A Loving Response to Project 2025
Project 2025 is more than policy; it's a vision that touches our environment, rights, and democracy. As creators of love, we must respond with courage and compassion. This plan, rooted in fear, seeks to concentrate power and roll back vital protections. But love offers another way: to expand, honor diversity, and protect the vulnerable. Discover how we can respond not with despair, but by boldly creating love, making it our mandate, leadership, and playbook for a different future.
There are moments in history when we are asked to pause, breathe deeply, and look with clear eyes at what is unfolding before us. Project 2025 is one of those moments. It is not simply a policy document—it is a vision for reshaping the future of the United States in ways that will touch the environment, human rights, families, and the very structure of democracy itself.
As women, mothers, healers, leaders, and creators of love, we cannot turn away. We must look closely, and we must respond with both courage and compassion.
What Project 2025 Seeks to Do
Project 2025, led by The Heritage Foundation and a network of conservative organizations, lays out a detailed plan for a new conservative administration. Its architects describe it as a “conservative promise,” a way to reorient government power.
At its heart, the project calls for:
Concentrated presidential authority over the executive branch.
Mass replacement of career civil servants with politically vetted appointees.
Rolling back protections for reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ people, and racial equity.
Dismantling climate protections, favoring fossil fuels over environmental stewardship.
Restructuring democracy itself by weakening checks and balances in favor of centralized power.
It is a sweeping attempt to redefine the relationship between government and its people.
Why This Matters to All of Us
Policies are never just words on paper—they become the air we breathe, the freedoms we hold, the protections we rely on. Project 2025 touches the most intimate parts of our lives:
Our bodies and choices: Restrictions on reproductive freedom threaten women’s health and autonomy.
Our identities and families: Rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ people limits the right to love and to belong.
Our planet: Undoing climate protections endangers our children’s future and the sacredness of Earth.
Our democracy: Concentrating power in the hands of one leader undermines the collective voice of the people.
This is not simply political. It is deeply human. It is about dignity, freedom, and love.
Seeing the Roots Beneath the Branches
It is important to recognize that Project 2025 grows from fear—fear of change, fear of difference, fear of losing control. When fear leads, it seeks to dominate rather than connect, to control rather than nurture.
But love offers another way. Love asks us to expand, to honor diversity as sacred, to protect the vulnerable, to recognize that freedom is not the privilege of a few but the birthright of all.
How We Can Respond
We respond not by shrinking in despair, but by creating love more boldly than ever before.
Stay Awake: Learn what is being proposed. Awareness is power.
Protect Each Other: Stand with those most affected—women, LGBTQ+ people, people of color, immigrants, and the Earth itself.
Speak with Courage: Whether in quiet conversations or public forums, share your truth with compassion.
Create with Intention: Use art, writing, ritual, and everyday acts of love as forms of resistance and renewal.
Organize for Change: Support movements, leaders, and communities working to protect democracy and human rights.
A Closing Blessing
In the face of fear, we are called to embody love.
In the face of control, we are called to embody freedom.
In the face of division, we are called to embody unity.
Project 2025 is a vision of power built on exclusion.
Let us offer instead a vision of love built on belonging.
May we remember that no plan, no policy, no political agenda is stronger than the collective heartbeat of people who choose love over fear.
✨ Love is our true mandate.
✨ Love is our leadership.
✨ Love is our playbook.
And with love, a different future is always possible.
Sacred Rebellion: The Tribe of Truth (Part 6/7)
The image of the rebel is often a solitary one, but a lone flame can be easily extinguished. In Part 6 of our Sacred Rebellion series, we explore the paradox of the "Community of Rebels." We navigate the pitfalls of creating new dogma and the power of finding a tribe that champions diversity, practices sacred communication, and is willing to grow. It is together that we will not only rebel but also rebuild.
The Solo Rebel’s Dilemma: Why We Can’t Do It Alone
The image of the rebel is often a solitary one: the lone whistleblower, the hermit mystic, the visionary artist toiling in a garret. Our previous parts have focused heavily on the inner work of the individual—and for good reason. The sacred rebellion must first be won within.
But a flame in isolation, no matter how bright, can easily be snuffed out. It can also burn uncontrollably, lacking the tempering influence of other perspectives. The journey from a personal "no" to a collective "yes" requires a critical, and often messy, evolution: the building of The Community of Rebels.
This is where our idealism meets the hard, beautiful work of relationship. Today, we navigate the paradoxes, pitfalls, and profound power of finding our tribe and weaving a new tapestry together.
The Inevitable Tension: Individual vs. Collective
The very notion of a "community of rebels" is fraught with a beautiful paradox. How do you build a cohesive group around the principle of non-conformity? How do you create a container strong enough to hold a multitude of wild, sovereign spirits without becoming a cage?
