Michaelmas: Embracing the Dragon

Michaelmas: Embracing the Dragon

Michaelmas is the feast day on the Christian calendar when the archangel Michael is celebrated. Intentionally situated near the Autumn Equinox and the quickly darkening days, this festival requires a mythological imagination as we seek light within our communities and courage to face the dragons in our midst!

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Trials and Trails that Wound: How We Learn from the Dragon

Trials and Trails that Wound: How We Learn from the Dragon

We are coming into the season of Michaelmas, the ancient festival time of St. Michael who is connected to myths and lore around harvest abundance and more prominently, dragons. St. Michael is an archetypal representation of our inner light and courage that is called forth when scarcity is nigh. This scarcity and its corresponding fear is our dragon, one that we all must meet.

Yes, dragons and the dark woods within which they live, can scar us. But instead of killing the beast in return, can we learn to ride the dragon, and see our scars as sacred?

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Michaelmas-Dragons and Delight

Michaelmas-Dragons and Delight

Michaelmas is a relatively new seasonal celebration for my family.  While I've always grown up with an attunement to the season's shifts from Summer's boisterous bounty to Autumn's slow and silent movement towards interior living, this special feast day and its long-time celebrations were not known to me. However, its themes of harvest and community, threat and injustice and, ultimately, a light that vanquishes all are ones with which I deeply resonate.

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