Jul 9 2019

What did you learn from the Democrat’s debates last week?

Last week’s debates have sparked important conversations, ones that need to be deeply reflected on and discussed.  Electability is the question of the day, as is:  Can a woman be elected to the presidency in 2020?   I read the syndicated columnists and listen to MSNBC daily.  I speak with people face to face and on social media; I listen to their concerns and opinions, and voice my own.   The division is generational; it’s about gender and race, and progress.   Kamala Harris came away from the debates in a much stronger position; she exemplified leadership, and has demonstrated that she can take the case to Trump, but some folks were upset that she challenged Joe Biden, whom many view as the best & brightest hope for beating Trump.  However the current Quinnipiac poll shows Biden’s approval rate at 22 percent, Harris 20, Warren 14, Sanders 13, and Buttigieg, 5 percent.  More of us everyday feel that government needs to be better reflected by those it governs, and more compassionately.

Trish Forsyth Voss

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Jul 1 2019

PREDICTIONS JULY 2019

A solar and a lunar eclipse, Mercury retrograde in Cancer, and other planetary alignments generate some high drama.  The solar eclipse on July 2nd in Cancer may catalyze a situation that needs to end, and will mainly affect Cancers, Aries, Librans and Capricorns, but we will all ‘feel the heat’ of this “testing month”.  We really must try to ‘Trust the Universe’ – that a higher purpose is behind these influences.  Solar eclipses usually bring endings and beginnings that clear the path forward.  Cancer represents “nurturing and sensitivity”, and we will do well to apply a caring attitude in all our dealings and relationships this month.

Mercury retrograde on July 8th, as Mars conjoins Mercury and squares Uranus, could prompt a busy, stressful week.  Practice PATIENCE!   “Geminis, Virgos, Aries and Aquarius are likely to be most affected.  “Geminis and Aries are by  nature busy, impatient, and often lack a sense of grounding — and need to be especially careful of blowing a mental fuse.”  All of us might find ourselves feeling the “scattered, frantic energies beaming down to earth, resulting in feelings of anxiety, impatience and overzealousness, trying to make things happen” prematurely  — that may not even be in our best interests.  Mercury rules communication, intellect and travel (and the signs Gemini and Virgo); so in times of Mercury retrograde we always need to consciously slow down, take a break from our routines,  from news, internet, social media, electronic devices, and spend more time outdoors appreciating nature, and in creative play, nourishing ourselves.  The purpose of Mercury retrograde is to help us get back in touch with our inner spirit, and “to review, renew and repair.”  It’s a time to clear out old stuff, to refresh ourselves and our environments, and for paying more attention to meaningfully connecting in our relationships.  We grow by rooting out the old debris, outdated attitudes, beliefs and habits, releasing them to the universe for ‘recasting’, and making room for fresher conceptions of loveliness to grace our experiences.

If you feel you need some help aligning your energies, try using flower essences.  Impatiens can help for frustration, for feeling “harried and flustered”.  Vervain is good for those of us who have over-extended our mental/emotional/physical “resources to the breaking point” — when we have forgotten to trust the higher powers of the universe.  These and other flower essences are beneficial for the Mars-Mercury-Uranus dynamic — take some before this planetary combo transpires (a few drops in your water bottle will stave off exhaustion and angry outbursts).   Homeopathics and flower essences are higher stratum remedies for dealing with many afflictions for those who don’t want to use strong, powerful anti-anxiety or mood/depression meds.  Receiving energy work, like Reiki, Reflexology and massage are also very helpful; and ‘at no cost’ we can all use meditation as a tool for calming and centering ourselves, getting into a better sense of balance in our day-to-days.  Read about the very real, physiological effects and benefits of employing meditation practice into your life (even for just a few minutes a day).

