You already know you are a queen. Do you reign in autumn? If seven or more of these statements apply to you, the elves owe you a crown.
• You love velvet.
• Cool air puts a bounce in your step and hope in your heart.
• Forget roses and diamonds (for the moment)—your favorite tiara is all chestnuts and amber.
• You look forward to the way leaf fall unclutters the sky, especially at night—it’s easier to spot bats and nighthawks that way. You stay up late and use binoculars to track flocks of migrating birds, which almost always travel after dark. Not to mention gazing at the moon, the stars, the fairies fluttering among the moths …
• You could eat mushroom stew five nights a week.
• Everything just feels better when you’re wearing a cape.
• Like Mary Poppins, you travel on the West Wind.
• You’ve already outfitted your mannequin with an old prom dress, and you’re stapling colorful leaves all over it.
• Part of the beauty you see is watching the leaves turn crunchy and brown.
• You collect Victorian jewelry, particularly memento mori.
• You celebrate the autumnal equinox as an elf. Or a fairy. With some witch work. Or by gathering your pagan friends together for a fabulous Mabon feast.
• So you’ve spotted a few grays. You cherish them and hope to see more very soon.
• You would wear actual spiderwebs if you could. Failing that, you have a favorite crocheted lace shawl.
• You have seriously considered moving to Australia for half the year so you can have two autumns.
• A witch lives in your dollhouse.
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