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Dear friends,
Each day, we gather here - hearts from every corner of the globe - to share a breath, a quiet pause, and send the light of our love into a dark world.
Today we send the light of our love to those with a tender truth on the tip of their tongue
To the ones carrying words that touch a wound - theirs or another’s. The apology owed, the hurt named, the conversation that trembles. Those learning that the brief sting of honesty is the price of the deeper healing. As the month closes, the unsaid grows heavy. We send our light to everyone saying the vulnerable thing today, and going deeper because of it.
May my words be brave enough to touch the wound
I say the tender thing that wants saying.
I listen beneath the words for what’s really spoken.
I let honesty sting briefly rather than ache for years.
I follow the conversation into the deep.
I close this month with nothing important unsaid.
Say it, then go deeper
A conversation wants to happen today.
You likely know which one.
It may touch a sore place on its way to a true one.
You should let it.
Speak from the wound’s wisdom rather than its rawness.
Slower.
Softer.
Honest.
Then notice how the whole exchange deepens once the tender thing is out.
Words are turning inward and intense now.
Use today’s to heal something.
Today, the sky sends the messenger into the deep
A threshold day to close the month. Mercury opposes Chiron in the early morning - words touching the old wound, conversations brushing tender places - and then dives from diplomatic Libra into Scorpio, the deep water where truth lives beneath the pleasantries. Communication now turns penetrating and private for the weeks ahead. The Moon lifts into curious Gemini through the evening, keeping the questions coming.
This is a day for speaking the vulnerable truth gently, and letting every conversation after it go deeper.
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Wow. Very powerful description of my day. I spent much of the day compiling documents to share with a regulator who has been engaging with me in response to my complaint about one of our awful American health insurers. It was about speaking truth as effectively as I could, with an enough is enough vibe that felt utterly necessary. I feel calm as a result and have no idea whatsoever if this rather powerful person will help me in any significant way.
The dynamic is a particular series of actions that resonates with the current vibe that is so powerful at the moment. That is about being vulnerable in an institution or in the care of individuals whose job and duty it is to be helpful. And they choose to be abusive in one way or another, which is utterly shocking, unimaginable. It's then about pushing back, repeatedly, trying to hold them accountable, when so many others can't really be bothered.
I've done my part now. The ugliness is really seeing what I think so many are seeing now. So many people who are just there, even charged with helping somehow in a difficult, vulnerable situation, whatever that context of vulnerability may be - who do nothing. Just shrug. No commitment, no empathy, detached. Can't be bothered.
We will see what unfolds. Today it all had a flavor of --
> I let honesty sting briefly rather than ache for years.
> I close this month with nothing important unsaid.
Thanks for the post.