Mandi Garrison
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Musings on late spring and the water element
🕑 Added 2022-05-03 16:00:55 +0000 UTCThe Spring Void
How does that feel in your body? I find myself in this space of contemplation and creative unfolding when I feel I should be working and manifesting. When I try to fill my calendar, it empties. When I push harder, it moves further away. And then I remember, how can I know what I want if I don’t dream? How I fill my cup when it’s already pouring over?
Late spring is a season of childlike wonder, when everything is new and awakening before our very eyes. When birds are singing, baby animals are learning to play, and the air smells sweet with green and growth.
So perhaps the unfolding isn’t about fitting the child into a preordained path, a box already shaped and molded. Perhaps the void arrives when something new is approaching.
And these dreary, rainy days soothe our hard edges and nurture the inner painter and poet.
Water takes us to highs and lows, movement and stillness, power and peace. We cannot hold water without it seeping through our fingertips and wetting our skin and clothes. Similarly, emotions are a slippery language in this mechanistic world, and we are navigating new territory every time we feel.
So how does the Spring Void feel in your body? How it is moving, shifting, flowing, and unfolding? How can you use every new emotion, like flowers blooming for the first time, to open into dreams of possibility and desire? How can you breathe deeper, let go of the tension and the weight on your shoulders, and exhale the old ideas and structures for something that resonates with your inner child and its wild heart?
As this waxing moon blossoms open into its first quarter, come play in the watery realms and see what unfolds.
