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275. From Birth To Midlife: How 7-Year Cycles Shape Your Path
In this solo episode, I map life from birth to age 42 through seven-year cycles, blending Steiner’s stages, astrology’s Saturn and nodal rhythms, and human design’s deconditioning. Practical steps help you identify your current phase, name its theme, and select simple actions that foster authenticity.
• zero to seven as body and heart imprint
• seven to fourteen as emotional awakening and EQ
• fourteen as a tipping point into rebellion and isolation
• fifteen to twenty-one as mental patterns and identity
• twenty-one to twenty-eight as journeyman years and friendships
• Saturn return as the death and resurrection of roles
• thirty-three as curiosity for the sacred and integration
• thirty-five to forty-two as an authenticity crisis and values clarity
• nodal return around thirty-seven as a fresh start impulse
• Uranus opposition around forty-two as truth through friction
• practical prompts to define your theme, practices, and releases
• using breath, regulation, and values to navigate change
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Welcome to the Rochelle Christian podcast. I'm Rochelle, your host. I'm here to help you come back to your body, take charge of your emotions, and live life on your terms. This podcast is a space for raw, real conversations about what it means to trust yourself, lean into your power, and create a life that feels aligned and alive. We'll explore human design, astrology, and other tools to help you understand your unique energy. More importantly, though, we're gonna talk about what it means to actually live and embody these aspects. So each week I'm gonna share stories, lessons, guidance to help you navigate life's challenges and really own your magic. So if you're ready to step up, take control, and show up as the most authentic version of you, let's begin. Welcome back to another episode on the podcast. Today we're gonna talk about seven-year cycles. I find it so fascinating. I find it so helpful on this journey of life where we can sort of see how different themes tend to come up. And it really helps support us in navigating just different seasons, right? Life is cyclical, we have different seasons for different things, and it's all normal. It's all relative, it's all part of the process of life. It is all part of being human. And so it's something that I really wanted to sort of like dive into a little bit more. So today we're gonna try and get through just like zero to 42 to that like Uranus opposition, that like mid-like mid-life crisis phase and just talk about these little critical points along the way and what each seven-year cycle means. So today I'm recording this on the new moon, the full moon, sorry, in Taurus. And if you didn't catch the full moon circle replay, you're welcome to. I know it'll be a little bit outside of the energy of the full moon when this episode comes out, but you can head to the link in my bio and do that. 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Because as I've been talking about, and especially with this full moon in Taurus, so much of the astrology right now is really unpredictable. And today, as I'm recording this, Mars is opposite Uranus, which is so unpredictable. Our nervous system, electrical impulses, like anger, frustration, sort of being provoked and shocked, and you know, like maybe awakening to truth, which then makes us feel like angry. And so there's a lot going on. And if we're not rooted in our values, if we don't understand our values, it's really difficult to sort of like just navigate everyday life. And yeah, anyway, all the ways that you can uh connect are gonna be in the show notes. I put out a call on threads, which came through for me at the beginning of last year, and I have so many podcast interviews scheduled for you coming up over the next few months. So I'm really excited to share all of that with you. Um and yeah, I like I said, I have been kind of studying, researching. Actually, the book that I've been reading is I think it's called Taking Charge. I can't remember, but it's about seven year cycles. It is based on, and I can never pronounce pronounce this, Rudolf Steiner Steiner's anthropophosophy. I probably butchered that way. Actually, I know I butchered that word. But um, so I've I've have found the idea of these seven-year cycles super fascinating, right? Um, you know, seven-year cycles, it's very Saturnian cycles when it comes to astrology. Saturn is in a harsh aspect to your natal Saturn every seven years. So seven years from when you're born, it's gonna be in a square to your natal Saturn, 14 years after it's in an opposition. Uh, 20, oh my gosh, 21 years after it's in another square, and then 28-ish, right? It's gonna be in your Saturn, your satum return, right? Which is 28 to 30, because Saturn stays in a sign for two-ish years, and then the cycle repeats, and then when you hit 60, it's in your second side of return. Human design also speaks to seven-year cycles, to the idea that every single seven years we have the potential to decondition because every cell in our body regenerates. And we're, you know, Ken Close talked about it on the podcast episode with him years ago. But it's like every it was the the statistic was wild. It's like every second, there's like hundreds and thousands of cells that are like uh new in your body. And we have the ability to like every one of those cells, 98% of those cells is waiting to be written, right? And so what you think, what you believe, what you do, what you study, what you ingest, when you consume, it's