My birthday aka. Solar Return always brings me mixed emotions. For some reason this time of year brings about intense change and transformation at a cosmic level - I am sure that you have all felt that. Turning 40 for me has brought me this deeper insight into myself. Because I have always looked really young, my whole corporate life; I struggled for my colleagues to take me seriously.
At the hospital where I worked as a Digital Project Manager for a health app called bant - interns and visitors to the office would think I was a student, and I went along with it sometimes, because you can get more honest answers from people when they know that you aren’t their manager ;)
Bringing this back to the concepts of rebirth and resurrection. I have mentioned previously how I have a very deep connection to the story of Supergirl because of the fact that she died the Crisis on Inifinite Earths Comic Book storyline in April 1985. I was born in April 1985. So, there is something to be said about coming into form at the same time as another imaginative being “leaving it”.
In 2024 (last year) they released an animated version of Crisis on Infinite Earths. I reccommend watching it, I am also planning a Discord watch party so we can do an analysis of the animated version and the comic book version. They are similar in themes, but they change quite a few things - I do think it works.
After all, I am the type of person who loves the story for the character arc. More character driven versus plot driven; or rather the character arc is what drives the plot forward. And in such cases, many times a character I love makes the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of the world (and in this case, reality/existence itself). When this happens, its so crazy, every time I re read or re watch a movie with this…. the point where they leave hurts just like the first time.
Such is the truth of what stories teach us about immortality.
That just because a book ends does not mean that it is the end forever. We can go back to the beginning all over again… or….
We can start a new story <3
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