Spring cleaning shows up in all sorts of different ways, but it invariably shows up. Spring is the season of rebirth, of new seeds sprouting, and it helps to get the old out of the way so that there is room for the new. I am coming up on a master number natal year, the one of work in fact, so I’ve been really looking at how I can make friends with my shadow self. That was actually the theme of my Pantheacon experience this year – if you want to be more effective, whether it is in your personal, mundane life, your professional life, or spiritually/magickally, know yourself honestly, fully, in all your aspects, and use all those parts as strengths. Full alignment is the goal.

I don’t know about you, but when I look at my shadow self, I feel called to release those parts that no longer work for me. It’s rare that anyone can get rid of an entire aspect wholesale in one fell swoop (it’s part of you!), but I have found it possible to drill down on aspects, inventory them, find what is usable, and let go of the rest. So there is some stirring up of the sediment that happens. My body likes to give me clues about what needs to be released and what needs to be acknowledged. In laymen’s terms, I get sick. The symptoms tell me what I’m not looking at, what I’m not hearing, what my fears/illusions are, what I’m not voicing, and where my anger lies. As I acknowledge these, and process them consciously, I move through the illness in comparatively short order.

Different people experience this phenomenon in different ways, it doesn’t have to show up in the form of illness. Some people will feel financially blocked. Some people will be having a lot of tension in their personal or work relationships. Some people find themselves more escapist than usual (whether they express that through entertainment or cleaning or work is another story). It’s not a guarantee that Spring is your cleaning season. Some people do it in fall or winter; rarely does it happen in summer, unless the cleaning is urgently necessary. My own personal journey through this phenomenon this year has led me to offer the monthly special (see sidebar of actual newsletter).

May spring renew you in ways you never thought possible.

You ARE the light of the world!
Ayamanatara