Explore Seasonal Wisdom & Five Element Teachings
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Embracing Obstacles as Growth
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
Taoist teachings reveal that thoughts turn to things, urging purity of thought and heart to create a world that reflects goodness and clarity. As we nourish our hearts, life mirrors the best of what we can manifest in the outer world.
Crone meets Maiden
As Winter and Spring approach their seasonal frontiers, we meet the merger of Spring’s youth and Winter’s experience. This is the cusp of great potential, where the Crone and Maiden greet each other in anticipation of the changes ahead.
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.