Root into Spring if you’re feeling untethered

April 2025’s Return to Reverence column offers us a way to orient our inner lives on the seasonal wheel, as well as remedies for supporting ourselves emotionally, physically, and soul-fully.

Here’s the clipping as it first appeared in qathet Living magazine, followed by a text version for ease of reading on mobile.

* This clip is shown as it originally appeared in qathet Living Magazine

Let’s speak plainly here, many of us are feeling rather shaken or ungrounded these days. Be it on the larger global, national, or community scale, something within our own personal lives, or maybe even all of it, it’s likely there’s some level of unrest niggling at, or fully disrupting our wellbeing. We may be well versed in navigating such things generally, but every once in a while it can come with an extra surge of intensity. If you’ve been feeling this way, just know that Springtime often brings its own challenges, but! it also shows us remedies for rooting into wellness.

With its bursts of first flowers and newborn critters, we’re welcomed sweetly with warm, mood-lifted days and joyful birdsong. But we don’t often talk about how much energy this time of year requires. The first radicle needs to push through a tough seed coat, wee chicks meet exhaustion when poking through shells to freedom. For us too, we might find the season asking a bit more of us. Suddenly it’s garden planning and planting time, Summer commitments begin forming, repairs or building held up by Winter’s cold urgently wait to be addressed; now toss in all that feels insecure or unjust both inside and outside of ourselves too.

To support, the natural world encourages us to:

• Get our hands and feet literally on the ground. Search for bugs, buds, and blossoms.

• Let vitamin D laden sunshine touch our skin, even if it’s through a window.

• Visualize rooting deep into soil and drawing nourishment into our bodies.

• Take breaks for rest when tackling stressful things.

• Release our hopes, prayers, grief, and praise out of us through song or chanting.

• Flock together in community to share news, games, and stories.

• Nest. Spring clean, purge a closet, fix a broken something.

• Nap when tired. Stretch often. Eat fresh greens. Sniff the air.

• Even if things feel ugly and hard, marvel at beauty too. That persistent dandelion growing in cracked pavement, the glorious Sunrise, the smile of a passerby.

Caring for our nervous systems, physical bodies, and mental health in these ways grows fortitude while actively tending to what we can see, touch, and do. It may sound trite, but these acts become powerful proofs against those big rough things that we can’t directly affect or change.

Tucked up in her cottage on the west coast of Canada, Juliette Jarvis draws on 15+ years of hosting community ceremonies and immersion programs to write spiritually supportive books, articles, and magazine columns, while also creating handwoven ritual wear, natural ink, & ceremonial ceramics for tangible, soul-level medicine.

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