Today the sun will rise nearly due east and set due west as it crosses the celestial equator. Day and night will be equal.

I always wonder when, as a collective society, we stopped looking up and marking movement across the sky. Sun, moon, stars. We use our phones, our watches, our computers to mark the passing of time and end up missing the magic and the meaning.

A time of harvest, and thanksgiving and gratitude. It's a time of preparation for colder and harder months to come. Although the day and night is in perfect balance change is in the air. It's a time to consider your place in nature. Equinox marks the second harvest - the final being at the end of October. It's a time to look at what you've worked towards, acknowledge what you've accomplished and, remember that there is still work to be done. It's a time to make a plan.

I went down to my favorite morning coffee sipping location. During the summer months the sun comes up almost dead center of those palm trees and by winter it'll be casting long shadows into the water. I tried to remind myself that there is still work to be done.

Happy Fall Friends! Get outside today! Make a plan for some hygge come winter! Give thanks! Acknowledge your accomplishments!

p.s. Here's a great article if you'd like to know what else is going on in the sky these nights.

p.p.s. A previous equinox post if you'd like more.