Hey, Virgo, welcome back to my channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new, welcome. Please do it like, share, and subscribe. I greatly appreciate that. So today, we're going to take a look here at the Blood Moon, okay, Lunar Eclipse that's happening on May 16th. And this message is going to run through until the next Lunar Eclipse, which will be in September. So May through September 22nd, the message here of the Full Moon Scorpio it's time to release negativity. So, Virgo, I feel with this Blood Moon, what's coming up for you here is a time for you to release. Okay, you're reaching the end of a chapter in your life here, Virgo, and it's time for you to embrace whatever the universe is bringing next to you. And you're also being asked that even if the changes here feel unexpected, trust that the universe has your best interest at heart. Because I feel like when this cycle begins, this Lunar Eclipse, things may feel uncertain right now in your life, but know that in due time, things will make sense to you why this is occurring, why this new chapter, there's a new start, a new beginning with this Blood Moon, okay? So we're going to take a look at things that you need to release, the negativity, what they may be. And then we're going to take a look to see what to embrace, what new energy is coming toward you. Okay? So I just want to pull a few cards, Moonology cards here to see what other messages there might be added onto this Full Moon Eclipse in Scorpio. Okay. What other messages here does Virgo need to know? Okay. A fiery climax is going to be approaching. Okay. So, hmm, Virgo, we've got some stuff going on here, Full Moon and Aries energy. So I feel like from May through September, we'll be a lot of releasing, a lot of releasing. Okay. The next Full Moon Lunar Eclipse or Eclipse in itself will be in September and that's when I feel like this fiery climax, a new beginning is going to happen in September. But so I feel like a lot of this time period here is going to be you releasing, letting go, cutting the cord, cutting strings, things like that from your past or whatever. Okay. Whatever you've been holding onto and whatever it is that you need to let go of there is a new romantic cycle that will also be coming upon you during this May through September period. Okay. So let's get into your reading. Remember, do hit the like, subscribe button. If you're new, go ahead and do that right now. And let's see, what does Virgo need to release? What negativity? What does Virgo need to let go of during this time period from May through September 2022? Okay. Page of cups here. Um, some of you might be getting an apology. Somebody could be reaching out and apologizing to something, uh, to you about something. Um, and I feel like let it go. Okay. When you get the apology, just forgive and move on, forgive and forget. And, and that doesn't mean allow something to continue. If that's not something you feel is good for you. Um, for some, it might, but releasing in some way for some of you means letting go, forgive, forget the indiscretion and then move forward in whatever way you need to move forward. This is about negativity. Okay.  Um, even if you don't get an apology, this means for you to just let go of that resentment because that's like a cancer to the soul that will keep you from being able to release that negativity and move forward in your life. Okay. So for some, you could be getting an apology, um, from someone it could be in regards to a child or a relationship or a friendship or something under the love umbrella. Okay. Um, release it, let it go. Okay. What else does Virgo need to know here? Okay. Do you get the king of pentacles? Okay. Some of you need to let go of an earth sign or someone who fits the description of the king of pentacles, whether it's Taurus of Virgo or Capricorn, um, for some, it could be you need to forgive yourself for something. Um, so this description of this earth sign, of course you would probably understand, um, this person comes in as someone who is quite reserved in their emotions. They don't really say much. They're, they're more, maybe more physical, more physically active. Um, they have more physical senses. Um, so kind of someone who could be like, um, they're all business, all work and no play. Okay. Um, if that's you, forgive yourself.  But for a lot of you, this is letting go of some type of negativity that may have come from an earth sign and the earth sign could be their sun, moon, rising or Venus. Okay. What else does Virgo need to let go of? Oh, okay. Something unexpected might have happened and shattered your world in some way. Um, the tower. Okay. This is not something that you in your past saw coming. This is an unwanted change or ruin. Um, you might've felt like you were disgraced or someone, there could have been violence involved or someone just a person, place or thing. There were some upheaval. Your, your, for some of you like your world came crashing down, um, in some way there could have been an accident or something that might have happened that, man, that was, it feels like it was pretty devastating for some of you. I don't know exactly what it was, but whatever it was, it was a very negative event. It was an event that was very negative and it's over. It's done. Okay. Um, this is not a prediction of what's to come. This situation has already occurred. This could have been something that happened five minutes ago, all the way back to when you were a child, whichever it might have been, this is letting this negativity go.  In other words, don't let it ruin or dictate or rule your life going forward. Okay. Whatever it was here, let me see what else this Virgo needs to let go of. Okay. Hmm. So this message here coming through Virgo, it feels like accept the fact that you gave your best and let go at this point, except the fact that you contributed, you tried to be as hospitable as you could. You, you tried to be as giving as you could to a person, place or a thing. Um, if you didn't receive anything in return or you didn't, or if you gave more than you received, let it go. Okay. Um, if there was a negative reaction or a negative feeling in regards to that, um, this feels more like, you know, people say, well, how can I let go of a certain thing? Like how, how do I stop this thing from what you have to accept? You know, you go through a grieving process, of course, but always at the end of the grief process is acceptance where we finally come to a place where we're saying, okay, I accept that. This is once you accept it, except it doesn't mean agreeing with it, accept it, accepting just means this is the reality of the situation. Okay. And I have to accept that this is the reality of the situation, not my hopes, not my wishes, not my fears, the reality of the situation here. Um, and I feel like for the reality for a lot of you is that you, um, you were very much giving and, um, some of you may have been giving to get, um, which, you know, it might have, maybe it was more transactional, um, or someone was doing that to you where somebody was giving to you and only in order to receive, they weren't giving out of their heart, um, because love is never transactional. So there's something here about, um, needing to accept that you gave the best you could, you could, any more that you would have given, uh, it, it's like overwatering your flowers. You know, I mean your flowers only need a certain amount of water each day.  Okay. And giving is always good. I, I always think it's good to give, but I think overgiving winds up draining and drowning you to the point where you have nothing left. All right. So there's something here, the negativity that you're carrying around, um, that you need to let go of is it, not even let go, but to accept that you gave your very best and there's nothing more that you can do. There's nothing more that you can do.  I did my very best. And I didn't get what I was hoping to get in return. It wasn't reciprocated and I can let that go. Okay. Knowing walk away with integrity, whatever your situation is, knowing that I put all my effort in. I mean, there's not anything more that I could have done. And you know what? It's okay. It's okay. Um, if somebody can't return that in, you know, because they want to, then you know, I still have more left to give and somebody else will accept and we'll receive that and also give in return. So this is, um, letting go of the negativity in the sense of like whatever you're still holding on to, if there's bitterness or if you feel jaded, let it go, accept, accept, accept. What else does this writer need to know here? Okay. Some of you need to, and, and so like even in a love relationship, the three of cups, you know, as I said, it always comes down to me, even though it's a card of support and a circle of support, friendship and celebrations. Um, this could have something to do with some friends, a friend situation or a dating. Somebody might have been dating and not giving commitment. Okay. Maybe dating others. Um, and that may have left a negative feeling it within you that somebody was continuing to date others while connecting with you. Um, that may have caused a feeling of not feeling good enough for somebody in that way. Okay. Forgive yourself or let go.  Okay. Um, you may have had some friends who were just treating you very casually. Okay. Um, and that might have left a stain on your heart as well. And if that's the case, friends, siblings, family members, people in your life, maybe not taking you seriously. Um, and that left a negative imprint on your heart. Um, it's time to release that negativity. Okay. Let me see what else you have here. Okay. All right. So the five of pentacles. Some of somebody here may have done a lot of excess spending and wound up breaking the bank. Okay. Um, it's going to be time for you to replenish that. So except this is all about accepting where you are at this time in your life. Okay. Also, as far as love goes abandonment, there could be a sense of feeling left out in the cold. Okay. Or feeling isolated or worried about something. Um, these things I feel like are still plaguing you in a lot of ways. And the message here, of course, this is a negative feeling. These are negative feelings. So this is a message here of releasing those things. It all comes down to letting go. Okay. So that this new blood moon cycle can come in. And now as I'm making this reading up until from this point until June 2nd, um, Mercury retrograde. So there are a lot of things that are just going to come up out of the waters and glare at you and demand to be acknowledged. Okay. So there may be some things during the Mercury retrograde that you're going to become aware of and they could be some negative things that you may not want to face or deal with. And I feel like when those things begin to rear their ugly head, it's a message to you to acknowledge those things and then put them to rest once and for all so you can have a new start in your life. Okay. What else do you, what else negativity does Virgo need to let go of here? Okay. Some of you did a lot of initiating in a relationship with someone and you weren't receiving anything in return. And you were the one who was constantly reaching out, constantly initiating, um, always trying to have a new start or, um, for seeking clarity from someone and I don't feel like you were getting it or I don't feel like you received that.  Some of you just said, okay, I just need to push harder or I need to instigate or I need to initiate more. Um, I feel like it's time Virgo here, starting with this blood moon to release, to just look at your people, places and things and just say have at it whatever you got to do, just go ahead and do. I am moving on and I feel like a lot of you or somebody here in particular needs to, um, get clear about that with themselves, get that clarity here. Okay. Um, but let's get into the more positive aspect of things. Let's take a look to see when this new romantic cycle approaches or this new beginning comes here in September, what new things, um, what fiery caught a climax, what you're going to be opening yourself up to in your life. You know, Aries energy is new beginnings. Always Aries energy is the cardinal energy. Um, it's exploration. It's, um, starting over it's inspiration, having new urges and that fiery fiery climax, things, um, blowing up and then having like this brand new, uh, it's like, um, I see like in the old cartoons, like a dynamite stick, you know, something good, something new, what's coming towards Virgo after this, um, time period, even though there's uncertainty. And like I said in the beginning, you may feel, you know, kind of like, oh, this is really hard. Letting go, you know, change, even change for the better can be difficult for some, you know, because even if it's changed for the better, it's as you're being asked to adapt to a whole new either lifestyle or a new regimen or something new. Okay. But the eclipse, when we embrace and we harness the energy of the eclipse, this harnessing of this energy can bring you closer to what was always meant for you. Okay. Rather than holding on to things that are not meant for you. So what is coming in here for Virgo that is meant for Virgo? What is this new fiery approach, a new romantic cycle? What is coming in for Virgo? And I feel like, um, this energy will be in September, the end of September is when I feel like it'll be coming in when, um, we have that new moon in Libra. So let's see what's coming in for Virgo. Okay. So a lot of you are going to have some beautiful ideas. Hmm. For some, it could be a new job. There would be good positive money news coming in for you. Some ideas, because I feel like you're, you're, you're clearing out the clutter during this time period. You're really going to make progress clearing out clutter in your mind, in your soul, in your heart, with this, this, uh, this eclipse that's happening and what will spur you for the next, what may June, July, August, September, the next four months. Okay. Um, so it's, once that clutter gets cleared, now you'll be more open-minded and new ideas will begin to flow. And this feels mostly like what you're going to do with your money or, um, receiving, uh, good positive money news. So on the money front, that looks really good for you. Let's see what else. Oh, look at this. Eight of cups. That's beautiful. So this is a journey of some sort. Okay. Um, I feel like September, um, you're actually going to be, and I'm hearing the word done with this cycle. I'm hearing retreating, fully being fully ready to retreat. Um, because the process of letting go is going to take time and making these changes is going to take time. September to me feels like you're going to be completely abandoning all of the past and really beginning this new journey here. Um, this journey of discovering your emotions, going after that ace of cups, which is, you know, new for some, a new relationship. Uh, there could be marriage or proposal for some of you, a new baby or anything that would have a key emotional development in your life. New blessings is what I feel. The new emotional, it's I'm hearing like, um, a washing, a cleanse, you know, a cleansed, you will be cleansed. It's amazing. It's amazing. Let's see what else. Oh wow. You've got the nine of pentacles. Wow. There's something coming up for you as well.  