7~ Autumn, Cause & Effect Principle, & Right Mindfulness...

Autumn

The Wheel of the Year, is an annual cycle of 8 seasonal festivals consisting of the year's solstices and equinoxes and the midpoints (cross quarter days). They are marker points to help remind us we are part of nature, mother earth AND the cosmos.

The 7 Universal Principles from The Hermetic Philosophy, helps the thinking mind and the intuitive mind ground and create from a more conscious awareness of time, space, dimensions, consequences and how the cosmos works.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a practical tool to implement and assist in living a healthier, happier life in the physical/material world of everyday living with a greater innerstanding of how to live your life.

And So It Begins....

“The Wheel of the Year” - The Wheel of the Year, is not only a spiritual practice but a practical practice that connects you back in with nature, earth and the age old cycle of seasons.

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, consisting of the year's main solar events and the midpoints between them. Solstices and Equinoxes are the main solar events and the midpoints or cross quarter days are the start of the seasons and begin midway point between the solstices and the equinoxes.

Please note these turns of the Wheel are relative to living in the southern hemisphere. For the northern hemisphere they need to be swapped.

As this is a natural calendar, the Wheel of the Year does not begin on the 1st January, but rather the beginning of Winter and flows from there. To find the exact date the solstices, equinoxes and cross quarter days will fall on, besides the traditional days, please check this link for details:

http://www.russellcottrell.com/blog/solarEvents.htm

“The Kybalion.” - “The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open” The Kybalion, is a study of the Hermetic Philosophy. “The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding” – The Kybalion.

Studying and applying the 7 Principles of the Hermetic Philosophy is like comprehending the Universe at a sub atomic level. The Laws behind the Principles help us to walk through life forewarned. It is a guide on how to change at a fundamental level, not just a surface level. The alchemical process of change, the transmutation of matter.

The Seven Hermetic Principles, upon which the entire Hermetic Philosophy is based, are as follows: The Principle of Mentalism, The Principle of Correspondence, The Principle of Vibration, The Principle of Polarity, The Principle of Rhythm, The Principle of Cause and Effect, The Principle of Gender.

Buddhist Philosophy The Four Noble Truths - “The Noble EightFold Path” - The Buddhist Path for the Cessation of Suffering, and the fourth of The Four Noble Truths is The Noble EightFold Path.

An application guide for living a spiritually purposeful life. The Eightfold Path, although referred to as steps on a path, is not meant as a sequential learning process, but as eight aspects of life, all of which are to be integrated in every day life.

The Eightfold path consists of Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.

February 1st

Wheel Turn ~ Autumn / Lughnasadh/ Lammas

Hermetic Principle ~ Cause & Effect

& The Noble EightFold Path ~ Right Mindfulness

This Turn of the Wheel:

Autumn / Lughnasadh / Lammas

Lughnasadh (pronounced ‘loo-hus-uh’) means ‘the commemoration of Lugh’. In the Irish legends he was the leader of the mythical Tuatha De Danann. In the story of the Tuatha De Danann’s victory over the Fomorians, Lugh spares the life of Bres – one of the captured enemy leaders, and in return is given knowledge on ploughing, sowing and reaping.

And so, marks the start of harvesting. The beginning of Autumn, not by man’s calendar but rather by the tilt of the earth and her rotation around the sun.

It is a time of joy, but also a time to begin preparing for Autumn Harvesting.

It is now that we begin to reap what we have sown. It is now that we begin to understand the wisdom of careful preparation, and the sowing of good seeds in our lives and the lives of others.

At the time of Lughnasadh, summer has reached its peak and while we bask in its afterglow, we too understand that Autumn has crept ever so closer and with-it darker nights and cooler days.

So, whilst it is a time of rejoicing, it is also time for preparing for the coming cooler months.

Since this is a time of beginning and an awareness that Summer is ending, you may like to spend some time more time outside, you may also like to acknowledge this turning point of the year by letting go (harvesting) so that we may receive (reaping).

The Kybalion:

The Principle of Cause & Effect

“Everything Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognised; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.” – The Kybalion.

Play the game of life they say! Your effort bears your results – This is Harvest Season, so what you sow so shall you reap.

For me this Hermetic Principle is the culmination & practice of the first 5 laws (which are Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity & Rhythm). When we learn to apply the first 5 laws this greatly assists us in being the causer instead of being the effected.

February to May is Harvest… but I wonder what will be harvested… both literally and metaphysically. Look at what has risen in your world. It may not be what you envisioned, but then again maybe it actually is, just not in the form or way your imagined…. What were your prayers exactly?

