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.

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.

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.

As we approach winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are wrapping around us like a blanket, the air is cooling and deepening, and the ground shines with frost.

In Chinese Medicine, winter is the season of the Water element. And water is associated with mystery, emotion and the unconscious aspects of our life.

The two channels of the Water element in the body's energy system are the Kidney and Bladder meridians.