This has been on my mind lately, and thought to put out some feelers.

Hadn't been paying attention to time cycles before, but recently noticed that I seem to be at the tail of a 7 year cycle, and about to enter a new one.  I tripped over it because I was looking back at the sweeping changes that have occurred in my life beginning back around the year 2000, and then digressed back to the sweeping changes that occurred prior to that.  That's when I noticed.  So I looked before that and there was another 7 year cycle, and another before that, and so on.

For me it's been cycles of building up, tearing down, growing and pruning.  And there have also been well defined 3 year cycles within those 7 year cycles, sort of like strong refinement years. 

I've not done a lot of study into the mythology and stuff, but certainly in the bible, there are many mentions of the 7 this and that (and I've seen the reference to those being the chakras) in the final days drama...or purification as we see it now days.

Just thought I'd see if this is typical, or cooincidental.  It's certainly interesting to look back at the cycles!
Blessings!
Eileen

Dear Eileen,
If you are getting interested in time cycles, then it's really fun to start studying the mayan calendar!  It's all about time cycles and rhythms of time flow.  A lot of the stuff written about mayan astrology I find difficult to read....some of it has a strange energy to the writing that turns me off.  Don't know why.
What I did to start was just get a basic mayan calendar and a set of cards with pictures of the symbols on them.  The Mayan oracle by spillsbury & bryner is a good place to start for the cards and a book explaining stuff.  Basic calendars can be ordered online or you can figure it out yourself with charts.  If you want I can find the web address for the calendar, it is about $13.
The cards are beautiful and they express these time cycles in a way I find hard to articulate.  Anyway, it is fun to do and once you do the cards each day, you start to get a lot more tuned in to time cycles and flow.  I think it also made me more tuned in to the energy of the earth.
It can also be very intersting, once you know the basics about the symbols (called daykeepers) to do your chart for the day of your birth.  You can do this for free online at www.starroot.org.  click on dreamspell, and then on oracle.  I found mine to be very revealing and accurate.  Don't get too caught up in the new agey language, try to see what the symbols really mean at their core, beyond the words!!
namaste,
Jen

Thanks for the input Jen.  After I posted it dawned on me that I wasn't entirely clear what I meant by time cycles as I was referring to it.  Especially confusing since I mentioned the year 2000 without explanation as to why that was significant.

I'll also mention that I do not (any longer) allow myself to get caught up in calendars or astrological readings, etc.  While all that stuff can be interesting, and there are always seemingly 'dead on' descriptions of how we are and such, the truth is that we each create our reality.  Every minute, every day....  THOUGHTS ARE THINGS.  I have learned both by experience and through the PSYCH-K work that I do with my clients, how VERY susceptable we are to suggestion, and have seen O so clearly how very subtle things will affect our thinking, and there-by literally affect our reality.  I (me, self, mwaah) create my reality, and refuse to allow another to provide excuses or formats for my behavior or creations.  The results of my creations are visible to all in my outer world and relations.  Total responsibility.  But taking responsibility is not a reason for guilt;  responsibility is empowerment...because our creations can be so very wonderful if we take responsibility!

Anyway, the reason I referred to the year 2000 was a personal thing.  These 7 year cycles I've noticed are my own personal cycles of time, and just happened to cross at the 2000 year mark.  That year was the year (and it was just about this time of that year too) when, after a long spiral with a nasty smoke trail, I hit the bottom of Hell - and hit hard enough that it blew my head out of my ass so that I could see that nobody was going to get me out...it had to be me.  And, I COULD. 

(A literal comprehension of that little story I mentioned Pema Choodron told about the Samari Warrior.)   I realized that Hell is merely a state of mind:  A state of mind where one gives ALL responsibility for one's experiences (good or bad) to OTHERS. 

Hell is ALWAYS only one thought away.  One thought to get in.  One thought to get out. 

A choice.

