Power Out

Gayle has been writing this morning and I asked if I could post it here.

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Invitation?
Requirement?

In the most guttural sense and particularly in the current global state of war war war, run by mad men, we are crying out for POWER OUT and for a power out-age. (A continuation from the time in Spain when all power went out for days after rolling up the Europe map..)

There is an awareness that the earth here (everywhere) is asking us to empty out power (by which I mean power over other) and that we have a window of time for this.

As we have been tracking with the feminine story here (Sicily) we felt the Eden soil – under all the spirits of victim, wrong protector, and rage oppressor/manipulator, (as well as probably other things🤷‍♀️) – wanting to stand open and vulnerable. Historically each time that has manifested she has been raped, martyred, deified etc etc. Yet still it is the heart cry. For a different outcome and to do this really, the true masculine also needs to show up. Vulnerable also. This will change systems.

Power power power is on full display right now.

The emptying out of power (kenosis – see Roger’s work on this) is our only chance. The dream where I plead with Mr Banks to take off the suit and go play with the children. Empty out power. We are in intercession to see this part of the dream come through. This is at a systems level.

Like we all know systems can’t change unless we change at a personal level. But the invitation? requirement? is where there is power and who has it to empty it out.

The thing with power is we don’t always know we have it. We’re often blind.

Jesus came as a man, why? To empty out power. He lifts women up. Created space for them in a society that didn’t. If he had come as a woman he couldn’t have done that.

Comes as a Jew. Why? To empty out Jewishness. To include Gentiles. He had to come as a Jew to do that. A gentile could not have emptied out that power.

Power out.

So I have agency. I do. For what is in my power. My attitude, my stance, my behavior etc etc. But to change the overall in-the-world-power-imbalance , I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that it needs those with power to empty out power. And that includes me, privileged as I am. And that when this is done collaboratively it undoes the wrong.
And that will change systems.

The problem is when we don’t see the power. How can it be emptied out when it is not acknowledged or seen? The rich and the poor. The poor have agency but they can’t change the system without the rich emptying out power.

Black people in the civil rights era had agency but it needed white people to stand with them and empty out power to get the laws changed etc. This injustice is far from over still. Men and women…The US female hockey team have agency, they used it to not go to the White House and to speak out. But how much quicker would change come if the male hockey team had done that as well? Spoken up and emptied out their power to stand with the women? Can it actually change for women without that kind of response from men?

What about the trans community and all those expressing different sexuality or none?

And of course there’s animals and creation. How we use power over them.