Nesting Time Again

Milestones to Winter

Winter is on its way.

I mean, Autumn officially began around the Autumnal Equinox, but by the Pagan calendar we’re already well into the season.

Officially, the first of the harvests began in August, when the grain fields ripened enough to be harvested. The following month, and it was the turn of the fruit harvests in September.

This month, October, it will soon be time for the blood harvest. Traditionally, this was the time when the herds would be brought in from the summer fields, and there would be a culling of the herds and flocks to provide meat to sustain the community over the winter.

The business world nowadays is a 24/7 open market. People have to rush everywhere, and the strain is showing. It’s unsustainable, and it will break. What will be left after it breaks … well, we shall see.

But for right now, it is a good time to look at how people used to do things way back, before all this capitalism and media obsession with glitz and money turned people’s heads, turned whole populations into dopamine addicts.

You’ll see it, in the streets. Shops may be forced to stay open, but you’ll feel that they want to be shut. Music will be blaring from speakers, but nothing will be able to drown out the silence once the music stops.

In your homes, you’ll reach a point where you want to wrap yourself up in thick blanket, or bury yourself within a cushion fort, and shut out the world, or find yourself looking out at the grey, darkening world outside your window and relish the warmth of the interior.

The time is coming to seek warmth, and dream dreams of hibernation.