Congratulations, President Obama! An Auspicious Beginning …
Four years ago today,* I was sitting on a high wall in Egypt with about 40 other people, the Temple of Isis at our backs. We were concluding an initiation ceremony which had begun in the sanctuary of the temple. Forty pairs of feet dangled over the goddess river, the Nile, sensual with power, nurturing, abundant and kind, as we sat in silence, awaiting the dawn sun to activate our third eye.
We were on a spiritual sojourn with shamaness, Nicki Scully. We had risen at 4:30 am to arrive here by dawn. The silence was alive with nature sounds and rich with Spirit. We sat in the stillness and breathed, our legs dangling high above the river.
There was an unexpected call in the distance behind us, then brief whispering. The whisper took a shape, and flowed in gentle waves to our ears: “Obama won!”
I had mailed in my ballot before I left, and forgotten all about it. Politics didn’t interest me. It is not my calling to be a social or political activist. My work is helping individuals to awaken one by one. A Course in Miracles says, “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.” But, sometimes, that takes the form of voting 🙂
I had voted for Obama. I didn’t see him as a savior, but he was multiracial and broke the American political mold. Yes, he was a truer representative of the American people–and that, I felt, was better for the whole world. I also felt his integrity, his honest desire to do good for the people. A psychic healer I worked with in 1988 had told me that we would have a Black president in about 20 years. And so it was!
A beautiful emotion moved through me, blossoming upwards, and tears of quiet joy seeped out of my eyes. Without looking at each other, all 40 of us reached out and linked hands. We quietly laughed and cried together. Our sacred silence pulsed with happy relief and a great sense of promise as we sat in the timelessness of the island of Philae.
And now, here it is, 2012! This time I submitted an early ballot in the state of Florida.** I wept again this morning, listening to the results of this presidential election and Obama’s speech. For me, Obama deserved to see through what he started in 2008. My heart is glad that he is America’s leader at the start of the Aquarian Age.
*Technically, it was tomorrow, due to the time difference between Egypt and the USA 🙂
**What a surprise that I live in Florida now, and not in New York City. How strange that I moved to a hurricane state only a year before my hometown was struck hard by a hurricane!