What spiritual concepts might you connect with at this special turning of the calendric wheel? We will call in and work with multiple themes such as balance, equality, harvesting what you've planted, and impermanence during our time together. Here's a little further exploration to seed your consciousness:

1. Balancing light and dark

You can think of this figuratively as well as literally. Consider these pairs and how they are currently expressing (or not expressing) themselves in your life: inner and outer, masculine and feminine, above and below, heaven and earth, left brain and right brain.

The equinoxes are a special time to check in with yourself and give conscious thought to how balance is showing up in all areas of your life. And balance doesn't mean everything has to be 50/50. You know the signals your body and psyche give you when things are unequal or disharmonious... listen to what is seeking to come into greater harmony.

2. Letting go, accepting impermanence

As the leaves begin to fall, it is a reflection of the trees' trust in their own innate rhythms and cycles. Because of changes in temperature and the length of daylight, the leaves stop their food-making process. Chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible and give the leaves part of their fall splendor. It is just the way of things and the trees nor the leaves fight this process.

What in your life is ready to leave? Are you fighting the natural death cycle that will eventually feed and bring new life just as the leaves become nourishing humus for the soil? Can you surrender gracefully into what is coming to completion? 

3. Going inward, slowing down

In the Northern hemisphere, the Fall Equinox signals movement out of the busy, productive and yang energies of summer and into the inward, reflective, dormant, yin energies of winter. It is absolutely natural to want to slow down, nest, conserve energy, and become internal. You are a part of nature! On the outside it looks as if nature is dying, but it is simply a part of the bigger cycle of life, death and rebirth.

In fall and winter, you, too are releasing and moving into a phase of slowing down to conserve energy and build up your stores for the next growth cycle. Don't feel like you are bound to the unnatural, artificially-created rhythms and cycles of commerce, business and other industries (they don't acknowledge or enforce downtime, reflection, and listening to natural rhythms and cycles.) Listen to your body!