.....the hum

Yogis,

If you were to ask me to visualize February, my mind would immediately see gray, barren landscape with the sides of the roads edged in brown snow. Hard frozen ground and the quiet that comes when the birds rest. 

Instead this week as I walked into my front yard I was greeted by this……

Hello dandelion! I guess you didn’t check your calendar. You are a little early to the party. 

But she wasn’t alone.  The crocus’s down the street are all in bloom, daffodil greens have poked their heads above  ground and I have been meditating to the singing of some song birds. They must all know something that we don’t. 

The Universe has a hum. A beautiful rhythm that nature keeps time with. The trees and the moon don’t need the alarm clock or the appointment reminder pop up that we have become tied to for our every move. They listen, feel and move as one. Gracefully and with ease. Early humans and even the Native Americans here lived life that way. Up with the sun, the growing  and harvesting of food guided by the phases of the moon, listening for guidance from the animals and resting when the stars arrived. 

We too can find nature’s tune and return to flowing in harmony with its dance of life. One easy way to begin is to form a relationship with the moon - the Goddess. With her cycles. Always knowing where she is and therefore which energy she is guiding us to awaken. 

It all begins with the new moon. The day when the moon rises in the east right alongside the sun.  Together as partners they travel through the day together so that we can never see her through the blaze of the sun, leaving us with a deep dark night as they both set in unison. The new moon is a time of rest. A chance for looking inward.  Noticing where you are and uncovering what you would like to manifest in the upcoming month. The new moon is the low tide, the night, winter, birth. The season of winter. The beginning.

Then each day the moon rises about an hour later, trailing the sun and creating more space between them, the moon first appearing as a crescent and becoming larger each day. The waxing moon.  Growing in both size and energy.  Her message to us  is to move forward.  Start new projects, try out new ideas……create!  The energy of spring and the freshness of the early morning. Expansion. Filling. Bringing in. Childhood.The maiden.

Until she is full.  On this day she rises in the east just as the sun falls behind the horizon in the west.  This is when she…and we….are most powerful.  Brilliant with her energy and light. Fertile. Sensual.  Re-energized. A time to gather. To dance and sing. A time to show gratitude for all that we have and all we have created. The energy of the high tide, summer and noon.  Adulthood. The mother. 

She then begins to rise later and later into the night. The waning moon. The autumn. Here she asks us what it is we are ready to let go of.  What no longer serves us that we can begin to clear out to make space. Time to slow down and listen. Old age. The wise woman. As the moon and the sun again become closer and closer until they once again meet at the new moon. Death. Only to begin yet again.  

The tides, the garden and a woman’s cycle are all in her flow. By looking to the skies each night we can become like the dandelion. Hearing the hum and heeding its call.

Bowing to the Goddess,
SARAH