On 1/11/11, at 11:11 and such like, there was all manner of numerology being slung around to show how meaningful the date and time was. While I got pretty good at adding in my head in two-bit increments when I was working the concession stand at the Lefont Tara movie theater back in college, I never really put a lot of stock in numbers as powerful, or as numinous tools.
But I've noticed something in my own impulses, this drive to start handling the incomplete projects and unfinished work of my life and career--that I'm seeing echoed elsewhere. For instance, my friend Audrey in NY, a great and brilliant Clown, is teaching a workshop here. This is a great opportunity, as I've got probably about a dozen ideas, concepts, shows and production designs in my head and in various states of incompletion. Sadly, I can't attend. It's in NY, and I'll be in Paris that day. So, everything's a trade-off, I guess. Anyway, it got me thinking even more about what is incomplete in my own life, in the lives of those I love and know, and in the world at large.
So, in my own stab at dubious numerological punditry, I'll add this: 2011 = 2+0+1+1 = 4. Four is the number of completion. The square. The Holy Quaternity (as Jung has observed, Who would the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost be, without Satan?)...this may very well be the year to 'get complete' in our lives. Even if it's a bunch of math-ey bunk, it feels like what there is to do now.
Work, Relationships--what if we had nothing to lose? Would we let the moment pass without following that still, small voice inside that calls us to our best impulses and intentions? What if we had everything to lose if we did let the moment pass?
Letting no business go unfinished. Letting go of grief withheld. Opening the most guarded corners of the heart. Opening the channel of creativity. The bottom line is always the same: it's about choosing love over fear (but jeez, even that sounds to my ear new-agey and hackneyed)...
Where are you incomplete, and what could you do now, in this very moment, towards being complete in some aspect of your Life?
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