Late Summer
Later summer and the Element of Earth bring about the delicious nature of fullness, ripeness, and completion. It is a heavy hinge point in the cycle of things, very opposite in spirit to the end of the Winter cycle that feels barren and thin in comparison.
Understanding Yin Yang
The chicken moves from the protective shell of the egg to a blind, hairless and defenseless bird in the nest. The newborn transitions from the darkness and familiarity of the womb to a strange world of gravity, touch, sound and breath. Woody stems become shoot covered boughs, pressed by the sun and wind, and at the mercy of every emerging insect. Through the grace of Spring and the movement of Yin to Yang we become new, but also tender, raw and exposed.
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….
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.