A shamanic reflection on balance, breath, and becoming
As the sun moves into Libra, the winds of change begin to stir. The golden light softens, the trees release their jewels, and the Earth begins her graceful descent inward.
This is not just autumn.
This is a spiritual threshold. It is a liminal space between outward doing and inner being. In this space, balance becomes both an invitation and a prayer.
In ancient traditions, this time of year marked the season of transition. People gathered the last harvests. They honoured the shifting of the light. The journey from fullness to stillness began — not with urgency, but with reverence.
🌬️ The Wisdom of Libra: Elemental Balance
Libra, ruled by the element of Air, speaks to the mind and heart in harmony. This archetype invites us to:
- Seek clarity in thought and relationship
- Speak truth with grace
- Create beauty through simplicity
- And release, gently, what is no longer in alignment
The ancients honoured air as the breath of spirit. It was seen as the voice of the soul and the unseen current that moves between worlds.
In shamanic ways of seeing, this season is not about sudden death. It is about the graceful letting go that makes space for deeper presence.
🌀 The Turning Point: From Earth and Fire to Air
We’ve moved through the grounded diligence of Virgo and the fiery passions of summer. Now, we enter a time of inner inquiry.
The Earth stills.
The fires cool.
The breath deepens.
This shift brings us back to our inner altar. In this place, silence becomes sacred. The winds of spirit whisper our next becoming.
In myth and medicine, this is the time of:
- Inanna’s descent into the underworld
- Demeter and Persephone’s parting
- The Hermit of the tarot — holding the lantern in the dark
These stories remind us that descent is not loss.
It is initiation.
🕯️ Traditional Practices Honoured by Ancients
Across cultures, this season was marked with rituals of balance, beauty, and breath:
- Breath offerings to the wind spirits, carrying prayers across the threshold
- Feathers and incense used to cleanse energy and invite clarity
- Simple altars made with leaves, apples, wheat, and balance stones
- Sacred storytelling by the fire, invoking the archetypes of transformation
Everything slowed. Everything listened.
The people remembered something important through it.
The soul grows not by adding more. Instead, it grows by letting go of what it no longer needs.
🌿 A Breath of Balance
Let this Libra season be a quiet ceremony.
Sit at your window with a candle.
Take three conscious breaths.
Name what you are releasing.
And let the wind carry it.
Not because something is broken — but because something deeper is being born.
🖤 The Sacred Art of Becoming
You do not need to rush into winter.
You do not need to explain your softening.
You are allowed to be in the in-between.
This is a sacred return.
A descent into soul.
A becoming guided by breath, by beauty, and by balance.
“In the stillness of discernment, your soul reveals what is truly yours to tend.”
— Gudrun C. Fritz
May you walk this path slowly.
May you breathe like it’s prayer.
May you turn inward, not with fear — but with deep and holy grace.
With breath and blessing,
Gudrun C. Fritz
Earth-rooted Healer | Soul Guide | Channel of the Sacred
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