Cycles of Time
Like the sands in the hourglass
My perception of time was literally uprooted preparing for a journey to Peru in 1990 with a group of people curious about the lives of the Mollomarka who dwell high in the Andes above Cuzco where the air is thin. My life was consumed with the tic tock world of work, making a living and wishing for something more.
Daily life was like turning the 24-hourglass of sand back and forth in mechanical motions without awareness. It was a weighted version that needed attention every 12 hours to see gravity in motion. I saw the grains of sand but felt the heaviness of not enough time.
Thirty-four years have passed since the initiatory experience in Peru where I observed people living beyond the constraints of time as I had known. They are as connected to the Cosmos as they are to Pachamama, mother earth. Spaces between and beyond. Filaments of energy that are filed with codes of light and love flow between and among everything. Esoteric, yes. And also merging and clarifying the quantum physics of science that has been revealed beyond mechanical physics.
When our whole town looked up to watch the total solar eclipse in April 2023, I chose to explore the seasons and cycles of the big sky that once felt oh so far away. My attention was drawn to the Astrological cycle that spans nearly 26,000 years. Each sign of the Zodiac lasts just over 2,000 cycles around the sun.
Remembering the song about the dawning of Aquarius, I discovered that in the Zodiac we have left the cycle of Pisces and are truly in the Aquarian age. That took a while! And so, what? I’ve also found out that this planet is ending the fifth of 5,000-year segments of time as another calculation of measurement.
My perception has been elevated towards eons, yugas (Vedic), and constellations of timekeeping. These stretches of time are liquid, flowing, never-ending. My humanness revels in the freedom of movement, living in segments, not minutes, hours and days. I imagine being slightly tethered to light filaments and nodes in a matrix of wholeness.
How that for my morning meditation? Smiles.