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Look out! It is Lammas
Jul. 31st, 2019 03:41 pmNote: I meant to post this on the 25th. I really should have! It seems many people I know could have used the heads up.
A cross-quarter day is coming up! It is Lammas.
Summer Solstice is behind us, and the Autumnal equinox is rolling towards us. Poised between the two, we could be experiencing some stressors.
In the past, this was a time of year when we were running down the last of our stores of the previous year’s harvest and eying the upcoming harvest hoping it would be a good one. But we are not quite there yet.
We have had a lot of long, hot days. But we also can tell that they are getting shorter again, and it is hard not to think about the bitter cold that will be coming in a few months.
Teetering between the exhaustion of long days, and our anxious concerns for the future, wisdom lies in noticing the good in our lives and focusing our attention there. You may call it gratitude only if that word is not too offputting for you.
Not the easiest message to hear at this time of year (or any other).
People who are very strongly connected to the changes of the seasons probably sense that connection, but may not realize that this is a time of year for dangerous, false thoughts and self-destructive feelings driven by the lack of sleep caused by the long days of summer. Those and thoughts of the dark and cold coming up open our hearts to despair. If I cannot feel happy and energetic now, I never will! Agh! Remember while you are busy catastrophizing every single thing that goes wrong — whether someone is dying, or something was lost, or people are just really annoying you — that you are alive and able to catastrophize things. Perspective will only take you so far.
When we are past Lammas, and turning towards the Autumnal Equinox, a gentler melancholy will settle in, and we will remember that with the darkness and short days of winter come lots of indoor fun and celebration, too.
Take it one day at a time. The wheel won’t change its pace for you or anyone else.
A cross-quarter day is coming up! It is Lammas.
Summer Solstice is behind us, and the Autumnal equinox is rolling towards us. Poised between the two, we could be experiencing some stressors.
In the past, this was a time of year when we were running down the last of our stores of the previous year’s harvest and eying the upcoming harvest hoping it would be a good one. But we are not quite there yet.
We have had a lot of long, hot days. But we also can tell that they are getting shorter again, and it is hard not to think about the bitter cold that will be coming in a few months.
Teetering between the exhaustion of long days, and our anxious concerns for the future, wisdom lies in noticing the good in our lives and focusing our attention there. You may call it gratitude only if that word is not too offputting for you.
Not the easiest message to hear at this time of year (or any other).
People who are very strongly connected to the changes of the seasons probably sense that connection, but may not realize that this is a time of year for dangerous, false thoughts and self-destructive feelings driven by the lack of sleep caused by the long days of summer. Those and thoughts of the dark and cold coming up open our hearts to despair. If I cannot feel happy and energetic now, I never will! Agh! Remember while you are busy catastrophizing every single thing that goes wrong — whether someone is dying, or something was lost, or people are just really annoying you — that you are alive and able to catastrophize things. Perspective will only take you so far.
When we are past Lammas, and turning towards the Autumnal Equinox, a gentler melancholy will settle in, and we will remember that with the darkness and short days of winter come lots of indoor fun and celebration, too.
Take it one day at a time. The wheel won’t change its pace for you or anyone else.