Anyway, it was in August of 2000 that I was a gnat's breath from death (for the second time during during the cycle - actually, maybe 3rd, as there was a time when I should have been blown up at work but somehow it didn't go), and somehow I woke up.  I made a choice, and began to start over.  And now, here I am today.... Still a VERY long ways to go and multitudes to learn, but I am such a different person!  And virtually NOTHING that was in my life at the beginning of this time, is in my life today...except for my family.  That's about all that's left, and they're hopefully gonna stick around.

Prior to that was the 7 year spiral down.  I had married a very sexy man, given away all my power to him (and handed him all the responsibility for making me happy) and surrendered all of my personal will to him.  I literally had the world available to me at the beginning of that cycle, and I traded it for a massive pity party. 

Prior to that cycle was a 7 year spiral up, to the top of the world.  Got out of college, lived in the most beautiful place where I could be outdoors in the mountains 90% of the free time I had, and I traveled the world as a competative powerlifter.  Life was good.  I was on top, totally free to do whatever I wanted.  Even when I enlisted in the Marine Corps, I had the entire world open to me.  When you bust ass in the military, and you shine, anything you want and are willing to work for can be yours.  Anything.  I chose Hell.  Which started the next cycle.

So within these 7 year cycles, I've noticed that the final 3 of each are like a refinement time.  For the upward 'power cycle' mentioned above, the final 3 years were years of climax...of fame and enjoying the finest in reputation and accomplishment.  In the world, and even in bootcamp.  There aren't many 'fameous' recruits in bootcamp, but my history preceeded me and I had the Company Commander bringing guests out to training sights, calling me out of training to talk to them about my powerlifting history.  My drill instructors were terrified (of course nobody knew that) of me because, frankly, I could crush them if I chose to.  I wasn't just strong, I could run too.  It was a fun 3 years in a fun 7 years.

The final 3 years of my 7 year spiral to the bottom of Hell were the worst of that cycle.  I imploaded emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually.  Quite the refinement period. 

This past 3 years (because this 7 year cycle has just ended, and now I know the next cycle has just begun) has been very intense - full of learning.  It was also a final cleaning out the closet.  Just more than a week ago the last of my old life was swept away (a conscious decision), leaving me in a new free-fall.  Very intense, but very good.  This past 3 years has been the most intense learning in all my life.

So, that's what I noticed.  7 year cycles...with the final 3 of each being an intensification:  good or bad, depending on my mindset.  Which gives a LOT of motivation to watch my mind-set!  - which is what I've learned to do over these past 3 years.  Spiritual folks call that the Witness state.  I'm not entirely there yet, but moving pretty darn close now.

So I was wondering if anyone else has noticed such time cycles.  Now that it's all typed out, I wonder if it even matters.  It is interesting to see them.  Why 7 years?  Why 3 within that?  Maybe it's all just another distraction. 
Blessings!
Eileen

  I have noticed it too. Never had a career lasted longer than 7 years, my ADD brain gets too restless. I think this course is just past its seventh anniversary so no surprise I've been  feeling a need to make some changes. Deepak Chopra says it is because the body is completely replaced every 7 years but my chiro just told me the skeleton is replaced every 3 months, so I am not sure he is right.

   

If you want to read or watch some really interesting material about the mayan calendar and time cycles I would warmly recommend Ian Lungold. Just type in that name on google and you find all sorts of stuff. He works on the idea that everything
speeds up in faster and faster cycles, and in our time nobody will have the same career all life..   Compared to only a few generations.. You were raised a carpenter/police/musician and died one.. 

I am still into music and sound because my heart soars from it.  But also have the unexpected side career as yoga and
meditation teacher. My wife has done more different kinds of careers than I can even recall, and she is still young!  Same with Mystress, with everything from hairstylist, comedian and professional spanker.

You don't need to believe in the mayan calendar to find Lungold's seminars incredibly fascinating. He is far more down to earth than a lot of the new age material about the mayan calendar.  Not so much about predictions, but more taking a deep look at consciousness and how it manifests and evolves.. And how the experience of time is completely relative.

If looking at the perspective of 7 year cycles, I was right in the middle of one 2001 when I had my K-awakening. It was quite a turning point!. Had my first sexual experience when I was 14, which also completely changed focus on what I paid attention to at the time.

Namaste
Gustaf