Autumn Surrender: What I'm Reading
📚 My favourite books on preparing you for the descent to the underworld
The last little while felt like a never-ending journey of meeting my shadows. I relished my walks in my underworld because I knew I was getting closer and closer to the raw “me”.
My path took me on a profound journey of self-acceptance of who I was. Funny how once all our pre-conceptions get shattered … nothing is quite as you expected it to be, including the real you. Especially when modern spirituality drills superficial manifestation into your psyche and makes it seem like the goal is love and light.
Yet, I have found it’s quite the opposite. The real magic happens in the dark.
My inner sanctum is where I went to do my work, but ultimately the whole point of being incarnated on Earth is to engage with life ... to create with it … to experience it with all its highs and all it’s lows. To become embodied. My mind knew that, but my energy system took a while to catch up and accept this as truth.
I’m a late bloomer. It took me some time to come to a point where I was no longer using my spirituality to escape from life and instead arrived at a point where I decided to finally participate in it. A space where I can situate myself in the harsh realities of our current environment and in the current age of consciousness we find ourselves in. I am finally in a place where I am ready to decide through my thoughts, prayers, and actions what I want to contribute to evolve earth’s consciousness. What can I reasonably seed in this lifetime that will leave this world in a better place than when I came in?
I don’t have a full answer … only a direction.
But there is one thing I know for sure I need to deepen my self study on. Embodiment and being rooted in the present moment.
With that in mind, the name of The Sanctum newsletter and Substack community will change to the Rooted Rhythms newsletter to be a reminder that the Earth is an ever-so-wise guide as she spins around the Sun. She shares everything we need to know and more … if only we listen.
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have the best track record with names … they do change often in my world.
I am changing too fast and outgrowing my own “labels”. Becoming a new version of myself each time a layer of “not-self” is shed and grappling with the need to have my outer life reflect who I now am in any way possible.
Yet Roothed Rhythms is where I want to stay for a while. I will seed the desire I have to nurture this space as one of where I become more and more alive in my life, how I learn from the wisdom of the seasons what my body’s needs are, how my own energy rhythms ebbs and flow. And most importantly, become anchored in where we are as human species today and what I want to anchor in for future generations.
I offer a heartfelt invitation to stay here with me, receive a breath and slow down from the chaotic pace of modern life even if it’s just for a little while.
WHAT I’M READING
As we begin to enter the last few weeks of autumn and make the transition from the descent to the underworld, I wanted to share some resources that have helped me feel at home in the dark again. These are not affiliate links, just books I adore. I believe they will offer you words to describe what is happening in your internal system.
Waking up to the Dark by Clark Strand
Descent and Rising by Carly Mountain
Anna Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong
Enjoy the reads!
Until next time … stay rooted and be true to your rhythm.
xox,
