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there is only one you | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | fifth of the “Lost Posts” series | 2025 03 25 + 2023 06 29 (OG)

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there is only one you

And this person, this soul, this being beyond what the human mind can understand, holds within them;
the entire universe

original posted on my social media
29 June 2023
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Retrieved, blogged, and story added at 25 March 2025

I’ve been known to hold an opinion or two about smart phone use, the way we use it as a pacifier, melting our brain and every bit of consciousness in the process.
But there is one thing access to the entire world in the palm of our hand has undeniable brought us;
A larger way of thinking.
A bigger way, of being.

For millennia we were not just protected by the intimacy of small local communities, we were also bound by its small-mindedness.
It was a belonging that came at the price of handing over your individuality, and taking on the uniform that was prescribed for your role somewhere in the margins.
Unless you were born into, or managed to acquire, the privilege of a powerful role which came with more freedom in all areas, including the right to express who you were.

We no longer live in these small communities, basically because we’d rather be intimately connected to strangers on the internet than to connect with our own neighbors or neighborhood.
And it would be very strange to call that an improvement in any way.
And yet;
In at least one major way, it undoubtedly is.

Because with the accelerated communication on our phones, and the boundless and delusional realms of the internet we now recklessly tread on a daily basis
– not acknowledging that the whole internet thing is like the dead marshes where thousands of souls who went there before us never came back and will spend the rest of their days lingering in the dark –
also came the advantage of having our world broken open.
Its boundaries dissolved.
The old rules washed away and everything starting anew.

The internet, which was originally hailed as the great equalizer because now everybody would have a voice, did free us from the toxicity, the repression and the passive (or less passive) aggression that used to tag along unchecked, piggybacking unto group structures.
But no more.

With our smartphones, it was like the hourglass was turned, and the structures of power were flipped with it.
Now the one who found their way around the digital world the first, were the winners.
And the real world became a trinket, where everything was so slow it could no longer hold our attention.

Our attention span shrank to the length of a TikTok clip, even for the ones who didn’t even have TikTok.
We think 30 seconds is a normal length for something to have.

But in the grand scope of things, 30 seconds equals zero.
And yet!
Here we are; Big!

Because we may have micro attention spans, but we have acquired a tremendous sense of size and possibilities.
A tremendous sense of Self!

Now I know that all sounds very egotistical but it has been a magnificent antidote against patriarchical structures, which I don’t think we would have gotten around to, if not like this.

Any culture repressing women and marginalizing minorities, and gatekeeping resources needs us isolated and not talking to each other about our shared experiences.
It needs to think it is us.

What the internet has brought us, is a sense of what “systemic” repression is. And that it dissolves with people being informed, and heard, and seen, and empowered.
And how do we do that?
We do it with the much cursed phone, we hold in our hand.

Our smartphone is a curse, in many ways.
But we must never forget, that it is also the thing that has dismantled structures of repression and authority, that would have been allowed to continue for eons more, had they not been so effectively dismantled by the light of the information age.

Like vampires in the light, they have burned and crumbled away.

The smart phone is a threat to our consciousness, yes. And we do risk drowning in the marshes and becoming someone who lives online and no longer has any awareness in the real world.
No longer able to think for themselves.

But it is good to remember that until very recently, we were not able to think for ourselves either.
Whether you were male or female, you were a hostage of patriarchy.
A set of hidden mechanisms of family roles, schools and employment structures, kept you in place.

Your mind, your awareness, your sense of Self, of who you are as an individual?
All acquired only very recently!

Don’t let it be taken away so quickly.
Fight for it. 

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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ABOUT THE LOST POST SERIES

 

I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And additionally to that, there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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a day of big things | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2025 03 14

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a day of big things

Think of it as covert January first.
Or like rising in the early hours of a winter morning, opening the windows to let the cold air refresh the room;
Finding the world covered in snow.

Everything you do will leave a trace.

—

When this morning I went checking on the amphibian crossover, I half expected there to be animals in the buckets, despite temperatures lingering around freezing point the last couple of days.
No toad in their right mind would wake-up under these conditions.

But I thought maybe the moon had awoken them, right?
Surely nature would respond to this powerful astrological threshold!
But no. The buckets were empty and my team buddy and me were done with our shift in 15 minutes.

The moment I arrived, the sun was already rising, and the moon was gone. But on the other side of the world, the lunar eclipse which in The Netherlands had only been partially, in the final hours before the dawn;
It was in full swing.

I was aware of the moment, even without being able to see it.
But the frosty morning and the sun rising had a magic of its own.
And maybe the peacefully hibernating frogs, were also aware of the remarkable astronomical events.

Because there were a few.

Mercury turns retrogade today.
We have a full moon in Virgo, called a Blood Moon because it turns red during the eclipse.

And this lunar eclipse happens with the moon conjunct the South Node, which has shifted to Virgo recently, where it will be for another 17 months.

And then on the other side of the galaxy we have the Sun and an invisible Saturn, the planet of karma.
Saturn has disappeared behind the Sun. 
On the 29th of March, Saturn will reappear, and together with Venus which has also disappeared behind the Sun by then.

Reborn as morning stars, Saturn (and Venus) will initiate a new cycle to our lives.
But right now?
Saturn is gone.
This event is called the death of Saturn, and seen as our karma being burned away.

And today (March 14) the Sun is sextiling Uranus, which means it empowers it.
And the moon is tri-ing Uranus, which is also a beneficial conjunction.
Uranus is the planet associated with the sign of Aquarius, and is generally seen as bringing forth beneficial energy, but it’s full of surprises!

This strong Uranus placing will probably cause some disruption or two.
But exciting ones!

I see today as the moment when everything you could not shed or leave behind, is being stripped. Taken, by the Universe.
Shackles you could not unlock, suddenly broken.
It is done.

You are free.

That is why I started my analogy with the idea of finding the world still in silence, and in darkness. But covered in snow.
You are born anew.
All the difficult work that had you caught up for years;
Released overnight.

