The Liminality of Winter to Spring

How are you navigating this liminal space between Winter and Spring? Liminal spaces are places of threshold, like a doorway into something new.

Our brains resist liminal space. They prefer predicability, clarity and known narratives whereas liminality pushes us toward disorientation.

Spring, with its regeneration and unpredictability, demands tremendous energy! Often times energy that is hard to summon after a long winter.

This lethargy, common to Spring, can present as depression and irritability. This month in Wisdom Wednesday we explored depression from an Ayurvedic and spiritual perspective, not through the typical psychological lens from which we often attempt to understand it.

We focused on 3 different types of depression, but honed in on intrapsychic depression where the ego and soul have different agendas. There is often a clear task with depression, and that is to ask, “what does the soul want?”

Typically the soul is asking for a bigger journey according to Dr. James Hollis, a Jungian psychologist. He writes that “It is always easier to walk in shoes that are too small for us, than step into the largeness that the soul expects and demands.”

There is a guided practice at the end of the webinar that offers space to acknowledge and hold your stuckness, as well as your own expansiveness, so you can build a bridge between the two.

Hope you are navigating this time as well as possible. If you’d like to mark the actual entry into Spring, join me for a special Spring equinox practice and ritual on Saturday, March 21 @ 9AM CST either in person or via zoom.