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Dear Friend,
Below is a replay of this month’s Wisdom Wednesday where we explore descent, and how the darkest time of the year is a key moment to go inward and work with your shadow.
Throughout humanity, rites of passage were supportive structures that helped people in their life transitions. We have very few rites of passage in modern culture that help us through the liminal space of change. Instead our culture teaches that upward movement, expansion, growth, and power are success and that descent is failure.
But descent is a natural process in life. It will happen to all of us.
We can choose to descend with conscious awareness or we can wait for life to throw us an opportunity for descent (like illness, job loss, betrayal, divorce).
The descent always brings gifts, the main one being we find our soul. Soul retrieval helps us awaken to our meaning and life purpose. If we don’t ever find this, we float along and lack depth and genuine presence.
I have been in a long and continuous descent for several years and thus know the terrain quite well. I don’t fear the shadow or dark (or winter for that matter) in the way I once did because I absolutely trust that we find our deepest growth and truest gifts in the dark.
If you are looking for some guidance as you traverse these dark days, are curious about consciously doing shadow work, or just need some extra support over the winter, check out Reclaim: The Heroine’s Journey that begins December 19.
Betsy
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