Sue Moon’s Blog

An old friend emailed me this morning and asked how I was doing with nepantla.  I had never heard of the word, so she sent me this description. A very intuitive woman.

“‘Nepantla’ is a Nahuatl word meaning. “in-between space.”
During nepantla, our worldviews and self-identities are shattered. Nepantla is painful, messy, confusing, and chaotic; it signals unexpected, uncontrollable shifts, transitions, and changes. Nepantla hurts!!!!
But nepantla is also a time of self-reflection, choice, and potential growth—what Anzaldúa describes as opportunities to “see through” restrictive cultural and personal scripts.
Nepantla includes both radical dis-identification and transformation. We dis-identify with existing beliefs, social structures, and models of identity; by so doing, we are able to transform these existing conditions.”

Pretty much sums it up. Although I might add that during these “messy” times of change we are being offered enormous potential for fulfilling our true hearts desires, we just have to discover what those really are.