Status Updates From Women Who Run With the Wolves

Sometimes the one who is running from the LDL nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths & rebirths. We let go of one phase/aspect of love & enter another. Passion dies, & is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace & at the same time to withstand many endings, and many beginnings – all in the same relationship.

The symbol of death as spiritual transformer is a remnant of a time when Lady Death was welcomed as a close relative, as one’s own sister, brother, father, mother, or lover. In feminine imagery, the Death Woman, Death Mother, or Death Maiden was always understood as the carrier of destiny, the maker, the harvest maiden, the mother, the river walker, and the re-creator; all of these in cycle.