This post is about a subject very close to my heart, and it has been nagging me to get it jotted down on paper for far too long. But it has now really become urgent!
For at least the last decade and a half, I have told anyone who wanted to listen, and even those who would prefer not to hear it, that we are heading for times where everything will be turned upside down… That’s also the key reason that led me to natural fibres, like alpacas, wool and spinning. I won’t be getting into all the details here, if this resonates with you, I am sure you will be guided to find more details – like searching for ‘Suspicious Observers’ on YouTube, for starters… Or the FB group ‘Shifting poles and new beginnings’
What it boils down to, is quite straight forward. The values people have placed on things to date, their careers, their knowledge – or more particular, their LACK of knowledge – is about to become a VERY important pillar of their existence…
Ask yourself, what will happen if for some reason, the grid is to go down tomorrow – and stay down, because it’s truelly toasted, globally… Let’s say the Carrington Event repeats itself, resulting in a global EMP… Effectively, the Tower of Babel 2.0.
No, power won’t come on the next day either, or the next week, or maybe even the next month, or year… In a situation like that, the spares needed to fix it all, won’t be available for a very long time, some not even for decades, and by then the technology would have become obsolete too, so you can effectively write off much of it…
No electricity to keep your freezer frozen to save your meat and other frozen products from rotting away, no water in the taps to drink, wash with, cook with, and certainly not to flush your toilets… No electric equipment or lights, cellphones, computers… You won’t even be able to can your meat and other produce to get it on your pantry shelves in a stable format. And neither will the shops and supermarkets be able to keep their produce fresh and frozen, although it would probably be bought up in record time, by those who have cash to pay, as cards won’t work… But no new stock will be delivered… No fresh bread, no fresh milk…
No fuel for your car, because fuel station pumps won’t work beyond their emergency generator’s reach, and that will run out as the fuel supplies run out, and new deliveries won’t be forthcoming, because refineries will also be down… Besides the fact that you won’t be able to pay for that fuel without your bank cards being accessible, and banks will all be unreachable, as there will be no cellphone or internet access…
And yes, toilet paper WILL run out, and not be available for a long time because those factories won’t be running soon…
Chemists will not be supplying you with needed medications anymore, and rubbish removal in the cities will not operate, hospitals will not be able to operate on the critically ill, or provide oxygen, not even the morgues will be working…
The picture may become clear by now… Remember, hospitals, shops, chemists, airports, trains, all businesses, and chances are pretty high your place of work, dear reader, will be affected too… Factories will all be down too!
Now I’m coming to what I hope most of you have started to think about, rather than having a fit of depression, or worse still, reverting to normalcy bias, which goes like this, ‘ it hasn’t happened before, so it won’t happen now’… Sorry to prick your bubble, it has happened before, during a time when everything was NOT yet running on electronics, otherwise we would have been back in the stoneage much earlier… And the Tower of Babel mentioned in your Bible… I am quite sure that’s what happened there too…
I’m a translator, and eventually found myself out of work because computers and AI now do the translating from and into every conceivable language, in split seconds, so people can communicate around the globe, and in real time… An EMP will bring all of that technology to an end – in a split second too…
OK, there, I said it…
You will have two choices – sink or swim… I won’t deal with sink, it’s not in my skill set, and neither will it be in yours, otherwise you would not have been reading here…!
Now hopefully your mind would have wandered into the direction I will discuss here. You will realise pretty soon that life goes on, just in a different gear so to speak, and you will have to shift gears, change your ways. If you are REALLY clued-up, you would have done that a decade ago already, or at least start today, after reading this…
Make a list of things you really need in future, once they are no longer made, or they will become difficult to find, like pressure canning pots, glass canning jars, spinning wheels, drum carders, hand carders, a stash of fibre, yarns and fabrics, sewing needles, sewing thread, spanners, nails, screws and nuts, all kinds of tools and equipment that will make life easier when you no longer have your cordless equipment on hand! A push lawn mower, or hand-crank sewing machine, weaving looms. Everyone will have their own bucket list!
