Orion on Fall As A Time Of Appreciation

In some places, Fall is a season of changing energies and cycles, which can be clearly seen. Trees and plants change, metamorphosize and often given us displays of glorious color. In other places, there are changes, but the hues are more subtle or there are blooms that don’t occur in other seasons. Often, we pause to see these changes; to delight in the movement of color.

Another aspect of Fall are traditions of thankfulness – holidays celebrating harvest, taking bounty and preparing it to sustain over Winter and even a holiday called ‘Thanksgiving’, anchored in the principle of sharing.

In that Fall tradition, we like to include  the idea and principle of appreciation – which we see as an open energy that invites us to recognize,  acknowledge and appreciate the movements of life around us. To embrace them quietly. To feel them as delight. To  have the warmth of heart-felt feeling. All the ways we can experience appreciation.  

Appreciation is it’s own energy. It does  not require any further action but the feeling that emerges in the moment of your direct experience – the intense color of the leaves; the delight in a seasonal pie; the flow of friendship over a seasonal drink.

Of course, appreciation need not anchored in a certain season, but people respond to ‘markers’ - to celebrations that denote; that carry the energy of a principle. So we like the idea of inviting conscious appreciation into the seasonal, cultural,  time of celebrations of thanksgiving.

When there is much in the world that is challenging and changing, and Nature itself is changing, take a moment to appreciate. Appreciate at least one thing, one moment, one experience. There is, indeed, always one such moment. Perhaps this invitation will open you to  experiencing  a glorious moment of ease, of beauty, even of joy.   May you have a moment of blossoming in the embrace of appreciation.

Orion

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  Elisabeth

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