MICROCLIMATES: SEASONS CHANGE...FEELINGS CHANGE
Leo season into Virgo season into Libra season (and those eclipses)
I love being in the sun. My last “winter” was in 2016 when I still lived in New York City. The weather wore on me. It drove down so hard I had to give myself permission to move. I said, you don’t have to keep living like this. Since 2017 I’ve lived in places where “summer” stretches into December… first in Austin and then now my current home of Los Angeles. And it is funny because an endless summer is its own brand of disorienting.
My first year in Austin I would continually think it was August well into the winter. My mind couldn’t process the warmth, the very subtle shifts.
I started casually referring to September as August II and 7 years later, it still feels that way - when I check the calendar and it reads September, I’m like
It feels like August until at least October and I have to keep reminding myself it’s fall, it’s fall, it’s fall (winter is coming)
That’s the wild thing about living in warm places. Leo season shifts into Virgo and then Virgo tips into Libra and all of a sudden the holiday lights are up.
all I’ve been thinking about is the seasonality of absolutely everything
Seasons here are small shifts. It’s microclimates and changing light. Here in LA, seasons feel like they have a lot more liminal space in them.
when I started to really pay attention to astrology and transits - what struck me was how astrology seasons mirrored what I was experiencing internally - and naturally followed the drama that was happening around me (noticing that everyone around me was also seemingly dealing with xyz)
What I realize now is how much we can learn from the seasons. From respecting our calendar.
the more I get into energy work, etc (all this being human design, astrology, somatics, psychology, quantum theory, the I’Ching, generational trauma, etc…) - the more i’m like, “oh we’re merely vessels for energy to be expressed through us.”
we are energy in motion - interacting and reacting, everything in flux // everything in its season
understanding that there is a season for everything = surrender
if everything is in flux and will change and will ultimately come to an end, then I might as well surrender because we’re time bound, energetic beings having a physical 3d experience
(I’d actually never seen this video only the performance on late night )
august (which feels 1,000 years ago) was a tough month for me - it was a month that did not go to plan at all - in fact I kept thinking about this Charlie Brown moment “I got a rock.”
The rock for me was tension and agitation - everything felt irritating!! but I realized that without these unpleasant feelings, often I do not have clarity. I need the tension and the agitation and the irritation - the friction is an alert system - a glaring neon sign pointing to where the attention must be paid.
My natural inclination is to be frictionless, I want to hide, take up less space, slip out without being noticed - so when I experience resistance, friction, tension - I want to suppress it. It didn’t dawn on me until this past August that these “unpleasant” moments are great teachers and gifts - we get to see the truth. We get to pivot and redirect. We get to reassess where is my energy really going?
This week the full moon on Tuesday signaled our eclipse season. It’s time to clear. If the agitation of August brought things to the surface for you to look at, now is the time to assess - as we move in the final quarter of 2024, what are you harvesting? What are you planting? What are you clearing? It’s the season to get honest with yourself about where you are and where you are going.
Allow yourself to be here. To feel fully. It’s ok whatever it is, because it will pass.
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8
A Time for Everything
[1] For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
[2] a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
[3] a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
[4] a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
[5] a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
[6] a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
[7] a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
[8] a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace. (ESV)