Thursday, May 31, 2018

Red Solar Skywalker - Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 1







9 Ben


Red Solar Skywalker


The Mind beyond all Measure Power holds
Thought sends us into Heaven or to Hell
One long enclosed in Bars of Iron cold
When dreaming full escapes his prison Cell
Whence exists our Paradise eternal
Where Time and Space lose all significance?
By transmuting thoughts of Fear infernal
Into devotion’s transcendental Dance
Worth more is Vigilance than Sacrifice
Pre-requisite to Life miraculous
 Avoid all Fear while curbing Avarice
Thus will the Cosmos all your Missions bless

Dreams manifest in Synchronicity
When sacred Time designs Reality.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Costumes by Judy Dearing



Judy Dearing (1940 – September 30, 1995) was an American costume designer, dancer, and choreographer. She is most well known for designing costumes for a wide range of theater and musical productions, including Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Soldier's Play" and the 1976 stage adaptation of Ntozake Shange's book, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

Biography

Judy Dearing grew up in Manhattan and graduated from City College of New York, majoring in mathematics and science. She began her performance arts career dancing with Miriam Makeba and acting with the Negro Ensemble Company. Her husband was John Parks, a dancer who collaborated with her on a number of dance productions.

Dearing was a resident designer for the Crossroads Theatre, the University of Texas Drama Department, the New Federal Theatre, and the Negro Ensemble Company, as well as for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She designed costumes for a number of regional theaters: Goodman Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, the Hartford Stage, the Guthrie Theatre, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, GeVa Theatre, Asolo Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, the Egg, and the Goodspeed Opera House. In addition, Dearing was a professor of design at Howard University and resident designer at the University of Texas drama department.

Dearing was a recipient of nine AUDELCO Awards, a 1985 Obie Award and a 1988 Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Image Award. She won the Obie Award her for her World War II uniforms for Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Soldier's Play."  She died at New York Hospital in 1995 of acute pneumonia.

Productions

Theater

Judy Dearing was the costume designer for the following productions.

Swinging on a Star (original music revue, dedicated to Costume Designer: Judy Dearing, Oct 22, 1995 - Jan 13, 1996)
Having Our Say (original play, Apr 06, 1995 - Dec 31, 1995)
Shimada (original play, Apr 23, 1992 - Apr 25, 1992)
Once on This Island (original musical, Oct 18, 1990 - Dec 01, 1991)
Checkmates (original play, comedy, Aug 04, 1988 - Dec 31, 1988)
Death and the King's Horseman (original play, drama, Mar 01, 1987 - Mar 29, 1987)
The Babe (original play, solo, May 17, 1984 - May 20, 1984)
Trick (original play, comedy, Thriller, Feb 04, 1979 - Feb 11, 1979)
The Mighty Gents (original play, Apr 16, 1978 - Apr 23, 1978)
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (original play, Sep 15, 1976 - Jul 16, 1978)
The Poison Tree (original play, Jan 08, 1976 - Jan 11, 1976)
Lamppost Reunion (original play, Oct 16, 1975 - Dec 21, 1975)
Black Picture Show (original play, Jan 06, 1975 - Feb 09, 1975)
What the Wine-Sellers Buy (original play, Feb 14, 1974 - Mar 17, 1974

Dance

Dearing was the costume designer for the following productions at Alvin Ailey American Dance 
Theater:

Nubian Lady
Blood Burning Moon
Inside

Style

Dearing's designs were celebrated for their authenticity. She developed a folkloric look for the 1990 production of Once on This Island, using printed kente cloth, Dutch cotton prints, raw silk, and chiffon with metallics. "A costume has to appear natural," Ms. Dearing said in an interview that year with The New York Times. “Every night, she added, ‘everything has to be set up to look realistic.'’” The Times article indicates that the authenticity of her World War II uniforms is what won her the Obie award for A Soldier's Play.

In the 2010 edition of Ntozake Shange's book, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, the author describes Dearing's costumes in the book's 1976-78 theater adaptation:

"The fluid dresses, designed by the late Judy Dearing, took on colors from the set design, imbuing each lady with a persona and each persona with a unique principle marking the journey of womanhood. The personal story of a woman became every woman, the solo voice became many. Each poem fell into its rightful place, a rainbow of colors, shapes, and timbres of voice, my solo instrument blossoming into a cosmic chamber ensemble."

