04/23/2026
It’s been a strange time. If you are on planet earth, it’s probably fair to say that you have been on quite a journey. And that journey may have amped up in the last year, or the last several years. You may not be who you were and you may not even know who you are becoming. You may have thought you knew but you may have lost all that you thought was true.
How many skins have been shed? How many masks have been removed? How many times have you been turned upside down and inside out?
It’s been a strange time. The liminal lines between fact and fiction have blurred and switched places.
Some of you are naked and raw and some of you are exhausted and some of you are celebrating transformation and some of you are coming undone and wondering when will it end.
Healing is not an A to Z journey. Becoming human has many different maps and we may not agree on those maps. I think we can agree that it’s a strange time and there has been more division than ever before and also, the masks have eroded more than ever before.
Perhaps you don’t feel like you belong or perhaps you feel like an orphan to the system or to the construct.
Sometimes it’s good to crawl underneath the skin of a story and listen to with a mythopoetic ear.
It’s going to get stranger and more difficult and ask everything of you. Don’t lose heart. Even when the skins are ripped away by the tide. Don’t lose heart. Remember the soul cannot ever die, even when the masks have dissolved.
Sometimes the ego is a little bit of a chicken Little, running around thinking that the sky is falling, screaming and screaming. I think the hardest thing for the ego in these times, is not that it is here to die, but that it is here to enter into partnership with soul; it shouldn’t be the only driver of the bus. And soul shouldn’t be way back in the backseat. Soul shouldn’t be the only one driving though either, it’s hard to stay grounded. The divine marriage is not an easy feat to weave in this lifetime. Don’t lose heart. You were made for these times.
❤️🪆❤️
Words Stasha Ginsburg
2020 The Wild Matryoshka
Artist: Kitty-Grimm
