Fall Equinox is a traditional time of thanksgiving celebrations around the world. Fall is the time of harvesting, and also the time to take stock of what you harvest personally. If your returns this season are not what you hoped, now is the time to reflect, find your balance and look for what within you must change to assure greater success in the coming year.
Join in the flow of the times and add your appreciation for all you’ve experienced and received this past year – and your Joyful expectations for the coming year. You are setting your own future in motion now with a potent surge of energy during the transition point. Don’t miss it. Very soon everything changes.
From the Equinox forward, the night’s lengthen and the days shorten. All of life turns within. You are moving from your more “Yang” masculine, action oriented self, into the realms of the inner-world, the “Yin” and your feminine, intuitive, receptive, creative self.
Fall Equinox: Science Facts
“Autumn” is a derivative of the Latin “autumnus.” Equinox literally means “equal night.” Day and night are each 12 hours, and the sun rises in true east and sets in true west. The Sun appears to “stand still” and finds balance before continuing. After the Equinox you view the most rapid change in the Sun’s apparent motion.
“Everyone must take
time to sit and watch
the leaves turn.”
Elizabeth Lawrence
As the nights lengthen and cool, the trees change into their Fall colors. The time of harvest is the time of gathering in fruits, vegetables and grains for Winter. The abundant harvest is symbolized by the horn of plenty or the cornucopia overflowing with Fall bounty and huge feasts, music and dancing.
The Fall Equinox, in the Northern Hemisphere, is the point at which the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator from north to south. In the Southern Hemisphere, the opposite is seen, and there it is the time of Spring Equinox.
The equinoxes are points moving in a westward direction known as the “precession of the equinoxes.” It takes 25,800 years for the equinoxes to pass through all the constellations of the zodiac. That time period is noted historically in the Vedic and Mayan texts as prophesizing great worldwide changes…Like the Age of Aquarius.
Fall Equinox in story and myth.
Stories and myth are the histories of a culture – some from religious texts and some from verbal traditions. The truths, wisdom and teachings of the time are embedded within parables, songs and dances. The Wheel of the Solar Seasons has turned, cycling through another year once again. Your time is circular not linear, there is no end without new beginnings, and no new beginnings that will not end. It is the Flow of Good Fortune to an ever-expanding future, and the flow of life eternal.
Stories and Myths of the inward journey
There are many wisdom teachings that tell of the same inward journey, and all are around the Fall Equinox. They are from different cultures and times and yet speak of the same cycle. An example is the myth of Persephone. (more…)
