I’ve found a weird calmness recently about the stuff going on in this country (this world). There is such awfulness, but also so very many absolutely amazing, brave, and strong people. Remember that there are more of you than there are of them. And that what’s going on is forcing so many more to take a step back and consider whether what’s going on aligns with their values. And so our numbers grow. I am willing to believe that we’re seeing the birthing pains of a much better world. Age of Pisces is on its way out, but clinging for dear life.

Had an amazing conversation yesterday about the concept of “psychopomps” or grim reapers. Our culture is afraid of death and sees these constructs as something to be feared. In older cultures, they understood death was part of the natural cycle of things. The death and decay of winter is needed to enrich the soil of the spring sprouts.

A culture terrified of dying is refusing to just die off already. The healer we were talking to commented that people now “take so long to die.” Meaning when someone’s time is inevitable, that they cling to the last breaths of their lives and struggle to keep their hearts beating, with no other result than prolonging their suffering. As a world, we’re so spiritually disconnected that we don’t understand death is a release and relief when your body can not longer support life. This age of people and cultures who are terrified of dying, of course is hanging on for dear life and the death throes are grotesque. But I am certain this conflict is clearing the way for something better.