What's Arriving In Your Landscape? What's Departing?
Embracing Life itself as Transition
Hey Friend,
I hope you’re savoring a good strong cup of coffee today (if you’re a coffee-lover/addict like me). Changing the clocks one hour ahead throws off my rhythms for a few days. I love the daylight getting longer and know this week I’ll get out for early evening walks with Odin.
But today I’ll be cranky and tired until my body adjusts.
Here’s to coming to the point of life when you know yourself well–and can offer yourself some compassion.
Tired or vibrantly awake, let’s turn to creativity & imagination: a source of energy that even rivals coffee!
Signs and symbols of new life are everywhere around me: the landscape is a living transition, winter energy departing, making way for spring.
Even though the Spring Equinox is a couple of weeks away, the landscape doesn’t wait for a particular date. Life is always in transition. The bulbs beneath the earth feel their way up and out.
We live that transition, too: our old selves–limitations, expectations, patterns–drop away as we make room for our growth, for possibility.
Present now and in process of becoming.
What’s being birthed in your life now? What is falling away?
Let’s write into the signs, symbols and metaphors of this moment of transition. Let’s bring transition to our imagination, write with it and see what we discover. (Read more about signs, symbols & metaphors here).
If you know someone who might appreciate this creative prompt, invite them to join us.
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: Write out a list of signs & symbols of new life around you. Write whatever comes to your mind, don’t think too hard. Think of what you see in your landscape and also about what you’re experiencing in your inner world (new ideas, dreams, possibilities).
Write a second list about anything leaving, changing, shifting in your landscape…anything that you’re releasing.
Look over your lists and pick one item from each list to write about. Describe your sign or symbol of what’s arriving/departing, of new life/old life in sensory details. What it looks like, what it evokes in you.
I’d love to read your responses. Comment below or use the new ‘message’ feature.
Deepening Practice: Pay attention to signs & symbols of life as transition in your landscape this coming week. Take photos of what you see–of both new life arriving and old life dying. Write captions for the images.
Wishing you a week of embracing any and all transitions you experience with love and compassion, Gabrielle Ariella