All you now need to do is to treat this day as the fresh start which it is.

Weighing every word before it leaves your lips.
Considering every thought before following that trail any further.
And treat your words like magic spells.

If they were, would you still speak them?

Just for today, imagine they are.
This clean slate painted with everything you speak and think.

So yes, there is an astrological and astronomical significance to this day.

But more than that;
You must have felt it. For weeks….
Like an energetic shift, slowly pushing out, making way.
A door opening and an immense plane of possibilities, rippling from under your feet and as far as the eye can see.

This is where your future starts.

It is here.

~Suzanne Beenackers
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and where exactly did you have in mind? | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2025 02 26

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and where exactly did you have in mind?

Because it’s not about wanting the thing, the person, the career, the money.

But where is it supposed to land?

—

A very long time ago, because it was 2019 and we all know that was an era which feels closer to the 60s than to our current day reality, that’s how much has changed, I got into an argument about inclusion at the workplace.

My provocative stance was that anyone not a cis male, had no benefit from any numbers game or intention from a company to hire more inclusively.
Because a workforce was a reflection of how much the culture there can absorb.

Focusing on introducing different employees would only result in them being spat out by “the system” immediately, or result into very unhappy newly introduced employees.
Because they would not be accepted, and be confronted with not being a cis  white male every day.

My firm stance was that an inclusive workforce is a result of a very hard to achieve culture change, and cannot and should not be forced from the outside in by just adding a new type of co-worker.

They disagreed with me, and thought I was letting companies off too lightly. That my opinion, although they understood it was coming from a good heart, but that it was unhelpful, in this matter.
And ever since I have wondered if I am in all actuality a cis white horrible female….

But come different era 2025 and I think No!
I mean yes of course, I could still be a horrible cis white female. After all villains are seldom accurate in their assessment of themselves.
But I do still stand by what I said in 2019.

I think it is dangerously simplistic to think the solution to getting a more diverse inclusive society lies in forcing culturally diverse people into reluctant, 50s-time capsule, male dominated environments.
As if we can flood them into submission.

Because if those environments were welcoming to people of diverse backgrounds?
They’d have them!
Marginalized people are not like an extinct species, where you would have to manually reintroduce them.

We all know very well where we are loved, and where we are not.
It is our number 1 survival skill.

In other words, instead of focusing on the new people coming in, or setting quota for how high (or typically, how low) a percentage needs to be non-male or non-caucasian;
The focus needs to be on the people already there.
Or, in a bit more abstract way, on the culture currently existing within the company.

Because they are the reason the workforce is white and male;
You’re looking for ghosts, if you think focusing on new imaginary employees will change anything.

And this all reminds me of someone whom I think must have fallen from grace one way or another, I don’t really keep up, but he had a domineering way of treating people that was controversial even back in the day.
So I think somewhere along the way, he fell (figuratively) and will not be as popular now anymore.

But that person is Dr.Phil.
From whom I did pick up a few quotes that I use probably more frequently than I should.

One of them was when he asked an abusive partner or parent:
“How much fun do you think it is living with you?”
In an attempt to open their eyes that it was of course, absolutely horrendous.

The abusive partner or parent, similarly to the cis-male workforce from the earlier example, was lacking in skills that are absolutely vital in navigating and building healthy relationships!
You cannot solve that by giving therapy to the abused partner, anymore than you can make a workforce more inclusive by targeting the new employees.

And this is just us talking about people, currently.
But if that’s your thing you can even imagine money, good fortune, creative spirits, and God themselves, having a consciousness that gets to choose!
What do you think they will choose?
Are you offering a place where they will feel at home?
A place where they are taken care of, and do not have to bring something to you, or prove their use or validate their existence?

The things you say you want, and the people that you think should be in your life but that have been absent from it, as if you’re an all male environment being forced by HR to diversify.

Ask yourself;
Where is the culture of YOU, behaving toxically toward them?
In word, in thought, in deed, in a house overflowing with clutter that would feel welcome to no one….
Are you preparing for the arrival of those events you say you want?

The bible says to dig your ditches, even when there is no rain (abundance, good fortune) in sight!
Are you digging your ditches? 

If the doorbell rang now, and it was the person or the delivery you have been wishing for;
Would they be welcomed with a big smile, an open heart, and ample space and time to accommodate and attend to them ?

Are you ready, not just in any, but in every way?

~Suzanne Beenackers
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who else is on f- speed dial? | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2025 02 11

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who else is on f- speed dial?

Proverbially speaking, since neither speed dial nor calling are a thing anymore.
Worst of all, in the majority of cases the “who” has become an It.

What app or website has the
– for-a-fact way too big –
honor of your daily and undivided attention?

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Last summer I took the step of raising the bar in my friendships. Because even though I have never shied away from breaking up with friends, and regardless of how messy it got – in fact preventing the messiness of it, was my prime motive for opening the conversation when there was no drama – I had still not achieved a 100% alignment.

I only sent it to the friends who are not professionally tied to me, nor connected through family bonds.
So the letter did not go to all friends, but only to the ones who had the freedom to end our friendship, without there being any consequence or awkward situations arising in real life.

So I wrote this letter but since I was unable to formulate the higher principles – which I knew for a fact were the root cause of our seemingly irrelevant differences – I narrowed my desires down to pure execution.
Although there was obviously some exposition on why I wrote the letter, at its core were the specifics, of what I would be needing moving forward.
Or not moving forward, if they chose that.

In sexual and romantic relationships there is a new culture and custom on the rise, of being transparent in asking consent and managing expectations beforehand. Not after boundaries have been crossed and people have slept with each other where one thought it was exclusive and the other was going to gaslight their way out of any meaningful connection with “texts” that turned emoji-only in a cold heart-beat.

This new practice of two people rooting their romance in communication,  and clearing up any grey areas where misunderstandings can create unsafety, originates from higher risk relationship styles such as polyamory, BDSM and D/s.
The final abbreviation stands for dominant submissive play, as hinted at in the movie Babygirl.

