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Are you a solar or a lunar oriented senior?  Do you worry about keeping up with modern times?  How are you defining modernity in your life today?

The following two paragraphs are taken from Group Journal 45

Inner Journal of Self Discovery - (paragraph 7 & 8, page 2 of Group Journals)

This timeless era, living by the cycles of the Moon and the Seasons of the Year, is today called “The Eternal Round.” It is characterized by peaceful acceptance of the cycles of life…birth, growth, maturity, and death…and the feeling that life has meaning, that the experience of the body is deeply sensuous, pleasurable, joyful, without guilt or shame. This is living life from instinct and not ego. It is not a state of becoming or seeking, exploration or expansion of consciousness. It is a state of Being and contentment with simply living and meeting basic needs...hunger, sex, community, belonging, and comfort. This is, of course, Lunar consciousness. Lunar conscious is a state of mind in which the person lets go of their sense of self, or ego, and comes present in their life . They let go of the past and the future and focus on what is happening right now. The mind grows quiet and thoughts subside. They align with the Reality of this Moment, without striving or worrying about their futures or agonizing about their past. So we see that without the possibility of lunar consciousness, there is no possibility of happiness in life.

 Solar consciousness is expansive, but on the other hand involves struggle and seeking, striving and failure, and separation from the state of peaceful acceptance of ordinary life. The ego is engaged, and a person can easily become lost in thoughts or emotional turmoil of insecurity, fear, feeling excluded, feeling unimportant etc.

According to Carl Jung, "Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and expanding, but that an inexorable inner process enforces the contraction of life.  After having lavished its light upon the world, the sun withdraws its rays in order to illuminate itself. Instead of doing likewise, many old people prefer to be hypochondriacs, niggards, pendants, applauders of the past or else eternal adolescents - all lamentable substitutes for the illumination of the self."