Think of important relationships in your life: Where are you the most honest and dishonest with those people? Where are the double-edged swords in your life—those things that help you but also create the problem? Those people, places or things that guide you but throw you off track? Which gods are in the way that make the trip take so long? What is supportive and detrimental at the same time?

This period of time is a collective Bardo, or in Sanskrit antarbhava—it’s a liminal , intermediate space where the old rules don’t apply and yet the new have not been completely revealed. This kind of time and space can either induce great panic or can be immensely creative—often both.

From an article I wrote two years ago about Love and Betrayal: time to listen to my own advice…