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Seasonal Writing
Essays and reflections for living in relationship with the natural world.
A growing collection of writing on the Five Elements, folklore, mythology, astrology, and the changing seasons, tracing conversations between nature, psyche, culture, and the ways we live.
A Meditation on Lammas
How well did you tend the garden of your dreams this cycle? Were you steady on the tools of your becoming, or drunk on sake and scrolling through your distraction? Lughnasadh arrives in golden clarity to reward you where you turned up — and soberingly, to show you where you didn’t.
Awakening in Times of Chaos
In these turbulent times, we’re being called to awaken — not through blame or resistance, but by healing the victim-perpetrator wound that lives within us all. As two timelines unfold, one rooted in fear and power, the other in truth and compassion, the path forward asks us to choose conscious responsibility and soul-led action as an intentioned act of revolution.
Spring Equinox & Spirituality
The Spring Equinox invites us to consider what balance and equanimity are, and through that lens, the parts we wish to renew and reinvigorate or lovingly demolish. It’s a personal journey, coalescing a future vision that was conceived in the dark liminal of winter and marinated in our original light.
Harnessing the Power of the Metal Element
The Metal Element in autumn promotes self-examination and personal evolution, urging us to reflect on internal and global imbalances. As the season changes, Metal’s clearing energy reveals truth and brings courage, enabling us to move forward with clarity and purpose.
Late Summer & The Earth Element
Late summer’s Earth Element invites us to reflect on the fullness and completion of the season. It teaches us about balanced nourishment and self-care, turning cravings into meaningful growth. As we embrace the lessons of this cycle, we pause to appreciate how far we’ve come.
Understanding Yin Yang
From the protective shell of Winter’s Yin to Spring’s vulnerable Yang, we transition into new growth. This seasonal shift teaches us to embrace the phases of Becoming, where vulnerability and exposure are vital lessons in creating something great.
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.