The postman has just passed an I'm thinking of cycles, time and images...

I’ve mentioned Hortensia Carrer. Now, is she religious? I don’tknow. She works with images. She would also recommend books with pagan stories, to read about the phases and structure of transformation in different stages in life. That is what images and stories or myths do – they teach us. Working with mages an stories of what we call gods can also be done with the same purpose. In psychology, they are called archetypes or complexes, I believe. Religion has dealt a lot with organisation of land, natural resources and social health and conduct, all of which require awareness of different parts of our universe. Cycles of time seem to be an important part of this awareness and ritual passages were part of social life in most societies long ago. Most people know this, I’m not trying to teach or tell anyone any news, I’m writing to define and search for personal point of view. 

About the office job I wrote about the other day – sadly (or luckily) enough, I was hired on a temporary basis. I suppose that’s why my cubicle-existence was limitied to concentrating for many hours on database information that to some extent seemed irrelevant to my life, while listening to music. I wish all jobs I had had, were done with an earnest respect, both for the way I spent my time an for the organisation and tasks I was doing. Many of my colleagues seemed to be growing as they got into understanding the work and taking more responsibility. I took it as a time to earn a decent salary, regain some self-confidence and get back on track as a designer. Hortensia was that part of my life who would help me in that direction. She had quite a different impact on my life, and directed me towards yoga.

Life, in all, is strange. About cycles – again. Cycles of the sun and the moon were important to many for travelling, planning planting, growth and harvesting crops. That is what was called astrology – the science of how the astral bodies move, so as to predict and act according to what was foretold. But this telling or foreseeing of the future might have started with something that we today take for granted – the counting of days, weeks, months and years. And even an eclipse of the sun.
Today is a new moon – celebrated in several asian countries as an especially significant, and so India has had its Maha Shivaratri and China, it’s new year. In Malmö, in Sweden, it was raining a bit. This morning is grey and dry, and not so cold, it seems. I’ll go out to feel the air. 

The postman just passed by the hous opposite my kithcen. That’s a good indication that mid-day is approaching and morning is over. I took a pictore of the post-man’s bike the other day – if anyone wathces it, you might see that the sun seems to be out in the picture.