The Great Shakeup

What if we remove, for a moment, the specifics of what’s been happening in our world, and the emotion related to people getting sick and dying from a virus, police brutality and the ensuing protests, and the uncertainty we feel about the future?

Admittedly, this can be hard to do.

This is a game I like to play when life feels especially sticky: when I get caught up in all the things that are happening “to” me, for me, and around me. It’s called Zooming Out.

Zooming Out

Here’s how you play:

Zoom out from the current moment, as if you were in a space ship traveling far away from the Earth, or as if you’re traveling forward in time by several years or even decades. Take yourself far enough away until you don’t see the specifics of the daily dramas reported in the news cycle, or the ups and downs of your emotional reactions.

Zoom out far enough that you see only the broad brush strokes of what is happening, how it fits within the context of what came before and what is coming after.

The concept behind Zooming out is that it’s easy to get sucked into the rabbit holes of the current moment and how we feel about what’s happening now. When we Zoom Out, we can see current events in the objective, detached framework of evolution.

Instead of asking why is this happening, I’m asking what is actually happening, in the big picture?

If someone from another planet came and saw what was happening, or a person from the future reading about this in 50 or 100 years, what would they observe? What is happening, from an objective perspective?

Shakeup to the Current Order

We have a virus that is pruning the population and exposing flaws in how we work and live. It looks like an evolutionary event that is shaking up the current structure and order.

Astrologers — who regularly Zoom Out to give us context — predicted this for 2020.

This is the great reorganization. The great recalibration. A reboot. A full system reset.

As the beginning of a new astrological era, this year brings us to a new threshold, “necessitating a confrontation with all the difficult challenges in need of a remedy within civilization.”

Rather than viewing this as an inconvenience or a disruption to our “normal” lives, we can see it as an opportunity to assess what is and isn’t working.

40 million people are out of work. Maybe you won’t have your job back. And maybe it was the wrong job for you. Now you have an opportunity to discover what you’re meant to do.

This is a time to evaluate what systems and processes weren’t working, and change them.

Cleaning Closets

We can see that this is what’s happening. Yes, it’s messy. It’s like cleaning our your closet.

If you want to organize your closets, the first step is to remove everything from your closets and lay it all out in front of you. If you’ve ever done this, you know: it’s messy. Everything is everywhere.

Once everything is on the floor in front of you, you can decide what to keep and what to discard. Only after that do you put things away.

The world is currently reorganizing the big, deep closet in the basement where you put all the stuff you don’t want to deal with. This closet has been packed full, and there is crap that has been sitting there for years. Decades. It’s all coming out.

Some of what is coming out is old and moldy. It’s uncomfortable to see or smell or hear.

But it’s necessary that we look at it and decide what to do with it.

Consider what you need to release to create space for what truly matters.