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As the year ends, I have two wishes:
That your year starts in a healthy hopeful way, which continues each day after, and
That you see yourself as a star, shining in the heavens.
For myself, I have two feelings, one for 2024 and one for 2025, each represented by the songs of Neko Case:
For 2024 “I Wish I Was The Moon”
Looking to 2025 “I’m an Animal”
In the context of “I’m an Animal”, I am slowly making my way through Carl Jung’s “Red Book: Liber Novus” where he shares the importance of living authentically, to respect our environment while not exceeding our needs, and living in harmony with our “animal nature” so as to treat others with respect. To quote his writing (I have added my own words with brackets, in respect of inclusivity):
“The animal does not rebel against its own kind. Consider animals: how just they are, how well-behaved, how they keep to the time-honored, how loyal they are to the land that bears them, how they hold to their accustomed routes, how they care for their young, how they go together to pasture, and how they draw one another to the spring. There is not one that conceals its overabundance of prey and lets its brother [and sister] starve as a result. There is not one that tries to enforce its will on those of its own kind. Not a one mistakenly imagines that it is an elephant when it is a mosquito. The animal lives fittingly and true to the life of its species, neither exceeding nor falling short of it.
He [They] who never lives his [their] animal must treat his [their] brother [and sister] like an animal. Abase yourself and live your animal so that you will be able to treat your brother [and sister] correctly. You will thus redeem all those roaming dead who strive to feed on the living. And do not turn anything you do into a law, since that is the hubris of power.”