There was a time when I would have taken blackberries as a first sign of autumn, but more normally now they appear around my home in August. I think of apples as very much an autumnal thing and yet here we are at the end of August, and I've seen windfall apples. The stress caused by drought has turned some trees early - although not to many where I live.
There is however a crispness in the air first thing in the morning. It's the uneasy taste of a new school term that reminds my body of stresses from the past. Which is a pity because of itself, that morning crispness is delightful and welcome.
I'm watching grass returning to life now that the days are less hot and we've had some rain. So while in theory the end of summer is supposed to be about harvest and things dying off, that's not what's happening on my doorstep. Climate chaos is impacting on the wheel of the year. I think it's really important not to insist on those old stories about what happens when, but to be alert to what's happening now. And anyway, the wheel of the year was always far more complicated than the stories Pagans like to tell about it.
No matter where you are in the wheel of the year, something is always starting and something is always dying.
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