🧵Loose ends and looking forward

...plus musings on welcoming Spring

Enjoying a February sunset with a cuppa and some satsumas

Hello, I’m Charly, a nature nerd and lunar lover based in Sheffield. I’m on a mission to adopt a slower pace of life which is more in sync with the energies of the seasons here in the Northern hemisphere. Subscribers enjoy full access to my bi-monthly newsletters. I also offer online courses centred around the Wheel of the Year: find out more here.

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Dear you,

Here we are at the end of February with the final New Moon of this astrological year and meteorological Spring just around the corner. I don’t know about you but this week has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. I lean deeply into grounding practices such as yoga, painting and reading in the Winter months but these have found themselves on the back burner of late. At the beginning of the month I launched head first into a running and swimming training programme for a half marathon and 3.6km swim in April and May and it wasn’t until this week that I realised I was exhausted from all this exercise - and we’re still in Winter!

So this week I’ve taken my foot off the gas - so to speak - and attempted to carve out more stillness in an attempt to ward off overwhelm and eventual burnout. The signs