Fall Equinox

I've always adored autumn’s glorious display of brilliant yellows and reds and oranges.  This season may be even more significant to me spiritually because it marks the time of year when the sun begins moving closer to the earth.  I have to admit this creates a kind of spiritual energy in me that is, quite frankly, beyond words.  Since I was a child, throughout the year I’m drawn to a powerful inner movement by the sun’s reflection during a particular time of day.   This awareness of my connection to the Divine I Am isn’t something I understood before I came to this path.  I didn’t know why I was feeling this timeless, indescribable sense of beauty and pain mixed with deeper knowing.  Now I know.  I also know that the same energy and peace that permeates my being during a particular time of the day year-round, stays with me throughout the day in the autumn. 

Yes, it can be sun dependent – but not always.  It’s like my body knows the sun is closer to the earth – even when I can’t see it – and my soul responds accordingly. Today it's cloudy and we’ve been blessed with the first rain in several weeks here in Virginia – but I still feel that same autumnal energy and the presence of awareness is especially strong with me.  This is significant in the context of the Spiritual Sun that resides within and behind our hearts.  The Sun of God is within each one of us as the sons and daughters of El Elyon, God Most High.  Our heavenly soul is always aware of its connection to the Divine I Am and at certain times we seem to be more aware of it than others although the feeling itself may be quite beyond words.


The Autumnal Equinox is celebrated as the Feast of the Apocalypse in Sophian tradition.  This walks hand-in-hand with the idea of the Second Coming which occurs on an individual level anytime someone realizes the Christ Presence within. The key to the Feast of the Apocalypse is celebrating and recognizing this potential in ourselves and all of our brethren as both an awakening and an ongoing process at the same time. For this reason the Fall Equinox or the Feast of the Apocalypse becomes a celebration of the Human One of Light that lives as unfolding potential within us both individually and collectively.  


Tau Malachi has written, “As taught in the Christian Kabbalah within Sophian Gnosticism, creation and the Apocalypse are not single or one-time events of the past and future, but are constantly ongoing in the present, transpiring now, always; and when we look to the Book of the Apocalypse we find a dance of great beauty and great horror as the Divine Revelation unfolds, its fruition being the union of the Lamb and Holy Bride, Supernal Tiferet and Malkut – *Divine Beauty*. This life, this reality display, is a dance of beauty and horror, creation and destruction, life and death, light and shadow; this play of radical dualism pervades the unenlightened condition of the Entirety, from the spiritual dimensions on the threshold of the Supernal Abode to the material dimension. Yet, this movement is inherently *liberative*, and its culmination is Divine Beauty, the realization of the True Light, the Holy One." 


We learn to appreciate the great dance of opposites and with that appreciation we find a peace that passes all understanding in the space where neither one exists as a separate entity.  But this liberating movement Malachi refers to isn’t stagnant because our consciousness isn’t stationary.  It shifts as we move and experience life.  But the more we cling to Our Mother the more we experience liberation from attachment and aversion.  So, let us celebrate the Autumnal Equinox which we just entered a few short days ago as a movement of Spirit and Grace.  I can recognize the shifts that take place within me during this time of year although I can’t always define it – just like we can be aware of those times when we are moving with Our Mother in ways we can’t describe.   Let us be thankful for these times and offer her all of the glory and praise for something that is quite beyond words or definition.  Let her reign supreme in our hearts this day and every day.