So fresh and so clean, looking, looking, feeling, uh, sparkly, crystal clean. Um, look, it's not, not this, it can be partially the aesthetic. So you might be working on your health, um, as far as like your physical health and September's, you're going to be like, bam, like, wow, reaching some goals. Okay. September is going to be like, bam. That's what I'm feeling. Look, uh, it just, and it feels very aesthetic because the pentacles do represent the physical. So there's something here in September where I mean status improvement in your status, um, financial status. It could be your physical status. It could even have something to do with your financial gains, uh, luxury, your solo pleasures.  And I know some of you have been doing the work. You've been working on things and, and trying to reach goals. Like you cross some type of a threshold in September. You buy it by the time September comes, if you, you're working through all this energy, you're not even going to be recognizable to people. Um, such an upgrade.   Okay. Look at you sitting here with this queen of Juan's energy, um, bold, charismatic, um, confident, feeling self-assured, charming as F courageous in ways you've never been before. You know, top of the line, top of the heat, male or female energy. It's like I'm saying whatever changes you're making in yourself, you're going to be noticed because queen of Juan's has that very popular energy. You're, you're, you'll definitely be getting noticed for the changes, not just on the external, but the, the internal. Um, some of you are, are working on your introversion and are going to become more extroverted, um, getting yourselves more out there. Right. There's definitely, I see some type of popularity or, uh, just, I just get a sense like when, when you see your people, whoever your people are, your soul tribe or people that maybe you, um, I feel like a lot of you are going down under and you're, you're, you're take, you're building in private.  And when you come back out, I feel like you're not telling anybody what you're doing. And I feel like people are just going to, it's going to look like a night and day transformation, you know, a major transformation. Let me see. What else is going on here? It's brand new beginning. Wow. You've got the ace of wands new inspiration. See, I just feel like you're cutting some dead weight in these next four months, cutting all that dead weight. You've got new projects. So it'll be coming to you, um, new creations. Um, you're, you will be very highly inspired and tremendously attractive. Your energy, um, not just the physical, but who you are, who you're becoming, the changes that you're, the things that you're starting to do today. Obviously it takes time, but it takes time before you get that whoosh. It takes time before, um, you know, for these changes to happen. But when they do, you may not even be noticing. Other people are going to be noticing. Okay.  You've got six of wands now, victory, success. Look at you.  A lot of you still have some dead weight hanging around. Um, I just, I keep feeling like, I believe I can fly. Who is that? Our Kelly. I know he's not the most popular guy in the world right now, but, um, that song, I feel like that's your theme song. I feel like you should go listen to that song, you know, that because it's your belief, like I can do this, I can do this, getting rid of this dead weight that you've been carrying around for so long, you know, and that's the, that's the negativity. That's the dead weight of, um, resentment or the dead weight of, um, bitterness or feeling jaded or feeling abandoned or things like that. This is like getting, coming back to self.  This is recognition. This is good news. This is success. This is what's coming to you. Okay. And look at this. You've got the ace of cups. So there's a, this is shiny clean getting that wash.  The ace of cups. This is, um, rejuvenation here. So Virgo, I mean harness the energy, harness the energy of this blood moon during this time. If you need to just disconnect from the world, um, and, and just, you know, if people are trying to, you know, really connect with you. I know some of you have already started this journey and the blood moon is, you know, blood is life energy. Okay. Some of the blood, your blood needs to be cleansed needs that, you know, you need new blood in your life here. Okay. Um, it's interesting. Now they're just giving me the word, uh, oh, what's it called? The clear, it starts with an S, the clear portion of blood.  It's called, I can't forget. I can't remember what it's called. I used to know it. I, I'm just having a mind block, but it starts with an S. It's, it's that, that cleansing, that clear fluid of the blood.  I don't know why they're giving that to me, but I feel like that, that's significant for some reason. Let me see if I can try to connect. Oh wait, is it not with an S? Is it plasma? Something here to do with plasma. They're telling me the clear part of the blood. I don't know why that's significant or what that even means, what plasma means.  Why the plasma is more significant than the red blood cells, I guess there's something here to do with a cleanse, a cleanse and a new, a brand new beginning happening in your life here with this ace of cups blessings.  You're going to have choices now. Um, you're in September, I feel like this is a balancing. You'll feel more balanced. Okay. Um, Virgo, I feel like you're going to be in a position where you may have felt like you weren't able to make decisions about things in your past. Um, other people may have dictated things to you or you're, you're going to have this thing like, wow, I'm in such a great position now that I can choose what I want. Okay. So you may not have felt like you could have made the choices that you wanted to make in the past because for whatever, various, various reasons that could have something to do with self-esteem or a connection that you were involved in or certain family members or friends or expectations or just your environment. I see you in September being able, you know, when, when people are, when people are not in a place of need, they're able to make wiser choices. They're able to make good choices. It's hard to make a good decision for self when you're in a position of need. I don't see you being in a position of need by the time September rolls around. I feel like you're going to be in a position of now it's just a matter of which one do I want? Not what do I need? Right? So you're, you'll already have that wealth, health, and abundance behind you. So you'll be able to choose. All right. So I feel this blood moon energy is very, very significant with this full moon eclipse and it's in Scorpio. So that means that whatever is dark, whatever is deep down in the recesses, you know, Scorpio is ruled by Mars, which is a planet of action, but it's also ruled by Pluto, which is things that are hidden in the, you know, this is Hades energy. The underground, the underneath this stuff, especially with the help of the Mercury retrograde will begin to come up and your light bulbs are going to be popping left and right in your head. Like, wow, I've been carrying around this thing and I don't need to carry this around. Like it's going to come up and it's just going to smack you in the face and, and really just be like, Hey, by the way, you got to let go of this here. Just accept it. This is how it is. It doesn't mean you have to agree. It doesn't mean you have to disagree. You're just looking at it. The same as you would just look at one of these stars and say, you know, I accept that this is a star and this is just what it is. It's just a star. Whether I agree with, it should have five points or six or four. It's irrelevant. I'm accepting that this is just a star. It is what it is. And then once you accept something, you can let it go. Okay. And then move on, clear out all that energy and then move on to a bigger and brighter future. Okay. Um, this is with the moon, full moon and Scorpio, it's transformative energy. It's powerful. It's penetrative and it's raw. Okay. Um, it's just, and I feel, I think that I saw that this lunar eclipse does form a conjunction with the South node. So this is a thing that will occur phenomenon where you will find yourself letting go of something that's holding you back from true success. And that's what this is. And for some of you, I know you can't even fathom what that true success is or what that looks like. Um, it's okay. Don't quit. Don't give up before the miracle happens because it's coming to you. And I just want to give you, um, specifically for you Virgos, um, the question you need to ask yourself during this time period, if this helps, where do you plan or where would you like to go next? Where do you see yourself and who or what are you bringing along for the ride? That's crucial because you know, if you want to go it alone, like a lone cowboy or cowgirl, that's up to you. But, um, you may be asking yourself, okay, who's coming with me on this journey? Who is in my soul tribe that, you know, I, I feel like entrust and has my back in a supportive of me. That's why you had that three of cups there. Okay. Some of those people, you're out. Others, I don't have any negativity with them. Okay. You remember you're the captain of this ship that carries your life's cargo. Okay. It's your job to be responsible for your plans, ideas and actions or in action that proceed them. If you're seeking in your life to move up in some way, you may need to seek an advisor with wisdom and knowledge that can help you move out of what feels like a stagnant period or was a stagnant period in your life. So an advisor, a spiritual advisor, counseling, group support, um, other like minded souls or people, people should come when people come into your life, they, they need to be coming in that are bringing benefit. Okay. To you. Right. It's not a narcissistic thing. It's just that Virgo, you, when you go into people's lives, you try to bring a benefit to them in some way. Correct.  And you don't want people to do that either. So you got to take a look at your soul travel and see who's bringing benefit to your life and who is not. And the people that are not, bye-bye. Okay. Um, listen to any wisdom that's being offered to you because this wisdom during this time period is going to make all the difference in your letting go and you're recreating, regenerating. Okay. This is like regeneration. This is, um, rejuvenation. This is a cleanse period. So take advantage of this time period because I feel like for you, um, it's just a question of what do you value and what do you want for yourself? And doing all that work, September, you're going to be pretty amazed with the results of whatever you're putting your effort and energy into. All right, Virgo. So I'm going to leave that there for you. I hope you enjoyed that. And I'll be back tomorrow. Go over to my community section because I posted my schedule of what my schedule is going to look like from May through September of 2022. So that you'll know, and I'm going to do my very best to stick with that schedule. It is summertime. So, you know, I am going to be hitting the pool and going on some adventures, but I will do my best to be here for you guys. All right. Um, and if you want to get personal reading this link in the description box below, definitely check that out. And I love you all. Congratulations. I will see you soon. Bye.


