By Len Wallick
The Sun enters Libra shortly after 5:00 am EDT on Friday morning. That will be an equinox. North of the equator, it will be the first day of autumn; in the southern hemisphere, the advent of spring. This will come about a week after Venus led the way into Libra, a sign it rules. To have the Sun enter a cardinal sign which is, at the same time, hosting its ruling planet, does not happen every day. The moment is being symbolically emphasized. For you, this event symbolizes an emphatic opportunity to consciously shift out of your senses and into your mind.
Light is fundamental. Sun is the source. The existence and circumstances of life on Earth are largely a result of our planet’s relationship to the Sun. A big part of that relationship is the amount of light received, and that, in turn, is largely dependent on the length of the day. With two exceptions, the duration of daylight is dictated by where you are situated on the surface of the Earth at any given time. The two exceptions are the equinoxes.
There are two equinoxes in every year. What they have in common is that the Sun appears to be directly over the Earth’s equator. When that happens, the length of day is equal for all, no matter where you are on the surface of our planet. Equal, equator, equinox. How the two equinoxes differ is with the direction the Sun appears to be moving in the days after equality of light. That apparent motion can be ascribed to our perspective.
Of course, it is we who are moving relative to the Sun. It seems to be the other way around because our senses are attuned to perceiving our bodies are on a fixed point of reference, the Earth’s surface, and moving separately relative to other objects. Most of the time, that serves us well, but not if we want to understand what we see when we look up at the sky. For that, we need to make a conscious shift away from what our senses tell us and into what our minds know. We need to see our planet and everything on it as one object. If we can do that, the Earth’s motion is our own in common and there is no separation at all.