№002 Stepping Out of Pattern

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Stepping Out of Pattern 

Simply being is underestimated.

While applied action is fundamental to our shared purpose, actioning is merely an extension of creating. 

Creating is the primary fundamental. Actioning is her partner. They are in a perpetual, dynamic dance aspiring to equanimity. Two sides. One coin.

We must practise being. 

Why? To prime the flywheel so our creating informs shrewd action. 

How? We rhythmically step out of pattern, as a forced function of living, leading, and working. We structure time to sense ourselves stripped of all the gunk, to learn comfort in the uncomfortable open space. To feel our brain flows dialing into the time-space continuum. To allow openings for the goodness to be sent through our more receptive vessels. 

We practise doing this as individuals. As teams. As collectives. 

Discipline Being

Being time is deeply personal. Get to know your intuitive rhythms. Play around with ways to structure connecting to your higher mind. It is a creative exercise in itself.

Preordained hours in the day, days in the week, and months of the year matter not at all in your consideration. What matters is finding a discipline that works for your rhythm — so you can nurture, fortify, and design into the dynamic.

Calendars & Time — A Backstory

Calendars and measures of time are imagined constructs.

Mere frameworks.

Tools, if you will.

Humans design them.

Julius & Gregory Examples

Gregory XIII, a Pope in the 16th century, needed a win. So by “papal bull” in 1582, he iterated upon the 1600-year-old "Julian" calendar, blessing us with the “Gregorian” calendar. The Julian calendar arrived via a Caesar “edict” in 45 BCE. Caesar "reformed" the “Roman” version, in place between 509-45 BCE.

The Roman calendar had been lunisolar. The ancient Hellenic, Coligny, and Babylonian calendars before the Roman one were also all lunisolar. The Chinese, Buddhist, Burmese, Assyrian, Hebrew, Jain, and Kurdish as well as the traditional Nepali, Hindu, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Vietnamese calendars (in the East Asian Chinese Cultural sphere) continue today to use lunisolar calendars.

A lunisolar framework accounts for the combination of monthly Moon and annual Solar cycles. The Gregorian and Julian calendars “tossed out” the Moon cycle math. In these gentlemen’s infinite wisdom and applied mathematics, the measure of time need only rely on the Sun cycles. Now, why might that be?

Moon and Sun Archetypes

The Moon, one of many external, natural symbols, represents the wisdom of our Feminine principles within. The Sun, another of several natural, external symbols reflects the wisdom of our masculine principles within. Feminine principles such as receptivity, presence, vision keeping, intuition, creation. Masculine principles such as logic, objectivity, self-defense, boundaries, structure.

A lunisolar calendar is a both/and. Julian and Gregorian, not so much.

The mathematics of the Moon’s cycles (archetypical feminine energy) around the Earth in combination with the Earth’s travels around the Sun (archetypical masculine energy) have not been taken into account as a unit in our Western calendar tool since 45 BCE. That is 2,100 years. When Greg tweaked the edges on the same non-Moon measuring, leaping year phenomenon of the Julian calendar in 1582, it was more or less a rebranding exercise. 

A system of measuring time here on Planet Earth, long understood and organised in reverence to the rhythmic cycles of both the Moon and Sun became a political instrument per Ceasar. A top-down mind manipulation. A natural science disregard. An “innovation” on time that was suggestibly an instrument to control. One of many brand signatures to establish dominion by the Roman Empire, the Papacy, externalised systems of strong man-ness. 

The leaping business is merely man-made mechanicals too. Dissertations of scientific reasoning. Descartes proclamations of thinking therefore being. Industrial clock-time “revolutions." Each, systems designed to put a layer of control between us and an intuitive understanding of the natural world.

Julius’ and subsequently Greg’s edicts and bulls are simplistic illustrations where frameworks, governments, and operating models alter belief (being) systems, intuitive muscles, and perception of the natural world as it is. They served political, brand, and control agendas. Agendas (in my artist rendering explanation) that discarded connection to and appreciation for our intrinsic feminine and masculine compositions. Replacements that designed imbalance, leading to misogyny, dystopia, toxicity, and disinformation campaigns.

The Moon, a long-understood feminine archetype in our sky, holding a tighter rhythm than the Sun's annual cycles is a cosmically purposeful (forgive the penetrating statement of the obvious, says the Ocean) and symbolically deep counterbalancing force. Ignoring her signatures within a framework by which to operate systemically — logically builds in strategic consequences.

Wholes, Not Parts

This carnival (and the awakening to it) we are living with and through has cords even in our appreciation of calendars, rhythms, and time. The all-knowing, authoritarian, imbalanced leader paradigm births from (re-)engineered frameworking, deletion of applied, natural system mechanics of feminine principles. 

The power of the feminine has long been feared and foretold in mythology — thus becoming a harmful messaging campaign to all humans operating in reality.

Perhaps this is because within each of us — identity agnostic — it is she who energetically brings us the unpredictable, the creative spark, the calling, the vision, and the way. The masculine in each of us — identity agnostic — then energetically lays the tracks.

Tracks that roll out in spiral, not linear, formations.

Two Sides. One Coin.

We are each the whole of it all and we are all powerful as F when operating from an integrated whole. (Therein lies the cautionary tale for those wanting dominion.)

When we step out of pattern to connect to our being, we do the work of noticing, listening, receiving, intuiting, vision-keeping, and self-sustaining the well of creativity within us. We do this to then return and lay the shrewd and smart tracks. We build discipline and power up our own frameworks to nurture the dynamic dance.

The primary principles are (1) creating, a feminine signature and (2) actioning, a masculine signature — two sides, one coin.

The discipline is being.

As individuals. As teams. As collectives.

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Making Sense of Chaos. A book by J. Doyne Farmer, a chaos (archetypical feminine principle) theorist. Farmer says "Chaos is not synonymous with unpredictability. On one hand, chaos imposes fundamental limits to long-term prediction; on the other, it means that data that otherwise look random can be predictable in the short term." Can the naturally chaotic behavior of economies hold within them the answers to global economic conundrums?

Through The Looking Glass 

The deep August goodness always comes in advance of the inevitable September wave. The remainder of 2024 will be no fewer twists, turns, and "WTAF was that?" moments. Ask yourselves if you have the tracks laid strategically, to shrewdly run out of 2024 and smartly into 2025.

Try to give mere side-eye to the modern-day Caesar-like carnivals. Focus instead on what you are building, birthing, and becoming.

Forward-looking systems are designing themselves in real time. And we know tangible change is by design — a considered disruption — to the energetic and frameworked status quo.

LFG.

You’ve got this. x

Kathryn
Head of Systems Designing and Transformation Strategy, Theeo