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Miriam Rachel's avatar

Oh wow that’s definitely intense! I am prepping for my week ahead reading for Sunday and this is a big part of that, as I added my brief take on it. Prepare yourself for remembering your dreams a lot more and pay attention to their meanings. The messages will be intense!

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Lori Ann Bloomfield's avatar

It's like the cosmos turned my personal manifesto into a memo. This Pisces is feeling right at home with all of this! Perhaps I should be more worried than I am...

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Dea Devidas's avatar

Oh honey, a Pisces worried about feeling too at home in cosmic chaos? That's like a mermaid concerned about getting her fins wet! 🌊 Keep swimming in that starlit soup of possibility – your soul clearly knows which constellations to dance with. And when it's time to not worry (always, actually ;)

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Lori Ann Bloomfield's avatar

Thank you, Dea, darling. Permission to turn up the cosmic music and keep on dancing! (I don’t get that everyday. Just saying…) xo

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Dea Devidas's avatar

So you have a b day soon?

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Lori Ann Bloomfield's avatar

Mid-march.

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Dea Devidas's avatar

I will remind youu, and myself too ;)

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Tania Tyler 🌿's avatar

I've been feeling all this coming but just the last few days, wow! Thank you for the validation Dea and sharing your cosmic gifts 🔮

Now the multiple mentions of grocery list was funny. Yesterday I went grocery shopping with my carefully curated shopping list because I need to do in & out quickly in such a stimulating environment (I'm working on that 😁). Pull my list out of my pocket and... it's not there! Yikes! Momentary panic and I grab the couple things I need for lunch, calmed a bit, and remembered more items. Back at my car I find my list next to the car, a soaking wet piece of unreadable blue-inked paper.

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Dea Devidas's avatar

Thank youuu 🩷 wow, what symbolism—Mercury’s list submerged in blue liquid (Neptune)... What can I say... Cosmos hey 🙏

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Tania Tyler 🌿's avatar

Didn’t think of that but I’m having fun noticing the synchronicities and messages again.

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Dea Devidas's avatar

Yesss! To witness them – a miracle in itself 🌟

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

So, so much brilliance here, Dea! Thank you for all of it. The poetry without rhyming might be a challenge, but I’m open to it! I might try rhyming while painting with my toe as a warm up!

Have your shit loose but not too loose…

When there are forces that want to dislodge you from your gut

You’ve got to employ battlestar probiotica!

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Dea Devidas's avatar

Ohhh, "battlestar probiotica" might just be the most divinely accurate description of balancing our cosmic chaos I've heard! 🌟

And yes to painting with toes while our inner perfectionist has a mild existential crisis - that's exactly the kind of sacred mess we're cultivating here! Like having your chakras aligned but your socks mismatched.

Yeah, even Buddha probably had days when his bun wasn't perfectly centered. 😉

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

I feel okay questioning so much - including the ridiculous exclusion of women leadership, considering how many female englightened beings there have been from Rishis to Tara to Tsogyal…but what you say…about the bodi booti…

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Dea Devidas's avatar

The Fear of Female Power

When we talk about excluding women from spiritual lineages, it wasn't just your garden-variety fear – it was the kind of terror that makes hierarchical structures need spiritual Xanax.

1. Female Power = Institutional Nightmare Fuel

Traditional Buddhism and its spiritual cousins were trying to create the perfect spiritual IKEA manual – step-by-step instructions from master to disciple. But female power? That's like trying to write an instruction manual for a butterfly migration. Women's spiritual paths have always been more "follow the moon" than "follow the leader," and that makes institutions break out in metaphysical hives.

