 We are standing inside an eclipse portal — a threshold moment where what has been gestating beneath the surface is now pressing to be born. In birth language, this is the crowning moment: the most intense, stretching, and unstoppable part of the passage. Crowning requires resilience. It is not “stress” in the way we usually think of it, but rather eustress — the positive stress that strengthens us, like the pressure that builds a seedling’s stem strong enough to pierce the soil and rise. Without it, there is no emergence. The past few weeks have been a birth canal for me, with many of my foundations (body, relationship, rhythms & home environment) shifting. In the midst of it I drew the "tower" card (all about change) and in this version it was of a large pine tree with its top being blown off by a lightning strike. I immediately thought of the regenerative lessons from Robin Wall Kimmerer's book Braiding Sweetgrass, and how in it she describes the way that sweetgrass grows back stronger after the native people harvest it each year for their weaving and other projects. Sometimes we need to be shaken up and challenged to stimulate growth. Resilience is not the absence of challenge, but the capacity to meet challenge with deeper patterns. Not numbing out or escaping, but weaving in stronger threads of support, awareness, and connection. This is good news. It means that even what feels like a missed step can be leveraged as compost for growth. The obstacle itself becomes the way. Each pattern that challenges us invites a deeper, wiser pattern to take root. I invite you into our Fall Harvest Ritual next week — a time to gather what has ripened, release what no longer serves, and strengthen our inner patterns for the darker half of the year. The ritual is open to the public, but you’ll need to join our new Body & Soul Village — a free online space for sensitive souls, empaths, and seekers to gather and inquire into the work of somatic metamorphosis. You can join us us here: Body & Soul Village Comments are closed.
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