Nov 16 2008
Power Returns To The People
Last year I began practicing the skill of prediction. I’ve always been able to read people’s energy to determine if something in the future resonated with their core essence or not. But last year I decided do an energy reading for the country for the upcoming year of 2008. Using the Soul Charts from Crystalline Consciousness Technique, I was able to fairly accurately predict certain things that were going to occur this year. (You can read the 2008 Prediction here.)
Peering into the future is always a challenge, for nothing is written in stone. In short, someone’s destiny or future is created from their actions today, and they can change their actions at any time.
Perhaps one of the most compelling things that I predicted was the election of Obama. Now, I didn’t name him at the time, because I was hardly aware of him. Personally I was hoping we wouldn’t elect another Bush clone, but my rational mind thought that Hillary Clinton would be the other choice. The president that I saw had a very different quality and vibration than Hillary had. It was also different from anybody that was running from the Republican party. I was very struck by the qualities of moral ethics and deep spirituality that the elected president would have. But then my rational mind stepped in and groaned, “Oh no, the last time we had a president like that was President Carter, and although he was a great man, he wasn’t a great president.” With all the other challenges I was foreseeing in 2008, I didn’t think it would be possible to actually see change in our government and our world with such a kind and well-meaning new president. (Remember, all this was in November of 2007).
During my energy reading for the year 2008, I distinctly heard the words “Power Returns To The People.” It seemed like a fitting theme for the entire year, so that was what I wrote.
Once Obama stepped out into the spotlight more I knew immediately that this was the “foreseen” president. Throughout Obama’s campaign, however, I didn’t tune in much to the news and listen to what he was saying. I was having an interesting internal struggle between my intuition and my rational mind (How could it be possible for Obama to beat Hillary? How can he stay true to his nature and not appear weak with an opponent like McCain?)
And always, always, a part of me was resigned to this great man getting elected and not being a great president.
But I was missing the point…and shortly before Obama won on November 4, 2008, I received more information in a meditation about how Obama represents a new style of leadership. It’s not about some of us agreeing with his policies and some of us not agreeing. It’s about all of us becoming leaders and changemasters with him; that he will only be as successful as all of us working with him will be successful. He won’t be the powerful president of the Great Depression that FDR was. FDR took it upon himself to impose a parental authority deciding what was best for us. And that was appropriate at that time. This time, however, we must co-create our destiny with a president who is all about empowering us to find our future.
That’s when I finally understood that my prediction, although correct, was also incorrect. “Power returns to the people,” meant “Empowerment returns to the people.” Our new president would be successful not because he was a magician that would wave a magic wand over all our problems, but because he was inviting everyone of us to be part of the solutions. He has invited us to step forward as leaders.
In Obama’s words, “I’m asking you to believe, not just in my ability to bring about a real change in Washington, I’m asking you to believe in yours.”
Because I believe that it will take all of us as leaders to discover a new way forward, the next four posts will be focusing on four styles of leadership based on Angeles Arrien’s book, The Four Fold Way: The Visionary; The Healer; The Warrior: and The Teacher. Ultimately we need to develop all four types, but to do so requires starting with one style, then evolving and growing into the others.
In the meantime check out my lens on Squidoo, Change.gov: Yes We Can, which features Obama quotes, videos, debates (can he be a moral leader and a great president?), and a place for your own predictions about what the next 4 years will hold for us.
