The Spiral and the Clock: Reclaiming Time as Sacred

The Story of Time

How We Lost the Rhythm, and How to Bring It Back

Let me tell you a story.

There was a time when time wasn’t measured, managed, or marched. It wasn’t sliced into hours or boxed into months. Back then, time was a feeling. It was the warmth of the sun on your face and the hush of the moon rising. It was the rhythm of breath, the swell of tides, the turning of leaves.

Time was alive.

We woke with the sun and rested when it set. We moved with the moon, planting, harvesting, bleeding, and pausing in sacred sync. Life didn’t run on deadlines. It flowed in circles. That’s how it was for thousands of years.

The Sacred Timekeepers

Long before skyscrapers and schedules, the first skywatchers looked up and began to track.

They saw that the sun rose in perfect rhythm, marking the days. And the moon danced through her phases, whispering of emotion, intuition, and change.

So they built great stone circles like Stonehenge, Nabta Playa, and Callanish, not just as monuments, but as temples of time.

Thirteen moons. Each one about 28 days. 364 days, with the 365th left unclaimed. A Day Out of Time, set apart for celebration and renewal.

To them, time wasn’t a machine. It was a mystery. A ceremony.

A marriage between the sun’s steady fire and the moon’s changing light.

They knew: The sun brings strength and direction. The moon brings magic and memory.

And we need both.

But Then We Forgot

As civilizations grew, so did the need for structure.

The Sumerians, Egyptians, and Babylonians began formalizing time. They watched the stars. Tracked the moon. Used the sun to guide their crops and the moon to time their rituals.

Still, time was sacred. It pulsed with divinity.

But eventually… something shifted.

From Spiral to Straight Line

By 800 BCE, the Greeks introduced a fixed zodiac.

The Romans followed, with their early 10-month calendar...until politics took over.

Days were added, subtracted, stretched, and manipulated. Festivals slipped out of season. The lunar rhythm grew too wild to tame.

So, in 45 BCE, Julius Caesar stepped in to fix time. He consulted Egyptian astronomers and replaced the moon’s flow with the sun’s logic.

Thus began the Julian Calendar with 365.25 days. Clean, clear, linear.

But in the fixing, we broke something.

We cut away the 13th moon. We severed the feminine from time itself.

The sacred spiral was replaced by a straight line.

Time became not something we danced with, but something we obeyed.

The Final Cut

By the 1500s, the seasons had drifted 10 days off track. So Pope Gregory XIII issued another correction: People went to bed on October 4th and woke up on October 15th.

Ten days were simply… gone.

And that’s the calendar we still live by today.

Efficient. Predictable. Solar. Linear. Useful, yes.

But unbalanced.

Because we forgot: Structure without flow becomes a cage.

And cycles without grounding become chaos.

We need both.

What We Lost

When we let the moon go, we lost more than a timekeeper.

We lost intuition. We lost emotional truth. We lost the rhythm of rest.

We forgot how to pause.

We forgot that we are not machines.

We started measuring ourselves by output instead of energy.

By consistency instead of wholeness.

Rest became laziness. Stillness became unproductive. Surrender became failure.

But here’s the secret the ancients knew:

🌞 The sun is our structure. He helps us rise, aim, and do.

🌙 The moon is our mystery. She helps us reflect, feel, and be.

And when they work together we remember how to live.

The Return of Sacred Time

So here you are.

Maybe you’re tired.

Maybe you’ve been racing the clock, trying to keep up with a rhythm that isn’t yours.

Maybe something deep inside you is whispering, there’s another way.

And there is.

The way of the moon. The pulse of the sun.

The dance of day and night, action and rest, masculine and feminine, fire and flow.

Time isn’t something to conquer. It’s something to partner with.

It doesn’t need to be mastered. It needs to be remembered.

Your Invitation

Let this be your reminder:

You are not behind.

You are not late.

You are not lost.

You are a cycle, not a straight line.

You are rhythm, not routine.

You are not broken, you’re in process.

So step out of the clock. Step back into the circle. And let the rhythm rise again in you.

Because once you remember how to move with time everything else changes.