{"id":23831,"date":"2013-01-20T19:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=23831"},"modified":"2013-01-20T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:28:03","slug":"rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising like a phoenix from our own ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23835\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23835\" title=\"phoenix fireworks72\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/phoenix-fireworks72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Napping today, I got the image of a bird flying straight up into the sky and bursting into a spray of firecracker like sparkles. Yesterday a friend and I were talking about burning away the (unhealthy parts of the) ego and what the personality goes through on its way to reconciliation with the soul. \u00a0We&#8217;re the creator of our own reality, yes. And when we make ourselves go down in flames, we then have a chance to, like the phoenix rising from our own ashes, become more fully formed now that another layer of dross has been burned away.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Rising like a phoenix from our own ashes&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Rising%20like%20a%20phoenix%20from%20our%20own%20ashes&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/rising-like-a-phoenix-from-our-own-ashes\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napping today, I got the image of a bird flying straight up into the sky and bursting into a spray of firecracker like sparkles. Yesterday a friend and I were talking about burning away the (unhealthy parts of the) ego and what the personality goes through on its way to reconciliation with the soul. \u00a0We&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23831"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23843,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions\/23843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}