An Incantation for 2024, USA by Marie Cartier

-please repeat and/or use in ritual, if needed

There was a time (there was a time)

We were waiting for something (we were waiting for something)

We were wanting something (we were wanting something)

We needed it to be different (we needed it to be different)

We were. We are. We are here: this is it.

We want something. We want something. We need something. We need something.

There was a time when we could make something happen.

There was a time when we could make something happen: there was a time.

This. Is. That. Time.

Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States.

Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States.

Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States.

Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States.

We want a female president. We want this female president.

We want a woman in the oval Office.

We want someone who believes in things we believe in. The right for a woman to make choices around her own body. We want a woman who believes that choices about our bodies

Are ours to make

Remember. Remember- re attach yourself to when she looked at the toad K. (and I don’t want to disparage toads so I’ll just say K., not wanting to say his name) asked him, “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?

He stumbled and said he’d be “happy to answer a more specific question.” She said, “male versus female.” She repeated the question. He stumbled again flustered and said, “I’m not thinking of any right now, Senator.”

Of course, the answer is “no.”

There are no laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body.

I want her- that woman who asked those questions. I want her in the Oval Office.

I wanted Hillary. God, did I want her. But we didn’t get her. Did we?

Even though. She won the popular vote by three million- more than any other candidate except for Obama- first term. So. Electoral College. Still in place. Still a problem.

So. We are left with a few states deciding the fate of the leader of the free world. Why are we not a democracy, but a republic? Worthy questions—but, too late to decide it now.

We have to win this election. We want a woman in the Oval Office.

We want a woman in the Oval Office. We want a woman who makes things possible.

Angela Davis says that we vote for a woman who make things possible. There are things that are possible under Kamala Harris, that are impossible under –him. There are things that will be impossible under—him and things that will be very possible under him, things we don’t want.

But under her things that are possible–like freedom of choice. Like voting in free elections.

Like voting again.

Like happiness.

Those things are possible.

We want a woman in the Oval Office. We want this woman.

We want a woman in the Oval Office. We want this woman.

We want a woman in the Oval Office. We want this woman. We want a woman in the Oval Office. Madame President.

We want to see her take charge. We want our bodies. We want our bodies. We want our freedom. We want a woman in the Oval Office.

May it be so. May it be so. May it be so.

Come, Athena. Diana. Mary. Come.

Goddesses of the deep underworld, Persephone and above

In the heavens, come. Come with a chariot across the sky and

A rush of water.

Yemaya. The power of all the oceans. The power of the rain. The power of the deep.

Come with stars

And comets.

Come all of the winds and the air.,

Come Hecate and fire. Come, come, come November 5, 2024 in the USA—come.

Come Freya and Hestia and come Ellen of the Ways- let the ley lines align in her favor.  Come.

We need. We want. A woman in the Oval Office.

We want this now. We want the energy of the world watching. Wanting. We want.

We need. A woman in the Oval Office.

This is the moment. This is the time. This is the freedom.

 There was a time (there was a time)

We were waiting for something (we were waiting for something)

We were wanting something (we were wanting something)

We needed it to be different (we needed it to be different)

We were. We are. We are here: this is it.

We want something. We want something. We need something. We need something.

There was a time when we could make something happen.

There was a time when we could make something happen: there was a time.

This. Is. That. Time.

Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States. Today is that day. That moment.

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Vote. Fight. We are not going back.

This. Is. That. Time.

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Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States.

And so it is. Blessed be.

• Marie Cartier

October 2024, In These United States