This passage in the The Wheel of the Year is about getting clear especially between now and spring, working with the harvest energy reaping & harvesting. Realising and accepting that which needs to be cleared now and what you are gathering and grateful for.

And as we near the end of another earth cycle, I sit in contemplation of the past nine months and see what my harvest and what my reaping will be. I can see the changes I have gone through, where I have let myself and others down, where I have been stunted in my own growth and therefore the growth of others ~ this is my harvesting.

However, I also do see where I have stepped up and assisted not only myself but others. What I have transformed within myself and therefore transformed in others. I can see clearly that which matters and see those that matter also ~ this is my reaping.

And with still more time before we begin to draw our energies and focus within, we can let go of even more and nurture what remains till then. And with harvest season now just around the corner, what will be your gain and what will be your loss? What was the cause that now you see the effect?

The Noble Eightfold Path:

Right Mindfulness ~ conscious awareness

The Buddhist Path for the Cessation of Suffering, and the fourth of The Four Noble Truths. The application guide for living a spiritually purposeful life. The Eightfold Path, although referred to as steps on a path, is not meant as a sequential learning process, but as eight aspects of life, all of which are to be integrated in every day life.

Seeing the 8 Rights as a guiding light along the path to self-mastery. As a tool to remind us to come back into balance, knowing and direction.

Right Mindfulness asks us to be aware of the journey in the moment, and to be clear and not distracted at that moment. This moment now. Right Mindfulness is closely linked with meditation and forms the basis of meditation. While Right Effort may be an easy concept for most of us, Right Mindfulness is somewhat more trickier to grasp, and will very likely involve quite a change in the way you think.

Right Mindfulness means being aware of the moment, and being focused in that moment.

Right Mindfulness asks us to be Aware of Things, Aware of One Self, Aware of Other Peoples and above all, Aware of Reality as it is, not as we think it should be.

Every day we have outside influences impacting us in some way shape or form. When we travel somewhere, we are hearing noises, seeing buildings, trees, advertising, feeling the movement, thinking of those we left behind, thinking of our destination. So it is with most moments of our lives, at times it can be overwhelming.

Right Mindfulness is not asking us to exclude the world, but in fact, just the opposite. Right Mindfulness is asking us to be aware of the moment, and of our actions in the moment. By being aware, we are able to see how old patterns and habits control us. In this awareness, we may see how fears of possible futures limit our present actions.

With more awareness, there will be more options, with more options we have more chances of making positive changes within and without of ourselves.

Weaving them all together...

What were your prayers exactly?

What are you harvesting (letting go) and what are you reaping (receiving)?

Remember where Focus Goes, Energy Flows, Reality Grows, Results Show, but most people are not aware of their deeper thoughts in the first instance and are mostly acting from fear or auto-pilot to be mindful of their focus and what they are actually still feeding energy to or into. The answer lays within the being and staying present in the moment. In the moment with how you feel and think and either do something about it or relax into the moment.

The practice now is then during this harvest season to bring the wheel of the year, the universal principle of cause and effect, together with Right Mindfulness.

One practice is to try the same walk (activity) as before but with a more focused mind, which means concentrating not only on the action of the walking (activity), but observing your thoughts and consciously awareness of your actual surroundings.

This practice not only brings you into your physical body, posture, comfortableness and physical sensations, grounding us into the present moment, it also assists in being more aware of your thoughts and emotions, giving pause instead of reaction, giving wisdom instead of knowledge.

Sometimes though, have you ever found yourself so completely absorbed in what you are doing? Whatever it may be you are doing or being ~ meditation, music, art, sport, work. Have you ever done anything where your mind is only with that activity? At that moment, you are mindful.

However, we need to very mindfully aware when something or someone has captured our attention, focus and/or energy, and we end up loosing ourselves in that or them. That is different story. The word entertainment is a very interesting word when you break it down. Remembering that words have meaning and we speak and spell words as a form of magic: Enter(welcome)tain(hold)ment(mind). So entertainment to me means agreeing to something or someone to capture my thoughts. And on an energetic level this is extremely dangerous in the form of manipulation. But not all entertainment is negative, however be mindful when it comes from the outside in, not the inside out. Your attention then is on the outside of you and your are not being present, grounded or consciously aware. When we ourselves are partaking in the activity, whatever that is, and we are focused on what is at hand, then our attention is from the inside out. And carries a different vibration.

So this harvest season try being more present in the moment, in the mundane of life. For this is when and where we participate in the magic of our own lives.

Blessings,

Mim

Lughnasadh 2026