Transition

In the temperate zone, the time of transition from summer to winter has begun.  Even as the weather becomes cooler, the contraction of summer continues.  The trees become drier and colors become more yang, reds, yellows, and oranges.  Other plants contract as well.  Annuals reach the end of their cycle and some put out seed.

It is time to start transitioning your diet as well.  More cooked foods become appropriate and more yang cooking styles such as longer cooking, stewing, roasting, etc.  Less fruit and more root and ground vegetables are the foods of fall and winter.  These are naturally the foods that preserve well in cool places as well as those foods that pickle well.  Make your own sauerkraut and pickles to last through the winter.  Squash and pumpkin store the sunshine and make it available through the winter.  Hard greens, in some places, will winter over or almost winter over so keep harvesting them and enjoy them as long as possible.

Now is the time to begin to turn inward so close your eyes and sit.  Meditation can make a gloomy day joyful.  Find the marvel of your true self.

Thanks for reading.