Blessing the Month of March
Reignite your sleeping spirit. The world needs your energy!
Dear Friend,
Happy beginning of March, wherever life meets you today. March is rich with reawakening symbols: the roaring lion melts into a soft lamb. Daffodils, March’s flower, are among the first to break through the ground. The origins of March celebrations like Mardi Gras and Purim can be traced backed to earth-based rites of spring festivals, when humans shed winter’s constraints with partying, dance & laughter.
In the outer world around us, this winter has contained enormous ways of collective grief and the ongoing uncertainty and anxiety about political turmoil.
It’s helping me–in some moments–to remember that our human ancestors lived through upheaval, too, and they found ways to connect with their creativity, with the natural world and with each other.
What if we view this March as a time to reignite our energy, and create new ways to love and support each other?
Let’s bless the month of March together and welcome new life and possibility.
Writing a blessing for March
Have a friend who is creative, contemplative or curious? Invite them to join us in March!
Dear March—Come in—
How glad I am—
I hoped for you before—
Put down your Hat—
You must have walked—
How out of Breath you are—
Dear March, how are you, and the Rest—
Did you leave Nature well—
Oh March, Come right upstairs with me—
I have so much to tell—
–Emily Dickinson, Dear March
Writing Practice: Set aside 5-7 minutes for this practice. Write in a journal or open a ‘Journey with The Season’ document where you can return each Sunday.
Prompt: In Emily Dickinson’s poem, the month of March is personified as an old friend who has finally returned; the poet has waited for March with so much anticipation.
For your blessing/intention/prayer, imagine all that you’re anticipating in the month ahead. What do you hope to cast or shake off from the winter? What parts of yourself would you like to reawaken or reignite?
A great way to begin is by writing out your gratitude for arriving at this moment, for March returning. Get specific and offer gratitude for people, natural elements, community, wellbeing and more.
You may want to write directly to the month like Emily did.
Some phrases to get you started writing:
As the month begins, I’m grateful that…
May the month of March bring…
I’ve missed you, March, and am ready for…
This March, I hope…
Place your March blessings somewhere that you’ll see as you start your day–and add to them through the month.
I’d love to read your expressions!
Spiritual Practice for the week ahead: If you typed your blessing for March, write it out again by hand. Something activating happens with putting a pen to paper. Then play some more! Gather markers, pens, stickers, glitter, watercolors or pastels or any art supplies you’ve got handy. Decorate away and see what comes by adding visual expression to your words. Read your blessing through the week–it may feel a little weird, but speaking your blessings out loud is another way to bring them to life.
May your week be full of great things reawakening inside and around you.
With love for you & the earth that holds us, Gabrielle Ariella
This creative series is open to folks of all traditions, identities & backgrounds! Scholarship is available.