In 1996, The Black Theatre Network established the biennial Judy Dearing Design Competition to encourage African American students of design.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Dearing



BEN



Kin 113: Red Solar Skywalker


I pulse in order to explore
Realizing wakefulness
I seal the output of space
With the solar tone of intention
I am guided by the power of universal water
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.



The art of projection is actually the creation of certain magnetic beams full of specific sets of information.*



*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.





The Sacred Tzolk'in






Sahasrara Chakra (Dali Plasma)





Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Yellow Galactic Human - Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 28







8 Eb

Yellow Galactic Human

Long before…
Before I was (a) Being
I was just a Human doing

Being just a Doing
Moved me to Despair

In this State I met Inmates
All of us sad - all of us desperate


 Squirrels in a Cage –
Rats in a Maze

I knew not what to be or do –
How to escape – where to go

Finally surrendering all that I did
I went where I truly lived

Mind and Body are merely Tools
To build a Being worthwhile

Mind and Body make no Case –
Lock, Stock and Barrel
 I move into Grace!


©Kleomichele Leeds



Karen de Souza



Karen de Souza (born 1958) is a Guyanese women and child's rights activist who has worked to advocate for victims, educate and provide support for victims of violence. Founder of the NGO Red Thread anti-violence campaigns, she has been involved in training programs of judicial officers and contributed to the drafting law to protect trafficking and prevent violence. Her advocacy has been recognized by both regional and international organizations.

Early life

Karen Audrey de Souza was born on 19 January 1958, in the capital city of British Guiana to Mary-Anne and Dennis Adrian de Souza, Her mother maintained the home and worked as needed as a seamstress or examination invigilator. Her father was a wharf supervisor. She identifies as Afro-Guyanese, though her heritage includes Amerindian, Chinese, Dutch, East Indian, Portuguese, and Scottish ancestry, as well. Much of her childhood was spent on Leguan Island. After completing her primary schooling in 1968, de Souza was awarded a scholarship to attend Bishops’ High School in Georgetown, graduating in 1974.

Career

De Souza began her career in the offices of the Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, as a library assistant in 1974. The following year, she began working as a volunteer in the Guyana National Service (GNS), an organization which provided basic training and skills for unemployed youth. She learned electrical skills in the service and gave reading courses to illiterates. She pursued studies at the University of Guyana between 1976 and 1977 while continuing her employment in the library. She became active in promoting the film, The Terror and the Time, a documentary on British colonialism. She distributed political flyers, which resulted in a reprimand from her employer. In 1979, after an investigation into whether Working People's Alliance members had involvement with a recent arson, her home was searched and she was charged with larceny for some material found concerning the GNS. De Souza had not previously been involved with the Alliance, but after her detainment, she joined the group, identified as a Marxist and became a political activist.

Graduating with her bachelor of arts in 1980, de Souza continued her political activities, working in opposition to the government of her employer. Though the larceny charge was dismissed in 1985, after a lengthy battle to clear her name, she was fired from her job and became a full time activist. As her employment opportunities had been limited by the accusations and subsequent arrests, at times she had to rely on family for support. The following year, she and other women involved with the Working People's Alliance, co-founded Red Thread, as a grass-roots activist organization to assist rural communities and women in the Afro-Guyanese, Amerindian and Indo-Guyanese populations. Initially their efforts focused on education and political rights, but in 1993, de Souza disaffiliated with the Working People's Alliance, becoming a full-time coordinator for Red Thread.

De Souza conducted research on prostitution and sex work in Guyana, as well as participating in conferences on critical geography to evaluate how location intersects with socio-political factors, such as class, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race and sexuality. She has led Red Thread's focus away from political power and toward self-advocacy. De Souza was the driving force behind the creation of a domestic violence survivors’ group for women to tell their experiences, help each other and learn from each other. Since 2000, her efforts have focused on poverty, children's rights, and domestic violence. To assist women's comprehension of their protections under the law, she rewrote the Domestic Violence Act in language that is easily understood. She coordinates efforts with the judiciary and the Guyana Police Force to educate and understand the complex issues surrounding domestic violence, building bridges for quick action when situations arise.

