resolutions

My big resolution is pursuing “social capital” which wikipedia discusses extensively (and rather poorly and dryly) but which Marv Thomas in his book Personal Village has summarized brilliantly:

Everyone agrees to put energy into the relationship and the social capital grows. Then when we are in need we draw some out. We do this in all our relationships: in families, fellowships, support groups, friendships, and business. That is how the world works. That is how the world has always worked. And that is how the world will always work.

If I had to pinpoint what’s going on in my world, with Saturn in Libra at the moment, social capital and its lack is what's under scrutiny. It’s been all over my journal entries and echoed in my Guidance for 2009. I've got blood relatives who don't really care whether or not I've found a job, or might be evicted from my apartment, as long as I'm listening to their recent boyfriend woes. I've got friends who get drunk as sin while I'm trying to do something difficult, knowing full well I've got a lot on my plate I might need serious help with. I've got old friends writing me begging to hang out again, only to go into cold radio silence when I fly up to meet them for $1000 to $3000 without any word as to why they didn't keep up their interest. These are all issues of social capital. It's like a bank: If you keep putting in your money, but you go to the bank to draw out money of your own and nothing's left, then you've got a faulty bank. You've got bad social capital. So, I’m making that hard call — are people in my life reciprocating? For some it may be time to take up the sickle and move on.

But I worry that on a much larger scale, we’re all affected by a large deficit of social capital in the world at the moment. If I had to throw in with one important movement, I told myself that this obviously is the one that bothered me enough to do something about it this year.

So as I was reading a post recommended by Molly's About.com blog, discussing news over at http://www.heliastar.com/ it all resonated with me very strongly. The words from M. Kelley Hunter that Venus is near to Pluto, and this is inviting us to "rebuild with love. An overhaul is in order for another decade and a half. The necessity is to rebuild, to regenerate from the Earth upward into human civilization".

Rebuilding with Love is exactly what I think would be needed to once again revive social capital more prominently in the world. It will be one of my focuses this year.