The older I get the more I notice the repetitious cycles of life. Wake up, go to work, go to sleep. Sure, a lot happens during the mid-part of that cycle, it is composed of many mini-cycles. Of course there are larger and more complex circles such as Lady Moon’s cycle, our menstrual cycle, and Gaia’s cycle of winter, spring, summer, and autumn. There’s the turning of the Wheel of the Year, and any astrologer will wax poetic about the cycles involved in making a chart or writing a horoscope. Tarot card readers trace the natural cycles in the Major Arcana.
Then there’s the cycle of life itself: Birth/Rebirth, Life, Death, repeating over and over. We experience this constantly. Most children first experience of a death, losing a loved one, when they lose a grandparent. When we get older we realize that someday we will say good-bye to our parents……and our children will say good-bye to us.
What happens when a cycle doesn’t go as you thought it would? Life feels off-kilter and we are lost and confused.
Today I went to a wake to give a friend a loving hug and to say good-bye to her 22 year old son. This turn of his cycle was completed before his mother’s cycle. She indeed was lost and confused.
What could I say to my grieving friend? Words failed me. I just held her and let her cry. I reminded her I was only a phone call away. I cried too. Yet, I feel she knew that as I hugged her, so the Goddess hugged her.
I know that at least one of his grandmothers was comforted by the promise of Jesus’ resurrection. There is healing and power in faith!! His mother and I are comforted knowing he’s having rest and healing in the Summerland before he embarks on a new journey.
As I sit here reflecting I think about Hekate, the ruler of regeneration:
Hekate,
Hold this young man tenderly.
Afford him the rest he needs as his cycle continues.
And so the Circle of Life continues…………………….
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