Transition...
"Try not to put a period where god put a comma..."
Still before the Gate of Wisdom, I find myself standing in an “in-between”.
Transition is rarely neat. It rarely comes with a manual or a promise.
It asks only of me to loosen my grip on what has been,
without quite knowing what’s ahead.
Not always an outer shift, sometimes an inner rearrangement.
An allusive re-orientation because values have shifted,
circumstances has changed, people grow, the weather shifts.
Unintended blessings fall like unrecognizable feathers to land in my lap,
and if I am unfamiliar it can take me off guard.
Just as one season leads in to another,
one breath rises and falls from inhale to exhale.
Calling to the trembling place, the pause between the known and the unnamed,
the emptying and the rushing forth of what inevitably will come…
I greet this threshold with presence.
This doorway doesn’t ask me to hurry,
just to listen.
To trust when that next step is taken I will know where to place my foot and have the strength to bear the weight of what is next.
So how does that feel in the body, in the breath? how does it shapes the heart?
In a way, to be in transition is to live with a kind of ache:
something ending, something not yet begun.
Wisdom here isn’t about clarity, but about letting myself be reshaped by the in-between. About opening my hand, trusting that I am capable of navigating whatever lies ahead… being present with what that asks of me and allowing change to happen. The one constant is change.
Where in your life are you crossing a threshold?
It might be subtle, like a small change of the day to day rhythm, or a seismic full turning of the wheel.
Wherever you are, transition has something to teach us.
On the 21st we will be having a Virgo Solar Eclipse on cusp of The Fall/Spring Equinox. This eclipse is happening at 29 degrees… which if you’re not into astrology, won’t mean much…(basically, there are 30 degree’s in each slice of pie with an Astrological Chart… so essentially it is “closing time” on this certain cycle.)
With or without the stars and astrological pondering, I find myself reflecting on the following questions:
What habits, patterns, and systems no longer feel supportive in my life?
Where am I ready to make a new plan or take that next step that inspires growth, expansion, excitement?
The thing I DO love most about astrology is the language and metaphor used in weaving a “story”, the archetypes of planets and patterns that leave room for global or personal application.
I call on it less for predicting the future or to explain away how “my technology not working right”, and more to give me a new “story” to tell around my internal or external landscape so I feel empowered; to feel connected as an active participant in the whole… and not just a powerless pawn in the circumstances that surround me.
Which I find super helpful in times of transition.
Whether I am starting a new project, ending a project, starting a new day, or ending a relationship…. for all those moments where I don’t know where my foot is going to land, where I am not in control. I do have the power to check the story I am telling myself in my head.
”Is this narrative helpful? Or is this NOT helping?”
… and if it isn’t helpful… and after I have eaten all the pizza and taken all the naps, maybe I can choose to look for a different story and begin to rewrite myself as a hero in an epic journey… that is not yet complete.
Someone told me once, “try not to put a period where god put a comma.”
I just love that. Its never over. until it is… so until then…
Here is to remembering Transition will transform me….
the unknown will eventually have a name…
and inspiration is bound to follow the expiration.
