We have now passed the peak of summer and move into the waning of yang. In the Chinese calendar, we celebrate the beginning of fall around August 9th when the qi begins to become more yin. In the Gregorian calendar, we celebrate the beginning of fall at the equinox, the middle of actual fall. In the fall, trees lose their leaves in places where it snows. We can view this as the metaphor for the energy of the autumn season. In the autumn, we deal with letting go of the bounty

The ancients knew that keeping healthy meant staying in harmony with nature’s seasonal changes. The classics say that as people became civilized, they began to diverge from nature’s ways and thus invited disease into their lives. Everything moves cyclically. The sun rises in the morning, warming the earth, we call this baby yang. As it ascends we reach big yang, noon. At the highest point yang begins to wane and to turns into yin. At dusk, it pivots into baby yin. Baby