Thank you for the podcast this morning Open - it has felt challenging to embrace this election outcome as a positive reflection of the energetic shifts in the field and a signal of greater opening in the 3D toward sovereignty and freedom. I am realizing that although I also see a wave within this wave of freedom and sovereignty that is feeling emboldened toward greater power over others through things such as Christian nationalism and white supremacy; this same power over energy has been there all along in less obvious ways and different forms such as our food and water supply, our health, our school-to-prison system...it is not a newly emboldened energy it is taking an obvious form and I wonder if it is more minority in the big picture and less systemic- though still feeling for those impacted by the sharpness of it.

I am holding the bigger picture that you have shared and allowing it to land within...recognizing at times my inclination toward noticing and getting lost in the detail and missing the big picture.

A magical series of synchronicities have been landing...earlier this week a vibrant green dragonfly flew down through my sun roof. Finding it on my seat I picked it up and it wouldn't leave my finger for minutes - staying on my pinky while I drove down the road - to me speaking of being open to being informed in ways that my lower mind may block out ...keeping the sun roof open!

Yesterday I visited a cemetery in my town - one I didn't know existed and have never been to. After parking the car alongside the outer perimeter (the roads forming a circle around the outside with a road coming down the center - similar to a simple drawing of a torus. As I got out of the car, I watched a red apple fall from a tree - from an OAK tree?!! Right near it was one more - both fully formed - no nibbles! How in the world does an apple fall from an oak tree? This felt like it related to the inquiry around the election and around my typical way of perceiving...that something is outside of the usual here - the typical or predictable patterns of life are called into question...that something is fruiting from an unexpected place.

As I walked through the cemetary, taking in the stories of the lives around me, I was struck by a grave with the words SELF. On a personal level, I received the message, but also, perhaps this was helping me see that the larger SELF and the natural flow of life has been buried, and this fruiting from an unexpected place is a reflection of its uncovering.