To look upon death
death, tending, right relationship Shakira Smith death, tending, right relationship Shakira Smith

To look upon death

And so, as I started to prepare this dear one as I had been instructed… to do… to hide… to disengage… I stopped. And gazed upon this small, small death instead. I called to my roommate. And when she reported with the needed items for the next step of our instructions, I said, from idk where, “No. We shepherd death”. So instead we sat. We gazed, and pet, and loved, and cried. We stated our sadness out loud. We silently held space for our grave disappointment.

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For me, astrology is a practice in interconnection. Its resisting the ways that I've been taught to see one as separate from the other - the forest from the trees, the symptom from the system, the client from the joys and oppressions of their lineage - by choosing instead to see how they are, in fact, the same.

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