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What Cycles Serve You?
While living in Taiwan in 2005, I was sitting outside by a pool in late November (mmmm, subtropical autumn).
I shared with my pool companion, a very artistic friend named Cathy, how I was frustrated to be in a creative slump.
She pointed to the orchid latched to a nearby tree and said, “Some flowers only bloom once a year, but are they any less glorious for it?”
This has stuck with me through two decades. Normally, it helps me forgive the times when I am struggling to be productive.
This week, I am in high activity mode with good results thus far. I am finishing up major house projects and getting the June activities like Ren Faire and grad night parties into action.
This quote comes to me now to remind myself that I will need to cycle down some next week to keep my own best rhythm.
I know how my cycles work. I presume you have a good idea of how yours work. It is a major feature of adulthood to witness and tend to our own rhythms.
It’s hard to do so due to life circumstances requiring more of us . . . in part.
The other part that we can overcome is the pressure we put on ourselves to constantly be in bloom. Societal pressure is strong to keep that arrow of success constantly pointed on the upwards diagonal.
This made me think about how the symbol for cycle is arrows in a circle, while the symbol for chaos is arrows making a circle outward.
So I asked AI to make an image of this idea. (It is useful for some things, but rest assured that I won’t use it to write these blogs, because I enjoy the routine of this creative effort in my own weekly routine.)
Being that my job is reading symbols, I am very intrigued by this image.
Life is a mix of routine and the unexpected. It is up to us to know how to keep ourselves in a healthy wheel of the sequences that serve us while managing the surprises.
Obviously we need to constantly keep orderly enough with our daily needs of sleep, food, water, exercise, work, cleaning, etc.
We also do well to know what our needs are around larger scales of energy output versus decompression.
These may not be the same for everyone, and you can thrive when you know and respect your own course, and correct it as needed.
This symbol also makes me think about how the chaos can come from internal pressures as well as external societal expectations.
My ADHD might decide to hyperfocus next week on a new project, and it is up to me to down regulate and choose rest over impulsive attractions.
This makes me think about how the chaos symbol looks like a butthole. How fitting that is, because it’s always challenging us. And this makes me think about how AI company symbols all look like buttholes. Google it. They do. You’re welcome.
Which brings me back to reigning in the madness into regulated behavior again. This is a small taste of my dance with the balance of the two.
What does your balance game look like? How do you relish the creativity of chaos and contain it with grounded choices?
Consider how you can adjust your weekly activity and rest rhythms to better allow for what works for you.
Do your expectations on yourself create a vibrant blossom? Are you requiring constant progress when nature does not work that way?
How could you make small changes to your pace and style that allow for your own choreography to come through in this dance of life?
What works for you?
I am happy to sit with you in this question during personal tarot reading.
If you also like looking at symbols, let’s do it together during a tarot reading lesson.
Compare notes with a friend on how you find balance during a Tarot Together session.
This summer, add some pleasant magick chaos to the party when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers.
Enjoy your weekend as you let yourself lean into your own best cycle and chaos management.
Embrace Your Dance,
Jenna Lynne Roberts