Samsaradise v.2
Magic Awake!!
Witches and warlocks, the season of the hallows is upon us—a time of honoring our forbears, their strength and tenacity, and the wildness of the earth that shaped their lives and provided for them so that we may have this life experience now. The ancient celebration of Samhain commemorates the end of the harvest year, where the ancestral bonfire is illuminated in gratitude to the earth and to the great mystery for the magnificent abundance the summer light has bestowed upon our lives. In these final days of warmth, the feasting spirit sees us through the passage between worlds, where the season of bounty culminates in festivity and gives a necessary antidote to the impending unpredictability of the season of darkness. This celebration heralds the beginning of the time of endurance, when the natural world is strengthened through exposure to the wild improbabilities of winter. Energy is turned inward. Roots grow deeper, seeking for the sustenance needed to persist, so that when the season of light returns nature may proliferate.
This inward turning appears in the living sigil of worldliness as a visual representation of a universal process; accumulation through the harvest of experience is followed by integration, a time of hibernation whereby the Self is fortified and strengthened by a deeper rooting.
Winter strengthens through brutality. It teaches us the capacity to endure as nature does—unprotected, with only the will to survive filtered through a refining process of efficiency. Through adversity we are purified and enhanced into worthy beneficiaries of the universal endowment of life. There can be no self-rejection within those who have earned their strength through endurance, through times that brought about the revelation of stark weaknesses squarely confronted and eviscerated under the sun of focused awareness—a process that brings about the return of a metaphorical spring, where consciousness proliferates. These seasons inside the sigil of life are constant reminders of the seasons within that must be respected.