Yogis,
It’s official. Fall
is here. The calendar clearly notes the
transition, but we don’t need a calendar to feel it. It’s been coming and showing us its signs for
some time.
As we finish dinner it is now dark outside. The melody of the summer birds has been
replaced with the caw of the crows and blackbirds. The hum of the cicadas, although still
present, has been harmonized with a new note as the crickets have joined the
chorus. The squirrels mouths stained by
the black walnuts give them a cartoonish look.
Leaves are tinged with color, the
gusts of wind hint at the cool air to come and the lush carpet of grass has
become a minefield of acorns under my bare feet. Oh…….and of course, football.
Fall. The last of the
seasons. A time of endings.
We are now up to Day 21 of “A September to Remember”, a
program I have offered via email this month with a community of 50. I chose to do this to guide me to live each
day of September exactly as it is. To
bring more focus and awareness to this time of transition in the hopes of
helping me deepen my acceptance of a season in which I tend to struggle.
As the Universe typically does, at the right moment it
brought a book to me that I am know reading named “Energy Medicine” by Donna
Eden. This week I flipped to a back
section to see what I would find, and what I turned to was a writing on autumn
(thank you Universe!). Similar to my
path and teachings on the 5 elements, this section was devoted to the 5
Rhythms, a Chinese system which describes our world as “passing from season to
season in a natural unending season of life.”
That our individual energies are most closely tied to one of the elements/seasons
or sometimes a combination. There are
the 4 seasons we know and a 5th that is the late/Indian summer time
of transition.
Autumn.
Endings. Here is what Eden says
about the energy of fall:
Autumn’s rhythm embodies the peace of completion. The meaning found in attainment and the faith
that dying to the old makes way for the new.
This rhythm garners the meaning of a cycle coming to an end allowing us
to evaluate what was and was not useful, eliminating all that was not
valuable. An urge toward perfection,
autumn people see what needs to happen, are concerned with the higher good and
are inspiring to others. As the last
season, autumn carries a sadness and those who vibrate here carry a sympathy
for the world’s grief. From this affinity
with sadness grows kindness and honesty.
They have an urgency to find meaning and serenity in what has been, for
theirs is the final cycle. The season of
dying.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross notes that that the best way to
prepare for our own eventual dying is to consciously meet these “little deaths”
throughout life. Each autumn is an
opportunity to view the lessons of a cycle that is ending. Each autumn trains you for all of the autumns
yet to come.
Autumn. The waning
moon. The sunset. Old age.
All endings.
Rather than depress me, this offers me a clearer view into
the soul of the season. It provides
meaning to the sadness I feel as the days shorten and the nights grow
colder. As a summer I live for the peaks,
the coming down a challenge for me. But
as I move through the new opportunity that this fall offers, with each moment
different than any other I have every had….I plan to try to find the dance to
its rhythm.
Falling for fall,
SARAH
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