Laurie Baum – The Autumn Equinox arrives on Thursday, September 22, 2016, and marks the moment when the light of day is equal to the dark of night. We are moving into a period of shorter daylight hours in the northern hemisphere, which will give us more time for greater introspection and soul reflection.
The days leading up to the Autumn Equinox also provide an auspicious opportunity to use meditation, prayer, and affirmations to focus on outcomes you would like to create. It is a law of physics that light is most powerful when it bends. The power of the changing angle of the Sun at every equinox and solstice strengthens the power of your thoughts and enables you to make great spiritual, mental, emotional, and material progress. Use this time to accelerate your evolution and support the growth of the people around you. Pray for peace and positive outcomes for all. Remember, your thoughts and prayers are very powerful at this time!
The fall season will feel like the calm after the storm, given the turbulence caused by a series of eclipses from mid-August to mid-September, along with a potent alignment of Saturn and Neptune, earlier in September. These celestial alignments have challenged our assumptions about the security of our future, as certain things we thought would never change are changing. This is happening in many people’s personal lives as well, in terms of the relationships we thought would last forever seeming to veer in new directions, and on a global scale as previous beacons of world leadership and sanity are behaving in unpredictable and unproductive ways.
Further, this recent Saturn-Neptune square, which occurs once every 36 years, will cause us to question the line between truth and deception. Many untruths told in the past will be exposed under this planetary alignment. And you will discover ways in which we and others have misrepresented the truth so as to blunt the pain of a harsh reality or to achieve what seemed would be a higher outcome. While many truths will be uncovered during this period, other secrets will be further buried. It will be up to us to go into a higher state of mind to discern true reality from fantasy.
It will be important to slow down, stop the busy mind chatter, breathe deeply, and stand in a more transcendent perspective. From there, we may look down on earthly situations with a more expanded view and see the big picture. Use meditation, contemplation, and prayer when you need to step away from over-involvement in chaotic situations. From the enlarged vantage point you will gain, you will become aware of exactly what you need to know so you may clarify any confusion you or others may have.
Your role at this pivotal time in human history is to hold as much light as possible in your physical body by purifying and releasing all thoughts, misperceptions, or stories that are no longer integral to your mental well being. On a physical level, it is a good time let go of material goods you no longer need. It also is an auspicious time for a de-tox or a fast, to release physical toxins from your body. The greater lightness in your body and physical surroundings will help you make changes with less physical resistance. As you learn to live with less of what you thought you wanted, you will gain more of what you really need.
A rather quiet start to the early fall season in the sense of few astrological transits (compared to the pace of earlier this year) will give way to another active period at the end of this year, with expansive Jupiter squaring depth-seeking Pluto on Thanksgiving Day; karmic Saturn aligning with change-oriented Uranus on Christmas Eve; and expansive Jupiter opposing Uranus on the day after Christmas. These astrological transits portend sea changes in the way we live and experience our everyday realities. The more you step back, see the big picture, and align with your higher self, the more you will be able to transcend the inevitable chaos that may be created in the world.
We are living through a dynamic time where the atmosphere is charged with the powerful electromagnetic energy of these rare and increasingly frequent planetary alignments. Use these potent energies to your highest good. And envision a more peaceful, coherent, loving world that will support all to live in peace and harmony. Each of your thoughts have enormous power to create change!
Many Blessings, for Love & Light in the Autumn Season,
Laurie
SF Source Laurie Baum Sept. 2016
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Tanaaz – The September 23rd Equinox brings a turning point in the astrological year. Energy begins shifting in a new direction, guiding things to change, evolve, and grow.
Lorna Bevan – This week on September 23rd, we reach the midpoint of the astrological year, as the Sun crosses the World Axis at the Libra Equinox – known as Alben Elfed by the Druids. The seasons shift – from Summer to Autumn in the North and from Winter to Spring in the South.