The Raven's Lamentation: A Grief Ritual for coming to our Senses
The Raven’s Lamentation: A Grief Ritual for coming back to our Senses
Grief, like death, is often considered a failure in our culture. But grief, like death, is part of a natural cycle, like snowdrops giving way to roses and summer blazing into autumn leaf fall.
Grief is an expression of love, of what we hold dear and when we close the door to our grief, we separate parts of ourselves from who and what we love as our heart becomes constricted to the flow of life energy that needs to move through us uncensored. Grief metabolizes the pain of where we feel separate; from our true nature, from others, from our spiritual and creative power, from whoever we consider divinity; and in this transformative process of surrendering and allowing, an illuminated pathway is formed between the loss and pain we feel and the wholeness and freedom from unnecessary suffering we long for. Read more here and to register:
