Four billion and five hundred million years! This is the least estimation of time that manifestation took to express life as we know it on our planet! Life with its time, its rhythm, its steps, and its cycles. Such a way long time makes revering life the same as revering manifestation itself.
So many billions of years reduce smaller periods to fractions of a second and generate contexts much broader than human life, even though the time-lapse of a human life is when one recognizes what surpasses, transcends, and contains life itself.
Over 20,000 years ago, humanity transitioned from extractive nomadism to farming settlements in the Northern Hemisphere of our planet. This meant a progressive liberation of the search for food in wild environments through the domestication and cultivation of plants and animals that could feed it. This is how agriculture and livestock were raised.
However, if cultivation freed humanity from dependence on wild resources for food, nature remained essential to produce what would feed human beings. Due to it, humanity was kept attentive to the life cycles on Earth.
The first contrasting event was at the spring equinox, marking the resurgence of life on the planet in the thawing after winter. Here begins the first part of the mystical year. It marks the opening of the Book of the Mother, the Book of Life, or the Book of Manifestation.
The summer solstice opens the second part of the mystical year. From this moment on, blossoms and births ripen their fruits, transforming themselves into sources of good for humanity.
The September equinox brings the first shades of fall and the third part of the mystical year with them. It is time to celebrate the fulfillment of the work that has borne fruit on Earth. Present and future are mixed in eternity by the realization that there is no beginning, neither and end in the cycles of life.
If autumn was a prelude to the recollection that was to come, this moment arrived with the winter solstice. This is when the fourth and final part of the mystical year begins. The Earth cooled and froze to such an extent that it endangered the continuity of life itself. If the Book of Life opened in the spring, this was the moment when it was understood to be closed. Renouncement is celebrated.
Life in its manifestation slows down so much that it seems no longer exist. Everything in the periphery withdraws to its center, where all the potency is. It is when we recollect ourselves inwardly, when all the yearly activity ceases so that all we have learned can be decanted in our interior. Symbolically, it is like a death, meaning that a small cycle closes mystically to launch into a new cycle of rebirth.
This transcendent meaning permeates the winter equinox, and we can take it to any other time because what moves us is the sense that resonates in us and the transcendently sacred meaning, we choose to give it.
So many billions of years reduce smaller periods to fractions of a second and generate contexts much broader than human life, even though the time-lapse of a human life is when one recognizes what surpasses, transcends, and contains life itself.
Over 20,000 years ago, humanity transitioned from extractive nomadism to farming settlements in the Northern Hemisphere of our planet. This meant a progressive liberation of the search for food in wild environments through the domestication and cultivation of plants and animals that could feed it. This is how agriculture and livestock were raised.
However, if cultivation freed humanity from dependence on wild resources for food, nature remained essential to produce what would feed human beings. Due to it, humanity was kept attentive to the life cycles on Earth.
The first contrasting event was at the spring equinox, marking the resurgence of life on the planet in the thawing after winter. Here begins the first part of the mystical year. It marks the opening of the Book of the Mother, the Book of Life, or the Book of Manifestation.
The summer solstice opens the second part of the mystical year. From this moment on, blossoms and births ripen their fruits, transforming themselves into sources of good for humanity.
The September equinox brings the first shades of fall and the third part of the mystical year with them. It is time to celebrate the fulfillment of the work that has borne fruit on Earth. Present and future are mixed in eternity by the realization that there is no beginning, neither and end in the cycles of life.
If autumn was a prelude to the recollection that was to come, this moment arrived with the winter solstice. This is when the fourth and final part of the mystical year begins. The Earth cooled and froze to such an extent that it endangered the continuity of life itself. If the Book of Life opened in the spring, this was the moment when it was understood to be closed. Renouncement is celebrated.
Life in its manifestation slows down so much that it seems no longer exist. Everything in the periphery withdraws to its center, where all the potency is. It is when we recollect ourselves inwardly, when all the yearly activity ceases so that all we have learned can be decanted in our interior. Symbolically, it is like a death, meaning that a small cycle closes mystically to launch into a new cycle of rebirth.
This transcendent meaning permeates the winter equinox, and we can take it to any other time because what moves us is the sense that resonates in us and the transcendently sacred meaning, we choose to give it.