September Equinox 2025

Autumn has made its entrance in the Northern Hemisphere. We can tell by the quality of light, the shift in atmosphere, the early morning chill, the change in the plants’ and trees' response to the sun and air. After a dry summer, I am thinking of the returning, drenched green fields and dreaming of bonfires on cool nights. And just as we make this shift into the shedding season, we've moved through our second eclipse of the month, which lays bare the interplay of light and dark that balances through the shoulder seasons. What does this seasonal shift mean to you? How do you greet it?

It seems that balance is challenging us on many different levels this year. Some days I carry a feeling that, in order to make lasting change in our society, we must surrender what we’ve known. I, and perhaps you too, have experienced this truth in the process of personal growth and awakening, so I imagine it could also be true on a collective level. 

I’ve hoped that we can get through this surrender without lighting everything on fire, so to speak, but it feels more and more as if the constructs that we’ve known are being destroyed so we can build something better, stronger, more sustainable, more humane, more balanced in the aftermath. It’s as if we need to witness blatant atrocity, injustice, rights violations, inhumane acts, overreach of power, in order to understand what we’ve built, what we’ve been complicit in without even knowing it.

If we react in a way that exerts control in the opposite direction, we only perpetuate the problematic constructs. If we understand that we must start with a new origin, built over the ruins but also incorporating some old ideas that can support a new balance, we might yet find that balance.

As we move through this season of shedding, we can align with it personally by finding ways to let go of what’s weighing us down or what no longer supports our well-being. For me that includes letting go of clutter (an ongoing process...); old dreams that take up space needed for new dreams; limiting beliefs, including beliefs that there is no hope; ignorance about others and about myself; and anything else my intuition calls me to. We can support the breakdown that the season brings by offering these energies to the Earth, which can transform them into positive creative energy for the planet and for humanity. And then, in the Northern Hemisphere in March and in the Southern Hemisphere now and next September, we can cultivate this energy as new life, new growth.

Sending blessings of personal peace to you at this moment of balance of the dark and light, of stillness and activity, of engagement and withdrawal 🍁🍄

Warmly,
Kathryn