The world is made up of endless creative cycles that keep everything moving. Keeping in sync with these cycles will ensure that you stay on your path and enjoy living it.
Celebrate the moment, whatever it is. The current season of your life or the year is where you are now. Find your own rituals and ways of appreciating what is around you.
| natural cycles | creative cycle | rituals | |
| what | Actions in nature that repeat at dependable, regular intervals. They shape everything about life on the planet. | The way creative energy ebbs and flows, is shared among artists and groups, and winds it way through time. | A series of actions performed in a specific order, done on a regular or intermittent schedule by an individual or group. |
| examples | day/night, life cycle, lunar cycles, season cycles | inspiration, thinking, action, dormancy, rethinking, etc. | fasting, bathing, holiday rituals, getting married |
July is sunny, in many northern hemisphere locations it is the warmest month of the year. This suggests boldness, brightness, joyfulness and impulsiveness. Enjoy these qualities of summer, but find ways to stay connected to your purpose, your soul and the true spirit of your being. Focus Questions for July: How do you stay connected […]
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April is when the growing season really seems to get going. It is a month that symbolizes growth, rebirth, new beginnings. New life emerging in terms of plants emerging miraculously from the soil and baby animals being born all awaken in us the desire to reawaken ourselves to the goals (spiritual and otherwise) that we have
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My favorite exhibit at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show was in tribute to famed environmental landscape photographer Ansel Adams. This tied nicely into the show’s theme of celebrating 100 years of our nation’s national parks. The Ansel Adams tribute was abstract with flower forms displayed in front of Adams photography. It was an artistic contrast
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I don’t remember dreading bedtime as a child, although if you asked my mother she would tell you I was a typical child trying to delay bedtime. But in any case, once I was in bed, I looked forward to the ritual. It was another experience, another chance to escape into a special world. I
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