All to order. The September 12. Meeting of the popular planning commission. First, we have to approve the agenda. So when folks are ready, we'll take a motion for that. So moved. Motion to approve the agenda. Motion to approve from John in a second from Ariane. Those in favor of approving the agenda say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. And approved. And moving on to comments from the chair. I have a few. Quick things. Some of which we're going to get into a bit later. First thing I think is most important right now is we, we're going to have two open seats with Jeff leaving. So. We're going to try to recruit people that we want to work with. So we have some control. And as I think, as we know, like things go pretty smoothly for. If we have good chemistry. So, so try to recruit folks who are going to work with. And since there's two seats and we've had a trouble filling Stephanie seat. I think the recruitment could be really important. You know, we're, we're best finish up the city plan. And I think that's what we're going to be doing the next month or two. And then start transitioning over to the digital side of it. I do plan to draft that outreach related to the solar shading soon. It's been a few months, couple months since. The bridge published our last outreach thing. So, so I do anticipate working on that soon. And speaking of the bridge. I don't know if folks know this, but over the summer, they accidentally re ran a commentary from last spring. Which was. The member of the public who wrote a commentary kind of attacking what we were doing back then in our zoning suggestions. So, I don't, I mean, I don't know, it was kind of news. It was brought to my attention from, from people from the public. But so we got kind of bad press that was just an accident. Over the summer. So, so that's fun. But it wasn't accident. And I don't know if you know anything more about it, Mike, but I just thought I'd let everybody know that it happened. No such thing as bad press, right? Except for maybe some of it. Yeah, I don't know. We're notorious, I guess. So, and the ironic thing was when I reached out to the bridge, they, they had wanted me to include something in the commentary like praising the bridge on, on publishing like pro housing articles. But the only thing that I was aware of that they published is the commentary that bashes the planning commission's efforts to make pro housing. So I was like, I don't actually. I don't think I want to bring that up, but maybe, maybe that will change in the future bridge. Okay, that's, that's it from the comments. Does anybody have any news or announcements? Okay. We're going to move on then. And next is general business. I'm not seeing anyone from the public. So we'll cruise through that. And then Mike will give us the official reminder about appointments for, for some members.  Yeah, that's pretty much it. It's Kirby and Gabe are the two that are getting, well, there are four seats, but Marcella and Jeff were the other two that would be getting on the board. So we're going to move on. So we're going to have Marcella's obviously gone and Jeff has opted not to get reappointed. So we'll have at least those two vacant seats. So we'll try to go and see. I have one person who has contacted me who has planning experience. I think would be a good addition. Who has expressed some interest in being on the board. So I think that would be a good addition. Other than that, we'll still have an extra seat open. Yeah, great. Everybody reach out to. Folks in your circles. Next thing on the agenda. Is update on the city plan contract with SE group. Before Mike. All right. I mean, I could probably do a quick update for six and eight. Because they're both really about upcoming meetings. So I have met with SE group. We've got a contract written. We are, they've started work on, on pieces. So they're starting to put together the template. Basically what we had agreed on to start was to put together some. Template pages for the. Basically the arc hub. The way that is structured. It's going to, it comes out in pages. So they're going to start putting together some of those pages. Just as a template. So we can approve that go through. You know, I told them, we've typically kind of started with the historic resources, because it's a pretty straightforward one. They liked our chapters as we kind of put them together. You know, I know we kind of broke them into pieces and knew they were going to eventually kind of have to get mishmashed together, but they thought. When they reviewed what we have on the drive, they were pretty happy with what was there. There's going to be a lot of small pieces. So. I do have a, an intern again for this fall. So I'm hopeful that this is going to be another, another good experience where I can get somebody to kind of work on things, but we also may, depending on who has some time. If anyone has time and it's interested, they're going to probably looking for little things here and there, maybe pictures, maybe those types of things, somebody to review it. So we're also going to, at some point, create a, I guess I'll call it like kind of an accessibility review. So it'll be part of the beta testing of the site is, is, you know, it may be a member of the planning commission that may, if there's somebody who's got some time, but what we want to be able to do is to start to get people who, whether it's to test it for, for ADA accessibility, making sure we've got the fonts and the read abilities and the colors and all those pieces all kind of work. So they, they're talking about having a group that would kind of take a look at things and test things out, make sure everything works. It's not really a content reviewer as much as it is kind of a site tester to make sure things work. And so I'll be working with them to kind of set up a small accessibility review to make sure that, you know, fonts are big enough that things scroll and work correctly. So that'll be another piece.  I do know they would like at some point to meet with you, John, we'll have to try to see if, you know, if we could set up some time because they, they are mostly what they're working on is the chapter pieces that we kind of work on last. And then we had seen some things from John last year, two years ago now on how we could potentially put together our implementation strategies, you know, in the table formats. So they're kind of interested in seeing a little bit of the ideas that you had to see how they might be able to mesh into our overall website. So sounds good. Yep. So I think that's about it. Like I said, I think it's a really good group. The SE has put together. So they're actually all over the country. They're all working remotely. So they, they had a couple of folks who were in town. So I got to meet with them for the kickoff meeting. And we've had two other meetings now virtually, but they're ones in Maine ones in Colorado. So it's been pretty positive at this point. The number eight upcoming meeting with HPC. So the historic preservation commission had been working on. The design review guide. And they had, they had gotten a certified local government. Contract grant to put together. Everybody remembers we did new design review rules. And one of them was, you know, one of the little things in there was like, you know, we'll have a new guideline design review guide. And so they've been working for the past two years on putting that together. And it's kind of an, again, an online system. I think this one is in one of the Adobe illustrator or something like that. It's a, but it's a pretty nice, they did a really nice job putting it together to kind of go through and kind of one of those, we want to see this, not this, we want to see this, not this type discussions. You know, when we talk about fenestration, what is fenestration when we talk about, you know, it kind of goes through and explains all the pieces of what we're trying to do and why it's important. But their guidelines, but they still kind of need to be, they don't need to be adopted, but they do need to be approved. So they want to come and show you that design guide. And they're, they, they wanted to meet October 24th at our meeting on the 24th. So SE group will be coming on the 11th. So a month from today, a month from yesterday. And HPC will be meeting on the 24th. So it'll be about six weeks. So if anyone has any questions on either one of those, I can kind of go into the, get into those. Mike, can you just give me my memory? Where are we with the timeline with SE at this point? It is just getting kicked off. So they, we just signed the contract with them. They are trying to get done, you know, relatively quick. We've got, I think until October of next year to, to expend all the money that is in the grant. Their schedule is to try to be done getting through most of the heavy lifting by the end of the winter. So they want to be starting to, you know, we, we need to handle the public outreach, but obviously we can't really do the outreach without having the documents ready. So it's going to be kind of a little bit of, we're going to be working with them as they go through. They're going to put together some, some drafts. We're going to go out to the public revised those drafts, but they want to have most of their heavy lifting done before the end of the winter. So we'll say March, April. Understanding that we're of course going to be going through a lot of public input. And how long that takes always depends on the public. If we're pretty close on what we've been writing up. And I don't think we've written anything that's outrageously controversial.  I don't expect a lot of pushback on most of what's in there. But obviously once we've got the big picture done, then we can kind of just wait and get through the public process as we review things. And then obviously there's going to be some changes of policy here and there's some word changing here and there. But hopefully that's all wrapped up by, you know, the end of October next year. So, you know, if we're warning public hearings this time next year for adoption of the city plan, I'd be really happy. And that's their plan. That's our plan. And in the short term, what do we have left to give them in advance of their heavy lifting and what is our timeline for us that we need to be thinking about? Yeah, the end of the, so the, really, we want to be as quickly as possible getting through to the end of things. Depending on how much, I mean, we can do a really quick review of the utilities and facilities that's, that's basically, that's been done for, I just haven't had a chance to review it with the people in DPW other than that, that part's done. Arts, we still need the written chapter, Kirby. So we've gotten the implementation strategy done, but we'll need a written, the written chunks done on that one. And then we've got community services, which we've got a lot of drafts, a lot of it is drafted. But I don't have the written chapter, but the implementation strategy and public safety is the only one that really hasn't had a lot of work done and land use, but land use. I've actually been talking with SE group and they've got some really interesting ideas for how we can work on that. And they think some of the tools that our hub has in it can really help us help you and I work together to put together the land use plan because we really think that's, that's one that's really kind of where we pull everything together. And as