Autumn’s Metal season
It is this phase within the yearly cycle which provides us with that most precious and rarefied gift, the air we breathe. As we reach Autumn, we can ask ourselves what this season brings to the cycle of life which helps us understand this phase and life itself.
Once the harvest through Late Summer has been gathered, what then? If all is not to go to waste, some further product must emerge from the activities of the phases that have gone before, else all the work will become meaningless.
autumn’s invitations
Explore integrating breath-work into your daily life. Deep breathing helps to strengthen and nourish your lungs.
Eat foods that support both your intestines and lungs by eating warm and well-cooked meals. White foods, such as cauliflower, mushrooms, and white beans, are especially beneficial for the lungs.
Follow the natural rhythms as nature is slowing down and so should you be. Good sleep is important and consider practices like yin yoga, and meditation.
Just as the trees let go of their leaves, consider what you are carrying around and if you want to take these forward with you. This may be physical clutter in your home or something on a deeper level.
As the days shorten further, we start to move away from the light that spring and summer moved us, back towards the shorter days as Autumn starts to spread itself upon the land. This is actually the most vivid of all seasons, bringing its splendour to flare up briefly before the falling.
The lines nature is drawing are clearer now than in summer, the bareness of Autumn begins revealing spaces, the spaces between the branches, each plant, as all things start to separate out again, making clear distinctions.
Autumn is no active season. It does not do, but takes in, accepting now that all that has been is past and made relevant or discarded as a thing of no further value except for what it has already yielded.
