A Canary Named Cassandra

Nobody ever listens to the Cassandras. Cassandras are the canaries in the coal mine. Canaries whose warnings are often ignored until it's too late.

The Rose and the White Lion

"I believe that our interconnectedness with nature is an integral part of the archetype of the Self as we exist in a field of intelligence beyond our ego consciousness. For me, wilderness interwoven with humankind’s ancient lived experiences and evolutionary leaps, as an archetypal pattern of the soul, constitutes the bedrock of our consciousness. Nature is sacred and invaluable to the overall well-being of human beings. When we destroy nature and the nonhuman other, we in essence destroy ourselves. I believe that the white lion as symbol of the Self - and protector of consciousness and humanity - calls us to awareness of ecological balance and the imperative of a proper relationship with the Self as embodied in the natural world and the nonhuman other." - Denise Grobbelaar

There is so much more I want to "dive deeper" into here, but I will have to do so in another post—a part two. I put this together in a short period of time, because this week is on the busy/chaotic side in my personal life. But please understand that I am barely scratching the surface. The imagery is meant to plant the seeds. 

The Chronicles of Narnia:

Nobody ever listens to the Cassandras.

On August 25th, 2026, I kept clairvoyantly picking up on tsunami imagery. (I'm picking up on it again today, which is not uncommon. Certain symbols or themes tend to repeat or echo, almost like aftershocks. But it might also mean that a similar event or series of interrelated events might soon follow. Take, for example, the flash floods that took place in the Grand Canyon on the 29th.) Sometimes my visions are to be taken literally and sometimes they're metaphorical or figurative. But this particular "heads up" felt more literal than it usually does. Which is why I attached that specific GIF (from the Japanese tsunami) to the post. Whenever I am posting information that is channeled, I will attach imagery that my intuition is flagging as particularly relevant to the message or information that I am receiving.

Note the date and time. If you wish to the see the original post and not just a screenshot of it, you can find it here.

I was feeling some BIG, catastrophic energy all day that day:

And then...

I found out about it when I opened up BlueSky. This was the first post I saw, which referenced the 2011 tsunami in Japan:

The GIF I had used in my post was from the Tohoku tsunami:

The GIF:

Silent! Listen!

What does your Mother know?

She knows what's best.

But, are you listening?

And, are you acting in accordance with that inner instruction?

Intuition is Inner Tuition—the 💰 of Gnosis

Higher l[EAR]rning

Inner Hearing 👂 

Tully 🐟🤫🌊

GoT spoilers:

So, what is Mother trying to tell us?

The capitalist patriarchy has had its time in the sun. A system built on domination, extraction, and endless growth can no longer sustain us, nor can it exist in balance with the All. To restore balance within our communities and ecosystems, we must reconnect with Indigenous matriarchal and matrifocal wisdom and renew ways of living grounded in reciprocity, care, kinship, and stewardship of the Earth. We must remember that no one is an island unto themselves, and that EVERY life is connected to ALL life. Ubuntu: I am because we are.

Water symbolizes the subconscious. It is receptive, reflective, and responsive. Instinct and intuition flow beneath the surface of rational thought. Water is traditionally depicted as feminine because it receives, contains, nourishes, and gestates life. It ebbs and flows, rises and falls. The High Priestess personifies this sacred feminine principle of introversion, mystery, wisdom, eternal flux, and inner guidance.

Just as a pool reflects clearly only when its surface is still, inner knowing becomes perceptible when we silence the incessant "man-ologue" of masculine self-consciousness. The High Priestess is often depicted making a gesture of silence and robed in imagery of flowing water. She embodies the meditative practice of quieting mental chatter so that the hidden currents of the psyche can be felt rather than forced into rigid speech. This allows the contents of the subconscious mind to "rise up" and "surface" into conscious awareness.

This same principle appears in the Hanged Man, whose suspension interrupts ordinary action and reverses his perspective. By surrendering to the current instead of struggling against it, he enters a liminal stillness in which perception can turn inward and be transformed. The Hanged Man corresponds to the Hebrew letter Mem, meaning water: "Mem is mute, like water." Taken together, this imagery evokes the receptive state from which intuition—the Siren—is Risen. Thus, allowing a new way of seeing to emerge.

