Welcome,
My beautiful dreamer.
Please close your eyes now.
As it's time to venture inside of yourself.
To begin,
Simply take some long,
Slow,
Deep,
Delicious breaths.
In through your nose,
Exhaling out your mouth with long satisfying sighs.
Let each inhale.
Carry you a little further away.
Further away from the noise of the outside world.
Let every exhale.
Release you from anything and everything outside of yourself.
Let all the people.
.
.
The rums.
The roads the messages.
The unfinished things.
All the little demands of ordinary life.
Let them all begin to fade away.
Far into the distance now.
And just return to your normal breath.
Stay connected to your breath.
Stay conscious with your breath.
Keep breathing slowly and deeply.
As though each breath is opening a hidden door inside of you.
A door you didn't even know existed.
Please step through the door into your own inner world now.
Before you is a world of astonishing beauty.
A place so exquisite.
That your mind becomes completely quiet.
Just wanting to take all of it in.
You're standing on a path that stretches away beneath your feet.
And on either side of this path are two completely different skies existing at exactly the same time.
To your left.
The world is drenched in the last warmth of summer.
The soft gold of mid-afternoon.
The sun hangs low and warm above rolling fields.
The air feels like a warm kiss against your cheek.
Bees and butterflies move lazily between late blooming flowers.
And the scent of fruit still hangs heavy in the trees.
On the other side of the path,
It is night time.
The sky is a deep,
Dark blue.
The moon shines bright.
And the air is cool.
The cool air kisses you on your other cheek.
A lake lies quietly smooth as glass.
Carrying the Moon on its surface without a single ripple.
This path runs exactly between two worlds.
An invisible line where the summer light and the autumn night meet each other.
Where light becomes dark.
Where warm air becomes cool mist.
Where sunlight and moonlight touch each other.
Behind you,
The two worlds stretch away side by side.
Ahead of you they continue together towards the horizon.
They simply exist together and you walk between them.
Between the light and the darkness.
Between brightness and shadow.
This path you're walking is the Equinox.
A path between one season and the next.
This is a very brief moment in the year.
When light and darkness stand beside one another equally.
Breathing the same air.
Please enjoy walking this path.
It asks nothing of you.
The sun remains at one shoulder.
The moon remains at the Abba.
Summer whispers through one side of the landscape.
While autumn waits quietly for you on the other.
Please allow yourself to enjoy the feeling of being exactly here.
In between.
Between what you know and what you don't yet know.
Between what you've lived.
And what you're still to discover.
A breeze starts to move through the trees.
It comes from the warm left side of you first.
Soft.
It teases the hairs on your arms as it moves across the path to the other side.
Leaves begin to rustle.
And start to fall one by one.
As you stroll on this strange,
Invisible equinox threshold.
Leaves drift slowly through the air across the path into the night sky.
The warm breeze spills over into the coolness.
And the cool air moves gently back into the warmth of the sun.
The line between them.
Is blurring.
A bird flies overhead crossing from the blue sky into the dark night.
Without any worry or hesitation.
The evening mist drifts across the path and sunlight catches inside it.
And for a moment the air all around you shimmers exquisitely.
You stop walking.
And marvel at these two worlds beginning to blur into one another.
The warmth and the coolness.
The light and the dark.
No longer politely staying on either side.
But beginning to merge.
The wind carries one world into the other.
Leaves dance between them.
Evening mist dances with sunlight.
It is all so strange.
And so beautiful.
And everything inside you completely relaxes.
As everything around you merges.
A new chapter beginning.
While another is not quite finished.
One chapter closing while another has already begun to whisper your name.
Sunlight shines between evening clouds.
And a rainbow appears above you.
As light,
Gentle rain begins to fall.
You stand there with raindrops on your face.
The warmth of the sun.
And the cool air of night sky.
And it's beautiful.
Unexpectedly exquisite and beautiful.
The boundary is fading.
The path no longer separating one from the other.
A beautiful chaos of all that is.
Everything is always changing.
The sky is always changing.
The wind is always changing direction.
Light changes and moves constantly.
And we are no different.
We too are constantly changing.
Transforming.
Just like the seasons.
The path beneath your feet has disappeared.
The path you were following has dissolved beneath everything that's moving.
And for a moment you stand there searching for the path.
Trying to find the place where one world ends and the other begins.
But you no longer can.
Because the warm air has travelled into the night.
