
Hi All ~
We have about a month left of this Sacred Season to really prepare for Spring and Summer (and beyond). New Beginnings are brewing! Are you ready? *Cross Quarter* / Candlemas ~ Imbolc ~~ Around Feb 1st each year, is the second of *8* Sacred Seasons ~ *INVITING* a renewal of the Light. The light is returning, the days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter. This is the season you commit to the process of nurturing the intentions you set for the new year at Winter Solstice. In order to create anew, sacrifices and changes must be made. This time of year coincides with several celebrations, when many cultures give up something cherished in an effort to cleanse and clear a space for renewed growth, within your Being and your environment. This is about clearing a space for the *new* to come in. (You should prepare as if it's already arrived.) This season will culminate around Aug 1st with the Cross Quarter/Lammas, so what would you like to create by then? What are you willing to give up to further your goals? What are you willing to fight to preserve within or around you? What relationships are you willing to commit to and cultivate? Cross Quarters are considered the *Gates of Power* ~ the in between ~ the mid-point ~ between the Solstices and Equinoxes. This is the *Sweet Spot* ~ between seed and new life. This particular one is *PURIFICATION* through *Fire* and *Water* ... preparing a space for pure, new energy.
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Jean Esther, MSW LICSW ~ currently teaches meditation at the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Western, MA and at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA / USA.
Polly Howells, LCSW ~ now helps social and environmental activists navigate our increasingly crisis-ridden world, as a facilitator of the Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium and Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects.
Janice Steiber-Rous ~ (Power Circle Member) is the creator of Body Dialogue, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the body and the mind. She teaches yoga and breathing coordination, and has been a certified instructor in the Alexander Technique since 1979. Currently she brings this body-soul work to her students at Shine On Yoga in Orlando, FL / USA.
