Childhood of sensuality

Expressed through: Coming from the East:

The journey toward Spirit is drawn down
Raw uncensored emotion Summer is The growth into bodily life:
Innocent Sexuality of the child Embodiment
Erotic love
Play Innocence: Turning to the West:
Wonder life is The full embodied
Instinctual Knowing embodied freshly and participation of Summer
Animism spontaneously like a child in turn invites
sensual experience reflection and
Reactive responses: - Focus on body - introspection of
(including greed & Autumn…
violence)

What allows me to
participate
Innocently in the The growing tree in
Water: sensuous
full leaf:
Inwardly the rivers of blood, Life of this World? Belonging through
Outwardly the rivers being rooted in the
Over the land: both Animate sensuous body of the
And Enliven life. South Earth - as a part of
From the perspective of water the earth’s Body
There is just one body, ceaselessly
Pouring into fresh forms
 Adolescence of Introspection
Expressed through: Coming from the
South:
Self consciousness The journey toward Autumn is Embodied expression
Entering (casting light in) The growth invites reflection
shadow of the adolescent
Loss of innocence Turning to the
revelation of uniqueness introspection: North:
Wounded healer Looking into our life, we become Through
Conscious emotional life conscious of self, of psyche - introspection &
Introspective knowing identity is strengthened recognizing our
Initiation gifts we are
Severance - Focus on self - invited to engage,
Anima / animas to Offer our life
Parenting ourselves
Myth – storying ourselves

What is my capacity to
bear the whole of my
Earth:
life? The leaves fall and the tree
The solid ground that holds the What are the gifts in bears fruit:
whole of our life. We become my wounding? Belonging through finding our
more ‘solid’ gaining a greater
identity, our particular
sense of self, of identity.
expression in life.
Humus – Honesty – Humility
West Belonging through compassion,
leaves that are no longer of
the recognition of the
use fall away making compost challenges of our shared
to enrich the earth, helping the
humanity
tree to bear the fruit.
 Adulthood of responsibility
Coming from the
Expressed through: The journey toward Winter is The west:
growth of the adult we are now
Action responsible for
Planning service: offering The gifts we
thought We take responsibility for, and harvested in the
Conceptual knowing find meaning in showing-up; in shadow
rational Thought offering our-selves for the well-
Turning to the
Learning skills being of the community of life
east:
developing tools
Structure and
Discipline - Focus on mind-
form must
Commitment
eventually give
Order & structure
way to the new
growth of spring

To what is my life
offered?
In what way is this
air: offered?
The naked tree:
Ephemeral – can’t be seen or
Belonging through
held, just like the mind, yet it is
participation. Actively
essential for survival. the
Making use and offering up
mind, just like Air is often North
our lives to support the
overlooked, how do we train
wider community through
the mind? A great tool but a
the winter
poor master
 Elderhood of freedom
Expressed through: Coming from the north:
The journey toward spring The familiar discipline
Uncertainty is The growth of the elder and structure of the
Relationship with mystery north invite a fresh
Non-dualistic: freedom: beginning
(profound and profane) The freedom that is born
Contraries from letting go, of Turning to the
Art & creativity - Blank sheet dwelling in uncertainty south:
Breaking of rigidity The vision must be
Death / birth door - Focus on spirit- embodied
Vision
Intuitive knowing
Breaking of constricting
structures (inner or outer)

What is my
relationship with
uncertainty?
Fire:
The tree with new buds:
Burns away that which no
New life reveals itself.
longer serves, that which is no Belonging through
longer true - Leaving ground
surrender. an intuitive
open for fresh possibilities. East
knowing not controlled by
self. realization