On our hearts this month is the part of the path known as the Return or Descending. Our dear friend Tanya Birl Torres joins us for our monthly conversation.

What people see as success, as the culmination of the journey is  often the concept of Rising, Transcendence, Climbing the Highest Peak…an  arduous journey that leads  to a spectacular view or expanded  perspective. In our collective mythology, what is often neglected or  washed over is the journey of return.  This is perhaps the most  important part of the journey and the one that is skipped over in favor  of the next glorious vista or ascendant experience. Ascension…how many  times do we hear that in so called “spiritual” circles.

Descendre!

The journey of return is not so glamorous for it requires us to  collect all we have learned and bring it into the sweat, blood and bone  of our bodies…to have awareness and to DO something about it…to carry it  into the hidden space of our psyches and the harrowing corners  of our  society…to plug into the diverse and overwhelming web of connection  which is longing for us to remember it as Holy and Whole.

This last year has been a grueling one…one in which I believe all of  us have had our eyes opened and our hearts laid bare in some way.  There  will be no going back to what was. Yet we must use all we have learned  to RETURN to the belonging and balance that is the birthright of all

DESCENDRE. To Descend.

Shall we do this dear friends?… like a legion of flesh and blood  angels…awareness wide open, minds connected to hearts, hearts in our  hands, leaning into our experience… knowing this earth, this time, these  beings as our only sacred and transformative ground.