Cycle

We forget, with our air conditioned buildings and our 24hour electric lighting, our centrally heated houses and hand held computers, that we are still creatures of the earth.

We can hide as much as we like behind our important corporate lifestyles, our business conferences, our jet-setting 5 star holiday resorts and our state of the art-deco houses, but we still exist because the earth exists. We survive because there is water and air and food – things that only the earth can give us – things that money and prestige really cannot buy.

Is it any wonder, then, that we are still effected by the cycles of the earth?

The moon effects the tides and as our bodies are made up of a large percentage of water, the moon also effects us, too.

When it is cold and dark, in the long months of winter, should it be any surprise that we feel tired early, need more food and sleep, feel an echo of the old desire to hibernate, as so many of our fellow creatures do?

The drive to be successful, to be the master of the boardroom, or the waif-like model of perfection – we can live like this, but we also have to accept that we are linked with the earth, and that link and the feelings, urges, pulls and draws connected with that link are worthwhile, worth listening to, acknowledging, accepting.

This is not weakness. This is strength.