Hello lovely human,
Have you realized today is Leap Day? It seems almost like a day outside of time, a small magical rift in our regular rhythm. This 366th day only unveils itself once every four years. It is our way of synchronizing our human-made calendars with Earth’s timely seasons.
“By inserting ("intercalating") an additional day, a leap day, or month, a leap month, into some years, the drift between a civilization's dating system and the physical properties of the Solar System can be corrected.” (link)
And what an important nugget of wisdom for us — our connection with nature is inherent yet fickle. Our human-made systems require these rifts to keep with nature’s status quo.
Almost like a primordial loophole.
In our modern world, technology and hyperproductivity and consistency and capitalism reign supreme. Human-made stuff, am I right? We see it everywhere we look: depression, anxiety, stress, war, genocide, disassociation, devastation, stress, cancer. We are so, so deeply suffering in our human-made ways.
And if Leap Day teaches us anything, it’s this:
We can make all the human-made things we like, but if they don’t align with nature, they’ll crash and burn.
Just like we are.
Because we are literally going against our nature.
But the good news (I know we can all use some right about now!) is that Mother Earth is wayyyyy more intelligent than us little critters.
She birthed us after all, and Mother knows best.
My own healing journey and spiritual awakening were catalyzed when I developed chronic pain and recognized I had been dealing with anxiety as my baseline for a long time. Shit, I basically realized I had been suffering for most of my adult life.
Isn’t it WILD that it’s possible for us not to even realize we’re suffering?!
It was this run in with pain that created a Leap Day kind of rift in my rhythms. It made me rethink EVERYTHING I knew to be true and totally altered the course of my life (a lil current Bry’s hello from this new course, several years in!).
But mostly, it made me refeel the essence at my core: Nature.
And almost every person I encounter who is also on their own conscious healing journey (if you’re here, that’s likely you!) had their own unique rift that cracked their bedrock and begged for a return to their roots.
(BTW if you have one of these stories, I’d love to hear about it in the comments! It’s so refreshing to relish in each others’ re-origin stories.)
After hearing story after story and noticing suffering after suffering, I started to wonder to myself, “what if these symptoms could be Mother Earth having an immune response?” What if, by way of natural intelligence, our host planet is implementing these leaps in our rhythms to fight off our infections?
It makes sense, considering how our bodies respond to getting sick. Boiling to a high fever, weakened and shaking cold, our immune system kicks into high gear to stave off the virus and bring the body back into balance.
All for the sake of sacred balance.
So the more we suffer, the more we are forced towards healing. And boy, are the signals getting louder.
And that’s why we’re seeing so many people turn to nature. There’s a growing, insatiable need for a deeper connection to the Earth, to each other, but mostly to ourselves — a return to our own nature.
To synchronize our lives with the seasons and align with our own body’s clock.
To walk amongst the trees as our kin and receive their wisdom.
To remember, oh how we must remember, we are all so intimately connected and that your healing is my healing is our healing.
All for one, one for all.
And soon, with Spring and a new Astrological year upon us, the seeds will germinate, the trees will bud, the flowers will bloom, and we will be invited to begin anew and decide once again:
Will you go against nature or flow with nature?
I don’t know about you, but I’m going with the latter.
And that’s exactly why I created my first ever group offering, JOURNEY THROUGH SPRING — a beautiful invitation for us to rewind our ways and rewire our rhythms in harmony with a full nature’s season. Because we need this as much as the Earth does.
Twelve like-minded humans will meet over twelve magical weeks to heal & blossom in the garden of community. Think storytelling meets embodiment meets ritual meets astrology meets witnessing each other’s inspiring growth. Waaaaah! Magic.
It almost feels like Mother Earth herself is pulsing her offering through me, and I’m sooooo ready to be her sacred channel. Mother Earth and I would be so thrilled if you took this Leap with us as we Journey through Spring. Learn more and join us here. We start at the Spring Equinox!
Wishing you a magical Leap Day and an exciting start to March.
With love,
Bry
Your Witchy Healer Friend
www.brythehealer.com / @bryanneleblanc
For more personalized and in-depth support on your healing journey, check out my 1:1 offerings that weave MindBody Connection, Astrology, and Nature Wisdom to help you cultivate inner harmony and embrace your blossoming self.
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