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September never arrives all at once. It comes quietly through cooler mornings, earlier sunsets, ripening berries and the first leaves beginning to turn. Summer may still be holding the afternoons, but something in the air has changed. The light is softer. The shadows are longer. The evenings are asking us to come home.
This is a threshold month, neither entirely summer nor fully autumn. It gives us time to notice what is fading, gather what we want to keep and prepare for the darker months ahead. You may feel drawn to clean your altar, light candles earlier, return to neglected books or make your home feel warmer and safer. Follow that pull. Your body often recognises the changing season before the calendar does.
September is standing with the door open. What are you ready to carry through?
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• The Crowned Spirit of the Wild
• First Signs of “By Far the Most Paradoxical” Season
• Late Summer Blooms – 2025 | 2016
• Summer’s End – 2024 | 2021
• Threshold Musings
Image: Michael J. Bayly.
Come down, O love; may not our hands still meet,
Since still we live to-day, forgetting June,
Forgetting May, deeming October sweet –
– O hearken! through the afternoon,
The grey tower sings a strange old tinkling tune!
Sweet, sweet, and sad, the toiling year’s last breath,
Too satiate of life to strive with death.
And we too – will it not be soft and kind,
That rest from life, from patience and from pain;
That rest from bliss we know not when we find;
That rest from Love which ne’er the end can gain? –
– Hark, how the tune swells, that erewhile did wane!
Look up love! – ah, cling close and never move!
How can I have enough of life and love?
• Photo of the Day – October 17, 2025
• October Vignettes (2024)
• October Vignettes (2023)
• October Afternoon
• An Autumn Walk Through the Neighborhood
• Autumn: Season of Transformation and Surrender
• Holding the Moment
• “Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”
• Autumn’s “Wordless Message”
• O Sacred Season of Autumn
• “Thou Hast Thy Music Too”
• Season of the Soul
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 20, 2024
• The Autumn Garden (2024)
• The Autumn Garden (2022)
• Autumnal Thoughts and Visions (2022)
• Autumn – Within and Beyond (2021)
• Autumn – Within and Beyond (2018)
• Autumn – Within and Beyond (2016)
• Autumn Beauty (2015)
• Autumnal (and Rather Pagan) Thoughts on the Making of “All Things New”
• An Autumn Walk Along Minnehaha Creek
• Autumn Psalm
• Autumn Hues
• Autumn by the Creek
• From the River to the Falls
• Autumn Dance
• The Prayer Tree . . . Aflame!
• “This Autumn Land Is Dreaming”
• Time to Go Inwards
• To Dream, to Feel, to Listen
Images: Michael J. Bayly.
