Can't Win An Earthquake
This is how peace begins: by singing the wild symphony of Nature back into our cells, feeling the music of the spheres in our marrow, embodying the feminine creative principle. By raising our resonance, we become "the vessel which can contain all blessing," as one ancient text describes peace. This is also how we heal our bodies, and the body of Gaia: "immune" means sacrosanct, inviolate, whole. In celebrating all life, we pulse a radiating joy that resurrects our daily dance. And you can't wage war while dancing.
We've entered a new era. It is only in recent memory that strong antiwar sentiment (Iraq, Vietnam) has held sway. For much of human history, war has been an acceptable means of "protecting our interests," "keeping the world safe for democracy," or any number of other platitudes. If thousands, perhaps millions, of innocents had to die in the process, well, they were war heroes. And the villagers in other countries, slaughtered in the name of whatever deity one invoked, deserved death because they were "the enemy."
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives and the only member of Congress to vote against US entry into both World Wars, once declared, "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
She makes an enduring point. Did anyone "win" the Indian or Chilean 'quakes? Are we "winning" the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan?
What's really going on here? What is the higher purpose of the impulse to violence we all harbor within, to a greater or lesser degree?
Fire and water are complements; harmonized, they elevate consciousness and catalyze healing. I sang these words often during my own dark night of the soul. Instead of the old, tired dominator matrix, using fire power in an "us" vs. "them" scenario, we can embrace the true fire within us, and discover the myriad ways to channel this potent energy for good.
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