"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;Today with the energies of Scorpio passing over all of us, I take time to honor grief that comes from death, endings, and loss. The journey of the soul in a human body is the journey of dualistic experiences on the earth plane. Honoring grief is an important part of the scorpionic journey through birth, experience, death, and rebirth. Death and rebirth happens every day, every season, every life. Our souls constantly are navigating death and rebirth, death and rebirth, cycles, death and rebirth...
I invite you to honor your grief as you traverse this planet. I believe as a soul prior to birth we choose our parents, our birth circumstances, and our journey with other souls we are destined to meet. There are times this all makes sense. At other times how could we choose the challenges that are on our path? Why would a soul choose loss or conflict, or confusion, or poverty, or illness? How can this be?
From my experiences so far it appears Earth is a grand soul school where we have opportunity to grow, to learn, to overcome, and to love. Yet it is not an easy school. It is one where we endure duality, linear time, and forgetfulness of an eternal soul existence. There is pain, as well as love available in our experiences. Some of us come in with comfort, loving families, health, wealth, and opportunity. Others come in with poverty, difficult circumstances, and a lack of love. And then there are others with every combination possible. Somehow we set up any variety of experiences for our soul growth. And still I ask, "Why did I as soul choose to go through...?" when it was so difficult, or unloving, or harsh?
Some of the greatest challenges and the greatest blessings have come in the world of destined relationships we have jumped into. Some of our beloveds we meet in this world stay a day, a cycle, or a lifetime. Sometimes those we thought we would have a lifetime are gone way sooner than we could ever imagine... through death, illness, moving away, or walking away.
I grieve today those I love who I thought would stay but had to go. I grieve the mistakes and the challenges that I thought we would over come; and yet, we came to endings of one sort or another that I am still processing. Coming to acceptance of what is is the journey. Learning is the journey. Loving more deeply, listening more intently is the journey. And... and there is much I still have to learn as I grieve.
I honor our soul's agreements; and somehow pray we each heal in ourselves what we could not heal together. I pray that we find others who can help us love ourselves and each other, that we can honor those who had to go on a path where they could heal that was not with us.
This may be friends, family, acquaintances. Who are those you need to release and to let go of and find greater love for yourself, that you may also love them even though they may not be in your life any more?
Some of us carry scars that are not seen by the world, yet we know they have made us the person we are today.
As we graduate from October and move into November very soon, take time to honor your journey, your woundings and your wisdoms, your losses, and your gains. What love can you take from your journey of life? What love can you give as you expand beyond where you have lived before now?
The energies of November promise great change and also great challenges. May we take our scars and be wise, be more loving, more kind, more conscious and present, that we speak with only love, that we choose with love and wisdom, and that we are better for all we have been challenged with.
With deep honor, love, and respect. Katherine Skaggs
