MELODY VAUGHAN
Spring equinox – no more illusions of balance
Maybe you are feeling it too, the tug at something inside, up and outwards, the energy emerging like sap rising in the trees. This could feel like a welcome relief after a long winter – a zingy freshness to start something, to get stuck in – or it could feel slightly unstable, this new electricity looking for a way out of dusty channels. As nature bursts forth can we, as nature ourselves, allow whatever feelings are emerging to be ok?
Where have you noticed ‘spring energy’ returning to you/your practice?
What is the quality of this energy for you? Does this feel ok? Would you like it to be otherwise? Can you allow it to be as it is?
Where does this energy want to be placed? Is it for you? Your practice? Your communities? The collective?
Which seedlings within you/your practice/your communities/the collective would you like to nurture as you head into spring?
What support might you need to tend to this? Who could you look to for companionship in this work? Where could you look for connection? How could care be embedded in each interaction?
Maybe we aren’t supposed to have so many conflicting parts to our lives that need ‘balancing’? Or maybe it’s inevitable that parts of our lives will have to take priority/focus for a while, and that’s ok.
If we extend this notion of a ‘something/life balance’ further into the context of the polycrisis, the concept of a climate emergency/life balance or a genocide/life balance is completely deranged. There should be no normalising these events.
Any semblance of balance in my life has been thrown off recently by Israel resuming its bombing in Gaza and the Labour government announcing plans to cut essential support for disable people. Coupled with us entering anniversary weeks for the start of covid lockdowns (and all the public ‘reflecting’ that goes with it) my rage and grief are very present for me. I am grateful for those spaces I have found online where these responses can be held and witnessed in community.
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