So here we are at the beginning of Fall, 5:05 AM EDT on Friday the 23rd, to be exact, when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator from north to south, the length of day and night are equal. According to the Farmers Almanac, the Equinox also brings the time when the Sun's apparent position on the horizon changes at sunrise and sunset. This shift can be noticed from one day to the next if one is observant at those times. There is a noticeable change in our physical world too, as this decrease in light causes the leaves to change color. So we are in a change of season when our physical world alters its appearance.
After the Equinox happens on Friday, we have a Super New Moon on the 27th. A New Moon occurs once a month when the Sun and Moon are together (we never see them). A Super New Moon occurs when the Moon is at its closest approach to the earth strengthening the gravitational pulls on the physical earth and on our psyches. This extra pulling might pull us in a new direction. Change is in the air and seen in the world around us.
A New Moon begins a new cycle, we get to reset ourselves in the sign Libra, which will affect each of us differently according to what area of our life is ruled by Libra. Libra is the sign of the scales. It is the call for balance. As day and night are equal now, so should we be in our personal lives. In the coming month, we strive that everybody gets treated fairly. We learn to cooperate with one another. Remember the symbol for justice was blindfolded so ideally we detach ourselves from the situation to make unbias decisions.
The fireworks that will be evident starting tomorrow on the Equinox, come from the Sun at the beginning of a cardinal sign connecting with the two outer planets Uranus and Pluto, also in the beginning of two other cardinal signs. We have talked about this before, the approaching 1st quarter square between these 2 outer planets that have much to do with the collective. The approaching 90 degree angle has been felt all year and is partly responsible for the "Arab Spring", when Uranus, the call for freedom and dignity of the individual meets Pluto the transformer of large groups of people.
These 2 planets were last together 1964-65. Next June they will make the 1st of 7 exact 90 degree squares to each other through March 2015, as this year they only came to within a degree of one another, but are still close enough to each that after the Sun enters Libra , it meets Uranus on the 25th, then Pluto and Mercury on the 28th. The Sun acts like a translator of the 2 outer planets and we feel the synchronicity. These are opening squares so that the vast cultural changes we saw begun in the sixties, have an increased intensity (the square) to further those new beginnings in more of an "evolutionary imperative" as Stephanie Justin calls it in The Mountain Astrologer magazine.
Just as we see the change in where the sun is rising and setting, the trees changing from green to red, yellow, orange, so too our psyches will be altering this autumn, some more than others. The Sun's apparent movement into Libra and this New Moon connected to the planets of evolutionary progress will push us to think differently and take action. Just as planets moving into cardinal signs make changes in the natural world, so too in our inner world and personal lives, some more profoundly than others. The some include any person with planets in 5-15 degrees of the cardinal signs. This group also happens to include: the USA, France, Germany, China, the UN, EEC, the UK and USSR. All these countries will be affected in the years to come by the Uranus/Pluto square, the synchronistic effects of which we are getting an inkling of this year especially now at the change of seasons.
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