This tension between the Sovereign Self and the Sacred Circle is the central dynamic of any rebellious community.
The Risk of the Collective: Every group, no matter how initially aligned, develops its own norms, jargon, and unspoken rules. There is always a danger that in seeking belonging, individuals will outsource their conscience to the group, trading one dogma for another. The community becomes an echo chamber, punishing deviation and creating a new orthodoxy—the very thing it rebelled against.
The Limitation of the Solo Rebel: Conversely, the individual who refuses all community risks delusion, burnout, and ineffectiveness. Without the mirror of other perspectives, our Shadow Rebellion can masquerade as sacred truth for far too long. Our fire, lacking the fuel of shared vision, simply flickers out.
The goal, then, is not to resolve this tension, but to hold it consciously. The healthy community of rebels is not a monolith; it is a symphony of distinct voices, committed to the same fundamental score but playing their own unique parts.
The Peril of the New Orthodoxy: When Rebels Become the Empire
History is littered with revolutions that devoured their children. Movements that began with a sacred fire for liberation often end up creating new structures of authority and oppression. This is the cycle we must strive to break.
The Pattern: A group rebels against a rigid System A. In its fervor to create a new System B, it must define itself against the old one. This leads to purity tests, ideological rigidity, and the exclusion of those deemed not "rebel enough." The community, afraid of losing its identity, stops questioning itself. The rebellion becomes the new status quo.
The Antidote - The Questioning Spirit: A truly sacred rebellious community must institutionalize a practice of continuous rebellion, even against itself. It must cultivate:
Radical Humility: Remembering that our truth is always partial and that we are capable of the same blindness we critique in others.
Healthy Conflict: Seeing disagreement not as a threat to unity, but as an essential source of wisdom and growth. Creating structures for feedback and dissent.
A Center of Principles, Not Personalities: Grounding the community in shared sacred values (e.g., compassion, truth, liberation) rather than loyalty to a single charismatic leader. This prevents the rise of a new pope or dictator.
The strongest rebel communities are those that are willing to evolve, adapt, and even disband once their purpose is served, rather than clinging to power for its own sake.
Weaving the Tapestry: Principles for a Thriving Rebel Community
So how do we build communities that avoid these pitfalls? How do we gather in a way that empowers the individual and the collective?
Root in Shared Purpose, Not Shared Enemy: It’s easy to unite against a common opponent. But that kind of energy is unsustainable and often destructive. A resilient community is built on a shared, positive vision for something—a more beautiful world, a deeper way of being, a practice of liberation. The energy is creative, not reactive.
Champion Soul-Level Diversity: A community of identical rebels is a cult. We need the fierce feminist, the contemplative monk, the pragmatic organizer, the visionary artist, and the gentle healer. Diversity of thought, temperament, and approach makes the community antifragile, able to adapt and respond to challenges in multiple ways.
Practice Sacred Communication: This means listening to understand, not to rebut. It means speaking from the "I" of personal experience and truth, not the "you" of accusation. It means creating rituals for clearing tensions and celebrating victories together.
Hold Space for the Journey: Every member will be at a different point on their path—some will be on fire with new insight, others will be in the depths of shadow work. A true community doesn’t demand constant peak energy; it offers a sanctuary for rest, doubt, and questioning. It says, "Your worth is not your output."
Decentralize Power: Embrace leaderful—not leaderless—movements. Instead of one central figure, distribute responsibility and authority. Allow different people to lead in their areas of strength. This builds resilience and prevents toxic power dynamics.
Your Invitation to the Circle
Finding or building your tribe of sacred rebels is not an optional step; it is an essential part of sustaining the fire. It is the difference between a spark and a lasting hearth.
Your community is your mirror, your refuge, your challenge, and your amplification. They are the ones who will see the sacred in you when you can no longer see it in yourself. They will hold the vision of your wholeness when you falter.
You are not alone in your no. You are not alone in your yes.
Look around. Your tribe is waiting. They are in the quiet conversation after the meeting, in the online group dedicated to conscious change, in the circle of friends committed to living authentically. Find them. Nurture that connection. For it is together that we will not only rebel but also rebuild.
For Reflection:
Have you ever been part of a group that slowly became the thing it opposed? What was missing? What one principle from above (e.g., rooting in shared purpose, championing diversity) feels most crucial for you to seek in your community?
Next in Part 7: The final installment. We will step back to look at the big picture and the beautiful symbols that have guided rebels for millennia. We conclude with Symbols & Imagery of the Rebel, integrating our journey and looking toward the rebirth that follows sacred destruction.