It’s coming up to Samhhain ( Hallow’een) where the veil between the worlds is very thin.  The worlds may be the natural and spirit worlds or the worlds of the conscious and unconscious or both, but the energies are going inward and the movement is towards dark. All things are conceived in darkness and this is the darkest of the eight sections of the wheel of the year. After the Winter Solstice the movement will be towards the light. 

This is a time for ritual and the Archetype of the Crone (witch)  This year I’ve been exploring Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss. It was giving me headache, so I adapted it to suit myself and came up with some insights. I’ll be doing the Celtic Oracle to see what it has for me. It usually comes up with some useful stuff. They are helpful roads into the unconscious.

I’m down at Portmuck as I like to be every Samhain. I haven’t decided on my ritual yet, but I will be burning lavender stalks in a fire and of course some veggie sausages and apple cake. I love the dark nights in the cottage. The blackness envelopes me like a warm cloak. I’m on my own. I used to feel frightened but traced it back to an unprocessed trauma and now it feels safe. The sea is calm but the stream is running fast, loud and agitated as if it is desperate to get all that water from the fields down into the sea as quickly as possible. The air is fresh and still. I’m staying here until Sunday and I haven’t brought any work. The good thing about being here is that I can only use what I bring with me. If I don’t bring bread and biscuits, I can’t eat them, if I don’t bring work, I can’t do it. The learning is in dealing with it. I am so greedy for food and for knowledge it’s as if I can never get enough, and I want it NOW.

The supervision course is starting on line on the 13th November and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve got loads of preparation to do. I hope Liz manages to set me up with Zoom. I’m still struggling with teaching level 4 on line. I haven’t yet found the rhythm. Of course I’m trying to dance to someone else’s tune and that’s hard. I will get there. I always do.