Blessings of the Celtic Year 10

The Autumn Equinox.

This is the last part of the Blessings of the Celtic Year course, and so it is a little longer than usual this time.

CONTENTS:

At the Threshold of Equinox.

The Keepers of the Threshold.

The Green and Burning Tree Meditation.

Keeping the Hearth.

Foot-Water and the Faeries.

Invitation to the Hearth

Where the Hearth Abides.

AT THE THRESHOLD OF EQUINOX. 

The Autumn Equinox brings us into the time of the equal light.  The sun is rising and setting at its midway point: having given us summer, it will soon be on its way to bringing us winter, where those rising and setting points will be going further and further south, so that sun sheds less light upon us and the nights grow longer.  My house, built in Oxford in 1938, was very fortunately sited so that, into my living room twice a year, the equinoctial light pours in to illuminate the hearth shrine, striking the very centre of the mantlepiece with shining light