The cool mist has wandered into the late afternoon.
Moonlight touches the leaves that fall from summer trees.
The last sunlight glimmers across the darkening lake.
Everything crossing over.
Everything.
Mingled.
Everything is dancing with everything else.
And suddenly.
.
.
You realise.
You don't need a clear path in order to continue forward.
So step off the path that once was.
Step into the full landscape of your life.
You can go anywhere you want.
There is no wrong direction here.
So walk into this strange,
Magnificent world.
And let there be no borders.
No lines of separation.
The night is inside the day and the day is inside the night.
And maybe this is what the Equinox wants to show you.
That life contains both.
And it always has.
The light and the darkness.
The joy and the sadness.
The courage and the fear.
The certainty and the mystery.
The things you understand.
And the things you may never understand.
All of it moving together.
All of it belonging to the same life.
Your life.
Notice how different it feels.
Now there's no path beneath your feet telling you where to go.
Let your curiosity lead the way.
Trust the next moment to arrive before you know what the next moment will be.
Let go and surrender to all of it.
And as you do the clouds fade and one vast sky reveals itself to you.
Half painted with the colours of day.
Half-scattered with stars from night.
Color becoming color.
Light becoming shadow.
Day becoming night.
Summer becoming autumn.
One moment flowing effortlessly into the next.
And as you stand here amongst it all,
You realize that all of it is part of life.
The light belongs here.
The dark belongs here.
The flowers and the fallen leaves,
The bright day.
The Dark Knight.
All part of the tapestry of your existence.
All parts of life that open you.
That bring you to your knees.
That make you laugh so hard you forget everything else.
Let it all exist.
Because you came here for the whole entire thing.
You came here to feel warm rain on your face.
And to learn the lessons in a dark night of the soul.
To love people.
To lose your way.
To find roads you never knew existed.
To let things end.
To let new,
Unfamiliar things begin.
To change,
To evolve.
To become.
This is the great wild privilege of being alive on this planet.
The Earth turns quietly beneath your feet and the season is changing.
Life is moving.
Because that is what life does.
Constantly moving.
Constantly changing.
And you don't need the landscape to stop changing in order for you to feel safe inside of it.
You have yourself.
Your own connection to yourself.
Your awareness.
Your curiosity.
Your breath.
Your ability to pause.
Your ability to choose again.
Your ability to flow with all that is.
You can stand beneath a constantly changing sky and still remain safe inside of yourself.
You can walk into an unknown season and remain safe inside of yourself.
For that is what trust really is.
Not knowing what comes next.
But knowing you'll be there for yourself whatever comes.
Take this moment in.
Take all of it in.
Day.
Night.
Summer.
Autumn.
Light.
Darkness.
Movement.
Stillness.
Beginning.
Ending.
One living,
Breathing landscape.
One World.
And you live in the heart of all of it.
You belong inside all of it.
You belong with every season of your life.
Summer travels with you into autumn now.
And autumn will travel with you into winter.
And winter will carry you quietly towards spring.
And round and round this beautiful earth we go.
You Take a long,
Slow,
Delicious breath here.
Let the Equinox move through you.
Let the world be exactly as it is.
Let yourself live inside the whole landscape of your existence.
The dance of everything that was,
Everything that is,
And everything still waiting for you somewhere beyond the horizon.
Please now place your hand on your heart.
And make a promise to yourself.
A promise that whatever season comes next.
You will go there feeling safe within yourself.
Into the brightness.
Into the shadow,
Into the known,
Into the mystery.
You will stay curious.
You will keep discovering.
You will keep listening.
You will let life reveal itself to you as you live your life.
And now with your own hand on your heart,
Please repeat the following words after me.
I belong to the whole of my life.
I belong to the whole of my life.
I belong to the whole of my life.
The light.
The dark.
The laughter.
The tears.
The summer.
The winter.
The beginning.
The Ending and all the moments in between.
There is only this life,
My darling,
Vast,
Ever-changing.
Always unfinished,
Exquisite and beautiful.
And you are in the heart of it.
Now please begin slowly to return to the space around you.
Feel the surface beneath your body.
Notice the temperature of the air against your skin.
Stay connected to your breath.
Stay connected to yourself.
And know that you are safe inside yourself,
Connected to yourself,
No matter what comes.
And slowly,
Gently.
When you feel ready.
Open your eyes.
Welcome to a new season.
My beautiful dreamland.
