11/02/2022
🎃👻🧙♀️ “As the border between summer and winter, and lightness and darkness,
Samhain is a celebration of Death. Simultaneously, it is
a festival which acknowledges the very valuable time of
rest, darkness, and silence that Mother Earth needs in
order to revitalize herself for next year's harvest- a reality that we, as humans, so often forget. It is a stark reminder that we live in a never-ending world of cycles.
Life, death, and rebirth are seen in the natural world everywhere we look from the moon, to the animals, to the body itself. Whether we like it or not,
Death is a force we must not only be willing to come face to face with, but a force we must welcome and revere. The fear that humanity as a collective holds about Death shows up in many areas of our lives, often
to our own detriment. We cling tightly to relationships and people who were supposed to walk out of our lives months or even years ago. We hold onto jobs or careers that no longer fulfill us and drain our energy.
We keep items around our homes that we never use, causing unnecessary clutter. We hold fast to parts of our self-identity that are false, because the known
although destructive - feels safer than the unknown and admitting that we do not really know who we are…”
Indeed as this time period brings a death to the old and a rebirth to the new, we are challenged with the purification process that comes before the new era is born.
For us, the (potential) end of our tiny home AirBnBs (we have already said goodbye to some: 💔Avanti 💔 Prana 💔 Yoga 🪦), looms overhead in our near future.
Through this process we have reflected on our passions and missions. Sure, as business owners, we have options, and fighting for our rights may not be the most practical, lucrative, or necessary route. But we believe deeply in the right that every American was promised - to achieve the American dream - to use innovation and entrepreneurship to obtain a life of opportunity and freedom..
In this process, we enter into an unknown, not knowing what it will look like on the other side. But we do know, this world is full of natural cycles. Death, brings rebirth. Surrender, brings purification. 🌙🦉🪶