The Magic of the Autumn Equinox by Danu Forest

Author:Danu Forest [Forest, Danu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Magic of the Autumn Equinox
ISBN: 9781780288659
Publisher: Watkins Media Ltd
Published: 2015-07-28T23:00:00+00:00

An Autumn Equinox stellar meditation: Honouring the fall of summer

In this meditation you can honour the descent and surrender of the earth goddess at this time, and discover the season’s resonance in your own soul’s journey as you prepare to give yourself to the winter ahead. You may wish to look for the Pleiades in the night sky if you live in the northern hemisphere, but it isn’t essential. It is possible to tune into these stellar energies wherever you are in the world.

Sitting comfortably, close your eyes and take three deep breaths. Let your eyes gently relax behind your closed lids, and allow your imagination to sink into the darkness. Let your breathing deepen and slow naturally, then expand your awareness to imagine that you are walking on a soft earthen path, along the ridge of a high, narrow hill. It is dusk. On either side there is an open expanse of sky – to your left the sun is setting and the sky is brilliant with golden, peachy light, darkening to purples and blues to your right where the stars are beginning to rise.

The ridge becomes narrower and narrower until there is only the path itself, just wide enough for you to walk along. Ahead of you the summit opens up to the sky and glimmers with silver light. The hillside drops away all around, deep green in the gathering dusk.

As you approach, you hear a faint choral singing, the wavering tones of female voices upon the wind. And as your draw nearer you see seven women ranged around the summit. They are impossibly tall, and seem to shimmer and flicker with flashes of silver light. You draw nearer still and you see they surround an eighth woman, lying upon the ground. She is wrapped in a mantle of earth and leaves and green grasses, and her eyes are closed. As you look upon her you feel a deep grief.

Each of the women flickers in your vision and grows taller still, as though they have become silver flames. Each carries something: one holds an apple; another, a sheaf of wheat; a third, a baby of golden light; the fourth, a chalice; another holds a great lit candle; another a sickle; and the seventh holds a wheel. These are the seven sisters, priestesses of the earth goddess. As you study the things they hold, they imprint themselves on your inner vision, although their meaning may be a mystery. You know that these sisters are beings of great power and wisdom.

Finally, you turn you attention to the woman upon the ground. Like them, she is tall and beautiful, but she lies so still. She breathes deeply and slowly, a smile upon her face. ‘She is sleeping,’ says one of the sisters, ‘but she will wake again in time.’

You turn to look at the sister who has spoken. She is the one with the apple in her hand, which she raises up to catch the last rays of the summer sun, lighting up the sky in all its glory behind her.

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