The Great Mother & the end of summer

Wisdom with a trigger warning (🤍)

Good morning, my lovely.

I hope you slept well and are feeling so much lighter now that pesky Mercury Retrograde is off your table for the next three months (hip hip hooray)!

This week - cue gasps - I saw my first orange leaf and, I’m not going to lie, I baulked. But then the world was back to glorious sunshine again. Which one is it, September? Here I am today wondering whether to wear shorts or a Halloween jumper.

Are we really about to welcome the Crone goddess this early? 🍂

As the days grow shorter and the air sharpens its point, we know autumn - that time of transition - has fixed its gaze on us. Samhain, the end and beginning of the Pagan year, is currently just 61 days away after all! For many of us, the upcoming autumn equinox (22nd September) is a time to turn inward, to reflect on the year that has passed, and to honour the cycles of death and rebirth.

Which means turning away from the Mother Goddess.