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Initiation.
Instinctively, you can sense it refers to entering something new. As Earthborn Magazine leaves the dreaming stage of winter and enters the mobilizing phase of spring, it seemed fit for Initiation to be the first theme.
When I think of initiation, I immediately feel into the collective currents and deeply relate to something you are moving through. We all sense the collapse of the old ways, the uncertainty of navigating the changing landscape, and are unsure of what lies beyond. It feels too big.
While the world changes, as individuals, we are experiencing our own unique brand of initiation. We have many of them in our lives. Some are big and obvious, while others are shifts in your mental, emotional, or psyche.
Each one brings us closer to touch our inner power and operate from our Original Self with conviction, courage, and purpose. Changing our inner architecture is no easy feat, and my goal is to normalize this as a natural process of our psyche. For that, we need new myths. New stories to match our current epoch, where we see ourselves in others. Each story extends a hand of courage to a reader who needs it to navigate their own initiation.
To help tease out the story you’d like to write for Earthborn, I’d like to give you a model of the phases you might be called to share about. While many exist, I will share the one Mother Earth taught me through the cycle and rhythm of the seasons.
AUTUMN
In this phase of initiation, there is a sense that something is not quite right. What you’ve been doing is no longer working. There are ways of being you find scratching beneath our skin. You push boulders uphill not realizing that way of being needs to be let go of. You experience the range of shades of loss and grief as, moment after moment; you realize you must leave something behind.
You can share about the agony you move through as our outer or inner world is changing with or without our permission.
WINTER
Next, you must accept the truth of what you are faced with and come to the realization that you must act differently. When we surrender into this knowing and dissolve into ourselves. This surrender takes faith. Write about that.
This is also the space between identities. Where you know what you left behind, but you are unsure of what is emerging. Write about not knowing what to do.
At some point, you have a spark that shows you the way forward. Often, it does not look like you had imagined you would do. It’s stretchy. Nor can you see the full plan. Write about that. Write about how to take your next step in this world rooted in this new conviction, yet navigating so many unknowns.
SPRING
Each step will give you feedback. Positive or negative. Write what it feels like taking courageous steps while not being landed in your new identity. Write about the support you found helpful. Write about how you held your breath and still did the scary thing. Write about the successful outcome that opened new doors you could not have imagined. Write about the failure that gave you new tools for your path forward.
SUMMER
This is where you land in your new identity and get into the swing of things. You are infused with life force and are living.
Write about how you landed in your new state of being. Write about the relief. The joy. The newfound knowings you gained. Write about what you felt and what you accomplished. Write about how you felt the end approach so you can go through the cycle again.
Each stage is valuable. Write about one or all. Capture one emotion or many. This is your story to tell. Your message to leave behind from this version of you. Your snapshot in time that will help someone navigate their initiation.
Visit the Earthborn Contribution page and download the Contribution and Inspiration Guide. Along with practical information, you’ll also find a guided writing ritual to help your piece come forward.
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Next issue is Spring/Summer 2026.
xo,
