Her Prophet Speaks: A General Admonishment

~The tone of this will sound angry, though it is largely frustration, moderately seasoned with despair and just a pinch of fear. There IS anger in this, but that is directed as much at myself as it is at you, my Sisters, an anger that boils down to “Time's a'wasting. Get off your fucking ass!”

For me that means finishing The Explanation more than anything else. The Messenger really does, at the very least, need to finish at a minimum a first draft of The Message after all. Being dead would get me off the hook on that one - fate may soon have that in store for all I know - but I have no intention of going there voluntarily, thank you very much. So, I get to Face The Page.

However, with a Work like this, one that has a very Specific Audience and a very Specific Purpose, a lot of outside support from said Audience is important. Otherwise, why am I Facing The Page? If it is solely for my Ego, then fuck it. I'd be better off writing 'commercial product' that could at least have shot at making me some real money.

And YOU, my Sisters, are 'said Audience'. I need your feedback and encouragement and some small signs that your are preparing to follow through upon this Work. And honestly, I've lately been getting very little of the first two and seeing essentially nothing of the latter.

I understand that you're all trying to survive. And really, that's not good enough. Yes, that is harsh, but it is no harsher than anything I say to myself. “Not good enough,” is one of my Mantras. What I see is y'all being caught up in Wage Slavery and Mass Media, those twin traps of The Corporate State and have no doubt that said beast is the bastard child of Patriarchy.

This Path is not any easy gig. Building an entirely new world never is. As the cliche says, 'if it was easy, everybody would do it.' It also cannot be done by a single person, which is the key reason I'm feeling so badly weighed down, because, except for Sister One – who has a chronic disabling disease – I am doing this all on my own.

When I say 'support', many hear 'money'. Well hey, money is nice...and still is not enough. Say I won the lottery and had millions to spend on Stage Two, etc. If you, my Sisters, did not come and participate, then what the fuck would be the point? And money can be easy. Just in send a donation. Showing up and making a commitment, that's a tough one.

When I say 'time's a'wasting'...well, look at what is going on around you. We are right now in the middle of Collapse...

This is not a “Mad Max” scenario, with masked barbarians roaming the wastelands, though we will get some of that sooner or later...

It's the daily erosion of the general quality of life; government services [police, fire, sanitation] strangled by 'austerity', bad roads that never get repaired, food of lower quality getting more expensive, etc. Look around, the list is endless...

It's a steady increase in social and political violence, both verbal and physical; ever more hateful rhetoric, demonizing 'the other', individual brutality, spree killing, rising numbers of murder/suicides...

It's each of you working harder and longer [if you're lucky enough to have employment] for less and less merely to survive...

It's a future of endlessly rising energy costs that strangle the economy day after day no matter what we do...

It's Climate Change; increasingly bad droughts, violent storms and blasting heat...

It's the Powers That Be [The Monied Interests, etc] hoping to 'ride this out' and hoarding as much as they can to stave off their inevitable fall as long as they can and blocking nearly all possible solutions in the process because of the fear that said solutions will cut into their power...which they most assuredly would.

And then there is The War on Women...

Naomi Wolf stated it quite succinctly, "It would be a mistake to see these attacks as simply a backlash against women. This is about empire struggling for social control." The Powers That Be need those 'forces of reaction', Christian Fundamentalists, White Nativists and all the other fearful/hateful low information voters of both genders, to hold onto power. And Women's Rights are a direct threat to that agenda.

All the gains from of Second Wave Feminism in the '70's and 80's that had been thought safe are now under attack and in many cases are being rolled back. This is a function of Patriarchy, the need to control women on the most basic level, as Reproductive Beings. And to do this women must be hemmed in socially and legally.

Therefore Collapse is not some abstract issue for you, my Sisters. It is about the type of future that you will have. It is unfolding as you read these words. And if you don't Get Busy, it will be more of the same Male Dominated crap you already have to deal with, only increasingly so and this time without any recourse.

So, is that 'fear mongering'? You bet your ass it is. And rightly so because this is some scary shit. But I'm not doing so to market some 'how to survive the coming clusterfuck' book, which is a pretty rich market these days. I firmly believe that not only have I been shown a way to 'survive the coming clusterfuck', but also that said Path can lay the foundations of a much better future on the other side of the thing.

And there will be an 'other side'. There always is. That is our nature as a species. The positive spin is that we are 'resilient'. The cynical one is that we're like cockroaches. I tend to balance and believe a bit of both.

