MY SAMPLE OBSERVATION - SEPTEMBER 21 - "Contentment Becomes Equanimity"

 MY SAMPLE OBSERVATION

       SEPTEMBER 21 – OCTOBER 20

  Contentment Becomes Equanimity

      OPPOSITE:  Dissatisfaction

 

  By Jean W. Yeager

IN NATURE:
            I stand beneath grey mist and indigo clouds. Dark piles billow high with white outlines and reverse light/depth appearances. The cool sets in and the windows are all put down. Almost as if the projects outdoors are fading before your eyes. Raspberries hang on and get deep red while their cousins who will never ripen hang out and hope for sunshine or warmth.

     The earth and sun stand with widespread arms on the Equinox. An eclipse marks the day. The trough is being built into which all of life in the northern hemisphere will slide. The circadian rhythms slow. The lack of sunlight causes the cold and flu season. Viruses love it and grow rapidly.

 

IN THE HUMAN BEING: Go for The Long Form

     I want the gray tumbling above to fill my heart with slowness. To ease the natural tendency for speed and fire and help me learn to focus, to turn inward. As I am growing more used to the coming autumn, more accepting and ready, I can sense contentment beginning to form in me and balance my sympathy and antipathy for winter with equanimity. Grey skies help me center. Sit down. Slow down. Where more layers. Drink hot cider. Read bigger books. Go for that Long Form.

OPPOSITE: Dissatisfaction
    As the days grow shorter after the Autumnal Equinox it is easy to grow dissatisfied with the lack of sunlight, the warmth of summer, the growth of spring. It is a challenge to love the dark, the cold, the gloom. Especially, if you are young and not in the Autumn of your life.

 

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