SPRING EQUINOX

March 21 , 200

Happy Spring! Due to a dearth of my “seeds” bursting into growth, I missed sending out the spring newsletter. Officially Spring began February 4. From February 4 until March 21, we were in the first 6 weeks of a three month Wood cycle (focus, action, masculine energy) while simultaneously being in the last 6 weeks of a six month feminine cycle (inward, stillness). March 21st, we move into the six month masculine cycle combined with the remaining six weeks of the Wood energy - a potent time for action and commitment. You may have been feeling a bit of schizophrenia during these past 6 weeks – a need to break out into action, and yet an inability to move. This is natural for this time of year. We are bursting to step into a great action, yet being held back while we prepare the ground for the new season.

On March 21st, that action energy explodes forth. The rush of new sap rising to the tips of our branches can fill us with inspiration and a need to go forth and DO something. Even tempered by the fears of the global economy, that energy demands we take action. What action can we take, when all around us things are crumbling? How can we press on, when we cannot know where our actions will lead, or what kind of a foundation is there to support our actions? The action of spring is not only the growth of buds and leaves; it is the deepening of our roots into fertile soil.

One of my favorite videos can be found here: It shows how sound frequencies create form, using specific geometric shapes. The theory is that all matter is created by sound waves (giving us another good reason to think about what we say and how we say it). As you watch this video, observe that when a frequency moves to the next octave, the geometry gets more complex. Using this as a metaphor, as humans evolve, or raise frequencies, we become more complex. Now, it will come as no surprise to anyone that we are going through a change here on Planet Earth, and in my opinion, that change is the human race moving towards a higher frequency.

But if you go back and look at the video again, watch the transition from one frequency to another. What do you see? Chaos. Each time the geometry shifts, there is a period of chaos. The length of time that chaos takes place depends upon how long it takes to reach the next note on the scale. In other words, do-re-mi-fa-sl-la-ti-do are all specific shapes, and the space between them is chaotic. And that is what this particular season of Spring brings to us – chaos. How can we plant roots in something that is shfting and changing constantly? When things we believed true prove to be false, how do we proceed and go forward? When we do not know what is coming, how can we put down roots and grow?

This spring, we are being given an opportunity to plant ourselves in something new. Since the ground underfoot is shifting, we need to find somewhere else to put our roots. This somewhere else is trust. Trust in our personal power, to attract what we need exactly when we need it. Trust in our world, that it loves us and supports us. Trust in the evolution of our species. And most of all, trust in the love of those around us.

The uncertainty of these times can put pressure on our relationships. Yet if we can trust that all of us will weather this shift; if we can trust that the love we have is permanent and solid, we can plant our roots in each other. And from the soil of our hearts, we can nurture each other and bring those we love to fruition. It is a shift from our “doing it myself” mentality. No longer can we achieve our goals alone. It is only through feeding others with our hearts that our own dreams will come to pass. It brings to mind one of my favorite stories.

Hell was this beautiful dinner gathering full of people sitting around a table. The table was round and filled with really really hungry people. In this place each person has this unbearable hunger in their stomachs. The kind that leaves the space and noise around filled with a low grumble. It is the kind of hunger that causes food to smell better than it has ever tasted before and allows you to taste new subtle little flavors that you never knew were really there.

In the middle of this round table is a big cast iron cauldron filled to the brim of what smells like a meal for the gods. The cauldron is heated, and the stew is simmering with a small low boil. The aroma fills the room causing pain in everyone’s stomachs as they crave nothing more in the world but a taste of this heavenly stew.

Each person at the table has a special spoon crafted to their own hand. This spoon allows each individual to get the perfect amount of soup to quench their hunger and is exactly two inches too long to get into their own mouth. Everyone is seated around the table and they are trying their very best to feed themselves, but each time they take a spoonful of soup to their mouths, they miss and spill the soup all over themselves.

In this story, heaven is the exact same place. Really really hungry people, with an unbearable hunger are sitting around the best meal you could ever imagine. Hunger rumbles in the bellies of each person at the table. And each person has a spoon crafted to their own hand, a spoon just a little bit too long to feed themselves. But instead everyone is feeding the person next to them and all are well fed.

Imagine that, heaven and hell, the same place. The only difference is how we treat one another.

So, this fine spring equinox, when the energy of yin and yang are perfectly balanced, I invite you to open yourself up and receive whatever it is you need. Plant yourself in love and trust. Your job is not to know "how" things will happen - that is part of the mystery of the cosmos. Your job is be clear what you need, then TRUST that it will come exactly when needed. And while you are trusting that your desires will come to you, look around and see who could use a spoonful of love and nurturing. My guess is, while you are busy feeding others, your solution will slip in unnoticed and be waiting for you when you turn around.

Let's help each other enjoy these tremendously exciting times.

Blessings!

Cat

"Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive Intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us."
----------- Terence McKenna