Blue Cosmic Night - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 3

13 Akbal

Blue Cosmic Night

Into high Symbol

We go

And low also

Initiation transforms Soul

Life puts on meaning

Like an Alice Blue Gown

But first to the dark Night

The Underworld of War –

Wotan’s* Ecstasy

The Wave of Time/Space crests

As Cataclysm turns

Trinity into Quaternity

Hamlet becomes Faust

Descend then to the Mothers –

Sacred Goddess’ Diadem

Earth’s Mysteries bequeath

A New Jerusalem!

*Wotan: one-eyed Teutonic god with an insatiable appetite for war and power – symbol of blind violence.

©Kleomichele Leeds 

Beverly Loraine Greene

Beverly Loraine Greene (October 4, 1915 – August 22, 1957) was an American architect. According to architectural editor Dreck Spurlock Wilson, she was "believed to have been the first African-American female licensed as an architect in the United States." She was registered as an architect in Illinois in 1942.

Biography

Beverly Loraine Greene was born on October 4, 1915, to attorney James A. Greene and his wife Vera of Chicago, Illinois. The family was of African-American heritage. She had no brothers or sisters. She attended the racially integrated University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), graduating with a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering in 1936, the first African-American woman to earn this degree from the university. A year later she earned a master in city planning and housing. She was also involved in the drama club Cenacle and was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The following year, she earned her master's degree from UIUC in city planning and housing.

After graduation, she returned to Chicago and was hired by the Housing Authority in 1938. She became the first licensed African-American woman architect in the United States when she registered with the State of Illinois on December 28, 1942. Greene also worked for the first architectural office led by an African American in downtown Chicago. Despite her credentials, she found it difficult to surmount race barriers to find work in the city. She and other black architects were routinely ignored by the mainstream Chicago press.

A 1945 newspaper report about the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's development project at Stuyvesant Town led Greene to move to New York City. She submitted her application to help design it, in spite of the developer's racially segregated housing plans; and much to her surprise, she was hired. After only a few days, she quit the project to accept a scholarship for the master's degree program at Columbia University. She obtained the degree in architecture in 1945 and took a job with the firm of Isadore Rosefield. Rosefield's firm primarily designed health facilities. Though she remained in Rosefield's employ until 1955, Greene worked with Edward Durell Stone on at least two projects in the early 1950's. In 1951, she was involved with the project to build the theater at the University of Arkansas and in 1952, she helped plan the Arts Complex at Sarah Lawrence College. After 1955, she worked with Marcel Breuer, assisting on designs for the UNESCO United Nations Headquarters in Paris and some of the buildings for the University Heights Campus of New York University, though both of those projects were completed after Greene's death.

She died on August 22, 1957, in New York City. Her memorial service took place at the Unity Funeral Home in Manhattan, one of the buildings she had designed.*

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

AKBAL

Kin 143: Blue Cosmic Night

I endure in order to dream

Transcending intuition

I seal the input of abundance

With the cosmic tone of presence

I am guided by the power of accomplishment.

Cosmic History is a relief measure urging us to step back from the history books and the information superhighway and take another look.*

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

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)

White Crystal Wind - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 2

12 Ik

White Crystal Wind

In and out

The Sea heaves

And breathes

Herself awake

At morning Tide –

The Breeze

A cleansing Current

Of crystalline Air –

Giving up Debris

In frothy Fits

She leaves and bequeaths

Flotsam and Jetsam

 Shells and more

Upon her polished Shore.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Julia Greeley

Julia Greeley (ca. 1833-48 – 7 June 1918), was a Black American freed slave from Colorado known for her charitable work with the poor. She was dubbed, "Denver's Angel of Charity". In January 2014, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver officially opened an investigation toward her canonization.

Greeley is one of four people whom U.S. bishops allowed to be investigated for possible sainthood at their fall meeting. She joins four other African Americans placed into consideration in recent years. She is also the first person to be interred in the Denver cathedral since it opened in 1912.*

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

IK

Kin 142: White Crystal Wind

I dedicate in order to communicate

Universalizing breath

I seal the input of spirit

With the crystal tone of cooperation

I am guided by the power of timelessness.

