The signs as fall aesthetics

darkfyretheumbrawitch:

Aries: bonfires, cinnamon, golden autumn sunlight, stepping on leaves and feeling them crunch under your feet, halloween

Taurus: tea lights, oversized sweaters, hot spiced apple cider, autumn wreaths, brown sugar

Gemini: forests filled with changing leaves, fall fairy lights, jack-o-lanterns, candy corn, crisp apples

Cancer: cozy blankets, red noses and cheeks from the cold, the first sip of a pumpkin spice latte, baggy clothes and messy hair, rainy days cozying up with blankets and warm drinks

Leo: boots and socks, caramel apples and candies, thanksgiving festivities and food, the feeling of drinking something warm on a cool day

Virgo: crisp air, pumpkin patches, rainy days, farmer’s markets, the smell of cinnamon in houses and stores

Libra: the feeling of being bundled up, hayrides, Halloween candy, driving with the windows down on a cool sunny day

Scorpio: hardwood floors, hot chocolate, seeing your breath in the cold, Halloween decorations, roasting marshmallows on an open fire

Sagittarius: apple picking, fuzzy socks that keep your feet warm, walks in the woods bundled up in cozy clothes, the smell of fire in the cold, trick or treating at dusk

Capricorn: black coffee, overcast days, chilly mornings and nights, flannel shirts, pumpkin pie

Aquarius: jumping into piles of leaves, reading outside in the cool air, scarecrows, feeling the warmth of sunlight on a cold day

Pisces: haunted houses, drinking hot drinks outside on chilly days, apple pie, foggy days, frost on the leaves and grass in the mornings

goddess29:

“The early modern ‘fairy faith,’ if we can call it that was an amalgamation of many of the animistic beliefs and rituals surrounding nature spirits, deities, ghosts and so on which had not been completely homogenized into catholic hagiography and the cult of the dead.”

— Emma Wilby, Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits (via coyote-696)