Red Rhythmic Earth/ Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 21

6 Caban

Red Rhythmic Earth

Golden Bee

On Spruce – on Pine

Pulling Nectar

Drinking Wine

Ivy twines ‘round

Berry Bush

Pebble, Shell, and Wood

Drift in from Sea

Decorating Sand

In random Jocularity

Waves whisper and fall

In fine-tuned Rhythms –

Earth’s constant Call

To her pale Sister Moon.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Shahrazad Ali (born April 27, 1954, in Atlanta, Georgia, US), raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an author of several books, including a paperback called The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. The book was controversial bringing "forth community forums, pickets and heated arguments among blacks in many parts" of the US when it was published in 1989.

Book reviews

Stories about the book appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, and Newsweek. Ali appeared on Tony Brown's Journal, the Sally Jessy Raphaël Show, The Phil Donahue Show, and Geraldo TV programs—and was ridiculed on In Living Color. The book reportedly brought black bookstores new business, while other black bookstores banned it. It also provoked a book of essays (called Confusion by Any Other Name) that explored the negative impact of The Blackman's Guide.

Some passages of her book describing African American women—referred to as the Blackwoman, as is the parlance of the Nation of Islam—quoted in the media include the following:

Although not lazy by nature, she has become loose and careless about herself and about her man and family. Her brain is smaller than the Blackman's, so while she is acclaimed for her high scholastic achievement, her thought processes do not compare to the conscious Blackman's.

Her unbridled tongue is the main reason she cannot get along with the Blackman...if she ignores the authority and superiority of the Blackman, there is a penalty. When she crosses this line and becomes viciously insulting it is time for the Blackman to soundly slap her in the mouth.

Ali stated, "I wrote the book because black women in America have been protected and insulated against certain kinds of criticism and examination."Critics complained that book offered no factual data to substantiate her views or information about how she came to her conclusions. It was essentially a vanity-press product that would have been ignored by black people and others had it not been for the media attention its novelty and outrageousness created.

Guest commentator

In August 2013, Ali re-emerged in the media as a guest commentator on the HLN program Dr. Drew on Call. She was also interviewed on The Trisha Goddard Show along with white supremacist Craig Cobb, agreeing with Cobb that the black and white races should be separated.

Life

Ali is the mother of 12 children, nine of them adopted.

Selected bibliography

How Not to Eat Pork (Or Life without the Pig), 1985 (ISBN 0933405006)

The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman, 1989 (ISBN 0933405014)

The Blackwoman's Guide to Understanding the Blackman, 1992 (ISBN 0933405030)

Are You Still a Slave? 1994 (ISBN 0933405049)

Day by Day, 1996 (ISBN 0933405057)

How to Tell If Your Man Is Gay or Bisexual, 2003, (ISBN 978-0933405103)

In addition, she has written some books no longer in print.

Urban Survival for the Year 2000

How to Prepare for the Y2K Computer Problem in the 'Hood.*

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

CABAN

Kin 97: Red Rhythmic Earth

I organize in order to evolve

Balancing synchronicity

I seal the matrix of navigation

With the rhythmic tone of equality

I am guided by my own power doubled.

The seventh mental sphere can only be accessed through the evolution of the third-dimensional entity into a planetoid type of being whose crown center is the noosphere itself.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.

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www.tzolkincosmology.com

www.13moon.com

www.mayanmajix.com

The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Anahata Chakra (Silio Plasma)

Yellow Overtone Warrior/ Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 20

5 Cib

Yellow Overtone Warrior

Alchemical Silvering

Out of Black

Into Blue –

Nigredo to Indigo

Indigo Blue –

Coalescent Radiance

Death into Life –

Mind purified –

Light-filled

Field unified

All healed.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Gaylon Alcaraz

Gaylon Alcaraz (born October 26, 1966) is a community organizer and human rights activist in Chicago, Illinois. She is the former executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund.[2] Her autobiography Tales of a Woojiehead was published by Blackgurl Press in 2002.

