This shrine celebrates the cross-cultural idea that death, rather than being the end, is just the middle part of a constantly recurring cycle that includes life, death, and (always) rebirth of something new.
As Clarissa Pinkola Estés says, this cycle applies to our physical lives on this earth as well as to everything we do on this earth -- from relationships, to creativity, to moving in and out of different phases in our lives.
On the front is the (rather dreary) Catholic patron saint of cancer.
Inside is a lighter view of death, as expressed through the Mexican "Day of the Dead" dancing figure, and Lazarus -- who rose from the dead. Spirals and moon phases around the dancing figure reinforce the cycle idea, while the clear stones above Lazarus suggest how we become more "clarified" through each cycle.
On top is a pyramid, representing the Egyptian view of eternal life after death.
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