You know what they say about healing – you’re constantly spiraling back to your lessons, uncovering deeper and deeper layers that need to be healed.
And when you are in the collective year of The Hierophant, you can find yourself dismantling “the way things are done” in favor of the way you would rather live your own life, even though it may be counter-cultural.
There’s been a slow dismantling and rebuilding this year, as I’ve let some cherished projects fall away because they no longer felt like a whole-hearted yes.
There’s been a slow dismantling and rebuilding this year, as I’ve closely examined and rejected a number of cultural narratives on the way we show up, on productivity, on rest, on hustle culture.
There’s been a slow dismantling and rebuilding this year, as I’ve spiraled deeper into teasing out what I want from this wild and precious life of mine.
It can feel uncomfortable, this dismantling. And yet, it is the only way to grow.
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“And when you are in the collective year of The Hierophant, you can find yourself dismantling “the way things are done” in favor of the way you would rather live your own life, even though it may be counter-cultural.”
Of course. This is what is happening. The dismantling, the return, the picking up the pieces of when it all made more as sense. The chasing my own way. Thank you for this.
You’re welcome. And thank you for sharing your process, too. The questions, the answers you arrive at, the willingness to notice and believe and embrace all of it in whatever ways work best for us.
4 days late, but exactly on time 🙂 This is 100 million billion % what is happening right now, new cycle tackling old lessons! I am so happy that I came back to read this – I opened it the other day and kept it opened and now, boom! Just went I needed it! Thank you for that insightful post!
You’re so very welcome! So many of us seem to be in a similar place this year. Here’s the healing, learning, growing!