Saturn and Pluto opposite the Sun and Venus is a very “heavy, oppressive and depressive alignment”.  Capricorns, Cancers, Leos and Scorpios will be affected.  Aires, Librans and Taureans will also feel this challenging alignment.  “It all reaches a peak around the lunar eclipse on July 16th & 17th” in Capricorn, which conjoins Pluto; this is a “time of great intensity …. that will finally come to a head and can be released”.  This can be a time for transformation and rebirth, bringing up “painful issues …. buried rage, anger, jealousies, and resentments to the surface”.  We are faced with the conducive opportunity to let much trauma be released, and subsequently feel much lighter and freer.  Approaching July with the awareness that something needs to be released, and then letting it go, whether its “an attitude, belief, situation, person or possession”, can be very healing.  Possessions can require energy to maintain them; “the message of July is:  What can we release?”  Anger toward someone, unforgiveness, sorrow, self-blame, even ailments …. we can choose to let them go.  Choice.  Intention.  Transformation.  Desire.  Healing.  Manifestation.  Simplify & Release!

The testing atmosphere of July calms down at month’s end, and hopefully we’ve taken a real inventory, and allowed ourselves to release emotional baggage and commitments, and hence we have a “freer step, a fuller breath”, and we can step forward with a clearer understanding of lessons learned, and feel rejuvenated as we set forth on our path to experience what next month’s grand planetary lessons initiate.  Hopefully August will yield lighter, more jovial energies & experiences!

The above information is quoted or paraphrased from: Donna Taylor, ‘Predictions’ article, July 2019 magazine edition of  Sedona, Journal of Emergence; with added insights and comments by Trish Forsyth Voss.

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Jun 30 2019

A huge military presence in the Mediterranean (Americans misled by Pentagon).

“The Persian Gulf is a Mediterranean sea in Western Asia — it’s an extension of the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula  to the southwest.  The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline.”  As I have written before, there is a huge gas-field between the nations of Iran and Qatar; and as I have predicted previously, the Trump administration will start a war with Iran to plunder the region, as Bush-Cheney did elsewhere in the Middle East.

There is much to protect in the region.  In 2018, the US military reiterated the promise to keep the Persian Gulf waterways open to oil tankers, as Iran renewed threats to close off the region.  Most of the world powers have military bases in the region.  Britain, in 1967, moved its naval bases from Aden, seaport in Yemen, to Bahrain; it shares bases in Oman and Kuwait.   France and Germany have military presence in the area.   Russia has set up a big military presence in the Mediterranean, complete with missiles and nuclear-capability.  Russia was in Syria, when the U.S. wasn’t.   The U.S. has an ’empire of bases’ in the Middle East.  Our Navy’s Fifth Fleet has been headquartered in Bahrain since 1949.  In 2003, the Air Force moved its major air operations command center from Saudi Arabia to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.  The U.S. maintains a military presence in several Persian Gulf nations, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE.  We have many troops in Germany, a launching pad for forces going to Afghanistan, and to bases throughout S.W. Asia, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan and Iraq.

The Pentagon, under the Trump administration, has misled Americans about our growing military involvement in a war in Yemen, that we should have no part in.  On 4/04/19, Congress passed an historic, War Powers resolution with strong bipartisan support, calling for the end of America’s involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led war in Yemen, fighting Iranian-allied rebel Houthis.  Trump vetoed the bill; the Senate was unable to override Trump’s veto, so our assistance in another war continues.   Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has stated that he is setting out to build an international coalition against Iran, with officials in  the Persian Gulf, and has recently visited UAE and Saudi Arabia.   Trump has awarded the Saudis  huge arms sales, even contracting them to build bombs for the U.S.

Trish Forsyth Voss

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Jun 28 2019

What to think of President Trump’s response to Iranian players shooting down our RQ-4 Global Hawk drone?

Threats cast about, tensions rising, tankers attacked last week in the Persian Gulf; then that expensive, unmanned US drone shot down in the Strait of Hormuz.  After intense discussion and debate at the White House, a rushed military operation was underway, planes were in the air, ships were in position, and with ten minutes to spare before the planned strikes on a handful of Iranian targets, president Trump aborted the operation.  He explained: he thought the incident might somehow have been unintended, and spontaneously calculated the retaliation would not be “proportional”.  Trump then, instead, escalated crippling sanctions.  Not being “in the room where it happened”, we don’t know if there was a last-minute call from Putin, but the Iranian-ally warned Trump last week to, “NOT use military force against Iran, despite provocations”; that “an attack on Iran would have enormous consequences — that it would trigger an escalation of hostilities across the region, at a minimum”. ****Putin asserted that “Iran has abided by the terms of a land-mark nuclear deal despite the US’ withdrawal from the accord”, adding that he considers “American sanctions against Iran unfounded!”   Rut-row!   Asked if Russia could be willing to negotiate “a grand bargain” with the U.S. on Syria and other issues, Putin responded by saying that “we aren’t trading in our allies, our interests and our principles, but dialogue is always good and necessary.”     ****