writing these cells that are then creating your reality. So it's so fascinating. Um, you know, just for yeah, for life, for business, for parenting, for everything, right? Like understanding these seven-year cycles, as excuse me, especially when it comes to parenting, like understand what your children are going through. Um, so we'll get into it, right? So again, in the work of Rudolf Steiner, and I'm not even going to try and pronounce that word again, um, he sees human development through these seven-year cycles, right? And I'm I have notes and notes and notes. So if you're watching on YouTube, I will be looking down and I will be referencing some of these notes. Um, but again, these are seasons of growth, um, the rhythms within, you know, our beings. So that seven, the first seven years is the physical body, right? This is the physical development of the body, is really zero to 21, but specifically zero to seven, right? We're learning to crawl, we're learning to talk, we're consuming food. We're going from drinking milk to then consuming solid foods, like all of these things, right? This is really significant phase of life. And then like that seven to fourteen uh is the phase of the life body, right? Imagination, feeling, experiential learning. Um, 14 to 21. It's the astral body, emotions, identify, um, ident identity, like the eye awakening. We're also gonna bring in a little bit of specifically when we talk about this like zero to 21. Um, the I'm I am I do apologize because I am flipping pages, but we are gonna be talking about um the jinkies because there's your SQ, your EQ, and your IQ, which relate to these seven-year cycles. So we're gonna be getting into that a little bit as well. Um, but again, like, you know, according to human design, that seven years our body is new, new cells generate, which gives us an opportunity to be new, to rewire our subconscious, right? And I believe there was a time where we once thought, like, once you hit that like seven-year mark or 21-year, whatever it is, like you were like there was no change in your mind. But we've science has since learned, right, and and discovered that we can rewrite our thoughts at any point, which is so empowering. And also like looking back at these cycles is so helpful because it shows us where we were imprinted, the work we need to do, creating awareness so that we can then, you know, rewrite those stories and believe something new. So again, zero to seven. The task during this age is to transform the physical body, right? We're born, we can't even hold our head up straight, right? And we go from that to like seven years old. We're walking, we're talking, we're going to school. Like there's this whole physical transformation. We're growing, we're going through growing pains, we're getting teeth, we're losing teeth. It's this whole physical um change, right? The spiritual awakening that we're having. Because, you know, you think about astrology when we're born, we go from that 12th house energy when we're in the womb. We can't see anything. We're just so merged with source, with spirit, with the universe. And then we come out into this physical existence and just everything's new, but our soul is so connected to the spirit realms, right? We're kind of like having to figure out this whole life, this whole human thing. Um, and so it is this like spiritual awakening phase. Like um we are connected to X, we we depend on external forces, parents, teachers, babysitters, whatever it is. Um, and so within this seven years cycle, like, do you feel supported, right? If you look back to the first seven years of your life, did you feel supported emotionally, physically, mentally, right? Do you feel comfortable? Do you feel discomfort? Was it easy for you? Was it not easy for you? And, you know, astrology, the beautiful thing about astrology is that it shows us that sometimes the lens that we the imprint from the moment that we're born sometimes paints the lens that we view life from, right? So if you have Pluto in the fourth house, like maybe your home life will naturally, you'll be viewing it from a little bit more challenging lens. That could be the lesson that your um soul came to, or if you have Saturn in the fourth house, right? There's so many different configurations within your astrology chart that really speak to the way that you view life. Um and then, you know, you learn through imitation at this age. You're watching the adults around you and you're imitating them. That's why that saying, like, kids don't listen to what you say, they listen to what you do. So, just for an example, with me and my kids, and I'm far from perfect, so I'm not sitting here saying that I am, but like even when it came to like alcohol and things like that, um, I used to smoke until I was 28 years old and I quit because I knew that me telling my kid not to smoke wasn't gonna make a difference, but me not doing it, if if they're not um immersed in it, or if they don't see it every single day, if I'm not modeling that behavior for them, they're not gonna do it, right? And so, like with drinking, I stopped drinking mostly because I didn't want that to be what they saw, like on a continual basis. I can't tell my kids don't drink, don't get older and don't drink if I'm over here drinking every single day, right? Of course, we all have different paths in life, but that was just me, right? Kids learn through imitation, not what you tell them to do. They're watching, they're perceiving, they're taking up, they're picking up so much, like energetically, too. They're so open to that stuff that that is then sort of pulled out of them. They're taught