Current mood: pensive
Current weather: clear, warm
Current listening: Spiral Dance

The equinox has come--the September Equinox, which is Mabon or the autumnal equinox in this hemisphere. The second harvest is in, and it is a time of thanksgiving, as the light dwindles and winter approaches. The light and the dark are in balance right now, but the darkness is growing, and life will dwindle and recede, and we acknowledge that all things must die, even as we give thanks to the Mother for the bounty of spring and summer.

Things grow, things mature, things age, things die. This will be emphasized all the more on Samhain, the next sabbat, with the cycle of life, death and rebirth having its alignment along the Samhain-Beltane axis. Still, the Dark Mother will come more to the fore, as the Goddess shows her Crone aspect, She of the wisdom of age, and She who reaps what has been sown as the earth begins to die. The dark cycle of the year is, to me at least, a time when much wisdom can be shared as we shelter together by the hearth.

Opposite autumn is spring, and the Southern Hemisphere celebrates Ostara, also a time of balance, but their world is coming into the light. Light, dark, death, life. It is the Yin and Yang of the balance of Nature.

Light and dark blessings wherever you are in the world.

-DL