we talk about, you know, these maintain evolved transform, we can really kind of get into each, you know, they're like, we could zoom into each neighborhood and kind of do a really quick thing of how each neighborhood is doing. And that would give us a good, both detailed, you know, whether you're zoomed in or zoomed out, you can kind of get a pretty good sense of where each neighborhood is doing with respect to certain things. And we would just have to go through and say, we can't review it for every goal, but we could pick, you know, six or seven key indicators that we want to look at for each neighborhood. You know, our is this neighborhood within a 10 minute walk of a park. Does this neighborhood have complete streets? Does this neighborhood have, you know, whatever the, you know, the feature is that we want to go and call out as the most important features and then do a quick assessment of each in a land use and that'll help us drive the implementation strategy of it, you know, what needs to be changed and what needs to be the same. So that was just an idea that they had that I had that we wanted to do. And that was really the two that need the most work that haven't really been started. Public safety, which actually technically isn't a required chapter. I still would like to do it. And land use. The trick with public safety has been. I can get plenty of time with the fire chief. But the police chief, they are so understaffed. Right now that the police chief is, is doing. It's a pretty, they're pretty tight. I think they're down. They've got supposed to have the 17 officers. I think they got 12. So I think they're really down, which is. Very difficult for me to then go and sit down like, hey, let's have a conversation about the master plan and policing. So we'll see if, if and how that's going to that, that chapter will play out. But the other ones I'm pretty confident on, I've got a lot of that together. And as we said, we've got nine of them already done, eight of them already done. It's just down to the last handful. I think that's helpful. So the worst case scenario with public safety, Mike, is that maybe we just don't have that chapter since it's not statutory requirement. Yeah, that would be the, that would be the worst cases that we go through and, and just explain to the city council that. You know, and we could always. You know, I mean, a lot of senses. You know, we can, we can also just kind of bang out a really general one to kind of fill this fill the spot. My hope is that I would like to do the master plan in a very similar manner to what we do the zoning regulations. I think I've mentioned this in the past that I don't want to be doing the master plan once every eight years. I really would like take a piece of it.  Next year we can go in and say, Hey, you know what? I think we should take more careful look at the, the public safety plan. And you know, that, that's a hot topic right now. Let's take a deeper dive into that, revise that plan and go through and do a city plan amendment to kind of update it. So that way, rather than trying to do 12 chapters all at once, which is a huge undertaking. I think that we would be able to just kind of start doing it systematically in the same way that we do a zoning update. Once or twice a year we'll do a city plan update. Well, it wouldn't be once or twice a year, but you know, maybe once a year we would have a chapter to that we would be able to update. So I think some of these ones that aren't fully developed. Could be some of the ones that we then pick up and say, all right, now that we've got this adopted, let's go back and take a more careful look at public safety. Okay. Thank you. That sounds good. Sounds good. Anybody have any more questions for Mike about the. City plan. In your future. Or the anything to do with the housing preservation. Committees design guide. All right. Well, we can move on to. The next discussion of the arts and culture strategies. Maybe. Could pull that up and as far as the chapter goes, Mike. I'm open to suggestions. If you. Have an idea of what. Process you want to take for that. I mean, I think the framework, you can see the framework and all the others, they all have the same headings.  How I usually go about. My approach. But usually the first one, the introduction is just about, you know, what is it and why it's important. It's really what I'm trying to get out of the introduction. I think we can, we can heavily plagiarize the arts and culture. So, you know, I think it might be a really good idea to have a master plan. And. It might go. Pretty easily. Yeah. But don't be shy about that. I would take from, I always take from other city plans. If they have good stuff. I think their chunks of the historic resources that I grabbed from the existing plan. So. If it, if you find something and it sounds good and it sounds like that's what we're. That's the expression that we want then. So I think it's really important to have a knowledge and background information in that plan. That's just, yeah. Yeah. It's how it relates. I think the next chapter is how it relates to other chapters. I think a lot of that is just taking an intuitive look of. You know, how does arts relate to economic development? Well, there think there's quite a bit of overlap that we could. You know, discuss for that. In transportation. You know, I think there's a little bit less, but at the same time. know, a lot of those ideas that they were talking about for and capital projects, integrating art into our capital projects, most capital projects that we have in the city are transportation related. So, you know, Barry cities, gargoyles for bike racks. If you've ever seen those or, you know, there's a different, you know, different things that you can do and build into your, your transportation thing. So I think there's a little bit less, but there are opportunities there, I think, to kind of discuss those where arts, you know, where does arts and housing, probably not much, you know, but there's they're going to be it's going to be easier and harder on depending on the chapter, you know, art and solar panels for energy, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, there's, I mean, yeah, we're about to jump into it, but some of these strategies do relate to putting art on the backs of pretty much every building. So that way, it's going on to housing in some places. Okay, I can share. Okay. If I recall, we voted this, we vote on this, right? So we did what and if you were to, if anyone looks back into the Google Drive itself, what you're going to see is the, the written part, you know, the written part that Kirby put together, and then I did a revised version of that all in all written up because we had made determinations, hey, let's go from three aspirations to two, let's combine these, let's change this, the wording of this one.  But then when I did the strategies in here, I did that's where I started to combine strategies that were in mine. So I already took Kirby's, which I converted to our format. And then I converted our format into the online piece, which required kind of combining strategies into pieces. So we ended up with five, three and three goals for the first strategy, two goals for the second. And I don't know if you guys want to go through and review them, see how close that is to what you guys were thinking. So the first one, yeah, go back in a sec, like it was just, um, yeah, walk us through it. Just, I mean, we've already voted this out. So and I'm not seeing any reason to scrutinize it.  Yeah, you had so you had three aspirations, which were discussed and getting them down to two. The first one's really talking about having public art integrated into our urban landscape. So that is really trying to target public art, that art that is going to appear, you know, in public spaces, publicly owned, as opposed to B, which is kind of looking at art that's going to appear in studios, galleries, theaters, other venues, and mostly break them into two because ultimately, the goals and policies to get public art, which is publicly owned is going to be have different strategies ultimately than the ways of helping to encourage and support studios, galleries and private art. It's private art that may end up public, but you know, that's that's the distinction I had with those we so originally had three went down to two. So the public art increased the amount of lasting public art in public spaces increased the number of temporary public art installations, festivals and dynamic performances and increased amount of public art and cultural, increased amount of public art and cultural destinations that are created by celebration, or by or celebrate persons of diverse backgrounds. And then the two goals for the venues was kind of maintaining improved the many independent studios, galleries, theaters and other venues currently in Montpelier and increase the opportunities for affordable art courses for residents through programs provided by the Community Service Center and other departments. So I pulled all these out based on what was, you know, what I felt was here and looking at the strategies looking at, you know, looking above and below, that's kind of, you know, if you've got strategies, then I figure we have to have a goal to support that. So, so I think that one used to have increased opportunities for art classes. So I just tied it to departments. Yeah, just right now I pulled up the the original ones. Looks like some stuff was consolidated, but looks good to me. Does anybody have any questions for Mike about the aspirations and goals? Mike, you had flagged potential ways to measure. That was just left over from a different from the template. Okay. So this is all done, but it's I haven't filled out priorities and costs and goals and everything yet. But this gets again to whether something's going to be new, whether it's continued and expanded. And again, these are not necessarily ones. I have 100% supported or encouraged, but these are ones that that you guys had. So, you know, I'll put in there if there are things that we think should change. That's that's fine too. Where there was is there anything with this chapter that you don't feel like you can support? There are a couple of ones I think that we just have to have more discussion on some of these ones like we had a lot of discussion prior about requiring a percentage of CIP to go towards public art. A number of these just, you know, I think there's some, you know, that's one of the policies, the public arts CIP policy. And that had been discussed before. And it can be, it can be tricky and challenging and it adds costs. So we already have, you know, sitting in the CIP budget meetings and sitting in the budget development meetings, when we're talking about going through and saying, all right, we have a, you know, a $600 or $700 or $800,000 budget for capital. And if we start, as we start peeling money away from that, we start losing projects. And again, it's a value statement. And I know public works already feel stretched, they already feel very thin, a lot of their stuff is, you know, paving and sewer lines and water lines and these types of things. And to start siphoning off 1% or 2% of that to go to the arts is basically decreasing one to 2% of their ability to do capital projects that really need to get done. And that was their, their pushback before when, when this, when the arts commission developed that plan that you reviewed, and those