Chinese New Year 2023

Gateways. Beginnings. Portals. 

For the Asian world the Aquarian new moon of January 21 signifies the start of the Year of the Black Water Rabbit for 2023. 

It is a super moon - so very close to the Earth we feel its tides moving strongly through us.

What kind of structure do we want to live in - one of limitations? of rigidity? or do we choose chaos?

broken vessel by Deborah Smith

There is always another way - what Jung called the transcendent function.

What if we let a more organic structure shape what we become instead? 

Entrance

Whoever you are: in the evening step out

of your room, where you know everything;

yours is the last house before the far-off:

whoever you are.

With your eyes, which in their weariness

barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold,

you lift very slowly one black tree

and place it against the sky: slender, alone.

And you made the world. And it is huge

and like a word which grows ripe in silence.

And as your will seizes on its meaning,

tenderly your eyes let go. . . .

~ Rainer Maria Rilke