Day meets night and where their bodies touch, sparks fly. Yesterday the daily occurrence reached the peak of its usual intensity: for the briefest moment, the forces reigned together.
My eyes glittered with amusement as I watched the friction created by the cosmic dance of the opposites as they moved through the culminating part. Are they fighting for dominion over the Earth or coming together in an ecstatic consummation?
Equinox. Equi-nox — “equal night”. The point in time when day and night are in a fleeting balance before we dip into the light or dark part of the year.
Yesterday Autumn Equinox announced the arrival of the darker part of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. This time is associated with feminine qualities like rest, receptivity, intuition, emotion, introspection, magick, healing, cooling, empathy, nurturing, and more.
But darkness doesn’t always feel nurturing and caring, does it? We tend to be afraid of the dark. It may obliterate us. We may get lost. We do not know what awaits us in the shadows.
We cannot see our way in the dark and so we are left to feel it.
As we begin our descent into the Underworld, into the womb of the year, we are asked to shed unnecessary layers. We let go, stripping ourselves like fields and trees do: what can be a nourishment during long winter nights will be preserved and what no longer is needed will be turned into fertile compost.
But this journey is not for the faint-hearted. A resourced state is necessary to withstand the peeling of the layers in the dark without losing hope of an eventual dawn.
One way to unlock the feeling of resourcefulness is to remember what you have already managed to cultivate in your life. Speaking in agricultural terms: gather the harvest. The joy and the sorrow, the highs and the lows — owning it all is how we remember our creative power as human beings.
Recognise
your
Power
It is easy to slip into thinking that what one does is not a big deal and that other people have it better or have to work harder for the same things. Do not do that. Acknowledge your Power and your ability to shape your life.
Even our failures turn into gold when we see them as lessons.
I speak more about practical applications of seasonal metaphors and attuning to this turn of the Wheel in the essay about Equinox that I wrote last year. You may indulge it here:
Happy Equinox, from my corner of the world to yours!
See you soon in your inboxes.
Take care,
Nika