◑ Root Meditation: Plant your feet firmly on the ground, feet apart and let your mind relax and come to rest in your lower abdomen. Bring back treasures from your walk to put on your equinox altar. Sit with your back against a favorite tree, tune into its descending energy. Gather herbs and fruits to dry for your winter herbal tea. ◑ Go For a Walk in Nature: Enjoy the colors and the smells of the season. If you don’t know where to begin, start with the food you have to eat and the roof over your head. ◑ Make a Gratitude List: Make a list of everything you are thankful for as a way of reaping your inner harvest. Put it in a corner of your house, add your crystals and some candles and use this space for meditation and for setting your intentions for the new season. ◑ Set up a Mabon Altar: Collect autumn leaves in different colors and shapes, seeds, nuts and fruits in a basket. Bring some flowers and incense and do whatever makes you feel nice and recharged! Burn sage to clear your space, wash your crystals and let them charge under the harvest full moon, ring some bells to clear out the psychic dust. ◑ Clear Up Space: It is the time to clean your home, throw or give away unwanted things or emotional associations that hold you back. The intentions we set around this time will stay with us throughout the winter and carry us into the spring. The rituals that accompany it are symbolizing the shift of energy and gratitude for the harvest. Also, the apples, the heather bush, the herbs fennel, marigold, hops, berries and mushrooms are in full power and ready to harvest. It illustrates the in-breath and out-breath, the point of balance between the worlds, the inner and outer journey. The symbol of the Autumnal Equinox is the double spiral. Pausing for a while and appreciating all the gifts and the help that we receive, will open our hearts and increase the flow of love and abundance in our life. Of course, the harvest is coming in many forms, the food that nourishes us, our family and friends, health, hope and beauty, spiritual growth. This is the time to celebrate both sides and honor the changing season which brings a chance to start again, to reclaim the inner balance, and ask for guidance.Īlso, this is a time for Thanksgiving, gratitude for the abundance of the Earth just by the end of the bountiful harvest of summer crops and fruits. Everything co-exists together and we need both sides in order to be balanced. The darkness and the light within, contraction and expansion, the Yin and the Yang, the old, and the new. Mythologically, the Autumn Equinox is the time when Persephone salutes her mother Demeter on earth, takes her pomegranate (which contains all of earth’s fertile seasonal Seeds) below ground, and spends the next six months with her husband in Hades.Īs the Sun enters the sign of Libra, it is time for balancing opposites and see them as parts of the whole. After this day the nights will grow bigger until the Winter Solstice when we meet the largest night of the year. The word equinox is derived from the Latin aequusmeaning “equal” and noxmeaning “night”. It is the Autumnal Equinox or the Mabon in the Pagan calendar. But there is just one moment, one transition point when everything pauses in complete balance! It is when the Sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is almost equal. Summer is gone and the Sun is traveling to the South hemisphere taking the hot and big days with him… Fall is coming with the sweet yellow, orange and brown colors bringing a cool breeze as the trees are ready to let go of their dead leaves and the plants are throwing their seeds to sleep underground until they wake up again with the spring light… The birds are following the Sun to the South and energy is shifting from outwards to inwards. “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye…”
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