Trish Forsyth Voss

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Jun 24 2019

Working with Collective emotional overwhelm — WE CANNOT GIVE UP HOPE!

We’re all subject to personal overwhelm, our daily and accumulated grief, worries and challenges, but “our contemporary culture is deeply entrenched  in chronic overwhelm, unattended overwhelm, overwhelm without any significant relief in sight, overwhelm that continues to pick up steam; it is a global destabilizing condition that combines excessive stimulation, massive information overload, unrelenting pressure and a dread-infused numbing; it keeps us in energetic debt, borrowing from our reserve tanks, until we’re all but running on empty.”  It is all-pervasive; “more common than the common cold and more infectious than any plague; it blocks emotional intimacy by scattering and disorienting us and by keeping many of us in so much chronic fear that we tend to view others as threats, more competition for resources and stability.  In collective overwhelm we’re often just too drained and scattered to expend the energy and attention  needed to take better care of ourselves, including doing what it takes to develop emotional intimacy.”

“If ‘future shock’ — the result of too much change in too short a time — is collective overwhelm’s past, systemic depression is its present.  This flattens and presses  all too many of us down, driving us into compensatory flight, obsession with stimulation, and other distractions from our suffering until we crash.    Fear  (anxiety, angst, dread) and anger  (irritation, frustration, hostility, rage) are collective overwhelm’s  predominant emotional correlates, operating on so much adrenaline that the only respite from them is eventual exhaustion and a tagalong apathy that features us being numb to our numbness.  No wonder the reported incidence of depression has shot up by more than 1000 percent in the last five decades; no wonder there’s widespread anxiety, and so much addiction, so much hell on earth.”

“Yet, all is not lost, if we get off the overwhelm express and cease to let ourselves be fed or seduced or engulfed by it.  Yes, it will continue to affect us, sometimes intensely so, but we do not have to let it occupy us.  And this begins with seeing it for what it is and becoming as intimate as possible with the fearfulness at its core, given how central our fears are to collective overwhelm.  We need to do whatever helps to cut through depressiveness, and do it full out.  No more pressing down our pain, or wasting our vitality, no more energetic or emotional flattening.  What’s helpful is a mix of aerobic workouts, a grounded meditative practice, well-supported self exploration that connects the dots — intellectually and emotionally — between our past and our present, and an in-depth emotionally-open sharing of this with others, until such work is not just personal, but interpersonal, liberatingly relational and collective.”

“And last, but not least, we need to develop the endurance and patience to stay the course.  It’s a life’s work and needs to be treated as such.  Spiritual stamina is essential, don’t postpone developing it.  Go to the heart of collective overwhelm, beyond the fear and anger and numbness and shock, and there you’ll find enormous grief.  Get into it, opening channels for it to flow, to cut loose, to break open your heart, until its cry is your cry.  Then what’s below and beyond all the pain starts to shine forth, inviting us into what we never really left but only dreamt we did.  This is the healing through which we embody a deeper life; this is the healing that calls us through all that we are and all that we do.  Yes, it may overwhelm us at times, but it’s the kind of overwhelm that cleanses, purifies, heals, awakens.  It is time to move toward it, for the sake of one and all.”

(Passages quoted from chapter 29, Collective Overwhelm, from the book: Emotional Intimacy, a Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of your Emotions, written by Robert Augustus Masters, PhD, published by Sounds True.)

