Adjusting to inner autumn ~ what to protect?
On the land many plants are now ‘going to seed’ and with it comes our cue to start slowing down and journeying inward. This cycle must come to an end but within the seed, new life is forming and waits hidden within.
Just as the plants focus and channel energy into the protection to the seed (each seed entirely unique to them), we too can use this time to focus on what we are choosing to carry and protect within ourselves as we move into the darker months.
The process of going to seed counsels us to start conserving and protecting our energy so that we can walk through autumn carrying only what is aligned and essential to our path.
Now is a time to gather in, store and protect what we want to breathe new energy and life into through the next year. If we’re carrying something we don’t want or need, now is the optimum time to start letting it go.
Once the inessential is released, the seed of a new something, more essential to who we are and where we are going, has space to form within the dark of the coming months.
To tune into inner and outer autumn, an invitation to head out to gather some seeds from the land around you and ponder what this time is asking of you as you go. Here are some prompts:
What is going to seed in my life?
What is essential for me to hold close through autumn, into the dark?
What nourishment do these things need?
Do I need to let go of anything for this to be possible?
You could dry and store your seeds somewhere special as a reminder of your commitment to what is ‘going to seed’. Protect the seeds in an envelope and write notes on it about what you holding with you through autumn into winter. Keep them somewhere dark, cool and protected.
With the beginning of the next cycle, you could scatter them on the land as a commitment to breathing new life into all that that you have so lovingly held close throughout the darker months.
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