Entering Spring Season
The energetics of Spring Season | Journaling prompts | Free Spring journaling page
Happy Wednesday dear ones! In this week’s letter, you’ll learn about…
✍️ The energetics of Spring & how you can use it for your everyday life
🖋️ Journaling Prompts for general Goal Setting
📝 A free gift: Spring Season Printable Journaling Page
🧭 My WeatherVane: Weekly mumbles & (personal) updates
📖 The Energetics of Spring
In my letter about Autumn last year, I mentioned Autumn being, among others, about balance and preparation. Spring too is about balance and preparation as it finds itself opposite to the Autumn Equinix.
But first, let’s look at the essence of Spring.
🌷Spring & Art of Rebirth
Spring is the time when nature wakes up and comes back from the underground. It’s literally a time of rebirth, of new opportunities, and of making something out of life. Like everything in nature, we too start to awaken and flourish as well.
We are alive, and so this is a time of exploration. In astrology, this is also the start of a new year. Spring arrives together with the zodiac sign of Aries, the first zodiac sign, and asks us to dare to be pioneers. The pioneer is the one who ventures out into the world, into the unknown.
🌷Spring & Balance
Like Autumn, Spring Equinox - this year on March, 20th - day & night are equal in length bringing balance into our lives. This balance is the announcement that the energy will start to shift to a more active one.
We are not just ‘on’ all of a sudden, we need to transition into this new state, and to do that we need a season between Winter & Summer. That is Spring all about; making transition possible.
You have probably been feeling, for a while now, your energy increasing every day, haven’t you?
Spring asks us to start moving, yes slowly but surely, every day a bit more , so we can come out of the sluggish and slow Winter season and start moving towards Summer.
You probably also have been feeling quite tired as well, sometimes not quite understanding these weird inner energies and feeling like you’re pushed from one energy toward action and another pulling you down, not quite ready to start moving yet.
This may be a sign of your body telling you to detox*. If this is your case, you can do a holistic detoxification.
Here are my tips:
Start drinking more liquids like water, herbal teas, and soups. Try to avoid heavy meats, processed foods, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine for at least 14 days starting around the Spring Equinox. In addition, start to add a daily exercise routine**. If you already have an exercise routine, try to do it daily. Whatever exercise routine you choose, make sure it makes you sweat. By sweating we clean our bodies. Never ever choose an exercise routine that depletes you entirely! Be careful and loving towards yourself. Make sure you feel fulfilled and energized after your workout.
If you don’t already, start journaling about your mental & emotional health. You can also share your thoughts and feelings with trusted friends, family members, or someone in a professional field like a therapist. Getting out thoughts and emotions, whether on paper or with someone, literally helps those emotions get out of ourselves and makes it possible to process and transform them.
Start decluttering anything and anyone around you who does not support or help you in any way. Decluttering, not just the physical stuff lying around our homes that no longer serves us, creates physical and energetic space that invite new energies - and maybe people - into our lives.
Check-in with your values and purpose in life. Maybe you’re caring about stuff you no longer identify with, only you got used to them that you see them as part of your identity. You can work through this in the same manner as mentioned in tip #2.
Decluttering body, mind & soul brings us in a state of balance and prepares us to start moving to the Summer season.
On that note let’s continue with…
🌷 Spring & Preparation
By decluttering and detoxifying our bodies not only are we becoming healthier, but we are also attuning to the rhythms of nature and preparing to transition into Summer.
What more can we do to prepare?
Considering the precious tips, think and feel the following:
What can you add, do, and learn to feel your best version on all these levels?
On a physical, mental & emotional, environmental spiritual & purposeful level: What can you do to feel stronger, empowered, confident, and thus healthier?
This is the season we start transforming our dreams/desires into goals by exploring and learning new skills. This is also where we start to work with healthy habits.
Healthy habits are not only those habits that help us maintain our health or bring us back to health but also encourage us to be our most authentic and independent selves.
Again, start journaling about your dreams and desires. Don’t shy away and write as often as you can about your dreams.
🖋️ Spring Season Journaling Prompts
After doing plenty of journaling, consider the following prompts:
What are your dreams?
Do you feel confident enough to transform those dreams - or at least one of them - into (a) goal(s)? If not, what can you do about that?
How can you make at least one of those dreams a goal you commit yourself to?
What do you need to learn to achieve this goal?
What steps do you need to take to achieve this goal?
How are you going to make yourself accountable along the way?
Feel free to share your answer and reflections in the comments:
📝 Spring Season Journaling Page
This is one of the pages I created for my Spring Seasonal Workbook. You can read more about this workbook down below.
You can use this page to journal about your hopes, dreams, and expectations for Spring Season 2024.
This journaling page is part of The Library. To access this and other free journaling pages just click the button below.
💫 WeatherVane’s Flow: Weekly mumbles & (personal) updates
Not quite intentionally, I decided to take a Winter break for a few reasons. This time was very much about resting, adjusting, grieving, and healing.
As we moved through late Winter, I started to feel the pull and need to write here on Substack again. But before that, around late Autumn, I was already working on the birth of my Seasonal Workbooks; a mix between a planner and a journal. As a Gemini with sometimes the suspicion of having ADHD, dealing with fatigue and chemo brain from treatments, more now than ever I needed to rely on a planning + implement system. However, I’ve never been able to find a planner nor a system that works for me.
That is why I decided to create one from scratch. One that goes further than linear and dry planning. So, instead of working simply with the Gregorian calendar, I decided to push the Seasonal and Lunar Cycles onto the driver's seat while moving the Gregorian calendar to the passenger seat.
The first Seasonal Workbook - the Winter edition - was a total failure, but I’m so glad I did it because it helped me get the idea out of my head onto paper. While implementing this idea I soon found out, it hadn’t the rhythms I was looking for. And that is the great part of it:
There is often a great gap between an idea and the end product. And we can only find the gap while we explore and implement the idea. We can see what is working, and what is not working. We see what needs to be implemented and learn the lessons.
So, Winter time has been a time of inner exploration for the creation of the Spring Seasonal Workbook.
Since early March I’ve been preparing this workbook and working on my intentions and goals for Spring. Yes, I work with intentions and goals on a seasonal base instead of yearly goals & intentions. I’ll share more about my Seasonal Workbooks and the way I use them later on.
📩 Upcoming Letter
✍️ Setting Goals in Spring instead of January
🖋️ Spring Season Journaling Prompts for Well-Being
🧭 My WeatherVane: Weekly mumbles & (personal) updates
🌬️ Sending you magic & healing your way,
-Vane
*With detox I don’t mean to have rigorous body detoxification and or fasting. But if you feel included to do so, please do it under professional supervision. Often I see articles or books about physical detoxification as if it’s a food recipe we just follow and have a miracle result afterward. However, detoxification can be extremely hard on the body and can result in and/or cause organ failure and damage.
**Again, if you are new to exercising please do this under professional supervision.