By: Cate

Making Sense of Too Many Milestones

So, let's say that you have so many substantial events in your life that you can't make heads or tails of what you have in front of you. Going back to the example I wrote on page one, I'll enhance it. Focusing on the period between 1977, and 1984, there are three other major events. In 1978, you moved residences to be with your partner. In 1979, you both moved to a new city to take on your first jobs after college. In 1982, your partner and you separated, and later that year, you moved to a smaller apartment. By the end of 1983, you had fallen in love again and then that partner moved out of the city for a job transfer.

The emotional highs of your love life in this period were probably quite traumatic and you might mark 1978, 1982 and 1983 as milestones. However, if you look at that entire period, you can find a theme occurring. Moving residences and moving through relationships. It's a period of emotional growth (finding your life partner) and about geographical transitions. Now, you can take this idea of themes and find the most common denominator in each cycle that you previously marked out. I have found that most people have seven years of similar issues. They can be as simple as a cycle of rest, or a complicated period of many changes including jobs, residences and partners.

In the end, what you should find, is that each phase brought you in a new direction. Each cycle offers you an opportunity to learn and experience things that will help you in the next phase of your path. Some might call these karmic lessons. It's been my experience that when I now look back on certain periods of my life cycles, I feel that sense of relief that I have completed that and have moved on (and I am not just referring to fashion of the 80's.)

What If All My Cycles Look The Same?

There are some people out there that just feel there is nothing of consequence to create milestones from. A bit of prodding and even some skimming through old photo albums usually induces the memories required to get the outline of a life cycle. And, to be honest, there are people that truly have had rather quiet, peaceful lives. Initially, I thought to myself, how lucky! Then again, my life experiences have all been steps that have brought me here to the person I am now. I wouldn't trade that for anything. On that note, however, there is a belief in reincarnation circles that every seven lives, you will come back and live out a quiet, contented life. That, however, is a discussion for another article.

I've Found My Life Cycle Pattern: What Does This Mean For The Future?

Well, for me, it has been a sense of relief. I believe that in each of my life pattern cycles, I have had a karmic lesson (or lessons) to achieve. Some harder than others and some more spiritual. Knowing this pattern has helped me to keep my head about me as these past seven years have been like walking through fire. I have not only gone through the most tremendous amount of change in my life spiritually this time, but also have learned the karmic lessons of attachment and letting go. I have suffered the harshest phase of finances in my entire life, but I have also had many new gifts revealed. In my pattern, I am about to leave behind this cycle and start a new one. This gives me a renewed sense of energy for my life journey as I look forward to turning 44.