The new practice, where there is so much more thought put into the interaction and with way more communication than ever before, can also be found in the medical world and is described with two terms:
Embodied Consent
and
Informed Consent.

Embodied consent means that just someone giving their spoken consent is not enough, they also have to embody that they are okay with the suggested path or procedure.
With the concept of Embodied consent, ignoring a patient’s (or a partner’s) body language becomes just as big a deal as ignoring a No.

Informed Consent means that the other person has access to all information necessary in order to foresee the consequences of their choice.
Leaving out complications that 10% of patients will suffer after an operation is a violation of Informed Consent.
Not saying you will not want anything to do with them after you’ve had sex with them, is a violation of Informed Consent.
You forced your will by deliberately holding back information.

As is probably already obvious from the above paragraphs, I have given this topic of consent and deliberate interactions an incredible amount of thought.
And I have come out a Believer.

I believe that this carefully created safe space, the one most of us have only heard of, and that traditionally belongs in the riskiest of professional as well as sexual liaisons?
That this is not just the standard we should all aspire to;
But require.
And at the most basic and visceral level.

The great thing about this whole concept of consent, is that it is extremely actionable.

Just like with my friends, where I suspected difficulties in communication were expressions of more abstract things, like conflicting interests and different values, things I would not be able to address or word properly;
Consent brings the conversation to execution level.
Similarly, the letter to my friends also kept it simple.

In a way too long letter, I covered three areas.
How we got here.
What I could no longer offer, and why.
And I told them what our friendship would be like, if they chose to continue.

Although I understandably lost friends, it was overal far less dramatic than it would have been if I had kept it going to the point of collapse.
Collapse of me, them, and the friendship.
But the icing on the cake was that I got so many super cool letters from people whom I had not expected to hear from in such detail.
And several friendships have even gotten deeper and better since then.

So this is all half a year ago, and I considered it a private matter and “just” one of the many areas where 2024 was an important year.
Until today….
Because boy!
Talk about sweating the small stuff!!!!

My whole consent-boundaries-safe-space thing for friendships and for ALL other real life relationships as well?
That is nothing, compared to the time I spend online.

And the contrast between me attending to my most intimate relationships when at the same time holding the door open for the whole world to march in with their dirty feet, becomes even starker if I give you one of the key elements I said I could no longer deliver in friendships.

WhatsApp conversation.

Anyone who chose to be in a friendship with me, had to understand WhatsApp was going to be limited to a tool to set a date or schedule a telephone call.
That’s it.
Staying in touch through WhatsApp would no longer be on the menu, it was going to be calling or dating-only.

There was also another option if you needed help, so I definitely explained how I could be there for you in good times as well as the bad.
But I was aware that I took something off the menu, which was casual connection, that a lot of people valued and even needed.

So like I said, this all was months ago, and my friendships have never been better, and I didn’t think much of it.
Until today.

Because why on earth am I so demanding in my friendships when at the same time I still check news and social media every day, and binge on YouTube videos every time I can use some entertainment?

Even the word “casual” would be labeling my online behavior too positively.
I do have boundaries, in terms of the times when I am online (f.e. I do not sleep with my phone in the room) but otherwise the behavior itself, is not intentional at all.

I have supercool playlists with interesting videos, one even with the name “My TV channel”.
Meanwhile I just let myself be seduced by the YouTube algorithm. YouTube decides what’s on, not me.

With Social Media I am a little better for sure. And there really are people with whom I just love seeing their daily content, and I love knowing what they’re up to!
I’m genuinely so grateful they let me/ us into their lives!

Until today, where I thought:
“Wait a minute!”

How can anyone showing up online be more important than my true friends? If I continue my current behavior, then what I apparently basically wrote summer 2024, was:
“You cannot message me in between dates, but if you post to Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn or make a YouTube video (which is my favorite, hint!) then I will show up and be invested in you.”

Holy Christ……
I cannot believe it took me 6 months to figure this one out.

So invitation to you, Rock Star!
Where are you annoyed by group chats or people texting you, when at the same time you ALSO have notifications on from half a dozen apps?
Constantly refreshing pages so that you get to see a news headline within minutes after it has been added?

You sense something is overwhelming you when it’s people you know.
But at the same time you’re letting the world in, unchecked.

You’re saying to your friends/ family/ co-workers/ peers/ pets but also to your children and partner:
“I need you to respect my boundaries.
But here’s a gazillion people who have my undivided attention.”

The people you share your life, street, or city with, should always have a higher status than anyone and certainly than anything, you find online.
Cutting corners here (I know!) because a lot of great causes and activism are also depending on your willingness to show up online.
But you get me – 
We must be mindful and intentional.

But think of it like this:
In the Netherlands, whether officially or just by custom I don’t know, you don’t have to answer work emails after office hours.

Similarly, regardless of where you live;
You don’t have to engage with the world in your free time.

YES!
You can dedicate a certain moment every day to stay updated and participate.

But the world should not be on fucking speed dial.

Instead use your engagement, your curiosity, talents and focus to think about how to create a wonderful, exciting, alluring, maybe even sexual, safe space for all those intimate, close by, soul-aligned people you have in your life.

Starting with the most important person;
You.

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(what if?) that is the actual work | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2025 01 28

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(what if?) that is the actual work

Promoting, cleaning shit up, creating your look and getting ready every day.

The difficult conversations.
The fixing of unforeseen problems.
The setting of boundaries when you least expect it.
The nurturing of social structures surrounding whatever it is you do.

= your actual job

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Years ago there was a meme trend for yoga teachers with “What people think I do” versus “What I actually do”.
I forgot what the specifics were, so I looked it up. What people think I do was actually specific to a person or a group.
So you’d have like “What my parents think I do” or “What my students think I do” or “What the New York Times thinks I do”.
The latter with a picture of inflexible people trying out poses way over their head, because we were in the aftermath of a critical article which, if I am not mistaken, was called “Yoga Wrecks Your Body”.

