7h • 5. Autumn
🌗 Autumn Reflection | The Descent
I've just shared this week's reflection with my email community and wanted to bring it here too.
I'd love to know whether it resonates with you.
As you read, notice what comes up. Have you experienced your own "descent" recently? 🌗 (IYKYK.)
Was it through your body, your relationships, your work, or simply a feeling that something within you was asking to be let go?
I'd love to hear your reflections below. ❤️
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My husband knows....
"Are you feeling wistful?" and whilst he says it with a cheeky grin on his face, he wraps his arms around me, because he knows.
Yep, it's the descent. That time when Inner Autumn energy intensifies, drawing us inward, to journey closer to ourselves.
The time in between the full Summer sun and the depths of Winter. The transition from light to dark. Where letting go is a gift, which also feels like a curse. And where we meet ourselves at the edge of what was and what will become.
Because letting go rarely feels graceful when we're in it. It's messy, it's raw, it's painful, and it can really feel like losing ourselves. And yet really, we're only losing the parts of ourselves that we've outgrown.
For us women, this is the luteal stage in the monthly cycle. Where oestrogen dominance is superseded by progesterone. Where the body prepares for its shedding of the uterus lining.
In plain English, it's what we commonly refer to as our pre-menstrual phase.
This relates also to Peri-Menopause.
The time where we journey through all of that on a much wider scale. The microcosm of that short Inner Autumn season becomes a fully lived life experience that can last for many years.
I often refer to this time as the "WTF! Phase." 😳
But jokes aside, Inner Autumn isn't just about PMS, as it's widely viewed by society. It's so much more. It's an energetic shift.
It's not just about losing hormones, it's about losing certainty. Outdated ways of coping. Identities that no longer fit. It's about our relationship with ourselves, our bodies and our lives beginning to change.
That's huge.
Whilst we're here in the height of Summer, this Inner Autumn - the third quarter moon - reflects something important that we can observe and work with:
Summer expands - Autumn contracts.
Summer says go - Autumn says come home.
Summer gathers experiences - Autumn gathers wisdom.
Summer expresses - Autumn discerns.
And this isn't just about women.
Everyone experiences Autumn.
Our relationships have Autumn.
Our businesses have Autumn.
The days have Autumn.
The years have Autumn.
Our lives have Autumn.
So if we relate that to our experience - our body, our health, our relationships, our work and our lives - we can find ourselves struggling and suffering because we meet the resistance of trying to continue living as though it's still Summer.
Still saying yes.
Still producing.
Still performing.
Still burning ourselves to the ground.
It's like trying to harvest in Winter.
This is the pattern. Push through until you literally can't anymore, then you stop because you have to.
The body whispers for a long time before it finally has to shout.
That's not a healthy Summer or a healthy Winter. Which is why spending time in Autumn is so necessary.
We can't bypass it.
Just the same as we shouldn't wish Peri-Menopause away.
It's here for us.
When we understand how to work with it, we can begin moving with it instead of against it.
So how have I been navigating my own Inner Autumn?
By shedding a lot of tears today.
By leaning into the a-void-ance.
By feeling all the feelings I've been telling myself not to feel.
It's been messy and uncomfortable. I've gained panda eyes and a snotty nose, but I've also gained movement, insight and clarity.
To transform into someone greater. Not by holding on to who we were or trying to become them again, but by allowing ourselves to let go, so we can become curious about who we are becoming.
Because sometimes the descent isn't taking us backwards at all.
It's simply leading us back into relationship with our own inner knowing.
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