Since February of 2022, my ancestral ecosystems of support have welcomed in 4 beloveds that are no longer earth-side. The parade of homecoming began with my Aunt Mattie in February of 2022, my Aunt Khalilah in September of 2022, my beloved fur companion, Nintiendo, in February of 2023, and my Grandma Dorothy in March of 2023.
 
Each of these beloveds has been landmarks, bodies of water, land masses, geography, and topography, on the 3-dimensional maps of my being. They have been integral anchors, providing stability and serving as points of reference for locating myself. They have shaped and influenced my life path through their physical presence and now that they are no longer here, my points of reference are shifting amid their absence. I am simultaneously grieving the changes in the geography and topography on the familiar maps of my being, while holding invitations to open myself even more deeply to the multi-dimensional maps of my being, where each of these beings continues to exist and where we each hold one another in connection.

Their deaths are Soul initiations, not only for them as they move into deeper layers of change and transformation, but also for me, to chart my life path and my points of orientation to self more consistently on multi-dimensional maps that fully anchor our connections. I hold each of their initiations into death as threads of connection, stitched into the multi-dimensional maps of Soul, threads that have been co-woven on the spindles of incarnation, by the forces of our love and the Ase of our connections in this life. These threads are now being tempered by the waters of our grief and the heat of fierce praise our love holds for each other.

Embracing the fierce love and tender grief of these passages continues to be potent, uncomfortable, messy, humbling and filled with aliveness.
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