March: a month for fresh starts

What better way to align with the energy of the emerging spring than to embrace new beginnings.

Nature all around us is starting to awaken from its long winter slumber and we can see the new shoots of vivid greenery everywhere. The air still feels cold, but the sunshine is starting have some strength to its warmth, and the daylight hours are gradually stretching longer each day.

Our world is going through powerful and rapid change. Our collective consciousness is experiencing this transition, and responding to it on a massive scale. It can feel overwhelming, and at times, dark. We can be easily worried by this change, but it has been a long time coming. Some of our systems no longer serve us, we have outgrown them. Despite huge advancements for humankind as a whole, life has not been getting better in all the ways for everyone.

Growth is like this.

The saying goes, we take one step forward, and two steps back. I always preferred to think of two steps forward and one step back. I like progress and I like knowing we are working towards improving life for all. Some people are more conservative and prefer the comfort of the established ways. Either way, change can be unsettling, and often painful. It is often nonlinear, and we experience throwbacks after breakthroughs. Then we pick ourselves up and try again for something better.

As nature is here to show us now, there is a beauty to the inevitability of change, of progress, of time passing. It will happen whether we are onboard with it or not. And if we resist change, we must ask ourselves, why. What is holding us back?

Is the devil we know really the better? Or just more familiar. Are we scared we might lose something through the change? Have we become tired, weary, depleted? If so, can we name it? Can we allow ourselves grace to feel this while we gather up our strength to carry on again?

New beginnings are a shakeup. A time for a new generation of life to come forward and grow into its prime, to claim its time here. Nature is cyclical, but it also moves forward through its cycles, propelling us with it into unchartered territories all the time. It is how it has always been with life on this beautiful planet of ours and how it will always be.

What does this mean for us individually? Allowing a new, wiser version of the self to emerge. One that has grown out of the accumulative whole of all of our previous experiences, cyclical, but never standing still. Making space for the hope that in the face of darkness, good will prevail, life will continue to burst forward into existence, holding in itself the raw and undeniable power of creation, and all the possibilities within that.

Let’s not be afraid of new beginnings, new energy, surroundings or people. Let’s make space for new ways of seeing, thinking, believing and being together. This chapter holds gifts yet unknown to us, that in spite of the worry and reluctance, may show us new ways to be happy and whole.