Knowledge is revealed and given for awakening the human before death so that he/she can realize cosmic being now.*

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

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Sahasrara Chakra (Dali Plasma)

Red Spectral Dragon - Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 1

11 Imix

Red Spectral Dragon

My Grief –

 I own it as I would

A Dagger plunged

Into my Heart

The Blade would

End my Life

If it were steel

Yet Sorrow steals

Much more than Breath

From the dancing Soul –

Psychic Wounds

Bleed Tears unceasing -

 Suffering creates

A ground of Being –

Until Eros comes to

Pull the Knife out clean.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Ida Gray

Ida Gray (also known in her later career as Ida Gray Nelson; March 4, 1867 – May 3, 1953) was the first African-American woman to become a dentist in the United States. An orphan, she became interested in dentistry when she went to work in the offices of Jonathan Taft, an early advocate for women to learn dentistry. After her apprenticeship in his office, Gray was able to pass the entrance examinations to attended the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. When she graduated, it was widely published that she was the first African American dentist in the United States and she was promoted as a role model for women to follow. Gray practiced in Ohio before settling in Chicago, where she remained until her death.

Early life

Ida Gray was born on March 4, 1867, in Clarksville, Tennessee, she was an infant when her teenage mother Jenny Gray died. Her father was a white man and had no part in raising her when her mother died, Gray was sent to live with her aunt, Caroline Gray in Cincinnati, Ohio. She, along with Caroline's three children, Howard, Susan and Mary, attended the segregated public schools. Though she worked from an early age, taking in sewing, Gray persevered with her schooling and graduated from Gaines High School in 1887.

Career

During her schooling, Gray began working in the offices of Jonathan Taft, an early advocate of women being trained as dentists. He had been the dean of the Ohio College of Dentistry and was recruited by the University of Michigan to help found their first dental school. When he left Ohio to take up the post, Taft kept an office with William Taft in Cincinnati. Gray worked in the office for approximately three years, learning enough to pass the entrance examinations for the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, which she entered on October 1, 1887. Gray graduated in June 1890, becoming the first African-American woman dentist in the United States.

Gray's accomplishment was widely published and she opened an office at 216 Ninth Street in Cincinnati. In her practice, she serviced both white and black customers and was repeatedly cited in black media as a role model for other women. In 1895, she relocated her practice to Chicago after marrying James Sanford Nelson in March of that year. He was a naturalized American citizen, originally from Canada, who was a lawyer, captain and quartermaster for the Illinois National Guard and later worked for many years as an accountant for the city of Chicago.

As she had in Cincinnati, Nelson served both black and white clientele, as well as both adults and children, though her reputation was for her gentleness with children. She inspired one of her patients, Olive M. Henderson, to become the second black woman dentist in Chicago. Though her office relocated several times, Nelson continued to practice until her retirement in 1928. In 1929, Nelson, whose first husband James had died in 1926, married William A. Rollins.

In addition to her dentistry, Nelson was involved in several clubs and her social activities were widely reported in the black press. She served as vice president of the Professional Women's Club of Chicago, vice president of the Eighth Regiment Ladies' Auxiliary and was a member of the Phyllis Wheatley Club, a group organized to maintain the only black women’s shelter in Chicago.

Death and legacy

Ida Rollins died on May 3, 1953, in Chicago. An annual diversity award given in her name was established by the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. Though no comprehensive work has been done on a biography of Gray Nelson Rollins, she is often cited in works as "an example of achievement and inspiration for others to follow."*

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

IMIX

Kin 141: Red Spectral Dragon

I dissolve in order to nurture

Releasing being

I seal the input of birth

With the the spectral tone of liberation

I am guided by my own power doubled.

Perceptions reformulated according to the frequencies of the Master Cube resonate forever from within.*

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

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Anahata Chakra (SilioPlasma)

Yellow Planetary Sun - Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 28

10 Ahau

Yellow Planetary Sun

The disembodied Voice

So long held dear –

Communication

From afar –

Each Syllable and Word

Recalled

Love’s Labors these

When Bodies separate

Reunion puts a Face on Love

Changes Space and Time

Adds Dimension – Touch

More Feeling to a Phrase

 Rounding out Reality

Makes Past and Future

Into Here and Now

Transforming Promise

Into Vow.

                                                  

©Kleomichele Leeds

Evelyn Boyd Granville

Evelyn Boyd Granville (born May 1, 1924) was the second African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from an American University; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University (she attended Smith College before Yale). She performed pioneering work in the field of computing.

Education

Evelyn Boyd was born in Washington, D.C.; her father worked at odd jobs due to the Great Depression, but separated from her mother when Boyd was young. Boyd and her older sister were raised by her mother and aunt, who both worked at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. She was valedictorian at Dunbar High School, which at that time was a segregated but academically competitive school for black students in Washington.

With financial support from her aunt and, later, a small partial scholarship from Phi Delta Kappa, Boyd entered Smith College in the fall of 1941. She majored in mathematics and physics, but also took a keen interest in astronomy. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Sigma Xi and graduated summa cum laude in 1945. Encouraged by a graduate scholarship from the Smith Student Aid Society of Smith College, she applied to graduate programs in mathematics and was accepted by both Yale University and the University of Michigan; she chose Yale because of the financial aid they offered. There she studied functional analysis under the supervision of Einar Hille, finishing her doctorate in 1949. Her dissertation was: "On Laguerre Series in the Complex Domain".

