Longer thoughts on Roe
Art: Suzanne Leist
This ruling isn’t “pro-life”
It’s death negating.
Our death phobic western civilization is radically inhumane.
There is a direct connection between women and death.
The verdict denies the reality, the fact, of both.
Death is a life giving act. Every sane culture knows this.
What this ruling did is affirm the idea that “women are fully enfranchised human beings under the law, capable of making their own choices,” is just an illusion.
We have a long way to go folks. And I don’t *really have any answers.
Other than to say, I believe our country’s relationship to death is on display with this reversal. It’s imbalanced, unhealthy, and deeply divorced from the reality of being alive right now.
What I’d like to put into the pot of swirling opinions is the idea that our life/youth/beginning obsessed culture, is also obsessed with fixing, doing, and solutions.
In case we haven’t noticed, we’ve been in the Underworld for a while.
And mostly I’ve noticed us only in the “heave ho”, forward march/solutions driven orientation.
Rather than really dropping in, submitting to what the underworld has for us.
I assert that there is no quick fix for the problems of our times.
Mostly because we don’t really know (gnosis) or understand exactly what our problems are.
We have been in the bandaid business for so long, we are kind of lost on the map around our values, and priorities.
We definitely haven’t grieved all that we thought to be true but has instead been revealed as illusion.
The payment has come due. Not as women, but as a humanity.
Young men are suffering and dying as well. Mother’s know this.
As a collective we’ve allowed our wings to be pinned. We are sedated, anesthetized, frozen in time. Clinging to a past that doesn’t really exist. And probably never did.
This is a wake up call to women and mothers about the deeper nature of our balance/alignment problem on the planet.
And hopefully it means we can eventually midwife ourselves towards more soul, more love, more compassion, more care, more wisdom.
But first, we need to take a breath and sit with it all. Gain some wisdom before acting. Because if we don’t, if we are just reactionary, we run the risk of entrenching ourselves ever deeper in this dark night.
