What Are You Now Completing?

We are officially in Eclipse Season, and I've been counting the days. As we step into the portal, I notice that my focus has been pulled toward the past, toward what I began six months ago with the last eclipses, but also around nine and eighteen years ago, when the nodes of fate were last in Aquarius and Leo.

When I think of a lifetime, I see a small linear thread moving from past to present to future. And then I zoom out and see circles and cycles instead, tiny and vast, short and long, daily, weekly, yearly, spanning decades, some overlapping, some moving through others, some regular and some not. It's like looking at music, a single melody set against the entire orchestra, complex on one level and yet somehow, on another, entirely coherent.

I attended a Metallica concert last month and was moved to tears (yes, that surprised me too). What struck me as so profound was that four incredible musicians were each individually playing their hearts out, each...