A New Cycle Begins
In the beginning was the dream...
In the eternal night where no dawn broke, the dream deepened.
Before anything ever was, it had to be dreamed...John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
Rave New Year 2021
The image below tells us the story of what a new cycle looks like.
A new cycle is the new the sprouts out of the old, while other cycles are still taking place.
The vineyard has been pruned down to the essential bark, all last year’s branches had been removed. Yet the potential of new branches is waiting inside the cellular memory of the trees for the right moment to germinate.
Other trees have shed their leaves but kept what is essential for them.
The land has been ploughed and made ready for the promise of a new harvest.
A road is meandering across the expanse of farmland - it probably was a dirt road of some sort a few years back, and before that, it did not exist at all.
And one day, something else will appear or disappear. That is life, and those are its cycles.
The Root of Every Experience
The Root Center in the Human Design Bodygraph is the Center of Adrenal pressure. This is the motor responsible for the physical pressure and stress that drives our movement in life. It houses different fuels for awareness and vitality and growth - when it is used correctly. Or it can be a place where we experience stress and pressure that leads to burnout.
Gate 41 is About Hunger
One such fuel is the pressure to feel, which is found in Gate 41, the Gate of Decrease, Contraction. It is the place where our potential as humans exists - on a genetic level. It carries the most crucial pressure in our evolutionary process: the capacity to feel and need and desire a new experience for its own sake, and to develop our potential through experiences.
We are willing to go through crisis and change despite ephemerality - we want to look behind one day and say “I’ve been there and I’ve done that!”. We are hungry to experience a new feeling and feel new experiences regardless of the outcome. This is called the abstract process, it has beginnings, middles, and ends.
Such a process cannot be evaluated before it starts, and it cannot be evaluated while it is going on. We can look at it and learned from it once it is over. Then we can examine it to extract the lessons and develop our potential.
The New Rave Year
New Rave Cycle 2021 - mybodygraph.com
The planets in our Solar System are in constant movement. Graphically we can look at the Rave Mandala and see which planet is visiting which gate.
When the Sun moves into gate 41 it begins a new cycle. This new cycle has nothing to do with any calendar cycle such as the Gregorian Calendar or the Hijri Calendar.
To be clear, any planet that goes into gate 41 begins a new cycle.
The Sun’s cycle lasts a year, which is the time our star needs to return to gate 41 every year.
Sidenote: Jupiter and Saturn both have initiated us into a new cycle as well when they entered gate 41. A Jupiterian Cycle is 12 years, and a Saturnian Cycle is about 29.4 years. An exploration for another time :)
Aware or not, cycles happen, just like the cycle of night and day, they are beyond our control or conscious will. That, however, does not mean we cannot prepare for them with awareness. If you are following my posts here or on Instagram, you probably have seen the exercise related to preparing for the new cycle.
If you have not, no worries.
We always have now.
Like the first image above, a new cycle is about making sure you have kept the essentials from which the new emergers.
What are the essentials?
We each have unique essentials, and from an HD perspective, they are about using your Strategy and Authority and learning to navigate life with the awareness brought by learning your design.
An experiential cycle of this type requires that you focus your desire on one vision - a fantasy, a feeling. And to see it through until the end before you focus on the next thing.
Look at the goals you set for yourself and observe what brings you to life, what magnetizes your fantasy.
Stay focused on that fantasy - if it is correct for you - allowing life to show you the way - learn to notice and let go of all expectations.
And journal, journal, journal. I cannot stress enough the value in this practice.
Journal about your day, the highlights, the good, the bad, the not so good. This exercise will help you see the cycle you are experiencing and will aid you next year when we return to this exercise.
Safe journeying.
