Welcome! This post explains the energetics of late winter and spring from the points of view of TCM, Ayurveda, and Celtic traditions.
Late Winter: Portal to the North
This is a portal through which we can access void consciousness and really lean into rituals of rest, warming our inner hearth, dreaming, and visioning in fertile darkness.
Ayurveda: Kapha season, where the kapha dosha (Ruled by the elements of earth and water) is dominant. As the late winter can bring more cold, damp, and lots of luscious mud, this can create imbalances in us that manifest as heaviness, lethargy, sluggishness, density, digestive difficulties. Therefore, it’s important to bring in more movement, routine, spiciness (in both food and lives). Kapha is the dosha that provides us with structure, lubrication, and love. It’s so delicious and ooey gooey, but we don’t want to get weighed down by it. Bring in more flow and circulate that juiciness!
Chinese Medicine: Winter is ruled by the element of water and governed by the kidneys and urinary bladder. Winter is a deeply nourishing yin time, granting us much needed energy, rest, reflection, and visioning with which to be reborn in the spring time. There is an energetic need for retraction and hibernation as our qi flows more deeply inside of us. This is an invitation to go deep within ourselves, to connect with our root self. The elemental ruler, water, always flows toward life. To maintain a healthy flow and ease throughout this season, we must embrace routines and rituals that allow rest, rejuvenation, and easeful flow.
Spring: Portal to the East
This is a portal through which we can access expanding energy, renewal, and planting seeds of intention. It is a time of rebirth, and we can mother ourselves as we grow into beings of more courage, power, and wisdom.
Ayurveda: Spring is still ruled by kapha (see previous).
Chinese Medicine: Spring is ruled by the element of wood and governed by the liver and gallbladder. Spring is a time of growth, strength, courage, vision, and renewal. We are approaching yin’s peak: as yin starts to recede, it will give birth to more yang: energy, light, and movement. The liver governs the free flow of qi, and the wood element wants to move out and get things done!! As this is a time of transition, allergies, anger, headaches, tight muscles might show up if the qi cannot move, resulting in stagnation and pain. Be sure to move, stretch (especially the rib side and hips), dance, and breathe in deeply the sweet smell of new beginnings.
Immune Support for Winter & Seasonal Transitions:
Cozy: Vetiver Floral Mist
Digestive Support:
Women’s Health:
Glow: Rose Floral Mist
Visioning & Dreaming:
For Awakening work:
For Devotional work:
For Shadow Work:
For Deep Rest:
Next post will feature foods, rituals, and routines to embody the energetics of late winter/spring.
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