ELEMENT: METAL
Harvest, gathering, clearing, preparation, stockpiling, maturation, balance, abundance, nostalgia, completion, activation, melancholy, discipline, bounty, preservation
- balance of inward and outward
- collect reserves and prepare for winter
- reignite discipline to be ready for cold times ahead
- fresh surge of energy to observe and use all we’ve harvested during sunny seasons
- finish up things before year is complete
Practices
- gratitude of harvest
- what have you finalized in last six months that deserves celebration?
- make altar to say thanks
- gratitude lists
- stockpiling and preservation
- gather materials, supplies, notes
- last chance to pull from outward world
- remember to regulate
- make a pilgrimage
- spiritual recharging spots - somewhere to inspire and realign you (e.g. Joshua Tree)
- reflect on growth / nostalgia
- what is something you’ve consistently sacrificed thru your life, and why do you do this?
- think as far back to first memory - write as much detail
- set timer for 10m and make a quick timeline of your life - what shows up?
- what is time?
- connect with color
- do certain colors bring comfort? nostalgia?
- take note of tins and tones that draw you in - name them, describe, explore them
- reflect on death
- melancholy
- lure and lore beyond the veil
- is death an ending or beginning
- clearing
- any rituals, ideas to document or burn or store
- closure
- any final projects that you know you can finish before the end of autumn
- preparing to finish outward offerings so we can wholly turn inward