not to trust those things as they get older. But they are, again, they are they do learn through imitation, and they really need love. They really need love at that age. Um, that zero to seven year, let me find where it is in the gene keys. It's this SQ, spiritual conscious, spiritual quotient. And okay, so this is zero to seven, um, first seven years of life, right? This is your unconscious Venus. And again, this is daily lives relationship to fuel our to fuel our spiritual transformation, right? This has to do with your primary relationships, putting them at the heart of your life, right? Um, this is like about our karma. This is permanently, this is opening your heart. And we think about like kids at this age, they naturally, normally, right? Of course, there's massive trauma that can hold people back or or change things, but they tend to be so open. They just love everyone. I remember when my son was three and he met somebody that I was dating, and within like an hour, he was like, I love you. And that this person like was so uncomfortable with it, but I'm like, he's three. Like, that's just like who he, you know, at that age, they're so open. There's heart is so open, right? And then we move into the mind and then the emotions. And so, really, like this is such a uh time when we're um in this phase of our life, right? Where we're just, yeah, we're so open. And um, yeah, that's that zero to seven year age range. And I'm just trying to find the next one. Okay, got the next one in here. Um, so at three, right, the children will begin to experience the self. They're now sort of understanding that they're separated from mom, from dad, from grandma, from teacher, like whatever it is. They are they find their own self, their own I within their being, right? Their respiratory organs develop in the second um cycle part of this cycle, right? Um, this is like how we learn to breathe. How are you breathing? And we know like breath is life, right? Like, obviously, but also like it will calm you if you breathe in quickly, it will stress you out. So, like regulating your breath, like learning how to breathe is such a critical life tool. And it's so underrated. Like, we don't think about it. Like, yeah, of course, we all know how to breathe, but like truly, right, do you know how to breathe? Um, this is also when like all those sayings uh sort of like take hold, right? Like, money doesn't grow on trees. Why would you do that? You're no good at that. Like, I think a lot of us as adults can think back to these things that really imprinted in us and really conditioned us and probably caused us a lot of subconscious limiting beliefs, like you have to struggle, or whatever it is tied to relationships or like or money or career, like whatever it is. That's sort of the age when these things like sort of solidify. So then we're moving into the second year cycle. So again, that first seven years, it's physical, spiritual. We understand we that we have an eye, all of these um things, all of these um, what do you call it, limiting beliefs begin to like settle in, right? And then so seven to 14 is the next one. Um, this is that second cycle. Now, at age 14, there's a massive thing that happens. Um, so it as far as the gene keys, this is your EQ. This is emotional, your emotional quotient, this is emotional awakening, right? This is your emotional wound. This is emotional intelligence. Like, are you learning how to regulate or are you not? My son is a Scorpio rising with Mars on his ascendant. He can lean really towards anger and will really work to have that emotional intelligence. I just had a parent-teacher conference with this teacher, and she was like, he is so emotionally intelligent, he is so self-aware, and that's like the purpose of it, so that we can understand, we can come into this place of emotional intelligence, right? It's so powerful. And so that second one, so that's really what's happening between seven and 14. And at 14, this is literally the book calls it the fall, right? So we want to avoid contact with earth and return to childhood or the spiritual realm. So there is something that happens at 14 where we've gone through this sort of like spiritual awakening, we've come into our body and it's like we're midpoint between like that childhood and adulthood. We have to think about the future, but we want to be a child. And there is, there's no longer, so we no longer feel understood because we're kind of in this like tipping point, right? You we begin to feel isolated, we begin to rebel, we begin to feel confused, right? This is laying the foundation for spiritual development later in life. So, what are you doing around this age, right? Um, the book says the more freedom people feel at home and in their family, the less likely they are to have the need for external freedom. So that's rebellious activity. Um, that's you know, not listening, that's like going out and partying and all these things, like drugs, alcohol, all those kinds of things. So, how comfortable did you feel at home? How safe did you feel at home? Or did you not feel free at home that you needed to go out and and do all these things, right? Trust is so important during this phase of life for children to have somebody that they can trust, that they can talk to, that they can turn to. And again, this 14-year age, this point, it's like, are we teaching emotional regulation? Are we, you know, because there is this isolation period, there is really something big that happens at this age. And, you know, suicide rates go up around age 14 as well, because it is this, you know, if you're not settled into this, um, and I can't