In the stillness of Winter, the world transforms deep underground where the 10,000 seeds gather their life force, and rest in the dreaming of Spring.

Trees show their bones to cold as all life is urged inward to its reservoirs and deep currents.

Frozen lakes, silver skies and pure white snow all mirror the penetrating clarity of nature in its season of Return as it nurtures next year’s potential in its deep.

Governing the Kidney and Bladder channels and the waterways of the body, WATER seeks to relieve its thirst from the unending flow at its Source.

Here it remembers that it can trust the darkness, the unknown, and even death itself is safe territory here in the deep as the whole point of Winters passage is to teach us to die so that the old Self can let go to make way for the new.

In the vibrant renewal of Spring, the WOOD element awakens with the energy of growth.

Seeds, once resting in Winter’s liminal, push through the soil, driven by life’s unflinching urge to grow and transform.

Just as sap rises through nature, energy flows through the Liver and Gallbladder meridians, channels of vision and creativity, of the architecture of things and the means through which they manifest.

Spring teaches us what it means to initiate, strategise and negotiate ourselves into an upgraded version - and to begin again, no matter the past (or perhaps because of it).