Overcoming obstacles
When hardship, obstacle or defeat make us small it can feel like the very winter of things. This is a Water Element message of optimism without judgment, and the silver lining we have yet to see. On the pathway of the seasons and the Taoist way we discover; it is all good.
The Metal Element & the Eclipse Cycle.
The status quo of our lives, shaken from the inside out feels the thunderous shift on the horizon as Autumn's quest for purity rings throughout the valley of the eclipse portal asking us to reflect on how we got here, and where we will go next.
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.
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.