Luna Dietrich

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What Happens When You Journey into the Underworld

If you procrastinate on starting a radically honest journaling ritual, you're not alone. There is a reason. It's scary as hell.

Writing down my subconscious thoughts onto paper is choosing to travel down into the underworld. The underworld is our subconscious. Exploring the underworld is exploring our fears, expectations, deepest longings and hidden biases.

When they exist simply as shadows, they are terrifying. I avoid looking directly at them. But their shadows haunt me. Drain me like vampires.

Luna dressed as a vampire holding her familiar, Patricia, the pussy cat.

The magic is... the underworld is actually a decadent party and when I meet my shadows, they aren’t scary. In fact, my shadows are rejuvenating gifts of gold. The underworld is a decadent party where the pain becomes the medicine. I come out of the underworld feeling more...ALIVE.

The magic is the more I travel into the underworld of writing down my subconscious thoughts, the less will power it takes. The less my shadows haunt me. The less shame I have because I know the pain becomes the medicine.

The more I travel into the underworld, the more the habit has set into my bones. I can do it with my eyes closed. I have made friends with Hermes, the liminal guide. We travel together transforming, shadows into gold, pain into medicine, as a daily ritual.

If you’d like guidance setting this ritual of traveling into the underworld into your bones, so you come out with feeling more golden aliveness, come join us for Take Care: Abundance and Boundaries. 

The gates close this Tuesday, October 26th!

with love from me and the underworld,

Luna

“The way you love yourself inspires the hell out of me!! You treat yourself so well it pours over to make others want to treat themselves well. That’s the real magic. You’re making magic.”

- Sam McLeod, 2019 Take Care