The Transformative Energy of Autumn
embrace the richness of your best self
Chilly days turn leaves
To brilliant color on every tree.
Deep breath brings the shifting warmth of light
As life embraces every joyful turn
Of leaf dance and sunbeam expression.
As the sun shifts in the sky and roots settle into the Earth, the energy of Autumn moves forward from the energy of Summer.
The unleashing of Summer has laid the groundwork for the emergence of Autumn’s harvest.
Sun and moon are moving toward a balance which supports the transformative energy of Autumn: Embrace.
How do I Embrace my Best Self?
To Embrace: In resonance with all levels body, mind, heart, and soul, heart opens to accept the richness of life’s experience.
Within the seasonal energy of Autumn, the motion of an open heart is in the embrace of the fullness of life.
To embrace is to be awake to the bounty contained within both challenge and possibility.
To embrace is to be open and accepting of self, releasing self-judgment and self-blame.
Within the energy of Autumn is the opportunity to see that the shadows are rich and the yet unknown and unseen filled with treasure beyond imagination.
Embracing the totality of existence opens life to the unexpected and the unknown. Embracing the bounty deepens the harvest brought forward by the season and grown through the cycles of life.
Present to the miracle brought through seasoned awareness, the embrace within Autumn is rich and full of empowered experience of life lived in balance with your depth, value, and truth.
For the harvest to be bountiful, the body and the soul find alignment through the fullness of the cycles of the season.
The Transformative Energy of the Autumn Equinox
The energetic motion into Autumn happens at the equinox where day equals night.
This motion of balance is the perfect foundation to harness the embracing of Autumn to transform into the deeper expressions of your Best Self.
Autumn energy is in the embrace, in the inner willingness to see, to feel, to understand that all flow moves life forward. Judgment pushes away. Blame turns attention to what was. Shame attempts to cover up intrinsic value and inherent beauty.
However, in Autumn, the deepest energetic motion comes from embracing personal truth and self-love. No longer willing to hide or run, life is embraced in fullness and in the possibility of now.
Life is good and in the embrace is the bountiful harvest of all experience.
Autumn Equinox energy allows the energy of soul to be gathered so that presence is illuminated by the willingness to accept the divine flow of our amazing world.
Autumn is soul radiance fully open and fully present to the river of life feeding its channels and tributaries with warmth and joy.
As in all cycles, Autumn has its beginning and also contributes to the full cycle of all seasons.
How do I Embrace My Best Self in Autumn?
As Autumn begins, this is the question to ask:
Within the bounty of Autumn,
What do I embrace as my truth and my path?
Think of the richness which emerges from the Earth.
This is a richness born from the dreams of Winter and refined through the claims of Spring.
Summer’s warmth unleashes growth and expansion beyond imagination.
There is a joy, a thrill, a peace which comes in the embrace of your truth.
This embrace is both continuation and new step as life progresses and shines within the light shift of Autumn.
The Gifts of Autumn
In Autumn, the gifts of the winter soil are richly present, enhanced by Spring wind and Summer sun.
In Autumn, the soul embodies the call of Winter’s dream begun in that active stillness.
Soul has also felt the foundation of claim, opening heart and mind to the joy and urge of release.
Life has experienced the unleashing boundaries and expectations which limit and restrict full expression in the lift of the season’s cycles.
As Autumn progresses, in balance, you are ready to begin when Winter’s dream comes once again.
Embrace the fullness, alpha and omega.
An eternal life cycle as Soul transcends.
Embrace the new wholeness of body, mind, heart, and soul.
The energy within you is a willingness to unleash the best of who you are and can become.
When does Autumn Begin?
In the southern hemisphere, Autumn begins at the exact time when the sun, moving from south to north, passes the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator. Each year this moment differs in its time and will generally occur around March 20th or 21st.
In the northern hemisphere, when the sun is in the reverse motion of going from north to south, Autumn occurs at the equinox around September 20th or 21st.
And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.
Raquel Franco
Entering Autumn: Questions for Alignment
To align with the energy of Autumn, here are several questions to ask yourself (or in your Akashic Records).
Ask them at the beginning of Autumn to help focus and begin to move into the possible streams of transformation.
Also, about midway through, contemplate this question set again to track your motion, observe inner shift, and understand how self-awareness transforms with the season and the flow of your life.
1. How does my walk-through life miss my deepest flow?
2. What stands in my way to being open to the energy of Autumn?
3. What claims for myself can I embrace to understand my life’s journey?
4. What do I embrace to improve my ability to hear and respond to my soul’s deepest journey?
5. How does my Best Self embrace the richness of Autumn?
6. What hinders my ability to embrace the richness of life?
7. What will move me toward Winter with grace and ease?
8. Within the bounty of this season, what do I embrace as my truth and my path?