Journals: VOICE and Kavi's Book of Stars
Dates: 10-16-2012 and 10-31-2013
Welcome the Fall
(2012)
Mother Nature shows us the most majestic ways of death.
There’s no flood of tears to blur the beauty of the release…
Only a graceful letting go of dried up dreams in warmer colors.
There’s no painful screams to drown out the presence of the Fall…
Only whispers of wind to carry life scuffling along with new meaning.
She watches us too…in all our stubborn refusal of becoming.
Are we as frustrating as we feel, or does She share a similar awe?
Perhaps, in our Mother’s eyes, we are goldening in a fiery display...
Giving birth to new life in the midst of our own dying Autumn.
We stand our ground in the cold that surrounds us, warming what waits within.
We are aging together, side by side, like old friends.
She in her glory and we in our agony, reflections of each other.
We learn from each other our own catharsis, our own liberation,
And we let the old self go--in our own understanding of change…
Turning in season, we honor the harvest and welcome the Fall.
Witches' New Year
(2013)
The fire flush of Autumn
that signals Summer’s End
sets her affairs in order
to join her icy friend.
The Winter Witch is stirring,
As if a cauldron brews
The coldest winds awaiting,
and she transforms anew.
The flames of fall to ashes
In bonfires after dusk,
And bones are chilled to rattling
While drums beat dust to dust.
Ancestors, can you hear it?
The Dark Moon calls you here
Amongst the grateful living
For death is not to fear.
The sounds resound to tribute
The mortal song of all.
Whether in flesh or spirit,
We celebrate the Fall.
And as we gather warmly,
Remembering the past,
We gaze ahead in starlight
At what may come to pass.
The time shall turn to no time;
Two months of inward quest.
For slowing pace we’re thankful;
For friends and family, blessed.
So shall the feasts of Winter,
In joyful gatherings,
Be fortunate and fruitful
To deliver us to Spring.
Disguises guide our loved ones
Between the veil that thins.
Whether in flesh or spirit,
We celebrate Samhain.
