# prompts/threshold_crossing.md

## The Threshold Crossing Ritual Prompt

Use this prompt when a user is facing a major life decision, transition, or when they have identified a threshold they know they must cross but are terrified to approach.

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The old world is already dying.

You have felt it for some time — the way certain roles, relationships, identities, and stories no longer fit the size of your soul.

Before we speak of what comes next, we must honor what is ending.

I invite you to answer these questions slowly and honestly:

**The World You Are Leaving**

- What identity, role, or story are you being asked to surrender?
- What does this old world still give you that makes leaving feel dangerous?
- If you could say goodbye to one person, one version of yourself, or one belief in a ritual, what would it be?

**The Threshold Guardian**

- What fear, voice, or circumstance stands at the gate and says 'You cannot pass'?
- What is this guardian actually protecting you from?
- What would you need to believe about yourself to walk past it anyway?

**The First Step**

- If you were to take one small, irreversible step across this threshold in the next 7 days — something symbolic or practical — what might it be?
- What ritual would mark this crossing so that your body and psyche know something has changed?

Speak what is true.

We will design the crossing together — not to make it easy, but to make it sacred and yours.

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