This degree speaks of the emergence of a fundamentally new form from the dissolution of the old.
"Emerging transformed"
The butterfly emerging from chrysalis represents the completion of metamorphosis — the total transformation from one form of being into another. This is not improvement but transfiguration: the caterpillar does not become a better caterpillar but an entirely different creature.
Left unexamined, the exhaustion of endlessly pursuing the emergence of a fundamentally new form from the dissolution of the old without pausing to receive what has already arrived.
After a long change, you come out as someone new.
A burning yearning for emotional discovery — the recognition that feelings are the fire through which we understand ourselves. Its wisdom is learning to experience pure emotion without attachment to the outcome.
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