in goddess we trust

There is wisdom in feeling deeply. 
Let it bubble up to the surface as it is. 

Honor it by giving it a place. 

Let it be and you may see

There is beauty even in the wreckage. 

~ Maasa Craig, 2022

It's National Roller Coaster Day, which feels totally appropriate. This whole year has been a bad ride for us with Trump at the helm, even if he is clearly out of control. 

Twister III at Elitch Gardens

It is time for Americans to wake up to what Donald Joker Trump is doing. Wake up to the Trump administration assault on institutions, on knowledge, and on history. Wake up to their war on science, public health, and the American people. 

Widespread protests are spreading all over America and abroad. Over five million took to the streets on #NoKings Day. More are expected to turn out for #BeBraveWithUs Day. Their power and popularity are plummeting as more folks stand up and push back against these atrocities. 

Free DC Project

Washington DC is just the latest battleground of their maddening power grab. Trumped up charges and false claims placing MPD under federal control and plans to deploy the National Guard to DC are meeting massive resistance. 

It is a dangerous escalation in communities where the biggest danger has been threats by the government that is supposed to protect its people and their rights. 

Yesterday hundreds of DC residents from across the District - all ages, all races, across class and identity - came together in joyous outpouring. To love on and care for one another and continue building for a better future and guarantee it will come.

"Statue of Freedom" bronze by Thomas Crawford, 1893 

Thom Hartmann rightly points out that images of America's Goddess adorn the entrances to all of the major federal government buildings in Washington, D.C. We fervently pray - dear Goddess Justitia, guide and guard us through this dark time. 

She stands blindfolded, faithfully balancing the scales in front of the Department of Justice. She is the source of Inspiration and Knowledge displayed at the entrance to the Department of Education. 

Spirit of Justice

She is the Goddess of New Life, abundance, provision and harvest who offers her cornucopia to her subjects at the Department of Agriculture. She stands guard atop the Capitol Building and from behind the Speaker of the House's podium. 

America's Goddess watches, protects and guides from atop her silent perch. Encouraging her people to set aside selfish desires and serve her mission faithfully. A song in her honor, Hail, Columbia, was actually an unofficial national anthem up until 1931.

Columbia Protecting Science & Industry

Perhaps what is needed is a reaffirmation of allegiance not to our nation's God, but to our nation's forgotten Goddess - Columbia, the Great Dove, the Maiden Martyr.

But who is she? And how is it that we as a nation have come to forget her, despite her ubiquitous presence atop the nation's most prominent institutions of power?

The name "Columbia" for "America" seems to have been coined by Samuel Johnson as a feminized version of Christopher Columbus. 

Clotho on lampstand at the Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.

In essence, the Goddess is the personification of the totality of the brain's creative and critical faculties. She represents the limitless potentiality of our individual and collective minds. As such, she has traditionally taken many forms but remains the same primary principle. 

In the ancient traditions of prehistory, she is the Triple Goddess: the original Holy Trinity of Maiden, Mother and Crone. As a symbol of the circle of life and the fusion of the whole, she represents life and death, light and darkness.

In America, she is the personification of Liberty, Justice and New Life. For those steadfast pilgrims who ended their long journey to freedom at Her feet, justice and hope were personified in Her form. 

Lady Justice, sits atop the Court of Law

Goddess worship it must be stressed, is an ancient technology meant to trigger the empathic drives of our collective right hemispheres. This is not about joining a religion or passing new laws. This does not cost any money or even require anybody to change worldviews or political affiliations. 

This is about recognizing that life is precious and sacred and that by increasing the dignity and freedom of all living things, we increase our own. The Goddess is the symbol of our highest responsibility to one another. 

Through understanding eyes, she is that purest image of our own potential to evolve from Homo sapien (the knowing creature) to Homo empathicus (the empathic creature). She allows us to see ourselves in the Other and embrace it.