Chuck’s Place: Furor & Führer

Labor deepens. The world anxiously awaits the birth of a redeemer. The era of Obama has seen great expansion and inclusion. However, the speed of change has caused a swing to the opposite pole, that of boundary and protection, guns not roses. What’s at play beneath it all is the tango of two opposite, yet intimately related, instincts: sex and self-preservation.

What is being constellated, devil or angel? - Photo by Chuck Ketchel
What is being constellated, devil or angel?
– Photo by Chuck Ketchel

When sex dominates, we open our hearts, our borders; everyone matters, basic needs are met. When self-preservation dominates, our hearts are closed and steeled; we sacrifice life, we protect our own.

When sex dominates, the spirit of earth-based marijuana becomes legal. When self-preservation dominates, the distilled spirit of alcohol, an artifact of science, reigns.

When sex dominates, African-Americans, gays, transsexuals, Syrians, Muslims are welcomed. When self-preservation dominates, freedom shrinks as old order conservatives restrain the lower chakras. The head rules, the body politic is divided and controlled.

At a higher level these opposites are the interplay of love and power. When power rules, sex is rape. When love rules power is flaccid. When love and power vie for dominance, destruction and rebirth are the consequences. The goal we seek is to reconcile these opposites in a balanced union, and that brings us to the question of where we are now: What truly is the state of our Union?

America seeks renewal. Trump has risen as a potential redeemer. He presents as a freakish Dionysus with his golden locky mop. He embodies the spirit of a spontaneous orgy. He shoots from the hip with total unapologetic humor, sarcasm, and fury. He at once expresses youthful spontaneity and ruthless power. He is at once inclusive and divisive. He is uncontainable. Even the most powerful conservative Republican monied lobby cannot control his chameleon spirit. He’s alive and America is bored.

His appeal touches a latent excitement in Republican and Democratic citizens alike. His enthusiasm trumps reason, and this excites the volk of the American spirit. It’s a layer of the psyche below the ruling ego with all its boring limits and controls.

Under Trump our madness comes alive. We can all play with the Joker as he takes control of Gotham City. Who needs the movies? We can all become lustful, power-driven billionaires who can act out our wildest fantasies. We can simply, impulsively and completely, wipe out a country that threatens our security and our playtime.

Trump is dangerous because in the midst of all this furor we are missing a latent Führer. Hitler came to power because he, like Trump, tapped a latent Dionysian spirit of change that burgeoned beneath the beleaguered spirit of the German people. What broke forth under Hitler’s reign was a mass psychosis and an orgy of death.

Trump is not a redeemer. He is a false prophet, falsely presenting a balanced union of opposites. And yet we cannot ignore the need he excites: a reconciliation of sex and self-preservation, love and power.

True conjunctio, the opposites united by spirit...
True conjunctio, the opposites united by spirit…

However, if we study Trump closely, we see that though he embodies the energy of Dionysus there is no love in his person. This is America’s problem too: the Goddess is completely missing. Mature feminine wisdom is the bridge to reconcile these two opposing instincts of love and power, and wisdom is severely lacking in the youthful mess we find ourselves now steeped in. This is America’s true blind spot.

Youthful furor never stops to reflect and reconcile. And now it has truly upped the ante as it seems we might be swept into electing a Führer. Hopefully, a higher wisdom will prevail as we face this possibility. Or perhaps there will be another step needed before we can find our way to wisdom and advance beyond this dangerous dance of opposites into true conjunctio.

As always, we as individuals are microcosms of the collective consciousness as well as the collective unconscious. Roughly speaking, the instinct of self-preservation finds its home in the power drive of the ego. Sexuality, in contrast, remains largely in the body and the instinctual unconscious. If we approach the relationship between the ego and the unconscious from the place of higher feminine wisdom, that of relatedness, we are offered an opportunity to align these very powerful instinctual forces toward a united, balanced effort of survival, for both the individual and the planet.

However, we better still vote with Wisdom!!!!

Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday January 26, 2016

Learn to read and interpret the signs that come to guide you, both within and without. Your body knows and your senses know things that your mind misses or dismisses. You are all magical beings, but you have  forgotten this most important trait. Regain knowledge of self and all that you are capable of.

Like a warrior stand quiet and still and listen to what nature tells you, your own inner nature and nature outside of you alike. Learn how it speaks to you in dreams and inner signs, but also in the wind and in the heavens. Learn how it speaks of what is and what is to come and most of all how it teaches you to act in accordance with it. Nature knows. And so do you, for you are nature too.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

A Message for Humanity from Jeanne: In The Light Of Dawn

 

First light... - Photo by Jan Ketchel
First light…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

In the early light of dawn comes new energy, but how do we keep it alive during the day? Today’s channeled audio message offers some thoughts on that most important and challenging part of a commitment to change.

Have a great week, and don’t forget to stop back in for our daily Soulbytes!

Soulbyte for Monday January 25, 2016

Shadows are present day and night, the parts of the self ignored, compromised, or habitually dominant. Watch what you wish for. It may not be the best thing for you at the moment, a manifestation of some unlived part that is better off left in the shadows. On the other hand, the shadow self must become fully known if one is to truly “know thy self.” All aspects of self are valid and must be explored. The question then becomes: Is it the right time to turn to the shadow, or is it time to turn to the light?

Both extremes are you, but somewhere in between is your balance, where light and shadow are fully known and accepted, kept in balance without excess in either direction, all parts recognizable and easily utilized or put to rest when appropriate. When light and shadow are in proper perspective, all of life is in proper perspective. That is balance!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Sunday January 24, 2016

Life may not always flow as smoothly as you would like. Interferences and interruptions, blockages and stoppages are par for the course. But even so, your own input and choices, the attitudes you take, the deepness you elect to ponder are all under your control. Life happens but so do you. You are more than you think you are. Why not prove it to yourself? Rather than be overcome by life, awaken the force within you and become what you seek. May the Force be with you!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne