Beltane Early Growth Moon
A poignant and salient answer to how to live the third phase came from an 18 year old Minnesotan, Zach Sobiech, who died yesterday of bone cancer. Not much of a conversationalist or a letter writer, Zach’s Mom told him he needed to do something, something that would let people know he was here and leave them memories of him. Diagnosed with osteosarcoma when he was 14, the cancer did not prevent him from writing and singing songs of his own.
He became an internet viral celebrity with the song, Clouds, downloaded over 3 million times.
Those of us in the third phase understand the challenge Zach faced. Death was no longer an abstraction, but a certain visitor. As he says in this song, it won’t be long now. Oh, we may have 20 years or 30 years, compared to his 4, but the link is the moment when you come to know this life ends. For good and for ever.
(Alphonse Osbert – Les chants de la nuit.)
How did he respond? He dug into the riches of his Self, shrugged off the self-pity and depression, and turned those feelings into art. This is the best and healthiest way to greet the coming of the Sickle Bearer. Find out who you are. Find out what best expresses your journey, the ancientrail that has been, is, your life. Then open up that expression, put it outside yourself for the rest of us to learn from, to cherish, to embrace. Because it won’t be long now.
