During this summer, I had the pleasure of meeting some of the women who participate in Red Tent, women who have completed the first season/year of Red Tent or who have been nurturing this sharing space for several years.
Each recounted some moments, important passages in their lives that were “marked” by Red Tent, that is, by what they explored, processed and integrated in this sacred space.
Someone mentioned “time of balances” … and this really resonated with me knowing that the Full Moon of September is really the moon of harvest, budgets and ‘balance'” (quote Moon Circle)
So here I am to offer you the theme of our first Red Tent of the new fall winter 2019/2020 season :
HARVEST TIME
After the bountiful summer that allowed the fruits to ripen, harvest time comes,
of harvesting those ripe fruits for each of us,
to “stock up” on them and then “rest” with the arrival of autumn and winter
It is evident that our daily life is marked by times that are anything but “natural”: in fact, September, which for us represents the real beginning of the year!, would in nature be the time to stock up on the harvested fruits and rest, let go, so as to make room for the new planting and recover energy for the new spring
We, on the other hand, leave on September 1 with the drive to “new beginnings” often without even stopping to
enjoy with fullness and satisfaction
of what we have gathered.
It is easy to understand then why, beyond the mostly mental/planning enthusiasm with which we resume activities in September, then our physical and mental energies after some time sometimes seem not to support us as we would expect.
Yet nature to there as a reminder: if we look out the window we can easily understand that autumn and winter are quite different from spring and summer , don’t you think? 😉 The days get shorter, the plants let go of the old parts (they dry up and drop their leaves), and all of nature prepares to rest knowing that in resting the new seeds will get to draw nourishment
There is, however, a deep part of each of us connected with the natural cycles of life that is also why the space/time of Red Tent is so valuable: because it allows us to unite “the two worlds”
The watchword of this transitional moment,
connoted by Full Moon and shortly thereafter by Autumnal Equinox, is GRATITUDE.
We celebrate with gratitude our harvests – whatever they are
It is possible that to some people the harvest seems “modest” or “not very abundant” and have little desire to celebrate it: well friends, I tell you what
Gratitude and celebration are the first step toward abundance–celebrating means honoring what we have harvested with gratitude, and if the harvest is not as I expected …..perhaps I am not really seeing all the fruit in my basket
That is why we also talk about balance: it is not necessarily important that the narrative is copious but balanced-if it is not, we can give thanks and understand where, perhaps, we have lacked balance, in our sowing, or in creating the ideal conditions for our seed to grow in a dance (probably sometimes a bit unbalanced) between the masculine and the feminine in us.
Therefore, harvest time is also a time for taking stock, for entrusting new seeds to Mother Nature with renewed awareness.
See you SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 6:30 p.m. (cocktail hour) in the cozy Le Maree center, in Genoa , Corso Torino 9/1 -Angolo Via Smirne
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For info write me at : info@francescadalessandro.net
