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Yesterday morning I received the Power Path newsletter that I like to read each month in my inbox. The theme of that newsletter was Forgiveness. My initial feeling was that I don’t feel that I have a need for forgiveness – I don’t think I’m holding too many grudges. But as I read the newsletter, I realised how much I need to forgive myself – and I also realised that this is probably something most of us need. We are now fully in the season of Metal, and the emotion connected with Metal is grief. Metal in balance allows grief to unfold so...

Wood is a time of exciting movement, new beginnings and planning – and it’s like that more than ever in the Bailey Essences business this year. For a number of years, since I have been in Canada, the business has struggled. I have been looking for almost as long for someone to help, since I felt it wasn’t possible for me to run the business successfully from such a distance. Jenny Howarth We have now found someone who we love, who we think is capable, and who is willing to take on the running of the Bailey Essences business. Chris...

And we pause before action…. Deep in the Earth, spring is rising. Even though the ground may be frost covered, the snow deep and the air bitingly cold, we can feel the stirrings of the sap. It can be a strange time of year, like the end of a pregnancy, the pause before birth. Time seems suspended and can feel to be moving quite slowly and yet excitement is building, behind the scenes. And yet we are still in the Water season, still building our stores of creativity and stamina for the spring and summer months of outgoing energy. Care...

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that 2016 is a fantastic year for you, full of insight and growth. Honest self-reflection leads to great insight This time of year, right in the middle of the Water season, is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the year that has gone before. The power of honest self-reflection and insight is enormous. It is a sign of real maturity to be able to recognise our own behaviour, accept it, NOT SHAME IT, and figure out a healthy way of moving forward that may involve change or simply acceptance on our part. Speedwell is...