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      "body": "For a number of years I have  had astrology readings from astrologers all over the world  because, first of all I am fascinated with systems and I consider myself somewhat of a systems analyst. I like to see how systems work. The second reason I have had readings from different people is that because each one of them are going to hone in on specific things in my chart. Or at the very least they are going to see my chart from a different perspective. \nPretty much all of them have focused on the stellium of my sun, moon and chiron in Pisces in the third house opposing Pluto, Uranus and the asteroid Ceres in Virgo in the ninth house. To those of you who don't understand astrology you are probably wondering what the heck that all means, just as I did for several years. \n  Pretty much all of the astrologists who have looked at my chart were able to see that some authority figure abused me and that it would set the course of my life. One astrologer even was able to identify the age at which it happened.\nI alluded to this in my last Steemit post. Up until the age of 10 I was a devout Christian. I would find someone to get me to church because my parents didn't go but I loved church. Then at the age of 10 during our confirmation classes the preacher would somehow get me alone and molest me. Come to find out, he molested 30 other girls as well.\nThis was a pivotal point in my life. Because I was a child and didn't really understand, I blamed God and walked away from Christianity and stopped praying.  I also suppressed the memory.\n  One astrologer nailed it when he explained that \"something happened to you at 10 that caused you to stop communicating and being a \"channel\" for spirit.\"  In astrology there is a belief that everything happens for a reason and that if we can heal our Chironic wound we can then go on to help others heal. In mythology Chiron was a centaur. In fact, he was the only Centaur(half horse-half man) who wasn't running around the country partying and having  sex. He was the teacher and mentor of healers and heroes. Then he was wounded and unable to heal himself. \n  I have understood my chironic wound for several years and understand it is somewhat of a generational thing but it plays out for differently for different people depending on the other aspects in their chart. For my generation though it is critical that we realize the damage that has been done through Christianity of demonizing the Darkness and through the New Age movement of believing that darkness doesn't exist.\n  In Christianity, Darkness   is associated with the Devil or Satan. In Chinese medicine the Darkness or the Yin energy is associated with the feminine, the earthly, the magnetic, the intuitive. It is the energy that rises from the earth and goes to our heart. So as I see it Christianity and its brother, Islam have demonized the worldly aspects of what it means to be human as well as denigrating and oppressing women, children and the Earth. \n  The other imbalance that Christianity has created over the last 2,000 years is to elevate to Godhood all that is light or Yang. In Chinese medicine Yang energy is associated with the fire, electricity, expansion, the intellectual and the masculine energies. The Yang energy comes from heaven through the top of our head and if our meridian system is functioning correctly it grounds down through our feet and into the earth.  (this is an overly simplified explanation of a very intricate system). The New Age movement has elevated all that is Light as well. The whole focus in that movement is that ascension or getting off of earth as the goal. It also demonizes feelings and what I perceive to be very human traits. \n With Christianity and our modern world, the majority of humans have excess yang energy with the energy getting stuck in the head.   The chironic wound for the generation of people born in the sixties is to heal this dualism within ourselves. To heal this separation between our head and our heart, between heaven and earth and learn how to walk again on this planet with our hearts and minds working together without demonizing either the light or the dark but having those energies balanced within us. \n  One astrologer told me that in my chart, if I can heal my chironic wound, is the ability to help others heal the polarity and duality between light and dark. She said that I have the ability to bring light to the darkness and darkness to the light.  She had no idea that I practice  reflexology and acupressure  or that I have been a student of the 5 element system of Chinese medicine for years. I literally feel that I am an electrician and my job is to make sure that your system is running the electricity and magnetism or yin and yang energies in a balanced way. Another friend of mine made an important point as it relates to this polarity of light and dark that it is possible to \"bend\" or misuse the light as well as the darkness.\n  On an emotional level I also feel that I bring light to the darkness and darkness to the light. I have made so many mistakes in my life that I have a lot of compassion for peoples faults and shadows. In bringing light to the darkness I help people see that their shadows or coping mechanisms were the only way they could survive at the time of their trauma or drama. I also bring darkness to the light by helping people see their shadows. Sometimes the ego is so strong and manipulative that it takes an objective witness to see how the ego/shadow is working. \n  In both the New Age movement and in Christianity there is an unwillingness to own the Shadow and a lot of projection onto the Other. If we can't or wont look at our shadows, the shadow controls us  and there is a tendency to project our darkness onto others. The Christians see the darkness in the Muslims and visa versa. The Whites see the darkness in the other races and the New Agers pretend there isn't any darkness at all. Jesus went to the desert to face his shadows. It took him forty days to overcome his struggle with his shadow/ego.\n  Of course I have done my share of projection and have to be very honest with myself to see when I am projecting. In my understanding that is a more shamanic path. Instead of being an exorcist, and driving or expelling the demons of others, I am here to see my own shadows and through making peace with my shadows, support others in making peace within themselves and bringing peace to earth one heart at a time. \n  This brings me to the rainbows. As I understand it the biggest shadows are created by our inability or unwillingness to feel our emotions. In Chinese medicine each of the five elements are associated with a feeling and a color. For example the  Water Element is associated with Fear and Anxiety and the colors blue and black. \n  As I perceive it we are always being given the opportunity to feel emotions or feelings that we have long suppressed because of a culture that demonizes feelings. One energy worker said that we learn to process feelings or emotions between the ages of 6 months-2 1/2 years.  