NEW MOON - Low tide, Restore
10th February, 9:59 a.m., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sidereal Zodiac: Capricorn in Dhanishtha nakshatra
WAXING
RESTORE, renew, re-energise, prepare good ground.
Plant seeds of intention, tend, nurture growth.
REFLECTIONS
Motherhood Transitions - A Mother's Inner Harmony & Well-Being
The stages of motherhood are emotionally profound. Every phase from carrying our baby within our body through to releasing them to live their own life, is fraught with emotional rollercoasters that we must navigate and flow through.
I have found some of these stages very challenging and the fullness of feeling from grief through to joy has shaped me as a person. In particular, the stage when my children have become self-sufficient and don’t need me as much, has been the most difficult emotionally as I redirect my daily energy towards other things that I personally find meaningful.
Since 2004, the Vedic healing system has helped me understand and value my own nature and empower me with simple, daily ways to create personal well-being and understand my family with more compassion and practicality. I still use these principles and practices, and now share them with others.
All life comes from mothers and it is important that we are internally strong and self-nourished. And when we tend to our daily well-being this also provides important leadership to our young people in self-care and self-responsibility.
We flourish when we feel a deep sense of self-value and capability that we add to life, and can contribute naturally and meaningfully to the life around us.
We feel emotional pain when we feel we are no longer needed, or choose to deny our own nature, or use our own life-time for someone else or someone else’s ideas.
Mothers develop formidable skills long-term that pertain to our personal life-experience. These skills are what we flow forward with and can use to create a nourishing and meaningful experience for ourselves as our children are on the way to self-sufficiency and we are providing occasional support and not full-time care.
We can use this as the next and exciting space to reconnect more fully with our own nature, and channel our inner power into what feels good personally.
INSPIRED BY NATURE
It is a lush time here in West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia and even when the harvest is small (two strawberries) the fact of being able to grow food and pick it straight from our own garden, free of chemical, nourished by the sunlight, rain, and earth is something we appreciate.
I enjoyed my time in the garden on this sunny, 27 degree Celsius, New Moon February day. I cut back herb plants that were encroaching on each other, happy to harvest to use now or dry for later. Produce pictured here include: avocado, plum, rosemary, strawberry, basil, bay, gotu kola, peppermint, lemon balm, Warragul Greens (perpetual spinach), yarrow, silverbeet. The flowers around the garden are still vibrant in their colour like these Portulaca flowers in a small pot. There is nothing quite like the colour palette of Nature!
'Health is the result of something else.' Maya Tiwari
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