Autumn Equinox

Today is in celebration of Earth and all she bares to share with us, to honor Demeter and The Muses, Green Man and Hermes.

As the Spring Equinox is a breathe into sleeping spirits and hibernating life, the Fall Equinox is a time of preparation for the cooler months to come. To give thanks for the harvests of the Earth and recognize the need to share and secure the blessings of the Goddess and God during the months known as Winter. To observe and participate in felicitating the cycle of birth, life, death and re-birth.

Autumn often brings a sense of sadness for me, perhaps it is simply the increasingly over-cast skies and my beloved tree's and flowers beginning their own unique cycle. It may be my psyche preparing for knowledge that my body will be forced inside more and more in the coming months or it could be something completely different. Luckily, the impact doesn't last long as Halloween soon approaches (which I seem to enjoy more than the kids these days) and I settle into the loving warmth that is snuggling on the couch under the blankets while it snows and cooking soups and drinking tea's, surrounded by loved ones and four-legged, furry tailed black kittens.

I welcome with open arms the cycles of Mother Earth and feel tears swell in my heart and eyes in my love for Her. My personal blessings are many and I can hardly give thanks for them without acknowledging Her first. I have great hope for the protection, prosperity, security, and health of those in need or harms ways. And wish of harmony and balance for all of us.

Blessed Be.