2 Chicchan
Red Lunar Serpent
Let us move our Mourning to
Thanksgiving
Giving up Despair for second Sight
That we may count ourselves among the
Living
As Vision defeats blindness to the Light
Between us many Obstacles arise
To block our Path of Faith around the
Earth
But when at last we see with Spirit’s
Eyes
The poison Snake of Sadness dies at
Birth
Our Gratitude and Faith forever sound
In ringing Psalms of Memory and
Praise
Beyond the Walls of Sorrow we are
found
Singing Hymns of Joy for all our days.
All Thanks to you, our pure and gentle
Dove
Progenitor of Faith’s eternal Love.`
©Kleomichele Leeds
Ardie Clark Halyard
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Ardie A. Clark Halyard (1896-1989) was a banker, activist and the first woman president of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Biography
Halyard was born in Covington, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of a sharecropper. Halyard graduated with a degree in education from Atlanta University. She married Wilbur Halyard in 1920. She and her husband lived in Beloit for some time, where they started a NAACP branch. In 1923, she and her husband moved to Milwaukee. After moving to Milwaukee, they learned that white realtors "openly discussed strategies to restrict the city's black population" to certain areas of town.
In 1925, she and her husband co-founded the first African-American owned bank in Milwaukee, the Columbia Savings and Loan Association. The couple opened the bank with a single ten-dollar bill. This bank allowed black people to apply for loans without facing racial discrimination. It was "virtually impossible for blacks to obtain a mortgage so they could purchase a home" at the time. In order to make their bank a success, neither she nor Wilbur Halyard "drew a salary" for the first 10 years they were open. Halyard worked as a director at Goodwill Industries for twenty years, while at the same time acting as "bookkeeper and secretary for Columbia." By the late 1960's, the bank's assets were valued at $4 million.
Halyard became the first woman president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP in 1951. During her time as president, she "increased dues-paying membership from 39 to 1,416 people." She remained active in the NAACP in other capacities, often as treasurer.*
CHICCHAN
Kin 145: Red Lunar Serpent
I polarize in order to survive
Stabilizing instinct
I seal the store of life force
With the lunar tone of challenge
I am guided by the power of navigation.
When we open beyond the world system of conditioned perception, then we enter into a vastly different level, where a whole new cosmos dawns.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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