Death, Rebirth & the Path Forward
After death, most people think that the rebirth happens immediately, but there is a whole process of decomposition that takes place as the bug life take the nutrients from the plants and use them to fertilize the soil once again. This is something we can witness live during the Winter months. It doesn’t happen immediately, or instantly from one day to the next. Similarly, for us when we go through our death and re-birth cycles, we could give ourselves so much more grace and patience as we shed and let go of aspects of ourselves that no longer serve and need to die and be transformed. You won’t bounce back the next day knowing the path forward, and being able to see the higher vision. You will be in the murkiness of it for some time, down in the dirt allowing things to be decomposed, taken away by the bugs to be used as nourishment. And it is super important during this time to be gentle and tend to ourselves, otherwise we can get overwhelmed with wanting this process to speed up. When we don’t allow for this decomposition phase to take place, we are building our lives on quick sand and not on solid foundations. We are spiritually bypassing, and are not allowing our bodies to process and digest the death, and the grief that just happened. We are just forcing ourselves to move on to the next thing.
I know because this has been my life the last few months. I was very aware that, yes, I was going through a re-birth portal. My mother in law had just died, things were changing in my home, and the Los Angeles Fires had just taken place right after the winter solstice. Trump came into office and a whole shit storm followed. I had a choice to keep trying to show up in ways past my capacity or carve out space for myself to allow these things that wanted to die, die. To allow myself time to process the grief, the grief of losing my beloved mother in law, and also not having access to the lands and trails that held me through the grief of her passing due to the fires that damaged them. I had to take time to observe and go through the painful decomposition process. I had to go through all of this to be able to see the path forward.
I can’t promise it will be easy, in fact, I know it will be painful. I also know we are being incredibly supported always, by spirit, our great mother, the elements, family, community, the planets, etc.
Find the mid-wives, the healers, the resources, the support to help you through these portals, because I promise you will come out of this portal, more intact, more in your wholeness, more in your authenticity, and more able to see your higher vision and calling. I promise you that this process will open you up to new paths and more expansion.
