I was inspired to write this from all your lovely comments of comfort and support you have given me losing my lovely Mum.
This has been a couple of weeks of major loses in the world. I am not alone.
I feel like I am slowly coming back to myself. Things have shifted and changed me forever.
A winter where within the fragments, I felt my whole self. A Winter where I have felt my ancestors around me. A winter where my heart held my sons, my brother and my family. A winter of meeting my true strength, of meeting my true self. A winter of meeting the knowledge that I can choose how I meet all my life’s experiences.
A winter where I wrote a new story. One that started with the acceptance of turning 60. One of trust, grace and open-ness. I love how we can choose how we live our story. Even in the hardest, darkest and grief-iest moments.
And I love how we can write our story as we emerge from the rest filled and reflective months of Winter into the Spring months of new awakenings. I have my dreams and plans for this year. As Spring comes forth, so there will be my reawakening – my office makeover, my changes to my life and health. What is your winter to spring story?
This is a beautiful way to connect your winter and spring together… in the knowing that you too can create your story. 1. Gather pen and paper. 2. Create a quiet place for you to just be 3. Write down twenty words that come to you with how you feel in Winter 4. Is there anything you can change? 5. Is there anything you can do more?
Visually the bare branches, the leafy floors look still and lifeless, but there is activity underneath. The trees use their withdrawn energy for growth, for expanding their root systems. All in preparation for the growing season, and it’s already started.
I love how what we can learn from the wintering of trees and use this time to prepare our own root systems, to use this as a time of self discovery. A time of progression. A time to loosen up the blinkeredness of certain ways or engrained patterns.
Winter is connected to our root chakra, the base of the spine. The grounding element is related to earth energy and our feelings of safety, it’s about our foundations & creating security for our emotional & physical wellbeing.
Survival instinct, self-preservation, courage, grounding, material stability, vitality, passion, the power to create.
The Root Chakra is about your physical needs such as feeling worthy to take up space, capable of having your needs met & strong enough to face life.
A blocked Base Chakra would feel like living in fear, indecision, lack of vitality, difficulty manifesting creative ideas.
An open & balanced base chakra allows you to feel more grounded, focused, organised, abundant & in your body.
Ask yourself…
What can you do to treat yourself with more compassion?
How can you become more purposeful in what you do?
How can you live more from the heart?
How can you inspire others?
The Winter energy is the realm of the crone.
The stirrer of the cauldron. The woman within us that lives life in full. The woman who is unafraid to speak her truth. She has lived, she has loved and she has lost. She walked through life and gained her experiences.
