All things come to an end.

What inspired this entry is the joy of a mum, learning that her son's steady decline over the past year could in fact be stopped, or at least treated. This news has planted a new seed of hope in her. It made me wonder though how much hope is frankly born by fear of the unknown, the unwanted or simply the inevitable. One hopes things might be better, because we don't like the status quo, or because we want something to look forward to.

Quite rightly, who am I to tell a mum not to worry about her terminally ill child? He was never expected to live to 10 but was deemed 'lucky' to make it to 4. That wee man did well to more than double his life expectancy and proof everyone wrong. I salute him for hanging in there and being stubborn!

Yet, why worry? Why can't we celebrate him being here, him having yet another chance to feel the dull, grey English summer or smile in delight when cuddled by a dear one? Why waste time and energy worrying about the end, hoping for more time spent together? The end is certain.

All things come to an end. What if we could accept the innate expiration date of things and that we are just blatantly helpless in our hope for stretching our life spans. We can do our best to make days - or in his case his body - work for a while longer; ultimately though life has it's own cycles and there are new beginnings that come buried in all the bitter ends we encounter. Yes, we can mourn those endings - if it helps to let go. But what good is worrying about what is one certainty in life? Let's forget about hope and be honest with ourselves in that things - good&bad - will end; or rather change.

In my view, we lose time for living while worrying about things that pass us, when really only frequencies change. Energy does not disappear but it transforms. My IGing reading of today told me that a rebirth is coming. While I am excited about this rebirth business I am aware that it brings "ends" with it and the transformation in itself will end. I have no idea about time scales here but I accept that life plays you cards you don't expect, may no even want. The question is can you accept the challenge and make the best of the hand you've been dealt.

I do.

Fearless and Open,
Your Urban Yogi

ps: Part of the IGing reading:

24 - Twenty-Four
Fu / Return
You have passed this way before but you are not regressing.
This is progress, for the cycle now repeats itself, and this time you are aware that it truly is a cycle.
The return of old familiars is welcome. You can be as sure of this cycle as you are that seven days bring the start of a new week.Use this dormancy phase to plan which direction you will grow.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are about to experience a rebirth -- about to be given another chance, a new lease on life.
You have persevered, gone the distance through an entire cycle -- through the Spring of hope or new passion, through a Summer of growth and building, only to be sacrificed like the archetypal Harvest King at the Autumn reaping. You lie dormant like seed beneath Winter snows now, healing and absorbing new energies in preparation for the new young Spring coming shortly to your life.