. 

But I can't shake the sense that actually,wouldn't it be better if we moved toward a society that just used, less? 

In another programme on +VICELAND  - 'Abandoned' Skater Rick McCrank travels round America visiting ghost towns & defunct buildings (dream job) charting the history behind their demise in an interesting way. The episode on Newfoundland resonated on so many levels but what struck me is that the residents who had voted to stay, had been forced to leave anyway, as the government had cut off their power. 

That seems more like a Hunger Games tactic than a civil right to me Canada, I always thought you were better than that...but can we really not exist off grid anymore? Millions of people do but they probably would choose power if they could afford it & had access.

The economies in these ancient fishing ports had been completely ruined in the space of twenty years by commercial trawler fishing and then the outright ban on any fishing,devastating for communities founded and thriving on sustainable fishing long before greed leapt into the water.

But today I have good news.The ban of fishing on the island has led to signs of a rebirth in stocks and now the residents are allowed to fish recreationally again at certain times of the year with sustainable fishing a reality again in years to come.

As my geography is rubbish, I did some research on Newfoundland and it turns out to be located at the most easterly point in North America, on a pretty similar latitude, from a glance to the UK.

To get to my off topic point, there are tons of empty houses sitting on the rocks on an island not dissimilar (sadly no warmer though) to the UK. It's roughly half our size and yet boasts a population of HALF a million to our 60,000 million and it's beautiful & unspoilt and I promise I'd keep it that way if the Canadian government would see fit to let me move there.

Friends, I know the Mongolian commune idea was a bust (cheap but cold) but I'd be well up for a move to Newfoundland.Google it and let's charter a boat...

Veganism has risen 350% in the UK in the last ten years, led by the 15-34% age group who cite their reasons as being a reaction to modern farming methods that are cruel to animals and the effects of mass agriculture on the Earth. I gave up eating all meat, cows milk & fish after watching +Cowspiracy  and am trying to have more vegan days than not and it's remarkably easy,even to a kitchen hater like me,in fact it's definitely improved my attitude to food & how I consume groceries.

If the whole world went Vegan we could solve world hunger five times over. ( A problem that will only get much worse as the impact of climate change ramps up.)

The terrible plight of our wildlife has never been so obvious and yet again, come on humans, it's taken us to get to a crisis to act to save the flora and fauna. Most of us could plant some kind of a bee garden, grow our own,stop eating unethical food and support those who work at the coal face in conservation. 

Another thing I realised when watching Taylor Wilson explain about energy

 is that chain reaction is an inevitable part of the make up of life on Earth. Keep being the change we need to see in the world and we are seeing results, masked away behind the convenience of fear mongering, good things are happening.

Start today at grass roots and watch how it grows.

Love & Peace.

The Wayward Chronicles- The wake up call.

I'll hold my hands up to a life mostly ignoring politics & politicians, stemmed from a deep rooted belief that the political system is primarily motivated by power and money,therefore we would never be singing from the same song sheet, ditto world politics. The events of 2016 however have forced me to pay attention, all be it for the wrong reasons, to how the world has & is being governed. Turns out I was right...Maybe, we needed those bombshells in order to all pay better attention...



We've all heard mentions about climate change from the mainstream media over the last few years, but when the Barack Obama states clearly in his closing speech that without bolder action our children will be busy dealing with environmental disasters & economic crisis, you kind of need to listen up.







If NASA data is anything to go by ( and maybe only until Trump gets his hands on them) the world is in a critical state. We have sprinted past the "safe" level of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere- 350, go to/http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/, it's all there and it's not pretty but people need to know, because without awareness, how can we change our behaviour & positively influence the behaviour of others?



http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/

We are right in the middle of a rapid extinction of Earths wild life, losing species and vital habitat every minute. Google it and you'll be shocked at what's really happening and how quickly. Conservation groups are talking about 2 / 3rds of all vertebrates by 2020 ...just 3 years away.
Things are being done,don't get me wrong but I'm sure all those charities could do with our help. Lest we forget we too are vertebrates,the UK death toll rose considerably and without explanation in 2015, as did the U.S's, & when figures for 2016 are released I'll bet it's risen again and is probably behind the current NHS breakdown. All those celebrity deaths are just an indicator of ratio...

Alarming right? But alarms are a wake up call and every time I see Donald Trumps revolting face, I vow that I can not sit back and watch that future unfurl for my children & all the children who were born into this mess without choice. I know I'm not one the American citizens that Barack was addressing but all human beings have the, "Essential spirit of innovation and practical problem solving" required to make the changes required to stop things from getting worse.

