2020 Enter the Year of Earth...

NEW YEAR 2020

ENTER THE YEAR OF THE EARTH ELEMENT

Enough story.

Its time to leave that vibe behind as we move into a new year.

Literally.

In the Dagara tradition from West Africa the elements of earth, nature, mineral, water and fire correspond to particular numbers (as translated by Elder Malidoma Some). If we resonate with ancient indigenous wisdom and the wicked smart quantum physicists who’ve proven that energy is vibration, then we can establish that elements are expressions of different frequencies of vibration. Great. Let’s move onto the fun part of leaving that vibe behind.

The vibration of 2019 was the element of mineral and that means that many of us may have spent hours up in our heads concocting volumes of stories that may have not been based in truth.

The year 2020 will be different!

Our ability to create story is a fabulous defense mechanism to keep us emotionally safe, however the more we give our fiction credence, the more dramatic our reality can become. Our ability to differentiate between our lovely, self-defeating stories, and our intuition lies within our body wisdom. Our body wisdom, those nuances of often fleeting cellular activation that we feel, is an amazing indicator of intuitive “hits.” Such nuances may present themselves as an internal quiver, a flash of cold or heat, and ache, or my favorite— chills— otherwise known as chicken skin.

Penning mental stories is not always unhealthy though. Using our mental faculties to tap into another mineral aspect- our ancient wisdom- may have had a place this past year in helping to define our goals, our dreams, and a particular path for ourselves moving forward. Writing stories of this nature can actually help to re-write the types that are not so helpful. These healthier stories would be found in the romance, fantasy or biographical sections of our grey matter bookstore.

Thank goodness this vibration is changing though. Living for too long within the same frequency can start to become exhausting, if not maddening. Perhaps this is why many of us, if not most, are so relieved by the time New Year’s rolls around. By the end of the year, we all need to shift into a different frequency. As the elemental years begin to eclipse one another, sometime between August and October, the melding of vibrations can create nothing short of a shit-show. We may feel pulled to and fro, frazzled, confused, up/down, and my most favorite description: intense.

Enter 2020. The year of earth! After a year of mineral, I sing the praises of the vibration of earth!

The year 2020 invites us to slowwwwww down and attune ourselves to a deep rhythm of self-nurturing. A welcome change from the analytical and potentially frantic nature of 2019, earth invites us into her warm embrace where we are encouraged to appreciate one another in the year 2020. The self-nurturing aspect of earth arrives with all the usual self-care tips and techniques, but with the addition with a special favorite for all of us: boundaries.

Oh boundaries. Yup, those things. Enter the vision of finding something yucky in your kitchen and picking it up with the very tips of your fingers while you rush towards the trash. This is how I often feel about the implementation of boundaries; it can be a yucky business. Our 2020 earth year asks us to evaluate our boundaries as an active containment system. Boundaries are meant to either contain the contents within them or act as a shield to keep foreign substances out. Either way you look at it, if we focus on our boundaries as a containment system, then what are we trying to contain? The answer: our personal power.

In the year 2020, we can use the frequency of the element of earth to harness and sustain our own personal power to propel us towards what we are feeling called to.

So, what does that look like? Saying ‘NO’ for one. Knowing what we do not want as much as what we do. Reflecting on the people and situations which leave us feeling drained or unfulfilled and, if possible, putting constraints on how we interact, where we interact, and how long we engage with those people or environments. Boundaries can be very tricky, but if we keep it simple and ask ourselves if our choices either augment or sustain our personal power, then we are usually on the right track.

This upcoming year is ripe for taking care in our homes and for paying special attention to our physical bodies. Unexpected moves may happen where we physically change locations or perhaps we make commitments to nurturing our bodies in ways we haven’t before. The delicious vibe of earth supports all of this as we shift from one mode to another in the new year 2020. And, occasionally, it may still be fun to curl up and revisit one of our self-created books from the fantasy section.

Jen Hudziec is an Ancestral Repair Practitoner with the Ancestral Medicine Organization. She is a Ritualist, Animist, and Fire Walk Instructor. She offers private sessions and online classes. She can be reached at jenhudziec.com