January 22, 2023
Welcome Lunar New Year of the Water Rabbit!
We leave the energy of Tiger Year behind and welcome the gentle spirit of RABBIT!
Though I can't speak firsthand of Chinese Five Element Astrology, I can share my shamanic interpretation of what this new lunar year may have to offer us.
In energy work, Water is often associated with Emotion and there certainly seems to be an abundance of that going around, would you agree?
Rabbit energy is typically reflective of fertility and new life which always brings me back to spring.
Here in the Northeast, snows melt to water and thus saturates the earth with the nourishment necessary for spring seedlings to grow. It heralds a good time to ask ourselves what energies are we watering in our lives? What if any emotions are we drowning in? Remember, that which we water grows.
Perhaps it's time to bring the gentle reflection of Rabbit into our awareness so we can re-distribute any excess water to places needing it more.
On a more lunar note, did you know that newborn rabbits are able to be out on their own after only 28 days? This reflects a perfect lunar cycle and hence Rabbit is often associated with the Moon.
Make this year a time to take notice when the moon is full and look for new illumination in your life - also when the moon is new, to begin something new again, as one would write out intentions on a blank slate.
Welcome a year of Rabbit Energy to help us sort out lingering emotions so we may stretch and grow in good light and bring those thoughts and intentions into a more fertile, productive pattern.
Aho.