recommend, recommendations were in there, that was a big pushback that DPW said was just that's, that's really not viable. You know, we're not in a position where we can afford to be siphoning off even 20, 30, $40,000 off of our projects, to add an art component in as much as it may have a positive benefit. When you're this far behind, it was very difficult. And I think there are a couple other ones that I think, you know, overall from a priority standpoint, certainly, if you want to implement this, it's going to be important to do some of these things. But as I look across the plan, you know, to take money away from some of these other ones to fund, you know, we can put some money and we do put some money into public art. But to start to have public art programs or other things where we're trying to take staff time to, to do more art, I think it's going to be difficult to pursue. But again, these are priorities that are up to kind of city council in the public. And I'm pretty sure as this moves its way through, there'll probably be some pushback that I would expect from certain folks on the from the money side of things. We're willing to support arts and culture. But you know, and maybe, as I said, unfortunately, that makes me maybe the same reason why we don't have a lot of public art in Montpelier. And, you know, we have if we want to increase it, then we have to make it a priority. And we have a lot of priorities. So but a lot of this, as I said, from my standpoint is, if people want to have goals, then my, my approach to this plan has been then we have to have strategies that will accomplish those goals. If we're just going to have goals for the sake of having goals and not really try to accomplish them, then we're just wasting time. So we'll put the strategies in there. And if people go through and say, Well, I'm just not willing to pay or support that, then we can start, you know, as we go through the public process, start to back those out. But, you know, I'm not willing to go to the mat for some of these to try to keep them in. It's the public decides they're not priorities. There's some other places where I think it's very important that we prioritize like housing and energy and complete streets and things that I've heard year after year that are your issues that we need to address. Yeah, so to to remind everyone this this 1% CIP idea came from the it came from the Arts and Culture Master Plan. And that was an approved plan. So that is, you know, a document on the books and city. And we were just kind of piggybacking. I'm not particularly attached to it. But I also feel like when it comes to public works and whether they can afford, you know, something out of their budget for art, like, I feel like there's hardly any of us that have the right amount of depth to be able to like make those kind of calls. Like, for instance, I have no idea how they make decisions about when to improve sidewalks. And whether, you know, money spent on that should be a priority over more public art, you know, and prominent places. I just I don't know. We could I mean, it would just take speculation for us to even talk about that. Yeah, so a couple of them, he liked the artist in residence program. I don't know if that's an item. But like I said, that was that was in there. So we've continued some of those from from that standpoint. But I did so I did go through by combining them, you know, obviously, if you go back to the original one, it was a long list, but took similar items grouped them together to kind of make and some of these, like we said, a public art program, we're already doing that right now. The CIP policy would be new. There's been a lot public art program has been doing an awful lot painting the site of Shaw's. So there's a lot of programs that are going on right now. And that was number two, public art fund exists. They want to explore new strategies to increase the amount of funding to it. They want to do a public art inventory that would be new. I think that makes sense. Maintenance policy makes sense. I didn't know what the public art donation policy was. I didn't open up the document to see what it was. But that was a separately identified policy. The public art master plan, they want to re-adopt. I think we had talked a little bit about that. I can I can tell you, based on my recollection when reading the plan for number six, the collection management policy was I think they're just trying to adopt this. They plan to adopt a number of policies that that allows that commission to do its job. I think I think that that's their plan. Because they're still getting off the ground. So they want to adopt policies like this collection management policy. So they have something to follow when they go to do these things. It's my understanding. Okay, so yeah, we can we can clarify what those are. And clean this up a little bit. But that's where those two were from. The thematic art program. That was to facilitate temporary art. So that goes to the second part of that second thing, those temporary art pop up performances. So we've I think Montpellier Live has been doing a little bit of that. But I think they're trying to more formalize that and have that done a little bit more often. The public art display policy. I don't think that's a difficult, heavy lift. That's just trying to get a policy to help get stuff set aside so we can easily be able to roll out art on public property. There's the artist in residence program, those mentioning the tourism and marketing. So work with various stakeholders. See, that would be new. I think that that's one we could probably flesh out and it would be probably integrated with some of the work of Montpellier Live and Community Arts Service Program. I do know that the Community Services Department does do a lot of art programs. So the Senior Center and a couple of this. So that's that's really that's what to continue. I know they already do those things. And then there's the volunteer for art program. So we kind of crushed crunched it down to about 18 different strategies in there. They aren't prioritized. We haven't really gone through to see if any of them should be shuffled out to reserve. I mean, we did that in some other chapters to go through and say, Hey, there are too many strategies here to accomplish in eight years. Let's, if we want to be strategic, let's let's narrow this down to the most important things. But they're all there in some form and we can prioritize them and then decide costs. And unfortunately, most of the work is being done by committee. So it's a very active committee. And I think as long as it remains an active committee that doesn't require staff time, it's not not really taking a lot of staff effort right now to to implement most of these most of these are kind of coming through the efforts of the volunteers on that commission. It's good to me. I mean, as far as priority gets go, if you need to help with a couple options, we could talk right now with planning commission to think of what, you know, policy policy, like our opinion on the on the policy priorities, we could also try to look at the public art master plan to get ideas of, you know, make the high priority stuff to stuff that they said they want to get done in the next two, three years. What are people thoughts about about that? So do they have that in the master plan that or the whatever it's called, maybe, oh yeah, it is called the master plan, like prioritizing what they want to do in the next couple of years? Yeah, they have a timeline near the back of it, where that yeah, where they do lay out what they want to get done in the short term, mid term, long term. And so we can base our priorities off of that. That makes sense to me. Yeah, that makes sense. Looks for me. I can stop sharing and try to pull it up and we don't need to do this now, but but yeah, just so you know, Mike, just leave it to you to fill that in. Okay, so pages starting at page 49, priority action plan, short term goals to adopt the master plan with committed funding from the city to begin early and implementable projects and programming. So so the stuff's related to initial funding and they've already done a lot of it, like as in creating the commission. But some of these maintenance plans, the art maintenance policy that we mentioned a minute ago is one of their short term plans, the collection management policy, the public art donation policy, that's all their short term stuff, what they're considering high priority, they did consider the 1% for public art idea to be a high priority. Since it seems like our attitude is going to be like that's that's for others to debate, perhaps we can make it more of a, we don't have to set those high priority if you don't want to.  But like matching grants, I don't even know if we put that in there. Collaboration, the collaboration of stakeholders idea, it's just something that we have be like a medium term thing, so a medium priority. The Montpelier cultural plan stuff is more of a medium priority for them. I'm not sure the collaborating with local schools and those ideas ended up making it in, but that was going to be a medium priority for them. The volunteer program is a medium priority. And then longer term is to, they once again have the 1% for public arts idea in there and artist engagement and support. So in a nutshell, that's briefly me summarizing through the priorities that they set. So I think we've got stuff in there and we can kind of see how the debate goes, you know, they can always go through and recommend like we've kind of taken out some of the individual, you know, the, we've kind of have public art and then we've got the art institutions that we're helping, but not really getting to the level of individually helping artists. And I think that will be, you know, something they may want.  