We are coming to the end of winter, where we are meant to have cocooned ourselves and nurtured ourselves just as the natural world has all around us.
What we have sown in the winter, our ideas and seeds, it is now time for them to germinate and sprout , it is time for them to awaken to the light.
Our days are getting longer and all around us nature is showing signs of waking up, buds are starting to form, the sap is starting to rise.
Now is the time to plant our ideas, to become more creative. It is the time of growth, of manifestation. The time to follow natures lead. To shift towards ways of living more sustainably and have greater awareness of the earth.
It is the time to be active. To go outside, to go for walks, look for signs of life reawakening. Go out with a pencil and some paper, write down what you see, how you feel, is their anything stirring inside you?
With movement/walking comes clarity, comes the opportunity to be inspired, to look at the things you wish to change in your life. It is the time to change any thought patterns or attitudes that have held you back. Now is the time to let them go. You can do this, by writing down those thoughts and attitudes that have not served you well, that have blocked your flow. Feel the weight of them as you carry them for the last time. Then release them by burning them either in an outside fire of in a steel bowl or a fireplace.
Now is the time to envisage the world/future you wish to live in. Make it the best that you can, visualising a movement that will bring many people, many communities together to create ways of healing the earth and ourselves. Write about it, paint it, sing it, bring your vision to life, so that you can carry it with you. Then start to think of ways in which you can make it a reality. Taking small steps, setting small goals.
Organise a gathering to bring together your friends, your community. Do this around a fire if possible and ask everyone to bring some food to share. Bring music, bring song, bring movement. This is the time to celebrate together, to encourage one another, to help one another in bringing forth change, to give life to new ideas. To really set things in motion, to bare witness.
You can offer your friends seeds that represent the change they wish to see happen in their life or the ideas they wish to make happen. It is really important to get everyone to verbalise what they want to see happen or they want to do. Speaking it, putting it out there is the first step in making it a reality.. They then get to take these seeds away with them and plant them, watch them grow along with their own ideas.
Now is the time to embrace the spark, the fire that is inside us all, this is what will help us in bringing about change. This is our motivation. It is something that we can tap into when the need arises. Take the time to get to know this creative spark, by being creative.
By doing the things that you love, by nurturing yourself. By moving forward. It all begins with self-care.
In Ireland around this time of the year they celebrate St Brigid's day, going back further it is know as Imbolc.
To me it is the time of awakening, it is a time of celebration.
It is a time to strengthened our bond with the earth with our home.
It is a time to come together and start to bring about change