Career

Following graduate school, Boyd wend to New York University Institute for Mathematics, teaching and doing research there. Then, in 1950, she took a teaching position at Fisk University, a college for black students in Nashville, Tennessee (more prestigious postings being unavailable to black women). Two of her students there, Vivienne Malone-Mayes and Etta Zuber Falconer, went on to earn doctorates in mathematics. By 1952 she left academia and returned to Washington with a position at the Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratories. After four years she moved to IBM as a computer programmer; with IBM, she moved from Washington to New York City in 1957.

Boyd moved to Los Angeles in 1960, where she worked for the U.S. Space Technology Laboratories, which became the North American Aviation Space and Information Systems Division in 1962. There she worked on various projects for the Apollo program, including celestial mechanics, trajectory computation, and "digital computer techniques".

Forced to move because of a restructuring at IBM, she took a position at California State University, Los Angeles in 1967 as a full professor of mathematics. After retiring from CSULA in 1984 she taught at Texas College in Tyler, Texas for four years, and then in 1990 joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Tyler as the Sam A. Lindsey Professor of mathematics. There she developed elementary school math enrichment programs. Since 1967, Granville has remained a strong advocate for women's education in tech.

Experience of discrimination

In 1951, Granville and two African American colleagues were denied entrance to a regional meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), because it was held at a whites-only hotel. The MAA and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) subsequently changed their practices, under pressure from Lee Lorch, to improve their inclusivity.

Personal life

Boyd married Reverend Gamaliel Mansifeld Collins in 1960. In 1967, Boyd and Collins divorced. She married realtor Edward V. Granville in 1970.

Awards and honors

In 1989, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Smith College, the first one given by an American institution to an African-American woman mathematician.

She was appointed to the Sam A. Lindsey Chair of the University of Texas at Tyler (1990-1991).

In 1998, Granville was honored by the National Academy of Engineering.

In 1999, the United States National Academy of Sciences inducted her into its Portrait Collection of African-Americans in Science.

In 2000, she was awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association's highest honor.

In 2001, she was cited in the Virginia state senate's Joint Resolution No. 377, Designating February 25 as "African-American Scientist and Inventor Day."

In 2006 she was awarded an honorary degree by Spelman College.

In 2016, technology firm New Relic's Mount Codemore initiative named her as one of "four giants of women’s contributions to science and technology"*

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

AHAU

Kin 140: Yellow Planetary Sun

I perfect in order to enlighten

Producing life

I seal the matrix of universal fire

With the planetary tone of manifestation

I ma guided by the power of elegance

I am a polar kin

I extend the yellow galactic spectrum.

Everything is happening simultaneously within one vast radial matrix of intersecting time waves.*

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

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Manipura Chakra (Limi Plasma)

Blue Solar Storm - Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 27

9 Cauac

Blue Solar Storm

My Heart is closed for Repairs 

Out to Lunch

Shut down

Boarded up against you

You refuse to give –

Even to starving Subway Seekers –

To me you give few Words

Weak Affection

A Pittance of Attention

Therefore  I must retreat

Withdraw and free Myself

From this Neglect

Until further Notice –

My Heart is closed for Repairs.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Edythe Mae Gordon (ca. 1897–1980) was an African-American writer of short stories and poetry during the era of the Harlem Renaissance.

Education

Edythe Mae Chapman was born in Washington, D.C., probably on June 4 and sometime in the period 1895–1900; the date is uncertain because the existing documents differ on her birth year. She was apparently raised by members of her mother's family, surnamed Bicks; nothing is known of her father. She was educated at M Street School, a public school, and graduated in 1916. In her last year at the school, she married Eugene Gordon, then a student at Howard University and later a writer for the Boston Post. By 1919 they had moved to Boston; they separated in 1932 and divorced in 1942.

In 1926, Gordon enrolled as an undergraduate at Boston University. She graduated in 1934 with a B.S. degree in religious education and social services; a year later she earned her master's degree from the university's School of Social Services, a then-rare accomplishment for an African-American woman.

Writing

In 1925, Gordon's husband Eugene organized an African-American literary group, the Saturday Evening Quill Club, out of which grew a literary magazine, Saturday Evening Quill, of which he became the editor. Published three times a year, Quill contains most of the surviving specimens of Gordon's writing. Her first piece for Quill was a 1928 short story, "Subversion." It was listed among the year's distinguished stories by the O. Henry Award prize committee, which at the time rarely noticed works by non-white authors. Gordon would go on to publish two more short stories and a dozen poems in Quill. She also published two poems in the 1938 anthology Negro Voices, edited by Beatrice Murphy.

