Descent and Initiation This week carries the energy of remembrance.Samhain has just passed, the Celtic turning of the year when the veil thins, and across the world candles have been lit for the Day of the Children and the Day of the Dead. Though these traditions arise from different lineages, they share one heartbeat: honoring life and death as inseparable companions, feeding the memory of those we love, and acknowledging that we too belong to this great circle of continuity

The trees do not ask whether it is time to let go of their leaves, they simply know. I wonder how we, too, might learn that kind of...