remember where I read it, but I had read that it is about this age where the soul decides to either settle in the body or to leave. And so that's a big piece that comes in um at this specific age. And then age 19, 18, um, this is like your first lunar return, right? And so, first notal return, sorry. This is sort of like that clear point of destiny. You may know what you want to do, but you may not, and either one is fine, right? And so this is like a really a big point of like coming into that. So to recap this zero to 21, more so, um, actually, I'm getting into 21, but zero to seven, I'm this is what I wrote down some of my notes. Zero to seven is the world is good, right? This is the lens that you view from. Eight to fourteen, the world is beautiful. And then 15 to 21, the world is true. So 15 to 21 is your um, oh my gosh, your IQ. So this is the mental patterns that you will get as you grow older, right? 14 to 21, we also have sexual urges. Our sexuality, our curiosity comes through. And then at 21, this next, you know, seven-year cycle, we have this deep crisis of who am I? Doubt, conflicts, conflicts. Um, we begin to question like, am I following a path that is mine, or am I following a path that is my parents? Because oftentimes, right, like children want to please their parents. So they will do anything, they will bend over backwards to receive love, or the way that they learn to receive love isn't always necessarily healthy. So then typically at this age, we get to this question, yeah, like, is this my path or is this someone else's path? Right. We begin to like sort of notice that that 21 to 42 range is really soul development. Right. We find ourselves through others, through our relationships. Um they're, you know, like learning if our parents taught us how to be self-sufficient or if we're dependent on other people. We begin to unhook from the stories. Remember those stories, those like looping narratives of like you're not good enough or money's hard. We begin to like create awareness around that sometimes. I think back to my 20s and I was really not aware at all. Um, and so everybody has a different path. Cause even as I was going through this, yes, there are some critical points that I can definitely, definitely resonate with. And there were some things where I was just so not in my awareness that I feel like I'm the journey's a little bit slower. And so everybody's looks a little bit different. This is just like a general um around the age of, right? So again, this is that time when we begin to unhook from those stories and narratives from childhood. If we can't unhook from them, our soul gets caught in them and cannot develop further. And so sometimes when I think about where I'm at now, I think that now I'm doing the work that I probably should have done back then, which makes things feel a little bit slower because, like this says, like your soul gets hooked into that and it can't develop until it creates awareness of that, right? 21 to 28. Um, this is the phase of the journeyman, journeyman, that's what it calls, right? Experience and falling, failing, you're figuring things out. It's like you're learning to walk again, like from that zero to seven, but now it's like on a soul level. Uh friendships and groups are formed. You know, they say like when you're in college, you meet like some of your best friends, like that's sort of what this age range is. And then at 28, right, we hit our sad and return. So things get really intense in the sad and return. Um, there's some sort of inner division that's happening, um, loss of abilities, crisis of lost abilities, right? So it's like again, kind of building on that question at that 21 year where it's like, what is mine? What is somebody else's? Did I miss a whole chunk of my life? Am I on the wrong path? Like, sort of these things come out. And this 28 to like 35 is a really pivotal point. At least, like, I don't know if it's because that's more like kind of in my recent history that I that is a huge um pivot point, I believe, in life, right? So again, so that 28 to 35 is called death and resurrection, right? So from sad and return to nodal return. So this death phase and that sadden return, like, is this mine? And then that notal return where it's like those themes that came up from that belt 18 when we hit that first notal return, where it happening again, and it's like, am I on the right path? Am I doing the right thing, right? Something has to start at this age. Crisis of talents is what it's called. So to buy to um, I can't read my hammer again, but you're we're activating these talents, right? We're either oh burying them. We're either burying them or we're activating them. So then we get hit about 33. So that 28 to like 32-ish, right? So sad and return, 28 to 30 is that sad and return. And then we're kind of like settling in after that. And 33 is what they call the Christ year. Um, something brings traditionally, not always, something brings them back to God, at least the curiosity of, not to say that it brings them back to religion or anything like that, but just the curio curiosity of it. Um thinking and and feeling have to be activated to understand the other. And what I mean by this is masculine, feminine, right? Like men kind of have to go through and understand more feeling nature to be connected to women, especially if you're in a partnership, the feminine, right? And the feminine has to sort of experience and play with and understand the logical left brain of the masculine to understand, right? So this is, you know, if you're in a partnership, um we're not even, but it's just we're understanding the duality