I was overcome last night with a wonderful realization. I will be living in a place in which the motion of the tides is prominent, and easy to be aware of. This is very important to me in terms of my spirituality, inasmuch as we are tidal creatures, and our lack of attention to this fact leads to many difficulties.

When I am in a situation in which my energy is low, or my outlook less optimistic than usual, I am able to step outside myself, and recognize the ebb & flow. Today, the packing seems impossible. However, I recognize that hormonally, I am in a place of low energy, and introversion. In honoring this, and its temporary nature, I am able to let it go. I can feel it without clinging to it. It is very much like the process of meditation, and letting go of thoughts that arise- yet this is emotional, and so, like water, slower to shift than the mental, airy, realm.

Or perhaps, not necessarily slower to shift. The tides can come in very quickly sometimes. But when the tide is going out, you can't really stop it from happening. You just have to go with the flow.

I feel like I have reached another point on my path, another lookout spot, from which I am gaining a whole new perspective. If I had been raised in a world which honored the cycles more clearly, and taught women the fundamental attunement we have with these cycles, perhaps I would have been able to see more clearly much sooner.

Yet, who knows? Perhaps it is a synergistic process, and this new perspective could only be gained through the various and divergent paths I have walked. Perhaps it only comes with time and experience. However I got here, I am glad to say that this perspective helps me to take myself less seriously, and remember what is really important in life.