Irrational Joy | Catherine Viel

By Catherine Viel, January 6, 2022

(Golden Age of Gaia)

January 5, 2022

I sing this morning: Hello, hello.
I proclaim the bright day of the soul
The sun is a good fellow…
no deaths today I know.
~Stanley Moss, Bright Day



When setting out on errands this morning, I requested angelic assistance in remembering to exist within and act from the heart. Just be kind.

The practical manifestation of this meant committing to zero controversial flapping of the jaw.

No making unsolicited commentary about masks, or even “helpful“ remarks. It’s taken nearly two years, but I’m finally noticing that complaint and agitation, at least the way I’ve experienced it, doesn’t change a thing.

None of the harried shopkeepers ripped down the Orwellian signs dictating that we mask up and social distance, shouting, Hallelujah! Let’s all be free.

But, oddly, despite continuing mandates, it doesn’t feel so sinister to me anymore. That might be because now I never actually wear the mask; I keep it below both mouth and nose, a peculiar, rather festive cloth beard.

I also don’t care much what others do. Let them wear their properly fitted masks and line up for an endless series of jabs if it makes them feel safe. Some of us are still allowed some degree of “to each their own,” even in bluest of blue California.

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It wasn’t pleasant being out but it also was not unpleasant. Neutral is the word. And when I noticed a boldly maskless customer at Target, I also removed the mask. I half expected another customer or a clerk to admonish me, but none did.

Simon Parkes commented in his January 5 update that a large number of people are refusing to wear masks in grocery stores in Great Britain, something he noted was nearly unheard of a year ago. Something both intangible and tangible is unmistakably changing.

There was a level of lightness to the atmosphere out there today, an irrepressible buoyancy and a live-and-let-live attitude I haven’t observed in nearly two years. The fact that I did not pull the mask up over my nose and nobody complained is extraordinary.

In a January 4 update, Janine remarked that “you can literally almost taste that things are happening, and it’s going to be intense.” (1) Simon talked about “markers being reached.” To me, today feels like the attainment of a personal marker, both shaky and solid, like Jello cooling in the fridge.

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We’re told that change begins within and manifests outwardly. I wonder if the elimination of mask impositions and other authoritarian edicts is indeed beginning within us and emigrating inexorably outward, an uncontainable explosion fueled by human hope and irrational joy.

Still, I don’t know where things are headed in the immediate future. California has dictated that everyone must wear masks indoors at least through February 14. The Santa Barbara hospital monopoly has prohibited nearly all inpatient visits for an indefinite period, whether visitors are vaccinated or not.

The transit district has canceled numerous bus routes because in addition to previous staff shortages, many drivers are now out “because of Covid.“



That’s just in our bucolic, largely rural county. I pay cursory heed to what’s happening locally, and other than alternative news, almost no attention to what’s happening globally. I am 100% certain, however, that as bad as it is in California, other locales have it much worse between mandatory vaccines, quarantine camps for the unvaccinated or “Covid positive,” and other head-scratching governmental shenanigans.

It’s illogical, unsupported by actual facts, but although it seems to be getting darker and darker out there, all I’m sensing is the brightening of the light. Somehow, I feel sure that the unmasking of all the truths is just around the corner.

Whatever happens, or doesn’t, I will remember: May kindness be my watchword, and open be my heart.



(1) “Tarot By Janine Looks at Phil’s Decode of Mr. T’s Announcement,” 1/4/22, https://tinyurl.com/34pxsrpn. She also speaks a lot about joy that’s coming our way in her USA Update, 1/5/22, https://tinyurl.com/33ef26xt