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Anatomy of a guilt trip

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Pam Grout

“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude towards the problem.”—Captain Jack Sparrow

My dysfunction of choice has always been guilt. Maybe you’ve been on the same hamster wheel? The one where you obsessively worry about all the things you could have, should have, why didn’t I? do better.

I wrongly believed that if I beat myself up enough I would become a better person. If I listed all my faults and came up with a plan to improve upon each of them, I would finally get the guy, the financial situation, the (fill in the blank) I so desired.

What I finally came to realize is that guilt (and all its mean girl cousins) is a deterrent to miracles. Each “why didn’t I?” only made the wall between me and my highest good more impenetrable.

As I began to dismantle each shaming thought, to take my…

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The Oracle Report | Tuesday, October 21, 2014

FROM WISE OWL ELIZABETH

FROM WISE OWL ELIZABETH

Oracle Report Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Balsamic Moon Phase: release

Moon in Libra

Skill: look and listen for messages

Negative Imprint: isolation, refusing help, resisting change, rationalizing, judgmental, doubtful, thinking one knows it all

Positive Imprint: attunement, sharing knowledge, conveying messages, reaching out, transformation of the basis or basics of something into something higher

The Moon returns to Libra once again during this Libra lunar cycle. But this time around is quite different from the first time, the New Moon in Libra on September 24. Much has been revealed. Much has changed. Do you remember your mindset at that time? Where has clarity illuminated in your life? This whole lunar month has been like a long Full Moon, beaming down a luminous glow all to enable us to see.

When we see, we respond. When we respond, we become stronger.

If you saw things this month but did not respond, you can let go of any feelings of guilt or failure. Most likely you did not respond as well as you would have liked because the shock of clarity slowed your process. Clarity can take some time to emotionally process. Not to worry because the next lunar month, the Scorpio cycle, is on its way and it is also a “Full phase” cycle. Like the current lunar month, the next one is also like a month-long Full Moon.

If you are groaning at the knowledge of another month that is like a month-long Full Moon, just remember that we have the fullest power during Full cycles. Think of what you can infuse into the field of consciousness now after the “full” hit of clarity delivered this cycle! Clarity, revelations, and insight will continue next month, but the effects will not be as jarring. Libra is cardinal energy, so it brings abrupt changes – right turns. Scorpio is fixed energy, so it settles into place better and then maintains, upholds, and defends its position. This will be most welcome, won’t it?

Today, messages are on tap for us in big ways – ways that influence destiny. Pay close attention to what you are hearing – not just in direct conversation, but also hearing what’s on the wind. You may hear a snippet of a conversation that has meaningful information for you. The natural world will send communications for you. Signs and synchronicities abound. Balsamic Moon phase is the time of mystical time of the month. The veils between the worlds are thinnest and Spirit whispers in our ears and in our hearts. Listening to music will accelerate and amplify this energy.

Balsamic Moon phase is also the time when we release feelings about what did not work out the way we wanted or what we may have lost over the past month. It is a time to release negativity, weeding out our minds in preparation for planting anew with the upcoming New Moon. We want the soil of our psyches to be fresh and clear because the next month is ultra-powerful for the re-creation of reality.

People tend to respond to others with harsh criticism today. Libra energy naturally judges. If this is upon you today, mellow it. There is no room for harshness under the Balsamic Moon. You can let it slip away to be transformed. This is true for harshness with ourselves also. There is no need for any of that. We can do things a different way. We are not slaves to repetition of behavior. We are free beings who can choose and change at any moment. We can mystify.

Let’s tend to the crop of our consciousness today and prepare for the abundance and opportunities that seek to find us next month. It’s really quite exciting!

(Many, many thanks to everyone who joined in the group meditation yesterday – and many thanks to anyone chooses to participate over the next couple of days. You can perform the meditation anytime before the New Moon in Scorpio on Thursday and have your voice heard.

We started this lunar month with the lofty mission of the Sabian symbol “the light of the sixth race {age} transmuted to the seventh {age}.” It was about bridging consciousness into a new time, a new paradigm – the Age of the Return of Wisdom or the Second Renaissance.

For this to be a co-creation between our dream for the future and the dreaming of Gaia Sophia, humanity, or a certain portion of humanity, needed to have its say – to show up and be heard. This needed to be done when conditions were favorable for connection with the Galactic Center, our spiritual home. This meditation was our way of standing up and injecting OUR vision for the future instead of being pulled around unconsciously, willy nilly. Our individual dreaming and unified action was received. We responded to the call to add our voice into the timeline. It was astounding. I will talk about it in the audio overview for next month that will be posted later today.

