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Groundhog Day Euphoria
How do you celebrate this holiday?
Novelist Tom Robbins called autumn the springtime of death. If we consider winter to be death then in autumn we are realizing that death is approaching but we also realize that we still have a little time left before it arrives. Like many humans in their final years realize, the vibrancy of life must be experienced to the fullest before death shows up. That is why autumn is a time of celebration; of luxuriating in the warmth and joy and fruits of our labor before everything goes cold and dark.
One of the biggest human misconceptions is that life and death are opposites. They are not. The opposite of death is birth, not life. Life is ongoing and has no opposite. It’s a oneness principle.
Death is followed by birth which is followed by death which is followed by birth. That is the nature of our particular holographic reality. Like yin and yang, death and birth are perpetually chasing each other in a circular dance called life.
So while winter is a period of death it is naturally followed by a period of birth. It is called springtime and it is what we all look forward to while transitioning through death.
We all want to begin a new cycle of life and in our wintry gestation we eagerly anticipate our birth into that cycle.
