Autumn’s End

Now that we're in the last two weeks of autumn, it's time to bring full awareness to the shifting of the season's energy. In less than two weeks, we will meet the still darkness of the year's longest night, and the old year will pass away, making room for the birth of the new one.¹

To be most skillful about that shift in energy, it is necessary to consciously make space for that shift to occur.

Here in autumn's last weeks, it is time to slow way down. It's time to complete our preparations for winter. Now we put our tools away, for our work this year is almost done. As we do so, we reflect: this is the year that was.

Between now and the solstice, my focus here will be on reflection. I will put my tools down to make space for the rest and rebirth that comes with winter.

¹ I'm speaking energetically, of course. Obviously, the energetic new year--the solstice--and the calendrical one don't match up.