The 2011 September equinox comes on September 23, at 4:05 a.m. CDT. That’s 9:05
Universal Time (GMT).
The sun is rising later now, and nightfall comes sooner. The time of the autumn equinox is here, when the days are getting shorter, and day and night are approximately equal in length.
The
Harvest Moon will come early in 2011.
Have you noticed the moon waxing in the evening sky?
The next full moon is it! The fullest moons for us in the U.S. will come the nights of September 11 and 12.
By definition, the Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.
For us in the northern hemisphere, people are enjoying the cooler days of autumn even as preparations for winter are underway.
South of the equator, spring begins.
The earliest humans spent more time outside than we do. They used the sky as both clock and calendar. They could easily see that the sun’s path across the sky, the length of daylight, and the location of the sunrise and sunset all shift in a regular way throughout the year.
Our ancestors built the first observatories to track the sun’s progress. One example is at Machu Picchu in Peru, where the Intihuatana stone, shown at right, has been shown to be a precise indicator of the date of the two equinoxes and other significant celestial periods. The word Intihuatana, by the way, literally means ‘for tying the sun.’
The Chinese were great students of nature. Autumn is connected in Chinese thought with the direction west, considered to be the direction of dreams and visions.
In the
Chinese tradition, the autumn season is associated with the color white, the sound of weeping, the emotions of both courage and sadness, the lung organ, the metal element, and a white tiger. Autumn is also connected in Chinese thought with the direction west, considered to be the direction of dreams and visions.
Today, we know each equinox and solstice is an astronomical event, caused by Earth’s tilt on its axis and ceaseless orbit around the sun.
Because Earth doesn’t orbit upright, but is instead tilted on its axis by 23-and-a-half degrees, Earth’s northern and southern hemispheres trade places in receiving the sun’s light and warmth most directly. We have an equinox twice a year – spring and fall – when the tilt of the Earth’s axis and Earth’s orbit around the sun combine in such a way that the axis is inclined neither away from nor toward the sun.
Earth’s two hemispheres are receiving the sun’s rays equally now. Night and day are approximately equal in length. The name ‘equinox’ comes from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night).
But, since Earth never stops moving around the sun, these days of equal sunlight and night will change quickly.
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you can easily notice the later dawns and earlier sunsets. Also notice the arc of the sun across the sky each day. You’ll find it’s shifting toward the south. Birds and butterflies are migrating southward, too, along with the path of the sun.
The shorter days are bringing cooler weather. Creatures of the wild are putting on their winter coats.
All around us, trees and plants are ending this year’s cycle of growth. Perhaps they are responding with glorious autumn leaves, or a last burst of bloom before winter comes.
In the night sky,
Fomalhaut – the Autumn Star – is making its way across the heavens each night.
The sun rises due east and sets due west at the equinox no matter where you live on Earth, because we all see the same sky. No matter where you are on Earth, you have a due east and due west point on your horizon. That point marks the intersection of your horizon with the celestial equator – the imaginary line above the true equator of the Earth.
At the equinoxes, the sun appears overhead at noon as seen from Earth’s equator, as the illustration at right shows. This illustration (
which is by Tau’olunga) shows the sun’s location on the celestial equator, every hour, on the day of the equinox.
That’s why the sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us. The sun is on the celestial equator, and the celestial equator intersects all of our horizons at points due east and due west.
This fact makes the day of an equinox a good day for finding due east and due west from your yard or other favorite site for watching the sky. Just go outside around sunset or sunrise and notice the location of the sun on the horizon with respect to familiar landmarks.
If you do this, you’ll be able to use those landmarks to find those cardinal directions in the weeks and months ahead, long after Earth has moved on in its orbit around the sun, carrying the sunrise and sunset points southward. [
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The Equinoxes and Ascension of 2012
If you believe in the idea of 2012 Ascension, then you may have heard that this process involves a field of crystalline energy that is enfolding the planet and its people. It’s a question of human bodies becoming extreme energy in motion. The idea is that we absorb the crystalline resonance that is surrounding everything – the God Light from the above quote – into our energy fields, so it is converted and amplified into one’s own being: desires, intentions, our work and all the ways that we touch earth and each other.
This Crystalline Grid is apparently a system that will allow your nurturing into a higher resonance, into a higher, more fulfilling expression. Along this process, there are what you could call Ascension Triggers in terms of specific astrological gravitation refinements and frequencial boosts that are needed to complete & polish the Crystalline Grid so that the Earth will be transformed into Crystalline Consciousness.
The Equinoxes and Solstices of 2011 are said to be infinitely more powerful than the equinoxes and solstices in the past several millennia. They are a time to reflect, meditate, pray and open ourselves up to receiving the energies and raising our vibrations.
An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth’s equator.
If there is negativity in your heart of any sort, make a commitment to finally release this and move on. This, more than holding on to it, will serve you and all around you.
“Those that are in the greatest amount of pain will only very briefly experience the Singularity Event. It will be like a momentary flash of something strange. Because their inner pain will disallow them to LET GO and BE. These who are deeply in pain are also deeply in anger and hatred. They hate themselves, they hate the world. They are not in any way, shape or form ready to be at peace, to be still and silent. Not for even an instant because they know even a moment’s stillness will threaten to overwhelm them with all their buried fears and pain." – Zingdad, The Ascension Papers
So for them the Singularity Event will be but the very briefest possible moment of strangeness a flash of bright white light on a cold and lonely night. If they would but let their fear and pain go and release themselves to it they would quite soon find that they have comprehension. They would see how and why they have hurt themselves. They would see that their enemies are really one with them and that healing lies in loving themselves and releasing their pain. All of this is possible. [
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Evolution never stands still and every soul will eventually rise up again.
"God Light is the light of the creator as it shines from the heart of every being in this whole super-reality everywhere, ever. It is intelligent, creative and wise. It is pure love and it gives everything of itself to you completely without asking for anything back and without giving any stipulation about what you may or may not do with that which it gives you. It exists at every density of this super-reality and every one of the infinite number of tonalities of all the densities. It is the very essence of all the love that has ever been felt by every mote of consciousness anywhere in this super-reality ever. It is all the knowing and understanding that has ever been attained. It is all that and so much more than that.” – Zingdad, The Ascension Papers
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