A few days ago I spoke of being turned on by some wonderful vegetarian recipes, and the urge to make them isn't going away. If anything, it is growing, and that's so interesting.
And yet...even I, who try so hard to stay focused on the emerging Love-based paradigm (not the conflict-based one currently in its death throes) find it hard to feel quite the same about eating right now. I'm old enough to have known about dozens of wars and famines, situations where civilians (mostly women and children) suffered and died in large numbers. I've never been left entirely unmoved, although on many occasions I quickly went into "left-brain" mode and tried to focus on understanding rather than feeling. (Even now, the journalist, historian and artist in me defaults to "observer".) This moment's worst monstrosity is not always reported on at all, or falls late in a newscast. One is left wondering why much of the media's primary focus is (as ever) on missing young women, scandals and the deaths of "beloved" TV, music, or sports stars...don't we see ourselves and our childish selfishness, our attention to glitter, and our avoidance of the real question -- what is it in us that prompts us to kill other people and hurt the planet? And as a culture, when will we understand that this brutal era has ended? Because it is already over. There is literally no future to it.
Everyone alive has a different role to play right now, and as hard as it is to live with these contrasts too painful to bear -- why do I have the right to eat healthy meals today when many thousands are dying of starvation? -- I have to keep reminding myself that there is no more waiting. The Age of Aquarius is here. Those who are incapable of Love are erupting in violence, but within a few short years, such actions will literally no longer be humanly possible. Earth's higher spiritual energies will make hatred impossible to express, and eventually, nonexistent in the human soul.
So I go back to my old mantra -- my job is to write beautifully, create beautiful art or music, treat people as kindly as I can, and cook or bake to nurture myself and others. All of these actions are consistent with the emerging Goddess age and the Age of Aquarius, and therefore well worth doing...but this weekend as I do them, I dedicate my actions to people who are being deliberately starved and made invisible. I walk the tightrope, welcoming the vibrant new era with these exhausted people in my arms. Holding them gently, lovingly, like a Mother.
