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Seasonal Rituals: Embracing Flow and Natural Rhythms
When I first started my spiritual practices I thought once I made something a part of my daily ritual it must always be a part of my ritual or else I was taking the easy way out and wasn’t being disciplined enough to make a difference in my healing journey. I’d make sure that in the morning I’d pull a card, do reiki, connect with my guides, and journal about what came up. And while that practice suited me for a time, it was not sustainable and not only that…it wasn’t something that I felt pulled to.
But flash forward to 6 years later and I’ve found that a true ‘daily ritual’ normally doesn’t work for me. Not only does it feel to rigid and ‘religion-y’ to me, it just does not work with what comes naturally to me. I’ve learned that what does work for me is ‘seasonal rituals and practices’ – meaning, I change up my practices and focuses with the seasons. And maybe even more lately, around the season of the wheel of the year we’re currently in.
Giving myself permission to let go of disciplined and rigid rituals has opened my practice up for more flow, ease, and it’s something that always feels fresh because it’s always changing with what’s going on around me.
So in this post I just want to remind you, it’s ok to switch up your practices IT’S ALSO OK TO PAUSE A PRACTICE.
If you’re looking for a way to tap into the energy of the season and craft your rituals around the natural world (and you) I hope this post helps you.
What to track to figure out what practices might naturally unfold for you
When starting to look into a seasonal practice I always think reflecting on how you feel each season is the best place to start. I know I feel really aligned with ancestor rituals and tarot during the fall, planning and visioning during the winter, physical rituals (like cleansing/clearing) during the spring, and social magic during the summer. Once I know where my natural baseline is each season, here’s what I’d do to hone in on what rituals might fit in with my own rhythm:
- 1. Track your days
- 2. Break down seasons in a way that makes sense to you – typical seasons, zodiac seasons, Sabbats, how weather changes where you live
- 3. Pick a few things that are important to you to do each season
- 4. Decorate for the season
- 5. Plan crafts
- 6. Plan recipes
- 7. Change up your routine
- 8. Change up your spiritual practices
- 9. Review what you liked and didn’t like from last year
Starter ideas for each season’s spiritual practices
Once I’ve gathered what I’ve reflected on and want my season’s spiritual practice to feel like, then I come up with rituals that will feed that energy and light me up. I don’t do each ritual every day, but I tend to get to them at least once a season. Here’s some ideas for each natural season:
Spring Spiritual Practices
- Garden
- Spend time outside and notice the rebirth of nature
- Cleaning and cleansing practices
- Do rituals
- Celebrate Ostara and Beltane
- Inner Child Work
- Learn about new spiritual practices
Summer Spiritual Practices
- Celebrate
- Take things slowly
- Spend time outside and soak in this season
- Celebrate Litha and Lammas
- Gratitude practices
- Forgiveness practices
Fall Spiritual Practices
- Go inward and start back up on your daily spiritual practice(s)
- Pull cards
- Celebrate Mabon and Samhain
- Spend time with your spirit guides
- Do ancestral magic
- Dream work
Winter Spiritual Practices
- Vision board
- Celebrate Yule and Imbolc
- Plan
- Do self-care rituals
- Shadow Work
- Journaling
If you’re hoping to start a seasonal practice, I hope this post gave you some ideas on where toe begin! I’m sending you so much good energy as you allow yourself to play with the feelings of each season!
If you’re looking for a view of how general cycles, zodiac seasons, natural seasons, lunar cycles, and time of day energy relate to each other check out the Witch’s Calendar.
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