And nothing is truly lost

Today, as I was thinking about the current shifting state of my life, I was thinking of a Neil Gaiman quote I especially love. It is from The Wake, one of the Sandman graphic novels, and it goes like this:

"Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost."

Isn’t that lovely?

It’s similar to Ovid’s quote from Metamorphoses, which goes “omnia mutantur, nihil interit” (everything changes, nothing perishes), but somehow I find “and nothing is lost” so much more comforting.

Currently, I am feeling called to a shift in my own life and business . . . I’m being called to work with my own spirit guides more, and to lean into more energy and mediumship work, in addition to the coaching and tarot work I already do. I’m not yet certain what it all looks like, but none of it is entirely new, since it is all brought to bear in my coaching practices now.

However, I do know that things are shifting, and that means change. How wonderful to know that “everything changes[, a]nd nothing is truly lost.”

In double-checking the Gaiman quote a few years back, I found another quote from The Wake that really spoke to me, and it’s this: "It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best."

That second quote reminds me of a bit I especially love from the movie Shakespeare in Love, involving Geoffrey Rush's character, Philip Henslowe:

HENSLOWE
Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Believe me, to be closed by the plague is a bagatelle in the ups and downs of owning a theatre.

FENNYMAN
So what do we do?

HENSLOWE
Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.

FENNYMAN
How?

HENSLOWE
I don't know. It's a mystery.

and

WILL
(to HENSLOWE)
We are lost.

HENSLOWE
No, it will turn out well.

WILL
How will it?

HENSLOWE
I don't know, it's a mystery.

So yes, things right now are a bit of a mystery. And they are changing. And nothing will be lost, but things will work out for the best.

Maybe you needed to hear that, too.