“Oh Sarah. Thank you so much. I’ve listened to Moonbeaming for years now and it’s my favorite podcast. There’ve been several times that it felt like you had a divine message specifically for me, but your 8 of Pentacles (7/3/2024) episode really did a number on me.
I listened to it yesterday (7/10). You opened the episode by calling out that many are in a state of grief right now. It was poignant to me, because one of my beloved kitties passed away on the 4th of July. But that’s not the part that hit me (lovingly) in the jugular and had me pulling over to cry. At the end of the episode, you made a comparison to a raising a pet their whole life, pouring love into them, only to have them die in your arms. How that is a way to understand how precious life is, through that kind of absolutely psychedelic time effort love experience. Your words were exactly what I thought and felt the moment he died. The simultaneous “oh my god, please don’t leave me,” and “I am so lucky to have loved you.”
He was the first death of a pet in my adult life. His death was so tragic. He suffered. They say cats are masters at hiding their pain, and I did my best to mitigate it once I realized he was sick, but it wasn’t enough to halt the inevitable. Young things die all the time, but at 7 years old, he was too young. He wasn’t the password pet, but he was the youngest of my 4 and the baby of my blended cat family in every way. A loud bratty baby. I always said he was my “biological son that I gave birth to with my actual body.” His decline was little by little, then all at once.
My cats have a couple of different instagram accounts but I haven’t ✨eugoogalized✨ him on social media. Whatever that even means. I don’t know that I will. I cry every time I feed the other cats, who are noticeably grieving him as well. This episode helped me have a really cathartic cry that helped heal a really broken part of my heart. Thank you for being a conduit for such elevated beauty. Thank you for being you. 🩷”
lacy hannah via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/11/24