{"id":2350,"date":"2013-03-12T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2013-03-10T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:49:25","slug":"a-deeper-understanding-of-winter-and-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2013\/03\/a-deeper-understanding-of-winter-and-spring.html","title":{"rendered":"A Deeper Understanding of Winter and Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: <\/strong>What is the message in any particular season \u2013 spring, for example? Or winter?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer: <\/strong>Spring is as spring does; it makes its appointed round heralded by (the star system) Aquarius, the water bearer &#8212; bringing with it what the late summer seeds need to start the process of awakening from their winter slumber. The latent forces in these seeds become active, and new forms of life spring forth because the waters they need to thrive and survive are present. In a somewhat similar fashion, this seasonal surge moves into and through us. We feel not only the need to make a fresh start, but we\u2019re also provided the energies needed to do so. The stirring we feel to break out of (the earth of) our old patterns, to reach higher, comes to us from on high; thus realized, we are empowered to succeed by a Life that may encounter obstacles, but that cannot be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is the message in any particular season \u2013 spring, for example? Or winter? Answer: Spring is as spring does; it makes its appointed round heralded by (the star system) Aquarius, the water bearer &#8212; bringing with it what the late summer seeds need to start the process of awakening from their winter slumber.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,39],"tags":[1554,1553,1081,370,1555,244,486,1556,356],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changetransformation","category-meaning-of-life-lifes-purpose","tag-active","tag-cycles-of-life","tag-fresh-start","tag-new-beginning","tag-passive","tag-seasons","tag-spring","tag-stirring","tag-winter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Deeper Understanding of Winter and Spring - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2013\/03\/a-deeper-understanding-of-winter-and-spring.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Deeper Understanding of Winter and Spring - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Question: What is the message in any particular season \u2013 spring, for example? 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