Spring Forward!

SPRING FORWARD!

The mantra for Spring is to awaken from the hibernation, the sleep of winter, shake off the doldrums of dark days and cold nights, and Spring into life again!

Spring and Fall are my favorite times of year. Spring weather can be more moderate, although transitioning into the summer growing season. Planting seeds is the focus of both Spring and Fall. Perhaps that’s why I love those times. I love generating new ideas, new plans, focusing my anticipation on the cycle of manifestation of new ways of being, doing and having in life.

Have you ever thought about the annual cycle on earth as being our opportunity to experiment and test our new ideas and plans? To see if they will sprout and grow and mature into the pictures we visualize? I think that’s what makes Spring so magical!

Spiritual and religious traditions have directed us to use the time leading to the advent of Spring as Lent, to review and revise our lives, to take stock in who we are being, what we are doing and what we chose to have as part of our lives. We “feel” life and aliveness throughout the year, but when we “see” life spring forward in form, we witness a greater activity behind the push into existence. To me that’s what we’re celebrating at Easter, the opportunity of “rebirth” for all life each year.

My desire for you is that you “choose again” who you want to be, what you want to do and what you want to have in your life. Reflect on all the annual cycles of experimentation you’ve had before now. Evaluate what has worked in the past and what hasn’t. Choose again who, what, when, where, how and why you want to dance with Life in the coming days. Spring forward and manifest your new seeds! Be grateful and enjoy!