VERNAL~SPRING EQUINOX IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE / AUTUMNAL EQUINOX IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
THE RETURN OF PERSEPHONE AND THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS & THE SUN MOVING INTO THE SIGN OF LIBRA
We speak of an Equinox when the Sun passes directly over the equator. There are two equinoxes each year. On these days, the nights are equal in length.
The word Equinox comes from two Latin words meaning “equal” and “night”.
In ancient times, the Spring Equinox marks the time of the return of the goddess Persephone from the Underworld. Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the earth and, at the fall equinox, she descends downward into the Underworld to visit with the dead.
The key elements are seasonal death and rebirth in Persephone’s story as the Sun moves from the fertile grounds of the Virgin maiden into the realm of the scales, the other. Venus has been moving through the sign of Libra together with Mercury since mid September focusing on harmony as we are walking our unique path of greater beauty, truth and grace. This transitioning phase, the change of seasons might bring up old relationship wounds and reminds us of our innermost truth and how we wish to relate within and without after all the lessons we have learned.
We are birthing ourselves in this waking dream as fully response-able beings. We know that everything is in relationship to and with each other and the liminal stages of Persephone’s descent and rising from the Underworld can help us to ‘under-stand’ the greater messages. Innocence and self-responsibility are intertwined on our path of wholeness and greater sovereignty in forming a more intimate relationship with our multi-dimensional being.
Brian Clark states that Persephone, Queen of the Underworld “represents the breaking of the symbiotic ties and the establishment of equality and intimacy”.
Day and night are at equal length… the light and the dark unite… We are The All, all ways at the centre of our own Mandala, symbolic of our eternal potential.
The month of September is a very juicy one with the change of the seasons, the Sun and the inner planets moving into the sign of Libra, Saturn stationing direct, Pluto stationing direct early October on the exact degree of the South Node…. New Moon in Libra on the 29th of September …
More about all these archetypal urges and their possible influences in my next energy update.
Re-member that everything is here to support us. There is no truth, no good nor bad, nothing has built-in meaning… It is up to us to choose in every moment from our essence, our hearth and place of sovereignty.
OUR FATHER THE SKY, HEAR US AND MAKE US STRONG
OUR MOTHER THE EARTH, HEAR US AND GIVE US SUPPORT
O SPIRIT OF THE EAST, SEND US YOUR WISDOM
O SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH, MAY WE TREAD YOUR PATH OF LIFE
O SPIRIT OF THE WEST, MAY WE BE ALWAYS READY FOR THE LONG JOURNEY
O SPIRIT OF THE NORTH, PURIFY US WITH YOUR CLEANSING WINDS…