The “Contact Form” onwww.oraclereport.comseems to be working pretty well now, although we are still in Mercury retrograde. I am working through backlogged emails, but please feel free to send me anything that you’d like to pass on about what you saw in the meditation. Or share it on the Oracle Report Facebook community.

One other thing, one of the energies we were working off of yesterday was the position of Jupiter – “American Indians perform a ritual to the Sun.” Nice work, wise owls!)

Thank you for supporting the Oracle Report. Blessings to all!

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Transforming the Earth: A New Paradigm, Disclosure, and Ascension – Part 1/3

Thank you Wes! So many people are awakening to the changes and all of our parts to play in bringing them about. Despite all the negative news it is a beautiful and amazing time to be alive.
As Wes says in this article ”
We’re changing the planet with every kind act; every good deed, and whenever we act on a selfless impulse to help others, the planetary consciousness rises. We strengthen our already strong movement of love and harmony with every positive and loving thing we do, and as we’re starting to learn, we’re the only ones who can hold ourselves back.”

Openhearted Rebellion

Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

We’ve reached an unprecedented time in our history and our social development. Together, we’re creating a new paradigm; an era rooted in harmony and advancement instead of conflict and chaos.

We’re preparing to see what the next phase in our evolutionary growth will present, and we’re on the verge of welcoming a wealth of miraculous and revolutionary changes that’ll completely transform the limited manner in which we’ve viewed ourselves and the world around us.

Our awareness of ourselves and the universe is growing every day.

Those of us who’ve become aware of spirit and the necessity to cease warfare and various other destructive things in the name of coming together and running this planet as a unified body are doing everything we can to spread this knowledge and the liberation that comes with it, because it’s become our responsibility.

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Truthout Daily Digest Sunday, 19 October 2014

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Henry Giroux on the Rise of Neoliberalism

Michael Nevradakis, Truthout: Henry Giroux discusses the increasingly negative impact of neoliberalism across the world – politically, socially, economically and in terms of education – and he offers some suggestions for what we must do now.

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Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Andrew Jackson Were Proponents of Native American Genocide

Mark Karlin, Truthout: Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks about her book on the true history of how the United States became a nation and the Eurocentric racism used to justify it.

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It’s Time to Stop Letting Sociopaths in Power Tell Us What Makes Us Happy

D.H. Garrett, Truthout: If we are to save ourselves, we must escape the twin clutches of both corporations and nation-states, which provide leadership of the irresponsible.

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The Shell Game of Contingent Employment

Darlene Lombos, Sarah Leberstein and Elvis Mendez, The Public Eye: As corporations continue to look for ways to skirt government regulations and increase their profit margins, many will continue to hire intermediaries or misclassify workers as a way of outsourcing their responsibility and escaping liability.

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Paying the Price of Tar Sands Expansion

Anna Simonton, Oil Change International: Despite all the reasons to keep tar sands in the ground, the refining equipment tax credit has helped put tar sands development in the US on the rise, accelerating climate change at the expense – in every sense of the word – of US taxpayers.

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Truthout Interviews Eisa Ulen on Raven Symone and Black Identity

Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Truthout contributor Eisa Ulen is one of the voices who reminds Raven Symone and others that while a post-racial world is a laudable goal – and one Ulen certainly wants to see – we as a society are simply not there yet.

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Unfriending ALEC

Michael Brune, OtherWords: Big tech companies like Google and Facebook are breaking up with corporate polluters like the American Legislative Exchange Council. The climate movement is making it harder than ever for corporations to get away with poisoning our future.

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When the Ayatollah Said No to Nukes

Gareth Porter, Foreign Policy: In an exclusive interview, a top Iranian official says that Ayatollah Khomeini personally stopped him from building Iran’s WMD program. Khomeini ruled out development of chemical and biological weapons as inconsistent with Islam.

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My One Minute of Campaign Finance Fame

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center for Justice: As life imitates art, fights over pay to play laws have been going on in courtrooms, as the movie Pay 2 Play shows. The film is a well-made and comic introduction into the world of money in politics for those who don’t live and breathe the issue.