Education

Alcaraz earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from DePaul University. She completed one year of coursework at Roosevelt University towards a Doctorate of Education. She is currently attending National Louis University to earn Ph.D. in Community Psychology.

Career

In 1997, Alcaraz became a founding board member of Affinity Community Services, an organization dedicated to developing leadership skills for black lesbian and bisexual women. In 2011, she became Board of Director for two organizations: Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health and Midwest Access Project. Alcaraz was Executive Director of Chicago Abortion Fund from 2005 - 2014.

Awards

The Chicago Reader Newspaper - The People Issue - "The Activist" - December 2014

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective - Women Warrior - November 2014

City of Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame - Inductee - 2013

NYU Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action - IGNITE Fellowship - Women of Color in the Social Sector - 2013

National Organization for Women - Women Who Dared - 2012

Chicago Foundation for Women - Impact Awards - 2010

Choice USA - Generational Award - 2009

National Organization for Women (Chicago Suburban Chapter) - Fay Clayton Award - 2008.*

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

CIB

Kin 96: Yellow Overtone Warrior

I empower in order to question

Commanding fearlessness

I seal the output of intelligence

With the overtone tone of radiance

I am guided by the power of flowering

I am a galactic activation portal 

enter me.

That which we think of as our mind or intelligence is merely a resonant quality of mind which is not contained in our body, brain, or nervous system.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.

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www.tzolkincosmology.com

www.13moon.com

www.mayanmajix.com

The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Manipura Chakra (Limi Plasma)

Blue Self-Existing Eagle/ Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 19

4 Men

Blue Self-Existing Eagle

Blue Eagle, do you hear the call

Singing through the Oak and Pine –

 Whispering Tendrils on the Vine?

My Voice – a faint Murmur in the Night

Kissing you softly awake

Blue Eagle, do you hear the Song

Floating on a misty Mountainside

Rushing down a narrow Waterfall

Up the lazy River of your Spine

Like a lovely Lotus Blossom?

Blue Eagle, do you hear the Sound

Crowning and surrounding you

Sighing for your Soul

To learn its Language?

Blue Eagle, do you hear the Drum

Signaling the Rhythm of your Days

As you become the Master of your Fate?

Blue Eagle, mark the Measure of your Glory

Embrace the Grandeur of your Story —

Now!

©Kleomichele Leeds

Octavia V. Rogers Albert

Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – August 19, 1889) was an African-American author and biographer. She documented slavery in the United States through a collection of interviews with ex-slaves in her book The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, which was posthumously published in 1890.

Life and work

She was born Octavia Victoria Rogers in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she lived in slavery until the emancipation. She attended Atlanta University where she studied to be a teacher. Octavia Rogers saw teaching as a form of worship and Christian service. She received her first teaching job in Montezuma, Georgia.

In 1874, at around 21 years old, she married another teacher, Dr. Aristide Elphonso Peter Albert, and they had one daughter together, Laura T. Albert. In 1875 Octavia converted to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a church under the ministry of Henry McNeal Turner, a Congressman and prominent political activist. After her conversion, she then taught because she saw teaching as a form of worship and as a part of her Christian service like her contemporaries. While teaching in Montezuma, Georgia, both she and her husband became strong advocates for education and "American religion" as they used their home to teach reading and writing lessons. Her husband became an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1877. Shortly after the couple married, they moved to Houma, Louisiana.

The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves

In Houma, Louisiana, Octavia Albert began conducting interviews with men and women who were once enslaved. She met Charlotte Brooks for the first time in 1879 and decided to interview her later, along with other former slaves from Louisiana. These interviews were the raw material for her collection of narratives. Although most of the book focuses on the narrative of Charlotte Brooks, Albert also implemented the interviews from ex-slaves John Goodwin, Lorendo Goodwin, Lizzie Beaufort, Colonel Douglass Wilson, and a woman known as Hattie. Their interviews and experiences shaped her book The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves as a mix of slave stories that would expose the inhumanity of slavery and its effects on individuals. Albert's goal in writing her book was to tell the stories of slaves, their freedom, and adjustment into a changing society in order to "correct and create history." The stories of Charlotte Brooks and the others would eventually be compiled into a book after Octavia's death, published in New York by Hunt and Eaton in 1890. Octavia Albert died on August 19, 1889, before The House of Bondage became widely known.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_V._Rogers_Albert

MEN

Kin 95: Blue Self-Existing Eagle

I define in order to create

Measuring mind

I seal the output of vision

With the self-existing tone of form

I am guided by the power of magic

I am a polar kin

I convert the blue galactic spectrum.

