It’s about to get a lot more saucy….

While the calendar year may already be underway, I find myself orienting instead to the Lunar New Year on 17 February — a threshold that feels more aligned with the rhythms of nature and the body. It honours wintering in the northern hemisphere, a time not for pushing forward, but for listening, resting, and allowing what is ready to emerge to do so in its own time.

We are moving from the year of the Snake into the year of the Fire Horse. The Snake has been a teacher of truth and shedding. For many, this past cycle has brought difficult questions and necessary endings: Do I stay? Do I go? Is this still in alignment with my health, my heart, my becoming? These are not easy inquiries, yet they are essential ones.

As the Fire Horse begins to stir, I feel a quiet ignition — a sense of energy rising, not as urgency, but as possibility. And still, I honour the wisdom of rest. Gone are the days of chasing. There is a deeper peace in waiting, in being receptive, in allowing what is complete to fall away without force.

Alongside this, something tender is reawakening: desire. For many of us, desire has been set aside for good reason — care for others, responsibility, survival, or devotion to roles that required us to dim parts of ourselves. Yet desire is not merely sexual. It is life force. Creativity. Vitality. Presence in the body.

When desire is suppressed for too long, fatigue, burnout, and numbness can arise. Only part of us remains available to life. Reconnecting with desire — gently, respectfully, at our own pace — can bring us back into relationship with ourselves and with what truly matters.

This season invites us to listen more closely. To shed what no longer fits. And to allow the full fire of who we are to burst through..

Something is stirring. And it is asking for our attention.

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