Our experience of life is centered around cycles within cycles within cycles. Even when we say there is no such thing as time, we still experience cycles. So within the present moment we experience the changing of the seasons, daylight and night, as well as youth and old age. Our bodies are sensitive to these rhythms and attempt to harmonize with them. Of particular importance is the observation of the solar and lunar cycles and their midpoints which in Druid and pagan tradition are the eight great festivals of the year and the quarters/ midpoints of the lunar cycle.
But I’m going to be talking about the daily cycle and the dynamic energy exchanges that take place within our multi-dimensional reality during each day. There are expansion points, contraction points and times when energies blend and merge between levels. Each level, the etheric, physical, lower emotional, upper emotional, concrete mental, abstract mental, concrete spiritual and abstract spiritual, is dynamic and depending upon our daily activity becomes charged or depleted during the day.
There is a self balancing mechanism in place when excess energy transforms and transfers itself from one level to a different level that is more in need of it. This occurs several times a day around the times of 3:00 AM/PM and 6:00 AM/PM. We may think of these times as the times of deepest dreaming and deepest involvement in living respectively.
This is why so many spiritual and magickal traditions include morning and evening prayers or meditations. They are conscious directed efforts to achieve this inner balance between ever changing multi-dimensional levels. The events and circumstances surrounding our lives varies from day to day and hour to hour. It varies from year to year and according to where we live. Many factors influence our lives each day and many of those factors are dependent upon forces outside of ourselves. Many of those factors are global, natural or collective in nature.
It is said that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The same thing applies to the magickal life and the spiritual life. Bluntly stated, if you are not observing a daily practice of some sort, your life will tend to get out of balance in one or more of the multi-dimensional levels. It is simply like brushing your teeth or taking a shower. This is routine maintenance to keep you in the best health/balance possible on all levels of your being.
I do some daily exercises for my spine and pelvis each morning as well as a morning portal meditation and an evening meditation and also a long walk weather permitting. These are important parts of my daily maintenance program. Anyone serious about their own spiritual/magickal path will develop their own daily maintenance program.
I am trying to strip this information down to its bare essence and offer it in a no BS way. It is the effort that we put out that determines the development and empowerment of our souls. It is the sustained continuous effort over time that brings results. There are no shortcuts, but there are many diversions and false trails! In the beginning the simplicity of the truth will act to repel us because we insist that things must be much more complex than they really are. We insist that our lives be complicated because otherwise it will be too boring! This is an illusion and an entrapment.
It is only when we are stable and balanced that we can actively and creatively live the type of lives that are deeply rewarding and challenging in all ways. It is only then that we can choose to live conscious lives instead of reactive lives.
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