There are infinite sets of mathematical permutations in the ever-changing chemical composition of life.*

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

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www.tzolkincosmology.com

www.13moon.com

www.mayanmajix.com

 The Sacred Tzolk'in

Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)

White Electric Wizard, Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 18

3 Ix

White Electric Wizard

In Dreams

She appears –

When the Veil

Is most transparent

Vesica Pisces*

Sacred Vessel

Hoop of two Moons

Meeting Face to Face

Sacred Portal is she

Out of Duality into Reality

Into Unity –

The Absolute

Clan Initiate

Am I now

Given the Mission

For which I’ve prayed

Mystae and Woman-Wise

Full of Poetry and Motion

Pregnant with a Zeitgeist –

Mediatrix of a Vision.

*Sacred Geometry: a pointed oval shape resulting from the intersection of two circles. Used in medieval art and sculpture, especially to enclose a figure of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Ai Ogawa

Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony; October 21, 1947 – March 20, 2010) was an American poet and educator who won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems. Ai is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work. About writing in the dramatic monologue form, she's said: "I want to take the narrative 'persona' poem as far as I can, and I've never been one to do things in halves. All the way or nothing. I won't abandon that desire." 

Early life

Ai, who described herself as 1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw-Chickasaw, 1/4 Black, 1/16 Irish and Southern Cheyenne and Comanche, was born in Albany, Texas, in 1947 and she grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She was also raised in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, with her mother and second stepfather, Sutton Hayes. In 1959, a couple of years after her mother's divorce from Hayes, they moved back to Tucson, Arizona where she completed high school and attended college at the University of Arizona. She majored in English and Oriental Studies with a concentration in Japanese and a minor in Creative Writing, to which she would fully commit toward the end of her degree. Before starting college, one night during dinner with her mother and third stepfather, Ai learned that her biological father was Japanese. Known as Florence Hayes throughout her childhood and undergrad years, it was not until graduate school, when Ai was going to switch her last name back to Anthony that her mother finally told her more details about her past. Learning that her mother had an affair with a Japanese man, Michael Ogawa, after meeting him at a streetcar stop. This led Ai's first stepfather, whose last name was "Anthony," to beat her mother until family intervened and she was taken to Texas, where her stepfather eventually followed after Ai's birth. Because her mother was still legally married to Anthony at the time, his last name was put on Ai's birth certificate.

The poverty Ai experienced during her childhood affected her and her writing. Ai credits her first writing experience to an assignment in her Catholic school English class to write a letter from the perspective of a martyr. Two years after that experience, at the age of 14, she began actively writing. 

Career

From 1969 to 1971, Ai attended the University of California at Irvine's M.F.A program where she worked under of Charles Wright and Donald Justice. She is the author of No Surrender, (2010), which was posthumously published after her death, Dread (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003); Vice (1999), which won the National Book Award; Greed (1993); Fate (1991); Sin (1986), which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Killing Floor (1979), which was the 1978 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and Cruelty (1973).

She also received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Fellowship Program at Radcliffe College and from various universities. She was a visiting instructor at Binghamton, the State University of New York for the 1973-74 academic year. After winning the National Book Award for Vice she became a tenured professor and the vice president of the Native American Faculty and Staff Association at Oklahoma State University and lived in Stillwater, Oklahoma until her death.

Literary views

Ai had considered herself as "simply a writer" rather than a spokesperson for any particular group. About her own poetry in an interview with Lawrence Kearney and Michael Cuddihy in 1978, she emphasized that there are no "confessional" or autobiographical elements in her work. However, in an interview with Okla Elliott in 2003 after the publication of Dread, she stated that some of the poems and characters in that book are "fictionalized versions" of her family history and that her multi-racial background and interest in history has had a strong influence on her work in this particular collection.

