AUTUMN EQUINOX

The Autumn Equinox marks another point of balance in the year, but it doesn’t feel the same as it does in spring. Day and night meet again, but the movement has changed. The light is no longer growing. From here, the darker half of the year begins to take hold.

This is a moment of reckoning.

The outward push of the year is coming to an end. What has been lived, created, or pursued through the lighter months is now easier to see for what it is. There is less room for wishful thinking. Things tend to show themselves more clearly, without much disguise.

Autumn Equinox invites honesty.

It is a time to look at what the year has actually asked of you, not just what you’ve gained, but what it has cost. What has supported you. What has drained you. What has strengthened you, and what may have quietly taken more than it gave back.

Where Lammas asks what is ready to be gathered in, the Equinox asks what can be carried forward with integrity. Balance here isn’t about keeping everything equal. It’s about alignment. What deserves space as the year turns inward. What needs to be set down.

This point in the cycle often carries emotional complexity. Gratitude can sit alongside grief. Relief alongside tiredness. Acceptance alongside the knowledge that some things cannot be changed. Autumn Equinox allows all of this to exist without needing to fix or resolve it.

The Equinox is also a threshold.

It sits between the active months and the inward season. Between what has already been lived and what is still settling into understanding. Outer movement begins to slow, and inner awareness naturally deepens.

In ceremony, the Autumn Equinox offers space to acknowledge the whole harvest of the year, including the parts that are difficult to name. It invites balance through truth rather than forced positivity. Through wholeness rather than preference.

This is a time to restore a sense of equilibrium within yourself. To honour both effort and rest. To recognise that strength and vulnerability are not opposites, but part of the same capacity to endure and adapt.

Working with the energy of the Autumn Equinox supports grounding, discernment, and emotional steadiness. It helps prepare the way for the deeper inward journey ahead, not by pushing you there, but by allowing you to arrive with clarity and respect for the cycle you are part of.