It would be easy to settle into a negative mindset, or worse just ignore the evidence entirely and carry on as before being thoughtless,wasteful & greedy, but once you know what's really happening, you are duty bound to take responsibility and try your best to make amends.

There are many problems out there, overwhelmingly so, but a friend of a friend gave wise advice about picking the ones you feel most passionate about and really get grass roots involved in supporting and promoting your work to reach others who want to help the same cause.
The world is 7.5 billion people just like us, that's a lot of hearts and minds. If we could actually come together imagine what we could achieve.There are far more ordinary people than there are power mad politicians,we just need to go round them and maybe surprise them from the flank.



There are so many tiny and massive ways in our everyday life that we can make a difference. Commit  to changing your diet, commit to not buying plastic, shop second hand, recycle,upcycle, use public transport,walk, shop local,eat local, grow your own, use less energy, plant for wildlife or just open your mouth & speak up for what you believe in. As Gandhi knew, we have to be the change.

There are many positive and ground breaking projects across the planet and people are willing to take a stand more than ever before. On the 21st of January Women are uniting all over the world in a protest march for human rights and democracy. Innovations and movements are increasing every day but we have to start fighting right now,in whatever way we can, to stop Capitalism ruining the future of our children.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/14/womens-march-on-washington-protest-size-donald-trump

https://www.womensmarchlondon.com

http://unfccc.int/2860.php

http://www.eco-business.com/opinion/6-environment-and-development-stories-to-watch-in-2017/

Revolution resolutions

As an endless list maker,mainly on my hand,I of course embrace the opportunity to make one for my New Years resolutions,using multi coloured Sharpies,obvs and with a liberal sprinkling of stars.

I kept 2016's list up on the pin board all year and aside from "being more sociable" I nailed it pretty well,down to the exact truck and the comfiest sofa- which is ,thinking about it,probably why failing on the being more sociable was a bust.


To be honest, although my actual nights out can be counted quickly,I don't feel like it was a bad thing.Being on my own means time to think & to create unhindered by responsibility and with starting my own business,those things have been integral to working out what the hell I'm doing.

There are the old chestnuts on every NY list - regular exercise and a healthier diet- that fade in and out every as the year peaks & troughs,though this year I gave up meat & cows milk and try eat Turmeric everyday & I actually feel like it's sticking, so keeping it up is the goal for 2017.Proper exercise went way out after I broke my ribs,err last May, but I feel like I run up the stairs a 100 times a day so I'm not exactly slothful, still it wouldn't hurt to make it a bit more official.

The business is obviously high on the agenda for 2017, keeping it going and what the shape of that will be, it's all still a work in progress,but 8 official months later,today actually, I'm still trading,all be it if at a lull over next few weeks. Admin not my strong point, I feel I might need a (vintage) filing cabinet to help keep me organised, ahem...
Part of developing the business is learning new skills and making Art part of my daily life.Can you teach a techno retard new tricks? Watch this space...

After that the list gets a bit more serious...Save the Elephants, Tigers,Polar bears,The Arctic, rain forests,Wolves, the rights of indigenous people,Whales,Coral reefs,the Antarctic, Fresh water,Krill,Sharks ...did I say the Bees? Birds, Frogs,Glaciers,Madagascar,Borneo,Giant Pandas & Tortoises,Butterflies,Bears, Bats,Dolphins,Seals and Penguins,to name just a few creatures and places on the critically endangered list.

We've all heard that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded in an increasing list of hottest years ever ( Insert joke about the British Summer here) but dig a little deeper and you'll find some very scary statistics about what is really happening to our environment that is kept out of the media for fear of mass panic. We have gone over the tipping point in terms of rising temperatures,sea level rises,pollution, fresh water shortage, food shortage and the planets wildlife are deep into the 6th mass extinction- in as little as 30 years, One fifth of the worlds creatures will cease to exist.
 Make no mistake,the world's future ain't looking too bright,so is there any point spending 2017 trying to save the planet or should all our resolutions be more along the lines of "Enjoy yourself it's later than you think?"https://youtu.be/hdqigZ50Zlc

To save my sanity I've had to reconcile my concerns to what I can actually do in my day to day life to feel like I'm at least trying to wrestle a life jacket on a sinking ocean liner.I've stopped eating meat, cut way down on dairy,am watching my consumption, recycling,mending & avoiding plastic and packaging where possible but Big society doesn't want me to do any of those things so it's an uphill battle.

Still it's one I will be dedicating 2017 to, in the vain hope that if enough people can be the change we wish and need to see in the world. Let revolution be your resolution.

