The Intimates of Love and Grief

Written By Damascena Tanis

Grief isn’t a linear path. We don’t go on a grief journey and pop out the other side.

Grief is a deepening.

A deepening into life. Into love.

It’s a personal “weathering”

It smooshes our face against a LOVE so big the body can’t readily contain it.

If we haven’t opened the ground of our being to receive BIG LOVE, grief appears as painful.

When the aperture of our heart is set in some “just right” Goldilocks Zone - Grief will blow the doors right off.

It will introduce us to a depth of love that is billions of light years across, yet only two inches away.

It erupts from a shared love, a shared heart, and asks us, “will you hold all of this love in just one heart?”

Grief is love.

The growing pains of love expanding, taking on new shapes, and traversing new dimensions.

Emptying here, and filling up over there.

We don’t grieve what we haven’t loved. And we don’t integrate in life, what we haven’t grieved.

-musings from this pilgrim on a Grief Journey.

#grief #love #life #heart

Damascena Tanis

Damascena is an Archetypal Astrologer, Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, and The Facilitator of the Transformative Journey through the Mandala of Venus’ Wisdom, called “Sky Dancer”.

She is a passionate devotee of the ever unfolding mystery. As an expert observer, a trait she developed as an only child, she regards herself as both a student of life, and decoder of the cosmos.

Skilled at recognizing invisible patterns, and picking up on subtle shifts in the collective, she gets a thrill from uncovering and revealing the hidden threads that are woven together to create our paradigm.

Her passion for this existential detective work aligns well with her unique approach to one on one client work, as she helps others to discover the building blocks of their archetypal blueprint, and mythic overtones. She does not believe that astrology is static, and therefore works with clients to develop strategies and practices that allow them to transcend challenging aspects of their natal chart.

She lives on the Shores of Lake Erie with her husband, four kids, and Cat, Oscar (the grouch).

These days, when she isn’t interpreting a natal chart, or translating the stars for her astrology blog, you can find her engaging in one of her favorite pandemic pastimes, unraveling her inner “good girl”, cultivating the ability to thrive in the deep, dark, unknown, or playing her favorite game of identifying fun paradoxes called “two things are true at once”.

https://www.RedMoonRevival.org
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