By Jesse's friend Dan, on Jesse's birthday no less

Signs of intense change are upon us. The mystery and magic at work defy all that I have witnessed, and can comprehend. The call of change is a call of death and rebirth. This is a time unlike any humans have known. These are the days when life as we know it ends. We are entering a new way, and the birth has begun. In the times ahead, when uncertainty dances with confusion, and the hope of a world of balanced love may be born, we shall face much disaster. The breathe of Gaia shall draw more deeply, and the winds of our world shall tear down what she chooses. Her storms and her tides shall rise, and reshape the land for a new time., moving us as she will. Her body shall quake, and open forces from the deep that we fear more than we know. Her fires shall rise, and be unleashed to burn the old ways forever. And her Spirit shall make itself known within each of us. This is the dawn of an age of chaos. It is beyond our control, and well within hers. Humans will die, through compassion and fierce justice for the imbalances we have come to embody. Many many opportunities will be given to follow new ways. Do not fear. Place in your hearts the commitment to surrender yourself into this, our body. Act and share and do and be in the ways that call in a new way. Of balance, of love, of magic. Each time the fear rises, each time the ground of our ways ripples more, and takes more of itself back into the earth, choose new life. Choose the capacity to be reborn yourself, with nothing more than what you need. And all that you need shall be here. Open, please, to sharing love beyond the constraints of our practices, our patterns, our gospels, our fears, our cultures. The culture in which we have been raised is dying, and it is not meant to last much longer. Trust yourself. We are of her, and when we accept our body our spirit, as the love that breathes the new world into being, we become that. We will move where we need to be, when we need to, without confusion. We shall stay where we need to be, when we need to stay, and be open to doing and being and sharing all that we can to guide ourselves and each other into the deepest roots of love that we are prepared to become. Do this now. Surrender yourself now, in your mind, into your own heart, which is already, and has always been, of her essence. Allow the brain, and its daunting gifts to this world, to humble itself to the world herself, and the path of love shall open even deeper to you, and you shall make choices that are this much more of our very finest nature. For we are needed. Our love is the divinity of a new age. Be it. Choose this now. We are needed. If you are an artist, make your art in each moment. Begin now. We are asked to create love in the face of all fear and pain. If a storm tears down my home, I shall dance in the grass. If a fire burns down my store of food, I shall make music in the ashes. For that which we create in our souls is what shall surround us and those we love. We ripple through the minds of those who are changing by our side, and makes all more fully prepared to be born anew. Make love, and keep making love in the face of all fear. Begin now, and do not stop save to rest in joy. Joy for the love that we all long to be. And we are called, we are begged, to keep making it, to ease the changes. To live the prayer that the pains be loved into peace, the devestations sink back into the earth and the sands of time, and the flowers of our hearts shall sprout, and keep living long past what we can anticipate. See in the eyes of those you know, and those you watch, the choices they are making. Feel in your body the ripples of the vibrations that everyone creates. If beings are choosing fear, allow them to. If those you love choose fear, speak your peace, and walk away. For arguments shall not birth love, and anger breeds itself. If you encounter either, be them, feel them, and let them go. Make love, and keep making love, in all ways you can. Care for your body. Begin now. Now for this is your sacred gift and connection to this world. It is from the strength of the balance we create in our body, that our love may rise and ripple through our shared body Gaia. Gaia, I am Gaian. Protect me in the days and years ahead. Guide me to peace and safety, to open myself to your calling, and to align my dreams with yours. May I be joy and creative love in the face of whatever changes come. May the seeds I carry in the Garden of my heart sprout wherever they may grow well, of true balance, where humans remember our self, become anew... And learn to be reborn as Angels. Gaia, Into your hands I commend my spirit.