All Awakening Plus occasions and AstroShaman consumer appointments are again on schedule. Yay! And I’ll get the October 1-15 astrology forecast out as quickly as I can.
Spiritsong and I drove 4 hours to Manning, South Carolina Sunday evening, and at the moment are settling in at a Hampton Inn for a keep of … who is aware of how lengthy?
We’re grateful to as soon as once more have operating water, electrical energy, wi-fi, cell service, and meals availability we will depend upon. Might we by no means once more take these with no consideration!
I’m huge open for consumer work, so don’t hesitate to schedule an Astrology+, Shamanic Therapeutic, or different service with me by way of Zoom or cellphone. My “house workplace away from house” is totally arrange, and I’m 100% able to serve you.
The truth is, with the surprising extra bills we’re incurring on the highway, I’m extra grateful than ever for consumer classes within the coming days. (Don’t overlook about my “As soon as in a Lifetime” Astrology particular, which saves you $50/hour!)
Once we left on Sunday, our city (Weaverville, NC) had no electrical energy and intermittently operating water. Cell service had simply been restored, however there was just one open grocery retailer (operating on an enormous generator), with large traces to get in and take a look at. Virtually all different enterprise are closed, because the city (and far of a multi-state space) has no electrical energy.
The Asheville area solely has one open freeway out of city, going south. The highways operating west, east, and north are closed with extreme injury, and haven’t any projected time frames for reopening.
Hurricane Helene’s results are being described as “biblical” and “catastrophic,” and being in comparison with the devastation attributable to Hurricane Katrina. Spiritsong and I noticed dozens of big bushes toppled onto energy traces, and needed to drive over severed energy traces splayed throughout the roads like black spaghetti. We additionally noticed vehicles, houses, and companies swept away by raging floodwaters.
Right here’s certainly one of my experiences. I solely had a half tank of gasoline when the storm hit. It didn’t appear like this might be sufficient gasoline to drive out of the catastrophe zone, the place gasoline wasn’t out there as a result of widespread energy outages.
Thankfully, I knew of two gasoline stations nonetheless working close to downtown Asheville. We had pushed by them Saturday afternoon, and each had crazy-long traces of vehicles ready to get gasoline. This didn’t look promising, so we drove house.
However my interior steering woke me up early Sunday morning, with the compelling thought that I ought to drive again downtown and get in line for gasoline. I received to one of many gasoline stations at 3 am, the place a number of different drivers had been already queued in line on the pumps. I used to be first in line at my pump, and was grateful to prime off my tank after they opened at 6 am.
One other little bit of divine grace was a sudden thought that popped in, simply as I used to be leaving the home, that I ought to take money with me. Because it turned out, they had been solely taking money. And the quantity I had readily available was precisely sufficient to fill my tank!
It was lucky that I received to the gasoline station so early. Driving away, I handed a line of vehicles over a mile lengthy ready to refill on the station I had simply left.
We’re so grateful for the interior steering and divine grace that has guided us by way of these challenges, and continues to take action. And we thank all of you who’ve despatched us messages of concern and help. Please forgive us if we don’t have time to ship you a private reply. As soon as once more, our prayers exit to all these being challenged by this catastrophic occasion.
The Asheville area was broadly thought-about “local weather secure,” one of many locations least prone to be hit by an environmental catastrophe. If we aren’t secure, who’s?
Might all of us do what we will to attenuate and reverse the existential menace of local weather change, in order that extra individuals and different dwelling beings might survive and thrive!
Infinite blessings,
Benjamin