death is in the details

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Death is an alchemist. Death is in the fine print. Death is in the unknown, the uncertain. Death is a helper and a devourer. Death is in the tales of what has already happened, and what is to come. We don’t know our fate, so can we really prepare? Or is all we can do while we humbly wait accept and come to terms with fate? Fate cannot begged to be changed. Change is inevitable, like death, and is a new beginning, a creation, a transformation beyond our wildest imaginations. Death is the luminous sphere of light that we can’t quite see. Leave the fixation of life behind and travel and heal and love and suffer to risk it all as you hang from the thread of life in the eye of the hourglass.

In the in between there is magic to be found. Time is a gift. Years are a gift. Let your vision of the future be bigger than reason or logic. What is coming into consciousness? What foundation are you moving from? Skull. Face. Seduction. Caves. Death brings us back to the great mother, the goddess, the great devourer. Light a candle. Let it guide you home. Let it illuminate your darkness and your shadows so that you can bring about new life on your path. Illuminate the territory of your unconscious that has yet to be discovered. Stare in its face. See where it stands. Do not fear. Let death be known. Hold its hand. From there, only love and healing can grow. Seek death as a continuation, not a bargaining, one that comes on its own terms, in its own time. Death, similar to archetypes, are universal, shared, seen, known and understood amongst all of humanity and the earth. The swamp of the soul is thick but you can trudge through. Let the river carry you forward with clear breath and curiosity. Live in the present. Notice the beauty, dreams, visions and synchronicities. Enjoy this reality while you’re here. Who is the God within at your archetypal core? Where is it leading you on your physical and psychic path?

Go into the liminal space. Enter the unconscious. Invoke the in between. Summon the unknown. Divine intervention. Where does the circle stop and end? The unconscious does not keep a chronology. What lies beyond your ego? What evolution is waiting for you? Face the impossible task with vulnerability and bravery. Be emotionally open. Move beyond allowed time. What is pure? What is clean? What is equal? Travel to the ends of your demarcation. Bathe in the water. Initiate. Wake up. Bring forth the eternal soul. The opposite of love is indifference.

Death embraces Life. Life embraces Death. One carries the other onto the next.

Do we belong to death from the very beginning?

Reflections from a lecture on The Archetype of Death in Selected Fairy Tales presented by Kornelia Grabinska, PhD, Psychologist and Jungian Analyst.

All for now,

All my love,

Onward.

-m