A Search for Solace ~ COVID 19 ~ Panmenic

I've not written in this blog for over four years.  It might be time to start again...

 Red Lunar Dragon/ Imix, Tone 2

Many of the inhabitants of this planet have suddenly come to the realization that no matter how we resist the idea: We Are One. We are a Global Community. 

This idea, this fact of oneness, in the last few days and months, has become known to us as the Coronavirus, where nearly 4,000,000 global cases have been confirmed to date and 257,000 deaths reported. In the US alone, over 1,200,000 cases confirmed, with 77,000 deaths recorded in the last two months.  

This devastating pandemic has caused unimaginable deaths, amateurish preparation, partisan division and unbelievable chaos. Biased quibbling over saving the Health and Well Being of the American Public or Protecting  the Wealth of Portfolios has escalated into one deadlock after another. Stay-at- Home orders are high among states governed by Democrats and Get-the- Economy-Back by Republicans.  Rallies are taking place at state capitols with Nazi and Confederate signs, disregard for social distancing and armed protestors wearing flack jackets, shouts for Freedom!, even challenges at hospitals toward  Essential Medical Workers.

Businesses have been shuttered and hospitals overwhelmed. Social distancing is taking its toll in many forms: Employers without clients or customers, employees without jobs, children out of school, teachers without students, excess drinking, eating and loss of sleep, families locked in their homes and thousands and thousands of people dying with no loved ones near.  Everyone alone. 

This toxic environment begs the question: how can we tear ourselves away from the gut wrenching news, the division of strategies and our isolation to search for solace?

I as many others (in an effort to keep from drinking ourselves to death!) have resorted to methods we know work but have shelved as lives seemed too busy or our desolation not as pressing. Now, it's pressing! We have called upon  meditation, yoga, walking, running, reading and yes, Netflix.

My GoTo, on and off, for nearly 20 years has been the Mayan Oracle or Calendar.  A few weeks ago I dug out the glyph cards and tone markers, pictured above.  Today is Red Lunar Dragon or Imix, Tone 2: I Polarize in Order to Nurture, Stabilizing Being.

Trying to bring the pandemic into focus, this is a reflection on what  that statement might mean to me today.  Take a look at this link first, scrolling down the page to : Lunar Tone 2 Polarize ~ Stabilize ~ Challenge...

If in fact Tone 2 does this "... encourages:  Stabilize challenge by receiving opposition as a catalyst to strengthen your truth. Embrace challenges as stimulating soul growth!"  ...we couldn't be closer to the dragon's mouth grappling with embracing a challenge if we tried! But, this embracing has currently become duality.

The next line is soul growth...in order to escape from duality we are encouraged to search deeply into our moral fiber for the yin and yang of this pandemic. May we allow ourselves to focus on what we can do to protect ourselves, our family and those we might come into contact with. Practice keeping in virtual contact with those we love and physical contact with those who live with us.  Allow ourselves to enrich our soul and stabilize our being with music or reading or meditation or anything that takes our mind  from the chaotic, frightening and contradictory elements currently surrounding us.

Then. Breath. Close your eyes. Take a walk outside . Pick a flower.  Be steadfast in your determination to question your beliefs, rising to Do No Harm. 

Take a moment to read Tone 2 again, see if you can glean any ideas that resonate differently with you now.  You are your own decision maker.

That's all for now folks, hope to be back soon, jb