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Sep 25 2026

The Autumn Equinox 2026

Ancient moss-covered tree beside a winding path through an autumn forest
Forest of Breath

What You Can See When You Close Your Eyes

I’ve spent the past couple of days thinking a lot about the Autumn Equinox. It’s one of two beginnings we get all year where we feel a shimmering breath of stillness and balance, where light and dark see each other as partners, as equals… for just a tiny moment. At the Spring Equinox we’re moving into new life and then the heat and color of Summer… but here, now, we’re moving into a season of harvesting what’s ready to nourish you through the shadows, moving into longer hours to rest as the days shorten… and then, comes Winter and darkness.

This Autumn Equinox gives you a lovely pause that you can step into, that you can breathe in and make yours. You can stop moving forward. Stop looking back. You can simply be, suspended between one moment and the next… it’s a threshold. It’s rather like that space just as you’re falling asleep (Autumn) and then again, just as you’re waking up (Spring). The whole of Autumn is a threshold for something not quite tangible.

I said one of two beginnings because the energy that surrounds us when something is born is the defining energy for the whole life of the thing… in this case Autumn. Everything has a beginning and with astrology we can both map and interpret any moment’s energetic signature. You have a birth chart, and so does Autumn.

The energy of this year’s Autumn Equinox opens a beautifully unbounded window into things that can feel like sanctuary. The Libra Sun arrives at this exquisite pause between light and dark, and directly opposite is Neptune in Aries, saying: there are ways of knowing that do not happen through effort, or action, or argument, or even accomplishment. There are things you can only encounter when the ordinary solar ego surrenders to something beyond or inside the Self. Or both.

While the Aries Neptune spills toward the other-oriented Libra Sun, you can enter that stream and flow toward the realm of the subliminal… let yourself merge into the threshold that now exists… open to how you’re enriched when you reach into other realms of being besides constant wakefulness… constant on-ness…  that’s Aries… being on fire. Neptune softens that. It becomes more shimmer than heat. If you use this opening creatively, spiritually, you enter an inner environment that’s guided by allowing, by stillness. This is when you learn to trust those liminal tendrils that curl into dreams, into beauty, into love… things that have no body and no fight… but that are openings to another kind of knowing… intuition, inspiration, trust… the Divine. The Divine is an opening that pulls you toward places where you sense what is true and holy.

Every Equinox offers balance. And balance arrives when you can live from your consciousness and will, and also from your interior places, from where beauty and awe, inspiration and intuition rise. They are counters to each other, just as our waking and sleeping lives are. Both are enriched by being nourished by the other.

What happens if you allow yourself to stop being on? To sense instead of do. When you willingly soften consciousness and flow into sleep and dreams. When you deeply experience music and art. When you let beauty move you so profoundly you weep. What happens when you fully love? When you trust your intuition. When you let inspiration work its magic. When you pray knowing you’re tapped into the Divine. When you fully recognize knowing that arrives before you can explain how you know it.

This Autumn invites you into more than the waking mind can apprehend. The gift now, as the light slants, and the leaves take on vibrant hues before their release, is balance between the consciousness that acts upon the world and your interior world filled with dreams, intuition, and awe. Go with the energy of this Equinox Season into sleep. Into the forest. Into that loosening of waking consciousness where another form of perception becomes available. Let yourself go in and under and in-between. Between what you can know by looking directly and what you can only see when you close your eyes.

Forest of Breath:
An Autumn Guided Imagery Meditation for Sleep

For this Equinox, I’ve created Forest of Breath: A Guided Imagery Meditation for Sleep for you, where you’ll walk into an Autumn forest where breath, body, trees, and night can bring you gently back to yourself, and lead you into that space that you can only see by closing your eyes…

Take it with you into the season.

The light is changing.

There is beauty here.

Enter the forest…

Read the Invitation to Receive the
Autumn Guided Imagery Sleep Meditation →

Oct 8 2025

Autumn Season 2025: Compassion, Openness, and a Structure that Supports the Dream

Balance.

