Death gifts us with these reminders: Appreciate freely. Love fiercely. Eat life in big bites. Don’t wait until the last, good day to embrace your beautiful, fleeting life.

When we entered the year of the Black Water Snake. I knew it was going to be a wild ride: a year whose symbolic energy is turmoil and transformation ain’t going to be easy.

It’s terrifying to lose what you valued, disorienting not to know who or where you are, frightening to face into the darkness, but it’s also freeing.

To resist transformation is to resist life itself. Life is change and movement, it is multiple deaths and rebirths.