Are You in the Interregnum?

Are you inhabiting the land of In Between? I think we all are, if not in our personal lives, in our collective ones.

In his post on Medium, Jonathan Taplin referred to this period as an Interregnum. The word has been used to describe the period in between two regimes. We are in an Interregnum in the United States. Both sides of the spectrum have voted for a revolution of sorts, but we don't know how the results of the revolution will look.

While you're in the Interregnum, things can look confusing, surprising, unpredictable. Hard to know where everything is going to land when we're "between trapezes."

Maybe you remember being between relationships. Knowing what didn't work, but not being sure what will. Or between jobs. Knowing what didn't work out well, but not being sure what will. Or maybe you remember being between developmental stages. Knowing we are not children any more, or young adults any more, but not being sure who we're becoming.

It's a time of tremendous potential. I call it "the node." Dancer Martha Graham used that word for a place in dance. When one movement is complete, it's the pause before the next movement. It contains all the potential energy that movement will manifest.

Honoring the Interregnum means treating it with great care. It's the pause where gathering our full complement of consciousness is crucial.

Who do we really want as the next president? Just someone who is reacting to the past, or someone who can make the next move with skill and purpose?

Which relationships do we want in our lives? The ones that reflect our old wounds or the ones that support our potential? What does that mean we cultivate and decide during this "in between?"

During the Interregnum, we can witness the things, ideas and people who are part of the old order kicking and screaming as the order they represent falls apart. We can only "do hospice for them," as visionary Lynne Twist puts it. We need to do that while "being midwives for the new." That is the work of those in the in between.

Our society is going through a huge shift, one so fundamental that we will not all be around to witness the new order. Perhaps you feel called to being a changemaker. If so, you may be one of those who came to the planet in order to hold space for that new order. That is the work of the Interregnum.

Perhaps it will be more fun to be alive when the new order is being actively created, where the seeds have sprouted and the green shoots are more visible. I love those periods of moving into a new house, putting the furniture in place and hanging pictures on the walls. It's harder to not even be able to quite imagine the new, let alone be able to manifest it in solid form.

In the meantime, we hold it energetically. All matter begins as energy, its very essence. You have a luminous body that is the template for the part of you that is physical. So does everything that is being created right now.

It is our job in the Interregnum to tend the energy body of the new things being formed, as we would tend for an unseen life within our wombs. We can't know its future, and yet we instinctively love this new life. So we feed it nourishment, protect its safety, and imagine a good future for it.

Try doing this with the new relationships you can only imagine. With that new job you've been picturing. With the country whose politics you have your own feelings about. And finally, with our species.

Imagine a new day when the human being has evolved to a high state of consciousness, one made of love. Your heart knows what I'm speaking about. This is not a pipe dream, but a necessity.

Be careful in the Interregnum. Conscious. Purposeful. What you do is important now. And even more important is who you are being now. Collect the energy for the new movements in your life, your world, your universe. For the day when the "in between" will have given birth to the dance of life.