The Descent into Self

Remembering and Reclaiming your Cyclical Nature as Autumn Beckons | A returning to your Wisdom Within

The seasonal wheel continues to turn, it’s never rushed or dragged, but moves at her pace, her rhythm, her original setting.

The hot intense heat waves are behind us as we stand midway between the peak of Summer and the depths of Winter. A moment of equilibrium, balance and magic!

The longer nights await, as they sleep for now, until we join them. They do not anticipate our arrival, nor do they actively ignore its inevitability.

The ever moving wheel of the year is accepted by our land, our skies and our waters. Living for whatever day it is today. Never judging the ever evolving landscape of our seasons.

The Autumn Equinox falls at 01:04AM on Wednesday 23rd September. And I don’t want to give a dictation on how to honour, or witness or celebrate this passing portal of potential opportunity.

I don’t know what my Celtic ancestors did thousands of years ago, I know it was significant and rocks were laid to line up with the sun at these pinnacle yearly moments, but I do not know how they gathered, what they sung, what they ate or how they moved on this day.

I know, or have understood, once Christianity was introduced to this land, giving thanks became a tradition as the end of the harvest season approached. I know that feasting and praying became the norm, with your family and community. And the closest full moon to this date is called the Harvest Full Moon.

Why do I feel an urge to connect to our change in season and mark this moment? Maybe it’s because when I look at our planet, our Earth, out of the window or as I walk the dogs, I am still in awe of its ease of change. How natural it seems for the trees to let go of their leaves, to stand still and rest as Winter begins to ebb. How natural it seems for flowers to shed their petals, to furl and take heed as it becomes milder.

The colour pallets of our outdoor world shift, along with the temperature and the focus. And it’s not just the plants, the wild animals begin to store food, gain weight or even prepare to migrate. The birds still sing loudly at sunrise, but it becomes later and later, following their sunlight clock.

If everything in the natural world is so intrinsically connected to this descent into Winter, surely we are too? Particularly as a person who has a womb, or has had, because that means we always move in cyclical seasons.

The autumn equinox can be seen as that liminal point between ovulation and menstruation, and as the waning moon, heading away from illumination.

Over the last several years I’ve been enjoying the witnessing of these transitions more and more, allowing me to remember how tethered I am to our Mother Earth and her cyclical life.

For me, Autumn is a returning home to myself. A journey back within after a highly energised expression of life, joy, creativity and freedom, over the Summer. And each year I consciously allow my cyclical body to spiral back into herself. No rush, no pulling back. But, an allowing.

I don’t need to manage this journey, I don’t need to think my way through it. Instead, it is more simple, my body knows far better than my thinking brain does, the brain that complicates and justifies in response to having been trained by the external and manmade world to keep pushing, keep producing, keep sustaining high energy output, no matter what.

However, I spent so many years, decades even, living from “without” myself, I have had to figure out how to move back into my home, my body, my heart, my womb, the central hub of the natural cycles of life, so I can live from within.

Autumn equinox is the cushioning for the landing back down from wherever we flew on our high! Preparing us for rest and recuperation of our energy, creativity and joy for life over the winter months.

I have spent a long time studying the benefits of returning to this natural truth that resides in all people with a womb, or all who have had. And the biggest one that repeats again and again out of many mouths, out of many books and many articles, but most importantly out of my heart again and again, is that for when we return home to who we are as cyclical beings, we return home to our magic, our deepest wisdom within, our power in this world, this lifetime.

I know within you there will be an answer as to whether you should also mark the moment and how you might want to do that. I invite you to join me in doing so, but more importantly I invite you to listen to your inner guide, more than me, more than anyone in fact.

If you would like to honour and celebrate in community join me for a one off gathering for the Autumn Equinox under the Harvest Full Moon on Saturday 26th September if you too feel the call to return to your wisdom within. More info here. To book here.

If you’re feeling like you’d benefit from a longer journey home to yourself, I am opening the portal for our 6 week returning, as we lead up to our Winter Solstice, later in the season. We gather each week to meditate, share, move our bodies, relax and enjoy sound healing. This, my sister, is the launch of my WOMB YOGA circles.

As I type these words, my eyes are filling full of tears, my whole body knows, holding this type of space is also me returning home too. It’s why I’ve spent several years training in various modalities in the first place, why I’ve been cutting my teeth running here there and everywhere to teach and hold space for yoga, meditation, circles and sound, and why I am here on our Earth at this time.

Now is the time to return home to yourself. I invite you into my weekly 90 minute Circles for a maximum of 10 people. I invite you to hear your body, your intuition, and to know yourself better than you ever have. To heal, to find balance, and to ignite your fire for whatever it is you are here for my sister.

I can’t wait to welcome you into this sacred space, we begin in November, still in the energy of the Scorpio New Moon and during Mercury retrograde, this timing could not be more delicious for a returning home to your deep self, truth and magic.

For more info click here. And on the evening of Tuesday 22nd, as we approach our Autumn Equinox that night, signing up for this journey will be (a)live! You can set a reminder or watch out for an email that evening.

So much love my intuitive cyclical sister,

Siân xx