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.
Late Winter Light
“Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is, and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be empty, that is all.”
- I Ching
Living Five Element Theory
Increasingly we are navigating polarities, times where ordinary people are profoundly divided, angrily waving rakes and insults at their neighbours, or running indoors to avoid conflict. Its easy to step into the rhetoric of one side or another because it requires very little of us, however when we do that we miss the value that lies in our contrast, the beauty and expansion of a differing perspective, and the strengthening of the whole of a community when we open to the ideas of another.