Surrendering to the shadows

Posted on Instagram on November 14, 2019

Surrendering to the shadows that populate our inner world.
Giving up the fight and accepting to feel what is uneasy and unknown.
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To plant a seed is an act of faith. To take something so small, give it to the darkness, and to know it will eventually be broken in order to become more.
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This pendant embodies all my current adventures in the land of grief, both the times when I try to be brave and allow myself to sink into my own darkness and listen to it, and the times I grasp for a splinter of hope and try to escape the uncomfortable feelings.
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It is a very tactile pendant, almost a pebble, with its domed back.
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The stone is a smoky quartz with an abalone shell below it.
It's a metaphor of the dark inner sea and its depths...and the treasures it hides.
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I tucked marigold seeds below the stones, as a prayer to breaking and unfolding and becoming the bigger version of ourselves.
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May we learn to dive into our deep waters. May we have eyes that see the beauty in them.
May we have the courage to be fertile seeds.