Changes become more subtle as years pass. This cycle, creative process of mind become more active. Researchers and inventors often make discoveries in these years – peak brain efficiency is around 35 years of age. Buddha, Jesus, Dante and Jacob Belman were all around 35 at the time of their greatest insights.
 

We are learning to trust ourselves in this septennial, but we also become aware of the burdens we carry. We may choose to undertake tasks knowing that they are challenging. 

We also take stock of ourselves and of the emotional influences that have shaped our personality in this cycle. We begin to discern what traits come from family influences, peers or society. We may begin to develop the witness perspective, becoming less reactive and more able to understand the other. 

Exercises

Respond to the following prompts in your journal:

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What happened at ages 28-30? How did the direction of your life shift?

What was important for you in these years? What was your focus?

What did you birth? What was coming to fullness in your life?

What were the main relationships in your life and how did you experience them?

Were there any major events at age 30-33?

What were the highs and lows of this time?

Were there any themes of death and rebirth?

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After completing the prompts, divide a page into two columns. The headings for each column should be ‘negative’ and ‘positive’. In the ‘negative’ column, write a list of negative experiences, emotions, themes, actions and reactions from this septennial. In the ‘positive’ column write the positive experiences, themes, actions, gifts, relationships from this septennial.

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Then, take a few moments with your eyes closed to feel into the negative list, considering each item you have written down. Then do the same for the positive list. Now, allow the two lists to merge – try to sit above or apart from the two lists and allow them to merge into one list, being, or energy – however you like to think about it. From this place, ask for a seed image to emerge, which represents the summation of this septennial, of the two lists and the merged lists.

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Your seed image may appear in your mind visually, or as thoughts describing the image, or in another way. Go with the first image that arises and open your eyes and draw it on the next round piece of paper.

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