Earth is the 5^th season that falls in between seasons, typically it facilitates the transition between Summer and Autumn, a time known as High or Indian Summer. It can start in the last weeks of Summer and last into the first weeks of Autumn

It is our only Element that is neither Yin nor Yang and its energy is neutral. It does not move upwards or downwards or outwards or inwards like the other Elements, it is solid, stable and grounding, like Mother Earth.

‘The ease with which you flow with the transitions between seasons will offer insights into the health and stability of the Earth Element within you’ – John Kirkwood

The key themes for our Earth season are Nourishment, Nurturing, Grounding, Stability, Support, Balance and Connection. Our Earth Element invites us to connect with our centre, the core of who we are

Like Yin and Yang, there are in balance and out of balance manifestations of our Earth Element and in our emotional body they would look like Contentment or Neediness, Fulfillment or Worry

The organs and energy meridians associated with our Earth Element are the Stomach and Spleen, they lie in the centre of the body and aid our ability to digest and assimilate not only food, but life’s experiences as well

If your Earth Element is out of balance you will feel a sense of emptiness, neediness and a desire to fill that void from the outside in. This results in feeling dissatisfied and discontent and in the extreme addiction to external sources like food, sex, shopping, drugs, sugar,social media, work, relationships etc

When we are disconnected from ourselves, from the core and truth of who we are, we tend to stay up in the mind, overthinking, and creating excessive worry and anxiety. We can outsource our contentment to others and become needy or resentful when inevitably they don’t meet our needs. When we outsource what needs to come from within, we will always feel discontent, ungrounded and empty.

When we balance our Earth Element we drop out of the mind and into our bodies, we come back to the core of ourselves and live from our grounded and stable centre. When we feel grounded, present and connected to our self and the world around us there is no need for excessive thinking or worry, we know we have everything we need within us and we nurture and nourish ourselves from the inside out. When we know this …..there is no neediness, no outsourcing, no void to be filled.

The Life Lesson for Earth is to learn how to nourish ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually so that we don not need or crave anything or anyone else to provide it for us

Ive listed some wonderful ways to do this below……and Im sure you have your own rituals to add also

Connect with nature

Take your shoes off and connect with the Earth

Get in the garden

Take yourself on a date

Magnesium baths

Read books

Eat nourishing food – savour each mouthful and eat consciously, slowly and mindfully

Explore food for the Soul – Dance, Yoga, Music, Meditation, inspiring seminars/workshops

Journal – your thoughts, your emotions, your dreams

This is a short snapshot about your Earth Element and if it has sparked your curiosity and you’d love to know more, you have the opportunity to dive deeper !!