Welcome to the month of March, aka the Springtime month! Or for some people, the allergy season. But hopefully, it will be more of a month of welcoming spring. That is what we hope for though the weather in some areas might have different ideas. We also just had a time change. We sprang forward last Sunday. And of course, no one likes the loss of one hour. Some might prefer the extra daylight, but the struggle is real for the early mornings where sunrise is delayed by an hour. But this got me thinking a lot about the concept of time. And it also had me reminiscing and nostalgic in many ways. So, this post is going to be a mix of personal and foxy witch style thoughts. Hope you enjoy it! Let’s get into it.
A year ago, I had been struggling to get my life back in order after my major back issue in 2023. Though the experience had been humbling, it was difficult to do things as I had done before. I knew patience was important as recovery can be a lengthy process. For me, true recovery has taken a full year and a half to get back the flexibility I lost and the strength. I can walk and run again like I did pre-injury, though I’m more aware of how I move now. In some ways, the flare-up feels like it happened so long ago that I see sepia tone when I think of it, and yet, I remember on a visceral level what that experience was like. Oddly enough, as terrible as it was to go through it, I realize now that I’m grateful for it. Looking back, I see that it taught me to appreciate what my body is capable of in terms of healing and how it communicates with me when it needs rest. It made me connect with my body and spirit in a unique way that still shapes how I do things today and will continue to do.
This leads me to think of how time moves in such a way that we can’t qualify it with the right words. What is “time”? Is it a tangible concept that we can attribute to meaningful experiences in our lives or is time itself a concept that has been condensed into something from what it actually is? From a purely scientific perspective, time is defined as something measured, like mass, for example. Einstein introduced the concept of space and time. No doubt we’ve discovered that time is quite complex to explain. We’ve asked ourselves the age-old question: can we go backwards and forwards in time? We know just from living on this planet that time zones differ from hemispheres. From a spiritual standpoint, one wonders if we can “see into the future” or “re-write our past”. And from a different perspective, do these things truly matter or are we neglecting the present by doing so?
These are not unique questions nor are they questions that get asked infrequently. I’m sure many of us wish we could change events in our past or guarantee a particular outcome in the future. Neither possibility is currently existent. The reason I’m focusing on time for this particular post is because I’ve caught myself doing this too. I long for a specific result in the future, and I find myself reminiscing and nostalgic of some things while simultaneously “re-writing” in my head how some things should have unfolded instead. And it does take away from the present. Yet it’s something that persists. I’ve been nostalgic for remnants of my teenage years that seemed a limited time of carefree enjoyment. There are moments we often feel more keenly than others. I think the loss of that time is one I do feel. Things that went by in a blur before I could blink have an irony of feeling so far away and yet like it just happened. Our sense of memory is inexplicably linked with time.
Outside of the personal things that have to do with time, we consider time with regard to rituals and how we conduct them. Timing is then considered auspicious. I always used to wonder: why do we care about what planetary alignments are in place or what phase the moon is in for certain rituals? I did a little bit of research on this that leads me to believe this dates back to pre-history, more specifically pre-agricultural revolution. Think about how we measured the length of a day and year. We learned by observing. We know how the tides work through observations. And we’ve seen the effects of the tides on living beings. These observations are what I believe led to the assignation of auspicious time in activities. This makes sense on a broader scale as to farming and what types of weather are conducive to it. The same applies to ritual workings.
Some ritual workings are meaningful for winter and on a full moon. When we work in tandem with the cycles of nature, we create an inner harmony within ourselves. Thus, time plays an important role beyond measurement. Time is a factor that reminds us to stay in the present. It is something I am trying to be more conscientious of because the present moment can be precious and easily overlooked if not.
That’s it for now! I have much more planned for future posts, but I did want to share my thoughts about time for this blog post.
If you read this far, I appreciate it! And finally, I’ll be posting another Tarot blog post soon, in time for April! We will talk about being in the year of the Hermit, Key #9 of the Major Arcana, that Revolution Number 9 I mentioned at the end of the last blog post. I will also be posting about the lunar new year, Lupercalia, and galactic astrology as I’ve said, even though Lupercalia has already passed. It might be a “holidays and festivals” post. These are snippets of what posts I plan to make. Again, thank you all for your support.
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Until next time, have a blessed rest of the month. Namaste. With love, the Foxy Witch.
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