We have named the years 2012 through 2025 “the cycle of undoing.” You have passed the midpoint of that cycle, meaning that most undoing has occurred but some is still underway. Much undoing has taken place both culturally and personally. This includes an undoing of the global and local economies and, most importantly, an undoing of a sense of the security and reliability regarding previously held realities, ideals, and norms. From the 2020 winter solstice to that of 2021, the undoing centers on the crumbling of illusions. In this stage of the cycle, the sense of disillusionment rises along with the ongoing discovery of truth’s deeper meanings.

An illusion is generally understood as a false appearance or deceptive impression of reality. This means that to identify an illusion, you must first have a view of reality. Your view of reality has developed over the course of this lifetime. You have woven together threads of perception into a tapestry of experience. Your ideas about what reality is and is not emerge from this tapestry and often become fixed. Clinging to these ideas is challenging, especially in the midst of constantly shifting perceptions and new impressions of reality. Now the old-reality tapestry begins to fall apart.

At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, there is a barrage of lies and truths that seem to contradict each other but also seem to be indistinguishable from each other. This leads to a great deal of misinformation that you will have to sort through. The question, “What is the truth?” will be debated over and over again with very little consensus or resolution. You will not be able to rely on external sources or expertise to shine the light on the truth and instead will have to uncover it for yourself. In this way, your sense of reality and illusion will be challenged.