F E B R U A R Y . 2 0 2 3
In the belly of ~
February is an inside
a container
receptive
it is a story being
built out from within.
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February: something is happening.
There was a barren moment.
It is likely you still feel it is that way.
I feel it is that way, & yet… what is that faint rippling?
Is it a pulse it is a tickle is it a thawing? They call this time of year the quickening.
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Something has finally landed & it has begun to nestle into your awareness, your experience, your perception. Soon, you may start to feel it kick.
Much had to be cleared away for this landing. I imagine you are still taking stock of that, of what is gone, of what has left, of what remains. I know I am. Much had the scythe taken to it these past few months, & now you must truly embrace it because because: there is work to be done.
We are containers & we build ourselves each & every day.
We receive, we intake each & every day. It is important now to pay attention to what you receive & intake, because this month will find you working on a deep level, a level of structuring that will require your focus & attention to the finest, most intricate details.
In her essay, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” Ursula K. Leguin writes:
“The first cultural device was probably a recipient… Many theorizers feel that the earliest cultural inventions must have been a container to hold gathered products… with or before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.”
You are a recipient, a carrier bag, a belly.
So, now: bring a sense of acute awareness to what you choose to bring into your body, your home, your space. This goes for each of your senses. And then: really savor it. The savoring is important because its nourishment spreads out within you & it is felt deeply.
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They call this time of year the quickening because special work is already being done on a deep level, a structural level. You have swallowed a magical seed & it is magical because it tends to your inner architecture, which in turn informs the way you will bloom.
This month, take your time & let the magic happen on its own without too much interference. You can stop yourself from interfering by bringing your attention to yourself as container & what you allow into this precious containing space.
Perhaps this means you create boundaries around how much screen-time you are clocking, cooking slow meals & then really chewing, choosing music or silence over podcasts, cherishing your sleep schedule…
All of these sacred, mundane things will allow your inner wisdom to chisel the finest of etchings into your walls & will allow you to converse with yourself: the different parts of you who reside in the quiet & who are inspired with the quickening to build, reveal, emerge this new structure when the time is right.
February is for honoring the instinctual building/budding out from within.
Now onto this month’s Almanac…
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