And if it all goes belly up as the planet takes her revenge
 ( Watch out for that Italian Volcano) I bought myself a 2nd hand copy of Ray Mears Bushcraft skills for Christmas...





George Monbiot The climate crisis is already here

What if we just went Wild?

Ben Fogle seems an unlikely source of inspiration but having just wikipedia'd him I have to say he seems like a bit of a hero, supporting lots of charities and standing up for indigenous people.
 He has certainly triggered something major in my thinking with his series " New Lives in the Wild"  (Channel 5). I watched the last series in 2013 from my warm sofa with the glass of the TV safely protecting me as I marvelled at the dedication and resourcefulness of these brave but bonkers people but that was in a world pre Brexit,Trump, obvious climate change,before 'Before the Flood' and 'Hypernormalisation'.Now with all that's happening on the playing field, suddenly those people abandoning society seem like the sane ones.
When I was a angsty teenager, inspired by Henry Rollins, I wrote shouty poetry about being a lab rat trapped in a cage being experimented on and how I would spend my life gnawing at the cage to get out, then I got into debt at university and there I was slap bang in the middle of the cage,though I was too busy having fun to realise it. ( As an aside act of rebellion I still earn too little to pay my student loans.) 
 Bogged down by an overdraft and a ridiculous loan  and having worked in pubs since I was 16, I ended up in a career I never aimed at, as a restaurant (ironically still a word I can't spell) Manager and spent over 20 years serving food & drinks to large swathes of the population.
But everything happens for a reason right? I've watched people pretty closely over a whole generation but last Christmas eve (of all nights) after a long night of watching the worst of people (Wether you like it or not, very drunk people are hell to the sober) a customer was so rude to me I knew I'd finally seen enough.

It's taken me a while to recover & realise but thinking back to my early working days people were just, nicer, friendlier, generous and definitely had more manners, there's always some idiots by the numbers game, but the generation and the mood back then were an infinite improvement on the behaviour of customers of the last few years. People have got more and more pissed off and some of them are so unaware of it they act out like frustrated toddlers who can't express yet how they are feeling. The rest just get drunk.

Yesterday I cleaned out my daughters tiny bedroom and somehow filled copious boxes with stuff.I had a huge bag of rubbish let alone bags of discarded toys and clothes for the charity shop,it took me hours to sort it all out and all the time I was thinking how we're all conditioned to constantly buy more stuff when there is more than enough stuff  here all ready,perfectly good stuff , so why import more from China at great environmental cost? And how much stuff do we actually need? If you were forced to flee for your life,would you waste any time taking all that stuff? After yesterdays marathon I realised it would take days to pack what I own, when actually all you'd need to survive is warmth,food and water.

I won't get started on the commerciality of Christmas,again, but in my head when I see all those gift sets in the shops, I have this image of a giant pile of rubbish with a droopy christmas tree on top as Noddy Holder sings hollowly to the blackened sky. Bigger,better, faster, it's all distraction from the ugly truth that we are trapped in a financial and political system that pretends but does not serve the greater good,especially that most crucial of elements,the ecosystem we live in.

The facts are all out there if you look, our ecosystem, to which we are all connected,know it or not, is a delicate balance of many things and like a house of cards we're now just one degree celsius away from serious repercussions.Let's not forget that the UK was joined to the continent before a huge seismic shift in the atlantic resulted in a Tsunami & made us an island.It's predicted half the UK could disappear again as tides grow higher.

To get to my point, things is only gonna get uglier so perhaps now would be a good time to get gnawing on that cage. 

But could we, just go wild, I mean? For a start there are all sorts of tedious laws preventing you from leaving the system and just living on some wild land, right now you still need serious money and planning for that to happen.I feel increasingly frustrated by the housing system which puts us in tiny boxes which we pay through the nose for,or can't even get that far, in many peoples cases. Whose land is all of it if not ours?
Then there's the question of coping, I might like to imagine I'm Sarah Connors but my skills need work. I'm pretty sure I would kill someone if it mean't saving my loved ones, but would that be enough to survive in a post flooded world?

This last year working alone has made me pretty feral and I can't say I miss the Rat race.
I've never achieved more in my creative work or had better relationships, however it maybe a joyful thing to get off the treadmill,but in financial terms I am subjugated by poverty and my single parent status.

I think retreat is the best option, far away from "civilisation" and high up, away from the coast 'cos when the North pole melts there's gonna be a lot more water to contend with...
I can't help but wonder,however, if we started society again would we eventually make all the same mistakes again? I like to think future generations wouldn't be so stupid as to put faith in money and politics, the way things are going, they really are going to learn the hard way about greed and need so as not to repeat our mistakes.

