Snow on the Mountain!
Hint: there is no journey so challenging that Spirit cannot heal or guide you through. Your resilience is located at the very center of your heart, try to let fear turn into motivation and momentum. Dr. Michael Lennox -(astrology forecast for 24 September 2025)
To be in a state of reverie is to inhabit multiple layers of our consciousness all at once, to be fully aware of every bodily internal feeling while hazily hearing and seeing every ambient sound and sight: to be present in the time now while inhabiting the timeless, employing the mind to re-interpret the future and even re-imagine the past. … Reverie is always despised by those who do not like the broad freedom it grants us from other people’s wishes and other people’s control. David Whyte (Consolations II: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words)
Surely you must feel the intensity and immensity of change that is upon us both individually and collectively. Whether with or without awareness we are each a part of the ending of one age and the beginning of another. Fractals in the evolution of our communities, our countries, our planet, and the Cosmos itself.
This time that we have chosen to be here (Yes, we did choose!) is one of tremendous opportunity, potent with possibility for creating our world anew.
Our choices moment to moment are co-creating that world. Are we making them from a state of reverie and with reverence for Life? Am I? What new world are we co-creating?
Autumnal Equinox Mandala 9-22-25
These are among the questions I humbly asked in the balance of light and dark offered up on Monday’s Equinox and the powerful New Moon the day before as I unplugged from the world to simply be with the Land and this sacred Mountain that I am blessed to greet each day. To the best of my sometimes all- too-human ability, I set aside expectations and hopes and even the countless questions that tickle my curiosity. I walked the Land. I observed the Mountain. I asked nothing of the Land or the Mountain or of myself other than to simply BE.
With no expectation of any fulfillment or of receiving answers, I was gifted with a sense of quiet reverence for this place, for all its Life forms (and the formless ones). A moving in and out of states of reverie – timelessness in time and spaciousness in space where neither space nor time exist. Yet feet planted firmly on the ground, step by step.
Today as the dawn breaks a few days after my time with the Land and Mountain, the light of this new day reveals snow on the Mountain reminding me that the changes upon us are but a reflection of the natural flow of one season to the next, of one age to the age that follows. And that the entire Cosmos is in this evolutionary impulse.
A bit later as the Sun’s first rays greet the woods out back, I’m reminded of this same flow in me: one thought that leads to another, each co-creating the world we share. In this season, on this new day with snow on the Mountain are my thoughts of the reverent world sustaining and maintaining Life that I wish to see emerge in this time of change? Am I inviting my heart to lead, touching the resilience that lies within? What about you?
First Light in the Woods Outback