![]() ![]() If you manifest, consider a ritual that focuses on gratitude and rebalancing. Your fall bounty might include gourds and marigolds. You can also set up a food altar, where you harvest food and flowers (or just go to the farmer’s market) and bring it in for storage. Pagans traditionally pick apples, which is conveniently also a pilgrimage for many a girl on Instagram, during the fall equinox during a festival known as Mabon. “This is a time to recall the seeds you may have planted during the spring equinox representing your desires and goals, and review how they materialized in your life,” astrologer Corina Crysler told Well + Good. The Equinox also marks the start of harvest season, a time of abundance and gratitude - and we’re talking about for more than just Starbucks getting massive shipments of fake pumpkin syrup. The fall equinox ushers in the arrival of Libra, a famously balanced (and social butterfly) sign representing an era of compromise and reflection, to correspond with a time of equal darkness and light. Solstices and equinoxes correlate to cardinal signs, celebrating the beginnings of their respective seasons. What does the equinox mean astrologically? ![]() In the winter and summer, the solstices mark the shortest and longest days of the year, whereas equinoxes in the spring and fall mark an equal amount of daylight and darkness. Solstices result in a change of the length of day and night, while equinoxes do not. While these two buzzwords that have been co-opted by corporate wellness sound interchangeable, they are not. What is the difference between a solstice and an equinox? ![]() There are two equinoxes every year: The vernal equinox in March and the autumnal equinox in September. You’ll have to dust off some Latin to glean the meaning of equinox, which comes from the Latin words for “equal night.” On the day of the equinox, the length of daylight and nighttime hours is nearly equal in all parts of the world. 22 in the northern hemisphere, the day of the autumn equinox, when there’s the same amount of daylight as there is darkness in a day, which occurs when the sun moves directly over the Earth’s equator. This year, fall officially begins at 9:04 p.m. 22 - a time when the planets make physical the changes we’ve been feeling: a sense of slowing down, of cooler days, and darker nights. The Fall Equinox is happening this week on Sept. But it’s not just the weather, outfits, and palettes that have shifted, it’s the stars. Welcome, fall The autumnal equinoxalso called the September equinoxarrives on Saturday, September 23. Fall is upon us there’s pumpkin spice in the air and people have stopped getting married every weekend. But in the distant past, the equinox was something to mark and celebrate, because it meant winters end or the approach of the harvest. ![]()
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