Offering: Equinox 2024
Becoming worldly
I’m offering some one-on-one tarot sessions in October, a tarot class, and the winter session of Sunday Meetings kicks off today. For details and links to book, scroll all the way down!
There is no audio for the rest of this month as I’m on the road until October and don’t have the bandwidth to set up my audio stuff. Sound will be back at the start of next month. I hope to record audio later for this one & will let you know if I do!
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Between cleaning my house top to bottom, packing my worldly belongings, and setting off on a long trip up north, I got a bit lost in the Offering this week. When a piece of writing gets away from me like that, I like to practice writing a summary of what the essay’s about so that I might remember, or even locate, the point.
Writing an essay for me is sort of like solving a problem. I’m trying to see how and if certain things hang together. The more able I am to summarize it, the more it feels like I’ve done what I’d hoped. What you’re reading is my attempt to do that. And as you will see, the summary sometimes takes on a life of it’s own.
I began with the ideas that grief can be seen as the loss of a world, and that mourning can be something different. Mourning may be an “ongoing imaginative engagement that keeps the absence alive yet renews a sense of hope as one goes forward.1” So if grief is world loss, mourning may be more like world making. People have done thorough work on these topics. My thoughts were just speculations.