Living in a City of Light aint all Rainbows and Unicorns
P.s That City of Light in Texas is really coming on line
Some of them dreamed about it, some of them came because of a partner (often those relationships quickly crumbled), some of them came as children and always knew they would return. Some of them come for a season and some come for a lifetime. Some come and cant wait to leave and some have to leave for some reason and then long to come back. Its a place that a lot of people love to hate and hate to love. The way people feel about this city of light is as complex as is the notion of a “City of Light”. A lot of people think that Cities of Light are going to be easy places to connect, meet and fulfill yourself. They often end up being places where the land is destroyed, communities are fake and that longing for whatever draws you to the place is elusive.
According to the I am America map, there were originally only 5 in the United States, but when I started working with this map, and actually created my own map, I came to believe that there are more. So far there are seven. As I understand it, each circle on the map has a function and an energy that draws people to learn the gift of each city of light. That being said, these cities of light often trigger the resistance that we have to embodying the gift or lesson of living in a certain place. The city of light I live in as you can see by the map, is associated with the color green.
Theoretically it is a place where one comes to learn about manifestation, creative expression, Christ Consciousness and Entrepreneurship. The reality of it is there is a lot of poverty, addiction, suicide, Christo-Fascism, environmental degradation and suppression of the Feminine. The city of light is created by the mineralogy of the area and the people who come and ground their energy into the land and emit their true expression. When I first started working with this map, I traveled around this area and discovered that where I had placed the center of the map, there existed a 40 square mile deposit of smokey quartz. Throughout the city of light there are large deposits of quartz, metals and other minerals.
They call Montana the treasure state because of its abundance of natural resources. It is also these natural resources that have drawn greedy, socio-pathic developers and those who just seek to extract the resources and make money. As you can see by the map, the city of light also goes into Idaho which is another state with a lot of natural resources. Idaho has great expanses of wilderness, beautiful lakes, and stunning mountains. When the Montana was being created the surveyor supposedly surveyed wrong and where most of the city of light exists now in Montana, it would have been in Idaho.
If you have been paying attention both Montana and Idaho have been a hotbeds for Neo-Nazis, Christo-Fascism and horrific laws that try to take away people’s rights. Luckily for me, the survey did it wrong, because Montana, unlike Idaho, has one of the most progressive state Constitutions in the Country. Though the fundamentalists still have a super-majority in Montana, our constitution has protected us, thus far. All of this was predicted. Cities of Light are places of Metaphysical and Spiritual Power. There are, of course, those who seek to take power for themselves and dis-empower others.
Being in a City of Light, is not all Rainbows and Unicorns. It has been said that the place I live is a place that helps you remember why you came to the planet. If there is resistance to re-membering yourself, it is a place where it is easy to get hooked by the “bad spirits” of addictions. One of my sensitive friends told me, she didn’t like Whitefish because it had a high pitched sound and it irritated her. She said, the only reason Whitefish didn’t spin off into another dimension was because the Energy of Flathead Lake Grounded the high frequency energy in the northern part of the valley.
I was lucky enough to be born here. There were times when I couldn’t wait to leave and I would move away and basically forget who I was. So my soul would call me home and then I would re-center, re-ground and re-member why I came to the planet. For me, there is no where else, quite like this place. Though not quite like Aspen or Sedonna (which are all connected to cities of light), the rich and powerful are drawn here and because of that, it has become harder for “normal” people to afford to live here.
I find myself resisting the fake, holier than though attitude of a lot of people who live here. But understanding this is a City of Light, helps me to understand that everyone, rich or poor, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Agnostic, or Atheist are here to re-member the Truth of who they are. It does give me compassion for those who are so afraid of the changes that are coming. I know that I am here (on the planet and in this place) until I am not. Being centered, being grounded, and being uniquely me is all I have power over. I also have the power to connect with love to this place and share love with whomever I meet.
(I intend to write more about the City of Light that is Coming on line in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas)