Grounding for the Equinox

Autumn Equinox & Grounding

The Autumn Equinox is a time of balance - light and dark, growth and release - and connecting to the earth steadies your spirit as the days shift. Grounding your energy helps you move in harmony with the turning seasons.

Prepare for the coming Equinox by practicing a few simple grounding exercises. Create space to let go of what no longer serves you and prepare to receive the quiet gifts of the darker months ahead.

Simple Grounding Exercises

• Get outside and stand barefoot on bare ground

• Increase your mineral intake by adding a pinch of sea salt to your drinking water

• If you are lucky enough to live near the ocean, walk barefoot on the sand while soaking up the salt air and negative ions produced by the crashing waves

• Create a calming tea blend with herbs like lavender, lemon balm, raspberry leaf, and chamomile*

  * Consult a healthcare professional: If you have underlying health conditions, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or are taking any medications, it is wise to consult a doctor before consuming herbal teas. Patch test for allergies: People with allergies to ragweed may have a reaction to chamomile.

Grounding Products We Love

• Woodstock Candle soy wax candle by Shy Wolf

  

  Smells like bare feet on trampled grass with notes of indic.a bud, cypress, and violet leaf.

• Obsidian Crystal Jars

  

  Obsidian crystals are associated with protection, grounding, and tranquility.

  

• Midnight Bloom Floral White Sage

  When burned the smoke has been said to bring one back into balance, cleansing the body and mind of negative spirits and impurities.

From the Bookshelves

Learn some energy balancing and grounding techniques with these titles....

• Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick, and Manifestation by Matt Auryn

  A practical guide to using the sacred herbs of Samhain for healing, divination, purification, protection, magic, and as tools for contacting the Spirits.

  

• Sacred Smoke: Clear Away Negative Energies and Purify Body, Mind, and Spirit by Amy Blackthorn

  “No matter your faith,” writes Amy Blackthorn, “practicing with sacred smoke is a powerful way to make your intentions known and support change in your life. . . ."