The Equinox Portal = Digital Alchemy

Just like the land, social media can have seasons too.

Here in Glastonbury, we celebrate the Wheel of the Year, honouring the changing seasons and their natural rhythms. Living in a community that marks these shifts together, I feel the energy of each turning point even more so, and I have begun to mirror that in how I move through life, my work, and even my relationship with social media.

Today, as the Spring Equinox arrives, the sun is shining, and I will be heading up to the Chalice Well to meditate with friends and bless the incoming season. Honouring this is as a moment of balance, a return of the light as we step forward into longer, brighter days.

It is a threshold, a portal into a new cycle, and this year feels stronger than ever! And as a good friend said to me last week, when isn’t astrology and the seasons stronger than ever these days?!

It makes me think about how this mirrors our digital lives.

We live in a world where social media runs 24/7, with no natural stopping points. Unlike nature, which cycles through growth, harvest, and rest, the online world never pauses. We have trained ourselves to keep up with the machines, especially in regard to social media, rather than allowing space for our own creative ebb and flow.

Just like the land, we too need seasons. Seasons of creativity, seasons of rest, seasons of growth, and seasons of integration.

Social media has seasons too and for years, I’ve worked with seasons as a concept in social media—looking at how broadcast channels offer seasons and series of content, and how we as individuals have our own personal creative rhythms.

In my own work and with my clients, I’ve been practising seasonal social media more intentionally, mapping out intentional cycles of visibility, engagement, and rest (and not necessarily in alignment with the seasons of the land where we find ourselves but our own personal seasons.)

Spring – Where we plant seeds, gather ideas, and create content behind the scenes.

Summer – A time of visibility, where we grow our platforms, launch offerings, and build momentum.

Autumn - A season of harvesting—nurturing the audience we’ve built, reflecting, and integrating.

Winter – A fallow period of rest, repurposing, and refining before the cycle begins again.

So many people fear stepping away from social media. They worry that if they stop posting, they will become irrelevant, the algorithm will punish them, and their audience will forget them. But this anxiety is a product of digital culture—not natural rhythms.

Even the biggest platforms take seasonal breaks. I work for The Common at Glastonbury Festival, and the festival has a fallow period—a year off to pause, integrate, and renew, both for the land and the production teams. In fact next year will be our fallow year for the festival. I believe this is true for our social media, too.

We are not meant to be “on” all the time.

The fear that “if I stop posting, people will forget me” is not true. Your work doesn’t disappear. When we move with intention and alignment, the energy we put out has a lasting resonance.

Creating some digital alchemy this equinox is a perfect moment to reset, to clear out the old, make space, and step forward with more clarity. A digital spring clean of sorts.

You could unfollow accounts or Mute some accounts that drain you rather than nourish you.

Unsubscribe from emails, notifications and other digital hooks that pull you in the wrong direction.

Archive old content that no longer aligns and start afresh on your Grid for a new season.

By clearing space, we create room for what we truly want to cultivate in this next season with this Equinox Digital Alchemy…

If you feel the call to realign your digital world, here’s a a few simple ways to bring more intentionality, clarity, presence and more of your essence into your online life.

Digital Spring Clean

Choose one digital space (your inbox, social media feeds, or desktop) and declutter it.

Ask: What am I still holding onto that no longer resonates?

Release with gratitude. Make space for what’s next.

Intentional Creation

Instead of consuming, create. Change up you grid, or your colour scheme. Write, post, or share something new.

Ask: What do I want to share in this season?

Let your work be a reflection of your inner world, rather than an echo of external noise.

Sacred Pause

Take intentional offline time—a walk without your phone, a moment of stillness, an unplugged evening in front of the fire listening to the trees instead of staring at screens.

Ask: What do I hear in the silence? What is ready to emerge?

Honour this space as fertile soil for new insights, ideas, and clarity.

Stepping Into the Portal

We do not have to be online 24/7 to grow our presence.

We do not have to create just for the algorithm.

We can move differently.

A lot of what I share, I am beginning to produce into many different formats, from articles to workshops to audiograms and carousels, as I have weaved into this for you. We don’t have to keep reinventing ourselves to stay relevant.

The work we are meant to bring into the world has an energetic imprint. It can be repurposed and scheduled to support us through our different seasons. I’ve done this for lots of clients to help them take time away from social media. One of my best case studies for this was when I helped Rebecca Campbell take maternity leave around the birth of her daughter. We prepped, planned and scheduled a season of content for her audience, while she had time off.

The biggest shift we can make is trusting our own rhythm too. Some people resist scheduling or repurposing content because they feel they need to post in the moment to be authentic.

But I believe this mindset can actually pull us out of deeper presence in our lives.

Are we posting with intention—or just grabbing attention? Or Dopamine?

If we take time to create in alignment with our own seasons, I believe that we can move through digital spaces with more ease, grace, and sovereignty.

After a year-long winter in my offerings and business, a new season for me is emerging. Over the past year, I stepped back, taking space for personal family priorities and allowing space for new ideas to root and take form.

I’ve been weaving together years of work in digital wellbeing, creativity, and intentional social media use, gathering threads from my books, courses, and workshops into something deeper, something more aligned with where I am now. And now, as we step through this Equinox portal, I feel called to share the first whispers of what’s coming next, as I work with some digital alchemy of my own.

Stepping through this Equinox portal, and introducing Digital Mystery School: Navigate the Net. A digital empowerment journey, with courses that are Quests, designed and created, to help you navigate the online world with intention, balance, and purpose. Where you can learn from my experience and insights in creating, sharing, and engaging mindfully with digital content, while protecting your energy in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

I’ll be sharing more soon, but for now, on this powerful day, i invite you to tune in and ask yourself…

What social media season are you in?
What is asking to be released?
What seeds are you sowing, ready to bloom in your online world?

I hope to see you in this next cycle!