08/13/2026
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Everything which begins has to also end at some point.
There’s no way of avoiding this. And yet we spend vast amounts of energy resisting this natural truth of life, putting off what needs to end, change, die-off. Through endlessly procrastinating and hanging on to a role, job, relationship, creativity, and most of all: our identity, often based on all these things.
Why? Because it’s incredibly uncomfortable letting these things go which have been the bedrock of our lives and identity for years and sometimes decades.
Some start in childhood – those adaptations we slide our natural self into in order to fit in, survive and get by. Others may be an ideal career that we enter, which then later on no longer sustains and feeds us and our soul, but which has formed our now adult sense of self.
Even things which we were fully in alignment with, a soul calling even, can start to become stale after a while if we don’t keep growing and allowing space for new, other sources of nourishment and watering of our psyche and soul.
This aspect is often overlooked and yet can be a huge source of suffering, stress, unhappiness and frustration, and often underlies other more surface-level discontentment and problems. And please don’t underestimate just how traumatic and grief-inducing it is to walk away from something you’ve utterly loved and which you thought would be a part of your life forever. It’s immensely painful and sad.
As in the myth The Fisher King, the problem originates from WITHIN the King’s soul, therefore, that is also where the solution lies, from within. From finding new and life-enhancing springs to revivify us and wet our appetite for new challenges, roles and situations.
And so, we must ask ourselves at frequent intervals: What ails me? And, What do I know I want and need in my life NOW?
It takes a brave heart to walk this part of the journey, yet it’s essential if we are to discover what now brings us life and joy, and learn the art of endings and letting go.
Angela Dunning
The Horse’s Truth
Art by Tracie Grimwood.
