Month Of Spring < 2025 >

This serves as a beautiful metaphor for our personal lives. Winter is often a time for introspection and planning. Spring is the time to act. Whether it is starting a new fitness routine, launching a creative project, or mending relationships, the energy of the season supports growth. If you have been waiting for a "sign" to begin, the blooming trees outside your window are it.

No month has been more ambivalently portrayed. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) opens: “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land.” Eliot inverts Chaucer’s “Aprille with his shoures soote” (The Canterbury Tales), revealing spring’s cruelty: it forces memory and desire upon those who preferred winter’s numbness. In Japanese haiku tradition (Bashō, Issa), April rain is harusame —a soft, melancholic drizzle that blurs boundaries between self and world. Biologically, April’s high pollen counts (birch, oak, grass) induce allergic rhinitis, a physiological analogue to the “spring fever” restlessness documented in psychiatric literature (increased mania admissions in April, according to a 2021 Journal of Affective Disorders study). month of spring