Visionary v. Reactionary Movements: Group Zoom 1.22.26

From Reaction to Vision: Where We Place Our Attention Matters

I want to speak for a moment about the nature of movements themselves.

Because historically, many social and humanitarian movements have been reactionary, and rightly so.
They arise in response to injustice, harm, and imbalance.
They say No more.
They draw a line.
They interrupt what cannot continue.

Reactionary movements matter.
They wake us up.
They protect life.
They catalyze change.

And, at the same time, we are now standing at a threshold where reaction alone is no longer enough.

There is a deeper question we are being asked to mature into as a collective:

Not only what are we against, but what are we creating?

Because the laws of physics are very clear:
energy responds to focus.
Like attracts like.
What we consistently give our attention to gains momentum.

When our movements are fueled only by opposition, only by resistance, we can unintentionally keep feeding the very systems we long to dismantle.
Not because our intentions are wrong, but because our attention is powerful.

Being constantly against something keeps us orbiting it.

And right now, there is a deep hunger, not just for outrage or urgency, but for orientation.
For guidance about where to place our hope.
For a felt sense of what we are walking toward.

We can see this hunger in the collective response to movements that feel grounded, intentional, and values-based, movements that don’t just critique the present, but quietly model another way of being human together.

Visionary movements do something different.

They don’t bypass reality, but they refuse to be imprisoned by it.
They understand that we cannot go backward.
There is no return to some imagined past.

What we have is forward.

Visionary movements are inherently creative because they seek to embody the future before it fully exists.
They ask us to practice now what we want normalized later.
They invite us to live the answers, not just demand them.

This is where The Great Mother March stands.

Not as a rejection of all that is broken, but as a declaration of what is possible.

It is seeded in the understanding that the change we desire will not arrive all at once.
It will arrive incrementally.
One person at a time.
One home at a time.
One conversation.
One community.

This is not a weakness.
It is how living systems actually evolve.

The Great Mother March is grounded in a vision of balance, between feminine and masculine energies, between action and listening, between doing and being.

It is rooted in the knowing that our interconnectedness is not an aspiration, it is a fact.
And when that truth becomes the foundation of our social structures, our economies, and our politics, entirely new possibilities emerge.

This march is not claiming to be the destination.

It is declaring a beginning.

A collective agreement to place more of our energy, imagination, and attention on the world we are ready to build, while still meeting the present moment with courage and clarity.

Reaction wakes us up.
Vision shows us where to walk.

The Great Mother March exists to help us remember that we are not only witnesses to history, we are participants in its creation.

~Whitney Freya, and, surely, The Great Mother!