And I hope a few bags of salt makes it to the top of your list! Then remember dried beans, wheat berries, rice and such, and lots of buckets to seal out the bugs! And a good stash of vegetable seeds – hopefully with the knowledge of how to grow them!
Men should consider things like oil and grease, because wheels will still need to be kept turning! People will still need to eat, to be clothed, to drink, listen to music, make fires for a braai or to boil a kettle of water for tea – coffee is something you will have to stock up on, or plant some shrubs!
Now start thinking about the things you can do, or would like to be able to do, what’s your particular skill set, and what can you learn to do now! What did you still want to learn to do one day when you retire… Do that NOW! ‘Retirement’ is closer than you think!
How will you be able to make a constructive contribution to society, what will you be able to barter with, what will be your real vallue that will feed you and clothe you and your family…? How will you keep them healthy? This is where a good or at least reasobale knowledge of herbs will come in very handy. Make a list of the things you know your family will need, and start studying! Headache remedies come to mind, so brush up on your knowledge of willow bark. Depression is going to be a major issue when the ‘normies’ who didn’t see this coming, are faced with reality. Stock up on a knowledge of adaptogens in general, and get some lemon balm growing.
Learn how to make tinctures, glycerites, oxymels, make a list of teas you can blend for specific outcomes, and stock up on turmeric, hawthorne, parsley, pepper, berberine, rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme, cayenne… I’m not going to tell you why, because it’s so important that you go and find out for yourself! And if someone tells you herbs are dangerous, you should stay away from them, ask yourself what will you do when you don’t have access to a doctor or chemist, and your family’s health is important to you… How do you think humanity survived for centuries on herbs, doing quite fine…? My great grandmother lived to a few months short of a hundred, having NEVER seen a doctor, or using any subscribed meds, but she was known to make her own tinctures and liniments, untill she was too old to do it herself, then those looking after her, decided to withold her ‘witchcraft’ from her, supposedly to help her… I was still too young to realize what an injustice was done to her, but I now know karma took note…
Here’s a thought to ponder – things like heart disease, diabetes, alzheimers, depression and cancer have only become a ‘thing’ since the emergence of big-pharma, the last hundred and fifty years… And as their ‘technology’ advances, so does the excess deaths increase…
Now, my intention is not to scare, just to draw your attention to a very important fact of life which you HAVE to act on NOW! So I will also tell you wat you CAN do, and offer guidance on WHAT to do. Many of you reading here have already started your own preparations, be it openly, or not even knowing why you have started doing things the way you are doing, maybe doing it your entire life too!
I will share with you what my own decisions boiled down too – because it’s based on the skill-set our Creator endowed me with at birth, and a path I have been on most of my life! It makes sense after all, doesn’t it? We were NOT born to become slaves to corporations, we were quite litterally born with the tools to traverse this lifetime built into our fingers, engraved into our minds! And many of the experiences we had in life, and yes, especially the bad experiences, actually happened with a very good reason, to prepare us for what’s coming.
I am a compulsory creator, I HAVE to make beautiful things with my hands, I am absolutely addicted to working with textiles and fibres, I cannot resist the urge to handle fleeces and fibres, and imagining what can be made with it… For that matter, anything winks at me, even a lucious red tomato or a juicy peach, hinting at what can be made with it, be it a recipe, or colour inspiration for the dyepot! Canning, baking, cooking, fermenting, sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, making lace, weaving, … Last on my bucket list was spinning, back in 2014, now ticked off!
When I realised what’s coming, I knew I had to learn to spin, pronto! And I had to collect all my tools, even going so far as to getting a lathe to make my own spindles and lace bobbins! Because guess what, I love woodwork too!
It is also worth noting here, we are in fact heading for a new ice age, so colder temperatures, not warmer! So be sure you know how to keep warm, and clothe your family appropriately… There is after all a good reason why I opted for alpacas at first, besides their fabulous characters I have since come to appreciate!
