Autumnal Twist in Time

Autumn twists and turns with each forward movement in the changing of the year. Happy new year everybody, and I'll say the same thing on the first day of winter, wherever I may be. Regarding each new season with the same enthusiasm as a new year makes it bright and beautiful. We can carry smaller packages of our life's plans farther by looking at it that way, instead of the scope of a vast landscape of a full year. May the leaves bring good tidings.

This morning at 10:20 a.m. it was a balmy 82 degrees farenheit in lovely Ontario, Canada and as the sun shone down the moon was still held beautifully in the sky so I had to take a photo (above). The brightest light will give hope always.

Each day between the seasons is a time for reflection. This year I choose to spend only a brief moment reflecting because to me the summer is not over and I know that in the following days, I will plunge ahead, still waiting for loose ends to make a nice bow. May our hearts be filled with trust in a higher power, trust in the best of human nature to shine through and trust in the promise of people, as we continue to make life plans. Worry is a thing that can settle into the heart as a transformative happening of the soul. Gone is upset, and remaining is the angst that will never leave until I get back what belongs to me and we can together head into the sun. My move is still on hold therefore my future.

The spirit of the season holds a blessing for abundance. A frequent turn to make things right no matter what life is. Waking from the calm of summer, solemnity is a quotient for peace at times, the other half is change. When contemplating change there is only one focus - being positive. Through trust, hope, and awareness we glide with the change knowing all times are not by the calendar they are of the heart.

A quiet justification knowing that life issues still unfolding will be settled with the peaceful outcome for everyone. Unexpected shifts in life cannot take us off the life path given to us at birth. Those we care for, be it animal, vegetable, mineral or human will always be what our soul resonates with.

Since the spiritual is the focus of this writing, I chose a little story as an analogy to understand Purpose, which embodies life path. So, I digress for a moment creating parallels in meaning all over the place, just for fun.

The Gifts of the Soul

As the tale goes, Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather were three of eight fairies intended to imbue life's purpose for a princess after her birth. They wish upon her soul the gifts of beauty, wit, grace, song, dance, and music. Before the seventh fairy can give her blessing, the eighth disgruntled fairy chooses to curse the child and over-emphasizes a prick by a spinning wheel. Later in the story, the child becomes mesmerized, not by the force of nature but by the wheel of life and so fixated becomes drawn to the spindle, that which centres the forces, pricks her finger and sleeps for a hundred years, to awaken later to a whole lot of trouble before the peaceful ending of the story.

What does this have to do with Autumn? The changing of the year can have us focus on possibilities that turn into trouble and so fixated, stops time. Instead, we have to look ahead at what the future means and whether we are nurturing our other gifts to let our true purpose unfold. Which may or may not include a prince.

How Do You Know Your Purpose?

Whatever you feel strongly about in your heart, if your resolve is filled with passion, if you think and feel strongly about your plans...that is your purpose, your life path.

The point is always to never give up no matter what life throws at you, don't be dismayed by curves in the road, never stop fighting for what you believe in, and always look up to the light. Those are my blessings for you this autumn.

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