Today is Lammas, the first harvest of the year, a day of honour for the Celtic God Lugh, which is why it is also known as Lughnasadh.
Through a post by Rachelle at BlogHer, I recently found Suzie’s Sacred Space, where Suzie is suggesting we use today as an invitation to let go of what’s holding us in the past. You can read her initial post about it here, and then her beautiful post today naming what she will let go of, called Goodbyes under the dark moon.
So here’s what I let go of today:
- The comfort blanket of being messy and disorganised, which I use as an reason to procrastinate and not move forward in my life
- My emotional unavailability
- Guilt over what’s past and cannot be changed
- My feeling of inferiority that everyone better-educated than me is also more intelligent
Mmm, that’s quite challenging. I’m going to go now, write those out on a piece of paper and burn it.
What do you need to let go of?
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Barbara 08.02.08 at 1:01 am
I need to give up my wound-sucking isolation. Today I went out to lunch with a friend who gave me a suggestion about volunteer work I might begin and I went back to the gym and talked to the manager about booking a session with one of the staff so I can jigger my program to better suit what I need just now. Yay! Well, it’s a start anyway.
Sue 08.02.08 at 4:28 am
I need to let go of the past several years, the extreme desert experiences, and open myself up to some gentler times up ahead (I hope)
Sacred Suzie 08.02.08 at 2:08 pm
Those are perfect things to let go of! I hope this has this made you feel better and freer and that you can see what an amazing and beautiful and intelligent person you are.
Thank you so much for participating and writing about your letting go ritual here, I appreciate it and want you to know that getting my degree was the worst thing I could have done for my writing career. Education truly means nothing when it comes to intelligence.
Your path is sacred and your own.
Sacred Suzie 08.02.08 at 2:09 pm
Darn, I just realized that the link they have for my blog isn’t mine in my original post, sorry about that!
Tess 08.02.08 at 4:03 pm
Barbara: it is indeed a start. One step at a time.
Sue: I share your hope for yourself.
Suzie: Thanks for the impetus to do this, it’s been really meaningful for me. And I like both your blogs.
Sunrise Sister 08.02.08 at 5:08 pm
Wow – that’s quite a list you’ve put on to your agenda. It makes me remember that sometimes, maybe most of the time, we are all harder on ourselves than anyone else would ever be!
I’m off to read Suzie’s blogposts now. It sounds quite inspirational!
xoxo
lucy 08.06.08 at 7:51 pm
a little late to the party here, but the post is timely as often happens. i picked back up my “language of letting go” book this morning, so there definitely seems to be a theme surrounding me. maybe i’ll go do a little journaling and see what pops out.
thanks for the inspiration & bravo for that brave list. i totally agree with SS that “we are all harder on ourselves than anyone else would ever be!”
peace.
Tess 08.07.08 at 8:33 am
SS and Lucy, thank you for your comments. I suspect we’re often a mixture of being hard on ourselves and being self-indulgent in strange ways. (Then of course we’re hard on ourselves for being self-indulgent.)
EmJayDee 08.08.08 at 12:36 am
My list is similar to yours. Opposite season but still good to let go of these things. Like sort out the mess and get on with living in fullness!