Welcome to Almanac, I'm Emily Thompson, and today I'm going to take you on a journey through the energies of the seasons.

Welcome back to the show.

Here at Almanac we are enjoying the calm after the storm of the holiday season.

We now get to enjoy a bit of rest while simultaneously doing behind the scenes work that prepares

us for the next seasons that are coming up for us.

I hope that you are also able to enjoy some post holiday downtime

and that this fresh New Year's feeling feels full of opportunities.

Now we're here today because I cannot go any deeper into this show without spending a solid

episode sharing the foundation of why we are even here.

And that is that the seasons have energies that our modern lives have disconnected us from.

I'm sharing this with the hopes that we can begin to reconnect you to a lost understanding

of what it means to live as humans on this planet, and because I believe that by familiarizing ourselves

with these energies we're able to reconnect with them and use them to have access to more

fulfilling lives. So this episode is all about the seasons.

I'm going to take you on a little journey through them, exploring the energies of each of them,

and I'm doing all of this to give you a deeper understanding of what I'm getting at when I talk about seasonal living or what I'm sure I'll be doing for the next forever episodes is harping on and on

about embracing the season.

I'm also going to expand it all

to pull your experience of the seasons

out of the world around you

and deeper into yourself to give you the perspective of understanding

your personal seasons. The work of understanding your personal seasons is actually work that I have been doing

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