Journal Prompts for Autumn

1. 1 What is falling away in your life right now, the way leaves fall: naturally, without force?
2. 2 Describe the quality of tonight's light or darkness. How does the earlier sunset sit with you?
3. 3 Write about something you are reluctant to let go of, even though its season has passed.
4. 4 What harvest are you gathering from the work and growth of the past months?
5. 5 How does the cooling air change your evening routine? What do you reach for when the chill arrives?
6. 6 Write about an autumn from your past that shaped who you are now.
7. 7 What does your inner landscape look like tonight: lush, bare, somewhere in between?
8. 8 Is there a conversation you have been putting off that feels more urgent as the year contracts?
9. 9 Write about the beauty you find in impermanence. What is beautiful precisely because it will not last?
10. 10 What nourishes you on these darker evenings: a meal, a practice, a person, a place?
11. 11 Describe the sounds of autumn where you are. What do you hear when you stop and listen?
12. 12 What are you composting (old beliefs, spent ambitions, relationships) so that something new can grow?
13. 13 How do you feel about the year that remains? Is there still time for what matters to you?
14. 14 Write about a ritual or tradition that anchors you during the autumn months.
15. 15 What truth have you been avoiding that the shorter days keep bringing to the surface?
16. 16 Who or what are you most grateful for as you settle into this quieter chapter of the year?
17. 17 As the night deepens around you, what would you like to make peace with before winter arrives?

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