For me, Autumn is far less about the dying away, and far more about the stocking up. Granted, the leaves beyond my window are turning, shades of yellow and brown creeping in amongst the greens. It’s late this year, but then, so was the spring.
...PaganSquare
PaganSquare is a community blog space where Pagans can discuss topics relevant to the life and spiritual practice of all Pagans.
Subscribe to this list via RSS
Blog posts tagged in wheel of the year
There is no place in a regular wheel of the year where it makes sense to talk about going back, returning, backtracking or heading the wrong way. The cycle of the year does of course bring us round the same seasons, reliably, but there is always a sense of moving forward. Turning, not returning. Time as we experience it only flows one way. However, there are many ways in which we can go back.
...
Recent comment in this post
-
Show all comments
-
This is poetic and evocative, Nimue; thank you. Here in Phoenix, AZ we are out of touch with the "natural" changing of the seasons
I hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Lughnasadh. I hope that you are harvesting all that you can manage and just enough to share.
Here in the mystical MidAtlantic, there are lots of jokes about sneaking onto our neighbors' porches to leave bags of zucchini; we can all get overwhelmed this time of year by what our gardens produce. I want to remind everyone in that (enviable) situation that most food closets and soup kitchens will gladly take extra produce -- they're masters at turning out soups and casseroles filled with your extra produce. It's not so much a sacrifice as a way of sharing, a way of continuing and reviving the gift culture that may, one day, supplement, if not replace, capitalism.
...In your standard Pagan wheel of the year arrangement, harvest happens in the autumn. We tend to celebrate it at the autumn equinox, when many regular Pagan teachings encourage you to reflect on wider ideas of harvest in your own life. However, if you grow soft fruit or salad vegetables, the odds are that you’ve been harvesting since some time in June.
...
Recent comment in this post
-
Show all comments
-
Thank you for your words on harvest and harvesting - it is indeed a lovely thought to think of the mini cycles of planting and har
and sometimes I think we don't talk enough.
Quandary.
...
Recent Comments
-
Show all comments
-
It's a tribute to the health of these spiritual systems that we can change and move--I only wish we didn't leave so much behind. -
I should perhaps also note that I'm writing from a Scandinavian perspective. I think the movements have changed in their own ways -
Well said. When I first started on my path almost a decade ago, I remember that eclecticism was the Big Thing. In the forums I fre
...
Recent Comments
-
Show all comments
-
I do follow the wheel of the year and I think that has helped, but I still find it to be a difficult time. For instance, I am alre
-
Oh, it hasn't cured ALL my issues, Jeanine. Just helped my depression. I still struggle with the winter cold and darkness--for one -
Exactly! I have CFS and it makes that worse. So, it's not just me. I always thought that was the weirdest thing, that that would g
-
I had CFS for 16 years (the fibro is what's left). You have my heartfelt sympathy! *hugs*
-
Awww! Thanks!! (((hugs)))
In the little corner of the world where I exist, on the small 13 acre plot I call home, it is quiet. The hurly-burly of 'the shopping season' is far away from us, and that is something for which I'm very thankful. By-the-by, 'hurly-burly' is one of my favorite words picked up from reading Homer. At our place, this is not a time of holiday shopping, frenzied consumerism disguised as 'needing to stretch my money further'. Our families know that if we give any gifts at all that they were made by our hand. No, this is a time for something much different..
