INs and OUTs

one week in.

2025
In:

- 50’s
- Blood letting
- Persian rug
- Big, thick, 4-wicked floor candles
- Swords (on walls-only to be held with one hand in the dark-blade facing self.)
- Inwardness
- Inverted triangles
- Mammones
- Head (exclusively)
- Driving dates
- Pondering
- Using a Compass (drawing or otherwise)
- Baths/sitting in the shower
- Arts and crafts
- Autophagy
- Metabolic health
- Urns and Carafes
- Chthonic mothers
- Tiamat
- Red ochre
- Medical appointments
- Perfect Precision (plan, do, check, act)
- Symbiosis

Out

- “eldest ____ complex”
- Archetypes
- The Stagnant.
- Aimless Self effacing
- Needles
- Sex dolls
- Sand
- “Collective unconsciousness”
- ZARA boxers
- TheWizardLiz (not real)
- Divine feminine
- “___Maxxing”
- Alcohol
- Lucid dreaming
- Dying god religions
- Cannibalism (about to be overplayed)
- Rawness
- Economy of beggars
- Quiet luxury
- Metaverse
- Rule of threes
- Love (as an excuse)

Hello readers,

If you had to ask me what the significant difference is, I would say it is in the way I have learnt to look at myself. Not as a dark mouth consuming the world but as a voice among many. Last year, I needed darkness to learn the art of excision and living when your world is almost all grey. This year I want to meet that same world through the lens of seeing it exactly as it is and not feeling the urge to check the wound. I have many other things to do while things quietly repair themselves.

2026

In

- Neutrality
- From the ground up
- Bright eyes
- The star
- Personal myth
- Anchoring
- Action
- Power over Vice (as a human condition)
- Character traits
- 5 senses
- Gut feeling
- Horizons
- Stopping by woods
- Brave child
- Fountains
- Surf
- Consistency as a love language
- Midday sun
- The Self as an arrow pointing outwards
- The sublime

Out

- Confessionals
- Sublimation
- Blurred lines
- Speech as a weapon
- Where do I fit in?
- Center of the universe
- Exhaustion
- Perception
- Back bridge
- Practices that encourage self suffering
- Dissection
- Identity derived from wounds 
    - (The self as a massive scar)
- Excavation 
- Mortal enemy (having / being one)
- Smoke and dimness
- Fetus in Fetu

There is still much to discuss, I unfortunately do not have a poem for you today.
But I will be writing.

As always,
-Swan.