🌸✨Ostara — (March equinox, Northern hemisphere)
Braveheart, dates and calendar years are not as relevant or memorable as personal anniversaries, seasons and celestial cycles—or for our perspective and discovery, expression and growth.
“To putting your feet on the ground, every now and then, and feeling the tingle of life that the earth offers in return. It’s all there, waiting for our attention. Take off your shoes, because you are always on holy ground.” -Katherine May
With regard to the Equinox, let us be inspired to find the symmetry of every day, but also abide within the miracle (and unpredictability) of the ongoingness of time.
Nature’s seasons offer us visuals of gradual change and growth cycles: seed-to-bloom, bloom-to-dormant—each phase a part of a whole, a continuing cycle; of the life-to-death-to-life.
Seasonal change can serve as a prompt for personal change, Braveheart.
Finally the world is beginning
to change, its fevers mounting,
its leaves unfolding.
-Mary Oliver
Dreams take time, Braveheart. Endings are beginnings. Slow is fast enough.
Living our dreams involves a series of actions and baby steps of resolve. Dreams come to fruition only after taking aim, and having a “fixed [gaze] on a goal … one which sometimes seemed impossible (Orison Swett Marden).
Braveheart, meet your dreams and desires with curiosity and openness—self-compassionately honoring your rhythm, receiving (and giving) freely—and maintaining a pace that is doable and sustainable (releasing your shoulds along the way).
- The yin and yang nature of seasons, the beauty in asymmetry, and how a healthy relationship with rituals and repetition can help us find and make meaning: Gathering Gold podcast
- March 20th isn’t just another day, it’s your reset button ✨-Latha Jay (excellent suggestions for celebrating this day!) 🥳
- “Whatever your beliefs, this is a time of year that we can all marvel at the beauty of the earth waking up.” –Jessie Lehson
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