7 Cauac
Blue Resonant Storm
I move away from here to Her
Seeking inner Realms of Power
Distant Shores of Peace
Some Nights only I am -
Forgetting – fearing – crying to be heard
Remembrance embraces me again -
I hear and then begin to listen
I hearken to the Voices in the Wind
The murmuring Sound of the Rain
Storms recede – I remain
The celestial Mind of an earthbound Dream.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Sarah Dudley Pettey
Sarah Dudley Pettey was an African American political activist in North Carolina devoted to the causes of gender and racial equality, temperance, and women's participation in the public sphere. Dudley Pettey represents female political activism at a time of spreading white supremacy in the era of Jim Crow. Elizabeth Lundeen writes of Dudley Pettey's views, "Sarah Dudley Pettey’s promotion of women’s public work and middle-class values served as an inspiration to subsequent black leaders who fought to secure improvements, however meager, for African Americans during the nadir of race relations in North Carolina."
Life
Sarah Dudley Pettey was born in 1869 in New Bern, North Carolina. Dudley attended New Bern Public Schools through the sixth grade. She next attended the New Bern State Colored Normal School. At the age of 13, she attended Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina, a school staffed and taught by northern white teachers. She graduated from Scotia in 1883 and returned to New Bern to teach.
Dudley married Charles Pettey in 1889. Pettey had two daughters with Lula Pickenpack, Dudley's roommate at Scotia. After Lula died, Dudley and Pettey married. Charles Pettey was a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. They had 5 children of their own.
In 1896, Sarah Dudley Pettey became involved in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Also in 1896, she began writing a bi-monthly column in the Star of Zion, the newspaper of the AME Zion church.
In her writings, Sarah Dudley Pettey exhibited a progressive vision of women's rights and equality. Historian Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore notes that Dudley Pettey often traveled and preached with her husband to "deliver a speech on women's rights, either 'Woman the Equal of Man' or 'Women's Suffrage...' Dudley Pettey regularly reported in the Star of Zion on women's accomplishments."
Sarah Dudley Pettey, 1893
Charles Pettey died in 1900, and Sarah Dudley Pettey died in 1906 at age thirty-seven. Their deaths coincided with the establishment of the Jim Crow system and the full disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South.*
CAUAC
Kin 59: Blue Resonant Storm
I channel in order to catalyze
Inspiring energy
I seal the matrix of self-generation
With the resonant tone of attunement
I am guided by the power of magic.
The Cosmic History information core operates through four basic channels streaming from the primary sources of the galaxy.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)
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