the inner muse

“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”

Hermetic Principles (The Kybalion)

On all planes of existence, there is a rise and there is a fall.

Eventually, we return to a place once visited before, but from a more expanded or contracted perspective.

Rhythm is circular, wavelike, and predictive. It is a breathing out, as far as it is a breathing in. It grows and it contracts, and grows again.

There is no end to this dance of life.

The cycles of the planets, the histories of Earth’s past, our individual paths are all subject to this universal rhythm. We rise and we fall. We meet again where we began. We become exalted, only to learn where we fall short. We begin again. We grow. We expand. We contract, only to expand again.

One thing is for sure, and that is the rhythmic beating of all there is. It is constant, and alive.

We are riding the waves of this cosmic ocean, without always knowing what it is.