Music as Comfort

Jun 17

It’s been music , it’s been music that has been grounding me through this carnival funhouse.

Round and round like a carousel. Listening to the same songs again and again.

That sequence. A journey of the highest bliss, a baby born, the smell of their head, the feel of their latch, down to the greatest depths of sorrow and emptiness, watching them slip away,

At the bottom of my playlist yesterday, where the emptiness lives, I realized that wretched feeling. That place where just before my son died, I screamed to my husband that I’d tear my body open to save Tanner. That this place of nightmares, is love too.

This place that feels like floating in space. The quiet, the nobody present, the untetheredness. The place of no return. No rescue.

It’s all love.

Everything is love.

My sister sent me a new playlist yesterday. I’m ready to graduate from the carousel of the old.

And she inspired me to ask you all, what songs about life, death, rebirth, renewal, afterlife, spirit; or really any song that brings you comfort, lifts, and stirs you?

If you feel called to share, please place them in the comments, so I might discover new music. As the music has changed so has the depth of my relationship with him. It’s a medium of communication and transformation.

3 Playlists that have comforted us.

The First by my Friend Greyson Kirby

This next one, by my friend Blaire Lindsay

The last is from my son Alex, songs that remind of his brother. Memories from their childhood.

Damascena Tanis

Damascena is an Archetypal Astrologer, Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, and The Facilitator of the Transformative Journey through the Mandala of Venus’ Wisdom, called “Sky Dancer”.

She is a passionate devotee of the ever unfolding mystery. As an expert observer, a trait she developed as an only child, she regards herself as both a student of life, and decoder of the cosmos.

Skilled at recognizing invisible patterns, and picking up on subtle shifts in the collective, she gets a thrill from uncovering and revealing the hidden threads that are woven together to create our paradigm.

Her passion for this existential detective work aligns well with her unique approach to one on one client work, as she helps others to discover the building blocks of their archetypal blueprint, and mythic overtones. She does not believe that astrology is static, and therefore works with clients to develop strategies and practices that allow them to transcend challenging aspects of their natal chart.

She lives on the Shores of Lake Erie with her husband, four kids, and Cat, Oscar (the grouch).

These days, when she isn’t interpreting a natal chart, or translating the stars for her astrology blog, you can find her engaging in one of her favorite pandemic pastimes, unraveling her inner “good girl”, cultivating the ability to thrive in the deep, dark, unknown, or playing her favorite game of identifying fun paradoxes called “two things are true at once”.

https://www.RedMoonRevival.org

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