Another year through the wormhole...

As we celebrate another turn of the spiral, I call upon the simple, sacred geometric forces that govern all life.

I believe in the law of correction. That in time, it all comes out in the wash. Eventually, equilibrium is established, and that balance is always restored.

I believe that in the course of our lives we set in motion - with our intentions, our thoughts, our words, and our actions - a kinetic wheel that returns all that we do back to us. Because we don't know where life itself started and where it may end, in the cosmic sense this circle is represented as a spiral that we all move through.

In the life of a person there is a beginning and an end, and because of the relative nature of time, at the beginning of our lives this circle moves very slowly. So slowly that we don't notice, or aren't taught, or may feel that we can afford to ignore the inevitable consequences of our actions .. But the wheel of karmic return begins to spin faster and faster as we grow older, and we feel our time slipping away, until at the very moment of death we can clearly see how everything in our lives has led inexorably to that point.

All things return to the source from where they came. We are nothing but moving energy temporarily squatting a bag of meat.

Most spiritual practices will back me up on this. One of my favorite truisms is the golden rule. 'Do unto others, as you would have them do to you." Which I would expand outward to say, "Whatever you do to others, you do to yourself." Or as they say in the ghetto, "Hurt people - hurt people."

This paradoxical appeal to our empathetic nature, simultaneously reminds us that we all wish to be treated well. Selfishly put - it's quid pro quo, a give and take, or in the negative example, an eye for an eye. All examples of a restoration of the natural balance of things; emphasized in eastern philosophies as a return to oneness, a feeling of unity with all things.

This has been described as a positioning of one's consciousness at the center of the circle. Don't be pulled too far from the truth by earthly desires and material distractions. There is a magnetic pull to truth, and we all feel the tug of it's corrective influence if we stray too far into illusion and denial.

In 2016 I will continue to hold to my truth. To seek my most centered incarnation. It's the best way I know to come out of the wash with the fabric of my soul intact.

When I think of our coming political season, I'm reminded by geometry that even the wildest pendulum must spend most of it's time in the middle in order to swing from side to side - Perpetually. That all of this bluster, may have in the end, no more importance or consequence than the next coming dog fart.

Happy New Calendar to everyone! And may we continue to prosper according to nature's plan.

-RG