September 2022 Equinox - It's all about opening to balance!
September 22nd is not only a transition point between seasons but also a point in which there is a balance between day and night – yin and yang energies – with the September Equinox. The Equinoxes are days that open us up to working directly with the energies of balance and honoring all aspects of life equally.
I love the equinox energies because they invite us into exploring and reflecting on balance. Twice a year we have support from the Earth’s cycles themselves to slow down and look at how we want to walk with co-creating balance in all aspects of our life through the next “season”.
For those in the northern hemisphere, the September Equinox is the point between the transitions of summer and fall – the fire element and the metal element in the Five Element system of TCM.
For those in the southern hemisphere, it is the transition point between winter and spring – the water element and the wood element.
In the Five Element model of TCM, the time between the seasons belongs to the Earth element. The Earth element governs our blood and life force energy. It invites us into remembering that we need to dedicate time and attention in every creation cycle to nurture, metabolize and break down that which we interact with so that it can feed and nourish us and then we need to release that which no longer is serving, and to shift from worry to trust and faith that life will provide that which we need to not only survive but thrive!
As I was sitting with the energies of this year’s September Equinox I felt the invitation to sense into what habits, thoughts, and ways of being with my life are both balanced and out of balance:
- What directions am I pulling myself into and are they balanced?
- Where am I pushing too hard to co-create?
- Where am I allowing stuck stagnate energy to back me off of creation or actions I’ve been guided to take?
- Where am I allowing fear and worry energy to creep in and erode my trust in myself?
- Where am I trying to dance with magical thinking so that I can avoid real truth from dropping in to help that would help shift me into correct action?
- What areas do I hold onto false judgments that prevent me from finding center and balance?
For this equinox, I invite you to explore some of the similar ways in which you might be binding up your life, your soul, and your movements into co-creating with your life and the universe.
There are tons of ways in which you can explore these deep reflective questions. One great way is to sit with them in open contemplation and reflective journaling. Once you open to a center-willing internal position, see if you can feel into your own system for illuminating insights into the different points in which you are both in and out of balance one way or another.
Helpful Tip 😊 We often look only for the big ways we are out of “balance”. I invite you to also focus and explore the micro ways you are losing balance. I really do believe in the power of the mustard seed. When we start shifting small daily things it creates momentum and the larger shifts organically come forward in divine timing.
I hope these meditation prompts are supportive for you! I really do believe that by completing these types of meditations and reflections it allows us to gain the perspectives and the insights we need to help compassionately, lovingly, begin to tend to those imbalances and heal the parts of us that are wounded and using these imbalances as ways to protect ourselves.
Looking for extra support with this meditation exercise?
I just recorded a new equinox-guided healing meditation for the Unlimited Members of our Connecting with JOY! community! I have to say I LOVE this healing meditation. During the meditation, I guide you in working with the Chakras via Chanting their seed sounds as the entry point of connection and a sacred doorway into connecting with your system’s inner wisdom to help illuminate the different answers to the questions I posed above.
I LOVE chanting, toning, and sounding. Our voice is one of our most powerful healing tools along with our breath. When I chant or sound I can feel a vibrational opening to accessing a felt sense of what the body-mind and my subtle energies are wanting to bring forward. I also like chanting the seed sounds for the chakras as a great way to start feeling comfortable with toning and sound healing. When I chant the seed sounds of the chakras it helps to drop me into my body, allow me to observe my experience, become present, help cleanse and repattern any clogged or frayed energy in my system, and harness my inner wisdom and strengths that might have been covered up by the trapped irregular energies.
In this new special bonus episode of Connecting with Joy, I guide you in a 45-minute sounding/chanting healing meditation where I walk you through the different chakras, their seed sounds, and also guided reflective questions with each chakra.
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