NINE-YEAR CYCLES (a.k.a. temporal cycles)
The power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. The sky round, and I have heard that the earth is like a ball, and so are the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls; birds make their nests in circle, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun and moon, both round, come forth and go down again in a circle. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. [Black Elk]
The cycle of life reminds us how the circles and spirals of time loop back on themselves in endlessly repeating patterns and rhythms. The universe expands and contrasts in the rhythm of a cosmic breath that takes billions of years; annually, the seasons pass and return; water falls from the skies, then rises up, condenses, and falls again. Everywhere, we see rhythms and cycles.
We also experience smaller cycles, not often noticed in the business of everyday life – repeating patterns of energy that appear, disappear, and reappear, cycling upward in time, rising ever higher as we learn the lessons of life, rising toward our destinies.
The primary numbers 1 through 9 provide keys to one kind of cycle. The value in observing the rhythms and patterns of our life is that if we can synchronize our personal desires with the larger forces and rhythms, we can harness the power of good timing; we ride the crest of each wave of energy as we swim with the current in the river of time, developing a refined attunement to the natural world. Even though we retain our birth number and its associated energies and issues for an entire lifetime, we also experience regular, progressive cycles through all of the primal energies expressed by the numbers 1 through 9. The year we are born relates to our primary life purpose; the following year we experience the energy of the next higher number, and so on, up through 9, when we begin a new cycle. So in addition to our birth number and life path, we feel a strong influence of the numbers of the years within the nine-year cycles of our life, and each year brings new issues and opportunities.
We can understand the energy of each year of the cycle in terms of the rhythms of planting, growing, development, harvest, and plowing under, preparing for the new cycle. This metaphor and image may appear abstract – until we determine our own cycle and notice how it can provide useful, practical guidance about our sense of timing in life.
THE NINE-YEAR CYCLE
1: Creativity and Confidence
The first year of a cycle is the year of creativity, of planting the seeds, of newness, of opening to new opportunity with confidence. The sprout is sown, but it hasn’t yet broken through the ground. This may involve a time of planning as well as planting, of resolutions as well as map making. It can also mean going back to school, retraining, or moving to a new location – beginning something anew. The snow is just melting in early spring.
2: Cooperation and Balance
The second year, the seed needs the help and interaction of others – the sun, soil, and water. In our life, the second year of the cycle means working with other people in some form, finding our boundaries, defining ourselves in our new course of work or activity in terms of our relationships with others. We form new ties, alliances, and support networks. The earth grows warmer.
3: Expression and Sensitivity
The third year, the seed breaks through the soil into the sunlight; this may mean a time of visibility and careful growth. The shoot is still green and vulnerable. This time may bring a feeling of vulnerability; doubts may arise: “Can I do it?” Our horizons grow wider; we see and experience more. It’s now late spring.
4: Stability and Process
The fourth year, the shoot grows thicker and stronger, extending its roots deeper into the soil. This is time to establish stability; a critical stage, a time not for show but for making sure our roots are strong. This is a time to review and reflect, a time to catch up on anything overlooked, a time to regroup our forces and make sure our preparations are complete. Summer is around the corner.
5: Freedom and Discipline
The fifth year in the cycle, the tree begins to blossom and attract other life – birds, bees, and forest creatures. Just so, if our work has been sound and the soil rich, if we have made good use of the first four years through our labours, now is the time of opportunity, of many options and choices. The orchard bears its first fruit. This is a time of celebration. Summer is here.
6: Vision and Acceptance
The sixth year if a time to give back, to share the harvest with all those who would eat from the fruit of the tree, to pour out, with a sense of duty and high vision, sharing our good fortune. It is a time of generosity and abundance, but also a time to accept and to appreciate the bigger picture of what has been, what is to become, and what lies beyond. It’s late summer.
7: Trust and Openness
The seventh year is a time for gratitude in remembering the Source of all the fruit of all the trees. Not as goal oriented, it is a time for enjoyment and ease, a time to look back and learn from the years that have come before: the first year’s creative impulse, the second year’s teamwork and cooperation, the third year’s vulnerability and doubt overcome, the fourth year’s regrouping and consolidation, the fifth year’s harvest, and the sixth year’s sharing. To this, is now added the gratitude for it all, seeing how all prior challenges contributed to the present moment. Autumn has come.
8: Abundance and Power
The eighth year brings, for those with the willingness and command to reap the harvest, abundant rewards for the previous seven years. The harvest directly reflects the quality of all that came before. The tree now stands tall and strong, mature and valued, ready to harvest. Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signalling the later days of autumn.
9: Integrity and Wisdom
This ninth year is a year of completion, of letting go, of quiet reflection that leads to wisdom – a time of looking backward and understanding that all cycles end; then begin again. Attachment never avails here, for all things pass; the fall has ended, and now is the time for plowing under, turning the soil, so that next spring cycle we can plant anew, with renewed hope and vigour, improving on this cycle through the wisdom gained. Winter’s bittersweet presence brings a period of inner silence, and stillness, as we wait for the light to come again.
The power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. The sky round, and I have heard that the earth is like a ball, and so are the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls; birds make their nests in circle, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun and moon, both round, come forth and go down again in a circle. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. [Black Elk]
The cycle of life reminds us how the circles and spirals of time loop back on themselves in endlessly repeating patterns and rhythms. The universe expands and contrasts in the rhythm of a cosmic breath that takes billions of years; annually, the seasons pass and return; water falls from the skies, then rises up, condenses, and falls again. Everywhere, we see rhythms and cycles.
We also experience smaller cycles, not often noticed in the business of everyday life – repeating patterns of energy that appear, disappear, and reappear, cycling upward in time, rising ever higher as we learn the lessons of life, rising toward our destinies.