Me = We

We = Me

"...Then she begins talking about Parsifal, a wet-behind-the-ears kid who lived in the Middle Ages and wanted to become a knight in King Arthur's court. On his way to Camelot, he wandered into a country that was a total wasteland. Nothing would grow, animals couldn't reproduce, and people walked around like zombies.

Someone took him to see the king, whose name was Amfortas. The king was in bed with a gaping wound in his groin. The wound was so terrible, legend has it, that he kept it on a pillow beside the bed. Without knowing why, Parsifal sensed that the wound had something do to with the desolate state the country was in. Someone asked if he had any idea what might help it heal, and two questions popped into his mind. He decided they were dumb questions so he said no and went on his way.

He wandered in a huge circle and, after a while, found himself back at the bedside of the king. This time, he thought he might as well ask his dumb questions. Dumb question number one: "What ails you?" Dumb question number two: "What purpose does it serve?" As soon as he got the second question out of his mouth, the wound healed right before his eyes. At the same instant, the wasteland was transformed. Grass turned green, crops started to grow, people came back to life, and baby animals began being born all over the place.

"So what does it mean?" asks the lady with the chain. "The Amfortas wound represents the illusion of separateness, the notion that a human being is nothing but a skin-encapsulated bag of meat and bones, dragging around a dreary little ego and separated by his or her hide from the rest of the natural world. People who buy into this belief tend to live what Thoreau called 'lives of quiet desperation.' The wasteland.

"Question number one let the king know he wasn't totally isolated. Someone cared enough to reach out and inquire about his health. Question number two was a revelation. Every single healer the king had consulted began by asking what caused the wound. In the mind of the king, the idea that his suffering might be serving some real purpose closed the imaginary gap between himself and the rest of the natural world. That healing transformed the king's life experience from a wasteland into a happy, productive place."" - via The Wizdom Within by Dr. Irving Oyle

When the Mask Drops After Commitment: Love Bombing, Control, and Why Women Are Choosing Themselves

"Abusive men often escalate once they believe the woman is more committed, dependent, or difficult to leave. That's intentional. 'Why would commitment change his behavior?' you ask. Well, because abusive is fundamentally about entitlement and control. Before commitment, he still has to win her. After commitment, he may believe he has secured access to her. She won't leave." - via Lisa Sonni

This is pretty much what my experience has been with every single man I have gotten into an exclusive relationship with, even if the situation didn't progress into outright abuse. The poor behavior and the precursors to abuse would eventually emerge once exclusivity had been secured.

They jump through all of the hoops and love-bomb in the beginning. They talk the language. They put on a really good performance—a really good and convincing performance. And to give them credit—because I know they tend to weaponize their own supposed incompetence every chance they get—they've gotten better at it. They've gotten better at being manipulative, at adapting and contorting themselves, at emulating the kind of emotionally mature, commitment-oriented person they know women are seeking. A partner who is all in, who will be there for you, who will reciprocate, and who supposedly understands healthy partnership.

This is super important to remember, too. They know exactly what kind of partner a woman is looking for. They like to play dumb, but they know. They know women are looking for emotional maturity, consistency, reciprocity, consideration, communication, accountability, and actual partnership. They know. They just do not want to do the actual work to become that person, because becoming that person would require humility. It would require self-confrontation. It would require them to kill off the entitled version of themselves that believes access to a woman's body, labor, loyalty, care, and emotional energy should be automatic. In other words, it would require ego death. And that is exactly what they are avoiding. Many a man has declared war simply to avoid coming face-to-face with his own insignificance.

They are very, very, very good at emulating all of it, though. They've continued to get better and better at it. (Well, up until more recently, anyway. Honeymoon phases don't tend to last very long these days. We can, in earnest, thank the toxic manosphere for that. I'll elaborate on all of that a little further on.) They would sustain the act. They would sustain the performance up until certain thresholds, and those thresholds are always commitment-related thresholds. For example, becoming exclusive with the person. It doesn't always have to be just when exclusivity is established, but the cracks usually start to show around the establishment of exclusivity.  

They'll continue the performance until they make a proposition to level up the relationship. Maybe they want to have a child with you, or they want you to move in with them. Or they request to legally and financially intertwine their life with yours in some significant way that primarily benefits them, but package it as care, protection, or generosity—as though they are doing you a favor by making it harder for you to leave. And then, as soon as you concede—as soon as you think, "Okay, things have been great so far, so why not? After all, I can't expect perfection. I'm not getting any younger. It's worth the risk. That's what life's all about, right?" So, you move in with that person, or you commit to that person, and then that's when the mask drops.

