Happy Equinox balancing!
What an incredible day for the equinox. I was lucky to watch the sunrise at a locally-aligned spiritual site and the moon set the other side. Rather sublime. The tide was super high too for a beautiful swim at Saints. Days like this I feel especially blessed.
I felt blessed too on Monday hours before the peak of the full moon (12.55am Tuesday morning) wandering around faerie paths lit by the brightness of the harvest moon. Nature really did help the farmers with their night time harvesting on this moon and goodness knows what they might have seen. There’s magic on this land, it comes alive at night. I even managed a naked moon dance, which I’ve been meaning to do all summer but it just never aligned.
Alignment is the word though for this time. Everything in and on it’s line. Equal duration of day and night. Like a seesaw held stable, before it tips one way more than the other. There’s fun in that though, I watched the boys on the seesaw at the park the other day, their jubilant faces said it all really! You’ve just got to let go into it.
it’s definitely a time of letting go. Look at nature. She lets go so beautifully. I love watching the leaves fall from the trees, they all do it so differently. We’ve got to wait for the wind, then we’ll be in for a treat, But meantime I’m enjoying this stillness and brightness, it’s a real vata time is the only thing, very ungrounding and drying for some.
Balance, balance, always a good reminder, not getting stuck into a mindset or perspective one way or the other. Being open minded, allowing for change. I was talking a lot about the nature of suffering at the weekend and how the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali lists change as the main source of suffering…is not wanting to accept reality as it is. There’s a wonderful quote on that:
“Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem.” – Stephen Cope
It’s an interesting quote, highlighting how we do create our own suffering. Covid has really highlighted this. People separating themselves into one camp or the other, and creating suffering in the process. Live and let live. That came through on the moon too. As well as noticing patterns that no longer serve. The manipulator came up for me, so interesting to see what we do to manipulate things and get attention. It’s often a pattern laid in childhood, so subtle that we don’t recognise it, until we do and then we have to be careful not to reject it or give ourselves a hard time for it.
This brings us back to balance again, in our relationship to ourself as much as anything else, embracing all aspects of self, even those that we don’t like. This of course the lesson in non dualistic thinking and constantly separating and fragmenting ourselves. There’s this whole ‘love and light’ bridge (of which I have played a role i the past) that focus only on the love and light and reject everything else. This means they are also constantly rejecting a part of themselves. We all have the capacity to rage and anger. We all have the capacity to kill too. We have to learn to love and embrace all aspects of self, even those darker bits! It’s all good.
Anyway, that’s enough for today, enjoy the wane and the shift down into the darkness again - who knows what we might find, and where we might be at the next equinox in spring time.
Love Emma x
