“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” — Henry David Thoreau

"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related." — Plato

Spring moves through the land and through us—stirring, stretching, quickening. The earth wakes, and so do our dreams.

What is beginning to stir within you?

"There's something there we sense, but cannot name, a feeling akin to sitting quietly in the presence of an elder.
So it is, with pines. You want to slip into their circle and listen." Robin Wall Kimmerer

Life is moving, pulsing, waking. The quickening is here, in the hazel catkins, in the softening earth, in the deepening breath of the land.

How will you align with this rising energy?
What are you ready to bring to life?

The evenings are lengthening, the air feels different, something stirs beneath the surface of the land.

The wheel is turning.

This time of year feels like a threshold—winter’s grip loosening, spring waiting in the wings.

What are you sensing in this seasonal shift?

"Only in the woods was all at rest within me, my soul became still and full of power" — Knut Hamsun

“Perhaps on this Imbolc, Brighid will ignite some fire in me that will illuminate ways in which I can better align myself with the rhythms of the earth." - Teo Bishop

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." - Rachel Carson

"If there is any wisdom running through my life now in my walking on this earth, it comes from listening to the Great Silence of the stones, trees, space, wild animals, and to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat." — Vijali Hamilton

'Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.' — Rachel Carson

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.” — Fritjof Capra