On embracing the slow unfolding of spring 🌿
Seven Sacred Days: The Spring Series #4
Hello, you.
Forgive me for my late letter to you. I needed yesterday to take care of some errands after work, and then I found myself quite tired, so I just rested during the remainder of the night. So, in keeping in alignment with the season and my own intentions on how I want to slowly welcome spring, I decided to write you in the morning instead.
So far, I’ve shared letters welcoming us to these sacred days after the equinox, my thoughts on staying grounded and rooted as the energy rises, and a letter on the power of reflection as we enter the season of new growth and rebirth.
Today, as we move away from the full moon energy and into the waning moon phase over the next 2-ish weeks, I find myself slowing turning from the practice of reflecting on the past. I truly feel a sense of release and rebirth on the horizon.
But, I must admit, I am just now realizing how much I am yearning for all of the new rising energy that is slowly emerging, rising like the sun at dawn. I can literally feel a new beginning deep in my bones.
And, yet, still I don’t want to rush spring. I don’t want to miss the opportunity to drop down into what spring really means and how this season is much deeper to me than tree buds, flowers, and sunshine.
I think that my desire to slowly rise with the season and my longing to stay present with the unfolding rhythm of nature is grounded in my evolving understanding that life is everything all at once.
While the spring equinox was a threshold and a shift, it was not a tipping point when everything changed suddenly. Instead it was a moment that shifted us from the dark half of the year to the light half of the year. But, the brightest day of the year is still months away. The light grows every single day until the summer solstice. And then, the light slowly begins to wane again, even though it is still the heart of summer.
What I am trying to say is that everything is evolving and shifting slowly all of the time. Including us. And, ultimately, I am not sure I would love the energy of spring and summer if I didn’t have the energy of autumn and winter to balance it all out.
To me, life is all of this all at once - existing and evolving and shifting. It is embracing all of the phases of the moon, the turning of the seasons, and the constant transformation and evolution of my own self.
Spring is the hope that comes after the death of the earth. But, without the dark, cold, restful season of darkness, spring would not be so glorious. Life comes from the dark. And, so it is with me. I can only know the hope and love and joy in life because of the pain and grief and challenges that I also experience. It is all a constant, evolving journey of becoming who I am - and realizing that my life follows the same rhythmic cycles of nature.
So, I settle in on this Wednesday and embrace the snow from yesterday, the cloudiness of this morning and the forecasted sunshine of this afternoon. I embrace the slow shifts and changes and growth in nature and in myself. And I allow myself a few moments of solitary silence to let it all alchemize in my soul and prepare me even more for the unfolding, rising energy of spring.
Sending you calm, quiet spring love.
xoxo. liz.