Before there was Earth, Love, Death, Night, Day, or Light, there was Chaos. Alternately described as a goddess, a “shapeless nothingness,” and a “mix of the elements,” Chaos gave birth to two children: Erebus, the “unfathomable depth where death dwells,” and Night.

Surrounded by a terrifyingly blank and boundless abyss, Night nonetheless placed a wind-born egg into the arms of Erebus. With time, Love burst forth, bringing order and beauty to the bottomless confusion all around.

Love then created Light and, with it, radiant Day. At long last, almighty Earth, also known as Gaia, came into being. A physical container of solid ground, Gaia possessed an equally powerful personality that shifted and changed, interacted and reacted. She was, and remains, almighty yet tender, formidable yet fragile.1

She, along with her lineage, lives on all around us, and also inside us. She and her ancestors remain a part of you, me, and all of us.

For too long we have been taught to fear, critique, and tuck away life’s chaos, yet in doing so, we forget its immense power to transform us, our health, our lives, as well as the world we live in. While chaos may seem dark and daunting, as the time of Chaos surely was, when we dismiss chaos, we forgo the opportunity to give birth to love, light, radiance, and abundance of every imaginable kind. We unnecessarily dim our own magic. As we dive into this journey, I ask that you, like Chaos herself, resist the temptation to hide and reject your unique brand of chaos and instead embrace it as a sacred invitation into your own cosmic health.