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Maryann Mays's avatar

Thank u for acknowledging the hidden pain in all of us for past decisions… the haunting, the questioning, and hopefully one day the acceptance that we made the best and perhaps the only decision that we could at the time ❤️

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

And there are many deep insights to be had, as pain is a beautiful teacher, even if she carries with her a bittersweet fragrance.

Caroline Kane's avatar

Thank you Andrew for this poignant and beautiful sharing and reflection. It puts words to my experience of the ebbing and flowing process of deep grief and love I share for a spirit grandchild. Memories surface of some very painful, difficult times and circumstances in our little family and the journey we each have and have been on together, since. Sweet blessings to you. 🙏✨️

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

And no better Nan to facilitate. Jayne mack, though, I hope your daughter is doing well enough as she, with you, walk along this liminal path. Many blessings to you and yours.

Caroline Kane's avatar

In the conversations I have had with her down the years since that time around her experience, I get to hear,even briefly, the deep inward processing and the spaces she went to with it all since. Some places, that I could hear in chats that a recent health experience brought up, she could only go to alone. She is well thankfully. Thank you again, Andrew 🙏✨️

Elena Kennedy's avatar

So beautiful Andrew ✨🙏 thank you. So moving and so eloquently written 💕 truly touching and deeply felt ✨ in conversation with my mother who’s visiting currently we were recounting her personal experiences in this arena and discussing the “what might have been “ .. something deeply personal to me also and part of my family lineage. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙏✨

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Thank you. And I was to be the oldest of three, unknown to me until much later in life, but also explains a fracture that took place during a Pluto-octile-IC transit as a child. Such a shame our world is so closed off to the deeper (vertical) reality that these experiences and relationships open up. Thank you and I hope your Mum has found solace and peace.

Elena Kennedy's avatar

How amazing Andrew. I would have had 2 younger siblings, one of whom would be celebrating their Chiron return now. My eldest would have been the second child, and during my family constellation training it really impacted me, so I began to arrange my house plants in the form of a family tree and added one additional plant for the unborn. It gave me such profound peace and helped me through a lot at the time. This is such an important topic, which can have profound implications for healing I feel.

Lynne Copp @ Worklife Company's avatar

So beautiful Andrew. Thank you for your love, honesty and wisdom. Thank you for seeing.

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Thank you for taking time to read this offering and for sharing a comment. It is very much appreciated. It is a facet of life that, unfortunately, remains in the shadows and is a very real grief as well as a profound connection with a reality beyond here.

Helen Tremeer's avatar

Thank you, Andrew, for your beautifully heartfelt words and your sharing of your own experience.

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Thank you for taking time out to read and reflect

Vispi Shroff's avatar

Andrew, thank you for this piece, for giving space and giving voice that it's really held so quietly and so privately by so many... ❤️

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Very kind of you to write, let alone taking the time to read and reflect. It is an all too common 'secret' that many carry

Gillian Houlihan's avatar

Heartfelt insightful and deeply touching Andrew 🙏✨

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Thank you. Blessings to you on the eve of the Sun-Ceres conjunction

Kate's avatar

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Touched my heart. Tears in eyes. Thank you Andrew for sharing this so beautifully and candidly here.

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Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Very kind of you to comment Kate. It's a real, yet poignant experience that is all too common and not often talked about

Sol Jonassen's avatar

Loved this piece

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Ah thank you Sol. So many sides to Ceres, and this one I know personally, aside from professional observation.

Sabine Pertl's avatar

Profoundly moving and heart felt.

Réalta Dóchais - Andrew Smith's avatar

Thank you. It is heartfelt and born from personal experience, aside from professional observation!