A Spring Equinox Practice
think about this equinox as a time where we honour the shadow and the light in equal measure.
we honour the pain, the stress, the challenges the shadow brings and we look to them to show us the pathway forward that we want to walk. While knowing that the path forward will still dip into the shadowed space, the nuggets of wisdom and the growth we experience is what brings us into the light.
and
we honour the light, knowing that making decisions for our own good will also come with its own challenges, whether that means setting boundaries, changing the things that are no longer working whether in work, relationships, belief systems or patterns that no longer feel great to continue. We do this reaching towards the light of joy that comes with authentic fulfillment.
When we sit in our shadow we receive the light and when we sit in the light we receive the shadow.
They interwoven with each other, one never exists without the other,
though some days we walk more in one than the other.
THE PRACTICE
Write down all that you are wanting to let go of.
you can write specific things or words or names that you are wanting to let go of if you really want to, and if that calls to you, but it isn’t required - you don’t need to keep going down the path of the past, you lived it once, and have already spent a lot of time thinking about it and the universe already knows what you mean.
in a firesafe space, place and container, burn it. Let it go.
alternatively: rip it up and throw it out, rip it up and flush it down the toilet, bury it in your yard.
*** equinox is an extra potent time to do this bit:
If you could live for yourself for this year - not some future version of you, not the dreamy untethered and unrealistic and unknown version of you - the real, has legit and specific needs you,
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
No fluff, no wordy flowery bullshit.
Simple. Direct. Truth.
Write it down, make visual art, create a mantra,
Everything that you do, plan on doing, and consciously make decisions about gets anchored back into what you need. If it serves that need, its a yes and move towards it. If it takes away from that need, its a no and you have permission to not do that thing right now.