2. Body & Sexuality: The Great Spiritual Plot Twist

Tibetan Buddhism, bless its patriarchal heart, really said "Let's take the most powerful creative force in the universe and label it as a spiritual liability." They looked at:

Menstruation → "Unclean!" (Because apparently, cyclical renewal is too messy for enlightenment)

Childbirth → "Too material!" (Creating actual humans? Not spiritual enough, darling)

Female sexuality → "Distracting!" (Can't have those monks remembering that embodiment exists)

3. The Independent Woman: Buddhism's Worst Nightmare

The patriarchy really thought they could control the cosmic flow chart of enlightenment. But then we had queens like:

Yeshe Tsogyal – They tried to make her story all about Padmasambhava, but sis was out there revolutionizing Tibetan Buddhism

Machig Labdrön – Created Chöd practice, only to have men later try to mansplain her own tradition to her followers

Tara – When they said "You need a male rebirth for enlightenment," she said "That's cute" and vowed to keep coming back as a woman

4. Change: The Institution's Kryptonite

These spiritual institutions were about as flexible as a granite meditation cushion:

Female leadership? Would require updating the spiritual software

Women in lineages? Would mean sharing the dharma mic

Feminine wisdom? Would mean admitting they've been running an incomplete program

If male and female energies merged in spiritual leadership, the whole "we control access to enlightenment" business model would collapse faster than a sand mandala in a windstorm. Because real spirituality? It's supposed to be as free as cosmic radiation, not locked in a boys' club vault.

The Future is Female (And It's Not Asking for Permission)

The patriarchal grip on spirituality isn't just crumbling – it's having an existential crisis in real time. Women are reclaiming their spiritual autonomy faster than you can say "divine feminine awakening."

And about that next Dalai Lama? Maybe she'll be living her best life as a woman, or maybe the whole concept will transform into something as fluid as quantum mechanics. Because the world doesn't need another spiritual hierarchy – it needs the uncontained, uncontrolled, unapologetic wisdom that women have been carrying in their cosmic DNA all along.

The real plot twist? The fear was never about women being incapable. It was about women being absolutely, irrevocably, unstoppably capable of turning the whole spiritual game into something far more interesting than a hierarchical ladder to heaven.

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

Also, while the current Dalai Lama has acknowledged maybe the next a woman, he wrote she must be attractive so people will listen to her. He is not exactly Mr. Stud! So it is very sexist. Also the amount of sexual abuse in all schools is atrocious and equal other religions. It’s pretty serious.

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

Yup to all that - I just never got the memos on a lot of sexist stuff because I learned about Yeshe Tsoyal when I was led to type a certain set of words and found her autiobiography. It doesn’t star Padma though it reverences him greatly. I think it’s more than fear of feminine power because original True Lineage holders always respect women. Jesus, Padma, Muhammed, Babaji, Joachim (Anna’s husband) and so on…I think it is intrusion by Luciferian agendas that corrupts these things.

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

"You're suddenly fluent in reading between lines that don't even exist yet, like a metaphysical archaeologist excavating tomorrow's dreams”

^ WOWZA!

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Dea Devidas's avatar

🔥⚡💫

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

<3!!!

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

teaching quantum physics through interpretive dance…I have talked about quantum physics while PAUSED from interpretive dance…I’ll have to try both. Wait, I don’t know enough quantum physics - only the gist. Think I’m back to the dancing. And pointing excited at butterflies. Occasionally crying over them. Great piece, Dea! I LOOOVE IT! Keep shining your laugh-bombs into the chaos of birthing our remembrances and awakenings and whole new paradigms of peace without force.

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Dea Devidas's avatar

Oh wow, you always sweep me off my feet, spin me, toss me into dance, into gratitude, into awe… Thank you! Keep dancing, keep flowing: you are quantum, you are butterfly, you are physics and metaphysics all at once. Sending you the biggest hug! 💛✨

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Alicia Kwon's avatar

<3 <3 !! What you see

Be what you are

When you are looking

At opalescent moonbeams

Reflecting

I’m trying not to rhyme

I’m trying not to rhyme

I’m trying not to rhyme…

You are

I failed. I’m soup.

Supa doupa

Falup

Fallopian

Falcon

Rigatoni

With Mafiosa

In the OSS

Making a mess

Oops I did it again

Shit

I don’t want to sing about Spears

Don’t want that worm in my ears.

All is lost but tomorrow I’ll try again!!!

Bwaha

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

‘And a PS that quotes Rumi.’ That’s where my grin appeared! And it stayed as I read to the end of this delightful guidance. Here’s to more poetry and stardust and fewer spreadsheets in the world! ✨

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