12/30/2025
My newsletter to close out the year just went out. If you’d like to join my mailing list (typically 1 email a month) there’s a link in my bio. Here’s what this one has to say about the element of water.
“We are in the liminality of water season. As external and yang as the fire element and summer are, winter is the yin polarity. I love this time for it’s invitation to tending, introspection and dreamscapes. If there was an anticapitalist season it’s winter, it’s mottos are slow down, do less, stop listening to the noise and listen to the deepest voices within yourself. The water that comes to mind for this season is the water of the ocean, think of the depth of the ocean, the brininess, salts and seaweeds, the blue/black color, the ears and what things sound like when you’re underwater, think of evolution and how we’re related to ocean animals, think of bones, your bones and how shells are like bones but also like ears. As I said, this is a time of liminality, a time to expand your lens and maybe even get a little weird. Weird the way dreams are weird, with timelines out of time and messages from the unconscious. What practices do you have or can you explore to expand your lens, to see without looking, to truly listen, to know in your bones? What calms your nervous system? Some ways I’m leaning into the weird waters of winter are; the rhythmic sound of drumming, slow stomping on the ground, baths with sea salt, miso soup with seaweed, candlelight and pockets of time with no agenda.”
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David Hammond
