October 2025: Autumn Rhythms, Metal Energy & Soul Alignment

October is a month of release, balance, and intuitive guidance. As autumn deepens and the air turns crisp, the Aries Full Moon illuminates what’s ready to be released, the Libra New Moon invites us to plant seeds of harmony, and Halloween opens a mystical doorway to ancestral wisdom and energetic insight. This is a season to clear what no longer serves you, root deeply into your body and nervous system, and align with your soul’s next chapter. Below, you’ll find EMYoga practices, an October Meditation Ritual, Akashic journal prompts, and gentle energy tools—all designed to support you in moving through October with clarity, calm, and soul-aligned intention.

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> Embracing the Metal Element: Releasing Grief and Finding Inspiration in Autumn
Autumn is a season of transition—a time when the world naturally begins to slow down, leaves fall, and the air carries a crisp sense of letting go. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this seasonal energy aligns with the Metal element, which governs the lungs and large intestine. Beyond the physical, Metal energy is associated with release, clarity, discernment, and emotional purification, particularly around grief, sadness, and what no longer serves us.
Just as trees shed their leaves to make room for new growth, we're also invited to release excess emotional weight and energies, making space for clarity, insight, inspiration, and renewal. The Metal element encourages us to let go with grace, trust the natural cycles of life, and open ourselves to new beginnings.
One simple, effective practice from The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription by Lauren Walker allows you to gently release grief while soothing the nervous system:
Release Excess Grief: Metal Hold

1. Place one hand on the crown of your head and the other over your forehead.
2. Take several slow, deep breaths, allowing your body to soften and settle.
3. On each exhale, make a soft “Ssssss” sound, imagining emotional tension or grief gently melting away.
4. Continue as long as it feels good, noticing the space and lightness that emerges.

Metal Element Themes to Explore in Autumn:

• Letting Go: Release what no longer serves you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.
• Clarity and Discernment: Tune into what truly matters and align your choices accordingly.
• Boundaries and Self-Care: Honor your energy and create space for renewal.
• Integration: Balance inner reflection with outward expression, preparing for the next season of growth.

As the season of Metal invites reflection and release, consider this practice a gentle reminder: Autumn isn’t just about endings—it’s about making room for what's ready to emerge next, in the perfect way, in the perfect timing.

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Balance and Becoming: An October Meditation Ritual with Crystal & Plant Allies
Set Your Space
Begin by anointing your wrists or diffusing Clary Sage to invite intuitive clarity, Cedarwood for grounding protection, and Mugwort or Frankincense to open the channel between worlds. These plant allies create a sacred container—earthy, expansive, and ready to hold your deepest stillness.
Begin
Find a comfortable seated or lying position. Close your eyes and take a slow, steady breath in. Exhale with a soft sigh, allowing your body to settle and release. Feel your shoulders drop, your jaw unclench, and your spine lengthen—making space for ease, flow, and your inner guidance.
Body Scan
Bring your awareness from the crown of your head slowly down to your toes. Notice where tension or holding patterns linger. With each exhale, imagine these areas melting and softening—your breath clearing space for balance and renewal. Rest here a few breaths, inviting calm into every cell.
Invite the Connection & Ask
From this stillness, call in your Wise Inner Self, Divine Source, and Ancestors of the Highest Light. Feel their loving presence surrounding you. 
Ask:

• What whispers of guidance am I hearing from within—and how can I trust them more fully?
• Where do I feel out of balance—and what gentle practices might restore harmony?
• What ancestral or soul wisdom feels ready to come forward this season?

 Let images, sensations, or quiet knowing arise without judgment, without editing, or needing to make sense of them.
Weaving Source Energy
Visualize a soft, luminous current of Source energy flowing through your body, weaving light through your heart, mind, and spirit. Imagine/feel/sense it filling your body and field with energies of unconditional love, balance, harmony, ease, peace, well-being, and abundance of all good things. 
Crystal Intention Integration
Hold your chosen crystal ally--Labradorite for intuitive clarity, Smoky Quartz for grounding and nervous system calm, or Moonstone for emotional balance and cyclical wisdom.
As you hold it, imagine/feel/sense/intend for the Highest Light Source Energies to fill the crystal, invoking balance, harmony, and peaceful alignment. Feel the crystal pulsing in resonance, amplifying these energies and anchoring them deep into your body and field.
Closing & Anchoring
Take a few final deep breaths, allowing these energies to settle within. Offer gratitude for the plant and crystal allies, your Spirit Team, and your Inner Being/your Self.
When you’re ready, open your eyes and return with clarity, steadiness, and renewed harmony.
Mantra
With each breath, I remember: I am both grounded and infinite, human and divine.
I am ease, I am grace, I am joy.

Place your crystal on your altar or a sacred space, and each day, visualize the Highest Light Source energy weaving through it—infusing your body and field with sacred grounding, balance, and grace throughout the season.

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May this season of crisp air and shifting light guide you to release, balance, and move with ease, harmony, and the quiet magic of your own wisdom. And so it is.

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