Spring Reflections

Spring reflections
3.29.13

The long dark of winter time pulls us inside ourselves.
We hunker down--below the howling cold of the snowy storms--into the dim recesses of our inner core, conserving resources as we contemplate our harvest, awaiting the dawn of longer, warmer days and dream of spring rains and summer nights.

Spring comes and we begin to emerge.
Slowly shedding the layers that helped keep us warm, kept us safe.
The sun continues its climb into the northern sky, reaching warm tendrils
of new life into the soil, the sleeping plants, our own dream-dazzled state of being.

We stretch!
We exhale the air of our winter enclosures.
We inhale
the sparkling in-rush of new beginnings, fresh starts and expansiveness.
We stand on the still cold Earth,
turning our faces to the sun,
soaking the warmth into our very souls,
conduits of warmth and light and life,
gathering the sun's rays
and letting them seep from us to the gently waking mother Gaia,
feeling our heartbeats slowly attune to the drumming of her rhythms.

We stand,
feeling the dance gathering beneath our feet;
feeling Spring time opening all around us;
feeling the birth, the rebirth, the be-ing that is all around us, that is us.

I Contemplate: What do I want to harvest this season?  What are my Dreams?  What is my destiny?  What is inside of me that will help bring those things truly to fruition?  I Honor my insight.  I Honor my ME-ness.  I'll make my destiny mine!  I'll Be the Spring in my own circle of being.