Equinox, Endings and Energy

As I look towards the calendar on the wall and gaze outside at the trees, I’m noticing a few of their leaves are starting to take on a crisp, golden colour as my mind is moving slowly but surely towards the autumnal season of the year.

Autumn means a lot of things to different people. Some folk are quite apprehensive about the impending shorter days and longer nights. Some folks are concerned about the symbolic meaning of the ‘letting go’ of this season. These are both “unstoppable” but very necessary for future growth.
It’s quite exciting to see what you can look back on this year and see what you’ve achieved and making some wonderful plans to sow the seeds in this year’s ground ready for next year’s harvest.

In Reiki and the Chinese medicine system Autumn represents the element of metal. Let’s choose a very strong metal suited to autumn, Gold.

Gold is a perfect colour for autumn…it’s heavy, and yet soft at the same time. It evokes strength, positive energy, feelings of prosperity and stability. This is not only good for looking back on our bounty of this year’s harvest but also planting in abundance of our seeds for next year to start the life cycle again.

So wearing gold, or visually gold “in or around” our treatment areas is very favourable at this time to take us into the qi of autumn. The metal element also governs our lungs and large intestine areas of our bodies.

As the season of autumn comes in so does the cold and flu season. It’s imperative to keep ourselves healthy ready for the winter ahead with regular ‘breath’ work such as meditation and physical movement to keep our lungs clear and chest muscles strong.

Autumn emotionally is all about “letting go” so make sure your our large intestine is working at maximum capacity by stepping up our gut health regime. Nourishing our bodies correctly with foods energised with reiki to help calm the transit is the way to go. Stocking up on good foods such as apples, squashes, sauerkraut, pumpkins, potatoes, pomegranate, and spring greens are all beneficial.

The chakra we should be paying attention to is the sacral chakra Svadhisthana, with autumn being the colours of gold going into orange to deep darker hues on this spectrum, these warmer colours that feed our more creative, emotional and pleasure driven sides. As autumn is all about balance too, it is imperative that we look after this gateway chakra to allow perfect flow of Reiki energy through our bodies. Once you have given yourself a self treatment then give yourself a further gift of an extra 5-10mins on the sacral chakra. This will do you the world of good.

For those of you who love to work with colour therapy then the colours to surround yourself with this season are the more richer/vibrant colours…it’s all about pure ‘energy’ this year so the bolder and brighter the better, rather than duller ‘muted’ hues…go for shades in golds, yellows, oranges, also metallic greens and the gorgeous French navy and blue midnight steels.

Crystal therapists should Reiki cleanse and opt for stones/gems of Carnelian, Citrine, Jasper, Amber and the ever lovely and powerfully grounding Smoky Quartz. These will not only work well in our homes especially in our business/treatment centres but also have a lovely feeling of being placed on our sacral chakra.

The aromatherapy oil lovers and practitioners among us should head towards the more wonderful food based smells to really help invigorate our bodies. Scents of ginger, orange, cinnamon bark blended with the absolutely stunning cedarwood is perfect for massage. These can really invoke our thoughts and feelings if you diffuse these in a living room/kitchen too.

The flower/plant lovers among us would find it soothing to work with the likes of Dahlias, African Daisies, Calla Lily, Japanese Anemone, Mums, Aster, Pansies and of course there’s Chrysanthemum which celebrate the autumnal season of “letting go” beautifully.

For us nature based lovers of yesteryear the autumn or Mabon as it is known is a magical time of gratitude from what we have received from the earth and universal energy. This year not only should we be thankful for the ‘tangible’ harvest but also the reiki practice we have been taught and use to bring us such abundance and achievements of this harvest in all areas of our lives.

The nature life cycle comes to an end this season and I hope that your year was an amazing one.

Should you feel that you need that any area your life needs to go in a certain direction that couldn’t be fulfilled this year’s cycle then don’t despair as you’ll be able to thank the universe for the harvest this year and to sow the seeds of manifesting ready for the winter to prepare, the spring to sprout, the summer to bloom again for the life you will get next year.

The equinox is about “balance” and we need to do so to make these changes. It all starts with you…your thought process, your intentions, your practice and actions.

As the wheel of the year turns from Mabon/Autumn Equinox to Samhain/Halloween our nature’s end of/beginning of the new year you should turn your thoughts to what seeds you can sow in this ‘second spring’ of ours. Manifest your dreams now, look after your body as we welcome in a chance to recharge, conserve your energy ready for your re-emergence next year. The nature’s new year of Samhain is all about death and rebirth. It’s now time to put your dreams into action.

I wish you all a wonderful, Mabon/Autumn Equinox filled with love, light and blessings.If you feel you still need help in this area then try a mindful meditation or one of the meditations given by one of our UKRF webinar teachers.

I recently attended a sublime chakra clearing meditation hosted by the wonderful Amit Sihra. It was a very calming and rejuvenating experience to help cleanse and clear our chakras that can work amazingly alongside our regular Reiki self treatments.

As we move further on and deeper into the months beyond summer we have our first days of Lammas where we can observe the seasons first baking and breaking of bread for the upcoming thanksgiving to nature, to celebrate the natural cycle of seed to harvest. Freshly baked bread and a good quality honey is always a welcome treat at this time.

Summer will be an ideal time to do what you can to truly reinvigorate yourself and your senses by using the sun’s energy. As an added treat we can feast our eyes on the night skies with the solar flares causing some amazing northern lights that will be very exciting to see between now and mid 2025.

So what are we waiting for, let’s carpe diem and make this autumntime worthwhile and to create some of our best memories yet.