Apr 08 2008
The Mystery of Mid-Life
Author: Christine Phoenix-Green
Since 60 is the new 45, and 35 the new 28, it is a little hard to gauge exactly where “midlife” starts and ends. Today there are all kinds of options and variations in how people live out the different phases of their lives.
For instance, each of my daughters are mid-lifers if we count ages 35-39 as a midpoint, but each of them have just become mothers for the first time with the enormous and focused responsibilities that that entails..and in that respect, they are at a different midpoint stage than I was at at their ages, seeing kids off to high school and college, being freer and just getting ready to look to new creative horizens for myself. They, in their mid-to-late thirties with small children and full time jobs, are now going to bed exhausted at 9:30 pm, and I, a grandmother, am out dancing Irish sets until 1:00am!
Where, exactly IS “mid-life” and what are we supposed to be living out? The different topics here on this site open up wonderful avenues for sharing stories about how to find our way through the now-extended passage of mid-life with great information for practical use, and humour for the journey we all share in common that sometimes makes us reflect on the foibles and challenges faced in a culture that idealizes youth, fame and wordly success.
What I have found in my practice of certain modes of Spiritual Guidance, which includes astrological insight, paying attention to dreams (personal “gifts of the night” ) and participation in the creative arts for self-expression or prayer, that there is another aspect of “midlife” that also, for many people, starts to focus us away from the glitter in search of the Gold…in otherwords, in a sense, an occassional, if not persistent, turning inward to question if the life we are living or have been pressured to pursue reflects our deepest desires or truly uses the gifts and talents we came in with to live fully, lifting the culture around us to its highest potential.
The culture can be sometimes “glitter”, but living an Authentic and Soulful YOU life is pure Gold, and mid-life is the opportunity to consciously reset your priorities and chart a course that is more soulfully in tune with your own personal destiny from the Inside- Out rather than from the Outside-In. Sitting with someone and their astrological chart at this time, is an amazing tool for dialogue and reflection on what is most natural, harmonious, and peaceful for you. This “mystery” modality can guide you personally as we all move through the haze and maze of culture that has tended to homogenize life’s experiences, feeding us images of what should be important, that may not reflect you at this time, or indeed, at all!
Christine Phoenix-Green can be contacted at cphoenixrising@earthlink.com for information on personal Insight Astrological, Dreamwork or Spiritual Guidance sessions.
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Christine Phoenix-Green
cphoenixrising@earthlink.net
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