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Last month, on the evening of the Autumn Equinox, we had our first big storm of the new season. The thunder and lightning were so spectacular, I couldn’t pull myself away from the window to sleep. Instead, I spent a large portion of the night sitting on my sofa as I watched out the window, felt the buzz of the energetic shift, and contemplated the season change.

As I sat there in the stormy dark, I couldn’t help but feel a flicker of nostalgia for the fading season and yet, at the same time, a warm beckoning from the new. The changing seasons will forever enchant me. Mother Earth is sure a breathtaking home, isn’t she? Listening to the intoxicating fall rain tap on the house, I grabbed my journal and put pen to paper. The following journal prompts quietly flowed out onto my page.

A much needed cleansing release.

Seasonal Shifts

It needs to be said, the changing of the season can be much more than merely physical. Maybe that’s why this season change affected me so much? Just like the year, my life is slowly shifting to autumn. Midlife is no so gently calling. Post medical menopause has turned everything on it’s ear. My health has been an uphill battle. My face, abs, and spirit have softened. And my own sweet flock of fledglings have been rapidly leaving my nest. One after another flying off on beautiful, grand adventures of their own. Heavy and aching, yet magnificent, awe inspiring, and overwhelming too.

Perhaps I am watching the leaves turn gold on my own little branch of the family tree.
Right here, before my very eyes.

The seasonal shift is inevitable. No moment last forever. People fall in love. Babies are born. They grow into toddlers, who grow into children. Children become teenagers, who then become adults. They fall in love and the cycle continues.

The wheel of the world turns and time marches on.

Maybe you, too, are experiencing the shifting of seasons. Taking down the baby crib and packing up those beloved tiny shoes. Leaving a job that fulfills you to tend and mend little children. Graduating college and stepping into the wide world. Getting married. Going back to school. Leaving your community and moving to a new home. Jumping into something completely unexpected. Crying on the side of the road after dropping your kid to college. Walking around a now quiet house. Burying your sweetheart of 70 years. Life is full of changes. Tender, heart altering shifts.

Seasons come, and then they go.
And we change along with them.

Journal Prompts

If, like me, you’re feeling the energy of the seasonal shift, may I gently suggest dusting off your journal and laying it out on the page? Release what’s no longer serving you and invite in goodness and light to fill it’s place. Learn from where you’ve been, create dreams for the future, and then allow yourself to step, fully present, in the moment and season you now find yourself in. With love, I offer these prompts to guide the way. As always, take what you need and leave the rest.

Happy Autumn, dear friend.
May this new season, whatever it may look like for you, be one of growth, intention, and every day magic.

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For more journal prompt ideas, this journaling through quarantine post could easily be adapted to fit a variety of life challenges. And my new year intention journaling could be a lovely way to close out the year.