Your Best Moves for the Autumn Equinox

Seasonal shifts replenish the ethers in the biosphere (and in your brain). With the Sun in Libra and Venus squaring Uranus, you need to let beauty remake you with its remedies and mysteries.

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THIS YEAR’S AUTUMN EQUINOX amplifies the power of Venus and Mars and new opportunities to re-see, re-evaluate, and then remake your personal relationships. Not only with others, but also with how you relate to the world at large. With each planet caught in a cathartic square to Uranus and Pluto, respectively, it’s a divine pairing for untangling interpersonal projections and delusions.

You do this not by thinking about it, but by stepping outside your comfort zone (and phone’s screen) and re-engaging with others emotionally and intellectually. People must make a conscious effort to return to ‘real life’ now. Venus tied to Uranus needs spirited analytical engagement, and that means something more than talking incessantly about MAGA or Taylor Swift’s wedding. As the great art critic Robert Hughes defined this sort of commitment, it’s a love for “the shock of the new.” Meanwhile, Mars and Pluto entanglements in fixed signs, as marked in the equinox chart, taint the season with a level of intensity that’s potentially lethal. Money and war, war and money. More on this ping-ponging equation below.

A potent eclipse that opposes Saturn and Neptune, just before the equinox, throws shade on an already wonky start to the new season. The global cultural bardo I’ve elaborated on before gets an extra dose of ‘umph’ with this lunation, and we’re back to parsing perplexing facts that confirm, again, how clarity is in short supply right now. It's better to stop resisting and face the fact that a rational ‘it-worked-before-in-the-past’ approach isn’t going to cut it. Again, as I’ve advocated throughout the year, explore the insights offered by Lao Tzu’s Tao De Jing. I’m loving this translation lately. Embrace the acknowledgment that we’re no longer in Kansas anymore. Think of this workout as a kind of spiritual aikido.

And yet time and life move on—but where the fuck to?