Natural Cycles of Completion

A quick post about completing things.  Today we have an opportunity to make a profound and subtle shift to our way of being.  The effects of this shift may not even be particularly obvious but they will have very far reaching effects.

I’ll explain.  We are cyclical beings.  The Earth cycles around the Sun, the Moon cycles around the Earth.  The days and seasons cycle through our lives.

As we have taken on the concept of the linear and mechanised we have lost touch with our cyclical nature.

This is not simply a superficial cosmetic shift, something that can be remedied by going out to look at the full moon occasionally.

This loss of connection bites deeply into our lives, because it cuts us off from aspects of our own unseen creative energy.  Unseen only because they are buried and abandoned in the rush to move on quickly to the next thing.   It can leave us anxious, depleted and depressed without understanding why.

Experiment for a few days with allowing natural completions.  That means not pushing anything.  It’s not about ‘oh I must finish this before I have to go out’.  It’s about allowing things their natural cycle.  Leaving things unfinished until they are naturally ready to complete is part of the process.  Not rushing ourselves to leave something that we are enjoying is another part of the process.  Feel into your body, your emotions, your mind – how are you responding to your activity?  Experiment with your inner knowing.  Let it tell you when you’re ready to move on to the next thing.

Here’s the technical explanation, read on if you’re interested.

Venus in Gate 63 – the Gate of Completion.  This is a watershed gate that says ‘you’ve got it on the inner level of understanding and now it will radiate out into more concrete areas of your life’.  We are rediscovering the value of this subtle inner knowing.

Mercury conjunct Eris in Gate 42 – The Gate of Increase.  This gate is about flowing on and on until you are done.  It also relates to completing things.  Eris and Mercury bring us a new consciousness of how our growth processes have become chaotic due to unnecessary limitations.

If we don’t follow the natural cyclical flow we miss out on bits of the journey and have to come around again and again looking for them.  Without them we can’t move on and yet they are often things we’ve learnt to ignore in our lives, to consider unimportant.

Magdalena is in the Gate of Limitations (60), releasing energy contained unnecessarily in your Root Centre and activating a new energy structure the embodies the divine feminine wisdom.

Cyllarus and Hades in Gate 15 – The Gate of Integrity.  This gate is about rhythms of time that go beyond the earth based cycles.  When we move with the energy of this gate we move with universal rhythms and time frames well beyond our single lifetime.   Sometimes we do things and don’t understand their longer term significance, but our actions are important nonetheless.

Lilith is in the adjoining Gate 5, which indicates a suppressed rage about having to comply with unnatural timing – alarms that have us up before dawn to catch a train to work, bringing the children home at 7pm and trying to put dinner on and get them to bed, anything that is gender based and unnatural in terms of time.

Sun conjunct Jupiter in Gate 51 – exactly conjunct in line 2 today.  All those times when you were unable to respond fully and deeply to trauma and shock have left scars on your psyche.  We no longer believe that the body is self healing simply because we’ve lost our connection with the natural rhythm of healing.  We ‘soldier on’ regardless of what we need to nurture ourselves, considering these petty nuisances – headaches, flu, grief, broken limbs in casts – to be unimportant compared with the struggle for survival.  We have lost our ability to have a gentle regard for ourselves and our own needs.

We can’t grow into our natural shape if we keep trimming our natural energy back.  Release yourself into something today, let it flow till it’s done, let it take as long as it needs to complete itself.  Feel the expansion.