Kachina Ma’an explains the Cosmic Reboot: 27 September

Earlier this month, I was in a group with Kachina Ma’an when she announced that there was going to be a Cosmic Reboot on 27 September.

It immediately got everyone’s attention.

Kachina explained that it connects with the Aztec New Fire Ceremony, an ancient ritual marking the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.

“This is a cycle that happens every 56 years,” she said. “Some say 52 years, but my guys said 56 years.”

Historically, the Aztec New Fire Ceremony is associated with a 52-year cycle. Kachina isn’t trying to rewrite that history. She’s sharing what her guides have told her about the cycle we’re moving through now.

According to Kachina, the current cycle comes to an end on 26 September and the new one begins on 27 September.

And I quite like that this year we get a bonus.

We already have the equinoxes and solstices — those natural points in the year that remind us something is changing. The light shifts. The seasons turn. One part of the year gives way to another.

This September, just days after the equinox, we have another reason to stop for a moment.

A Cosmic Reboot.

Turn it off. Turn it on

Kachina explains it like this:

“Everyone has had a problem with their phone or internet. So we turn it off, leave it for a few seconds, and then turn it back on again.”

“That’s what we’re doing on the 27th.”

And suddenly, Cosmic Reboot makes a lot of sense.

When something isn’t working properly, sometimes the best thing you can do is turn it off, give it a moment and turn it back on.

Kachina also pointed out the similarity with the New Fire Ceremony.

“They would extinguish all the fires and lights just before midnight,” she said. “As it went beyond midnight, they would light all the fires again to signal the start of the new cycle.”

One fire goes out. Another begins.

How to take part

The part I really liked about Kachina’s announcement was that she gave us something we could actually do.

And it couldn’t be much simpler.

1. Turn it off

On 26 September, as the old cycle comes to an end, turn off the lights.

Where practical, switch off your devices too.

Then spend a little time acknowledging what has been.

For me, I don’t want this to become another spiritual exercise where I need to write a huge list of everything I’m releasing, fixing, clearing or leaving behind.

I’d rather think about the people who came into my life, the people who left, the difficult parts, the brilliant parts, the endings and the beginnings I didn’t recognise as beginnings at the time.

All those strange turns that somehow brought me here.

Then switch it off.

2. Pause

Leave everything off for a moment.

No scrolling. No distractions. Nothing you need to accomplish.

Just a little darkness and quiet.

It’s the space between what has been and what comes next.

The reboot.

3. Turn it back on

On 27 September, bring the light back.

Turn on a lamp. Light a candle. Open the curtains. Step outside into the morning light.

There’s no right way to do it.

It’s simply a way of saying: that cycle is complete, and I’m ready for the next one.

The light returns.

We begin again.

The upward arc

There was one other thing Kachina said that has really stayed with me.

“The last cycle was a difficult cycle, but this cycle starts making its way on an upwards arc, so things will slowly be getting better.”

I love the idea of an upward arc.

Not everything suddenly changing at midnight on 27 September. Not waking up the next morning to discover the world has magically sorted itself out.

Just a change in direction.

Things slowly getting better. Something that has felt stuck beginning to move.

Maybe we won’t even recognise the shift immediately. Perhaps it’s only when we look back that we’ll realise this was one of those points where the trajectory started to change.

And I think there’s something hopeful about that.

Join me

I’m going to do it. And I’d love you to join me and Kacbina.

If this resonates with you, share it and spread the ritual.

Send this article to someone. Tell your friends. Invite your family to take part. Share it with your groups and communities.

Because there’s something quite beautiful about the thought of lights going out in homes around the world, followed by all those little lights coming back on again.

A collective pause.

A collective beginning.

We get plenty of opportunities to mark new beginnings — birthdays, New Year, anniversaries, equinoxes and solstices.

This year, we get a bonus one.

Turn it off.

Pause.

Turn it back on.

And as the light returns, perhaps there are no better words to begin a new cycle with than:

Universe, amaze me.