The Sacred Principle Project

  We go in circles.  We have been here before. It feels familiar, and yet something happened on the way.  The journey is not linear. The progress is not always evident.  The circle is a spiral; sometimes the curve is tighter while other times we spring ahead.  In a Western mindset, we want to cross the finish line. Cross it off our list.  But ancestral traditions, nature, and science teach us that there is no beginning and no end.  The circle is a cycle.  How about instead of seeing ourselves as caught in a loop, we see it as traversing a sacred cycle? What can we do to help ourselves learn from every repetition, note the similarites and differences, the growth and stagnation? What rituals can we put into place to honor each phase? I recently perused two books from radically different fields that each touch on this theme:  The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra and Food and women´s health ( Alimentación y salud femenina )   by Marta León.  While I will not attempt to summarize or anal