Becoming Lucid While in Conflict
Lunar Lunacy is back! Prompt: Four Steps to Becoming a Lucid Participant when Conflict is Rising
Lift up anything heavy.
Find a way to make a stranger more comfortable.
Let’s build something better together.
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This Moon’s Prompt: The Four Steps to Becoming a Lucid Participant When Conflict is Rising
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“4 steps,” a haiku
first, pause. second, breathe
third, check-in, step back, believe
fourth, we sit, and be
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Four Cards; Four Steps
Recognize, firstly: Illusion; reflection;
Conflict is often a cloudy projection.Connect with True Will and intend to remember:
The sphinxes, so different, can still work together.The ultimate spiritual truth is we’re soul;
So reverently “do unto others”: a goal!Keep a long view; every fight’s an investment.
We’re closer with friends who we’ve wounded, once mended.
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Mason:
An extremely honorable mention goes to The Baby Waterfall Conventions. This spell, though not explicitly designated a Lunar Lunacy contribution, arose rather beautifully from Ferus’ amalgamation of energies and currents present amongst the Creekmasons in the weeks following Discord conflict that inspired this moon’s prompt.
You can read the full article here, or just check out the Conventions below:
I'm a newbie when it comes to casting magic but here is my attempt to formalize the Baby Waterfalls Convention.
It is a radical individual and communal act of Non-participation with the numerous inhuman (though deeply human derived) entities intent upon employing my attention toward harmful ends. These entities would insidiously persuade and justify acts of violence as a means for group survival, property expansion, capital growth, or ethnic supremacy.
I would say no to these entities. I would formally decline my consent.
But because my every word, every minute, and every dollar are already used to perpetuate the covert aims of these entities, I must use direct personal magic to Undo their force in and around me. With this magic, I hereby relinquish a false sense of shared responsibility for their actions even while my words, minutes, and dollars remain theirs.
Convention(n): 1) a way in which something is done, 2) an agreement shared between groups of people
A - Note and name one of the controlling entities at play when I feel an emotion about being under its direct influence. (ie. "oh, this helpless disgust I feel is toward the industrial military complex that is partly driving this war.")
B - Isolate that emotional sensation in my body, allow its physical expression to expand some, and imagine it gaining the full employment of my body (ie. "I actually feel like puking.")
C - Turn my attention immediately to something that has vitality in my vicinity deserving of my tender care and focus for a full minute on a sense of nurturance for it. (ie. branches of a tree, sound of the wind, coolness of a shadow, creases on a stranger's face) You can fake this if you don't really feel it.
D - Reach my hands out toward that vital relational object and then fold them to my chest. A gesture of receptivity and acceptance. A reminder of my unique power of consent.
E - Say Aloud “Yes, please.” "Beauty is." or hum "Ommm" as a final act of transmuting this act into the collective.
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