Gordon's fiction focuses on the unhappy lives of urban African-American couples, challenging some of the era's social norms. Her poems are lyrical odes to love that take their metaphors from nature.

There is little information about Gordon after her 1942 divorce. She died in 1980.

A compilation of Gordon's work, Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon, was published in 1996.That same year, "Subversion" and another story, "If Wishes Were Horses", were republished in the anthology Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950.*

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

CAUAC

Blue Solar Storm

I pulse in order to catalyze

Realizing energy

I seal the matrix of self-generation

With the solar tone of intention

I am guided by the power of vision.

Will is the quality of alignment of the third-dimensional self with the fourth dimensional soul essence, as guided by the fifth-dimensional guardian or angel.*

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

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)

White Galactic Mirror - Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 26

8 Etznab

White Galactic Mirror

Violet Thistle blooms

Against Vines green

Needled Pines grow

Near deep Sea blue

From Chrysalis

To Continents

Monarch sails on

Orange and black

Vibrant Contrast –

Winged Harmony

Sips syrup sweet  –

Then soars in Flight. 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Artishia Gilbert

Artishia Gilbert (1868–1904) (also known as Artishia Gilbert-Wilkerson) was an African-American from Kentucky, who became probably the first black woman licensed to practice medicine in the state. After obtaining her undergraduate and master's degrees in Kentucky, Gilbert earned her medical degree in Washington, D.C. While continuing her education, Gilbert taught at her alma mater and upon obtaining her license, continued to both teach and practiced medicine in Louisville.

Early life

Artishia Garcia Gilbert was born on June 2, 1868 in Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky to Amanda (née Hopper) and William Gilbert. She was the younger of two children in the family. Her parents were farmers and until she was six years old; her father migrated to various communities, having no fixed residence. Each place that they lived, Gilbert acquainted herself with the local teachers, soon learning to spell and read. In 1878, her parents moved to Louisville and she entered the public schools, remaining there for the next three years.

In 1881, Gilbert became a Christian and entered the Normal and Theological Institute run by Rev. William J. Simmons, (later known as State University). In 1885, she graduated from the Normal School and enrolled in university studies. During her schooling, Gilbert taught Sunday school and took in jobs to assist her mother with her tuition costs. She graduated with an A.B. degree in 1889, as class valedictorian.

Career

Upon completing her education, Gilbert began working as the editor of the magazine, Our Women and Children, but when offered a teaching position in 1890 at her alma mater, she took the position as an English teacher and instructor of Greek grammar. A popular speaker on the Women's Baptist Educational Convention tours, Gilbert spoke at many conventions held throughout the South. She also served as a representative at the National Baptist Conventions. Gilbert was a matron at State University and served on the board of the Colored Orphan's Home, and as president of several women's groups. She was associated with the Bell Embroidery Club, Ladies Union Band, Sons and Daughters of the Calvary, Sons and Daughters of the Morning, Women's Federation Board, Women's Industrial Club, and the Women's Improvement Club. Gilbert attended the short-lived, African-American run, Louisville National Medical College (1881–1911), earning her Artium Magiste degree in 1893. Thereafter, after passing her examination, she received what was probably the first medical license issued to an African-American woman in the state of Kentucky.

Gilbert opened her medical practice at 938 Dumesnil Street, Louisville and remained listed in national physician registries at this address through 1902. In 1896, Gilbert furthered her education at Howard University in Washington, D. C., receiving her Doctor of Medicine degree upon her graduation the following year. While in the capitol, she met Bernard Orange "B. O." Wilkerson, whom she married on June 1, 1897 in New York City. Returning to Louisville, Gilbert worked as an assistant to the obstetrics professor of the Medical Department at State University and was the superintendent of the Red Cross Sanitarium of Louisville. She had three children: B. O. Jr., Artishia Garcia Jr., and a male infant who was two weeks old at the time of her death.

Death and legacy

Gilbert died two weeks after having given birth to her youngest child and was buried on April 2, 1904 in a service which was widely attended by family, friends and colleagues.*

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

ETZNAB

Kin 138: White Galactic Mirror

I harmonize in order to reflect

Modeling order

I seal the matrix of endlessness

With the galactic tone of integrity

I am guided by the power of spirit.

Initiation is the act of making conscious the passage from one state or condition of being to another; new knowledge comes through the ritual of initiation.*

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

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Svadhistanha Chakra (Kali Plasma)