Remember: Winter has trained us to compress…to conserve…to harden our edges just enough to survive winter. To carry only what was necessary and brace against the harsh cold.
And without realizing it, we have learned to contract around our lives…meaning overtimes, especially through stress, winter, grief, responsibility….we don’t just adapt mentally, we physically and energetically shrink our range. We make ourselves smaller in ways we barely notice.
That doesnt mean you are failing. It means you are protecting.
Imbolc arrives not as a demand, but as a quite permission.
You don’t need to add another practice, another goal, another new years resolution…you don’t need to step into your power, or polish a new version of yourself. YOU are already whole.
What is happening now is a loosening. Unrestricted doesn’t mean wild expansion (yet)
It means removing the bindings you no longer need (want)
Written by SilverBear with the assistance of AI.