Oh, the Equinox! That perfect point of balance between day and night, light and dark. How tempting to see this moment as a benediction and a promise: All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well …
One glance at the chart for this year’s equinox shows the balance of this moment is not a given but a hard-won thing, the result of care and effort.
The Equinox arrives before dawn, at 3:50 am EDT, about four hours away as I write. For me, especially this year, I see so clearly that the Equinox is not a regular, reliable, recalibration, but a reminder: This is where we can be, if we do the work.
See how the Moon sits with the North Node. Our feeling self, our bodies and our hearts, long for love, support, safety, our tribe.
Opposite is the hard rock Capricorn group: South Node, Saturn, Pluto. They say, there is no safety without hard labor and constant vigilance. Even then, things change. Let’s build a wall.
It’s easy to cast once side as good and the other as bad, isn’t it? And it’s just not so.
Venus and Mercury in mid Libra square both sides, creating a cardinal T square. Balance is found, is made, is nurtured, is maintained. It is not a given, nor a constant.
On chart readings, my key phrase for a T square is “dynamic balance.” Maybe we find it once but then something changes and it must be reclaimed and remade. Again and again.
We would not appreciate balance if this were not true. If we could build it once and leave it, we’d get bored. Instead, our world and our psyches dance. We move in and out of flow, missing a step, turning too soon, faltering. Then we find it again.
The balance between masculine and feminine, between men and women (for these two are not the same thing). Between yes and no, night and day, young and old, wise and foolish.
The Moon and North Node also trine Neptune in Pisces. We are dreaming our lives. We dream our world. The balance(s) we find there, we can make real.
Let’s dance.
The image is created from a photo by Tim Gouw : https://unsplash.com/photos/wU5JYPb663Y