Autumn Equinox

CAST LIST:
ME = the day-to-day me, the one who shops, works and pays her bills.
MYSELF = is that point of consciousness outside of me, my personality if you like, that takes a more objective view of my life.
I = my link with spirit which comes on the heels of meditation, or in the throes of a meditative state when I am on the computer.
(For more explanation read 'Me, myself and I' in this collection.)
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ME: Autumn is in the air and in the skies. The sun is fading and it feels as if a long dark winter is around the corner. What joy is there in this? What light at the end of the tunnel?

I: This time of year is always difficult as you move towards the autumn you find that the tasks that you have not done press and push to be completed before the winter sets in. If you work with the seasons you complete your sowing and your growing in the spring and the summer and you relax and review in the darkness of the winter, re-build your strength and shed the old to make way for the new. There is a natural rhythm to life and if you cooperate that is where the natural rise and fall will come. Forcing actions and momentum ahead of their time can be counter productive, although sometimes the practicalities of life demand this.

MYSELF: I cannot just flow with the spiritual timetable, output has to be consistent than that and people look to new avenues of growth in the autumn when the sun goes in and leaves the longer winter evenings where studying is so much easier.

I: We are not saying leave the work when the momentum is high, but consider where in the seasons you are when the momentum is low. Making life hard is not just about changing actions but changing your attitude of mind to encompass the time of year. If you are getting lots of people feeling burdened at the moment, be aware that this is partly the time of year when the feeling of being burden is highest. When there is a sense of no light at the end of the tunnel, because darkness is increasing and light is decreasing. Not everything can be changed by the individual alone ' the force of nature, change and renewal are too strong, as they should be. Cooperation does not mean failure or weakness, it means strength of purpose, connection and alignment and that is where the joy comes. If you swim with the current you go further, faster and with less effort.

Remember the individual does not stand alone, they are affected by the karma of the planet, the affect of the tragedies and conflicts knows no physical boundaries, they move like clouds across the horizon from country to country, and person to person. However, it is though the meditation and prayers and light that these clouds get dispersed and the rain of despair gets transformed into the light of compassion and tolerance. So when you least feel like lighting a candle and sending the light, that is the time it is most needed. There is little point in lighting a candle on a sunny day, but to light one on a cloudy day is a symbol of hope and belief.

Nothing attracts attention like the belief and hope that shines forth from an individual.

MYSELF: Or derision, or ridicule.

I: That is attention is it not? It creates communication, and lifts people out of isolation and into relationship with another human being, albeit negative.