Looking ahead to this week, as well as the whole month of October, there is so much.
So much it won’t fit on my weekly chart.
There are sticky notes hanging off the sides. Uh oh.
But how could that be? September was my big month.
I traveled for work and family trips, worked several gigs and kicked off a new consulting project, as well as moved from the cottage to a house.
Now, I can see how September’s fullness was only the transition, the ripening as we move into fall. Now is the time of harvest.
My first instinct is to reduce, reschedule, remove.
And yet.
And yet, each project, each task, feels true, aligned, necessary. Ripe.
And so, like the winemakers and farmers I’ve seen in the Columbia River Gorge over these last few weeks, I know they must be harvested.
But what, I’ve been wondering?
What am I harvesting?
For the last two weeks since the autumn equinox on Sept. 22, I’ve been holding this question.
Meaning to sit down with a cup of tea and write out a list of all the stuff showing up right now, I figured then I could answer this question.
Then, while savoring my second Sabbath in the new house in a new neighborhood, it hit me: I’m harvesting the intentions I planted in spring and bloomed this summer.
This felt like a simultaneous “Duh” and an “Aha.”
Ah yes, all the “stuff” (e.g.: projects, friends, stuff-stuff) showing up right now is simply manifestations of my deep intentions for the year.
What I knew I needed on the path forward, in this learning journey.
Deep community, prosperity, intimacy, rhythm, to name a few.
These intentions have not been neglected or forgotten, though I have been at risk lately of distraction from the “what” showing up, instead of remembering the “why.”
Right as they are coming to fruition.
We can not be distracted by the harvest—the hectic gathering of the crops—as the reason for the season.
Just as Sabbath is the yin of rest to the yang of effort in the rest of our lives, fall is a season of balance relative to the greater cycle, to the whole.
A season for extra efforting—from our intentions, not just because—to fulfill the current growth cycle.
Nothing more, nothing less.
What have you planted?
What are you harvesting?
May your yields be true, aligned and necessary this week.
Love,
Jules