Cycle of Change: The Birth Month Labyrinth Series Gallery

Introduction:

Part A: Cycle of Change

Change is ever present. Each of us has been changing and meeting the small and large challenges of change since we were born. In fact, we are Masters of Change. Though this title may seem strange, let us consider our lives. By the time we are six years old, we have undergone and met and experienced so many changes that the number of changes is beyond count and, therefore, infinite. If we double the age to twelve, then twenty-four, and forty-eight, each time we can not count the number of changes, and so the size of our infinity gets bigger and bigger.

The usual statement about change is that, “Change is difficult.” Or “I find or people find change difficult.” These statements seem to deny the title of Master of Change and the infinite number of changes that we have successfully met. This apparent discrepancy occurs because most of us only recall the difficult changes, the ones that confounded us or took a great deal of time and energy to resolve. However, this selective memory essentially enables us to forget the myriad of changes that occur within and around us daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and decade by decade. These changes may be decisions about what to wear or eat, the preferences we have for food, for friends, and for vacations. Since we manage our usual changes so well, we forget that we do, and our memory enables us to say we don’t handle change well when an usual or extraordinary change has to be met.

Instead, we need to identify the type of change that we find difficult and then find the tools to assist us as we work with these types. The Cycle of Change/Birth Month Labyrinths are such tools. Change can be seen as a process of a series of stages that we go through. Each labyrinth deals with one step in this process. A user can begin with the first or January labyrinth and proceed through the twelve steps in the process, using a labyrinth for each step. Or, a user can decide which labyrinth speaks to her or him and the point in the cycle that she or he is in.

Part B: The Birth Month Labyrinths

As I began to create the Cycle of Change Labyrinths, I realized that I was creating a series of energetic patterns that represent how I experience the energy of each month of the year as the Earth moves through her cycle. In part my feeling grows from my connection to the Earth and the cycle of change through which she moves each year. These labyrinths are representations of these changing energies.

Part C:

Regardless of whether you think of these as the twelve steps in a change process or the Earth’s cycle, the user is the one who determines which step in the process as represented by one of the twelve labyrinths is appropriate for what she or he wishes to do.

Cycle of Change: The Birth Month Labyrinth Series Gallery

-February--Feeling-The-Energy-of-Change-Gathering-Our-Resources

April-Stepping-Into--Our-Intentions-The-Proliferation-of-Choices

July-Being-The-Flow-Being-The-Action-Being-You

September-Stillness-Into-Motion-Movement-Within-The-Moment

October-Movement-and-Change-Entering-The-Plateau-of-Change

November-Acknowledge-The-Changes-Being-With-My-New-Self

Cycle of Change: The Birth Month Labyrinth Catalogue

Name: January: Considering the Possibilities

Intention: To assist us in recognizing the many possibilities that exist in all the areas of our life.

Cost: $125. (Includes handbook) + shipping and handling
Dimensions: 20¾” x 27¾”
Copyright © 2004 G. Coleman

Name: February: Feeling the Energy of Change – Gathering Our Resources

Intention: To assist us in recognizing our resources and gathering them, so that we can feel the energy for change building within us

Cost: $125. (Includes handbook) + shipping and handling
Dimensions: 20¾” x 27¾”
Copyright © 2004 G. Coleman

Name: March: The Sproutings of Change

Intention: To assist us in feeling the beginnings of change in our daily life.

Cost: $125. (Includes handbook) + shipping and handling
Dimensions: 20¾” x 27¾”
Copyright © 2004 G. Coleman

Name: April: Stepping Into Our Intentions – The Proliferation of Choices

Intention: To assist us in stepping into our heartfelt intentions, so that we can allow in the ever increasing number of choices.

Cost: $175. (Includes handbook) + shipping and handling
Dimensions: 20¾” x 27¾”
Copyright © 2004 G. Coleman

Name: May: Feeling the Flow – Finding Our Path

Intention: To assist us in stepping more fully into the flow of energy that is our path. The labyrinth is a flow of energy. As we feel this flow and feel this energy opening around and before us, we can use it to help us feel our energy and the path that is it taking.

Cost: $125. (Includes handbook) + shipping and handling
Dimensions: 20¾” x 27¾”
Copyright © 2004 G. Coleman

Name: June: From Readiness to Action

Intention: June is a time in our yearly cycle of change when we have completed our preparations and have clarified our preferences, our intentions, and our path. We are, therefore, ready to move into action. This labyrinth can assist us in shifting from readiness to action and in giving ourselves permission to step into our personal power that is the union of our intention, emotions, and choice that leads to will. Our will and the power of the labyrinth to focus our will leads to movement and action.

Name: July: Being The Flow, Being The Action, Being You

Intention: Change is about being in the flow and energy of change. Change is our union of intent and this flow so that we become the action. When this occurs this union of flow and being the action, we move into being more fully ourselves. This labyrinth is a tool to assist us in being the flow, being the action, and being who we truly are.

Name: August: Ripening Into Stillness

Intention: August is a time of stillness, of waiting for that which has been put in play to develop into fullness. This time of waiting within the cycle of change is a particularly wonderful time. This is a time when the cycle’s energy is in full flow and the fruit of the cycle is almost ready to appear. Yet sometimes, waiting for this ripening can be difficult. This labyrinth is to assist us in being in this stillness and allowing the ripening so that our efforts bear fruit.

Name: September: Stillness Into Motion – Movement Within The Moment
Intention: This month, we move from stillness into motion, from being with what we have begun to recognizing that we are agents of change, agents who change our own lives, and that all of our effort, our intention, our perseverance and will, have brought us to this moment when our change takes on a momentum and moves moment to moment. This labyrinth can assist us in recognizing that this momentum, that is movement within each moment of our daily existence, is our creation, our doing, and the result of all that we have been creating and doing.

Name: October: Movement and Change: Entering the Plateau of Change

Intention: The Plateau of Change is the point in our cycle of change where the change is on-going and has become a part of our life. This shift into the Plateau of Change means that the change and its cycle have begun to have an effortless quality. Once we have moved into this effortless place, we are at a place in our cycle in which we are more able to receive the fruits of our efforts. This labyrinth can assist us in recognizing the Plateau of Change and appreciating that this effortless quality means that we have become the change.

Name: November: Acknowledge The Changes, Being With My New Self

Intention: November is a time to Acknowledge the changes and to be with your new self. November in the cycle of change is a time for gratitude and allowing yourself to express this gratitude to yourself and to all beings and forces that have assisted you. This labyrinth can assist us in acknowledging the changes we have wrought, the changes within us, and empowering our change and ourselves through gratitude.

Name: December: Setting The Stage for Change

Intention: To assist us in recognizing how far we have come, the changes that have occurred, and to recognize that our current cycle of change has come to a close and it is now time to set the stage for the next cycle of change.