AUTUMN EQUINOX, THE DARKNESS IS CLOSE

I'm ready, I've been waiting for it for so long... The equinox marks a before and after, the smell of the air is different. The nights begin to be cool, wet and silent, the dawns are lazy, slow and give me a horizon that seems to burn before my eyes. Sun accompanies me a little less each day, he is older, I feel him decaying, the earth is calling him. The old king no longer has the strength to reach the highest point above my head. His light is whiter, brighter, but less ardent, he no longer has the fire of youth. He knows that his time is running out, he feels himself dying, and yet he does not give up, because he knows that it is part of the cycle, he knows that his death is part of life, and that once again he will be reborn with more strength. Moon, his eternal lover, is watching him die, she accompanies him and takes care of him so that his death will be a rebirth. She is more present, more alive, and her light shines on the frozen fields every night. It's harvest time, and what does it matter if your harvest is big or small? It is yours, it is your effort, it is your dreams come true. So celebrate it! Mabon invites us to be grateful, to enjoy and to take refuge in calm and intimacy. A hot cup of tea, a book in my hands, an apple pie baking in the kitchen while the warmth of home embraces us, the scent of cinnamon sticks dancing around me and those views through the window.... The forest is changing, taking refuge in itself, preparing to rest, the leaves begin to lose their greenness to give way to the colours of fire, until one day they separate from the tree that was their home. They return to the earth, they rest forming a beautiful and crunchy carpet that makes me smile at every step. This is where I want to be, here I will find my peace and once again I approach the end of another cycle as the dark ages call me. Wild and nice Equinox, Blessed Mabon!