I started writing this on, or just after, the new moon in Cancer.
I didn’t want to, even though I had set this date as the! date! I would get back to my blog, because I had gotten the astrology wrong and thought that July 17, 2023 would be a new moon in Capricorn instead.
It would have been easier, under a Capricorn moon. But I’ve already waited so long—months and years, at this point—to come back here, I didn’t want to anymore.
There is so much to share: like why I haven’t by sharing.
On the one hand, I was deeply occupied with falling in love, then moving in and arranging a wedding. This “punctured my solitude” (words of Maggie Nelson) and the conditions under which I used to write: in the dark of night, or better yet, as the sky began to brighten, no sounds or things but the gentle company of candles, crystals, plants, and cats.
On the other hand, I was (and always have been?) grappling with the following sensations that made me not want to share with the world through this element of ether: overwhelm by the internet, annoyance/addiction with social media, fright/anxiety at climate change, despair with the world, the cluster@^$$&%*%()**!!! of late-stage capitalism, uncertainty, desire, joy, peace, contentment, hormones, hope, faith, and many other iterations of such fluctuations.
There is so much more to be said, but there is something to be said for leaving it unsaid for now. If anything, the message I want to impart is this, something stumbled upon that resonated deeply:
~ original image beneath by Albarrán Cabrera ~
I’ve been feeling a deep shift in my equilibrium as I crossed the finish line of my 28th lap around the sun at the beginning of July.
Did you know that our life goes in seven-year cycles? Surely it moves in other numerological patterns, too, but this particular rhythm makes a lot of sense to me. You can think of it as:
0-7: from the womb portal to young childhood.
7-14: from young childhood to teenager.
14-21: from teenager to the beginning of young adulthood.
21-28: from young adulthood to, perhaps, the next stage.
And so, and so forth.
As you can see, the first three cycles of our life are full of radical physical, mental and developmental transformation—from baby to toddler to child to teen to young adult. After that, throughout the length of the fourth cycle, the brain and the hormones even out. Our eyesight does, too. We are done growing and just like that, begin aging.
I guess that is what I have been feeling upon the completion of my third cycle: that the pace of radical transformation turns into more of a self-shaping steadiness.
There’s more to say but I will leave it at that, with your own inquiry into your seven-year cycles, if you wish.
There is a shift in the air on this new moon, too, regardless of your age: a change of the lunar nodes from Taurus and Scorpio, to Aries and Libra.
I will be back soon,
Jasmine
P.s.
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