Can you feel it, your own sweet sap rising up to greet the Spring, ready, willing and longing to be transformed into something altogether new?
The Spring Equinox occurs this Thursday, March 19th at 9:49 pm MDT. After a long period of hibernation, life will soon burst forth in ways visible and expansive. Tender shoots will grow strong. Bud will become bloom and bloom will transform into fruit, until we arrive again at harvest time. Winter will then slow us in our tracks, claiming us as its own once more.
It happens every year, life coursing through and ferrying us into an unknown future. Worked with consciously, the energies of spring~~and each season~~can nurture our own individual and quite personal unfolding.
This same progression is apparent in smaller increments of time. The phases of the moon, for example, move us from new to full and back to dark again, each aspect presenting a distinct energy that we can utilize.
Then there are the rhythms of the day, with morning offering something that evening cannot. Though night has its own magic, for the start of something new there’s nothing as inspiring or as bolstering as the rising sun.
No matter our theological persuasion, we are of the Earth and affected by its rhythms. Orienting ourselves to our clearest intentions at the start of any of its cycles will boost our ability to create the kind of future we want. So as the sun begins to sweep us into a time of unbridled growth, let’s pause and reflect on what we’d like to generate in the months to come.
What calls to us? What wants to move through us and out into the world? Perhaps it’s a positive habit, a new career venture, or some other tangible change we’d like to manifest. Or the change could be an inner one, such as open~heartedness or a greater acceptance of what is. As we clarify our desired direction, we’ll also want to envision specific steps on that path, simple steps that lead naturally to ones that follow.
But there is more. It is also helpful to anticipate the blocks that may appear on our path forward, blocks that will surely trip us up if we traipse forward naively. After all, there is nothing terribly mysterious about eating better, developing a steady spiritual practice, or engaging in random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. And yet transforming such intentions into reality, expressing them on this Earth plane, is not always easy.
The trick to making our wishes a reality lies in negotiating the barriers to them. In mythological terms, such obstacles have been referred to as The Guardian Of The Threshold, or The Guardian At The Gate Of Change, names that hold within them a metaphoric truth. Obstacles are best seen, not as enemies, but as friends, guardians who test our mettle and strengthen our resolve to actualize our potential.
So this Spring’s energy offers its assistance as we create a future of our choosing. And though we may not relish the outer or inner blocks that will rise up to challenge us, we can choose to welcome them as partners in our becoming.
Happy manifesting! And a most delightful becoming!!!
