Spring Equinox & Spirituality
The Spring Equinox invites us to consider what balance and equanimity are, and through that lens, the parts we wish to renew and reinvigorate or lovingly demolish. It’s a personal journey, coalescing a future vision that was conceived in the dark liminal of winter and marinated in our original light.
Wind in the Element of Wood
Through winds lift the kite teaches us how to be both adaptable and creative in the play of force. It demonstrates responsive beauty and malleable strength as it reads the lift and drag, leaning in to dive, turn and rise as its run exceeds its weight and it touches heaven. Navigating not by brutality or determination but by leaning into every nuance of its environment, and choosing to be creative with all that it finds. Knowing this as the step-by-step process that builds great things.
Early Spring & Young Wood
Through submission to any blockage or challenge experienced, we discover (or release) our true power in accordance with it. Viewing an obstacle as the tangible vehicle through which we become unstuck helps us to grow with an openness that makes anything possible.
“When obstacles are insurmountable
open to the teaching”
I Ching
Lessons from the Spring Equinox
Through Springs's lens, we are neither darkness NOR light instead, we are darkness AND light. We are at the cross-over point of the figure 8 of the Lemniscate, where the Spring winds come to collect their seed cargo and gather themselves for the work ahead.
The ‘Way’ is easy
We often hear talk of the Law of Attraction among modern Self Help gurus and changemakers, however its not a new idea. The ancient Taoists were well and truly onto the concept that thoughts turn to things, and as such urged purity of thought and mind “in here” so that what we created “out there” matched the frequency of goodness in all ways.
They called this nourishment, and its discovery speaks the volume of who we are.
The Wood Element in movement, coordination and grace.
Wood is an exquisitely intricate being responsible for co-ordinating us through space, orientating us towards the light and esuring that we navigate along the best path possible.
Its healthy to occasionally blow your mind!
Also, a pretty picture of Spring Butterflies.
Sun, Rain and Wood.
As Spring gains momentum around us we are moving as rising Yang. From the belly of the family hearth of winter, outwards like the wind, to the very edges of the world this blog looks at growth and evolution through the lens of the Wood Element.
Crone meets Maiden
As Winter and Spring approach their own seasonal frontiers we meet the merger of Springs youth and Winters experience. A warm greeting between maiden and crone and the cusp of great and unmanifest potential where suddenly both parties realize it is time….
Wind. The force of the Wood Element.
Wind blows over vast periods of time and sculpts the land in a way that can only be measured in centuries. Like a small influence steadily applied, wind brings about great and lasting change.
Seasonal Yoga for the Wood Element
Springs palpable limitlessness aligns annually with the vastness of the Pisces full moon leaving us either drowning in a sea of possibilities yet unable to grasp even one, or floating above it all trusting that the current knows its way home.
From Water to Wood
At this critical seasonal crossover we meet Winds gentle persistence and unreleting influence that, over time, erodes mountains and sculpts rocks. What it brings to the psyche of the seasonal traveller is a lengthening of the rope on the bucket of the well that enables the villagers to replenish from the Waters that are deep, clear and plentiful within. Its about allowing yourself to be moved.