Having read some of this book, I found this information to be so compelling and pertinent to what most of us are experiencing at this current time in our history.   We cannot give up hope!  We must adequately deal with our own wounds, fears, biases, anxieties, and go forward with as much equanimity and humanity in our hearts and souls, as we can possibly muster, if we would progress and evolve our society in a relatively soulful manner.   Collective means that we are all in this planetary/global community together.  Let’s embrace our shared involvement.                Trish Forsyth Voss

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Jun 24 2019

TRUMP, THE CHUMP

HE IS WEARING US DOWN!  At least he’s trying!  Are we exhausted yet?!  He’s blaming social media companies for censoring him and discriminating against conservatives.  He wants to sue SNL for their unbecoming skits about him, instead of perhaps stopping his own unbecoming behaviors.  Nunes wants to sue Twitter for allowing people to talk trash about him, about his cow and his mother…. PLEEZE!   No Republicans are really calling Trump out for his Disgusting behaviors, his delusive attacks on John McCain are just so far over the damn line, if there still was one.  His feelings are hurt because he didn’t get a thank you card from anyone for his approving the funeral for McCain, “we sent him on the way, but I’m not a fan of McCain, and never was!”   He’s railing about McCain’s thumb-down vote on repealing Obamacare, and about the part McCain played in getting ‘the dossier’ to the FBI.  The thing is, Trump supporters have hostile, hateful views of John McCain; he’s NOT a hero in their books.  They think McCain was some kind of traitor.  The supporters don’t see anything traitorous about Donald Trump and his activities.

We can’t take another 2 years of this, much less a second term of DJT.  Trump & cohorts are already strategizing about using the Mueller report as a political weapon against Democrats, if absolute proof of ‘collusion’ is not presented at that time, regardless of all the indictments, all the criminal liability cases playing out soon in state’s court cases coming out of the Special Counsel’s investigation.

We need generational change; big changes.  Dem House representatives are proof of this sea change.  The youth, Parkland students getting involved in gun control issues, young people instigating a World Rally for Climate Change.  They are changing the status quo, and a Biden, a Sanders, a ……. is not going to be the one who gets elevated to leader status.

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Jun 15 2019

THE PARTY OF LINCOLN …. Give us a break!

Don’t you just love it when the right-wingers try to lay claim to being the Party of Lincoln?  As if the current party would be realistically represented by Honest Abe, the biggest liberal of all!   Lincoln won election to the Illinois state legislature in 1834 as a member of the Whig Party.  The Federalist Party had dissolved after the War of 1812.  The Democratic-Republicans evolved into the Democrat Party.   The Republican Party, was founded in 1854, as a “coalition of Whigs, Free Soilers and disgruntled Democrats, opposing the extension of slavery into the Western territories, and fought to protect the rights of African Americans after the Civil War”.  During Reconstruction, fiercely, liberal, radical Republicans, in Congress “passed legislation protecting the rights of the blacks, including civil rights and voting rights for black men” (all legislation that most current-day Republicans are against).  “Republicans had become increasingly associated with big business and financial interests in the industrialized North, and those interests became the focus of the Republican Party.”  Federal government had naturally expanded and the first income tax law was passed and implemented.  “White resistance to Reconstructionist policies solidified, and Democratic southern state’s legislatures wiped out most of the Reconstruction’s changes.”  Big changes in the party occurred after WWII, when “white Southerners began migrating to the GOP due to their opposition to big government, expanded labor unions and Democratic support for civil rights, as well as conservative Christians’ opposition to abortion”.  Names of political parties have changed over time, parties have shifted members, but basically the Republicans and Democrats  flipped in their ideological platforms when the Dixie-crats (States’ Rights Democratic Party) — who were “committed to the maintenance of segregation, opposed to federal intervention into race relations, and disturbed by their region’s declining influence within the national party” — broke away from the Democratic party, assumed greater control in several Southern states, legislated Jim Crow laws, instituted Black Codes, formed terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, lynched multitudes of black citizens, imprisoned thousands more, and have covetously held on to their bigotry for decades.  They form the nucleus of the current Republican Party.  Notice that right wingers …. just about everything they say is falsehoods and deception?   And by the way, William P. Barr is NO Atticus Finch!   He’s a Deep-State actor, and he needs to be impeached!  He’s supposed to be the Attorney General for the United States, not a personal lawyer-fixer for Donald J. Trump!

