{"id":419,"date":"2011-11-01T03:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T03:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=419"},"modified":"2011-11-01T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T03:34:07","slug":"harvest-the-fruits-of-your-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2011\/11\/harvest-the-fruits-of-your-labor.html","title":{"rendered":"Harvest the Fruits of Your Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/2011\/11\/harvest-the-fruits-of-your-labor.html\/img_4516\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-421 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2011\/11\/IMG_4516-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Now that Halloween is behind us and we have switched from the \u201clighter half\u201d of the year into the \u201cdarker half.\u201d The approaching winter and it\u2019s darkness as Goethe put it allows us \u201cto hold it all\u201d to enter the rich conversation with mother earth and go inward, to gestate the next planting.<\/p>\n<p>Take this moment to seize the opportunity to own what you need to own, to fearlessly step into the darker part of the year, and to grow into the grounded rootedness of your truest self.<\/p>\n<p>Mark November as your harvest time, and absolutely reap what you have sown. If your harvest is sweet, treasure your efforts. If it is sour, treasure your efforts. Remembering the lesson. In the planting we learn, in the harvest we grow and no matter what, there is absolutely always a new season to begin again.<\/p>\n<p>May all your relationships be made holy including and especially the one with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>May you have peace. May you have joy and may you have love. Whatever comes your way may you remember the truth of yourself and allow it to be met with grace and ease and may all your efforts be guided with a divine hand.<\/p>\n<p>I ask only that love\u2019s will be done and allow every action and thought to spring from this well of truth in absolute safety for us and with us and around us.<\/p>\n<p>This is our collective will.<\/p>\n<p>With infinite love and gratitude!<\/p>\n<p>Melanie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Halloween is behind us and we have switched from the \u201clighter half\u201d of the year into the \u201cdarker half.\u201d The approaching winter and it\u2019s darkness as Goethe put it allows us \u201cto hold it all\u201d to enter the rich conversation with mother earth and go inward, to gestate the next planting. Take this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-love-you"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harvest the Fruits of Your Labor - Flight of the Soul<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2011\/11\/harvest-the-fruits-of-your-labor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harvest the Fruits of Your Labor - Flight of the Soul\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now that Halloween is behind us and we have switched from the \u201clighter half\u201d of the year into the \u201cdarker half.\u201d The approaching winter and it\u2019s darkness as Goethe put it allows us \u201cto hold it all\u201d to enter the rich conversation with mother earth and go inward, to gestate the next planting. 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