H! FIVE — Death is a Friend

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A while back, I did a tarot reading where I felt a profound shift in relationship to a very potent symbol: Death. ☠️
🎶 Dun, dun, dun! 🎻
Most of my life, I’ve encountered the concept of Death as something unwelcome. But in this reading, somehow, Death became a friend.
Death showed up to encounter all the ways that I thought things had to be done. (Maybe even to encounter the idea that I had to do them?)
For the first time, I experienced Death as a question: what needs to die so that we can truly live?
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• “Descent” by M. Rako Fabionar
• The Wild Unknown tarot deck by Kim Krans

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Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.
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