The 7 years cycles of consciousness
While we are all born in Body,Soul and Spirit, we loose touch with Spirit the moment we ‘set foot on earth’. The ‘setting foot’ may be taken quite literally. As long as we are babies, unable to walk or talk and seemingly unaware of existence, we are still very much in touch with Spirit World where everything on earth originates from.
It’s when a baby arrives at what is sometimes referred to as ‘the terribles two’s, the stage of development when a child starts to walk and talk (back) and begins to refer to itself with a version of its given name or starts to use the personal pronoun ‘I’ to identify itself with, that life starts to change. From the budding human being starts to develop a will of its own and begins its encounters with the lessons of life.
According to some esoteric traditions this development from child to young adult, to adult, to middle age and older and old age, takes place in stages of 7 years at a time. As William Shakespeare phrases it in his play: ‘As You Like It’ :
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts
His acts being seven ages.
All too often we wonder why we have to go through certain experiences, how come we ‘deserve’ this and that.
One of the rather unnerving answers to this is that without realising it, our own stand in life, the way we behave and view the world around us, is in many ways the cause of the way it unfolds, even when circumstances seem too unjust, harsh and inhumane to expect to comply with, like so many world citizens are experiencing right now.
Questioning ones own part in the circumstances one finds oneself in while contemplating on the year that passed during winter solstice contemplation can be confrontational, especially when one is inclined to look for who to blame on what went wrong, rather than to look for one’s own accomplishments and what to be grateful for.
Reviewing imperfections and vulnerabilities however and looking what can be done differently in the year to come is also an act of healing; which is basically what life evolves on.
VII: The Chariot is the 7th card and therewith last card of the row of seven card that characterise the life journey in the material world.
When this card comes your way you may want to review your outlook on life. What laws do you live by? Do they correspond with what you intuitively know to be true? And before going to sleep focus on wanting to remember your dreams. They tend to reveal aspects of yourself that stay away from daily life experiences.
to read more on how to practice the winter solstice contemplation ritual click here.
Click on ‘the Chariot to read more about its meaning
On the right side of this blog you can also draw your own card and see what it summons up from within.