The primary numbers 1 through 9 provide keys to one kind of cycle. The value in observing the rhythms and patterns of our life is that if we can synchronize our personal desires with the larger forces and rhythms, we can harness the power of good timing; we ride the crest of each wave of energy as we swim with the current in the river of time, developing a refined attunement to the natural world. Even though we retain our birth number and its associated energies and issues for an entire lifetime, we also experience regular, progressive cycles through all of the primal energies expressed by the numbers 1 through 9. The year we are born relates to our primary life purpose; the following year we experience the energy of the next higher number, and so on, up through 9, when we begin a new cycle. So in addition to our birth number and life path, we feel a strong influence of the numbers of the years within the nine-year cycles of our life, and each year brings new issues and opportunities.
We can understand the energy of each year of the cycle in terms of the rhythms of planting, growing, development, harvest, and plowing under, preparing for the new cycle. This metaphor and image may appear abstract – until we determine our own cycle and notice how it can provide useful, practical guidance about our sense of timing in life.
THE NINE-YEAR CYCLE
1: Creativity and Confidence
The first year of a cycle is the year of creativity, of planting the seeds, of newness, of opening to new opportunity with confidence. The sprout is sown, but it hasn’t yet broken through the ground. This may involve a time of planning as well as planting, of resolutions as well as map making. It can also mean going back to school, retraining, or moving to a new location – beginning something anew. The snow is just melting in early spring.
2: Cooperation and Balance
The second year, the seed needs the help and interaction of others – the sun, soil, and water. In our life, the second year of the cycle means working with other people in some form, finding our boundaries, defining ourselves in our new course of work or activity in terms of our relationships with others. We form new ties, alliances, and support networks. The earth grows warmer.
3: Expression and Sensitivity
The third year, the seed breaks through the soil into the sunlight; this may mean a time of visibility and careful growth. The shoot is still green and vulnerable. This time may bring a feeling of vulnerability; doubts may arise: “Can I do it?” Our horizons grow wider; we see and experience more. It’s now late spring.
4: Stability and Process
The fourth year, the shoot grows thicker and stronger, extending its roots deeper into the soil. This is time to establish stability; a critical stage, a time not for show but for making sure our roots are strong. This is a time to review and reflect, a time to catch up on anything overlooked, a time to regroup our forces and make sure our preparations are complete. Summer is around the corner.
5: Freedom and Discipline
The fifth year in the cycle, the tree begins to blossom and attract other life – birds, bees, and forest creatures. Just so, if our work has been sound and the soil rich, if we have made good use of the first four years through our labours, now is the time of opportunity, of many options and choices. The orchard bears its first fruit. This is a time of celebration. Summer is here.
6: Vision and Acceptance
The sixth year if a time to give back, to share the harvest with all those who would eat from the fruit of the tree, to pour out, with a sense of duty and high vision, sharing our good fortune. It is a time of generosity and abundance, but also a time to accept and to appreciate the bigger picture of what has been, what is to become, and what lies beyond. It’s late summer.
7: Trust and Openness
The seventh year is a time for gratitude in remembering the Source of all the fruit of all the trees. Not as goal oriented, it is a time for enjoyment and ease, a time to look back and learn from the years that have come before: the first year’s creative impulse, the second year’s teamwork and cooperation, the third year’s vulnerability and doubt overcome, the fourth year’s regrouping and consolidation, the fifth year’s harvest, and the sixth year’s sharing. To this, is now added the gratitude for it all, seeing how all prior challenges contributed to the present moment. Autumn has come.
8: Abundance and Power
The eighth year brings, for those with the willingness and command to reap the harvest, abundant rewards for the previous seven years. The harvest directly reflects the quality of all that came before. The tree now stands tall and strong, mature and valued, ready to harvest. Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signalling the later days of autumn.
9: Integrity and Wisdom
This ninth year is a year of completion, of letting go, of quiet reflection that leads to wisdom – a time of looking backward and understanding that all cycles end; then begin again. Attachment never avails here, for all things pass; the fall has ended, and now is the time for plowing under, turning the soil, so that next spring cycle we can plant anew, with renewed hope and vigour, improving on this cycle through the wisdom gained. Winter’s bittersweet presence brings a period of inner silence, and stillness, as we wait for the light to come again.
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Suicides go to hell.
Maybe that's where I belong
with all of the murderers,
wrong-doers
and thief’s.
Suicides are bad people or they seem to be,
because they murderered themselves,
the second thing God gave them,
along with his promising love.
Suicides are just lost
in a sea of darkness,
of oblivion,
of lost causes.
Suicides aren't bad people,
they are just people with bad actions
and wrong accusations.
Suicides just want to make it better
for those they once loved.
Suicides only know that if they breakaway
from the only thing that keeps them here
everything will be as it once was,
everything will be silent,
everything will be out of their hands,
the world will be a better place.
Suicides have the right to
take away their pain.
Suicides have the right to death.
Maybe that's where I belong
with all of the murderers,
wrong-doers
and thief’s.
Suicides are bad people or they seem to be,
because they murderered themselves,
the second thing God gave them,
along with his promising love.
Suicides are just lost
in a sea of darkness,
of oblivion,
of lost causes.
Suicides aren't bad people,
they are just people with bad actions
and wrong accusations.
Suicides just want to make it better
for those they once loved.
Suicides only know that if they breakaway
from the only thing that keeps them here
everything will be as it once was,
everything will be silent,
everything will be out of their hands,
the world will be a better place.
Suicides have the right to
take away their pain.
Suicides have the right to death.