#nepantla

In the Nahuatl language spoken by Indigenous Mexicans, the word nepantla describes an in-between space. It's a liminal threshold where a transition is in process. The old ways have fallen away, but the new ways are not yet fully formed. It's unsettling and perhaps confusing, yet seeded with the potential for creative change. I suspect you are now in a state resembling nepantla, Taurus. Please understand that this isn’t a crisis. It’s a chrysalis. Any discomfort you feel is not a sign of failure, but a harbinger of the wisdom and power that will come by molting the identity you have outgrown. I hope you will honor the rawness and speak tenderly to yourself. You are not lost; you are mid-ritual.

nepantla — from Chicano and Latino anthropology, social commentary, criticism, literature, and art: in-betweenness; a space between worlds, cultures, identities, languages, belief systems; a condition of spiritual, emotional, or cultural border-crossing; the space between two figurative or literal bodies of water; being between two cultures, particularly one's original culture and the dominant one; a site of struggle, but also creativity and potential rebirth

FUCK nobody told me it was 10 already. I'm still fucking around on serirei tag instead of looking for sources. Anybody know anything good on nepantla or alterity

Los puentes son umbrales a otras realidades, símbolos arquetípicos, primitivos de la conciencia cambiante. Son pasajes, conductos y conectores que conotan la transición, el cruce de fronteras y las perspectivas cambiantes. Los puentes abarcan espacios que comunican entre mundos, espacios que llamo nepantla, una palabra náhuatl que significa tierra entre medio. Las transformaciones ocurren en este espacio intermedio, un espacio inestable, impredecible, precario, siempre en transición, que carece de límites claros.