Personal & Collective Ego Death

I KNOW DEATH.

I know rebirth too; my whole life has been about Death and Rebirth, but I only want to talk about DEATH today, because we simply do not talk about Death enough.

But first let me explain what I mean by DEATH here.

Every ending is a Death.

Every move is a Death.

Every breakup is a Death. 

Every change is a Death.

And life is all about change (Death and Rebirth.) It’s the most natural thing.

At any moment old cells (& ideas & people & projects & systems & stars) are dying…and new ones are being reborn!

Death is a fact of life. 

But it’s painful. 

It can gut you from the inside.

I know Death because I’ve been forced to leave my birthplace and other places (& people & projects & systems) more times than I can count.

More recently, over the last three years, I’ve been sitting with Death, staring her in the face (& not just my own Ego’s Death, but the Death of the World as we know it.) Collectively, we are going through a period of Ego Death (and grief) and it’s heartbreaking.💔 

But we will heal, and we will rebuild.

❤️‍🩹 I know this bc I trust the pattern of Death & Rebirth. 

Do not fear Death, dear ones. 

I know. 

I know. 

Death is hard.

Believe me, I know. 

😱😭

But after sitting with Death enough, I’ve come to see Night/Darkness/Death as a Mother, as a Yin force of nature, as a womb that can carry us toward the light of a new rebirth, a new cycle. 

That’s just how it is in nature. 

And it takes however long it takes. No need to rush it.

The problem is our collective fear & profound revulsion of the Yin (divine feminine).

The problem is that the systems that have caused so much Death have also taken away The Divine Mother, the primordial Yin and her teachings. 

And I do not believe we can survive the Night without understanding The Mother, without the support of the Mother.

One of the many gifts of Yin and darkness is that it exposes the shadows to us. And while this is painful, we must witness the shadows (the violence, the pain) so that we can rebuild more sustainably in the future.  

Another beautiful aspect of the Yin is that just like in the night

We get to REST 🛌

We get to DREAM 💭

We get to LET GO 🙂

So…

What are you dreaming of?

What are you letting go of?