Friday June 19, 2020 ~ GLOBAL
Opinion-Editorial by Chani Nicholas
Editor’s Note: This is a well-crafted observational statement to help put current shifts in social awareness into a higher context.
“The horrors of colonial, white-supremacist, patriarchal, state-sanctioned violence aren’t new and they aren’t accidental. Their operation manuals have always been on full, unabashed display as the foundational philosophy of this nation and so many others that were built on trauma, exploitation, and the theft of life and land.
If you are just waking up to these facts, their impact, and your role in it all, welcome. You are late. And you’re needed.
Along the journey of discovering how we benefit and contribute to the systems that have been set up to keep Black women, trans folks, gender non-conforming people, and men oppressed we will feel: threatened, disoriented, afraid, ashamed, alone, unsure, defensive, and hopefully, eventually, relieved to finally leave the state of cognitive dissonance we were born into. We will feel, period.
One of the promises of privilege is that it will keep us numb to the pain we are set up to perpetuate. Disavowing ourselves of that drug, we commit to being alive and unsettled. Let’s remind ourselves that although we will take everything personally at times, emotions change but facts do not. The systems that do the most harm depend on our fragility and defensiveness. And our ability to weaponize them both.
Hurt feelings of the privileged have wiped out nations.”
The cosmic perspective:
To go deeper, here is the astrological analysis.
The upcoming solar eclipse in Cancer arrives on Saturday June 20 at 11:41 PM PDT.
Eclipses are pattern-setting times. This is the second eclipse in a series of three.
Eclipses act like exposés, unveiling what has been relegated to the shadows of our personal and collective lives. They set things in motion and mark moments where a longstanding issue breaks through to the conscious awareness of an individual, the collective, or both.
Eclipses activate events that are already occurring. This eclipse happens to fall on the weekend of Juneteenth, a weekend that will have some of the biggest and broadest Black Lives Matter uprisings that we have seen thus far across the entire globe. As of writing this upwards of 275 public events are scheduled. It’s a massive moment in a longstanding movement.
This solar eclipse is happening on the exact degree where Mars was when the #BlackLivesMatter movement was formed. One of the key issues that Mars represents is the police and militarization.