Exigence is an urgent need for action.
As a young winemaker, I had promised myself to only start my own label if I had a clear strategy in place. As the 2017 harvest got underway, that all flew out the window. I was presented with a field of grapes that needed a home immediately. They would go to waste if I did not claim them. I had only one day to decide whether to keep that old promise to myself, or to jump feet first over the edge straight into the unknown.
Syzygy is when the planets align.
I searched my soul and found that the "promise" I had made to myself, to only try if I knew I would succeed, was just an excuse to never lose by never playing the game. True freedom could only be discovered through the embrace of the unknown. And so it became my time to put all my skills on the line.