Yet although the interpretation of what it was the yoga teacher did varied, where the yoga teacher themselves was usually content with meditation sessions where they checked their watch all the time, doing long relaxation pose or a supported child’s pose (and nothing flashy);
At least everyone was on the same page.

Everybody thought a yoga teacher did yoga.

This is of course a very logical thought, because it is our most distinguishing feature.
However!
This does not mean that it (doing or teaching yoga) is what determines our professional success, or even what we are doing most of the worktime.

Mapping out our teaching schedule.
Promotion (creating content and being online).
Doing our own yoga.
Keeping our website updated.
Email correspondence.
Preparing classes.
Travel time.
Having social interactions before or after class.
Cleaning the studio time. *

My estimate is 25% actual teaching hours, 75% tasks as illustrated above.
But yoga teachers are not alone here;
This goes for so many types of work.

If you’re thinking about a career switch, or exploring new directions?
Look at that 75% of the not-doing-your-work, before making a decision!

The 25% of whether or not the real work is ideal, a true match, or if it is work which remotely appeals to you?
Irrelevant.
At least when it comes to making a non-passion based job decision.
You’ll manage, you’ll find a way.
Yet, if you are not the right person to rock that 75%?
Oh, that’s gonna be one hell of a painful work path.

So, nuff said about that scenario.
Because similarly to yoga teachers, we are usually not really thinking about a non-passion-based job right?!
We may have one, and it’s good to know this whole thing about the 75%, but where we wonder if we can do it…… wonder if we can “make” it?
That is our passion, our creativity, our calling, our purpose.
Like the yoga teacher, we already know what it is we want to do.

Work which has come through deeply felt passions, or through an unstoppable need to help out or to contribute.
It – THE Work, OUR Work, the area of interest or the places or people we just love to hang out with, the things we like to DO! – it all comes through us and out of us, and the only choice we have is how to navigate this force.

It’s those areas where we need to be strategic.
And it‘s here, the “75% rule” can help make a choice, or should at least be considered!

So let’s say, hobby scenario, right?
You have a passion, or feel a call to do something and contribute.
Choose a way to limit extra tasks! Instead of settling for the meager 25% spending the time on what you really like doing, try upping it to 50%, or a hundred!

For example, a lot of people do voluntary work because they like the social interaction. But if you do it in an area where you normally don’t reside, you’re not going to build your network in your own neighborhood, and you’re also going to invest hours in travel time.

So “even” when something is a hobby or unpaid, beware that you don’t pick up work that is not the aspect you like about the job.
That’s not your passion-based part.

But one way or another, hobby or leisure time activities usually have a way of sorting themselves out.
Even without knowing this.

However, the most difficult areas are when we work because we are passionate about a certain cause, or because we have a different sort of calling or interest in it, and yet?
Oh, we find ourselves resisting all kinds of little, annoying, administrative hurdles and returning tasks, that we feel we need to “get by” in order to get to the “real work”.

It’s in those moments, that this blogpost is your wakeup call.
Those smaller tasks?
That is the work.
And in many cases, if you’re a professional it’s how you deal with those aspects that make you stand out. They’re usually way, and I mean WAY, more important, than the direct quality of your “real” work.

In 1983 a then unknown Bon Jovi had their first big show. They were the support act for ZZ Top. A stroke of luck! Because their debut album had not even been released, and the night before the two shows they had actually played for 30 people in a club in New Jersey.
Jon had been so nervous for this small gig, he’d lost his voice and it took all he had to go up on stage.

Yet the next day in Madison Square Garden he played it like he owned the place. “I lived there, it’s no problem.”

Jon even had to improvise, because guitarist Richie Sambora’s amplifier had blown up at the first chord of this important show.
The guitarist still remembers: “It was like slow-motion: ‘Ohhh, no!'”
The crowd, whom had been polite at first, was starting to get rowdy, shouting “ZZ Top! ZZ Top!”.
Jon took off his guitar and threw it to Richie.
“It’s all on you, play the guitar!”

They went through a 30 minute set in 17 minutes, but they did it!
(source: The funny story of when Bon Jovi was ZZ Top’s opening act) 

Even then you could see Jon Bon Jovi was more comfortable dealing with that “75%” often overlooked work necessary to perform in front of tens of thousands of people;
Than the skills required to entertain an unexpectedly intimate audience.

Which is in line with the fact that from the get go, he went for becoming a big rock n’ roll band, and did not even consider settling for the security of an income cover bands in New Jersey were close to being guaranteed at the time.
All or nothing.
“There was no Plan B,” he remembers.

So whether you are faced with technical problems on your first big break;
Or have stage fright when there are only a few people showing up.
Make sure you’re all geared up for the 75% of the work that people, parents and the New York Times, don’t realize you do.

‘Cause that?
Is your actual work.

 

~Suzanne Beenackers
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* I teach yoga in Nijmegen, https://declubyoga.com/

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liberate now | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2025 01 06

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liberate now

Do not underestimate the level of bondage the world around you is in.
Everything it brings forth toxically tainted.

If you do nothing else this year;
Set the intention to be bigger and louder in 12 months.

And more ferocious.

—

I’ve listened to way too many reviews and analysis of the amazing movie Babygirl, and although I’ve heard many takes on it, from the most misogynist to the most positive as well, I have not heard anyone else bringing a very disturbing fact of this movie to the light.

Maybe because it’s a spoiler?
Or a bit of a spoiler? 
I don’t know, could be!
So spoiler alert then..

Are you still here?

Because here it comes.

Although the ending of Babygirl is open to multiple interpretations – something I will definitely be getting back to in 2025 (on my other blog, world between worlds, link to category babygirl) but I first want to give everyone a chance to go watch it-
so although there is definitely, and fortunately, a lot of interesting wiggle room with regard to Babygirl’s ending;
When interpreted at its most blunt face value?
It is an UNfinished hero’s journey!
What heresy!

