🌑 Shadow and Seed: Two Days Until the Gate Opens

Hello, fellow seeker—

In two days, the hinge turns.

September doesn’t arrive with heat or thunder; it comes with a hush, a blade, a shadowed moon. The Corn Moon eclipses, Virgo sorts the sheaves, Libra weighs the vows, and Mabon steadies us at the threshold of equal night and day. This is not a season for spectacle. It is a season for distillation.

What’s coming isn’t content. It’s a companion for descent — a framework of ritual, breath, and devotion to carry you through the darkening half:

🌾 Weekly rites to meet the Corn Moon’s eclipse, Virgo’s tending hand, and the Equinox’s perfect balance
🔮 A Celtic Cross Tarot spread to weigh what must be carried forward, and what must be laid down in the soil

🧘 Three immersive guided meditations:
🌕 Corn Moon Eclipse — To Be Unmade and Fed by Shadow
🌿 In the Grove of Quiet Precision — A Virgo Season Meditation
🍂 Mabon — In the House of the Dying Light

📓 A harvest journal to winnow husk from kernel, shadow from seed
🌙 A lunar calendar mapped to September’s great turnings:
Corn Moon Eclipse (9/7), Last Quarter Waning (9/15), Libra New Moon (9/21), Mabon Equinox (9/22)

✨ Five spell cards to anchor your practice in hand and hearth:
🌑 Spell of Eclipse Shedding
⚖️ Libra Moon Equilibrium Rite
🌿 Virgo Threshold Tending
🍂 Mabon Balancing Charm
🌌 Spell for Dreaming What’s Next

These aren’t rituals for performance. They are tools for survival and devotion, to steady your hands in the work of release, and to help you walk with intention into the darker half. Whether you can give a night or only a breath, this month will meet you where you are.

Two more days. Gather your husks. Prepare to listen.

Much love,

Kent Schroer
The Dark Primordial

P.S. When the shadow falls across the moon, you’ll remember what to do.