04/04/2025
Join us for our Digesting the Transition into Spring workshop this upcoming Saturday, 4/12 at 10:30am. Lets learn from the Spring about the uses of anger (thank you, Audre Lorde) through dialogue, journaling, yoga, qigong, acupuncture, and reiki. Register online (link in bio) or text us @908-845-5048 to reserve your spot.
The spring transition is a beautiful and timely teacher. With every blossom of growth comes the unsung hardship of pushing, birthing, through layers of soil. There is a reminder of the magic that lays beneath us and around us—working feverishly for us to reap the rewards. We look at the first buds and see birth and beauty. The magnolias and tulips burst forth supple and vibrant, just as daffodils shower their gold against returning green. The return of robins and bird flocks in flight against bluer skies and longer days feels full of new energy.
And all the while, spring reminds us that birth comes from the ancestral wisdom, clarity and vision of the times before. The myth is that spring brings new life: no life is born anew. All life is born along a lengthy and spiraling journey to manifestation.
In Chinese medicine, the spring connects to the liver, gallbladder, the emotion of anger and the environmental factor of wind. There is no capacity to break through uncharted territory without the qi of anger—of justice finding its own unfurling, of the wind quickly changing our course, of the underground railroads of mycelial, plant, animal and human ancestors laying the groundwork for the burst.
As the planets of Mercury and Venus begin to also station direct this week, we will be called on to march forward with vision, clear speech, loving anger and the reminder of humility that is embedded in all growth.
May we learn from our Spring teacher as it shows us how to be glorious and humble, angry and benevolent, and inherently free.