When we grow up in a healthy home, these little packages of energy/feelings rise up to our heart, we feel it and open it up and the energy circulates through our field giving us a Rainbow Body of Light. When a parent says, \"Big Boys don't cry\" or \"Do you want me to give you something to really cry about?\" those little packages of feelings/energy get stuck in our body or what some call the emotional body. The universe is always giving us an opportunity to heal and brings situations into our life that trigger that old pain. Often however we don't realize it is old pain and thus we react and make up drama about what is happening in the present moment all in an attempt to not feel the old pain, unlock the package and brighten our field.\n  I truly believe that everything that is happening on the planet right now, from the political situation, the environmental situation and even the solar flares are giving us an opportunity to feel what we have repressed and remember who we are and become these amazing  Rainbow Warriors. \n   If you look at iconography of Jesus or Buddha you see them emitting or surrounded by a Rainbow Colored field.  This field in my opinion is created by their fluidity in feeling their feelings rather than reacting or projecting their feelings onto others. 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      "body": "Each of us in this culture comes in with some awareness of who we are and then because of the brutality of the culture we live in we each are shattered bit by bit until we hardly remember who we are. We become a shell of the person we were meant to be. Very few of us, especially people of my generation, were able to maintain their Wholeness and their Sovereignty.\nI was a magical child with a vivid imagination, and deep sense of compassion for people and animals  but I also had the \"gift\"? of no filters. I have always gotten in trouble for speaking without thinking and for saying socially inappropriate things.  As a result I was bullied, shamed and for a long time shut down. 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It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized that everyone of those kids who pushed me down, taunted me and pulled my pants down were Catholics and I didn't realize until recently that my overflowing  adoration of the gods, was heresy to the Catholics. Even in second grade. I stopped talking about the gods and only recently have begun my studies of more \"heathen and heretical\" topics. \nA few years later I also remember being in Sunday School sitting in a circle with my fellow Sunday School kids and teacher when I questioned something in the bible. The vehemence from the teacher kind of shocked me and sad to say, shut me down even more. I had loved going to church but because of who I was and had always been, I never took anything at face value. My dad said my first word was \"WHY?\" Some other things happened in that church that totally pushed me away from church and thank the gods, God and the Goddess it did because now my mind and my heart are much more open to the spiritual laws of the universe. Even though I loved church as a child, because of what happened to me in that church and what has been done in the name of God, I have found many ways to connect to the Divine so I never have to go into a church if I don't want to.\nOkay so lets skip ahead a dozen years. I am just finishing up my degree in journalism, I am aflame with passion for being a muckraker. \nAccording to Wikipedia the \" term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines. The modern term is investigative journalism, and investigative journalists today are often informally called \"muckrakers.\" They relied on their own reporting and often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption. Muckraking magazines—notably McClure's of publisher S. S. McClure—took on corporate monopolies and crooked political machines while raising public awareness of chronic urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, and social issues like child labor.[1]\"\nThe editor of the paper I received an internship at sits me down the first day and says to me, \"I know you are going to want to come here and be a muckraker, but you can't. The people you are going to want to go after are the people who buy ads in this paper.\"\nI of course was stunned and disillusioned. I worked at the paper for a year and then returned to the restaurant business where I was allowed to be more authentic. 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There was very little consideration for the people who lived here for a long time, only a focus on allowing and fostering development and growth.\nSo I, with my grandmother's regret in the back of my mind, consented. I handily won the election, receiving the largest number of votes ever.  Then the work and the frustration began. I realized very quickly that the zoning ordinances were antiquated and only favored the developers rather than maintaining the integrity of neighborhoods and fostering community. Even with a well-thought out master plan that took these things into consideration, the zoning trumped all so for many developments I was a voice in the wilderness. Very quickly I realized I am not a very good politician because I don't have a filter and I wasn't very good at sucking up. Before my term was finished someone tried to get the chief of police to arrest me for being a witch and the paper I had worked for did an article about me and my past lives. My women friends were afraid I was going to get burned but men stopped me on the street and commended me for speaking my truth. They said it empowered them to speak their own truth.\nThat was the first time I had experienced an awareness that by freeing my self from the oppressive cultural constraints and speaking aloud or writing about my experiences, I helped other people have the courage to be truthful about who they are. Since leaving the council I opened a Metaphysical store, continued to practice my alternate healing modalities and began teaching a yoga that encourages and helps facilitate people in acting from the Truth in their Hearts. \nI have also become an outspoken advocate for doing things outside of the existing paradigm. My retail store is open one day a week and by appointment.\nOnly recently have I become an Activist for protecting the Earth and the Water in a way my Grandmother wasn't able to. 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