The Circle of the Year
The seasons of the solar year move us through a circular journey, ending where we began. full circle. This cycle of life teaches us about consciousness. It provides a map for growth and maturity, encompassing breakdown & incubation, breakthroughs, flourishing, and integration. We sometimes learn the same thing, over and over again. Other times, we level up quickly. Regardless, the solar cycle continually repeats, revealing to us dimensions of our light, through the zodiacal seasons, that we can choose to grow into.
circular journey of the solar cycle
This circular growth map teaches us how to move through themes such as grief. After we let ourselves break down, we can see that something different has been growing in us due to the grief. Once we realize this, we can assert ourselves into the world in a different way, to explore and discover what has broken through. Eventually, we find a deeper purpose that the grief has pointed us toward, and then integrate it with wisdom to share. While such themes aren’t restricted to specific timelines like the solar year, this circular journey and seasons of unfolding give us a framework to move all sorts of experiences through us in circular cycles and journey patterns.
the 4 solar quarters
Explore the themes, rhythms, and magic of the seasons through a variety of lenses.
Embedded in the circular structure of the solar year lies a journey arc. Move through each zodiacal season the way you would move through stages of a story.
The quality of light in each zodiacal season highlights dimensions, tools, and psychology that we can use as a meditative point of reference. Understand how each sign, hence season, interacts with our own sign and season to orient in particular moments, challenges, and patterns of growth within the larger arc.
Esoteric wisdom, such as the tarot, provides deep spiritual insight into the seasons and astrology. Witness unseen patterns where deeper growth finds us in our depths.
Other seasonal systems, such as the Celtic seasons, overlaid on my astrological seasonal framework, reveal wisdom from other times, places, and practices, infusing the circular growth arc with wisdom, myth, and metaphor.
