MELODY VAUGHAN
Every solstice, equinox and cross-quarter day I offer reflection prompts and an essay that try to capture the seasonal shift that is happening in our world and reminds you to take a pause and consider how you are feeling within yourself, your practice and within the wider ecosystem of your community and the collective.
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A time when we traverse through spring towards summer. It’s a time of emergence and rapid growth; there is such a palpable sense that we are headed for the brightness of summer – the warmth and light feel a bit more reliable, we can dare to trust in the season
Beginnings, new growth visible after months of seeds germinating inside the darkness. Maybe you are feeling it too, the tug at something inside, up and outwards, the energy emerging like sap rising in the trees.
This is the time when we experience rapid change as the days grow longer and things are beginning to grow again.
And yet, it is not Spring. We are still in winter, where most of the work is continuing underground and unseen within plants and animals.This is a time
This is the time when the sun is at its lowest in the sky and only graces us with its presence for a handful of hours. A time when nature calls us to look within and embrace the gentle slowness of the season. We are truly in it now, this
It is a time of change, a time when we move between worlds – of light/dark, abundance/scarcity, living/dead. It is said that at this time there is a thinning of the veil between our material world and the spirit world. This porosity invites us to commune with those things that
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
We’ve reached the mid point between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox, a time that traditionally marked the first harvest and a celebration of the earth’s bounty. Summer is still in full swing, during the day it is warm and bright, and yet we have begun our journey towards
We have travelled through space back to this point when the sun is at its highest and the days are longest, full of bright potential. Nature is bountiful with colour and nourishment, we are gathering in and appreciating all the growth of previous months.
A time when we traverse from spring towards summer. It’s a time of emergence and rapid growth, the air full of insects and birdsong. There is such a palpable sense that we are headed for the brightness of summer – the warmth and light feel a bit more reliable, we
Equinox – the time of equal day and equal night – a moment of balance, and the threshold into spring and a new astronomical year. Beginnings, new growth visible after months of seeds germinating inside the darkness.
We’ve reached another point in the year – winter Solstice – which held such significance for our ancestors, and which offers us a chance to reflect within the context of this seasonal change.
Samhain traditionally marks the shift from the light half of the year into the dark. All around us, in nature, things are dying back, are being composted into material that supports the new growth in Spring. Vital processes which cannot be rushed, which give all life the quiet, slow time
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