“I can’t believe we’re already here. How did the time go by so fast?”

A lot of transitions seem to happen this time of year. It can be disorienting, both wanting to hold on to how things have been while also feeling the need to move on. It makes me contemplate one of my favorite cosmic mysteries: Time. 

I like to work with spiralinear time. Spiralinear time is the idea of time moving forward and also cycling back around again and again.

In spiralinear time, the seasons, the moon phases, the sunrises and sunsets–all are as significant as the progression of years. On the one hand, we may feel ourselves aging, children growing up, elders losing independence. Everyone moving on to new chapters, never to return to the former ones. Tuning into the cycles and rhythm of life, we might pause in this place and moment, feeling ourselves part of a much larger pattern. Waxing and waning, expanding and contracting, giving care, receiving care. All part of a whole.

In spiralinear time, grief can walk alongside curiosity, anxiety with peace. We are, after all, inheritors of resilience. We would not be here if we weren’t. 

When I work with folks, I always start with slowing down time. We enter a longer exhale, where a minute of quiet might feel like five. It’s the best way I know to move between one thing to the next. If you are in a time of transition, I hope you feel the land beneath your feet, the sky with all its glorious movements above you. In the spiral of time, we are in this together.

With love,
Julia Aziz

PS- If you do best when you’re more tuned into the cycles and taking more slow time, you might really love our women’s circle. It has a real cyclical rhythm that continues as we all grow and change 🌖