Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
For several years now I’ve been pondering my own slow-moving but undeniably dramatic shift from Independent (albeit Democrat-in-practice) to Independent (but Republican-leaning). It feels mysterious; like a kind of sea-change.
Yesterday Elon Musk put up a graph of his own shift on newly acquired Twitter. And I bet there are gobs of folks like me who can identify.

Background: As a late-’60s hippie feminist, of course I loved Hillary Clinton. And was thrilled when Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992. However, not just his lying peckerdillos with Monica Lewinski, and not just the quickly covered up weirdness about the Meno Airport/ Whitewater scandal; in fact, these two strangenesses dropped entirely out of sight for me when I came across Cathy O’Brien’s book Trance Formation of America, and discovered, to my dismay, that Cathy, as an MK Ultra mind-controlled “presidential level sex slave,” had been farmed out to the Clinton White House, and specifically to Hillary Clinton. That book came out in 1995 (during the Clinton presidency), after her congressional testimony was hidden from the public due to “for reasons of national security.” From her website:
I read her book a few years after it was published, but it took me another two years to actually absorb what she was saying to the point where it began to detonate my world-view.
Even so, I still remained a Democrat-leaning Independent, and actually voted for Hope and Change Barack Obama in 2008, fourteen years ago.
Then, I remember a strange feeling enveloping me, a lurching in my stomach, when I discovered that Obama signed the NDAA in 2011.

Despite this feeling that maybe he wasn’t the progressive young black savior we had all signed up for, despite my growing suspicion that something was decidedly off, I still voted for him again in 2012. Can you believe? Like Elon Musk, I was still hoping that the Democratic party was at least less corrupt than the Republican.
Even when bloviating, narcissistic Trump ran for office in 2016, I couldn’t imagine voting for him or any other Republican, and so held my nose and voted for Jill Stein.
But then, on his very first day in office, when Trump signed an EO officially withdrawing the United States from the TTP (Trans Pacific Partnership), I was both stunned and thrilled. Partly because he actually was beginning to do what he had promised to do, make it so that no globalizing “authority” above at least this nation state would ever be allowed to take control: AMERICA FIRST! And partly because that action showed his determination to prevent the globalist takeover of the whole world.
Just as, when Barack Obama signed the 2011 NDAA and my stomach sank, so now the opposite: when, in early 2017 Donald Trump refused to sign the TPP, my heart lifted! Yes! Something is happening! Something never before seen! So perhaps this is when I should date the real beginning of my slow, nearly imperceptible shift to the right.
Here’s Bio-Clandestine on the same phenomenon.

I find this video by Saratoga Ocean (who terms herself a “walk-in”) to be an articulate, incisive, sociological analysis of what she terms are five groups of people now populating this planet. In fact, I was so impressed that I both took notes and subscribed. (Both rare, for me.) If you don’t have 24 minutes to spare, here you go. The five groups:
1) Those in horrible circumstances (war/violence, extreme poverty, starvation) — who are simply tasked with staying alive. The controllers aim to keep these people on sheer survival mode via war, poverty, starvation.
2) The sheep-like herd, compliant and obedient to the controller’s agenda; these are driven by fear and ego, i.e., pride in going along and judgment of those who don’t.
3) Corruptive: those spun-off from the herd, having moved to the dark side to promote the controllers agenda; driven by greed and need for power over others.
4) Awakening: those beginning to realize they have been betrayed and lied to all their lives, shocked and angry or in despair. These are on an emotional roller coaster and seek freedom, despite confusion, frustration; the ones most likely to enter protests and to feel relieved when they realize they are not alone. Tasked with finding their own center amidst all the lying.
5) Light workers and star seeds: highly intuitive, often psychic, who have awakened at some point in their lives, here to hold space for others in the awakening process. Their task is simply to remain centered, hold the light, and radiate love through the heart. No need to “do” anything; no teaching, proselytizing; just continuously return to center whenever pulled off. Holding space keeps a pathway open for others who are beginning to wake up. Remain true to self, and “DO THIS BEFORE AI EMBEDS ITSELF EVEN MORE ON THIS PLANET.”
The only two emotions are FEAR (groups 1 and 2) and LOVE (group 5). Group 2 tends to be, and group 3 is ego-ridden; group 4 is moving into LOVE.
(I, Ann, would add here that the ego is a mental structure that aims to act in the world by compartmentalizing FEAR, pushing it down into the unconscious.)
She refers to a tension between groups 1 and 2, which are stuck, and groups 4 and 5 which are moving. Group 3 operates as an extension of the controllers’ energy, and some of these may wake up. (Ann: Many whistleblowers start out in this group.)
Again, both groups 1 and 2 are stuck in darkness; groups 4 and 5 are moving into the light. Saratoga Ocean goes on to say that the controllers (who are outside all of these groups, and use group 3 as their minions), have a big problem on their hands: They have to keep groups 1 and 2 where they are and maintain group 3) while stopping groups 4 and 5.
In her view, we are now at a balance point, and the direction (he timeline) humanity chooses will depend on how much those in group 5 can simply maintain individual centered sovereignty while radiating love in full presence for those beginning to awaken. (Ann: YES!)
It used to be that the controllers were the only ones who knew what was really going on. Now only groups 1 and 2 don’t know. There are “cracks in the controllers’ agenda.” And simply by maintaining full presence while remaining centered, radiating love and light, “that unnerves the whole agenda.”
”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
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