This is the word we reflect on at the Autumn Equinox, and throughout the Autumn Season. As we see and feel the shifting of the light and the crisping of the air, the Sun, in the astrological sign of Libra, continues its descent across the Southern sky, gradually weakening in light and height. At this time of year, light and dark are not battling for the sky, but equal in strength. The equinoxes, both Spring and Autumn, are the only times when the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are equally illuminated. In the Northern Hemisphere we are now in-between the extremes of the heat of Summer with its long, languid days just past, and in anticipation of the short, dark, cold days of Winter. We are betwixt and between… a time of equilibrium, a time of balance. A time of transition. It is as though we are between a deep inhale and a powerful exhale, where the moment hangs shimmering and poignant, before it passes away.

Before we started buying our food at grocery stores and super centers, the Autumn Equinox was a celebration of the harvest – the time when, both exhausted and jubilant, we’d successfully brought in the fruits of our labors, preparing and storing them for the winter. It was a time to mark the importance of working together for a common cause, a time to revel in our community as the stronghold of our survival together. This is an idea that is central to the energy of Libra and to this time of year: equality, balance, community, peace, beauty – the peace and beauty of the dying sun, of the vibrancy of the trees in their final blaze of glory, of our relationships and what we create when we are equal together, honoring all sides, balancing all views, and coming to diplomatic solutions that strengthen and protect us all.

Equinox is from the Latin aequinoctium, meaning equal night.” Today the night is equal to the day, yet as we move through time away from the Equinox and toward the Winter Solstice, the days become shorter and and we have less light to live by. What was known to our ancestors, before technology gave us permanent days with electric light, is the part darkness plays in the work of spiritual transformation. The darkness, to which we are absolutely heading as each day passes, is a place that restores us, a space where we germinate, and regenerate. But before we reach the full darkness of the Winter Solstice, we have the opportunity to learn from the harmony and symmetry of the Equinox. We tap into the beauty of internal balance, that sense of equilibrium we

The glyph for Libra represents both the scales and the Autumn sun setting over the horizon, a symbol for equilibrium and peace.

need in order to start preparing for the darkness. In this space of anticipation, when the light is gorgeous, the air is temperate and cooling to the skin, and the riotous, rich colors of ‘Nature in her Fall’ imbue our spirits with gratitude, with generosity – and because we are feeling externally delighted – we find it easy to extend ourselves in love, open to both giving and receiving. The crispness of the season is reviving to the spirit, and for as long as we dare, before the dark and cold drive us inside, we strive toward company among others, pleasures, beauty, harmony, and love. This is the message of Libra.

The particular message of this Autumn Season, found in the astrology of the Autumn Equinox chart drawn for the moment the Sun moved into Libra at 2:20 PM Eastern on September 22, 2025, is one of creating a strong container for the ways we support and hold our loved ones. Emotional connection and communcating from a place of collaboration, as well as a willingness to compromise are the keys during this season that asks us to both balance and release.

There’s a particular sense of being willing to deeply transform personally, while still holding space for others, for new innovative ideas, and for creating structure and strategy around our dreams and visions for the future. This entire Autumn Season is one in which we can ground ourselves in reality of the moment, while also being able to dream what’s beautiful into being. There’s lots of support and opportunity here if we’re will to remain open to others, and to understanding our ideas and desires from different perspectives.

Building on the dream, giving it structure, especially through compassionate exchanges of ideas, is the way forward this season. Be open. Let things be different. We’re in a state of flux for quite some time to come, but this Autumm Equinox energy says, “Collaborte. Don’t do the hard parts alone. This is time for community. This is time to hold what’s real and let the rest go.”

Enjoy this transitional season! It is filled with beauty, in the light and in the shadows.

Astrology Chart for the Moment of the Autumn Equinox – 2025

Sun in Libra, trining Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, opposite the Saturn / Neptune (Saturn in Pisces – Neptune in Aries), conjuncting Mercury and the Moon in Libra

Astrology Chart for the Moment of the Autumn Equinox / Sun in Libra / Sept. 22, 2025 / 2:20 PM EDT
Sep 22 2024

The Autumn Equinox and the Moment of Balance – September 22, 2024

(This is a repost of an article I wrote in 2017, updated with the astrological energy for this Autumn.)

