Reflections on a Three of Swords Day

Yesterday was a Three of Swords day for me. Cards and days like that are a gift for me. Grief is an opportunity for love to shine through. Suffering is the first noble truth. We all have lost and we all suffer. Impermanence is the nature of everything. When I grieve I am also recognizing the sacredness, the beauty, the fortune of that which was and how lucky I am to have that as part of my life story. If what I am grieving was good, I smile over the memories and love. If it was bad I appreciate the lessons learned. I am changed for this grief. What I grieve is part of me. That's the awen. The heart bleeds and the heart beats still.

About Soulmates

In our culture we talk about soulmates like there is one, and only one, person who is meant to be your everything partner in life. But, what if we have many soulmates? What if our soulmates are our village? What if each soulmate has a unique place in our soulmate constellation and no one soulmate replaces or takes away from another? What if in our quest to find the one soulmate, we are missing out on our many soulmates? What if we are not seeing the forest in our quest for the tree?