Michaelmas
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The festival of Michaelmas follows on the Autumnal Equinox, celebrating the Archangel who guides this time of year. Michael is the spiritual regent of the current spiritual development of human consciousness. They are creating appropriate festival celebrations to encapsulate this strong convergence of the equinox with the cosmic leader. Michael is necessary for the future as well as for the present. This collection of essays about Michael and Michaelmas is helpful in guiding development of this festival. Waldorf schools worldwide have celebrated this festival for decades, and many have long-standing traditions for hailing the regent and the time of year. The festival helps children and adults to unite with the forces of heaven and the forces of earth and the seasons.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.
In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.
He lives in Ireland.
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