When my beloved family of four began our traveling and inner search for our “family heart” in 2003, I thought it was something new for us. We had certainly never done anything like what we did before…leaving behind all of society and its demands and obligations, a completely selfish and enclosed journey into our own processes, and permission to allow that to unfold on its own time, despite pressures from the outside world to interrupt or end it. It was a remarkable period of years, to be sure.
Lately as the old world seems to be falling apart and our own family has been going through intense inner change, I have been reflecting on the cycles that nature brings as well as the more subtle energetic cycles that seem to be universal indications of a larger order.
I see now how these last few years while my family tried to make Del Norte, Colorado our home were a time of “landing” after being mobile for a few years, of integration into the outer world after being so internal during our RV trip. It was a perfect place to land, a perfect place to slowly make our way outward from that inner chamber of our family and individual hearts. It has been quiet, a blissful sanctuary of nature, and a testing ground for trusting our inner guidance, something we worked keenly toward during our family journey.
Now that we are leaving our beloved San Luis Valley, with its high windswept plains and 14,000 ft. rocky peaks, we are aware that this kind of quiet is not something that we will find in many places. We are sad to leave behind our sweet 40 acre homestead that we have put so much work into. We are aware that this place has provided a womb of sorts for our further evolution and expansion into the rest of our lives.
We leave for our new life (and it does feel that way, brand spanking new, almost can see the shiny packaging and big red bow around it!) around the full moon of August, a great time to come to fullness and completion with a phase in one’s life and to honor all that has been. The timing just happened to work out that way, and I shouldn’t be surprised. The more I have intended to align with the natural cycles of earth and the universe, the more in tandem my actions have been and the more supported I am by that larger energy wave.
I was reflecting on these years of change, thinking that our family was coming to the end of a 6 year cycle since we left Asheville for the Big Trip when I was corrected by my angelic friends. They told me that we were actually coming to the end of an 11 year cycle. Really? I thought about this, counting backwards from 2009 to 1998, and realized that this was true.
It was in 1998 that Peter and I had construct shattering experiences in our lives that cracked us open to our larger Selves, what some would call spiritual awareness. It was that year that we bought our “dream house”, Pete was subsequently released from his position with a mortgage company, and I met my first true spiritual teacher. It was a year in which we jumped on the fast moving treadmill of spiritual growth.
Ah, now the 11 year cycle comment makes sense. If I were to reflect on the last 11 years of my life and of my family’s life, we have clearly been on the fast track to our Authentic Selves. As if a great horn sounded, we were called by our souls to line up, and the universe came together in quick order to support us in so many remarkable experiences and learnings. It boggles the mind.
I have heard others talk about 7 year cycles in their lives….perhaps that is true. But I was reminded by my angelic friends not to make too much of the number eleven, or any number for that matter…what is more pertinent is the essence of this sea change. What has been accomplished over these 11 years is nothing short of a brand new life.
