Which Season Are You In? — Jo Bell Cummings

Which season are you in?

Come just as you are.
Open-hearted, curious and without expectation.

Question 1 of 8
When you imagine a day that belongs entirely to you — no one needing anything, no list to work through — what do you yearn for most?
Not what you think you should want. What you actually want.
Question 2 of 8
Which of these feels most true right now?
Take your time with each one before you choose.
Question 3 of 8
When you look at your life honestly — how much of it has been lived for others, and how much has been truly, deeply yours?
Question 4 of 8
What do you most need permission for right now?
Question 5 of 8
In nature right now, which scene feels most like you?
Not your favourite — the one that feels most like you in this moment.
Question 6 of 8
How would you describe the last few years of your life?
Question 7 of 8
What do you most wish someone truly understood about where you are right now?
Question 8 of 8
What do you most need right now — if you let yourself answer honestly?
This is just between you and this moment.
Your inner season
Winter
The Crone — the keeper of deep wisdom
REST · INWARD LISTENING · THE WISDOM OF THE DARK

Something has gone quiet in you.

Quiet in the way the earth goes quiet in Winter — not empty, but still. Gathering something beneath the surface that isn't ready to show itself just yet.

This is your inner Winter.

The Crone is the woman who is contained in her own inner knowing. She trusts herself completely. She lets herself rest — not because she has given up, but because she understands that the dark is where the deepest wisdom lives.

This is a time to soften. To lay down what has been carried too long. To listen inwardly and remember what truly matters.

As Winter unfolds, we are called inward into the quiet, into the dark womb of the unseen realms where we can rest, reflect, and be held by the sacred stillness like a cloak of stars. In this deep pause, we become receptive to the whispers of wisdom rising from within.

Winter is not asking you to fix anything. It is not a problem to be solved. It is a season to be entered — slowly, reverently, with trust.

The earth doesn't apologise for going still. She knows that what rests in the dark is what makes Spring possible. Winter is teaching you that rest is not the absence of productivity. It is the most nourishing thing a woman can do.

Your flower ally
Mugwort
A medicine of awakening. It quietens the noise of the outer world and opens the channel to your own inner knowing — the wisdom that can only be heard in stillness. For the woman who senses something important is trying to reach her, but the days are too full and too fast to hear it. Mugwort helps you trust what arrives in the quiet.
This evening, light a candle for your meal. Not as a ritual. Just as a small act of beauty that belongs entirely to you. Let it mark the moment. Let it acknowledge: this too matters.

Your full Winter guide is waiting — with deeper seasonal wisdom, the medicine of the Crone, and your flower ally for this threshold.

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Your inner season
Autumn
The Maga — the wise woman who has gathered her harvest
RELEASE · COMPLETION · THE GRACE OF LETTING GO

Something is complete. You can feel it, even if you haven't completely acknowledged it.

A relationship. A role. A version of yourself you have been carrying long past the point it still fits. Something that once held meaning and now feels like weight. You are not sure how to put it down — or whether you have permission to.

This is your inner Autumn.

The Maga is the woman who has gathered her harvest. She has lived, loved, given, built and tended. And now she is beginning to turn inward — to honour what has been, and to allow the graceful completion of what is ready to end.

She is holding on to things that are complete — relationships, roles, versions of herself, ways of being that have served her but are ready to be released. She confuses release with failure.

Autumn is teaching her that release is intelligence. That what falls away makes room for what is becoming.

Autumn is not loss. Look at what a leaf becomes at the moment it lets go — the most extraordinary colour of its life. The rose hip appears only after the rose has finished flowering. There is a beauty in completion that we miss entirely when we are too afraid to let something end.

Your flower ally
Olive
For the woman whose reserves have run low after a long season of giving. It doesn't push or force. It brings a slow, steady return of vitality — body and soul replenishing at their own pace. It is permission, finally, to stop carrying so much. And the quiet reassurance that you will come back to yourself.
Step outside today and watch something in the natural world that is changing. A tree losing its leaves. The light shifting earlier. Something completing itself without resistance. Just observe. You don't need to do anything with it, but simply recognise it.

Your full Autumn guide is waiting — with deeper seasonal wisdom, the medicine of the Maga, and your flower ally for this threshold.

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Your inner season
Spring
The Maiden — eternally new, eternally beginning
EMERGENCE · NEW BEGINNINGS · THE COURAGE TO UNFURL AND BLOSSOM

Something is stirring.

You can't quite name it yet. It's quieter than an idea and more insistent than a feeling. A pull toward something. A sense that something in you is ready to begin — even if you don't know what, even if you don't feel ready, even if the timing isn't perfect.

This is your inner Spring.

The Maiden carries the energy of promise. Of excitement. Of new beginnings pressing up through the dark toward the light.

She is the part of you that is creative, expressive, curious and alive. The part that wants to play, to unfurl, to discover what happens when you say yes to what's calling you. She is not only for young women — she lives in every woman, at every age, whenever something new is wanting to come through.

She is the part of you that is still becoming. And she is beautiful.

Spring doesn't ask you to have it figured out. It asks for one thing only — that you begin. With curiosity. With openness. With the willingness to be in the unfolding without knowing where it leads.

The first bud does not decide whether to open. It simply does — because that is its nature. There is something in you that is exactly like that.

Your flower ally
Star Jasmine
Lifts what has grown heavy. Brings a lightness back into the body — a quality of aliveness that can get buried under years of obligation and putting yourself last. For the woman beginning to sense something new wanting to come through her, Star Jasmine creates the inner space for it to arrive. Clarity. Upliftment. The quiet joy of coming back to yourself.
Bring flowers inside today. Put them somewhere you will see them. Let them be the only thing in your day that exists purely for beauty.

Your full Spring guide is waiting — with deeper seasonal wisdom, the medicine of the Maiden, and your flower ally for this threshold.

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Your inner season
Summer
The Mother — the woman in her fullness and creative power
EXPRESSION · VISIBILITY · THE FULLNESS OF LIFE

There is something in you that is ready to be seen.

Not the managed version of you. Not the one who keeps everything running and makes it look easy. The real one — the one with opinions and desires and something particular to offer that no one else can offer in quite the same way.

This is your inner Summer.

The Mother is the woman in her fullness and her creative power. This is not only about raising children — it is about the season of tending, creating, holding, feeding, guiding, and giving so much of oneself to others. Many women mother in countless ways. And in doing so, they so often lose themselves.

You may be afraid of your own power.

Perhaps you've learned to make yourself smaller than you are.

Or put yourself last on your own list — for so long that you have forgotten what it feels like to come first.

Summer is asking you to stand in your full radiance. To be seen, to express, to live from the fullness of who you actually are. Not performing. Not proving. Simply being, entirely, what you are.

The plants teach us this: they do not flower and fruit endlessly without drawing nourishment from the Earth. They root down. They receive. They rest. They live in rhythm. And so must you.

Your flower ally
Sunflower
A medicine of radiance. Not the performing, proving kind — the quiet, warm, natural kind that comes from simply being yourself without apology. For the woman who has been holding back from being fully seen, Sunflower supports her in standing in her own light. Joy. Presence. The simple courage of taking up your space.
Tomorrow morning, find a moment to stand in the sunshine. Face toward it. Feel the warmth of the Sun's rays upon your skin. And allow yourself to simply be.

Your full Summer guide is waiting — with deeper seasonal wisdom, the medicine of the Mother, and your flower ally for this threshold.

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Much love, Jo xx