Meeting the Energy of the Fall Equinox

It such a feeling of ease when your inner season aligns with nature’s transitions.

During the spring Equinox earlier this year I was menstruating. What a mixture of conflicting energies for my body to sort through. My body was needing to rest, but yet I felt amped up by the energy of nature’s big Spring Celebration. I was tired, but yet vibrating of new energy. Let me tell you, it did not feel magical! In fact it felt like going to an amusement park with a hangover (I bet that visual helped lol).

Which is why I feel so blessed and at peace that on the days coming up to the Fall equinox, I am once again entering my inner winter (also an interesting coincidence and apparent trend for 2021 for me). These two big cycle events are not perfectly aligned, but they are both energetic seasons that really do support each other. 

So today, on day one of my period, I know that I should be resting, that I should be going into my special winter hibernation, but I feel the pull to spiritually connect to the energy of what is shifting in nature. I know it is not the exact day of the equinox (its still 3 days away), but the energy is stirring in mother nature and I can feel the shift.

So, to honour my cycle and my menstruation, while still bathing in the powerful transition happening in the bigger cycle of nature, I feel called to connect. To connect with deeper feelings that I can’t put words to, idea’s I can’t quite visualize, and to allow myself space for my intuition to guide me (all powers of the menstruation). Yet…I feel very called that I need to get lost in forest wisdom. So, to the forest I go. 

Today I went to a local ravine and allow myself to go off path and just root into the wisdom of nature. I went and breathed the crisp air, felt my body re-anchor and absorbed the energy for my nervous system to reset under the canopy of tree leaves. I allowed myself to be reminded that I am one cycle within another cycle.

My take away lesson to share with you, is that although rest is what is suggested during your bleed days, it is also equally important to let your intuition guide you to what medicine your body needs. My intuition guided me be with in Mother Nature’s upcoming transition where I could feel the death of our lush summer, yet also see all that there is to celebrate and be grateful for. So today my medicine was to walk amongst the tree’s not because of a fitness goal, but rather to be connected to the bigger ecosystem working within my personal ecosystem. 

Don’t get stuck on hard fast rules, but rather look at how you can be within cycles of cycles with some kind of unexpected rhythm helping to re-align you.