Definition of hero’s journey;

“In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero’s quest or hero’s journey, also known as the monomyth,
is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.”

Wikipedia

An unfinished hero’s journey would for example be, if after having mustered a fellowship of nine, having been stabbed half to death by a Nazgul on Weathertop, crossing the Dead Marshes with your best friend, who you first lost due to your own delusions, after which you were captured by a giant spider who sedated you and hung you up to be consumed later, and then your friend saved you;
*big breath*
And a small creature with two personalities followed you around and then push came to shove and you decided to not throw the ring into the fires of Mount Doom.
As would have been required to save the world.

But instead you hid the ring really well.
Somewhere no one would find it.
Because it saved you the final kilometers up the mountain, and those were really steep and you were kind of tired from all your adventures and besides the mountain was really hot and the little creature looked like it would bite your finger off and you dreaded spending the rest of your life with only nine fingers even though that would have been super symbolic of your fellowship so you just decided to call it a day. Or a journey.

That, is an unfinished hero’s journey.

And when taken in its most simplistic way, the ending of Babygirl is just that.
It has you yelling:
“You gotta be f-ing kidding me!” at the screen.

Until, of course, I realized this was really the highest possible outcome with regard to sexual liberation of women, currently achievable to Hollywood standards.

That Hero’s Journeys can be, and should be, and will be, completed when it’s about a bunch of guys putting their lives on the line to save the world.
However, when it’s about a woman trying to save her sexual identity, we’re gonna just walk a third into the first movie and after the Prancing Pony, we’re just done.

I mean, the wizard wasn’t there as he had promised he would be;
And we’ve seen the cloaked figures on horses that are definitely up to no good and they’ll try to assassinate us tonight, stabbing the decoy figures we will lay in the beds to fool them.

We’re done!
Let this Strider fella just take us hobbits home because we’ve seen enough adventures for three generations!

That, is how Babygirl ended.

Because when it comes to sexual liberation we have got such a long way to go, society and Hollywood being so restricted, we simply cannot have female heros walk their path to the bitter, or the satisfying, or the necessary, but in any way shape or form, the FULL ending.

Again, not using the wiggle room interpretation wise.
This is just going for the most obvious interpretation of it.

And who knows, maybe it was never intended to be a hero’s journey, but simply an art house drama movie. Who is to say.

But what struck me was that when thinking about the movie I had been so ignorant of the limitations a movie like this was faced with.
That I had actually assumed this movie had had full creative freedom.
Of course not.

Babygirl was made tiptoeing Hollywood’s Dead Marshes of misogynie.
The hero’s journey? That was not the protagonist having her sexual liberation!
No, it was writer and director Halina Reijn getting this movie made in the first place.

With Babygirl, Reijn got the ring into Mordor for us.
But it’s up to us to make sure it gets thrown into the pit.

So when I say Liberate Now, I mean;

Do not underestimate your opponent.
Do not think for a minute you’ll be allowed to break the shackles with whatever or whomever, and just walk your own path.

Know where you’re going.
Stay the course.
And bring a compass to readjust along the way.

And do not lose sight of the mountain of work ahead of you, but at the same time;
Be incredibly grateful for all the digging, smoothing, and the sign posts put up by all who went before.

And unless you’re the protagonist in an erotic 2024 drama movie that was brought to light against the odds;
Walk the path all the way to the end.

And throw that ring and all the other shackles that bind you, into the damn pit. 

..

..

Goodgirl /Hero
(pick one)

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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you’re a performer not a Swiss train conductor | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 12 05

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you’re a performer not a Swiss train conductor

So unless it’s part of your art, it’s not your job.

And if it is?
There’s only one option.

Make it art.

—

The truth is, I don’t have the final version of how artists (in general) are supposed to leverage it all, come 2025.
Where art starts and where it stops and the havoc of commercialism begins.

I do not have a final lecture on how to handle making a living when your work, together with all the other things that give our lives meaning, was never included into capitalism.
And has been passed around like a hot potato from one marginalized group to the next, or from one privileged figure in society to the next, for thousands of years.
Always without a natural home.

So no finalized list, no artist’s manifesto.
All I can say is that, like with many things, the more you know the more you’re aware of how little you know.

Suffice to say, I m sharing the little that I know, while still being aware I will probably need to eat my words again.
And that’s okay.

So artist, performer;
What is it that you do, and why are you not a Swiss train conductor?

The title is a quote from the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. It is what Freddie Mercury says to his bandmates when he’s being called out for arriving late at the studio.

“I’m a performer Darling, not a Swiss train conductor.”
movie Bohemian Rhapsody, “Freddie Mercury”

There is a children’s book by Leo Leonni, about another Freddie, called Frederick.
(video)
It is about a mouse who does not seem to work. When the other mice are collecting food for the winter, Frederick collects colors and sunbeams.

And deep into winter, when the food is all but gone and their tiny bodies are cold from the harsh temperatures, they call upon Frederick.
“How about your supplies?” they ask.
And Frederick starts speaking.

About the seasons and about the sun shining warmly on their furs.

Little by little the mouse begin to feel better, their cheeks rosy and their minds brimming with memories and the promise of better times.

As a performer, your art is everything that enables you to be there, even when the other systems have come to a halt.
And even if that means that in the pre-art phase little is visible, and the people around us may not be as understanding as the mice from Frederick’s community.
Or we less eloquent than Frederick, or Freddie Mercury, in explaining what it is we do.

The moment we start measuring our success (or worse: value) by whether we are as accurate as a Swiss trainconductor, or as productive as the other mice whose lives in the heart of winter will be dependent on whether or not we have nourished our artistic capacities;
That, is the moment we kill our art.

So can we then not be more productive?
Can we not be accurate and reliable?

You can if you make it part of your art.
I don’t know, maybe Frederick could have color coded the stock.
Or Queen could have set up their studio days in a more colorful fashion, around certain themes, fancy dress codes and with guest musicians to collaborate with.  

