My purpose for this 7-Day Cycle is Background.
My Lunar Purpose is The Stage.
And today, in my Observe Sphere, I am observing the Scene.
I can be sitting at my desk, trying to work, and suddenly realize that I am no longer thinking about what I was doing. Something has happened. A mood has entered the room. And somehow, without consciously deciding to, I have followed it.
I like the word Scene because it seems to contain several stories at once.
A scene is a moment in a play.
A scene is the scenery surrounding the characters.
And then there is the seen.
What is visible?
What is appearing?
What is manifesting?
What is already here, whether I intended for it to be or not?
I have been thinking about the background as the weather that rolls in.
The people who enter the room
The circumstances I cannot control
The noise
The interruptions
The moods
The things happening around me that can suddenly seem to change what is happening within me.
Sometimes I forget that I am watching a scene.
I think I am the scene.
The weather changes, and I become stormy. Someone enters with a certain energy, and suddenly I am responding to their script. Something unexpected happens, and I forget that I have any say in what happens next.
The background moves into the foreground.
And I follow it.
But this week I am remembering something.
I am not merely an actor waiting for the next line.
I am the creative director of my life.
Not the director of everything that happens!
That distinction matters.
I do not control the weather.
I do not control the other characters.
I do not control what someone else brings into the scene.
I do not control every circumstance that appears in the background.
But I do have a relationship with the scene. I can observe the lighting. I can notice the atmosphere. I can see who has entered. I can recognize what is influencing the mood. I can notice the script I am beginning to follow.
And then I can ask:
Is this the scene I want to continue creating?
