Sunday inspiration: Poetry for Mars Retrograde — astrodynamics.net

You have spent a lifetime quietly mourning or ignoring your losses and your lostness with no funeral, no wake and no way to nurture your joy. Time for a burial. No, for a burning! For a great funeral pyre that will light the night sky. Then a festal meal of bread and wine. And, from the ashes, perhaps some kind of rising. As Mars prepares to retrograde, as it does every two years or so, it’s a good time to look back at these losses and our sense of “lostness” and reclaim the space that is being held in our psyche by these old and long ignored hurts and wounds.  Perhaps we can begin to let go a bit of the stories that keep us trapped and unable to move forward.

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