Cycles of Time is Evolving…
Introducing the new format. It's gonna be good, I promise.
Hey friends,
It’s the week of the equinox, right after the final eclipse season of 2025, and it feels like a prime week to start something new.
I’ve been hosting the weekly forecast podcast Cycles of Time since Spring Equinox 2024. Each Monday without skipping a beat, I’ve been diving deep into the intersecting energies for the week ahead from the perspectives of the Medicine Wheel, the Daoist 5-Element Cycle, the Pagan Wheel of the Year, the Zodiac, and theI’Ching/Human Design Mandala.
It has been enlightening, to say the least- so, so powerful to recognize the deep, unique wisdom that lies in the expansive lineage of each system, and so, so humbling to find the connections between them, the ways that all of our human ancestors have told stories about their intricate relationships with the changing seasons on earth.
However, as the fall equinox was approaching this year (in the midst of two potent eclipses that were activating my sun, moon, and Mercury) I got a gut feeling that I had to make a change, to simplify my process and make room for something more authentic to emerge. But I felt a lot of grief in letting Cycles of Time in its current weekly incarnation go, like I’d let people down or lose the map altogether.
Change is never easy- I’m giving myself permission to change up a yearlong project halfway through the year based on my gut instinct, but my Virgoan mind has been doubting that choice. But if these last eclipses along the Virgo and Pisces axis taught me anything, it was to stop clinging onto perfectionism. Trust the gut, trust the divine, stop doubting or feeling like you need to over-explain yourself when a change wants to emerge I’m gonna lean on the gut here, because in the body, Virgo has mercurial/mental qualities, but she is moreso connected to the digestive system, the intestine, the gut-brain.
That said, for the rest of the year, I’m going to be doing:
2 podcast transmissions per month (with some special guests):
A Zodiac season podcast overview for the beginning of each season
A mid-season deep dive podcast episode where I look into larger cycles that we’re currently being heavily impacted by
6 Substack posts per month all about integrating the polarities of the current sun & earth gates in the Human Design/I’Ching Mandala
My intention with this shift is threefold:
1 - I want to use the podcast format for community building and interconnection with brilliant beings I keep meeting out in the world
2- I want to have more flexibility to put out random articles and podcasts about things that are currently striking my interest
3- Most importantly, with the overculture trending toward such divisiveness right now, I want to focus on integrating polarities, through the lens of the wheel of the year.
The 64 Gates of the I’Ching (later adapted as a basis for the systems of Human Design and the Gene Keys), are profound, ancient transmissions. The Book of Changes is the oldest recorded book in history, and it was written as both a divinatory tome of cyclical wisdom and as a way to live out the integration of a binary code.
I love looking at the hexgrams/gates one by one and in a cyclical sequence, like I have been doing for the past 18 months. But what I found is that every full moon in the Cycles of Time, I wrote about the polar opposite gate on the wheel as well. What was revealed through the oppositional nature of sun and moon gates was always so transformative.
I believe at this current moment in time, humanity is being tasked by a higher force to transcend polarities and integrate them through lived experiences and embodied wisdom. There is so much division in the world right now (we are being intentionally divided by the powers that be). Many people are saying right now that the only other path to “choosing a political side” is choosing to disassociate through “love and light” spiritual bypassing.
I believe that this in itself - strictly defining the transcendant/spiritual “love and light” path vs. the embodied, tangible, political, real-world path- is another binary, another polarity that is keeping us small, and stopping us from stepping into true personal (and political) power.
The truth is, it is possible to be opposed to divisive rhetoric without spiritual bypassing.
It is possible to believe in Love without associating love only with “Light”. Real, world-healing Love includes both shadow and light, a full cycle of life and death.
AND I know that integrating polarities in a real way takes a lot of work, a lot of presence, a lot of moments of deep confusion before any clarity is gained. It is all too easy to get lost in a false sense of unity and integration through transcendent peak experiences, whether they be religious, drug-induced, or whatever.
I know it’s not easy to do the work of real integration, which is why I’m looking to the I’Ching for guidance.
The 32 transmissions on 64 polar gates that I’ll do through the next Spring Equinox will be streams of consciousness diaries about my lived experience, as well as evergreen tools that focus on integrating opposites. Contemplations with many thousands of years of ancestral contemplations beneath their belts.
I hope you’ll follow along for this part of the Cycles of Time journey as it emerges.
Transition always takes more time than you think it will, too— I’ll be getting the first seasonal podcast about all things Libra Season out to you by the end of the week, along with the first Integration Article where I’ll explore the 46 <> 25 axis. This is the axis of Embodied Joy <> Connection to Spirit, the axis of the fall and spring equinoxes, so it’s an important one!
Paid subscribers will still get access to the seasonal guidebook, workshops, breathwork sessions, and additional goodies- I deeply appreciate all of your support who are here for this ride. You da best.
Onward/outward/inward/wayward we go!
xo
Alison
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I love where you are going with all of this!!
Love this shift ☯️💫