De Souza was Guyana's nominee for the International Women of Courage Award in 2012. In 2014, de Souza was awarded the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in the field of community service.*




EB



Kin 112: Yellow Galactic Human


I harmonize in order to influence
Modeling wisdom
I seal the process of free will
With the galactic tone of integrity
I am guided by the power of intelligence
I am a galactic activation portal 
Enter me.


Self-discipline means you are able to control thought waves, emotional reactions and habitual thought forms.*



*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.








The Sacred Tzolk'in 





Anahata Chakra (Silio Plasma)





Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Blue Resonant Monkey - Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 27






7 Chuen


Blue Resonant Monkey

Wherefore in the Center
When Primary
Becomes its Opposite –
Here lives Hecate
She of the power of Words

Spirit of Crossroads
Deity of Intersections
Wise Woman Archetype
 Three-Kingdom’d Queen
Fairy Mother God

Here Crucifixion lives –
The Cross of third Dimension –
Illusion of limited Souls –

Body electric becomes
Alchemical Alembic
Water and Fire
Become Go(l)d

Resurrection supplants Death
Ascension signifies Hecate -
Divinity within
Denied, defamed and Herself –
Crucified.

©Kleomichele Leeds



Louise De Mortie



Louise De Mortie (1833 – October 10, 1867) was an African-American lecturer and fundraiser. She devoted herself to aiding black children orphaned during the American Civil War.

She was born free in Norfolk, Virginia and moved to Boston in 1853. De Mortie was known as a public speaker and as a popular singer. She moved to New Orleans in 1863 to help black orphans in that city. She raised funds in support of the Colored Orphans Home there and served as its manager.

She married John Oliver, an African-American carpenter and abolitionist; the couple divorced in 1862.

De Mortie died of yellow fever in New Orleans.*





CHUEN



Kin 111: Blue Resonant Monkey


I channel in order to play
Inspiring illusion
I seal the process of magic
With the resonant tone of attunement
I am guided by the power of abundance
I am a galactic activation portal 
Enter me.


At the inception of the evolution of self-reflective intelligence one Earth exists, the place which accommodates all levels of unfolding evolution. Herein lies the stage set where our cosmic tale takes place.*


*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.








The Sacred Tzolk'in 





Manipura Chakra (Limi Plasma)




Monday, May 28, 2018

White Rhythmic Dog - Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 26





6 Oc

White Rhythmic Dog

I am conquered
Shorn of Pride and Prejudice

I am lost –
My Heart doth flee my Breast

I am thine
And thus cannot be lonely

My Thoughts would never rest
But rest upon Thee only

I am found
And love the Feeling well

I am bound
By Bonds of Heaven and Hell

For Heaven it is to greet thee
And Hell it is to leave thee

Thou art strong in Word and Deed
Yet gentle in thy Need

My Soul calls unto thee
In Poems wild and sweet

The Rhymes and Couplets meet
To keep us Company

Else could I not live
Until thou dost return to me

Holding fast my fragile Heart
With all its Love to give.

©Kleomichele Leeds




Lindsay Day



Lindsey Day is the president, co-founder, and editor-in-chief of CRWN Magazine, the world’s first natural hair magazine. Day, also a management consultant, grew up in California with her interracial parents.

CRWN Magazine is a natural hair and lifestyle magazine that celebrates women of color. Prior to releasing CRWN's first issue on August 27, 2016, Day worked for Interscope Records for 6 years and edited for the Livelevated blog. Witnessing the economic crash during her time at Interscope pushed Day to create her own movement, which started with her co-founding the online magazine Made Women, another female-centered endeavor that helped women in the business world connect.

"CRWN is truly a lifestyle magazine. We are serving a woman who is more educated, well-traveled and sophisticated than ever before—largely because generations before us have fought to ensure our seats at the table” Day said in a 2016 interview with The Huffington Post.

Her mother's battle with breast cancer push her further to create CRWN. For years, Day recalled she and her friends always straightening their hair, but after seeing her mother's transition in health following her breast cancer diagnosis, she was motivated to embrace her hair as a black woman.

