Magic at Smack Dab Monday Morning Check-In Post & Navigating the Uncertainty from The Pleiadians

How Are You? & A Transcribed Excerpt from our New Year Transmission on January 23, 2025

Smack Dab Chicago - Owner Teeny Waving at Us All from the Kitchen

As I write this, I am sitting at Smack Dab drinking a Sweater-Weather latte. I tried to go somewhere else even though this is where I wanted to be, but I ran a whole, “I’m not worthy,” conversation with myself when it came to taking up a booth as a single on a busy Sunday morning so I did not do what I wanted to and went elsewhere. I could not easily find parking at my other choice and it looked super busy inside so I said, “Fuck it,” and headed to Smack Dab telling myself that if it were too busy there, I’d just grab something to-go and bring it back home.

When I walked in, the happy brunchers had taken every booth and chair, but as I waited in line, the stools at the counter cleared out.

Perfect! I set my coat on a stool and turned around as a booth was emptying. I looked at Max, one of the beautiful beings working there who I have gotten to know and they said, “Take it!”

I started to move my things, and lo and behold, my favorite booth, the one in the back with the drawing of the constellation of Aquarius hanging on the wall right above it, opened up. I scampered over there and then placed my order, thinking about magic and timing as I chatted up Teeny, who owns this gem of a community hub that serves delicious food and beverages and supports my community in so many ways.

Once I was back at my table, blues musician Lurrie Bell sat down at the table next to me accompanied by his daughter, Nikki. I immediately struck up a conversation with them as I often do with anyone near me anywhere I am. I had no idea who he was when we began talking. His daughter let me know when he got up from the table to get some water. It was their first time eating at this favorite spot of mine. This was such a classic Chicago magic moment it took me completely out of all of the bullshit playing out right now and dropped me right into my heart.

“I practice some guitar a bit,” he said quietly once we got to talking again after he’d returned with his water.

“He’s so humble,” Nikki said.

He’ll be a headliner at Bluesfest this summer, was nominated for a Grammy, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame last year. Meeting them felt like a nudge for Jon and me to head to Bluesfest this year.

We talked music and spirituality and politics and joy, and I was immediately reminded of what The Pleiadians had said last week about the importance of connecting with other humans directly in our local communities. We’ve gotten out of balance with social media and the internet taking too much of our attention. Finding our center point right now, a path that offers fulfilling physical interactions as well as virtual ones is the way.

I have so many thoughts and feelings about these and everything else. I’ll share them as the weeks unfold. For now, this piece from Thursday’s transmission felt like the perfect thing to send out.

Our gratitude and love to Susan Todd for generously transcribing. This piece has been edited for print.

“You have so much uncertainty in your world right now, due to so many things that are playing out, not just the politics of your day, but climate change, your economy, and everything else that's playing out. You're in the space of almost not recognizing the world you are currently inhabiting. So, take a breath here and process this piece of information, that suddenly this world, your country, your community, your media, all of it is feeling unrecognizable to you. Don't move yourselves out of this moment yet.

This is the hardest piece when you're going through radical change, sitting in the discomfort of not knowing. What you all want to do instinctively, if your flight response is activated by fear, is either escape or run and try to make it all better in some way for yourself and everyone else. If your fight response is getting activated as a result of this fear, you're more likely to create drama in your personal life with the people that you are most connected to because you can't, in a structured way at this moment, not yet, in a healthy way, really fight that power structure that wants to keep things as they have been, keep the patriarchal structures in place. You're not quite there yet where that movement has arisen to really engage in that way. When we say fight, we don't mean war. We don't mean literal battle. We mean taking directed action towards the reality you're desiring.

You are still reeling from the rapid changes, the gish-gallop of information being flung at you right now about potential changes, many of which will probably not come to pass. There's a lot of fear woven into that messaging that's meant to destabilize you, throw you into uncertainty, shake your foundation, shake your core, and this is where you're at, you're shaken right now, all of you, no matter what your belief system is, you're feeling it. You're all feeling it in your world no matter what country you live in because you are all one. You're all connected. So sit in the uncertainty and let it be as it is right now, while also putting your attention on yourself, “Alright, what can I do for me right now to support a healthier more joyful reality for myself and the people I am directly connected to in this moment.?”

There will be other moments where you feel more empowered in bigger ways to affect many others, many more people. If you already have avenues and pathways to those bigger actions, bigger connections, and organizations, we're not saying don't take those actions right now. If you have those connections, absolutely walk that pathway. What we are saying is the majority of you don't yet feel connected up in that way. You're here in this space of uncertainty, so let yourselves feel it, don't bypass it. Don't try to rush through it and don't go into denial about it. Let yourself feel it, have it, and grieve. Let yourselves grieve for what you perceived as a potential timeline that has not yet come to pass. You can grieve this. It doesn't mean that timeline isn't formulating itself. It's about time. We've talked about this before. The thing you cannot control in your world is when things happen. All you can really control, and even this is a magic trick, is your response to the moment at hand and your intentions for your next moment.

We say this is a magic trick because it requires an incredible amount of magic for any of you right now to activate joy and operate joyfully despite what is playing out, and you all are doing this. We see it. So, honor yourself and the magicians that you are in this moment, even if the action you're taking, the joyful action is tiny, because the more joy that is put in the field, the more others will feel it around you, and the more they will want it for themselves. The more they will shed the beliefs, the ideologies that are keeping them in fear, that are keeping them from feeling the joy.

If you want to look at opposites on the spectrum right now, there is fear and there is joy. It's often presented in your world that it's fear or love. That's not our take, that's not our perspective. You are love incarnate. You are made of love. It is what you are comprised of, incarnate here as beings of love. It is your existence. It is the energy in all of you and it is true for every single one of you in your world. It is also true that many are so afraid they have forgotten that they are love incarnate and cannot activate genuine joy.

Take a breath here. All right, let's move on to some things that you have going on astrologically and from a planetary perspective, and then we'll come back to this topic because it's a big topic, how to navigate the path ahead. And there will be regular updates from us about how to navigate the path ahead as your path changes. So remember that the information we're giving you today while universal and applicable at all times is also very specifically meant to be about this current moment you're in, this month, and the following month. By the time you come to the spring equinox and you come into that third and final Pluto and Mars square that happens at the end of April, well, there's going to be another set and pieces of information that will facilitate that moment.” - The Pleiadians

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