Trish ForsythVoss

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Jun 15 2019

Do you support the Hyde Amendment? Why or why not? What to think of Biden’s reversal on subject?

The Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in the case of Roe v Wade, in January 1973, ruling 7 to 2, that a woman’s right to choose an abortion was protected by the privacy rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thereby establishing the legality.   The Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976 and expanded on in 1994, restricts federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the woman.  Hyde Amendment seems to have been legislated as a compromise for the opponents of abortion, those who are conscientious objectors of others exerting their legal rights.  I’m against my tax dollars paying for endless wars, so I ‘get’ that people disagree on what should be funded by tax dollars.   Biden’s revised stance on ‘Hyde’ comes immediately following several states having passed extremely restrictive abortion laws in order to get the issue before the Supreme Court again, wanting Roe overturned.  Those states seek to make abortions illegal, even in the case of rape and incest!   The Hyde Amendment worsens healthcare inequality for low-income women.  I support candidates supporting racial and economic justice and reproductive freedom.

Trish Forsyth Voss

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Jun 15 2019

Is the “I” word Impeachment or Intervention?

A Nuclear Option is Trump ‘exercising’ his Enemies List, handing it over to Attorney General Barr, giving his “trustee” authorized access to all 16 governmental intel-agencies’ information.   Trump said, “I declassified everything”  …. for Barr, whom Trump says, “can share the info with Congress or do whatever he wants with it”.  Trump has stated that “THEY are guilty of Treason”, the people who were investigating Russian interference from before the 2016 election.  Trump has maligned the FBI, CIA, NSA; he claims, “They tried to do a take-down on the president of the United States.  That’s Treason!”   The Constitution, Article 3, Sect 3, reads, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort”.   In what ways is Trump perhaps giving Putin “aid and comfort”, (after their cyberattacks on us)?    What are the risks …. dismantling intel-communities, skewing information?   Trump wants vindication and revenge!

Trump is losing his obstruction battles in the courts; his financial records will be reviewed.  The “most transparent president ever” knows what he has to hide.  Outraged, he exclaimed, “the Mueller report is over!  Congress wants a RE-DO!”    Wrong again, Mr. President.   Mueller’s report outlined several instances of Obstruction of Justice, whereon Trump could be impeached, and Congress holds Impeachment duties!

Trump, ever scolding journalists about their fake news ….. his cohorts altered and slowed a video clip of Speaker Pelosi, making her appear to be drunk or otherwise impaired; GOP-TV fake news!  Trump reportedly wasn’t prepared to agree on an Infrastructure deal on 5/22; he left in a huff, appeared in the Rose Garden, with prepared signs that read:  “Mueller report showed: No Collusion, No Obstruction”, which it did NOT!   Pelosi & Schumer held their own press conference just after Trump aborted the Infrastructure meeting; Pelosi said that Trump “had a temper tantrum, pounded his fist on the table, and left the meeting”.  The next day Pelosi went a step further saying that she was praying for the president and she hoped his family, staff or administration would have an Intervention with him.  Later that day, projection-artist Donald Trump called Pelosi, “Crazy Nancy”, and said, “she’s not the same; she’s lost it!”  The next day journalists asked him about his personal attacks on Pelosi; Trump said that Pelosi said “horrible things” about him, and he was just responding.  He announced again that he is an “extremely-stable genius”!

Trish Forsyth Voss

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Jun 11 2019

Mueller’s decision to hold a press conference on 5/29/19 and why.

 

Robert Mueller wrote to A.G. Barr in March stating that Barr’s summary of his report, “did not capture the context, nature and substance” of the investigation, and further stated, “there is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.  This threatens to undermine the central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel — to assure public confidence in the outcome”; and he requested that Barr “release the executive summaries and the introductions from the report to clarify the conclusions to the American people”.  In the head-start Barr gave Fox News, GOP-TV has continually lied about the Special Counsel’s “job” to determine charges against the president, that the investigation found no evidence, and that there must be an underlying crime in order to obstruct justice.  All of that is untrue.  Congress will open an Impeachment Inquiry, will hold Barr in contempt, and Mueller will testify before Congress, all in good time, my pretties!

Trish Forsyth Voss

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