10/29/2024
We are slipping into some powerful darker days of the season. This time of year tugs at your roots anchoring you into the mysteries of what is yet to be revealed. Pulling you into stillness, darkness and to the feet of the Dark Mother.
It is Her cauldron that you tumble into during the darker days, and resistance will only create struggle. Her cauldron is like a centrifuge where you are stirred and stirred until what no longer serves you rises to the surface of the cauldron and the Dark Mother discards all the bits and pieces of the false self. And as she returns to her cauldron, continuing to stir, adding a few healing herbs, you begin your deep transformation and healing.
This year, the darker days are accompanied by several powerful moon phases and planetary positioning. Whatever you've clung onto, or perhaps ignored, or have been unable to "get clarity", the next several weeks carry the power of deep transformation.
There is no "doing" during this time. No making sense of what is happening. Just let yourself be taken.
I have found, that even though we may feel tossed about in the Dark Mother's cauldron, it's helpful to take the reigns in some sort of fashion. Not to try to control your experience, because that would be fruitless. But instead to ride the primal waves of change by fully embracing the experience. And having a guide, a partner or a messenger is very helpful.
So who is your guide? In Celtic traditions the Cailleach oversees the darker days, and like a wild, stormy wind, she blows into your life stripping you bare. There are also animals and birds that are great nighttime seers, like the owl, who are devoted guides during the darker days. They help YOU to see in the encroaching darkness.
I invite you to take some time this week and ask for a guide. Perhaps they will jump out from the underbrush as you walk down a forest trail. Or you'll hear them hooting, or maybe howling just before you drift off to sleep. Or maybe a strong wind will rush at you - a clear message that the Cailleach is here for you.
Blessings on your sacred journey into the darker days of the nature year.
Trista
