Autumn the season of Metal

Autumn… the realm of the Metal element

As the trees begin to shed their leaves, we too can begin the process of shedding the layers of skin we have accumulated as protection, along with the metal amour we have added on top of them for reinforcement. 

Shedding to not only create space for the new to be invited in when the time is right… but encouraging these once very essential layers we needed to exist, to begin to lift so we can uncover and recognise the true values already within us… the rarefied metals, jewels and riches we have lost sight of, that have been there all along. Breathing life back into these, just like cleaning tarnished metal to uncover the shininess underneath.

So as this season welcomes in the return of yin energy and the natural inclination to go inwards, maybe it’s less about going outwards to find value but extracting and refining the value from qualities we already have, that might be lurking in the foggy darkness. This extraction process can be tough, we don’t have to do it alone. Maybe we need a little guidance to show us what we haven’t seen yet, like the soft glowing white moonlight guiding us to see in the darkness of the night.

It is the Metal element in this process that enables us to feel, to move on and to alchemically integrate the layers shed. To cultivate the ability to not only recognise value within ourselves… but in others too…