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Autumn is traditionally related to transformation
and death, as in the English expression “to go west” (to die). It is the season of sunset and hence of darkness.
Autumn identifies the
fall and completion of an old cycle.
It is the moment in which the world or the
environment that has been familiar to you, begins to fade away until it
eventually disappears.
The luminosity and heat of summer gradually dissolves
and gives way to the time of increasing darkness.
This is a most intense moment
of the yearly journey full of abundant blessings of transmutation.
Here you are confronted with the relentless emergence of your multidimensional nature,
ineluctably taking shape out of the ashes of your previous identification.
It is the opportunity to relinquish your decrepit clothes and welcome the novel garments made to measure your forthcoming
enterprises. Here you have the opportunity to release your previous conventional identification and step into an
advanced landscape.
The gap between the old and the new, the preceding and the
forthcoming singularity is the triumph of the void, the linking agent and the
golden bridge of the perception of unity.
To the belief systems based on
separation it appears as an area of daunting fright. Here the pristine
deception crudely exposes itself and a veil of dense obscurity is required in
order to preserve the hoary games.
As the vaults of heaven progressively
fluctuate into escalating shadiness, and the forms of nature seemingly die, a
spell of darkness and decease descends.
It is an initiatory death often known as the Way of the Spiritual Warrior,
or shamanic death.
This is an
obvious cause of trepidation for the customary ordinary ego identification
which tends to hold on to things because of its terror of what abides ahead.
By
cultivating introspection and connecting with your core multidimensional self, you can withdraw from the fears generated by the belief in separation and
gather the love and support which you need to advance along the path of
transformation.
Being aware of, and accepting, the strategy of initiatory
death, and the rebirth that follows as a natural development, makes it easier
to accelerate profound mutations without activating the fiction of suffering
pain or loss.
The leading challenge in autumn is to learn to die well to what
no longer serves and be open to receive what truly supports your true intention and purpose in life.
Relevant questions here are: “what is there in my
life that wants or needs to die? What ways of being in the world do not serve
my current Intent and all that I am discovering through my inner work? What
no longer serves me, my loving companions, the community where I live, the
planet and the universe?”
When you see the world solely through the perspective of your personal identity or the
culture you apparently belong to, you let the invention of your personal or
collective ego rule as the centre of the universe rather than allowing your core multidimensional self, and all it represents, to be at the centre.
This attitude may be
useful in the early years spent on this planet, in order to build boundaries
and a robust strategic ego structure. If such stage deteriorates into a
deification of your individuality, family, country, people, etc., as something
separate or identified with a physical form, then the entire significance of
the strategy is missed.
Autumn is a rather controversial zone which can cause
major confusion, if you lose track of your relationship with your true self and get
entangled in the splintered thought system of the personal or collective ego.
“The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from all, in
separation from the Infinite. In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor
over God Himself. And in its terrible autonomy it <sees> the Will of God
has been destroyed. It dreams of punishment, and trembles at the figures in its
dreams; its enemies, who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by
attacking them”.[1]
Your true purpose in life is served through the release of your forlorn
fidelity to pain and the readiness to probe other modalities of existing in the
universe.
You need to become aware of your role as channel and meeting place for
energies of multiple realities and worlds.
You need to comprehend that in each
single moment you have the opportunity to elect whether to support unity or
separation, and that this choice involves being aware of the nature of your conflicting thoughts.
"Resolving
conflict within ourselves is the beginning for the resolution of world
conflict. Maintaining the peaceful heart holds the space for peace on Earth.
Being present in the moment, focusing on love and resolution and the ways in
which we connect rather that how we are different is another aspect of
transformation. Being present means acknowledging whatever energy is being
experienced and then striving for resolution by calling forth balance. When
there is anger or disagreement, instead of focusing on the experience of
discord and maintaining rightness, put your energies into finding resolution
through mediating balance. Let the power of compassion fill you. Compassion
coupled with sincere desire for resolution will set up a resonant field that
enables the mind to perceive methods for resolution”.[2]
Autumn is a time of steady retraction where changes are experienced in the
nature of social relationships as well as in dreams, shamanic journeys and
connections with alternative worlds.
In order to receive something new and promote healing harmony, you are asked to relinquish what is old and no longer needed, what causes grievances and conflict. This is the blessing of this season.
[1] A Course in Miracles, Workbook, p. 467.
[2]
Mattie Davis-Wolfe; David Thomson, “Migration Moon”, p. 1-2, Walking the Sacred Wheel, Sacred Circles
Institute.
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