and the dynamic of what we're not balanced in, right? And then 28 to 35, we learn how to interact with our environment, is what this is happening at that age, right? And then 35 to 42, which I'm currently in, this is the deepest point of incarnation. We're the closest to the earth, right? The material. So now we begin to free ourselves from our body and sort of strive upwards. So they say about this time as we hit that midlife and our body starts to deteriorate. Of course, I don't like to say that, or I don't like that terminology. Could be because I'm in that phase and I've noticed my back started hurting and I'm like resistant to it. I'm like, no, which is probably like a huge theme of this right age, right? Um, but we begin to like lean more into the spirit, into the soul, because that's the thing that's gonna like continue on. We have an authenticity crisis, and I feel this so strongly. Like, who am I? What am I doing? What direction? How can I be my most authentic self? Like, you care less about what other people think, and also it's like you're still trying to find yourself. Like, I know for for me in this, in this, you know, my business in this world, I'm like, I know that authenticity is magnetic. So how can I lean more into that? Like, how can I find myself in my authenticity in every single place that I go? And when I'm not, it feels so uncomfortable, right? So we want to dismantle the illusions we have about ourselves in this age reign. 37 is that second lunar return or second notal return, sorry. And this is the impulse to make a new start. When I say my notal return, it coincided with like Uranus being over my son in the 10th house. So it was like super amplified, but I was like, I am burning it down, like I don't want to do this anymore. I have to be myself. And even if that means I don't make as much money, like I can't do this. And so I felt this like so strongly. Um, again, we face death at this age, uh, new interest in spirituality. We distinguish what's important and what's not important. And this is huge, right? Like, I can't live my life for anyone else. And so really coming into what's important for me. Um, and then 42, we hit this existential crisis because it is our our Uranus opposition. And so this is a point in life where we are like, again, yeah, mid-life because we live Uranian life cycles. So this is um, and this is where Uranus is opposite or natal Uranus. So this is a huge crisis point. This is truth, awakening, but it's like in friction. Um, and so it's just a really powerful point in in your life. And again, it doesn't all happen at this at the same times, like it can be um different times that these things come up, but just like honoring like around these times, right? So, okay. This is the zero out of 42. We're gonna get into more next time. I kind of didn't give myself a whole lot of time today to like go through it because I have to go pick up my kids, but we want to make it practical, right? And understand um these seven-year cycles and like what we can do with it, because they're really important, right? So, first of all, identifying which seven-year block you're in, right? Which age range you're in. And even if not, like I said, like there are some things where I feel like I'm revisiting that like 21 to 28 because of what where I was at that point, like my soul maybe wasn't able to develop further. And so now I'm kind of doing that work. So feel into it and also like identify your age. What was the major theme of either the cycle that you're in or the last cycle you were in? Like for me, it is finding that purpose again. It is that nodal return. Like, I'm still feel like I'm feeling the residuals of that. And then what are you being invited into in this cycle and the next to sort of prepare yourself for it, right? Um, and then choose like one to three practices or actions for this cycle. So if your cycle is about voice, mission, right? Maybe start a podcast, maybe think about writing a book, communicating something, right? If your if your cycle is about purpose, like what is your purpose? What do you like to do? What makes you feel good? What lights you up? What do you value? Like getting really clear on those things, right? Finding ways to regulate yourself, come into that truth, like honor that truth, witness that truth. And then what are you letting go of from the past cycle or the current cycle, right? For me, it's people pleasing. I'm letting go of people pleasing, I'm letting go of a lack of boundaries, I'm letting go of anything that's not authentic to me. I'm letting go of people who don't add to my life. Um, and so really like being aware of that. And then, of course, like your human design, like your authority, like leaning into that. Um, and so yeah, that's like the biggest um points, I guess, for this zero to 42. And again, we're gonna get into more on this um in the next episode that is around this one, and I'll do a little bit more digging into it. But this is sort of like the broad overview of that zero to 42. And if you're over 42, I promise we're gonna get to it. I am gonna dive into it. So if this episode resonated, or if you know somebody that's like really going through one of these cycles, share the podcast with them. Connect with me over on Instagram, TikTok. Um, all the ways that you can connect with me are down below. Astro Design School, the Inner Mother Collective. Everything is there. The Roof and Rubble. The Roof and Rubble also is the secret podcast where I'm sharing just more life experiences and all the things. So those are the ways that you can find me. Thank you for listening, and I will talk to you soon.