In the same way you can incorporate activities or areas of life that are difficult to skip or neglect without being an asshole, into your creative work.

Just never forget what you are here for, and what will be needed from you most, is your warming light;
Your bright colors;
Your words;
And your poetry.

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It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

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the truth isn’t out there | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 11 23

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the truth isn’t out there

Contrary to that famous tagline of the 90s television series The X-Files;
the truth is out there

Detective Mulder also had a UFO poster with “I want to believe” pinned to the wall of his  office.
To believe in the truth, I presume.

But every new discovery only ever lead  to one thing;
Another villain.

Just a bit higher up.

—

I have no idea how much I told you, about everything I did during the pandemic. The years before it, and the years since.
Until I finally hit the brick wall and concluded;
The truth is a dead end street.
All you will ever find is a lie, which is not the same as finding the truth.

The truth, in an evidence based scientific way, does not exist.
There are only those who lie consciously, and those who lie unconsciously.
And although both can be used negatively, they can also both be used positively.

Truth is created by consciousness.
Including the consciousness of the narrator.

So if you find a situation and then tell what you see, you are adding to its existence.
It was mother Theresa who said she would not march against war, but she’d rally for peace.
Because you cannot give something your attention and expect it to go away.

There is a healing technique called Hoʻoponopono, where the practitioner heals by taking responsibility for seeing sickness.
For taking part in it, and by revoking that power and seeing health and healing instead.

Those are examples of what I would define as positive, “conscious lying”.

The practitioner claims something that is not congruent with the truth, as we experience it at that moment. But they have intentionally reversed the truth in order to create the desired effect.
They consciously choose the lie of the affirmation of the positive, in order to create this positive.

Still sticking to positive uses of lying, there is also unconscious lying.
Which can be just as beneficial. 

Here “unconscious” means that the speaker is unaware that they are creating the truth with their words and their thoughts.
And because of that, their most powerful contribution to the world remains hidden, even to themselves.

We all know that person or family, whose house radiates love, laughter and joy;
Yet they claim to not do anything special and that it’s often “a real mess”.

Many of us had or have that one colleague without whom work would have been a dreadful place.
It’s like they alchemize the atmosphere, into one of positivity and constructive cooperation.

Perhaps we have, or had, that special person who infused our life with a deep sense of meaning.

Yet rarely will either one of them be conscious of what it is they do.
They wouldn’t be able to explain and are largely unaware of the profound effect they have on the lives of others.

They do not know their own truth of the light they bring.

So instead of believing in truth, reason, science, or facts;
It is a much better strategy to believe in love.
And to understand that the truth is not out there.
It is within.

Truth can be found within yourself, but also in the hearts of others.
Where like a true treasure it is hidden.

Even from the ones who carry it.

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THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

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We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

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Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
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Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
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If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

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know evil | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 11 09

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know evil

We cannot escape it, for it is present even in our loved ones.
And, you guessed it;
In ourselves.

It can enter if we leave but one door open. One area, where we allow ourselves the luxury of being in the dark and- BOOM!

For Christ’s sake;
Know what you’re dealing with.

—

I’m not too big on organized religion, but I’ll give them one thing;
At least they know what they’re dealing with.
There is a concept of Evil, something which has been dangerously missing from most spiritual lineages which emphasize union, light and love.

And I get it; If for 2000 years the most sordid crimes and systemic oppression has taken place in the name of the Lord, you’re not exactly keen on taking Christian ideas on board on the nature of good and evil.
In particular not when they can be linked directly to keeping the rich rich, the poor poor, and to keeping everyone not a white male the furthest away from power as patriarchy allows.
Which seems to have unlimited give, in that area.

But just because evil preaches about evil, and uses fear of it for its own gain, that does not mean evil itself does not exist. Nor that evil was ever limited to the people who had so effectively weaponized it.
Quit the opposite.

We must see human history as proof, that evil exists.
The least we can do is learn from history, even if it is just in its most generally-agreed-upon interpretation.

Looking back, and with an endgame against evil sorely missing, it should come as no surprise evil was allowed to endure, in the words of Lord of the Rings.

Perhaps because someone always takes the ring of power before it can be cast into the fires of Mount Doom;
Or perhaps because unlike in folklore, evil cannot be destroyed.

Whatever the reason, now is the time to look around you, or look into history and to judge for yourself;
Do you think Evil was present, during * fill in any catastrophic violation of human rights * ?
If the answer is Yes, then this means this Evil is still present today.

And it is your job to recognize it, and take the surprise out of it! 
Whatever happens on a world stage or whatever happens to you personally, you have already won half the battle if you expected it, because you have done your share of the cognitive reasoning.

It’s like when the dark planet Pluto was discovered in the 20th century;
They had known for ages this planet was there because they had suspected it since 1846 and they had calculated it since 1903, when Pluto was called Planet X. 

An active search began, and in 1930 they found it, and called it Pluto.

I want you to be as unsurprised when encountering evil, as astronomers  were discovering Pluto.
You are like an astronomer whom looking at known data, either suspects or knows for a fact, that planet X exists.

You do not have to go looking for it, but study whatever important historic facts you think are relevant here, and trust your conclusions on the subject.
And if you conclude Evil exists, then you should ingrain that knowledge deeply.

And think about what your strategy is, preferably before Evil comes knocking at your door. But definitely before you dip even one toe into the battlefield.

You should not be treading that lightly, thinking it will not be so bad. 
Not unless you believe every oppressed group in history also had their negative thought patterns to blame for their demise.

In my opinion “just” love and acceptance, is not going to cut it.
Which does not mean that you cannot choose that!
Love and acceptance can still be all the armor you will bring, but like Gandhi, it should be a conscious choice.
If you choose to turn the other cheek, because you have thought it through and these are the principles you live by.
But don’t let it be because you underestimate what you’re up against.

Okay.
So Evil in the modern age?
Do we have a concept of what to look for?
Where to look, where it resides/ its lair, and do we know what its weapons are?

