Summer light becomes golden, the cicadas sing their ceaseless anthem.A hearty dusty feeling pervades the landscape. The horse drawn wagon pulls us slowly and steadily forward, we hear the echoes of the hooves as they hit the packed earth clop, clippity -clop, clip pity -clop… This season creeps upon us. It is only when the [...]
“The essence which is distilled from rotting and dead matter is the essence which the Metal element itself represents.” – J. R. Worsley Sometime around the middle of October, we wake up and notice a chill in the air. The leaves are half-way fallen from the trees and there is a deep melancholic feeling at [...]
The word Winter translates into “time of water”. This season announces itself with frost on the car and a crunching sound underfoot. Then the freezing rain, sleet and snow come down from the clouds to cleanse the earth of debris left-over from Autumn. A clear cold stillness is ever-present as we proceed into the deepest [...]
I set some mung beans to soak. The jar is in on the windowsill in the sunlight.The beans are sprouting little tails.The rays of sun inspire activity.We are driven outdoors to suck in the fresh air and light.To move our cramped contained limbs.At last, the first stirrings of the long awaited …Spring. It is Wood [...]
“When the king is happy the whole of the kingdom cannot fail to be happy too.” – J.R Worsley As the temperature rises and the heat of the sun descends upon us, we move into the time of Fire. This is the most Yang time of year. The sun resides at it’s zenith, the warmth [...]