There is a darkness that is the balance of light, the darkness of the yin/yang - darkness of night - darkness of a good and healthy, timely death that leads to rich decay and the birth of new life - Kali darkness - darkness of boundaries and protection and baring one's teeth, marking one's territory, defending one's cubs, hunting for food that satisfies, honoring the adrenaline rush of one's power. While this darkness is, well, DARK - not lightness and love and sweetness and comfort, it is part of all that turns the wheel.

There is another darkness. A hunger that doesn't know for what it hungers. A void that eats with a parasitic appetite and is never satisfied. An open mouth and empty belly that consumes without pleasure. That black, sticky, slimy gick that can posess consciousness and intent and devour both healthy life and healthy death leaving nothing with which to start over. The energy sucking darkness.

I have encountered both energies in Our work. I support the former wholeheartedly, and have had help from both "light" guardians and "dark" guardians to overcome the latter.

Just wanted to make that distinction.

Looked at your journal. Like you.

Char for TKS