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Mary D'Agostino's avatar

Hi Nora,

Thank you for writing this! Thank you for sharing your process and potent insights. Yes, let us mass exodus the loop of suffering. I appreciate the clarity. Trusting my knowing over the years and my own personal revelations has helped me so much. And they usually went against the popular religious and new age confines.

I can look at my personal experiences with divorcing the narcissitic personality disordered men and see how this is all going down in the collective. They don't die easy. They don't go away. They up the ante. And blame everyone. Watching how many are falling in line with the abuser is sickening. But not surprising. It is the old way, the past. I see a part of the collective grasping to appease the abusive daddy and stay in bed with the perpetrator. If only...not me...If I am better, more holy, enlightened...I will be saved by that which seeks to destroy me.

Pluto in Aquarius is indeed process oriented. I choose the process of as much love and joy as possible. Shedding the ways in which the dysfunctional patriarchy had a hold of me. Guilt, shame, victim blaming. At least we now have concepts and words for what we are no longer agreeing to. NO to any and all shaming and blaming of the victimized and abused. Yes to calling out the perpetrators and holding firm with whoever may be with you. I lost most of my family and friends, new agers as well as I called out the abuse. It was not easy. Yet it was so liberating! xo Love you

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Susan Todd's avatar

Hi Nora! When I discovered the book, "Heal Your Body" in the late 1970s, I thought, “Wow, this all seems okay.” But something about it didn’t sit right with me—it felt like it placed blame on the person for having the issue. That approach didn’t resonate with me, though I did appreciate some of the affirmations. I believe that the author, Louise Hay, was, in her own way, taking baby steps toward evolving out of the paradigm that suggests we create our negative experiences for our own good. However, she still seemed to have one foot in the blame game.

Now, all these years later, I’ve developed a different way of looking at things. When people come to me asking for help, I say, “Geez, that sucks that such-and-such happened. It really did happen, and you didn’t deserve that! I’m so sorry. It seems like compassion is what’s needed here.”

I also extend this same kindness to myself. I give that part of me—a specific version of myself or just me as a whole—a big, metaphorical hug and acknowledgment. To me, that’s love.

At 67 years old, I marvel at how times have changed. No one spoke this way when I was a child. But now, people like you are bringing these conversations to the forefront, and I think it’s such an important shift. The age of Aquarius. Love you Nora and thank you again.

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