Honoring the shifting seasons allows us to receive the full medicine of change and creates room for prosperity as we detach from what no longer serves us when we are willing to transform alongside the earth.
During the fall the winter cools, the trees shed their leaves and nature prepares and starts to practice rest. Falling leaves remind us to shed the old to make way for the new. Autumn is about allowing the world to move forward in a continual progression and embracing the way our lives move forward and change.
The arrival of autumn signals the beginning of the annual season cycle. Autumn signifies the onset of the transition period from the warm and clear summer to that of the cold and dark winter. And while days used to be longer in summer with the sun rising at an earlier time in the morning and setting at a much later hour in the evening, autumn has equal hour lengths of days and nights.
Autumn is the most colorful part of the year when leaves turn from green to orange and red and cover the ground with beautiful hues.
For many people, autumn symbolizes change. Like the falling leaves from the trees, life must take a new course by shedding off the old to usher in the new.
Autumn is an ideal time for people to honor themselves by letting go of the past and welcoming the present. A lot of people attest that ritual practices do help in imbibing renewal of oneself. Positive minded individuals believe these to be helpful affirmations that improve the quality of life.
• Putting up yellow, gold, red and other autumn colors as added trimmings around the house. • Setting up a lit candle on a table while the house lights are off. Meditation follows. • Baking of a whole wheat bread and feasting on nuts, squash, corn or any produce fresh from the harvest. • Listing down one’s harvests and counting the good things that came along in the past whole year. • Saying a prayer of thanks after meditation. The candlelight is put off as one gets ready to retire for the day with a happy spirit.
Autumn leaves falling on the ground remind people about the virtue of letting go. The only thing that is permanent in this life is change. The colors of fall
will fade and be replaced by the bleak tone of chilly winter. Be that as it may, the world is always ready to welcome the changes and cycles of the season because these are the principles on which life basically rests.
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