While her work often contains sex, violence, and other controversial subjects, she told Kearney and Cuddihy during that 1978 interview that she did not view her use of them as gratuitous. About the poems in her first collection, Cruelty, she said: "I wanted people to see how they treated each other and themselves." She noted that the difference between the poems in Cruelty and those in Killing Floor is that they deal with her character's whole life rather than a single episode. She described her purpose for writing as "trying to integrate [her] life emotionally and spiritually." 

About contemporary American poetry and her own risk-taking in her work, she said: "Perhaps there's a fear of revealing too much emotion in American poetry, despite the go-ahead of a sort from confessional poetry. At any rate, I think that that is my goal—I mean I never want to say 'I have plenty of heart,' but I want to be able to say whatever I feel without fear or embarrassment." 

Name change

In 1973, she legally changed her last name to Ogawa and her middle name to "Ai" (愛), which translates to "love" in Japanese, a pen name she had been using since 1969.

Death

Ai was admitted to the hospital on March 17, 2010, for pneumonia. Three days later, Ai died on March 20, 2010, at age 62, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(poet)

IX

Kin 94: White Electric Wizard

I activate in order to enchant

Bonding receptivity

I seal the output of timelessness

With the electric tone of service

I am guided by the power of endlessness.

The greatest ally on the path is the power of imagination - this is the creative force that fuels our journey.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.

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The Sacred Tzolk'in 

Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)

Red Lunar Skywalker/ Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 17

2 Ben

Red Lunar Skywalker

CITIZENS...

Battered and beaten

By Bullet and Bomb
Tattered and treated
Like Garbage and Scum
Ripped up, taken down
To the Ground deaf and dumb
Rushing and running to
Beat the War-Drum

Everywhere is
Ground Zero for the (S)hero
Of our Age –

Chaos now takes center Stage
Fretting and strutting
His Stuff and his Rage –

Dumbed down by  Screens
Screams and Beams –

Sound Bytes for all
Superficial and trite
Bully Amerika started
This fight!

Numbed out are we
Sickened...addicted
To Micky D - Meth
All Drugs prescripted -

 TV, DVD, MP 3
LCD, HD, LOL, POTUS
AIPAC , NSA, FISA and NASA

Hell yeah!  Language shrinks
Shirking its Duty -

Critical Thought now
Drowns in Acronym

Icon  - Emoticon
Replace Language sublime
Fear sells Liberty
Dressed in Camouflage

A Calculus arises
To measure
Mortality rates
Of Babies in War
Like Hatchets used
To explore a human Heart

As eastern Lights rise
The West comes apart
The Galaxy its
Balance must define -

Our Future lay
In dusty Hieroglyph carved
On the barely visible
Tomb of  LinearTime.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Magnetic Human/ Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 16

1 Eb

Yellow Magnetic Human

In each of us a Beauty and a Beast

In each a Light and Darkness of the Heart

In each a Famine and a Holy Feast

In each the Whole of which we are a Part

In every Mind both human and divine

In every one, two Voices in the Soul

In every Fruit, hard Seed and honeyed Wine

Within each Particle resides the Whole

In all that’s Uniform – Diversity

In all Duality does Union hide

In all that’s complex lives Simplicity

In all who fear are Faith and Love denied

Though Maya’s subtle Veil hides all that’s True

With conscious Sight the single Eye peers through.

©Kleomichele Leeds

1/24/2019 Blue Cosmic Monkey/ Resonant Monkey Moon of Attunement, Day 15

13 Chuen

Blue Cosmic Monkey

Into the wild Sea

I dive –

Into the wild Wave

One with the open Sky

Am I

One with the open Wing

Into the Forest green

I wander

Into a mountain Spring

I am One with these

Sea – Sky and Wood  -

Fierce and free like these am I

The Rhythm of Nature

Life – Death – Life

Is replicate in me

For I am this

Dancing Magic –

Calling forth the Soul in Thee.

©Kleomichele Leeds