I am currently reading a book entitled, “Lost On The Trail”. It is about a private search and rescue effort to find 3 hikers that disappeared on the Pacific Crest Trail within just a few miles, and weeks/months of each other.
One of the hikers had a tattoo on his torso of the symbols for accept, learn and let go. So, it got me doing a web search for those symbols.
The most common symbols would be an open book for learn. But the symbol for, let go, surprised me. It is a Celtic symbol which I thought was the symbol for the Wheel of the Year.
I have a Celtic flag that flies over my house because in this day and age of “pronouns” I identify as Celtic. My parents both come from Scottish, Wales and English ancestry. I have studied some Celtic beliefs and I definitely identify with life being cyclical and evolving through the changing of the seasons which represent life, birth and death. Life can be a path of uncertainties, and the wheel gives me direction that tends to keep me grounded to nature and to the Supernatural.
Coming across this symbol and its meaning also struck a chord with me because of a photo I have of me and my ex-husband in my kitchen. Our marriage was racked with difficulties and disappointment, but the photo in question was of us at a New Year’s Eve party in the mid 1990’s. It was the good years for us. Times I had mostly forgotten due to the way our marriage progressed in later years. Years of resentment and bitterness toward each other. I found the photo tucked into the pages of a devotional I had not read in decades. I found it after he died and it was the first time I cried after his passing. It was a reminder that I needed to, “let go”. So I also have a sticker sitting next to that photo that says that exact thing. Let that shit go.
What about you?
What is it you need to let go of?
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