Day is currently the owner of Blossm Consulting Group, a management consulting firm that specializes in business model innovation and digital marketing.*




OC



Kin 110: Whits Rhythmic Dog


I organize in order to love
Balancing loyalty
I seal the process of heart
With the rhythmic tone of equality
I am guided by my ow power doubled
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.


The universal time/space is constructed through your mind.*



*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.






The Sacred Tzolk'in 





Visshuda Chakra (Alpha Plasma)





Sunday, May 27, 2018

Red Overtone Moon - Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 25






5 Muluc 

Red Overtone Moon

If only I could heal each Wound you own
And mend the Places where your Soul is torn
A silver Moonbeam I would sculpt and hone
That it might pierce the hardest Heart e’er born
A golden ray of Sunlight will I use
To thread my Quill with soothing Thoughts and Care
Every Rift and Ravel you will lose
To perfect Suture, excellent Repair
But Time alone has Tools to fare so well –
In my Power I do presume too much
Wishing that in wishing itself could dwell
A Magic only angels use and touch.

My hope is that a perfect Love and Time
Transform all Pain into Peace sublime.


©Kleomichele Leeds



Marie Maynard Daly



Marie Maynard Daly (April 16, 1921 – October 28, 2003) was an American biochemist. She was the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in chemistry (awarded by Columbia University in 1947).

Early life

Daly's father, Ivan C. Daly, had immigrated from the British West Indies, found work as a postal clerk, and eventually married Helen Page of Washington, D.C. They lived in New York City, and Marie was born and raised in Corona, Queens. She often visited her maternal grandparents in Washington, where she was able to read about scientists and their achievements in her grandfather’s extensive library. She was especially impressed by Paul de Kruif’s The Microbe Hunters, a work which partially influenced her decision to become a scientist.

Daly’s interest in science was also influenced by her father, who had attended Cornell University with intentions of becoming a chemist, but had been unable to complete his education due to a lack of funds. His daughter continued her father’s legacy by majoring in chemistry. Many years later, she started a Queens College scholarship fund in his honor to assist minority students majoring in chemistry or physics.

Education

Daly attended Hunter College High School, a laboratory high school for girls run by Hunter College faculty, where she was encouraged to pursue chemistry. She then enrolled in Queens College, a small, fairly new school in Flushing, New York. She lived at home to save money and graduated from Queens College with her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1942. Upon graduation, she was named a Queens College Scholar, an honor that is given to the top 2.5% of the graduating class.

Labor shortages and the need for scientists to support the war effort enabled Daly to garner fellowships to study at New York University and Columbia University for her master’s and PhD degrees, respectively.

Daly worked as a laboratory assistant at Queens College while studying at New York University for her master's degree in chemistry, which she completed in 1943. She then became a chemistry tutor at Queens College and enrolled in the doctoral program at Columbia University, where she was supervised by Dr. Mary L. Caldwell. Caldwell, who had a doctorate in nutrition, helped Daly discover how chemicals produced in the body contribute to food digestion. Daly completed a thesis entitled A Study of the Products Formed By the Action of Pancreatic Amylase on Corn Starch to earn her PhD in chemistry in 1947.

Career

Daly worked as a physical science instructor at Howard University, from 1947 to 1948 while simultaneously conducting research under the direction of Herman Branson. After being awarded an American Cancer Society grant to support her postdoctoral research, she joined Dr. A. E. Mirsky at the Rockefeller Institute, where they studied the cell nucleus. While at the Rockefeller Institute, Daly studied the nuclei of tissues to determine the base compositions of the deoxypentose nucleic acids present. Additionally she explored the role of cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein in protein synthesis. Using radiolabeled amino acid glycine, she was able to measure how protein metabolism changed under feeding and fasting conditions in mice. This allowed her to monitor the activity of the cytoplasm as the radiolabeled glycine was taken up into the cell nucleus.

In 1953, after Watson and Crick described the structure of DNA, Daly’s world changed significantly: suddenly, the cell nucleus research field was flooded with funding opportunities. Her work flourished in the new environment.

Daly began working in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1955. In collaboration with Dr. Quentin B. Deming, she studied the metabolism of the arterial wall and relationships between that and aging, hypertension and atherosclerosis.

