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Meta Life Cycles |
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Interpreting Charts Individual Charts People typically structure their lives about one to a few major themes plus a number of subthemes. Meta Life Cycles charts show the number of major themes and the timing for when these themes are initially introduced and most strongly expressed. In addition, the charts show when new subthemes are introduced into the life stream and the relative strengths of the subthemes. When new major themes and subthemes appear, the skills, knowledge and awareness a person has gained from prior major themes and subthemes remains available to them if they so choose. What does happen is that their focus shifts to the new major theme or subtheme. The person transitions from one phase or subphase of their life to a new phase or subphase. The person ends or reduces the intensity of changes and activities in the prior focus areas and begins developing new areas of their life or activities. The previous phase's focus areas are often used as a foundation for the next phase. For example, a person may establish a relationship, get married and launch a family during one phase. In a subsequent phase, the person may launch a career in addition to the marriage. Or, the children may appear in the new phase. Or, the person may get divorced. The major themes, subthemes, phases and subphases of a person’s life stream are shown in their Meta Life Cycles chart via the following features:
Groups of peaks often also exhibit subgroups with sub transition points and occasionally sub transition regions. As the metamorphosis level rises in a Meta Life Cycles chart, the person goes through greater and greater changes related to those areas they are focusing on for that phase. The higher the metamorphosis level the greater the change or metamorphosis and the more long lasting the effects of the change. Decisions, actions and changes made on very high peaks tend to be very long lasting. The Meta Life Cycles chart for Princess Diana is used as an example. Following her early 1977 transition point, she began looking for a career, husband and family. This was an 18 year activity shown by a major group in her chart. She was quite successful in her endeavor and during the subgroup that spans from 1977 through 1984, she had a job for a while, got married to a prince and had her first son on the rise second highest peak seen during her lifetime. During a following subgroup spanning from late 1984 through 1994 that has the highest and third and fourth highest peaks in her chart, her marriage broke apart and she began to appreciate her impact as a world figure.
In the transition region of the late 1990s, Princess Diana began exploring how to make transitional changes in her life while carrying forward what she had achieved on her very high metamorphosis levels, i.e. mother of a future King of Great Britain major theme and the subsequent major theme of being an independent woman in addition to being a political and cultural force as a world figure. Combined Charts The interpretation of combined Meta Life Cycles charts is similar to that for single charts with the following differences. As the number of charts being combined increases, often the number of transitions points increases and the lengths of transition regions increase. In terms of timing, the changes in the group as a whole are dominated by the metamorphosis peaks. The combined chart of the four Beatles is an example. There are multi year transition regions and numerous transition points. In terms of peaks, two peaks are highest for their first seven years up until 1967: their acquisition of Brian Epstein in December 1961 as a manager and their step to fame and fortune in January 1963. From 1963 until 1967, the interactions, activities, goals, etc. of the Beatles as a group did not significantly change. At the start of an early 1967 peak that is as high as the 1961 and 1963 peaks, John met Yoko Ono 8 November 1966. While her impact on the group became significant, the greatest impact occurred when the group met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 24 August 1967 on the top of the peak that proceeded the late 1967 - early 1968 highest peak in the chart. The metamorphosis level of this peak is six times greater than the levels when the band came together. The Fab Four chose to use this very high level for each to begin going their own way, with only one subsequent recording session in 1969. While the Beatles were making many changes as individuals, the high peaks in 1972 and 1974 in the combined Beatles chart were not adequate to make major changes in the metamorphosis in the group that had taken place in early 1968. As with individual charts, it is equally true for groups represented by combined charts that decisions, actions and changes made on very high peaks in Meta Life Cycles charts tend to be very long lasting. |
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