Many Loners Make a Multitude....No More Lone Voices in Wilderness!

[KoKo]

No More Lone Voice in the Wilderness

Many Loners Make a Multitude
by Jessica Murray

The work of Paul Hawken1 comes to mind here. Even the title of his latest book, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming, has a distinctly Neptunian ring. He has historicized and quantified (Saturn) hundreds of environmental and social justice movements that have been pushing their way into the collective consciousness over the centuries and especially over the past several years. In the main, the public’s awareness of these groups has typically been splintered and confusingly random (Neptune). A glance at the Hawken compilation provides a sense of the scope and sheer scale of all the diligent efforts being expended to save the Earth. Free-floating anxiety (Neptune) is replaced with solid, perspective-bestowing knowledge (Saturn).

For example, Hawkens compares the economic arguments used by slave owners in the 18th-Century with the economic arguments Big Oil uses today to justify the degradations imposed upon the Earth by digging up fossil fuels. The core similiarities (Neptune) he finds between groups as varied and separate (Saturn) as prison reformers to electronic-voting-machine dissenters replicates, in a very timely and useful way, the deeper meaning behind the opposition: that divided pieces make up universal vision. Viewing the website he has put together -- sort of a Wikipedia for Lightworkers: www.wiserearth.org -- acts as a balm to the soul of those who are used to thinking of themselves as lone voices in the wilderness.

The New Moon of August 12th is an appropriate time to consider the disparity between feeling alone (Venus, Saturn) in whatever imagined wilderness (Neptune) we have fashioned for ourselves, and committing to deliberately dispelling that illusion by pooling our energies with others.

LINK to people all over the WORLD MAKING A CHANGE on OUR EARTH:

www.wiserearth.org

[porphyrian]

1. What's up with all the planetary references?

Is the article attributing random parts of itself to Roman gods?

[KoKo]

2. Kick for some "upbeat" news out there!!!!

:kick: