On Grief
What nobody tells you about the second year
The first year has rituals. The second year has none. This is what that looks like — and what it asks of you.
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Reflections on grief, healing, tarot, plant wisdom, and the work of returning to yourself. Written by Sheharazaad from inside the practice.
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Grief is not a destination.
Grief is not a destination.
It is a practice of returning.
There is a particular cruelty in the way we are taught to speak about grief — as though it is a journey that ends somewhere, a process that, if attended to correctly, resolves into something clean. It does not.
What grief asks of us is not resolution. It asks us to learn the practice of returning. To the body. To the breath. To the life that is still here.
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The cards are not telling your fortune. They are showing you yourself.
On what tarot actually is, and why the most useful readings are the ones that ask more than they answer.
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What the plants taught me about holding grief
Plants do not fight their seasons. They move through them with complete intelligence. There is something here for those of us who grieve.
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You were always sovereign. What does that actually mean?
The phrase that is central to this practice — and what it demands of us to actually live it, especially in grief.
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Distance reiki and the myth that presence requires proximity
Energy does not require a room. On how distance reiki works — and why the scepticism about it is worth examining.
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The grief that has no language — on ambiguous loss
When what was lost was never named. On the grief of relationships, identities, and possibilities that were never fully held.
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