Fading into fullness in September.
honouring the thresholds and contrasts within my favourite month.
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“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar”. — Delia Owens.
Hi everyone
I hope you have all landed softly in September - I loved reading your reflections on how summer felt to you, the messiness of realistic rituals, the unexpected challenges of reading in motherhood and all of the heart-warming Shirley Hughes nostalgia!
Here we are in a month that always feels special to me, it has a both a muted elegance and an illuminating clarity — a timely lesson in noticing, holding and honouring the often many existing truths of our storied lives…
The fading alongside fullness, the falling and the flying, the gathering inwards and the clearing — it is here that I experience most strongly the schooling of September and this year I am placing my feet strongly on the earth in order to feel it all…
A September feeling.
September will always feel more like the new year to me than January — my birthday falls at the beginning of the month and so it really is the start of a brand new year in my book. Growing up, my birthday often coincided with the first day back at school after the slow-motion stretch of the summer holidays and I don’t think this feeling of turning a fresh new page will ever leave me. I find that Virgo season too, where both my Sun and Rising signs fall, always feels like coming home.
A time of thresholds.
As a month that signifies a seasonal shift, plus the mutable yet earthy energy of Virgo season, it seems inevitable that it is a time of thresholds for many of us.
A threshold is defined as any place or point of entering or beginning — it is a space rich with potential, dancing between one thing and another. Is anyone else feeling it?
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