Now what that 'other side' is going to look like? That is, in part, up to you, my Sisters. It's time to start detaching from the lives you're presently living. They are largely traps. Yes, there is 'family and friends', but they are trapped too. You'll have to let them go. Not cut them off, but start moving back from them, step by step.

That will mean picking up and moving out here to start to physically create this community. Not today. We're still working on that. But within a year or two. We cannot do this solely on the Internet. The Temple needs an actual home, one where you can create Community and lay your head at night.

This is long term work. You'd be at it for the rest of your lives. But every morning you'd wake up with a real Purpose. [an overview of the Work can be found HERE] And those Sisters who show up in the beginning of this Work will become The Elders of this new social order...

Or, my Sisters, you can do what you've always done and keep getting what you've always gotten. Maybe none of those I presently know will ever be a part of 'this thing of ours'. Maybe none of you has the Vision and the Courage needed to follow this Path. If that sounds harsh that's because the truth usually is. Look at your lives, my Sisters. If you look at them harshly, you'll see how trapped you really are

I'll keep writing of course; I am compelled to do so.

In that regard, even if none of you reading this will ever be able to 'walk the walk', even if you just 'talk the talk' for a little bit, that would at least help me finish that first draft. Even if you cannot escape your own trapped lives, you can help me to help other Sisters escape theirs.

And so it is...

Today is 26th Octobria 12AS...a Eponaday

"Eponaday is The First Day. Epona is a very ancient Celtic Goddess of Horses. She is chosen because The Horse is central to Amazon Culture. She starts off the week with the symbolic 'getting back in the saddle'."

"Let us look at the structure of the week itself. The First, Second and Third Days are the 'official' Work Week for business, school, etc. On the Weekend, the Fourth Day is half and half; morning and early afternoon for finishing up the Work Week and the late afternoon and evening for playing and partying. The Fifth Day is not a religious holiday per se, but rather meant to be a day of relaxation and reflection."

Addendum D [Calendar for A New Matriarchy]

Stage Two Details

"But, however intoxicating the concept of this process may be, upon thinking through the practical steps toward implementing these processes I soon realized that first The Temple needs a Home, a safe, stable, and effective base of operations from which to start these various projects.

As I have said above, as of this writing, The Temple is still a small operation and in what I refer to as Stage One. However, Stage Two has already been initiated, that being the acquisition of a piece of our own land, a plot large enough to allow for expansion.

The Stage Two property will come together in roughly the following order and look something like this:

~The manufactured home is derided by many - Class Warfare at work - but we have found them to be both comfortable and cheaper than 'fixed' houses. Therefore Stage Two will start off with five double-wides of varying layouts ordered and custom built directly from a manufacturer. We'll do so via our own real estate and building corporation which will allow us to get wholesale pricing.

As they are acquired they will be placed in a pentagonal formation centered around a large above ground swimming pool and exercise area and linked together with walkways and extended porches. This will create a comfortable and communally oriented living space for about two dozen Sisters.

~We will have an area dedicated to Yoga, build a good sized rock climbing wall and acquire various pieces of gym equipment.

~We will acquire a number of surplus steel shipping containers, placing them on the property for use as storage space and other purposes. They are plentiful, cheap, and extremely durable.

~We will build stables on the property, large enough to accommodate two to four horses. The promotion of Horse Culture is central to the creation of a new Amazon Culture.

~We will acquire a smaller manufactured home to be used as The Temple's first school house, a long single-wide laid out in two rooms separated by a bathroom and storage space.

The principal of Stage Two, what we shall call the First Karaal, is not the 'religious compound', but the Resilient Community. In keeping with The Temple's strategy of the Viral Meme, this community will be interactive, not isolationist. The latter is a feature of End Times thinking and entirely alien to our epistemology.

The First Karaal will be oriented toward self sufficiency and, if necessary, self defense, but this is a product of realistic thinking as we are mindful that, given recent trends, some sort of near future societal 'dislocation' is probable, though we cannot yet foresee its extent. If such is moderate, the First Karaal will see Sisters coming and going from the larger world and function essentially as a safe haven for them. However, if such is extreme, then it will likely take on a 'lifeboat' function, a redoubt where we can ride out a more significant collapse.

While we certainly prefer the former rather than the latter – a relatively stable social order would serve our goals better than chaos – we know is is best to take a “pray to The Goddess, but keep rowing toward the shore” attitude."

from Her Prophet Explains: Part Four "The Temple's Tactical Initiatives"