Changing Seasons
Aug. 16th, 2009 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosOne of the reasons I consider myself a "Bad Pagan" is that I've never paid a whole lot of attention to the seasonal cycles in nature nor to the seasonal celebrations. They just don't resonate with me.
The one exception is the turning from summer to autumn.
This is one of my favorite times of the year. I've always ascribed it to having spent so many happy years in school, including years of graduate school. This always feels like New Year to me: the start of new things, especially new learning. As the summer heat wanes and the air grows cooler, I feel new energy.
Over the past few years it's also been feeling like deepening time. I'm accustomed to seeing other people write about 'planting' in the spring and growth in summer; for me, the time of new growth, of bringing to maturity, begins when I start to move toward the cave in autumn. I'm sure this tendency is being intensified by my Underworld work. It may be that my autumnal orientation is part of my overall nature that's found its home on the underworld path.
My vigil next week is part of this deepening energy. The timing feels so very right.
Do your practices shift in autumn?
The one exception is the turning from summer to autumn.
This is one of my favorite times of the year. I've always ascribed it to having spent so many happy years in school, including years of graduate school. This always feels like New Year to me: the start of new things, especially new learning. As the summer heat wanes and the air grows cooler, I feel new energy.
Over the past few years it's also been feeling like deepening time. I'm accustomed to seeing other people write about 'planting' in the spring and growth in summer; for me, the time of new growth, of bringing to maturity, begins when I start to move toward the cave in autumn. I'm sure this tendency is being intensified by my Underworld work. It may be that my autumnal orientation is part of my overall nature that's found its home on the underworld path.
My vigil next week is part of this deepening energy. The timing feels so very right.
Do your practices shift in autumn?
