Does the Equinox Reflect a Pause?
Q: Does the Equinox Reflect a Pause?
A: Imagine ‘Balance’ in your mind. What do you see? A spoon on someone’s nose? A yogi in seated meditation? A scale in perfect harmony? Equinox comes from the deliciously intricate Latin word aequinoctium, meaning equal nights. This time of year, for a moment in time we have a 12-hour day with respect to a 12-hour night. And thus, the balance is but a pause in time, a gasp of breath…exhaling into the walk towards winter.
In this pause between the extremes of growth and death, summer and winter, we find the autumn in her full glory…painting the sky with her leaves of golden and saffron hues. The air is crisp in the mornings and my body craves a cozy layered scarf. Taking a moment to recognize the shift as we harvest the fruits from a season of effort reveals a deep blessing and release.
Saturn recently moved direct from a retrograde stint since last April. Have you felt the big heavy Saturnian vibe requiring you to look deeply into your work and reassess what it is that you are doing…and why you are doing it? Very little forward momentum is aptly available when Saturn digs its weight into your layered psyche, asking you to restructure your mind, projects, and relationships.
Now with a new sense of direction and lightness, a kickstart from Saturn has viscerally seeped into the collective over the last few days, indicating winds of change. For many of us, pulling ourselves out of the thick molasses-like eddy of much of 2019, is a welcomed change and with it, we reap the benefits of karmic payouts, whether conscious or unconscious.
Health crisis, relationship shifts, unyielding discomfort, endings, and new beginnings have all brought forth new levels of demands to our lives, asking us to step up or ship out. Perhaps the silver lining is the stretching of our hearts in empathy with our fellow humans; an inevitable exercise of purpose. May we continue to practice pulsating open to new frequencies of kindred relations as we venture forth.
A climate strike, world events, a force of nature to gather the tribes; this moment on Earth is a powerful one, is it not? Yet amidst all that we can see and touch, can you feel the hum of the inner call to awaken? Or are you ignoring it? For how long will you wait? We are resilient, if not utterly stubborn, and the more we surrender to knowing ourselves and what we are capable of, the better. Not only will we find the deepest connections we’ve been looking for, but we also find the balm to our achiness for God. It is in the balance of our inner and outer world, our devotion to the source woven into our relating, and the gift of pause in the equanimity of the now that comforts us in times of change.
