Altar | Autumn Equinox, waxing moon, the lessons of my year.
Beth –
This year
has been a strange one.
But now
the season is shifting.
Wind blowing in the trees. Windows open, cool and dark. Awakening. Autumn calls.
What have you learned this year?
What will you take with you now, on this new journey of decay, of furling back inwards?
What will you compost
as the darkness creeps slowly in
and the full moon shines a new and silvery light
over everything you know?
Embodiment
Your body knows the answers.
Your body remembers the answers.
You have been gifted many tools this year. Use them
The Empress, from the Pagan Otherworlds Tarot.
Slowness
Make space
for the answers to arrive.
Practice feeling Not Urgent
Honour your internal rhythms.
Clear Welsh quartz, formed over millennia, over generations, in the belly of this land.
Desire
Total honesty
about what you desire.
Honour, own and celebrate your wishes, hopes, dreams.
Centre this desire
in all choices.
The Daughter of Wands, from Thea’s Tarot by Ruth West.
Consciousness
Everything is connected.
Join the dots and keep unpacking the puzzle of capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy
and the ways you are complicit.
Question and Challenge.
Full Moon Potion, witchcrafted by Sarah Gottesdiener and Dori Midnight
On this autumn equinox, my personal new year, my most precious moment of reflection, I commit to these learnings. I commit to digging deeper, to exploring further, to finding my way towards truly integrating this budding wisdom.
I’m a 30-something writer, artist, tarot reader, and perpetual explorer of the space between thought, feeling, and action.
I believe that spirituality and ritual are for everybody. I’m about the journey, in all of its messy, non-linear, chaotic iterations. I am excited by anticapitalist business and living with my whole entire self present. I use tarot cards to bring forth hidden truth, and ritual to affirm my commitment, over and over, to my ever-shifting path.
