Yellowing Month.
Moving indoors, garden furniture goes away and chimneys are cleaned ready for the fires to be lit.
Time of mushrooms & apples
Housemartins migrate
Winter geese and other visiting winter birds return
Sun in Libra until 22nd time to find balance & partner, followed by Scorpio transforming & connecting
& Eclipse season
2nd New Moon in Libra & Solar eclipse
3rd Slipping into Autumn – overnight the air temperature has dropped and the earth is scattered with yellowing leaves. I dig out my fleece and boots, not quite ready to let go of my sandals but starting to feel the draw towards warmer items of clothing.
8th Hán lù Chinese Season of Cold Dew
17th Full Moon Medieval- Blood moon, Native American- Hunter moon.
Winterfylleth, or the “winter full moon,” because, according to Bede,
winter was said to begin on the first full moon in October.
23rd Chinese season of Shuang Jiang – Descent of Frost
& Sun moves into Scorpio allowing us to transform & connect
Last week of the month leaf blaze and final apple picking
26th BST ends clocks go back by one hour at 2am
31st Samhain Halloween – equivalent of 9pm on the 24hour wheel, we
enter the dark quarter of the year, the time of candles and firelight from now
until February Imbolc, Candlemas, Chinese New Year.