Autumn sweeps in with harmony and balance to the body and spirit, and equal hours of daylight and night. As this date becomes a memory, we see the balance shift to more darkness and less light. It's not easy to watch our light go. How can we continue to find balance within as the darkness so slowly creeps in, taking a bit more light every day?
Perhaps we don't need to mourn the loss of light, but rather celebrate the light that remains, and the beings, energetic shifts, and plants that inhabit this time so beautifully. I'd like to embody this glow shifting to within, and not without, by dedicating a drop to our beloved mushies! Mushrooms symbolize good health, transformation, and fertility. I don't personally mean fertility as in reproduction (unless that's what you're seeking), but more like a healthy and nurtured headspace with plenty of openness and imagination, fertile ground for our best selves and for our dreams to take root. The mushies in my yard are thriving, and lately have looked so magickal glowing in the earlier setting sun among the golden yellow leaves. It's the mushies' golden hour right now. May we also feel strongly and powerfully that the light, though less, is not diminished. It's warm within and without. The light is perfectly angled to remember that no matter what, this present moment is our golden hour.
A portion of sales from The Golden Hour Drop are being donated to The Soil Association. The Soil Association works to transform the way we eat, farm, and care for our natural world.
Bowing to you,
Hayley