Where do we end? You know, collaborating with the school to make sure the school has good art programs? Is that the job of City Hall? I don't know. I'd be more likely to say that's probably not. I mean, it's important and it's good, but you know, if the committee wants to take it upon themselves to try to work with the schools, that's, that's, I guess that's good. But I think it gets more problematic when you're trying to support individual artists. That's going to be a little bit trickier. But I think every place can figure it out. We've, we've targeted in this plan, public art, you know, how we manage, how we get more, how we maintain, how we take care of public art. A second tier is how do we help those groups and institutions? You know, we've got the arts on Berry Street. We've got, we've, we also have a bunch of studios, theaters, we've got a lot of those. How can we support those? And we've kind of left the artists themselves off of our plan. But I think the, the arts commission can certainly come in and argue, nope, we need a third aspiration and an aspiration to support artists themselves. And great, if that's where the city council and community wants to go, this is their plan, not necessarily my plan or our plan. We're drafting it, obviously, but there, they will ultimately make the decision on it. So I think that's fair. And, and, you know, there's other chapters to where we have to make that call, you know, when you were talking about public safety, for instance, it's like not everything public safety related is going to be planning related. So, you know, I imagine we'd have to make a call there too about about what's appropriate for the urban planning aspect of that. So I think that's fair. And yeah, I'm fine with we like, like the way that the current state of it might just, just to clarify is that we're leaving, you know, strategies out that would, that would be specific to individuals, right? Yeah, for the most part, we did. I did end up leaving in the strategy about the artist in residence, but a number or not a number. There were a few others that there was an aspiration about supporting artists and that didn't have a lot of strategies to go with it. So that was one of the reasons why it kind of dropped. You know, I don't exactly know if there was a, you know, a private artist living in town, what we as government can do to support individual artists in their, you know, in their work other than trying to make venues and places available for them to display and show their art, whether it's, you know, whether it's dance, whether it's paint, whether it's sculpture, whatever that art is, we provide opportunities for people to show that art. But I really didn't get into how to support the artists themselves. I mean, one area where I think it is appropriate to have in the plan is when we talk about the art classes, which I noticed that's still in there. I think that that's analogous to setting aside land for outdoor recreation, which we have in the plan, and then setting aside space for courses and, you know, art development, you know, I feel like those are like those are similar things. So that's that's the only area where I have a kind of opinion on that. And I figured I was going to leave that in because it's something we do already. If it was going to be an ask to add something to the community services department, I probably would have pushed back a little bit more. But the fact that we already do it kind of makes me go through and say, well, let's pat ourselves on the back for doing it. Let's put it in there about all the things that we do because we do a lot for art. City Hall, you know, the main gallery in City Hall behind me is an artist gallery. We sponsor for free Lost Nation Theatre. They don't pay any rent to to to have Lost Nation Theatre upstairs. And I, you know, as a city, we do a lot to support artists and we should pat ourselves on the back for the things that we do well. And obviously, there are things that we haven't done well. And those are the things we're trying to address through this new plan. Anybody have any follow up or are we happy for Mike to finish stuff and yeah, Mike and I'll communicate later about just putting a chapter together. But it sounds like we have a pretty good idea of how we're going to do that, too, just using the existing language. OK, anybody have anything else about this before we go on? Thanks a lot, Mike. We already talked about the upcoming meeting number eight, the upcoming meeting with the Start Preservation Committee. So that's going to be October 24th. And all we have left to do is to consider the minutes. So folks could take a look at the July, I think it's July 25th minutes. Yeah. Yeah, I looked at them before I move approval of the minutes. Yeah, pretty sure. It's a pretty short meeting. Summer's been summer's been pretty light. We have a we have a motion from our on to prove the minutes to have a second. I don't have a second from Aaron. OK, let me know if anyone needs more time. OK. Those they were approving the July 25th minutes. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. None opposed. Minutes approved. And all we have left to do is to adjourn at our next meeting, Mike, though, just so folks have an idea. So would it be possible to have us review and vote or or just review? Maybe we're not the point to vote on any of those. Chapters that you mentioned that are are done, but we haven't moved on. That'd be possible for the next meeting. Yep, I'll try to get at least one on so we can get that one through. OK, great. Looks like we're in the homestretch in the city plan, which is kind of wild. Yeah, I think it'll be a little bit more interesting once we're sitting here with, you know, up on our screens with the actual chapters in. You know, in the online format and we can kind of go through and kind of make final approvals of what we think we want the plan to finally look like. So that'll be good. Yeah, yeah, that's going to be a while. All right. Well, do we have a motion to adjourn? Move to adjourn. Second. Motion from Ariane and second from Erin. She was split second ahead. Those in favor of adjournment say aye. All right, see you guys two weeks. Thanks. Good night. Thanks. Have a great night.


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فنفوزا عظيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيمة ونجعلهم ينانمس لي اكسبت بي all Muslims إزداء رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله تهز the Muslims من ما تولم يعرف إمام زمانه ما تميتة جاهلية يهو دايز without knowing the Imam the leader of his time دايز the death of the جاهلية meaning dies the death of the pagans before the religion of Islam and from this hadith there are many concepts that are derived many ideas that are understood first is the role and the importance of the Imam and the leadership because every time it has an Imam and رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله relates the Imam if someone does not know their Imam then this person is as if they are a pagan it's as if they have not accepted all of the religion and this is not a strange idea because the religion and the faith was complete on the day of Ghadir after رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله appointed Amir al-Mu'mineen the verse came down اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم so the faith is complete through Imam and this hadith also proves a very important point very important principles and the religion of Islam and that is the justice of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله the justice of Allah dictates that there has to be an Imam during every time if I believe that Allah صلى الله عليه وآله is Adil if I believe that Allah is just I have to believe that there is a leader for every single time because it goes against the justice of Allah this is a logical proof for the Imam it goes against the justice of Allah for Allah to leave the people without a leader without a representative without a guide at one point of the time and this is why we see that Allah سبحانه و تعالى at all times ever since the creation of the human being Allah says إني جاع لن في الأرض خليفة I have placed a vice gerent I have placed a Khalifa on earth someone that could represent Allah سبحانه و تعالى and Allah has appointed imams and leaders at all times there is no time that there was no leader and there was no Imam and these are imams that call people towards Allah سبحانه و تعالى that invite people towards worshipping Allah and believing in Allah و جعلناهم أئمة يهدون بأمرنا وأوحينا إليهم فعل الخيرات و إيقام الصلاة و إيتاء الزكات و كانوا لنا عبدين these are the imams that Allah سبحانه و تعالى sent to mankind so that they guide by the order of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and they bring people back to Allah سبحانه و تعالى this is from the justice of Allah سبحانه و تعالى because it does not make sense for Allah سبحانه و تعالى to leave people without a leader on the day of judgment we can tell Allah You sent us we were here but there was no one to show us the way and that will be a حجة so Allah سبحانه و تعالى in order for the حجة to be complete He sent proofs He sent the prophets and he sent the imams and the awliyaz and the حجة is at many levels at an internal level every single one of us we have a نفس الأمار every single one of us we have a part of our soul that is telling us to disobey Allah سبحانه و تعالى so Allah at the internal level He has also placed the fitrah He has also placed that consciousness that premortal consciousness that tells us to worship Allah سبحانه و تعالى so that there is a balance at the internal level at the internal level we have a نفس الأمار but Allah has placed the fitrah and at the external level there are the desires and there is Sheban that is bringing people away from Allah سبحانه و تعالى so in order for there to be a balance Allah سبحانه و تعالى sends imams and guides and messengers to counter the Sheban and to counter the influence of the external influences that bring us away from Allah سبحانه و تعالى and those are the imams that Allah سبحانه و تعالى sent and we are living in a time where we also do have an imam and that imam is the promise of Allah سبحانه و تعالى upon all of humanity و نريد أن نمن على الذين استقعفوا في الأرض و نجعلهم أئمة و نجعلهم الوارفين الله سبحانه و تعالى says we want to bless and we want to bestow upon the ones who have been oppressed the ones who are the believers the مؤمنين eventually we will make them the أئمة the imams and they will be the وارفين they will be the inheritors on earth Imam S.A.T. says نحن المستضعفون we are the ones who our rights was taken from us and this concept this ideology of believing in an imam at all times and believing in an imam that will save humanity at the end of times this is not something that only we the Muslims believe in this is the promise of Allah سبحانه و تعالى for all humanity and we see that the Jews they talk about this concept the savior the Christians they talk about this I've even read in other scriptures the buddhist and hindu books they also talk about a savior at the end of times so you see that all are united and Allah says و لقد كتبنا في الزبور من بعد ذكر أن الأرض يارثوها عبادية صالحون this promise of a savior at the end of time this is not something that only we the shias believe in not something that only the Muslims believe in this is something that Allah has promised in the زبور in the Psalms of David in the Bible in the تورات the promise of a savior at the end of time is a promise of Allah سبحانه و تعالى that all religions all monotheistic religions believe in و نريد أن من نعنى الذين استضعفوا في البلد الله سبحانه و تعالى has promised all of the religions that at the end of time there will be a savior and we see that that savior is المهدي المنتظر الموعود the one the promised savior from Al-Muhammad who will bring peace and justice to earth after it has been filled with oppression and tyranny and this is the promise of رسول الله سبحانه و تعالى and the promise in the Quran and we believe that Imam Al-Hujjah will rise with نبي الله إسا with Prophet Isa عليه السلام and رسول الله tells the Muslims كيف أنتم إذ نزلج المريم و فيك منكم كيف أنتم when the son of Mary comes down and your Imam the Imam that will lead the prayer the one that even Isa will pray behind will be from you the Muslims and that is Imam Al-Hujjah and we believe that the time that the Imam reappears that will be a time where all of the religions will be united because the Christians they believe in Jesus and they will see Jesus is with Imam Al-Mahdi and the Jews they are waiting for the Messiah to come even though he did come Isa is the Messiah however they are waiting for the Messiah to come once they see Jesus they will see that he is the Messiah and he will also be with Imam Al-Mahdi and the believers of the Muslims they see that all of the believers of the Tauheed the believers of the Abrahamic religions they will all be united under the banner of the grandson of Ibrahim Imam Al-Mahdi now this belief system that we have regarding Imam Al-Hujjah there are many that have come and brought some questions and they have