Death by the River

This morning, the river brought death…. Through this mystical journey I’ve been on I look at death in a completely new way and see the absolute beauty in it.

While I was communing with these beautiful messengers, I was shown how death carries as much beauty and joy as birth, but we do not celebrate it in that way in our modern day and age.

In the indigenous ways, they honored both ends of the polarity equally the entry and the exit. Where in our society did we begin to fear this natural transition? No one escape it. Everybody must go through this process as a completion of being born.

What would happen in our society if we were able to truly celebrate and honor this transition as much as we do for a birth?

After being introduced to the spirit world and building really strong relationship bonds with them, I don’t fear death anymore. I don’t fear that transition as I’ve gone through many deaths already in this lifetime and I will face many more. We all do when we have a radical change in our life and we have to leave behind the person we knew to become reborn.

It is simply a transition. But it’s really complicated and difficult to do when we have a society that is so rooted in identity and labels which prevents an organic shift and growth that needs to happen. We always think we must know who we are instead of just simply being on a journey of discovering who we are and allowing it to naturally unfold and never having a definition around it or a finished product where you “arrive” to exist.

When we develop these bonds with those on the other side of the veil, we know that there is more in store for us and we understand fully our souls are eternal. We know that we are always supported and loved. And when that physical transition happens around us, it becomes more significant and more sacred to honor than just morn. At least it has for me.

I had a little transition ceremony for this beautiful great blue heron and this little shad bait. I thanked them for their time here and for their contributions to the web of life. I thank them to wherever they transition to and however they continue to help the greater good of all as they are in spirit forms now. I believe all things have spirit and soul. I believe in the individual as well as the collective souls. I think this world is far bigger than we realize when we see the duality as a shaman does and how these two worlds are one with a veil simply in between them. For me that Veil seems to be getting thinner and thinner, and the things that I can see with my naked eyes in this world as well as the other are starting to merge into one world and I see the beauty in it all!