The Wheel of Life

I understand there is a time and season for everything

The only truth is change, like seasons our loves in constant ( r )evolution. The Wheel of Life shows us that every living thing is in full cycle, from birth, to death, followed by rebirth. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that the energy of a closed system must remain constant. Our Universe is this closed system so the energy in existence has always been the same. Nothing is ever gained or lost. The forms our energy takes, however,  are constantly changing.

The artwork depicts a vast wheel surrounded by ghostly figures. It symbolizes the personality journeying through time with all its different facets – the dramas of who we pretend to be – the different parts of ourselves which struggle for dominion in a world that operates on the principle of scarcity. The belief that there is not enough produces such struggle, such suffering. The ghosts of the past and the ghosts of the future dance to the great wheel of Time. Searching out who we were, what we said, what might have been, seeking where to go, what might occur. The mind, ever restless, analyzing, commenting, distancing itself from the heart.

We are always projecting “ourselves” onto life out there. However, viewed through the lens at the center, the all seeing eye reminds us that there is a constant unchanging center to all changing phenomena.

It’s true our lives are in a constant process of change and evolution. Every project, person, business, government and country is birthed, matures, and dies. Much as we try to control our lives, nothing stays the same and death and decay must come to us all. All the movement, the striving and relinquishing causes such pain and discomfort because it takes us out of the present. The present moment when everything is just as it is…spacious, yielding if only we could let it be so. This is the center of the Wheel of Life.

When we open ourselves to the aliveness of the present moment all is unfolding perfectly in the mystery of life. We expand and receive the “whole”ness of the moment, poised, alert, utterly alive. We wholeheartedly accept what is – love what is – without judgment, meeting the “isness” of the moment. In such moments we have no wish for it to be better or different or more, we have no disappointment, no sense that it is not what we worked for, Nothing to be, nothing to do, nowhere to go, this moment is complete unto itself, untainted, unmeasured. We shift perspectives from playing a character or role in life to the space in which life occurs.

The Wheel of Life also reminds us that what appears positive and uplifting contains the seed of its opposite so whenever something major changes in our circumstance to not be overly attached to the outcome. You’ve met the man of your dreams…how wonderful…maybe yes, maybe no. You’ve moved to your dream house in the country…lucky you…maybe yes, maybe no. There is opportunity in everything, brilliance in everything, the cup overflowing with life, in everything.