Change is inevitable. Oftentimes a change happens suddenly, faster than external circumstances or your physiology can catch up with. That’s when you enter the transition phase, a state of liminality that accompanies a change. An identity shift accompanies any transition, and during most transitions there is a liminal phase, where the old identity no longer fully exists in its old form in solidity, and the new identity has yet to be formed.

Today is Setsubun in Japan, the seasonal divide where we cross the threshold of winter and begin our ascent into spring. It is a time for alignment.