March is the month of absolutely going for it

This past week I feel like I’ve risen up from the depths of Hades’ underworld to finally stretch out and bask, glow and glisten in the sunlight. Beauty is everywhere. We’ve been blessed with a couple sweeping azure sky days where the clouds have cleared and showered everything with colour. Actual colour. The trees are starting to blossom: cherry and magnolia buds bursting open, birdsong twinkling in the air.

I’m simple. I open the curtains, see sun and turn into a golden retriever. Up and ready to do any and everything. Sprinting to Sainsbury’s to pick up £3 roses and daffodils and hyacinths. We’ve made it through winter. We’ve done it. We should celebrate. No we must celebrate.

The darker, shorter colder months are difficult, and the season of winter reminds us that, at times, we must give in to the rhythm of life. That not all months are the most ‘productive’ and that we must recharge and hibernate. That at times, we do need to sit difficult emotions, tough times, and situations through because as much as we would sometimes like to, we can’t force time to tick faster. That in winter, we learn the lessons of patience, persistence and looking within, to ourselves, when external opportunities feel less available to us. This Sunday, take a moment to congratulate yourself for making in through.

And now we can look forward to March. And isn’t she the month we’ve been waiting for. Where January was for restarting and February for building, I believe there’s an energy in the air that tells me March is the month of absolutely going for it.

Allow the extra hours of sunlight to instil in you the belief that whatever you’ve been thinking of starting, or wanted to implement in January is still worth tackling. That we must drink up this newfound energy and throw it back up into our day-to-day lives lavishly and outrageously.

Perhaps you want to: paint more, read more, get up earlier, sign up for a race, apply to that job, sign up for a solo trip you’ve always wanted to take, take up knitting, email that person, reach out to that old friend or start that blog. March is shining light on whatever dream you’ve neglected and calling you to pick it up and start revving its engine. Take advantage of the momentum of inspiration immediately and act on it, because inspiration ebbs and flows, and we don’t want our spring showers to dry up before summer.

Do not feed into the lie that you will have more time, energy or resources ‘later’. For later is always met with its own obstacles. This is a lie we tell ourselves to appease us when we choose comfort over discomfort and dwell in old habits rather than choose to start the challenge that calls us, yet terrifies us.

March’s sunlight has told me to start planting. Don’t wait for permission to start something, be someone, share your experience to the world because no one will grant it to you. You must find that within yourself, allow yourself to be seen and let go of any blockage that is preventing you from expressing yourself, your art and your vision.

Imagine how beautiful the world would be if everyone allowed themselves to scatter their seeds into the soil and let their flowers grow. I see a world bursting with thousands of magnificent gardens of all shapes and sizes, an abundance of beauty. So please, whatever you’ve been thinking of doing, saying or being, in March, go for it. The world never has enough flowers.

What you will plant now, you will reap in the summer, autumn and the rest of the year to come.

Lots of love,

Eloïse

What I’m reading : Humankind: a hopeful History, Rutger Bregman