Energetically - Spring & Autumn are my favourite seasons. Both gift us with very clear unmistakable vibrations and ancient messages. The powerful pull at these times connect us with our relationship to the environment around us and our path, our purpose in life. They are dynamic seasons which have a powerful effect on almost everyone. For me, the months of March & September signify the feeling of “anything is possible” - they are big months of change, when the seasons transition. September’s transition is from Summer to Autumn. On Tuesday 22nd September we celebrate the Autumn Equinox a brilliant Pagan festival, when the sun crosses the Earth's equator from North to South, this only happens twice a year and I passionately celebrate all the Pagan festivals! I have been known to wear white and walk into the ocean and float flowers on the sea under the soft glow of the moon as the women do in South America to celebrate this time by offering gifts to the great Goddess, mother nature, who, at this time is beginning her decent from Earth into the deeper depths of the underworld. This is a purging, cleaning time when it’s good to decide what we want from life and what we don’t! The equinox marks the time when daylight and night time are approximately the same length, there is a spiritual shift and you can totally feel it. When day and night are at their most equal, the feeling is tangible... I am already working with that powerful balance today (1st September) The smell of Autumn is in the air and there is something reassuring and very persuasive about that. September, like March, always has that effect on me – “A call to action”. After the year we have all been through, lockdown, unprecedented upheaval, juggling all our emotions, loss, work/business issues, out of work, family, finances, loss of identity, and experiencing fear in every area over our present & future, balance is something we all need right now.
It might be reassuring to think about it this way. Remember, how as a child/teenager/student/parent, your year began in September with the return to school after the long summer break? (Admittedly - 2020’s break has gone on for a long, long time!) You felt excited, it was seen as a time of organisation, of preparing for the future, a time of a higher level of organisation, decluttering, full on business, timetables, time management, the urge/need to "learn something/do something new". I love the back to school, new academic year vibe... Everything about it is a prompt for letting go for change, for renewal. The activity in the fields is busy, the farmers are flying around country lanes (sometimes scarily) in their tractors, busy sorting out the fields, harvesting and getting ready to sow their winter crops. It's a dynamic season which has a powerful effect on almost everyone. Back to school, back to work, back to reality, back to what we want, back to whats really important... Covid is not going to take away whats important to us. Now more than ever we will have a real sense of what that is, what is really important, what really matters to us. We can use this natural time to let go, to cleanse, purge, declutter and decide what we want from life and what we don't. There is so much about 2020 that we need to let go of, so much fear and pain, however there is also much to be thankful for and there is so much to plan for. Nothing stays the same in nature, therefore we can hardly expect ourselves to be the same month after month, year after year. I hope the world will have matured and grown after this year of Covid. I hope we will seek new ways of caring, of kindness, with different goals in place to move forward with integrity. We cannot stop or turn back the clock; we need the constant flux & flow so we don’t stagnate, but we can learn. When the flow is vibrant, healthy and in balance, we move forward in a beautiful way and the world becomes quite literally, an amazing place. Happy September x