I am lucky enough to have other skills up my sleeve too, as I have always been a natural healer and teacher, and I have healed and or helped little birds and bunnies, dogs and cats, livestock and even humans for as long as I can remember, because animals and people in need just naturally came to me for help, and I naturally reached out to help. It was only much later that I realised that’s something special, not everyone has that, in fact, too many people have a sadistic streak and prefer to hurt rather than heal…!
That’s when I also realised I don’t actually like (most) people, because humans are the only ‘animals’ who get a kick from hurting and harming other humans and animals, and they often lie for a living…! That’s when I realised there are two distinct types of humans on earth, and the difference is not found in skin colour, race or gender, it’s ingrained in their souls… I prefer to live in the bush, surrounded by my animals…
That’s also why I cannot stand ‘hunters’ who do hunting for the ‘fun’ of it, that’s just plain SICK! But a hunter that dispatches his prey with dignity because he needs to feed his family, that’s a completely different thing, and in fact a skill of a very different kind, and that’s one skill I do not have… That does not mean I won’t kill something to protect my own life or someone else’s life, but that’s something I would rather not be called to do, I trust the Universe will send someone else with the right skill set to be there when needed…
I also cannot help but offering guidance and teaching people, and as a Libra, justice, honesty and fairness is something that has flown through my veins since my first heart beat. So when I see something that’s just plain wrong, I have to try and set it right, or at least warn people about it, because EVERYONE deserves a fair chance to prepare for what’s coming, not only those who deem themselves superior or somehow special…
So please consider this a fair chance to weigh up your options, look away from the ‘cave wall’, and get some paper and a pen ready. Write down what you can do in a ‘different world’, what you must get now, and what you don’t want to live without.
Hint, if you’re among the politicians, stock brokers, investors, debt collectors, some twisted lawyers, bankers, or some other such worthless profession that in a real world won’t be needed, now’s the time to start doing something that will benefit society and not just your keepers! They will be long gone hiding down in their bunkers, leaving you to face the music! And if you’re just a ‘gun for hire’, remember this, mixing with the swill will get you eaten by the swine…
Make a skills list of what you need to learn now, because knowledge is power, you can’t lose that, even if you walk out of a situation with just the clothes on your back…
And do start stocking up, yes, even toilet paper! When people make jokes of certain things, like stocking up on toilet paper, know this, someone deliberately started that so people will be too ashamed to get what they need to get (because those are the first items to run out on shopping shelves, warning other people something is wrong) like when they started calling anyone who questioned anything, a ‘conspiracy theorist’… Luckily that has since backfired, and one after the other conspiracy theory have since been proven to in fact be perfectly justified, and it has NEVER been wrong to THINK FOR YOURSELF and question EVERYTHING!
It is worth noting too that COMMON SENSE and CONSPIRACY THEORY are two sides of the same coin, they are synonymous… And when common sense tells you to go and get toilet paper, get it!
Something else to note, when the veneer is brushed off society, justice is in the hands of the people… And when justice used to be in the hands of politicians and judiciary who acted based on where they got the best bribes, things start to go horibly wrong for those who did not play fair… Their lies may initially sway things in their favour, but the truth has a way of getting out in the end…
I mentioned earlier I did not really like people, well, later in life I discovered the good people will sit back and do nothing until a tipping point is reached, and then they will act! They do not sit back because they do not want to do anything about injustice, or because they themselves are bad people, it’s just that because they are inherently good people, and they were brainwashed from a young age that those in power know better and are there to ‘protect’ them against themselves, and fix everything, that they would wait for things to get better…
But there comes a time when they all realise it’s not going to get better, and that’s when things change for the better for the good people… That’s when they realise its all in their own hands! And that’s when they take back their power, and the cleaning begins!
I guess that’s the second-most important thing to remember here. When the grid goes down, sides are taken openly, and the mismanagement comes to an end too… But things will be rough at first, while the cleaning percolates through…