Welcome to Folklore & Flourish.

Today we enter The Separation — the moment love is pulled apart.

After vows are spoken and promises sealed, life does what life has always done. It tests. It distances. It shifts seasons. In myth, separation is not the end of love. It is the forge that reveals its depth.

Drawing from the stories of Isis and Osiris, Demeter and Persephone, Izanagi and Izanami, and Hades and Persephone, today’s episode explores how distance reshapes devotion.

Separation creates longing.
Longing creates clarity.
Clarity reveals what truly matters.

Distance has a strange honesty. It strips away habit. It silences comfort. It forces the heart to decide whether what it feels is attachment… or something enduring.

In folklore, lovers cross underworlds, wait through winters, rebuild bodies from scattered pieces, and walk between worlds to reclaim what was lost. Love that survives separation becomes something stronger than desire. It becomes choice refined by absence.

Today we ask:

Who have I lost but still love?
What does distance teach me about the weight of my attachment?

Separation is not punishment.
It is revelation.

This episode begins Week 3: Love Lost & Found — where absence becomes teacher, and longing becomes compass.

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