She continued this work as an assistant professor of biochemistry and medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, where she and Deming moved in 1960. She enjoyed teaching medical students and was dedicated to increasing the number of minority students enrolled in medical schools. In 1971 she was promoted to associate professor.

Daly also served as an investigator for the American Heart Association; she was especially interested in how hypertension affects the circulatory system. While teaching at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she continued research on arteries and the effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs.

She was a member of the prestigious board of governors of the New York Academy of Sciences for two years. Daly received additional fellowships  throughout her career, including those from the American Cancer Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, and the Council on Arteriosclerosis of the American Heart Association.

She was designated as a career scientist by the Health Research Council of the City of New York. Daly retired in 1986 from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and in 1988 established a scholarship for African American chemistry and physics majors at Queens College in memory of her father. In 1999, she was recognized by the National Technical Association as one of the top 50 women in Science, Engineering and Technology.

On February 26, 2016, the Founding Principal of the new elementary school P.S.360Q, Mr. R. Emmanuel-Cooke, announced that the school would be named "The Dr. Marie M. Daly Academy of Excellence" in honor of the Queens resident.*





MULUC



Kin 109: Red Overtone Moon


I empower in order to purify
commanding flow
I seal the process of universal water
With the overtone tone of radiance
I am guided by the power of navigation
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.


The purpose of the capacity for projection is to manifest increasingly ideal conditions for realizing ever more evolved states of being and consciousness.*


*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.






The Sacred Tzolk'in 




Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)





Saturday, May 26, 2018

Yellow Self-Existing Star - Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 24






4 Lamat


Yellow Self-Existing Star  


Rising Moon –
Dazzles like
Another Sun

 Lift silently
Your silver Gown
Above the velvet Sky

 Stars hang
Faint and obscure
Before your Majesty

Time and Tide
Are your Domain –
Your Beauty absolute

Lady of the evening Light –
Quiet Queen of Night.

©Kleomichele Leeds




Sadye Beatrice Curry




Sadye Beatryce Curry (born 1941) is the first African-American woman to become a gastroenterologist in the United States, and the first African-American to do postgraduate studies at Duke University Medical Center. Curry was born the youngest of four and raised in Reidsville, North Carolina, where she was educated in the public school system and graduated high school in 1959. She attended Johnson C. Smith University and studied biology and chemistry, graduating in 1963. Curry then attended Howard University College of Medicine and graduated in 1967, with postgraduate education at Duke University and the Washington D.C. Veterans Administration Medical Center. Her internship and fellowship in gastroenterology at Duke made her the first African-American resident there. While a resident, Curry researched liver transport and bile acid metabolism.

After completing her training in 1972, Curry became an assistant professor at Howard University and was chief of medicine at Howard University Hospital; she was promoted to associate professor in 1978. She was a founder of the Leonidas Berry Society for Digestive Diseases, an organization for people of color with careers as scientists, surgeons, and gastroenterologists named after Leonidas Berry, the first African-American gastroenterologist. She was also the first woman to serve as chair of the National Medical Association's internal medicine section.

Honors and awards
Howard University College of Medicine Student Council Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (1975)
Kaiser-Permanente Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (1978)
Woman of the Year Award, Howard University College of Medicine Student American Medical Women's Association (1990)
Member, National Institutes of Arthritis, Metabolic and Digestive Diseases Training Grants Committee in Gastroenterology
Member, Food and Drug Administration Drug Advisory Committee
Chair, National Medical Association (gastroenterology section; 1985–2009)
Chair, National Medical Association (internal medicine section; 2000–2001)
President, Leonidas Berry Society for Digestive Diseases
Distinguished Internist of the Year, National Medical Association (2002)
Board of Trustees, National Medical Association (2007–present)
Chair, National Medical Association Educational Affairs Committee*




LAMAT




Kin 108: Yellow Self-Existing Star


I define in order to beautify
Measuring art
I seal the store of elegance
With the self-existing tone of form
I am guided by the power of flowering
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.


With practice one can discipline oneself  so one's spiritual nature becomes more evident.*


*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.







The Sacred Tzolk'in




Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)