April
April is a transformative bouquet of new energy, beauty, and growth that breaks through barriers and allows you to leave old habits behind in order to jump into the newxt chapter of your life. As plants are sprouting and a boom of new life unfolds, there is so much to be grateful for this month.
Time to Bloom
April takes its name from the Latin word aperire, meaning 'to open' (just like flowers do in spring). The Romans called the month Aprilis.
April brings an opening of love, passion, and creativity to help you feel your best, settle into personal balance and have connective experiences with others. With the return of the sun and booming wild life, April brings a much needed sense of renewal, and life is about to feel much more vibrant and clear to help you navigate toward your highest aspirations.
Step into you Power.
Astrologically, April brings some important transits, in particular the beginning of Eclipse season, which will offer invaluable insights into ourselves as well as opportunities for personal growth and transformation.
We will be given a unique chance to examine our lives and relationships from a new perspective, deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, while we make progress in our healing journey.
During the month of April and the Eclipse season, focus on where you can step up for yourself. Think of it as a coming home to yourself, where personal healing work and letting go of restrictive behaviour and thought patterns can catapult you into new territory. The energies are supporting big moves and leaps where you literally can cross the thresholds into the next version of reality -and the next version of you!
Stepping into power is a central theme in most shamanic traditions. And the first step of that journey is the very ‘opening’ phase. Opening for outside help to enter, for miracles, for growth, for all the gifts that are waiting to be received. But in the individualistic culture of Western society, that mostly celebrate singular achievements, we are not trained in the ‘art of receiving.’
Opening to Power is an essential part of stepping into your power. It is a life-long journey, and this month to try to accept the invitation to open -just to see how it feels.
Maybe you will see something a different way, meet an opportunity, you didn’t see before or open to receive an answer to a question in a completely new way. You can find more inspiration about this month’s theme about stepping into your power here.
Welcome the Magic -of Life!
April is the perfect time to re-connect to the quality of wonder. A sort of child like awe for the blooming flowers, singing birds and all the new life, that emerges from the barren ground bring and naturally brings much magic with it. The gift of the Spring season can help us awaken to a fresh sense of ourselves too and perspectives on situations in our lives, where we can open to entirely new possibilities.
Practicing being in the moment and slowing down to notice the day-by-day changes of Mother Nature will help you move towards awe and wonder this month. Finding little moments to feel gratitude towards the unfolding, and then expressing it, can truly feel like the blessing of a new beginning, where Spring itself is the guide, that helps you to receive new insights and a build an inner fire. The chapter it opens is all about leading you toward a deep sense of personal fulfillment and peace in the journey. A peace that suddenly feels available now after a long winter and darkness and possibly a long time of suffering.
“It is time to connect to your ‘Inner Wild’: The Dreamer, the Nature Child, the Goddess, the Muse. The Deep Intelligence in you that knows when the time has come to spring.”
Be Proactive
The energies of April is supporting the dreams, we have for ourselves. Just like the light is returning to shine upon Mother Earth and all of her creations, the light is returning to shine on you.
Take some time this month to consider, where you want to shine more brightly, and consider what you have to do to get there. Taking active steps will be key to the unfolding, you wish to see, and April wakes up the more proactive yang energy as we start to come out of our Winter cocoons and open our eyes to the world outside.
This is a time that truly supports personal goals that are aligned with the special gifts that are yours to share, so please be mindful about how and where you spend your time -and with whom.
Come back to your center.
Like a snail that curls inwards, this is the time to come back to the center of who you naturally are, the spring, the source that is you, and let everything flow from there.
A time to look at your whole life through the lens where you see it as a unique opportunity to give to the world from a personal place, where you feel completely at home. A place of ease and comfort, where expressing yourself feels joyful, effortless and loving.
April is the time to transition into the Spring season with the idea that you can leave hardship and struggle in the past. It doesn’t mean, you don’t have to take personal action, rather it means that you take action from a new place in yourself: A place of joy and meaning. A place where you don’t need to struggle for your needs or for everything to arrive in a good way.
During the whole month, try to keep an open mind for the new to enter. New ideas, ways of seeing, new growth, new miracles.
You deserve good (new) things coming.
Much love,
April Rituals
The Habit
Practice Gratitude
Find ways to slow down and notice the day-by-day changes that happen during the early Spring days of April. Look up, look down and embrace all the little moments of unfolding. As you cultivate daily awe and wonder, your whole being will expand with gratitude for life and open to Spring’s blessing of new beginnings.
The Journey
Awaken your senses
The city of Grasse on the Côte d’Azur in the South of France is magic in April with jasmin-infused mountain air and blossoming fields. Known as the 'Capital of Perfume' this is the place to evoke old memories and create new ones through the sense of scent. We went to take a perfume lesson with a french parfumeur and create our own personal perfume. Read more here
NEW Moon
April New Moon
Maybe it was never the Cacophony of the Chaos that scared you
but the Peace of the Silence
where you could finally hear your own Voice
that told you what to change.
FULL MOON
Pink Full Moon
The April Pink Full Moon casts a light on our relationship dynamics as it invites us to re-define and re-new the way we relate with each other.