🌕 The Moon, The Body, The Bloom 🌼

April 24, 2025

Nothing in Nature is always in Bloom

As the flowers blossom and nature blooms all around the Sonoran Desert, it’s a magical time to witness and reflect on Spring. 🌸🌼🌷

Nature is inherently cyclical; we have ❄️Winter, 🌼Spring, 🌞Summer, and 🍁Autumn.

Each season has its own beauty, and its own lessons. 

Nature feels so energized and active in the Spring. There are beautiful colors popping up, the smell of flowers fills the air, and there is renewed life. There are little birds everywhere, and their chirping sounds so joyful. 

The way I conceptualize Spring is that there has been enough rest in the Winter that flowers hit a certain threshold of rest to where they can now bloom. Similar to how neurons fire in the brain via action potential. Neurons will only fire if the action potential threshold has been met.

As humans, we are also part of nature, and I think many of us forget that. 

Something my therapist told me years ago was, “You are nature, when did you get disconnected from her?” 🌞🌷🌟💫🌝🌙🌼🌿

This reframe changed my brain chemistry, it is an ‘Aha Moment’ that I refer back to often. 

Spring isnt just delicate blossoms, however. Its Spring storms, powerful gusts of wind that knock down everything in sight as well. It reminds me of the idea that ‘we can’t hope for a garden full of flowers, and then get surprised when it rains.’

In embracing the whole of spring- the beauty, the the storms, the intensity, and the shift, that we can gain a deeper understanding of it. 

For those of us who move with the tides of a menstrual cycle, there's a quiet kind of magic in noticing how our energy shifts like the seasons. 

And if you don’t bleed, you can still flow with nature by moon cycling—tuning into the moon’s phases as a guide. 

🌑 New Moon is like winter ❄️—a time for rest and reflection. 

🌓 First Quarter is spring 🌱—energy building, ideas sprouting. 

🌕 Full Moon is summer ☀️—bright, expressive, outward-facing. 

🌗 Last Quarter is autumn 🍂—a time to release, slow down, and turn inward again.

In aligning ourselves with the seasons, we can start to feel more like we are part of nature. 

Start to notice where you are in your own inner cycle—what season you're in, what your body and spirit might be asking for. 

There's wisdom in your rhythm. It is sacred. It is natural. There are also many herbs/flowers/seeds/tinctures that you can take in each season to help your body feel its best in each season as well. 

I’ll end here with a quote that I love from Sandra Kring- 

“The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, she needed to be dropped into the dirt, be covered with darkness, and struggle to reach the light” 🌱 - Sandra Kring

And my own interpretation of it: 

🌱🤎✨ like the sprout that grows into the Oak, when we start in the depths of the dirt, and propel forward through the soil and into the sunshine 🌞, we feel every growth pain of change, and yet the blossoming is worth the cost. And thus, we can slowly grow from from the sprout to the Grand Oak Tree 🌲. 

Go out and be in mother nature’s presence this Spring, 

Tara

Photo by me :)