Sunday in Autumn

Autumn brings her beautiful multicolored coat to nature and presents it as an offering to help us all adjust to the colder temperatures and the impending winter tide. In the brilliance of an afternoon in fall we can feel the silence in the translucent light that makes everything look golden, soft and sleepy.  I experience the beautiful feeling of a giant inward sigh followed by a relaxing of all the muscles in my body responding to the idea that it is ok to slow down and pause, to let the season have it's way with me and move inward towards the light inside my soul. Experiencing the light within is my favorite way to spend an afternoon in Autumn, to explore the nature of thought vs. feeling and to notice the sense of growth that has found it's fruition in my mind and heart.  I am grateful for this time of year to feel the bounty in my life and the ripening of my experience.  I find that while as a metaphysician I am often in solitude it seems even more so during the fall.....a calling of sorts to a silence within to a noticing of larger and longer pauses in my day where I am day dreaming.....listening to what the season wants to tell me about my life and what I have learned and what more there is to work on.  The Autumn tide is the beautiful maturity of summer that is offering all the cornucopia of fruits and vegetables to us as so much sustenance to the body and enjoyment to the soul carrying us into the cold and dark of winter.  I am especially thankful for the figs hanging on my tree that are holding the sunshine of summer and all the golden glow of that season in it's small blackish brown skin and internal light colored flesh with flecks of pink.  I so enjoy the burst of flavor each one produces in my mouth when I take a bite.  The sweetness is warm and satisfying to the palate, like no other fruit that is ripe at this time of year!! As we enjoy the apples, pumpkins, squash and walnuts that are falling from the trees and begin the journey towards a darker time and more internal activities may we give thanks to the season that prepared us. And as we slow down and notice our own rhythms in sync with the earlier nights and shorter days I hope you all enjoy a moment to sit with a cup of tea in the afternoon musing about the wonderful summer days enjoyed and the prospect of joyous times ahead in the winter where we can celebrate and enjoy friends and family in the closeness of our homes and warming ourselves by the hearth or fire pit.  Harvest is here lets all celebrate and remember the beauty that nature has brought us through the summer!!  Hail Autumn in all your splendor!!

Autumn Blessings,
AnnKathleen
Divine Inspiration