HeyJaredDo You Accept the Invitation - Melissa's Substack
Exploring the Invitations of Life and the Mystery in-between it All.
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An Equinox Pondering: The Complexity of Aliveness (opens the original)
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Light and Dark.Solar and Lunar.Masculine and Feminine.The complexity of aliveness.The sacredness of Eros and Psyche.The harmony of androgyny.So often humans swing from one side of the spectrum to the other. The familiar pendulum moving to and fro.And yet, our whole being is complex. Nuanced. Mysterious in nature.And even still, we strive to have certainty, to be prepared, to have answers.Perhaps the motion of being human is a bit more fluid than what we are
Hyper-Independence is NOT a Virtue (opens the original)
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In a society that functions in over-drive, hyper-individualism is treated as a virtue. Yet it forces dependency by removing what the village once provided and privatizes the burden of human survival within the nuclear family. Two exhausted adults are now trying to balance the functions of child-rearing, household maintenance, financial independence, emotional and relational connection, illnesses, crisis, caring for elders, etc. When it used to be these responsibilities were shared via an eco-sys
The Ground Beneath Your Feet (opens the original)
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There is something to be said about honoring the ground beneath your feet. Honoring the way in which our ancestors lived. If we look at the wheel of time we can see a pattern, cycles playing out year after year. The Earth honors these cycles, and lives within this pattern.There’s something to be said about eating the foods that come from the land your ancestors walked on centuries ago. Equally as important as eating the food the soil beneath you provides. There’s a natural invitation here and a
The Wisdom of Acceptance (opens the original)
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When a worldview becomes structured so that every piece of disturbing evidence can be reinterpreted in a way that protects the worldview, or protects itself from criticism, it stops functioning as inquiry. It becomes a closed system or dogma.The “spiritual community” is becoming an increasingly closed system. Facts spiral into conspiracy. Arguments are made with the inability to hold multiple possibilities and frameworks at once. Compassion and love is at the core, no doubt, but with a cost: the
The Integration of the Dark Feminine (opens the original)
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Until we integrate the parts of the feminine psyche that have been repressed and rejected: GriefRageInstinct Sexuality Boundaries Death No We will continue to produce a world that demonizes these aspects of ourselves. These psychic forces, gain power over us, controlling how we react and how we perceive the world. Instead of claiming our own sovereign authority, we submit to domination, control, hierarchy, exploitation and obedience. This is how patriarchy exists and the world suffers under an i
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