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Bashing Obama to Make Way for Hillary

Alli McCracken, PINKtank: “I’m horrified at the prospect of Clinton being the more ‘liberal’ presidential choice in 2016. If President Obama campaigned for hope and change, but ultimately enshrined some of Bush’s most egregious foreign policies, what will explicitly pro-war candidates deliver next?”

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Thoughts on Pedagogy

John Steppling, John Steppling’s Blog: There is another aspect to institutional educationtoday, and that is the deep reliance on bureaucratic models and its connection to sociology. It is important to think about who exactly is to be educated.

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This week in SpeakOut:

Kathy Kelly describes her most recent day in court for protesting drone warfare; Laith Sauddisallows Bill Maher’s “progressivism”; Jim McCluskey argues that the US has discovered the perfect formula for endless war; Talitha Victoria and Dora Aguilar address who is at fault for US economic and racial inequality; Carlo Altamirano-Allende juxtaposes two Mexicos: the failed narcopolitical state and the resistance to the drug-war-induced permanent state of violence; Ramzy Baroud asserts the US founded Sunni militancy in Iraq, a concept that had been, up until recently, alien to the Middle East; Laura Finley maintains it is essential for women to successfully negotiate their salaries and raises; Johan Schneereviews the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and discovers ten years of successful programs (NOT!), while Edmonds and Nangwaya predicted the catastrophic renewal of MINUSTAH’s mandate and Charles Hinton discusses the Duvaliers’ ongoing legacy; Temple University faculty and others write an open letter to that institution demanding a formal policy requiring disclosure of the funding sources for academic research; Ravi Batra reviews Apek Mulay’s new book, which claims mass capitalism may be the only way to eradicate unemployment and poverty in the US; and more.

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BuzzFlash

The Buzzflash commentary for Truthout will return soon.

A $10.10 Minimum Wage Would Save the US Government $7.6 Billion a Year

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Major Oil Spill Strikes Louisiana, Threatens Waterways

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How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties

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The Government Wants Tech Companies to Give Them a Backdoor to Your Electronic Life

Read the Article at The Guardian

Gov. Rick Scott Privatized, Florida Prisoners Died

Read the Article at Crooks and Liars

Not The Onion: Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Owner Wins Climate Leadership Award

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Missouri’s Solidarity Economy Is Organizing in the Wake of Michael Brown’s Death

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Common Dreams Highlights October 20,2014

Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

News & Views | 10.20.14

Featured…

Reality of National Security State Trumps ‘Delusions’ of U.S. Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/20/reality-national-security-state-trumps-delusions-us-democracy

Headlines…

Global Health Groups Call for ‘Common Mission’ to Fight Ebola
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/20/global-health-groups-call-common-mission-fight-ebola

Bombs Fall in Syria as Weapons-Makers Profits Soar in the West
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/20/bombs-fall-syria-weapons-makers-profits-soar-west

Philippine President Says Alleged Murder by US Marine Won’t End Military Agreement
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/20/philippine-president-says-alleged-murder-us-marine-wont-end-military-agreement

‘White on Pumpkin Crime’: Mainstream Riot Coverage from Ferguson, Missouri to Keene, New Hampshire
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/20/white-pumpkin-crime-mainstream-riot-coverage-ferguson-missouri-keene-new-hampshire

and more…

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Views…

Laura Poitras & Tom Engelhardt: Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/20/edward-snowden-and-golden-age-spying

Maude Barlow: Everyone in Detroit Should Have Access To Clean Water
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/20/everyone-detroit-should-have-access-clean-water

Chris Hedges: The Imperative of Revolt
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/20/imperative-revolt

Marcellene Hearn: The Torture Secrets Are Coming
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/20/torture-secrets-are-coming

Kwei Quartey: What West Africa Can Teach the US About Ebola
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/13/why-we-should-be-seething-anger-over-inequality

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Newswire…

AFL-CIO: Labor Movement Mobilizes Latino Working Families Ahead of Midterm Elections
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/20/labor-movement-mobilizes-latino-working-families-ahead-midterm-elections

Reprieve: Government Urged to Defend Bahraini Activist as ‘Trial for Tweeting’ Begins
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/20/government-urged-defend-bahraini-activist-trial-tweeting-begins

World Wildlife Fund: Alpine Lifelines on the Brink
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/20/alpine-lifelines-brink

ACLU: Transgender Troops, Military Experts Gather in First-Ever International Conference
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/10/20/transgender-troops-military-experts-gather-first-ever-international-conference

and more…