Glow up this Spring!
Story and photos by Bajda Welty
Rise and shine! Winter is over! Spring is awakening all around us. Seeds crack open. We stretch, yawn and blink our eyes as the light increases. The cold stillness of winter is thawing, sprouts are emerging, worms are working the soil again. If winter is the season of regeneration, spring is the season of rebirth and beginning anew. Spring starts as a tiny stirring with huge potential. All the energy we cultivated and packed up during winter is ready to burst forth. Our bodies and minds sense the change, probing into the environment, learning how to be reborn.
Possibility and potential bloom with the first bulbs. Unrelenting buds and shoots show off the color of the season. Green, all shades!
In February, the next lunar year began, bringing the Year of the Horse. This fast, powerful, wildly passionate beast is full of action and will bring in its wake a current of bold ambition. These characteristics parallel the energy of spring in Chinese Medicine tradition. The element of fire highlights the quickly changeable, chaotic, volatile and socially focused thread that will ride with the horse. This will be a great year for bold moves, ambitious ventures, proactive mindfulness and balancing activity with rest.
With so much energy swirling, we must be adaptable and dance with it. Roll with the changes and obstacles that suddenly appear, roll like water down a leaf during a spring rain squall. Adaptation means learning to fit into your environment and each spring provides a new chance.
Don’t just GROW this spring, GLOW! by tuning up your adaptation skills and taking care your mind and body! Clean out by eating lots of green foods. Brighten up by being immersed in budding bushes and trees in the woods.
