“Your dark night may be a rite of passage. It may be offering an opportunity to make a significant turn in your life. It isn’t easy to make these turns, largely because they demand that you enter the unknown. You may have to dig deep into your resources – your past experiences, your learning, the personal qualities you’ve already developed – so the dark night takes you deep.” Thomas Moore, Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals
I feel that we have been going through a collective ‘dark night of the soul’ over these past months. We are being called to pause (or should I say we were forced to pause) and look around ourselves and within ourselves. We are being called to redirect and/or reinvent our lives on so many levels – mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially, and environmentally.
For me personally, it has been a time of deep revision, reflection and contemplation. I decided to take this big push from the universe as an opportunity to redirect my life to my ‘true north’, even though I am not yet sure where I am going to (I sensed the pull, but I cannot yet fully see the road ahead of me).
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