I am by no means an expert, but I have a few pointers which might be useful to get you started and create your own perspective.

Evil is the absence of awareness and/ or consent is being bypassed
and/or the blocking of real connection

And another pointer is that evil comes with a resistance to bring this awareness, to bring light (a conscious decision or reflection) into its darkness.
Evil is darkness that comes with protection towards light.

You can recognize this protection by a quickening in the conversation, a skipping of steps, or (most commonly) a discussion or education about a certain topic starting past/after the point where the foundational decision has been made.

Think of it as the toothbrush trick for children, but now for adults.
“Do you want to use the blue toothbrush or the red?”
And us not noticing the decision to brush our teeth has been taken from us.

Whether this is evil depends on the response when being called out. This goes for systems as well as people.
If their response is irritation, pushback, and denial about their attack on our sovereignty;
Then their behavior is evil.

If they accept being called out, and acknowledge you caught them or are genuinely interested in where they missed the mark;
If they apologize and feel remorse, then no harm was intended.
But beware of the speed of this process!
If it’s too quick and they try to brush over the situation, then they are still evil because they are blocking real connection.

Which is the absolute hallmark of evil!

Anyone placing something in between you and them (f.e. a religious conviction, a judgement about you, a problem you need to solve for them, or a political color) is evil, because they are blocking you from knowing them and are forcing you to deal with their shield.
Maybe it is not that “they” are evil, but their behavior is, and you should be weary all the same.

As part of your defensive arsenal in general, I do recommend having a few of those distracting topics handy for your own protection.
Collect a few viewpoints which will repel people, preferably viewpoints that are authentically yours, but I would be liberal here.
And select on effectiveness over authenticity.
Know what to say, to create distance between you and someone violating your space.

Unless you go for the all love and peace option, but I don’t expect that will be too many of us.

Naturally, the areas people are unwilling to discuss also offer opportunities to weaponize their darkness against them.
Again, this is up for your conscious decision making if you want to go that way.

Remember that there is no awareness in evil.
It is not the act but the very absence of awareness that makes it evil, or that gives evil a doorway to come in. If you believe in dark entities then it is generally believed they hook on into the dark spots. That the more dark spots you have in your awareness, the more things you do not want to talk about, brush over, or are ashamed of, the easier it is for dark forces to latch on, which can be detrimental to you but also to those around you.

Evil entities who are not strong enough to reach people around you directly, can then hurt them through you.
This is when you hear words coming out of your mouth, wondering where the hell they came from!

Whether you believe in these unseen forces or not, the general gist of this first pointer (awareness/consent/blocking connection), and in all probability also of the second piece below, which I will write next, is;
Stay strong. Stay present. Stay aware.
Really show up in full connection with whomever you come in touch with.
And be prepared.

Okay second piece.
This, like the first part, is assembled from several singular points I had noted down. Hopefully being able to combine them into one fluent story.

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Evil is when fear is brought to the table, when it is unclear who is responsible, when shame is involved

Fear.
Nothing good can come of it.
I know it is very popular to say things like fear being natural, and a protective device, but those opinions are not mine.
And if you can see me going down that road, please push this blogpost 9 November 2024, under my nose! Because I need to read my own words.

So why do I hold fear in such a low regard?
Because first of all you do not think clearly, when you are in fear. So by definition you are incapable of making a rational decision, because your mental capacity has been highjacked by this emotion.
And I will leave it to the experts in neuro psychology to come up with a scientific explanation, but I think I understand the gist of it, and that this claim is correct.
You’re not thinking clearly.
Stop.
Calm down.
And do not do anything until you have mastered your fear.

The second reason you should not do anything when you are in fear, is that your intention, your mindset, your manifestation abilities if you believe in those, are setup wrongly!
Because you’re holding this thing you’re fearful of, and that you’re trying to avoid or move away from, in your mind’s eye when you are making your move in this state. Which will always have detrimental effects.

You must move, decide towards, and act, on what you DO want.
Not panic out of fear.

But the third reason, and most relevant to the topic at hand, is that fear makes you manipulatable. 
All anyone, including evil, needs to do is to touch on your fear, and you’ll vote/buy/do anything to prevent your worst fears from coming true.

The person who is selling you something or informing you on something should never be the same person as the one telling you fearful things.
Because
a. they have a direct interest in you being fearful, because then you buy.
Ask yourself, if this person had not first touched on my fear, would I have bought?
And
b. because fear has cut back your brain power to make a well-informed decision.
So the person who informed you, should never be the one benefiting from your (hopefully temporary) weak position here.
If you want, come back when you’ve done your research and compared other opinions and options.

So someone who FIRST triggers your fear, or even creates an entirely new fear, only to then offer the solution, is evil.

Then the second thing I mentioned;
Fear is when no one is responsible.
Get your red flags out!

This can be a war type of situation where whole areas go without proper rule and the right of the strongest prevails.
But it’s usually a lot more subtle than that.
It is every promise, deal or rejection, that is not made in written form;
It is every situation without someone in charge.
It is everything that is implied but not said out loud.

Is it always evil?
Fortunately no.
If you ask:
“Who’s in charge?”
“What do you mean?”
or
“Will I receive that in writing?”
And someone cooperates, then it has stopped being evil. Whether from having been called out or because it was always all very openly discussed, does not really matter.

But making people take responsibility for what they say, want and need, should definitely become second nature to you.
Don’t give the devil free rides.

And then, finally, to close this blogpost with;
Things are evil when shame is involved.

Intimately connected to the concept of Fear, but definitely the better paralyzer of the two, we have the concept of Shame.
The reason it’s related is because Shame is fear of social exclusion.
The reason Shame is even more effective than Fear, in destabilizing and manipulating people and selling them absolutely on everything you want them to believe, buy or do, is because that fear of social exclusion, is our primal fear.

It’s even a bigger fear than our own physical death, because we know we will all die some day anyway, and the best thing we can hope for is to die surrounded by loved ones.
Exactly what social exclusion prevents.

