Move with the Seasons: A Counter-Narrative to Progress and Productivity
Move with the Seasons: A Counter-Narrative to Progress and Productivity
The dominant story we’ve been raised in is a colonial, capitalist, patriarchal one. It tells us life should be linear; always forward, always up, always more. Progress measured in endless growth, authority built on control, value defined by productivity.
But nature tells a different story.
The seasons are not linear, they are cyclical. They remind us that expansion is always followed by contraction, that blooming cannot exist without compost, that rest is not a weakness but a fertile ground. This is the deeper rhythm of life itself.
In Tantric philosophy, this pulsation is called spanda - the sacred throb, the vibration of the universe. Expansion and contraction. Birth and death. Energy and release. Everything moves in waves. To resist this pulsation is to resist life itself.
Cycles as Medicine for Women
For women especially, reclaiming cycles is radical. Our bodies already know this truth through our menstrual cycles, through the waxing and waning of energy, through the archetypes that live within us:
The Maiden of springtime – fresh beginnings, curiosity, growth.
The Mother of summer – full bloom, creation, abundance.
The Wild Woman (or Enchantress) of autumn – release, discernment, harvest.
The Crone of winter – rest, wisdom, death that makes way for rebirth.
Yet, under patriarchy, these cycles have been dismissed, silenced, or shamed. We’re taught to push through, to fear ageing, to equate worth with constant productivity. This linear model asks us to betray our own rhythm.
But when we Move with the Seasons, we return to the truth that women need cycles. We are not machines. We are not meant to sustain endless summer. We are seasonal beings.
Pro-Ageing, Anti-Patriarchy, Pro-Life
Reclaiming the seasons as our teachers is a form of resistance. It is anti-patriarchy: rejecting the demand for control, dominance, and endless growth. It is pro-ageing: honoring the beauty and wisdom of every life phase, not just the bloom of youth. It is pro-life in its fullest sense: affirming the sacredness of death, rest, stillness, and the unseen roots beneath the soil.
An Invitation
To move with the seasons is to move with the body, with the earth, with life itself. It is to remember that winter’s stillness is as sacred as summer’s abundance. That contraction prepares the ground for expansion. That rest is not a pause from life, it is part of life.
This is the invitation of Move with the Seasons: to reclaim your cyclical nature, to honour your body’s wisdom, and to live not by the story of endless progress but by the deeper rhythm of spanda - the pulse of creation itself.
✨ You are seasonal.
✨ You are cyclical.
✨ You are enough in every phase.