22/09/2026
Wishing you a Peaceful Autumn Equinox
This is the perfect moment to pause, take a breath and appreciate the beauty all around you
As we move through this Equinox portal I want to share a few chapters from this years Almanac from Lia Leendertz.
IN THE SEPTEMBER WOODS
The woods hang suspended between summer and autumn this month, as we head towards the autumn equinox and the slide towards winter begins. The weather can be hazy and golden, often better than summer itself, but with no denying impending autumn, through colouring leaves and spiderwebs strung out across paths and rides. It is spider mating season, so we now see many larger spiders spinning webs to impress the opposite s*x, as the males come out of hiding to seek a mate. This is also the time that young spiders born in spring reach maturity and practise ‘ballooning’ – spinning a fine silken thread into the air, allowing it to lift and carry them off in search of new territory.
Now begins a time of great bounty. There are fewer insects, but berries ripen in abundance, tempting birds and mammals. Blackberry, elderberry, crab apples, rowan and hawthorn, which all provide excellent calories and nutrients, are needed for the long journeys of summer migrants such as willow warblers, turtle doves, nightingales and spotted flycatchers. They will set off south this month, spreading those seeds far and wide.
Squirrels begin gathering and burying caches of acorns and other nuts. Jays do this, too, often forgetting where they left them, and so are responsible for a great deal of oak planting. Badgers also stockpile for winter – in the September twilight, whole families will emerge from their setts to seek out berries and nuts, as well as earthworms and insects. Hazel dormice, among the sleepiest of all mammals, are eating plenty of fatty hazelnuts for their own winter reserves. On the forest floor you might spot empty hazelnuts with circular holes where the dormice have nibbled their way in. Next month they will be among the first to give in to the shortening days and begin their long hibernation.
If you would like to gather in community under the Full Harvest Moon then join us at Flow, Marlow this Saturday 26th September
Booking Link:
www.flowmarlow.co.uk/events
Blessings
Dom & the team x
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