Dear Subscriber First Name

I hope you have had a lovely September. As a Taiwanese, I'd like to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with you today. We celebrate the Harvest Moon in its fullest form of the year, with gratitude for the harvest of everything we have put our effort and heart into. We usually celebrate this day with a BBQ among family, friends, and community, so if you were in Taiwan right now, no body working today till next week, and the air would be filled with food, especially the smell of BBQ at night, every street would be filled with people grilling outside under the full moon, and the fireworks would light up the sky all night, or for a few days! It is almost like Chinese New Year, but more lighthearted and a lot of fun!

After today, our collective consciousness shifts from giving of ourselves to work or to others, and turns more toward ourselves. We reflect more about how this year has been for us, by ourselves or share with others, and how we can invite more ease, nourished, and joyful in the following months as the daylight gets shorter each day until February. We become more aware of the time and the shortening light, so we spend our time and energy more consciously, less busyness and doing, more nourishment and receiving, we learn to adapting with the Wheel of season for greater balance.