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Take yourself, in your imagination, to a high plateau or hilltop with wide open land around you, facing east with the sun low in the sky at your back.Feel the Earth beneath your feet, maybe rooted in the soil, connected to the Earth. Sense the heavens expanding all around you. You can't see the sun, but you can feel the late-summer rays warming your back and your neck. You feel such comforting and relaxing warmth from the late afternoon sun.If you close your eyes, you allow the sun to caress you and you feel the reassurance of its reliability, its enchantment and generosity. Let your memory wander over the summer that we are leaving. The planting and harvesting, watering plants, children in paddling pools, deckchairs, sun cream, thirst quenched. Beaches or kite flying, swimming, times too hot to sleep. fun family times, the stuck-indoors-working-when-you-want-to be-outside times. Walking across dried earth in harvested fields. Resting in a garden feeling the sun on your face, the buzz of insects, warm breezes, the lushness of green leaves, the bold colours of flowers. The popping of seed pods. Think about what you have done this summer, how have you been shining? What has gone well this summer, what are you grateful for? What new things have you learned? And as you continue to face the east the sun behind you begins to set and the bright blue sky in front of you begins to fade to grey.The shadows in front of you lengthen and a welcome coolness sets in and washes over your sun-warmed skin.The colour drains away and you find yourself in half-light between day and night between light and dark Imagine letting your eyes adjust to the half-light. The familiar shapes in front of you blur and lose their definition.Let yourself settle into the strangeness of things and let it take you inward. Be aware of the mystery of yourself at the edges of the known and the unknown, the dark and the light, the warmth of the summer sun and the cold of winter. Holding within yourself the exuberance of the summer with the cool, quiet, hibernating dark of the winter months. This liminal time is a time of letting go… Think about whether there is anything you need to let go of…. Maybe a mood, an attitude, a desire, If you can imagine being like a tree and drop these things like leaves onto the breeze…. A worry? Let it go, a trouble? a belief, a habit, a way of being…. Something to forgive? drifting like leaves from a tree….No need to do it all now but as the fading light leads you towards the turn of the season, you can look forward to times of hibernation and restful reflection. Time to think about where you are strong in spirit and where you need to grow, where you can help others.And as we let go of things we ask the Universe to help us drop the things it is safe and necessary to drop and ask for help to deal with any harder the things. And let it go…. Stand with your feet still in the soil of this earth and the cooler breezes of the autumn blowing around you. Breath deeply into your heart, gratitude and love, courage and calm. Breath… breath and when you are ready please open your eyes and join us again."At this special time of balance, we honour youth and age, sowing and reaping, strength and weakness, chaos and calm, the predator and the prey, the plough and the scythe, the blessings of growth and of decay. We celebrate our resources, and the frugality and careful planning of every ancestor whose careful household management got their families safely through the cold constraints of winter. Mabon is a time of remembrance and of culling away, of honouring what we have, what we need, but also what we can provide to others. It is a time to look clearly at where we are weak in spirit, where we are strong, and where we stand somewhere in between, a time to take stock of our portion of gratitude and blessings for the coming season." ................
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