So whose up for it ? Granted though Outer Mongolia is very cheap it's cold, so I'll keep watching Ben F for suggestions, if we all chipped in a bit I'm sure we could find somewhere in the world to go & have a go at living better, loving the land instead of abusing it, caring for animals instead of killing them and using our skills to survive,not our credit cards.

FYI though, I'll be banning Christmas as we know it.

In tune with the moon

We live in a culture where older women on TV are phased out,where we feel we have lie about our age,where childless women are lambasted, where periods & the menopause are still a misunderstood joke subject and we're the lucky ones...In many societies women still have no rights at all,although change is happening and we need to be part of that.

I was introduced to the teachings of a woman called Jewels Wingfield by a friend who went to one of her sessions at a festival earlier this year. Www.jewelswingfield.com

Even via a recap of her point of view, I knew instinctively that she was expounding a truth about female power that resonated strongly through me.Her belief,condensed, is that,"A circle of women may be the most powerful force known to humanity."

She teaches about how, before patriarchy, women used to live in large groups where the menstrual and lunar cycle was honoured and harnessed,giving us a power that men were so afraid of that they sought to disseminate it by breaking down groups of women and isolating them,making periods taboo and using organised religion and politics to stamp out our intrinsic connection with the earth and her cycles.

Over the last few months I have been using an app to track my menstrual cycle, there's lots to choose from but the one I use is called 'Hormone horoscope'. You plot your cycle and everyday it tells you where your hormones are at and how this might make you feel. As a single woman I've paid scant attention to my periods for ages,apart from joking about the onset on menopause with no real comprehension, but using this app has brought a whole level of awareness that feels completely empowering.

"By nature, women are lunar. It's no coincidence that the length of our menstrual cycles are synced up with the waxing and waning of the moon, occurring around every 28 days. If we are synced up with the moon's cycle, we will menstruate around the new moon and ovulate around the full moon."

http://www.drnorthrup.com/wisdom-of-menstrual-cycle/

Since being so aware of my periods,even for a month, I've felt this force unveiling itself.If we can harness our personal cycle,get in tune with it and tune it to the moon then we can utilise the feminine power that we've been disconnected with and put that power to good use.

"If we are going to see real development in the world then we must invest in women" Desmond Tutu.

It will take feminine consciousness (not necessarily female) to change the destruction of the planet for profit & stop environmental devastation.Male and female we need to recognise how we are all connected to the earth and her cycles.

An recent TV advert for some wild man type series got stuck in my head as the older guy that narrated it was talking about how the modern world is so square and yet nature is so round.Squares represent earthly grounding,organisation and efficiency where as circles are safe and comforting yet powerful in their ability to move freely...Sounds like male and female energy to me...Point being although I never saw the actual TV show it made me think about circles and cycles,the shape of the planet,the moon and wombs.

There is tons of interesting data on how women "sync up" in groups and will all start to menstruate at the same time. My best friend lives 200 miles away yet our periods are due at the same time,coincidence? 

Interestingly I can't find much research on what living in close proximity to a man does to our hormones but I'll bet my bottom dollar that we are suppressed by male hormones which is how patriarchy asserted itself,divide and conquer.

Living as a single parent it has always seemed simple to me that the government should be mooting schemes to house single mothers together in order to provide practical support for each other,it makes complete sense,that's how we used to raise our children, but it seems society is intent on keeping women solitary, chained as we were to our kitchen sinks in order to keep our power diminished.In the western world we are luckier than most women with our freedom but thick or thin the chains unite us all and we need to start swinging them (in a circle?) to break ourselves free.

We all know how important our female friends are to us and the energy a group of like minded women can raise and the time is now for us to utilise that power to make the changes the world so desperately needs.

I believe that if we all could listen to our cycles we would quietly invoke enough power to give Mother Earth the voice she desperately needs.We love our planet and as Mothers,Aunties,Grandmothers,Sisters & friends we want to pass a beautiful,safe world for our children.It's time we took back our power to create that world for them & for all living creatures.
Oh yeh and I know I keep banging on about it but watch 'Before the flood' it will push your "Do something' button.

Full moon tomorrow sisters.Get out there and soak up some moon beams and know that it is an essential key to how we reclaim our sacred femininity.

PS There is so much amazing information out there that will empower you.The app I'm using is http://hormonehoroscope.com but there are tons to choose from.

Other reading-

http://mytinysecrets.com/the-secret-power-of-your-period-revealed/
http://foreverconscious.com/the-feminine-moon-cycle
http://www.moonsong.com.au/the-spiritual-practice-of-menstruation/