Do you allow yourself to live through seasons?  Always changing, never the same way twice.

In our modern technocracy, we’ve removed ourselves as much as possible from living out among the changing seasons that the Creation holds for us.  We wall ourselves away in boxes that are temperature regulated, light controlled, terrain un-changing.  We’ve grown to dislike and detest any change in our “comfort” level. It’s very easy for us to be un-aware of the seasons in our own lives.

The world we live on adheres to cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay.  Nature has its seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.  Our lives replicate this same pattern on the large scale (of our bodies) and the small scale (of our day to day lives).

All too often I’ve spent my time, fighting to stay in one season for too long.  I’ve forced creation/work, when I should have been resting, or I’ve slept the day away when I should have been creating/working.  Learning to live in balance and harmony is a challenging thing in the world we live in.

There is no concrete solution to creating balance in your life.  It’s something that is unique to you alone.  What creates balance in my life, will not necessarily be the solution in your life.  Just as the length of seasons varies in different parts of the world, so your own needs will vary from mine.  What is interesting to me is that all of creation is guided in the right moment to undergo the change needed at any given time.  Imagine if the winter didn’t know when to end it’s bitter cold, or the summer when to cease it’s fire and burning.  There are parts of the world where we can see the effects of this.  The ice caps, the deserts, both extremes are examples of what happens in our own lives when we don’t allow the natural flow of seasons to occur.  We become stressed.  Life is still present, but the existence is harsh and mostly unpleasant.

For everything under the sun, there is a season…  What are the seasons of your life?

Lately my life has been undergoing the transition from sleep to awakening, or from rest to plowing… working the soil to be ready for planting.  After sowing, a period of rest will occur in which the seeds will begin to grow.  The seeds will only grow if the work I have done has created the needed conditions for birth.  Those conditions will only be created if I have rested properly to have the energy to create them.

Perhaps you are in Winter (the season where no work takes place, and you begin to dream), some will be in Spring (the season where you sow the seeds of your dream), some will be in Summer (the season where you tend your creation and help it grow), and finally some will be in Autumn (the season where you reap the benefits or consequences of your work).

The benefit you have over nature, is you are the only force in control of your seasons.  You can begin again any time you wish.  For some their lesson will be to nurse their garden/life/dream back to health/success.  Others will need to wipe the slate clean and begin back at the Winter/Resting/Dreaming stage.  Some will need to learn that there is a time to cease working and enter into rest, some will need to get off their ass and begin taking action.

How do you know when you are in the correct season in your life?  When you feel at peace, when you feel like you’re living your life’s purpose, when things seem to click and just fall into place, all these are good indications that you are in the proper season.

Most people will spend most of their time in the dreaming/working stage until they learn to create the right conditions for their dream to grow into reality, but once a seed/dream starts growing, it grows all on its own.

Whatever season you may be in, love your way into the next one!

Have a great day and tend to your Garden