What If Something New Is Coming?
October has arrived while the weather still seems slightly undecided about the whole thing. There is warmth hanging around, but the clues are everywhere now: darker evenings, leaves beginning to turn, that particular smell in the air and the first quiet instinct to prepare ourselves for the colder months ahead.
October Notes: “Grounding, Gathering and Growing as a Herbalist”
October in England always feels like a quiet exhale. The light softens, the mornings are misted, and the hedgerows glow with berries. Autumn began here on the 23rd of September, but in October we really feel it settle — the damp scent of earth, the crunch of leaves underfoot, and that ancient tug to slow down.