As soon as they've got you right where they want you, right where they know it will be much more difficult for you to leave, that's when their true face begins to show. That's when the mask, the performance, the act, vanishes. And you get to see who they really are.

Most of the time, it's gradual. At least, it used to be. A couple of years ago, it didn't seem to be as immediately obvious as it has since become. But I've personally noticed that since 2023, it's gotten worse. And honestly, in a sense, this is better. It's better that they don't sustain the performance for as long as they used to—which I think is partly due to their inability to maintain it because of their low EQ and lack of true self-awareness, but also because of the influence of the manosphere, like I mentioned earlier. It's becoming easier to see the deception much earlier. (Women openly talking about their experiences—and learning to recognize the tactics these men are teaching each other to use—has also been fundamental in helping us to unmask their true motives much earlier. But let me make myself crystal clear here: The only person responsible for abuse is the abuser.) This is a good thing, because the sooner we can see through the act, the sooner we can remove ourselves from the dangerous situation.

So, even though they can still be convincing, they are trying to fast-forward the timeline so much so that they give themselves away in the process. The pattern is still the same, but now it's just on a much shorter time frame. Now it has gotten to the point where almost as soon as you are committed and you've agreed to being exclusive with them, reciprocity and basic effort and their own personal hygiene take an instant nosedive. 

Even if it was established early on about how they were going to conduct themselves and what they were bringing to the table. Even if there had already been discussions about what the expectations were in regard to finances, reciprocity, emotional labor, values, possible relationship trajectories, et cetera. All things talked about and agreed upon during the courtship phase suddenly ceases to have taken place. ("I never agreed to that." The fuck you didn't!)

Let's say before there was ever any physical intimacy, certain sexual boundaries were established. Let's also say you are somebody who is not—and not to be crude here—somebody who enjoys anal or anything involving it. And this is something you've been upfront with them about and is something they've agreed to and with you on. But then, once in a committed relationship, they begin to probe (sorry, couldn't help myself) and press you on it. They begin to push the envelope a little bit by making certain suggestions. Suggestions like, "Oh, you'd look great with this animal tail butt plug. Have you ever done butt plug play? You'd look great wearing it."

NO MEANS NO!

They'll begin to test your boundaries in small, subtle ways like that. And then that gradually becomes more and more overt. This is a compliance test. "Can I get you to move this boundary? Can I get you to prove you are agreeable? Can I get you to prioritize my desire over your own comfort? Can I get you to do this small thing so I can later use that as leverage to push for a bigger thing?"

And then it escalates. "Okay, if I can get you to do this, if I ask you for this favor, maybe I can get you to loosen your boundaries with that. Maybe I can get you to think this was all your own idea." It becomes sexual pressure, verbal pressure, coercion disguised as curiosity, and then a gradual erosion of the boundaries you had already clearly stated.

They're trying to condition you to tolerate worse and worse behavior. They're trying to manipulate, control, and mold you into what they want. Because it has never, ever, ever been about being in a partnership with you. They do not even see you as a fully autonomous human being. You are not a subject to them, you are an object. And it has always been: What can I extract from this resource?

And that extraction can take different forms. It can be sex. It can be labor. It can be caretaking. It can be emotional regulation. It can be domestic work. It can be money. It can be access to your body. It can be access to your home. It can even be reproductive. Like wanting a child with you not because they are prepared to be an equal partner or parent, and not even because they love you, but because they see a child as something they can also extract value from—status, legacy, reputation, praise, control, legitimizing their existence, whatever serves them. And you? You're just an incubator.

"Men want babies like children want puppies."

They keep telling us that we need to pick better. Okay. Point well taken. We're done. We're not going to pick any of you. We're choosing ourselves. We're choosing to explore different kinds of relationships. Platonic life partners. Women are starting "Mommunes." Others are opting into platonic marriages: Same sex marriages, lavender marriages. Many are swearing off marriage altogether.

And we're also already seeing the backlash to that, with men trying to retroactively reframe women's collective rejection by saying, "Oh, we're the ones who are done dating. We're the ones who are done with women. We're the ones choosing our peace." Great! Wonderful! Then take that time to work on yourself, right? Right? Oh. You're still not going to leave us alone, are you? *sigh*

Meanwhile, my Facebook feed (all men who have followed my public Facebook):