Shame is fear of dying alone, weaponized.
If someone or something makes you feel ashamed about yourself that thing has got its fangs and claws into you so deeply, you will need Lion Courage to release yourself!
But do it!

I am handing you Lion Courage, Rock Star Courage RIGHT NOW!
YOU CAN DO IT!

Sit with it, let it wash over you, every situation where you feel, as they say that nowadays “cringe”.
Whether it is Shame or its little brother Cringe, take that Lion Courage and bring all of your awareness to it.
Because those are not just doorways where evil can come in, it’s more like the whole backwall of the castle missing.

And now, we are at the end of the blogpost.

It has become so much longer than I intended, and also far more serious.
And still I know I will go about the rest of my day thinking “Oh I forgot this one.” or “I should have said that”
Which brings me to the final characteristic of Evil.

It is the illusion of undoing.

Evil, is Live spelled backwards. It is the undoing of creation, it is destruction in all its aspects including undoing your own writing.
Or altering it.

If we want to become messengers of the light, we must allow the light to work through us. Our human ego must step back and we must let God, or Good, take the wheel.
Just like Evil uses our blindspots to enter, God, or Good, uses where our awareness is.

The best way to fight evil is to amp up on your awareness to its maximum potential, and to stay away from everything that lowers your consciousness. 
Let awareness become your coin, your wealth, your riches.

Your awareness is your light which is not just your protection from evil, but the way you can bring good into this world.

I know it’s not exactly a reputable source, but I think a meme I encountered last week sums it up!

You do not arrive in the New World.
The New World, arrives through you.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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But in particular after writing the above post, I would like to emphasize that I do my utmost best to always make the blogpost a full and standalone experience that gives you everything you need.
It is no setup to buying from me in any way, and I hope the above message reaches you as a gift from my heart to yours.

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THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
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Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

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perfect your love | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 10 27

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perfect your love

When you have thought it all through and counted the hours you were about to spend on saving yourself, improving the situation, responding to an unforeseen event to make it all right.

Versus the limited days you will have on this earth.

Very little remains, that still needs doing.

—

A few months ago, and inspired by the movie The Crow (1994) and studying its meaning and symbolism for weeks, I changed the graphic design of my Canva posts for this series.

Instead of using a photo referring to the subject I was talking about, preferably illustrated with Rock Star references such people with tattoos, artists, musicians or music adjacent visuals such as a studio or a stage;
I did a 180, and switched to Goth inspired.

Initially I used them in the same manner I had done with the Rock Star photos:
To search for a certain topic in the Canva photo database and insert it into my design.
But soon enough my routines started changing.

The change was sparked when I started to use filters, to give the photos a more Gothic look.
And I do not remember the order in which this happened but soon enough it became a layered process, blowing a photo up, using only certain parts, or selecting other photos to fill up the margins with a background image.
And the gamechanger was finding the Remove Background option.

I completely reinvented it and for today’s Canva I used a total of four Canva photos, all filter adjusted and all with their backgrounds removed.
Resulting in a Halloween appropriate image of a witch doing her magic surrounded by graves and a Crow.
Which ignited this shift, months ago.

The Crow (1994) would not have reached its legendary status without the enigmatic Brandon Lee turning this into masterpiece.
It was his unwavering love for the project, where his dedication inspired the whole crew to bring their best game, why we are still talking about this movie today.

The story itself however, did come with a core element that only had to be preserved, polished and highlighted. Not created.
Love.

The story of The Crow (1994) is the story of undying love.
A love that crosses over into the afterlife, and that has the power to bring back the dead.

And it is a good movie to watch in times of turmoil. Because it makes clear that we cannot influence the evil that goes on in the world.
That evil, in many cases, is too strong a force.

As was the case for Eric and Shelly, the young and very Rock Star couple from The Crow, who got murdered for what was basically a fight over real estate at the highest level in which they had no part except being tenants at a coveted location.
It appears to be a Victorian church, once converted into an apartment building. Eric and Shelly rent the corner top floor apartment, right under the roof. 

They are murdered on the night before Halloween

“which was called “Devil’s Night” or “Hell Night” from the 1970’s through the 90’s, due to the numerous acts of vandalism and violence across the U.S., particularly in the city of Detroit.”
source:
Devil’s Night? Raining all the time? Might as well watch The Crow!

The financial backstory to their murder is shown, not told. We see the murderous gang entering their apartment referring to the complaint the couple made, in a team-up with other tenants in the neglected building.
They stood up for their own rights, and the rights of others.
And paid for it with their lives.

And yet, what they actually stood up for, side by side with the other people in their building, was nothing short of love in its purest form.

Throughout the movie we see flashbacks to the couple in love, Shelly’s wedding magazines, and a little girl Sarah who regularly visits them, finding surrogate parents in them.
The love of the couple has permeated everything around them.

And just like them, we may not have the power to change things. Nor to assess correctly all the evil powers at play.
But we do have the power to do the right thing, and to love the ones around us unconditionally.

Brandon Lee died making The Crow, he was hit on set in a firearm accident. Just like his father Bruce Lee, Brandon died young and under unlikely circumstances that had no clear cause and effect.

And just like the character Eric in the movie The Crow, Brandon had also found the love of his life, and died just before he could marry her.
The wedding had been scheduled a week after filming of The Crow would end.

But again, just like Eric and Shelly in the movie, Brandon Lee had given it his all. His relationship, as well as this movie.
Which he brought to great heights, always striving the best for every scene and for the character.

The intense love Brandon Lee had for his life and his work, is what has survived to this day.
The Crow 30th Anniversary Re-Release Trailer (2024) 

Or, in the famous last line of the movie:

Buildings burn, people die;
But real love is forever.

Sarah

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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signature offer:  The Rock Star 2024

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THE ROCK STAR

.
THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

NEW founded in MAY 2024: SUBSTACK
free memberships provided
other socials:
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