This question is an emergency.

How do you respond when a person in your community asks to talk with you about sex trafficking?

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Max writes,

' I am coordinating rescue aid for community organizers who are risking their lives in apocalyptic conditions to make it possible for more people to work together and help one another.

All are welcome, and please let me know if anyone you know needs help.

https://intuitive.pub/helpline

We are saving the lives of people with practical community motivational & organizational expertise that I notice is frequently asked after in many spaces. This draws together the whole community.

Many people running earthloving projects feel confused or resentful that people aren't responding well enough.

Often, people aren't responding well enough because we are missing community organizers who help people communicate to help one another (in the midst of our environments full of neurotoxins, not often brought up in context).

In terms of getting people to act, this is what needs to happen across a number of large communities.

We are finding, contacting, and integrating individuals who want to help one another and want to see everyone be able to take action more effectively.

Then we are working on a variety of projects to make community spaces immediately safer, so that all can get more of their best work done.

We are also broadcasting about it. You can too:

https://intuitive.pub/broadcast

Thanks for reading and reaching out.

--- @maxmorris 🌿

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' A steadily increasing body of research has demonstrated that peer victimization — the clinical term for bullying — impacts hundreds of millions of children and teens, with the effects sometimes lasting years and, possibly, decades.

Experiencing chronic peer victimization is associated with lower academic achievement, higher unemployment rates, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

Most of the research into the neurobiological processes that might contribute to these negative health outcomes has occurred in the past decade, and much of it focused on bullying’s impact on the body’s stress response system.

But a new study shows that bullying can cause changes to the very structure of the adolescent brain — a finding indicative of  "how sinister bullying is,” Rod McCullom reports for Undark. '

https://mailchi.mp/undark/feb-15-1258397?e=4fb25275ab

Deck: The Druid Oracles
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Fri Sep 13 11:31:51 EDT 2019


Today's Card
Bee (Upright)

Beach

Pronunciation: Be-ach

keywords
Community • Celebration • Organization

The card shows a queen bee resting on a stone. In the background we see the House of Mead Circling at Tara as it may have looked at the height of its powers. In the sky the noonday sun shines brightly and we see Ur, heather, growing by the rock which is carved with the Ur Ogham.

Upright Meaning   Beach invites us to celebrate. You may have a special reason for celebration, or you may simply need to celebrate the wonder and mystery of being alive. You may like to enjoy a glass or two of mead, which—if it has been made in Scotland—will carry the scent of heather, and will bring you closer to the spirit of the Highlands. In the Druid tradition there are occasions to celebrate every six weeks or so. As human beings we need to have times when we can come together to enjoy each other's company. The bee tells us that we can live together in harmony, however impossible this may sometimes seem. By being at one with the natural world, by paying homage to the sun, by centering our lives around Spirit or the Goddess, we can work together in community.

Reversed Meaning   Do you feel out of place—unsure of your role in the world? A beehive functions harmoniously because each bee knows its role and the work it must do—consequently it is highly productive and plays an important role in the local ecology. We talk of a productive work environment as a hive of activity. If you find you are lacking in motivation, or are feeling isolated from the community that surrounds you, you may need some bee medicine. A modern English folk healer uses bee stings therapeutically to cure asthma and other ailments, and you may need to prod yourself into action before others do the prodding for you. If you find this applies to you, spend some time thinking about your role in life, and then make decisions in accordance with your sense of purpose and the resulting goals that this engenders. Remember that the bee knows the value of organization, of paying homage to the Goddess and the sun, and of working hard. Remember too that she calls us to a celebration of life and an inner recognition of our membership of the community of all Nature.

The Tradition of the BEE

Ask the wild bee what the Druids knew
Old English adage

In the Druid tradition, bees come from the paradisal world of the Sun and of the Spirit. Finely attuned to the position of the sun in the sky, it is the bee who brings the sacred solar drink of mead as a gift to humanity.

Mead is one of the most ancient alcoholic beverages in the world. Made from honey, water, malt, and yeast, it has almost certainly been brewed for at least six thousand years. It was, and still is, often drunk at the celebration of the eight Druid festival times, with the mead circling the participants until the last drop is consumed. At the royal court of Tara, the assembly hall was known as Tech Midchuarta, the House of Mead Circling.

The sun in the Druid tradition can, from one viewpoint, be seen as a manifestation of the Goddess, since in Celtic languages the word for sun was originally feminine—in Irish and Scottish it still is (Grian or Griene). The goddess Brighid is a goddess of the sun and of fire, as well as of wells and water. The firewater mead is therefore a most fitting drink to honor her.

The Gifts of the Bee

The bee's honey was only one of her gifts: she also brought wax for polishing and sealing. We cannot be sure that the Celts knew of the health-giving qualities of pollen and propolis, but we know of these now, even if science cannot enumerate the components of the antiseptic propolis, which bees smear on their hives to prevent infection, and which has been found to have remarkable healing properties.

It is likely, however, that every aspect of a bee's life was studied by the Celts and Druids. Nothing would have been ignored or wasted. The classical commentator Diodorus Siculus noted that, when the Celts washed