Reflection: Grieving Circle - New Moon in Sagittarius

Breathe in the support of your breath filling your body & the ground beneath you. Breathe out softening yourself into that support and love.  Imagine your breath is like an ever expanding love note to yourself, inviting you to be here now to receive.  As you land, allow yourself to receive the medicine that came from our circle.

I have come to see grief as my friend to honor the love this is & was in my life.  It is a way to bless the love with our tears or emotions & when we lock it inside it can become toxic & dangerous.  Grief is a way to refresh our souls that are weaved in all relations of and to life happening through us.

"There's an old idea that emotions travel in pairs. For instance, sorrow travels with joy. And if we allow sorrow to penetrate us, it will pull us down to a deep level of our souls.  And although many people will resist such a descent, when we reach the bottom of sorrow or grief we find joy. Which in turn gives us a sense of buoyancy and a renewal of spirit that lifts us back up because sorrow and joy are secretly entwined. It turns out that when we deny the grief & sorrows that inevitably enter our lives we wind up losing our capacity for joy." Michael Meade

I meet a lot of women that are anxious &/or cannot fully breathe in the fullness of life. Did you know that our lungs are the seat of grief, meaning the emotion associated with our lungs is grief? Which has me curious if our grief shame culture has us shrinking, muting & numbing our life force in this *"one wild and precious life" we've been given.  Maybe it's out of shame or fear or other's telling you that you are too emotional or should be over this by now.  I continue to see that grief has waves that can hit you as if out of nowhere at times, inviting you to remember that you matter and what you love(d) matters.

So many of us are scared to face the emptiness or pain, but just beneath it is the vast horizon of your spirit.

Together we remembered by being with & naming our grief or pain we moved it out of the darkness of our minds out into the light through our bodies & voice.  We experienced the buoyancy that came after & had the healing balm of being in community to hold sacred space for us to be with it, without fixing us or trying to make us feel better.  We each experienced that we are not alone on this solitary journey & had our unique experience of the connection to all the realms & beings of life.

We allowed the energy of our emotions to move through our bodies with movement of our bodies & faces, as well as through expressing sounds & emotions.  After sharing & leaning into the 6th gate of grief, which is the harm we caused that cannot be undone, we weaved some new dreams together. We each made a dream catcher to honor our experience & allow our hands to make a new creation with the blessing and protection of our tears.

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