Author: Mary Long

A Stunning Realization

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I just had a stunning realization. I am the first generation of women who got to live her life with some semblance of equality, and I didn’t even get to live my whole life before those rights started being taken away. We never enjoyed full equality, but it was more than any generation before us had the privilege to experience.

I got to vote, make my own reproductive choices, have a legal right to equal education, schools had to legally spend as much on female sports as males. My 8th grade softball team was the first in the school’s history. Workplaces couldn’t discriminate against me because of my gender. Domestic violence and spousal rape became criminal acts, and not just ‘family matters’ or ‘a woman fulfilling her wifely duties.’ Sexual harassment became illegal, as opposed to just being called ‘boys will be boys.’ I could open a bank account, take out a loan, rent an apartment, own my own home. All or some of these rights were denied to the women who came before me. Those women fought long and hard for the rights I so freely enjoyed.

And now, slowly but surely, we’re losing them all. First, we lost autonomy over our bodies, then we lost DEI, which gave us equal opportunity to work. Now they’ve begun the process of taking away our right to vote. If you think it will stop there, you’re not paying attention. Every right we have came after we had the right to vote. Once we lose that, we lose everything. People who can’t vote don’t exist to those who make the laws.

South Carolina lawmakers just introduced advocating for the death penalty for women who have abortions. Keep in mind that this is the same party that has turned into a hero a white boy who murdered two actual living people.

The confounding thing is that nobody was tricked. They spoke openly about their desire to bring women back to a place when men could control them. They even wrote it all down in a book. Despite the warnings, millions of white women still voted their freedoms away. Historians will be studying this for centuries to come.

To me the most tragic thing is the realization of just how much self-hate so many women have. It’s hard to comprehend millions of women thinking so little of themselves that they would vote for a man and party who have such open contempt for women. Racism is a part of it, no question. But racism is simply self-hate projected outward. As within, so without. People who love themselves don’t hate other people because of the color of their skin.

I may be naïve, but I still have hope. I have hope that as these women realize exactly what they’ve done, they’ll change course. That their spirits will rise up within them and they’ll refuse to participate in their own discrimination any longer.

I pray it happens sooner rather than later. I pray it happens before women are once again the legal property of the men in their lives, and their fourteen-year-old daughters and granddaughters are sold off in marriage to the highest bidder.

Circle of Love

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This will not be accepted by all, and many will ridicule it, but worrying about what people think of me is pretty low on my list of priorities right now.

For those of you who, like me, find it hard to comprehend and accept all that is happening in our country and world, I offer you my experience of last night.

I tossed and turned, but sleep was impossible, knowing that our country was in crisis. The fears began to overtake me, so I called out to Divine Mother, asking her to please help me.

I then had a vision of myself rising above the earth into the night and She showed me an enormous circle of light in the sky. As I got closer, I realized it was a circle of millions and millions of people, all radiating light and holding their hands toward the center. I felt these people were our authentic selves in our soul bodies, emitting the love and light that is our true essence. Everyone was in their own preferred group of worship. Monks were grouped here, Jews there, Muslims there, Christians…so many souls were joining in this circle of love, united in the desire to blanket our country and the earth with love. Some were singing their prayers, some were dancing, some were silently uniting their hearts. As the circle got smaller as it came toward the center, there were Native American elders, chanting and drumming and circling around the Seraphim angels, who were in the center where the circle was the smallest. There was an opening at their feet that shot the light down, like the cone of a tornado. This cone of love and light was going down directly into Washington DC and was so bright you couldn’t see anything but this immense light. As it came to earth and hit DC, it then spread all across the US, blanketing it in this love and light. From there, it expanded to the world.

I then felt her encourage me to join the group I was most comfortable with, so I did. As I did I could feel my heart physically expanding in my chest as it filled with love. Not in my vision, but here on earth. I could literally feel it. I could feel the power in this unity and love, and that this was the most important thing we could be doing at this time.

I was awake most of the night, joining them in showering DC with this love and light. I felt very strongly that this was not something I was imagining, but was truly happening on a level we can’t see with our eyes.

This is not just a crisis in our country and world, but a pivotal point in humanity’s evolution. Beings from all plains of existence, from heaven and earth and beyond are uniting to aid in turning humanity away from fear and division, back to the love and unity we were created in.

I share this because She asked me to, but also as an offering for those of you who, like me, sometimes feel overwhelmed with the fear and hatred that’s confronting us. When you are feeling hopeless and afraid, I urge you to close your eyes and join the circle of love in the sky. I promise it will ease your heart. It also releases the feelings of helplessness, as we are remembering the immense power of love, which is the most powerful force in the universe.

There are things we will be called to do, and some of them will require physical action on this earth. Love does not mean quiet supplication but sometimes requires us to speak up and take action.

We are not alone. We have never been alone. The entire universe is uniting and coming to aid us in this evolution, and we all must play our part.

Regardless of your physical abilities or limitations, when you are feeling helpless and afraid you can do the most powerful thing you can do to aid in love’s triumph, by joining the circle of love in the sky.