The Great Turning

We are a people...a culture...a planet... in transition and transformation. We are being born. We are growing. We are dying. We are being reborn. Physically. Emotionally. Spiritually. But we are also collectively being cycled through a much larger process... We are all in another birth canal here on this planet...in the midst of a hard and long labour. We are in a massive mid-life crisis.

It becomes clearer and clearer to me that we are truly in what eco-philosopher Joanna Macy called the Great Turning, an intense moment (centuries-long) in the grand cycle of global evolution...revolution...

And of course, this isn't just something that's happening "out there". It's happening here. With you. With me. In our personal lives.

And in this moment, each of our own souls - our unique being-ness, place and expression in this world - is being clarified...called to...called upon. We are being forced to examine our personal and collective shadows. We are each working with and through our piece in the mosaic.

It's impossibly hellishly hard and awful. And can be exquisitely breathtakingly beautiful. And everything in between.

It looks like health crisis, relationship crisis, housing crisis, financial crisis, cultural crisis, environmental crisis, death, devastation, suicide, murder, loss...and the reconnection, the rebuilding, the restoration, the reconciliation, the recovery, the revitalization...the re-membering and the re-enchantment of life. At some point, if/when we can, we pick up the pieces and we go on. But we do so having been sculpted and refined by the sands, waters, and winds of heartbreak, devastation, and loss... our lives become more transparent to our souls. And our hearts. And the soul of the earth.

We are beautiful human beings.