The esoteric meaning of the autumnal equinox

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

All solar holidays - solstices and equinoxes - give a person the opportunity to tune in to change. It is precisely the changes that occur with the arrival of each new season of the year at the points of the solstices and equinoxes. Each holiday has its own unique energy, which you need to know and for which it is important to prepare.

We - modern people, imagine the year as a homogeneous period of time, in which there are no periods of different quality. For us, the whole year is the same, only external circumstances, seasons, periods of activity and rest change. This is how we differ from our great ancestors of sun worshipers, who lived in the rhythm of the Sun and the Earth. They knew that the year is not uniform, that each sunny holiday divides it into periods of completely different energy quality. People adjusted their lives and everyday life for each period, and the change of periods was celebrated as a transition to a new stage. Each stage has its own unique spiritual component, it affects precisely the inner world of a person and the whole nation.

Unfortunately, we do not notice this. Over time, we lost contact with the Sun and remained in our life only echoes of great transitions - solar holidays. They remained in the form of ritual actions, not supported by the spiritual component and inner work on oneself. Bake a cake, clean up, jump over the fire. All this, undoubtedly, is important to do, but it is immeasurably more important before that to make changes in your inner world.

The Sun carries, first of all, a spiritual impulse to all living things, and only then all the other qualities of energies - light, heat and other radiation. It is this that breathes life into every new consciousness that is embodied on Earth. With each new cycle between the solstices and equinoxes, the Sun gives us different energy for different evolutionary purposes. The stormy and long holidays of our ancestors do not at all speak of their love for feast and idleness. They talk about the seriousness with which people approached the transitional moments between different Suns. These transitional moments - the great solar holidays - stood out from the ordinary days. People got the opportunity to psychologically rebuild themselves for a new stage, to carry out the previous one, to thank for everything that fell into it. They were not distracted by work, left their daily routine in order to fully devote themselves to their inner world and prepare it for the new Sun. That is exactly how, dear listeners, we should perceive stories about ancient Russian holidays!

From this point of view, it becomes clear why the Russians endowed the Sun with different faces at different times of the year. Precisely because these periods are very different energetically and psychologically, people feel differently. Each period is necessary for its own stage of spiritual growth. We remember the Sun-child Kolyada, who is born on the day of the winter solstice. Sun-youth Yarilo, born on the vernal equinox. Sun-husband of Dazhdbog, appearing on the day of the summer solstice. The sun is the old man Khors, who comes at the autumnal equinox and dies to give life to Kolyada. In different areas, these solar Gods had different names, but the essence remains the same - these are cyclical periods of the maturation of the spirit.

What is the difference between the upcoming autumn period, into which the autumn equinox will transfer us?

The light part of the year (from the spring to the autumn equinox) was considered a time of activity, and the dark part was a period of passivity and withdrawal into oneself. In our time, such a division is not noticeable, but it still operates on a psychological level. Therefore, during the autumn equinox, it is very important to outline a plan for inner work on yourself. For example, it can be work on some complexes, fears or the development of discipline, mutual understanding, etc. Be sure to outline such a plan for yourself, and the appropriate energies of the Sun will certainly help you!

We must understand and feel that the energy is changing, and in order to stay in the solar stream, we need to make a conscious transition to new energies. Just as with the advent of the new season, nature changes radically - there are also internal changes in a person. The autumnal equinox is very important precisely for the establishment of internal harmony between the attitude towards oneself and other people, between external activity and internal work, between social and personal. In autumn, the active period of physical labor ends and the period of internal labor begins. Therefore, let us repeat that it is very important to take stock, to “harvest” the harvest of our deeds, to celebrate the successes, to take into account the failures. And be sure to thank the Sun and the Earth, as well as all people for everything that you had to face. Gratitude opens the flow of new help and energy of space. Without it, we remain cut off from nature and the Sun, so the habit of giving thanks is very important!