some criticism regarding the belief that we have in Imam Al-Hujjah one of the main criticisms that today you hear and unfortunately you hear it from people who are Muslims they've read the Quran they have heard the Hadith of Rasulullah they know they're not far from the truth but yet you see that they are the first to criticize this idea and that is the غيبة the occultation of Imam Al-Hujjah some people they say it's difficult to comprehend how can someone be in a state of occultation for over a thousand years and today is Imam Al-Hujjah and in occultation how can we benefit from the Imam when he is in an occultation and these are questions there's nothing wrong with asking questions however when we ask questions we have to open our hearts and open our minds and we have to always go back to the Quran Rasulullah says انا بست عليكم الأمور كقطع الليل المظلم فعليكم بالغرآن فانه شافع المشفاع او you people if you see that matters are so dark in front of you you cannot tell the truth resort to the Quran go back to the Quran you will find the solution within the Quran you will find the answer taking the تفسير of the Quran from the rightful sources yesterday we spoke about taking the literal meaning of the Quran and how it could mislead people taking the تفسير of the Quran from the right sources from the Ahl al-Bait and from Rasulullah صلى الله عليه و آله now we go back to the Quran we see that the occultation it's not a strange theory it's nothing new it's not something new that is happening within the Muslims and on earth with the messengers that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has sent you look in the Quran you see Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned a story of أصحاب الكاف the people of the cave how many years were they asleep for over 300 years they were asleep غayba means hidden from the eyes they were in an occultation from the people but by the permission of Allah they were alive and they came back and they were alive after that long sleep this is one Allah سبحانه وتعالى speaks about Prophet Musa how many times did Prophet Musa disappear from his people he was hidden from his people now we know he was alive but the people during his time the first time where he escaped from Egypt and he went to Medaen he was gone for over 10 years people thought he was dead people did not believe in him they thought he was gone that's it even though he was a promised savior for that time Allah سبحانه وتعالى has promised that that time there will be a prophet that will save إسرائيل from فرعون موسى in another time he also disappeared one time he goes to the Miqat they tell they tell him he told his people were going to go for 30 days to the Miqat so that we speak to Allah سبحانه وتعالى 30 days passed and Musa did not come back many people did not believe in him because he took 10 days longer it became 40 days many people they stopped believing in Musa they said he's a liar Musa is not truthful after all the miracles that they saw after all of the proofs that they saw how he saved them how he brought the proof for them and many of the miracles many people turned against him now we can comprehend because many people they stopped believing in Musa and he had left Haroon he left his brother Haroon with Bani إسرائيل they started worshipping the calf and they turned against Musa and they turned against Tauheed now we can comprehend the Hadith وَالْرَسُولَ اللَّهُ وَالَهِ وَالَهِ تَوْزَ عَلِي بْنَارِ بِطَالِبْ أنت مني بمنزلة حارون من Musa إلا أنه لا نبي من بعدي you to me are like Haroon was to Musa except you are not a prophet you see how Haroon was betrayed you see how Haroon was neglected the same way إبنة إبطالب was neglected and the Quran also gives us a clear example if I'm a Muslim I have to believe in the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى today are Muslims in disagreement with where Asa is isn't Asa in occultation right now isn't Asa Jesus in a state of Ghayba right now Jesus is not dead Jesus is still alive Allah raised him but he is not dead and he is in a state of occultation so how can I understand and comprehend and believe that Asa is in occultation and I refuse to believe that Imam al-Mahdi is in occultation if I believe in Asa why do I not believe in Imam al-Hujja why is that difficult to comprehend if I say how could someone live for such a long time Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives us proof in the Quran of Nuh Allah says Nuh lived amongst his people for 950 years so if someone could not live that long Allah سبحانه وتعالى can extend the person's life where they could live for a longer life and when we look at the Quran we see that the issue of Imam al-Mahdi is very much related with the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you look at the birth of Imam al-Hujja you see that his birth was a hidden birth suddenly overnight his mother realized not just his mother she realized that she was pregnant now you go and you look at the Quran you see that the same thing happened with the mother of Musa the same thing happened her birth was a hidden birth for Aum there were prophecies that told him that there was going to be a person that will be born from Bani Israel that will be the reason for his demise so he began to kill all of the children of Bani Israel any woman who was pregnant he would abort her child and he would kill the child within her stomach but Prophet Musa عليه السلام Allah سبحانه وتعالى chose to protect him and he even went in the house of Pharaoh and he was protected in the home of isn't this a miracle now if I believe that the birth of Musa was a hidden birth and they protected birth Allah سبحانه وتعالى protected him until he grew older why is it difficult for me to believe that the grandson of Rasulallah is also the same who is the savior of humanity who is promised in all of the books so we see that Imam al-Hujja is very much related with all of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you look at Noah his long life you look at Musa his birth you look at Isa his occultation and you look at Rasulullah عليه واله Imam al-Hujja he has the mercy and the Rahma from Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم now someone might ask how can I go into occultation the answer is that Allah سبحانه وتعالى wanted to protect the life of the Imam so that the message can be protected just like Allah سبحانه وتعالى chose to protect the life of Imam زين العابدين on a day where all of Bani Hashem all of the men were killed it was a miracle that one man who was the son of Imam who was the son of Imam al-Hussein they killed even the 6 month old child but they do not touch Imam زين العابدين isn't this a miracle from Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah سبحانه وتعالى in order to carry on the message he protects the life of Imam الحجة because at that time because of the numerous a hadith numerous narrations from Rasulullah where he says that there will be a Mehdi there will be a Maud he is the 12th he is from the sons of Fatima these are nothing we have many narrations that speak about this so you look at the Khalifa at that time they had their eyes and they had spies in the house of Imam الحسن العسكري and they brought Imam Al-Hadi all the way from Medina to Samarra so that they could monitor the house of the imams so that there will be a child who will be born and he will be the savior of mankind they had eyes and they had spies in the houses of the imams Imam Al-Hadi he was brought all the way from Medina to Samarra so that the Khalifa at that time could watch the imam the day the Imam Al-Hadi passes away they had spies in the house the day Imam الحسن العسكري passed away the house was filled with spies they were monitoring that house of the imam so that they could see where is that مهدي المقود they knew that it's going to be the 12th one and of course another another relationship with Bani Israel and another relationship with you come and you look at how many disciples did he have he had 12 disciples you look at Musa how many tribes were there how many sons did yaqub have 12 sons رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم he also says there are 12 imams after me you see that there is a correlation and a relationship because the message ultimately is one and it all calls for توحيد and it all calls for الله سبحانه وتعالى so الله سبحانه وتعالى place the imam in an occultation to protect the life of the imam and of course there's a master plan many times we say why doesn't something happen the time that we want الله سبحانه وتعالى he has a master plan I'm only living in this life a very short period but there's a greater plan and that is the plan of الله سبحانه وتعالى we have to submit to that plan Prophet Musa عليه السلام he was lost in the desert with his people for 40 years he was lost they were traveling they were just traveling they would not find a place Prophet Musa he does a dua he asks Allah save us Allah replied to him immediately your dua has been accepted but when was the dua accepted 40 years later الله سبحانه وتعالى he has his own way because Allah knows what's best for us Allah knows when is the right time and he will send the imam at the right time and at the right moment so we should not lose faith and Allah سبحانه وتعالى now someone comes and asks how can I benefit from the imam if the imam is hidden if the imam is not around how do I benefit from him and this is a very important question many people they ask this question we see that according to the Quran and according to the ahadith the narrations of رسول الله and the Ahadith Bait that we benefit from the imam in many ways some are direct and some are indirect one of the most direct ways that we are benefiting from the imam is a hadith that says لساخة الأرض بأهلها if it's not for the حجة what's the purpose of life الله سبحانه وتعالى it does not make sense it goes back to the first point that we were speaking about it goes against the justice of Allah these people without sending a teacher for them so what's the purpose of life if there's no teacher this is why the hadith says لولا الحجة لساخة الأرض بأهلها if there's no proof of Allah on earth then who's going to guide these people so there's no point of life carrying on so the imam he is the reason for our existence لولا الحجة لساخة الأرض بأهلها and he is the حجة of Allah on earth he is the proof of Allah on earth because he is بقية الله one day came to Imam al-Sadiq عليه السلام and he tells him how should I say سلام to Imam al-Hujjah because Imam al-Sadiq and Rasool Allah and Amir al-Mu'mineen all of the imams they used to speak about Imam al-Hujjah and they used to tell the people that many people will lose their way and they will be lost they will be led astray just like sheep without a shepherd so one of the companions of Imam al-Sadiq he tells the imam when the imam appears how should I say سلام to him should I tell him السلام عليك يا أمير المؤمنين should I say peace be upon you when Imam al-Sadiq عليه السلام he says no that is the title for Ali ibn Abi Talib he is the only أمير المؤمنين but if you say سلام to him you say السلام عليك يا بقية الله في أرضه peace be upon you or remaining proof about Allah because Allah says بقية الله خير لكم إن كنتم مؤمنين so we send our salams to the imam because he is the proof of Allah and because he is the proof of Allah life carries on in one حديث in one letter the imam used to write letters during the smaller occultation during the غيب الصغراء he writes a letter to his people to his