In the Chinese calendar, Lunar New Year marks the energetic beginning of Spring. It signals the return of rising movement, vision, and direction.

But in classical Chinese Medicine, Spring does not begin with force. It begins beneath the surface. Wood stirs quietly while there is still cold in the air.

In this episode, Hana K'Koa explores Winter as the cocoon between identities, the necessary season of consolidation before emergence. We examine why internal transformation, yin, gives birth to external expansion, yang, and why rushing growth often leads to depletion.

If you feel like you are in between, not who you were and not yet who you are becoming, this episode offers orientation.

To study the Five Elements in a deeper, embodied way, enrollment for the Five Element Oracle Apprenticeship is now open. Learn more and apply at: https://www.thebalancedwomansystem.com/five-element-oracle