The energy of Fall honors the year’s promise of renewal as it quickens and propels us into expanded ways to live and relate. It is harvest time in this very creative year. In the center this season’s harvest is a rapid swirl of change that encourages balance and unity.
Fresh starts are getting underway and carry an ongoing continuum of potential. In these first weeks of Fall, life offers reminders that emotional intelligence is the path, not the pathology Be gentle and honest and allow time for your precious nervous system to rest. Come often to a sanctuary of kindness, care and space.
Autumn continues to offer ripe opportunities for balance and increasing your capacity for presence. More pieces are fitting into place to reveal a bigger picture in personal ventures and in the larger field of life. There is now more space for life’s sacred reordering to pick up speed. It is natural to sometimes feel unsteady in the heat of change. As you relax the need to know and the tendency to control according to mental constraints, balance increases.
This season, focus plays a strong role. A deeper, inspired kind of focus — one that encompasses mental attention but is not limited by or to it — can be important in the coming months and years. This fuller focus calls for engaging the heart. When you lead with your heart, you pop out of self-agenda and historical self-protective stances into the unified heart of humanity and a moment-to-moment revelation of what it means to truly be alive.
Each fresh moment bursts with catalytic aliveness, naturally drawing us forward. Unclear conditions may be part of this as life unfolds. Can you let feeling and listening be your pilgrimage? Can you let presence be your guide? The invitation on offer is to trust life’s movement and relax your ideas about how you think things should be. For this season reminds us that the journey is not about getting from here to there, but about being fully Here. So take up the challenge and discover the magic that emerges in “present-time” relationship with life.
It is all here, the entirety of creation’s mandala dancing in a parade of mystery. This new season, gracing us on the Autumnal Equinox with an equal balance of day and night, is a season of opportunities, balanced leaps of faith and heart-oriented awareness. It’s a time to collectively celebrate our harvests and every person’s right to this. It’s a time for our collective voice to welcome the many faces of life; to embrace the profound ordinariness of miracle aliveness. Be it as hearts or stars, life is forever new. Can you invite this wildly open freshness in?
Photo by Michael Bednarek
