Spring is more than a season
Spring is more than a season. It’s a way of being.
This is true of all seasons. However, this year spring is arriving at an especially disruptive time. Globally, politically, technologically, economically, culturally, environmentally, interpersonally, internally.
Many of us are feeling confronted by change, fearful of unknowns, and helpless amidst great suffering.
The energy of spring offers an antidote, a blueprint for how to create from—rather than react to—this moment.
This wisdom comes from Chinese medicine, an elegant system that views the human experience holistically. Not just mind and body but also accounting for how we’re influenced by the environmental and contextual factors of our lives.
Through the lens of Chinese medicine, it’s obvious that you’ll feel different in spring than you did in winter. Spring is the season of renewal, an opportunity to approach your life with a fresh perspective.
Be like Wood
In Chinese medicine, each season is associated with a natural element, which is essentially a guidebook for how to flow with the current instead of swimming upstream.
The element of spring is Wood.
Like a big tree whose trunk is firmly rooted, with branches growing upward, Wood energy is strong and ambitious. It’s directed and decisive, with clarity of vision.
Being Wood-like means knowing what you stand for and want, and being unafraid to take control and go after it.
If this kind of willingness and confidence is unfamiliar to you, spring is a perfect time to nudge yourself a little more in that direction.
You may notice some wind at your back—Wood energy is more readily available in spring. Nature is on your side.
It’s okay to feel confronted, scared, and helpless. It’s natural given what’s occurring in the world.
Allow yourself to acknowledge those feelings, then ask: How can I embody the qualities of Wood—firm, rooted, strong—to create something new this spring?
Los Angeles
March 2025
