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& Five Element Teachings
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Spring Growth
As Spring gains momentum, we move like rising Yang from the family hearth outwards into the world. This post explores how the Wood Element and family influence personal growth, offering us the tools for evolution and individuation.
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.
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.
Harnessing the Power of Wind
Wind blows over vast periods of time, shaping the landscape and bringing great change. Like a subtle force steadily applied, wind clears stagnation, aligning us with nature and the wisdom of the Tao.
Navigating Spring's Growth and Change
Springs’ palpable limitlessness leaves us either drowning in a sea of possibilities yet unable to grasp even one, or floating above it all trusting that the current knows its way home.
Discover how the Wood Element helps navigate this energy, transforming limitations into opportunities for growth and transformation.
From Water to Wood
At this seasonal crossover, we meet Wind’s gentle persistence and unrelenting influence. Like a long rope, Wind helps us draw from the deep well of Water within, guiding us to replenishment and inner clarity.
Late Winter Light
Late winter reminds us that completion is the beginning of renewal. As winter’s light wanes, we are called to remain vigilant and attentive, preparing for the creative energy of spring while grounded in winter’s wisdom.
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.