As the days grow shorter and the nights longer for all of you in the Northern Hemisphere, it heralds the time of the Autumn Equinox, which occurs on the 22nd of September. This is a time when life is contracting and getting ready for the winter months. Think of it as a period where you can recharge your batteries after the energy of Spring and Summer.
You may also like to think of it like this: it is a good time to slow down a bit and take some advice from the pattern of the seasons around you to do a bit of stocktaking on your own life. Look back over Spring/Summer and see if you were in a period of growth, enjoying the weather and not giving a second thought to what was coming next. Winter was a distant memory for you whilst you immersed yourself consciously or unconsciously in the abundance of growth all around you.
Now that you are looking towards Winter again with all that this brings for you, take note of how this makes you feel. Do you feel like beginning something new, bursting forth with enthusiasm, or do you feel as if you want to take some time off and rest up for a while, which in turn gives you time to take a look at what is really important to you as well as the time to come up with a new plan for the changes you wish to make in your life?
I know that winter is long for some of you, and as I am personally coming to the end of my winter months I am immensely looking forward to Spring when I have more daylight on my hands and more time to spend outdoors.
Listen quietly to your inner voice and hear what you are wanting to do next... not what someone else wants you to be doing or what you think you should be doing... think of what you want to do next. There is a subtle difference to that question and you may have realized just how much effort and energy you have been wasting on others and what they want of you. This may have taken the form of unbalance in your relationship, work, friendships, family or just simply an unbalance within yourself where you know you are not doing what you want or feeling at peace within yourself.
There are worse ways to spend the slowing down of the seasons than focusing on yourself --and who knows, you may emerge from this next seasonal period refreshed and recharged, ready for a brand-new you. I certainly hope so and you have several months to immerse yourself in this type of thinking. If nothing else, it sure beats the Winter blues! Also, be aware that in October we have two eclipses and Mercury retrograde to urge you to make changes, and these two things will force change upon and around you. There's a lot to be said for "going with the flow."
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