As the air becomes lighter and cooler and the darkness overtakes the light once more, we are beginning our descent into the autumn time here in the Northern hemisphere.

There’s so much about magic that is appearing spontaneously - as magic does! And I suspect that this autumn and winter-time will be a period for us to really go more deeply into our magic. To access more of it. To go to another layer of what it holds for us.

I’m a witch.

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, and have undertaken my own personal research about what this means for me, particularly over the past couple of years.

What does the word ‘witch’ mean to you?

Days will be getting longer and, though the warm months are still some time away, we will be finding more light in our worlds.

What did you learn about yourself in your journey into the darkness?

The main theme that keeps coming to me is resilience.

We are continuing on our journey towards the Winter Solstice as the darkness wraps itself closer and closer around our days and the cold climbs more easily into our bones.

This is a time of stillness, of cooling. Of slowing down your awareness and breathing deeply into your bones.

This is Part 3 to the blogs November 2020: Descending Into The Darkness and Descending Into The Darkness: Gathering Your Spirit

I wrote previously that the energies this year are inviting us to go even deeper within ourselves, to find and rediscover something more of who we are. In the outer world, the darkening evenings and the approach of the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere are calling us to go much deeper within ourselves, and experience radical inner transformation.

We are being called to gather our spirit for the wintertime. To gather our spirit by calling back the threads of our past experiences and future projections. Bringing them back into ourselves to conserve energy, to focus on our inner world and to wait for the next chapter.

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, we feel the growing of darkness as we travel towards the Winter Solstice in December.

As the days grow shorter and the darkness stretches its cool air around us, we are invited to descend deeper into the darkness.