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Wintering with the Earth Element

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The winter months are intended as a pause, to follow nature’s lead to slow down and ‘winter’. The season naturally invites us to deepen our understanding and relationship to the Earth element and with our roots which we can think of as our needs and what helps us to feel nurtured and thrive. Winter can be considered a sacred pause that invites us into a deeper relationship with the Earth element and our roots/needs. It is a time that asks us to stop in our tracks and to notice the wisdom in our body and to stay present within this bardo, this in between period of pause that can be full uncertainty and not knowing, which can feel disconcerting and even ‘unsafe’… (Click the Image above to continue reading)

Samhain: Nature’s teaching on transformation and rebirth

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Because death is still very much a taboo in the western world, we can miss some of the significance of Samhain and therefore miss the opportunity to explore our own fears, feelings, emotions and concepts around death. When we talk of the ‘veil thinning’ and ancestral worship, we think of those who have gone before us, but we don’t tend to use it as an opportunity for contemplating our own mortality, the cycle of life or to learn the mysteries by examining natures displays.

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Honouring the Waning: The Sense of Loss at Summer’s Peak

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Since the summer solstice, I’ve noticed a quiet pull inside me, what could be called a kind of seasonal sadness. If we were in the depths of winter, I might have called this Seasonal Affective Disorder but I realise, this isn’t a ‘disorder’ at all. To feel a sense of sadness or even what you might call a subtle grief, at the turning of the wheel of the year, feels right, appropriate and perfectly natural. If we tune in closely enough, remembering we are the Earth, the elements and the seasons, we might feel as if part of us is turning with the Earth, waning like the Sun, pulling away, already slowly letting go.