Balance.

This is the word we reflect on at the Autumn Equinox. As we see and feel the shifting of the light and the crisping of the air, the Sun, just entering the astrological sign of Libra, continues its descent across the Southern sky, gradually weakening in light and height. This day is the day of equal day and night hours, when light and dark are not battling for the sky, but equal in strength. The equinoxes, both Spring and Autumn, are the only times when the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are equally illuminated. In the Northern Hemisphere we are now in-between the extremes of the heat of Summer with its long, languid days just past, and in anticipation of the short, dark, cold days of Winter. We are betwixt and between… a time of equilibrium, a time of balance. A time of transition. It is as though we are between a deep inhale and a powerful exhale, where the moment hangs shimmering and poignant, before it passes away.

Before we started buying our food at grocery stores and super centers, the Autumn Equinox was a celebration of the harvest – the time when, both exhausted and jubilant, we’d successfully brought in the fruits of our labors, preparing and storing them for the winter. It was a time to mark the importance of working together for a common cause, a time to revel in our community as the stronghold of our survival together. This is an idea that is central to the energy of Libra and to this time of year: equality, balance, community, peace, beauty – the peace and beauty of the dying sun, of the vibrancy of the trees in their final blaze of glory, of our relationships and what we create when we are equal together, honoring all sides, balancing all views, and coming to diplomatic solutions that strengthen and protect us all.

Equinox is from the Latin aequinoctium, meaning equal night.” Today the night is equal to the day, yet as we move through time away from the Equinox and toward the Winter Solstice, the days become shorter and and we have less light to live by. What was known to our ancestors, before technology gave us permanent days with electric light, is the part darkness plays in the work of spiritual transformation. The darkness, to which we are absolutely heading as each day passes, is a place that restores us, a space where we germinate, and regenerate. But before we reach the full darkness of the Winter Solstice, we have the opportunity to learn from the harmony and symmetry of the Equinox. We tap into the beauty of internal balance, that sense of equilibrium we

The glyph for Libra represents both the scales and the Autumn sun setting over the horizon, a symbol for equilibrium and peace.

need in order to start preparing for the darkness. In this space of anticipation, when the light is gorgeous, the air is temperate and cooling to the skin, and the riotous, rich colors of ‘Nature in her Fall’ imbue our spirits with gratitude, with generosity – and because we are feeling externally delighted – we find it easy to extend ourselves in love, open to both giving and receiving. The crispness of the season is reviving to the spirit, and for as long as we dare, before the dark and cold drive us inside, we strive toward company among others, pleasures, beauty, harmony, and love. This is the message of Libra.

The particular message of this Autumn Equinox, found in the astrological chart drawn for the moment the Sun moves into Libra at 8:44 AM Eastern on September 22, 2024, carries a call to change; transitioning into a brand new paradigm of how we see ourselves as we are mirrored by others.

The feeling tone of this Equinox is compassion, empathy, and recognizing that we are all one – subtley, yet powerfully connected. With the influence of Neptune, this is a time to explore your deep spirituality, and to live through your imagination, through your creativity, and to put forth effort in powerfully visualizing a future that supports your purpose. There is a dynamic of curiosity, and stepping into the Unknown. And there is also a call to action regarding balancing the Self with Others.

Balance is always the key this time of year, and the focus of our balance this year must be that of seeing and honoring others – those we love and humanity at large – while also clearly seeing ourselves. It is the classic Aries (Self) / Libra (Other) dichotomey. How do we honor our own will, and also that of others, while creating well-being and harmony? This is the question to find answers to this Autumn.

Enjoy this transitional season! It is filled with beauty, in the light and in the shadows.

(Sun in Libra, trining Moon in Gemimi and Uranus in Taurus, trining Pluto in Capricorn, opposite Neptune in Pisces, conjuncting South Node in Virgo and oppositie North Node in Aries.)

Astrology Chart for the Moment of the Autumn Equinox / Sun in Libra / Sept. 22, 2024 / 8:45 AM EDT