The Creative Rites of Spring
So many creatives and entrepreneurs are looking for certainty, fool proof strategies, and the perfect solution to their problems, but the truth is that certainty and “fool proof” is not what Spring is here to offer.
Spring thresholds challenge us to break our rules and bring our bellies to the Earth. They challenge us to warm our bodies in the sunlight and to get inspired by the process, not the outcome.
Spring thresholds challenge us to examine where our power and confidence come from. Are these things externally located in a partner’s recognition, your sales results, or in your vanity metrics? Or are you allowing yourself to get your power from the field of the Earth? from Mystery? from Goddess? from Source?
While certainty is definitely not a trope of Spring, she does offer us a clear invitation and a map for coming home to our essence. Spring is here to remind us that the soul’s creative fire and juices must be tended in order for generative life to emerge from our work. Spring invites us to get daringly specific, a little bit selfish, and even (lovingly) demands us to find our congruence.
Spring asks:
Is the vision you’re building a reflection of your heart? Your heat? Your deepest desires? Or are you, yet again, trying to fit your mythopoeisis into a capitalistic identity, a single mission statement, and expired norms?
She asks, “Where is it time for you to finally shed expired stories and soul imprisonments? When will you finally forgive yourself for mistakes you made last year? When will you stop cringing at all your innocence of being human?”
She asks, “Are you willing to let yourself be seen sharing your work in ways that are just a little more raw? A little more honest? You want so much more from your work, your creative spaces, and your relationship. Where are you willing to give what you crave?”
She asks, “Is that business model and configuration really an expression of the soul of your mythopoeisis? Or is it the articulation of another best practice that feels unnecessarily uncomfortable, annoying, fussy, and stale in the build?
When walking through any threshold, rituals help us to digest and alchemize the questions we’re asking (and being asked) and the information we’re receiving. They help us to forgive ourselves and others and to animate the not-yet-conscious desires for change. They help us talk to the unseen forces that are ready and available to support us to mature our souls for the new season.
The Creative Rites of Spring
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This Spring, I want to offer you three Rites / Rituals of Practice for integrating (eating / digesting) the medicine of Spring thresholds. You can bring the questions above (or any questions that are emerging for you currently) into these practices.
Now, if you are someone who is allergic to following any kind of guide or prompt (like I am), I encourage you to take the general structure of these rituals and make them truly your own. Find your own voice, dance, play and expression in them. You can paint instead of orate. You can sit instead of walk. You can sing / journal / dance to locate yourself in space / time and get to know your own internal questions.
Come back to the questions in each ritual as a rubric for process and progress through the threshold, rather than as a rigid practice or new rule.
Lastly, know that you’re doing it right. However you decide to integrate with these rites—you are doing it correctly just by staying curious to your truth.
1. Orientation
This is the practice of locating yourself in time, space, and season. It’s where you pause long enough to feel where you actually are—not where you planned to be, not where you think you should be, but where you are, in your body, in your creative rhythm, in your life. Orientation helps us come back into coherence by acknowledging what’s real now. You might begin by asking: What season am I in personally? What’s shifting internally? What feels clear? What feels raw or unresolved? What has been trying to get my attention, but I haven’t made space to meet it? Orientation isn’t about analyzing or intellectualizing. It’s about getting emotional self-honest and naming where you are.
2. Listening Walk
This practice invites you to get out of your head and into your body. To get out of performance of ritual and into presence and dialog. A Listening Walk is not about exercise or movement. It’s about attunement. Choose a place where you can walk slowly and uninterrupted, even if it’s just around your neighborhood or in a small circle outside. As you walk, ask: What does the land want to show me today? What are the textures, colors, and signs of spring emerging around me? Where do I notice resonance? Where does my attention naturally linger? Let the Earth speak back. The point is not to “receive” something profound. It’s to remember that you’re in relationship with a living world and that your vision is not separate from it.
3. Oration
Oration is the practice of speaking your vision out loud—not to convince, not to teach, not to sell—but to hear yourself. To remember the sound of your own voice as it articulates truth. This can look like a voice memo to yourself, a conversation with a trusted friend, or even speaking directly to the trees in prayer. Begin with a prompt like: “What I’m noticing is…” or “Something I’ve been learning lately is…” Let the language form itself through your body. Don’t edit. Don’t prepare. Let yourself speak as if the Earth is listening. Because she is. So much can begin to happen when we give voice to what’s real inside of us. Let go of trying to make it sound beautiful or poetic. Externalize. Express. Integrate.
However you integrate these practices, remember that you are not behind. You are not doing it wrong. You are a creative process. Let these rites be your companions as you cross Spring thresholds and enter into the next era of your work.
