If Not Now, When?
If you had told me in 2019 that today I would be seeking a career in tarot reading and energy healing, I would have thought you’d had too much to drink. But this was before that most infamous of years, 2020. I was undergoing substantial personal growth after abandoning the faith of my upbringing and immersing myself in the magical world of entheogens. But I still had quite a lot of growing up to do, and the year 2020—a year of many endings—made it sure of this. Naturally, a beginning follows every ending. For something to be born, something else has to die. For a tree to be born and grow, a seed has to be buried in the soil. In short, life is born of sacrifice. Understanding sacrifice is difficult for a society immersed in instant gratification. Many of us are so removed from the world of our ancestors that we forget what it cost them to live and give life. Many of us live away from the farms that source our food. We don’t witness the planting, harvesting, cutting, and packaging of wha