followers they tell him how do we benefit from you benefit from me just like you benefit from the sun on a cloudy day we need the sun to survive we need the sun for life to carry on but when it's cloudy just because I do not see it it does not mean that I do not benefit from the sun do I need to see the leader in order to benefit from the leader no there are many ways that we can benefit from the leader from our imam some are direct and some are indirect ways according to the traditions the imam he carries out some tasks he carries out tasks and he performs دعاء for the followers for the مؤمنين if it's not for the دعاء of the imam where would we be today it's the دعاء of the imam who is praying for us the imam according to one person in the Quran he is a witness he sees us Allah says in the Quran وقل عمله فسيار الله عملكم ورسوله والمؤمنون because Allah will see your actions رسول الله sees your actions don't say رسول الله is dead and he does not see my actions the Quran says والمؤمنون here the imams they say that المؤمنون here it refers to the imam the مؤمنون refers to the imam of the time and they would come and they would ask Imam al-Sadaq for a proof of an imam how do you prove the imamah Imam al-Sadaq عليه السلام he would tell his companions احتجوا عليهم if you want to argue the imam احتجوا عليهم بليلة القدر تضم about night doesn't Allah say that the angels come down on night who did the angels come down upon during the time of رسول الله they used to come down upon رسول الله who did they come down upon after رسول الله do they come down upon anyone who is appointed by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that is the حجة of Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله صلي على so night it is a proof for the imam the angels they come down upon the imam night and he sees our actions فسير الله عملكم ورسوله والمؤمنون and also there are many indirect ways that we benefit from the imam but we don't realize today how do we have all these masks how do we have all these masks and institutions how do we have the hausa that is spreading the religion that is spreading the how does the funding come to all these institutions it comes from it comes from the money that belongs to the imam we build our masks with the imam we help our institutions our religious institutions that help the faith grow and help our institutions grow from the money of the imam when we pay our homes a portion of that goes to the imam so we are benefiting from the imam when you are sitting in this masjid this masjid it was built and it was purchased by money you are benefiting from the imam how do you say how do I benefit from the imam when you are sitting in a place and you are praying in a place that is purchased with the money that belongs to the imam another institution that we have the institution of مرجعية our scholars our علماء today you look at our علماء throughout history you see that if we did not have مراجع the sheias would have been perished the sheias would have been wiped out it was the decisions and the fatwas of our scholars our علماء that saved the تشير you look in Iraq when there was colonialism there was a revolution a rebellion in 1920 who was the one that saved the sheias it was the علماء that issued the fatwa right now last year who was the one that issued the fatwa it was the علماء the مراجع and Lebanon who was the one that saved the Muslims and the sheias from the occupation it was the علماء in Iran who was the one that brought Islam and helped Islam grow it was the علماء these مراجع where do they take their authority from they take their authority because they are the representatives of the علماء if they are not the representative of the علماء no one is going to listen to them no sheias are going to listen to them but because the مراجع as the نائب of the علماء he is the representative of the علماء we listen to him and if it was not for these scholars if it was not for these pious scholars today we the sheias they are nourished and you see that our علماء they are respected you compare them with the others you see that the politicians they come and visit our علماء they come and visit our مراجع where you see others the مراجع and the scholars and the مفتي they are the ones who are going after the politicians this is all from the علماء this is all an indirect way there is no time but you see many people many people they are benefiting and they are eating from the money that belongs to the علماء and they question the علماء they say how do I benefit from the علماء when he is taking the money that belongs to the علماء himself or many people they question they attack our scholars and our مراجعية and then they come and they say how are we benefiting from the علماء this is the initiative of the علماء and then there is also another way that we benefit from the علماء of our time that could be an indirect way maybe there are many times that the علماء does دعاء for his people he does دعاء for people maybe he does something behind the scenes that I do not realize and Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives us an example for this in the Quran Prophet خضر عليه السلام موسى was with خضر he builds a wall and then he goes and he kills a person and then he makes a hole in a boat that they are riding it all seems very strange but then خضر explains that I did this for a reason I built the wall because there was money that was hidden that belonged to orphans in order to protect the orphans I built that wall there I sunk the ship he did not sink the ship he made a hole in the ship because there was a king that was taking all of the boats and all of the ships that belonged to people and the owners of that ship they were good people so the king sees that there's a hole in that he does not take it he kills a person so Allah سبحانه وتعالى can give his parents who are believers a righteous son who will be a father of prophets this is a story in the Quran if I believe in the Quran then I believe that there are some of the some of the knowledgeable ones who were sent by Allah they do some things behind the scenes if I believe that خضر can do such a thing why is it difficult for me to believe that أمام الحجر does not do such a thing so this is the role of the Imam a final question what is our role what is my job many times we sit and we question when the Imam will come what will happen why is there occupation we ask so many questions but never once do I ask what have I done for the Imam never once do I ask what is my job right now what does he expect from me now how do I expect from the Imam never once do we say what does the Imam expect from me what is our role one of the حديث of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعليه says من أفضل أعمال أمتي انتضار الفرج from the best actions of my أمة is to wait for the فرج now what does it mean to wait and watch like I'm waiting for someone no it means that we anticipate the arrival of the Imam we prepare ourselves for the Imam when you have a guest coming to your house you just sit and wait or you go and you prepare you go and you make sure that everything is ready when the Imam comes when your guest comes what have we done let me ask myself what have I done as an individual I want to come this is a very important question the imams they teach us how to strengthen our relationship with the Imam of our time one of the ways is to perform the ندبه the ندبه it's a tearful دعاء crying remembering the Imam bringing our heart with the Imam let me put myself in the shoes of the Imam what is he feeling right now where is he right now we gather we laugh we sit with our friends we sit with our family where is the Imam right now he is amongst us he is watching us but who is there with him he is remembering the miseries and the tragedies that took place he is a witness to the oppression that is taking place for his followers for the religion of Islam for humanity we have to connect ourselves with the Imam of our time just like the way the imams before him his fathers he used to cry when he remembers Imam al-Hujjad great grandfather Imam al-Rida they used to cry when they remember Imam al-Hujjad that the mu'mineen will go through the difficulties that the mu'mineen will go through one day one of the companions of Imam al-Sadaq he walked in on Imam al-Sadaq he saw the Imam crying crying and saying انا فترقادي oh my master your pain, your occultation it has taken away all of my rest وضليقة علي مهادي واسرت مني راحة فؤادي your غيبة the Imam Imam al-Sadaq he cries for the غيبة of Imam al-Hujjad and another and another دعاء دعاء الندبه دعاء that we are ask the Imam Imam al-Hujjad himself he asks his Shi'a to recite that dua the dua says إلا متى أحار فيك يا مولاي وإلا متى وأي خطاب أصف فيك وأي نجوا عزيز علي in one part of the dua for the events that are taking place and where is the Imam he is waiting for Allah سبحانه وتعالى to give him permission to reappear until the Imam says and the Imam is connected to Imam al-Hujjad Imam al-Hujjad is connected to Imam al-Fasayn and this is why the narrations they say that the day his movement will launch it will be the day of Haashu Allah and the first thing that he will do the first thing that he will do is that he will cry and the whole day much less for his grandfather أدن بن قطلات my dear brothers and sisters we have to connect with the Imam of our time who on days like this he cries when he remembers Imam al-Hujjad in زيارة الناحية he says يا جدا dear brothers and sisters on a night like this we remember Imam al-Akbar the son of Imam al-Hujjad عليه السلام he was the first of many Haashim to go out and fight he was the first he asked his father for permission Imam al-Hujjad عليه السلام he began to cry how can he stop his son from fighting when he has allowed others to go and fight but Imam al-Hujjad he reminds many of them he reminds them of the bravery of his grandfather أمير المؤمنين until suddenly Ali al-Akbar returns to Imam al-Hujjad he returns to the Imam but he is very thirsty he tells the Imam killing me I cannot fight with the thirst Imam al-Hujjad he tells him he felt the tongue of Imam al-Hujjad he saw that the tongue of Imam al-Hujjad was thirsty he tells him oh my dear son Ali go and fight and Rasool Allah will be the first to go and churn first يا بو courageously until a man he rushes to Ali al-Akbar the hadith says that Imam al-Hujjad he throws himself on the body thank you so much he could not carry Ali al-Akbar back he calls Bani Hashem oh Bani Hashem Ibn Al-Flat Ibn Talatant the woman Zayna brothers and sisters they are coming very close let us ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى by the love of Imam al-Fasayn by the children of Imam al-Fasayn by the position of Imam al-Fasayn any hajj anything that you have ask Allah right now ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to answer your du'ad and the most important du'ad that we all have to ask in the reappearance of the Imam of our time Allah أمة عجل وليك الفرج وجعلنا من أمصاره وأعوانه والمستشهدين سأسألك الله أمة وندعوك بسمك العظيم الأعظم ألا عزل أجل الأكرم يا الله يا الله يا رحمان يا رحيم يا مقلب القلوب الله أم افر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات الأحياء من عم والأمطرات الخيرات إنك على كل شيء تدير لرس also conclude with this du'a for Imam Al-Hujjah everyone stand remember the Imam of your time الله أجت ابن الحسات اسكناه أرضك طوعة وتمتع فيها طويلة برحمتك يا رحم الرحمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم رحمة وعلى


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