The New Year
There will be many new years resolutions, promises and prophecies cast into the atmosphere from January through until March. Why is this so? It’s a year end of course, yet how come we don’t do this every quarter, month, week or even day?
What’s special about a year?
In the west we have four definite seasons. Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn. Each has it’s own way of completing a yearly cycle. Looking at that process through analogy, you can view winter as a completion program, wiping the slate free, destroying any old stuff that shouldn’t be there and taking us back to ‘nothing’ to be able to start again. As a human being that would translate into doing the washing up, paying the bills, cleaning out old cupboards, mentally de-cluttering the mind – completion. It’s also the analogy of keeping a fire alight inside, making light where there is none naturally.
Spring
Summer
Autumn
If you endorse the idea that we have come from nature (even if Christian or other denomination then God made us in his own image – and he’s into nature too), then our very cells have a historical relationship with the cycles of life.
The difference that we have is that as an evolutionary race, we can have some control over when we invoke the different seasons and cycles within ourselves and our lives. We can all do the washing up (internal and external), we can all plant seeds (ideas and physical seeds), we can all share stuff when we harvest and we can all tell the truth and let things be out in the open where appropriate for us.
Have a look here at another article on how we are effected by nature and the seasons