Mutable

Sep 16

Summer to fall. Nearing the Autumnal Equinox and the harvest. Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur. Beginning of the school year and the end of fun, probably forever.

Okay, not really forever but it feels like it! And I love fall. I mean, I LOOOOVE fall. What witch doesn’t? And I STILL feel this way. So maybe you feel this way too.

The change of season, especially into a mutable sign like Virgo forces us to be adaptable, flexible, and versatile. We’re nearing (cosmically) the halfway point in the year (as the zodiac calendar goes from March-March) but lately, I’m having trouble thinking of time in such large terms. The beginning of fall feels so drastically different than the beginning of spring, so it doesn’t feel halfway to anything. It just feels like change and disruption. Today, on Yom Kippur, I want to try to think of the year not as March to March, or January to January but as fragmented seasons where the pieces are all worthy of attention in different ways. This slight shift in perspective has allowed me to embrace the changes I’m feeling with a little more nuance in order to make the adjustment feel less difficult. Hopefully, by guiding the fluctuation in this way, I can in a sense, take management over the inevitable transition.

So how the hell do I do that?

Somedays I’m not sure, but what I’m trying to do is follow the cues from the Earth. She doesn’t just shift overnight into Fall, she waffles back and forth with the weather; some days are still scorchers but the trend is heading to chillier moments. The leaves are just about to start getting crunchier and I can definitely feel my body wanting to shed too. So I took action where I could and chopped off my hair (reminder that my sun is in Aries)!

I make sure I’m kind with myself when I need to burn through the day and even kinder when I want to retreat under the covers. I hope to see the positive changes this time brings and allow those to rise to the surface. The balance will reset in Libra season and then before you know it, it’s just a blink, rinky-tink into 2022.

<3 Reb