how does revolution begin?

I wanna talk about what I mean by revolution.

I'm not one of these spiritual white women out here using radical & revolution every other sentence like that's supposed to mean something, so I wanna say a little bit more about that. neither is the word (for me) a kinda beacon for activist credentials or accolades. I'm really talking about the concept. more importantly, my use of the word revolution comes from a lineage of people who have been talking about what revolution actually means & actually is (BIPOC folx of course).

I think it's important to name that there's not one answer & we'll be talking about that in the workshop. thinking & talking about revolution is really about being with the questions honestly. how do we get radical & get there? one of my fave thinkers & most esteemed community activists Jimmy Boggs & his wife Grace Lee Boggs were talking about how revolution begins with changing our values: what we find important & why.

I think that's so essential because the revolution will never happen if we don't start inside ourselves first & the ways we've internalized the kyriarchy. because this shit exists because people exist. so it's people that need to change, not just the intellectual approach. so relationship as revolution is about how we can apply what's important to us & why--how we can examine what's important to us & why and how we're living that out in relationship to ourselves & others. because that's where it all begins.

I don't use these words or say these things lightly. they're not buzzwords, they're not cool. they're ways of being that BIPOC have been fighting for for a long time. revolution is already happening & has been happening inasmuch as it isn't happening. these convos aren't about how we start something new but how do we honor the lineage & legacies already available to us?

if you wanna talk more about this with me, join me next Saturday!

oxo
saltwater & stars

the sun

the sun doesn’t need you to bow down before it to be able to shine itself. it gives life, the one true gift of love, without compromise. you can worship them if you want, but they do not depend on it. yet we depend on the sun, the only unconditional love some of us get. the sun teaches us to receive without earning. the sun does not earn their right to shine. this is one model of how to reconcile our false separation between love & power, power & love.

this is what it is to show both, never exchanging one for the other. you can be powerful & loving, lovingly powerful, all at the same time. because love is power. think of them operating without each other—love becomes sick, needing to extract power from others or give it all away to death. power becomes pain, the protection of our own ego-fragility becoming a harm to ourself & others.

unconditional love doesn’t neeeed you but we all need unconditional love. what we mean when we say unconditional is that flavor of love that is not dependent on your performative self, your worshipability, or your efforts to hide vulnerability behind the need to earn.

want more sunshine in your life? be the sun.

oxo
saltwater & stars

relationships as revolution: registration is open

some of us are waiting for the revolution but are terrified to actually live our radical values in relationships, not just in temporal community spaces or conceptual theory. yet there is no community & there is no theory without relationships. without relationships, there is no revolution.

RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE ROOTED BY RADICAL VALUES ARE REVOLUTIONARY.

the resistance is overwhelming. the scope of the work that needs to (and will) be done for our collective healing is massive. the change is inevitable but painful & destabilizing. during Uranus in aries, our movements & personal political psyches confronted our reactivity. we confronted hyper-individualism with fierceness. we fought in ways that shattered timelines & cultural commitments.

Uranus in taurus is here to teach us how to transition with the bravery we exercised with aries into sustainability. from the personal to the collective, we are craving a more self-sufficient stability. this requires us to reject the patterns that keep us exhausted, destabilized, & isolated. what this requires is for us to implement micro-strategies towards freedom.

join me live for a workshop on Saturday, May 25th to explore Uranus in taurus & starting at the touchpoint of the most sacred- relationships designed by radical values.

oxo
saltwater & stars

dark moon recommendation

NEW MOON IN TAURUS
MAY 4TH @ 6:45PM EST | 14 DEGREES

this month’s dark moon recommendation is to lather yourself in affirmations like honey. whether you read them, write them, speak them, art them, dance them, kiss them, sing them, or just be them— it don’t matter. if it’s sweet like honey, if it’s lush like love, if it’s sure like the sunrise, luxuriate in it.

tell yourself things like: I have a good relationship with money. not making enough doesn’t mean I don’t deserve more. spending doesn’t mean I don’t deserve more. not having savings doesn’t mean I don’t deserve more. it means I need more! I love money as a resource & it loves me back. it always comes when I need it. it’s okay for me to receive money with ease. it’s okay for me to make money with pleasure. it’s okay for me to use money for ease & pleasure.

write out spells like: I create new life just by being myself. I never need to alter my love for anyone. I choose integrity as an investment into a future I want. I know what is important to me & share that with others. I am open to radical love, vulnerability, & trust. I am learning to love myself unconditionally. I am ready to thrive.

speak magic into the things you want to grow. speak tenderness into the places still sore. speak strength into the fragile seedlings. speak bravery into the fear. create beauty from the mess, from the residue, from what’s around you. create temporal experiences of pleasure to remind you how temporary all of this is. dance as long as you can, dance when it hurts, dance until the sun is almost risen & you remember what it is to start over. kiss slowly, kiss softly, kiss longer than you have before. sing your freedom out loud, sing your revelations, sing your joy. be everything you already are with fierce presence, because that waters everything you are becoming.

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oxo
saltwater & stars