Autumn equinox – what to preserve and what to release?
For a handful of days we sit in a kind of balance – where the daylight hours are equal to the night-time ones before we begin our journey back into the darkness. For our ancestors it held multiple significances – as a period of the second harvest, when the final crops were gathered, and as the closing of the cycle of the Celtic wheel of the year (Samhain being the start of the next cycle). It’s a time of seasonal shift that feels very tangible, as the leaves begin to change colour and the weather nudges us towards cooler days.