I don’t know about you, but my mind is saying “yay spring” while my body is saying, “absolutely not.”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed myself feeling more tired than usual. Not just physically tired, but mentally exhausted and slightly overwhelmed in a way that felt hard to explain. At first, I thought maybe it was allergies, then maybe too much socializing, then maybe the pressure of trying to get my closets turned over for spring/summer. But the more I sat with it, the more I realized that Spring itself creates a very specific kind of energetic pressure that I don’t hear spoken about often, if at all.
Because Spring is not just a season. It’s visibility and expansion after months of Winter contraction, and suddenly everything starts demanding our attention all at once.
And with the added energy of the Fire Horse year, there is even more activation around movement, visibility, momentum and doing. It can feel exciting at first after coming out of the dark and cold Winter, but it can also become very dysregulating, very quickly.
Our social calendars start filling up and as the weather gets nicer, we feel guilty staying home. It’s textbook FoMo. Windows are opened and suddenly our apartments feel cluttered. Spring cleaning is promoted everywhere. Urgh.
At the same time, many of us are also navigating much bigger transitions such as career changes, divorce, motherhood, empty nesting, new relationships, reinvention and new versions of ourselves trying to emerge. So while our minds are excited by the idea of Spring, another part of us is quietly sitting there thinking, “man, this is a lot.”
Most people think they’re tired because they need more motivation, more discipline or a better strategy, but what I often see through Feng Shui is that the environment is no longer supporting the season of life they are stepping into.
Winter allows us to hide a little more, while Spring reveals things. It reveals clutter, stagnation, what no longer fits and what we’ve outgrown. Sometimes it reveals just how overstimulated and overextended we’ve actually become.
I can always tell when this shift starts happening because suddenly we get the urge to clean, purge, open windows, move furniture and change things around. We think we are just “Spring cleaning,” but what we are often really looking for is relief – space, air, movement. Something to make us feel better.
Our environments either help hold us through these transitions or sneakily add more cacophony to an already overwhelmed system.
And I think this is especially important for powerful women because we tend to put enormous pressure on ourselves normally, but even more during seasons of expansion and transition. We think we should be energized by Spring and be productive and social. We try to hold the fort down, keep our sh*%t together, all while trying to step into the next level of our lives. Then we wonder why we suddenly feel exhausted while everything around us looks shiny and full of possibility.
So maybe your exhaustion is not a sign that something is wrong with you. Maybe it’s a sign that your environments, schedules and lives are asking for a different kind of support as you move into a new season.
Before you force yourself into another productivity spiral this spring, take a look around your environment and ask yourself a different question:
Does my environment actually support the person I am becoming right now?
Because Feng Shui is not just about making things look pretty. Feng Shui is about creating environments that support your energy, your clarity and your life. And sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is not push harder, but create an environment that finally allows your shoulders to untense, your nervous system to exhale and allow yourself to simply sit by that open window without guilt.
