Yin Earth Rabbit Moon 2025 3.5.25

Night Gardeners session

Topics for this moon

yin earth rabbit moon (2/28-3/28) t=34 da zhuang great strength, s=4 meng immaturity
3. insects stir (3/5-3/19) h: 34 da zhuang great strength
4. spring equinox (3/20-4/3) mystery gate: 51 zhen thunder, h: 34 transitioning to 43 guai lurch

art by adam oehlers

Young yang is still not in control - immature, its peak is also its decline, the spring equinox (march 20th), though the next peak, the summer solstice, will be its true peak and true decline. As always.

Yang is on the move/ascent. Like a young boy (prince), that energy is running but may not have a sense of oncoming traffic or even where it's going or why, other than "i need/have to!"

Gathering sun essence during insects stir & spring equinox:
Wake at dawn and on a sunny day, go outside and face the rising sun's direction preferably in a quiet place. Soften your eyes and do not look directly into the sun. Dawn will progressively get earlier, though around 6:30 am is a good bet. Breathe soft and even, imagine holding the sun in your hands. Pick the sun from the sky and bring to your lower belly/navel. Imagine or visualize the warmth rotating between your hands and entering into your belly. Stay relaxed and "inhale" the sun's qi into you for 5-10 minutes. Maintain one-pointed focus on this act as if it is the most important thing you could be doing. To finish, bring palms inward to rest on lower abdomen. As you do this imagine the warmth and light being stored inside you (not dispersing). Hold this final resting position for at least a minute.

Continue stimulating/brushing your scalp these days.

In the second moon of spring, we honor and call on the earth gods, the chthonic ones, the dead and the ancestors from below, in a complementary way as we did the sky/heaven beings in the first moon. The Earth is the seat of prosperity, abundance and the true promise of summer, yang and leadership: will the food grow? Will we have enough resources for next winter?