September
September is a ripe bouquet of personal peace, balance, and calm that opens a new season. As our orchards overflow with bounty, this is the time to harvest your gifts—and come together in community to pay them forward.
September comes with great endings: The end of Summer Season. The end of the growth season. The end of the expanding Sun Energy. As Mother Nature is preparing to slow down, we too are asked to settle into a new season by slowing down, finding balance and counting our blessings.
This month offers a unique opportunity to examine our lives and relationships from fresh perspectives, deepening our understanding of ourselves and the world around us as we advance on our journey through refinement, reflection, and realignment.
Re-evaluate and Re-align.
Astrologically, September marks the beginning of the autumn eclipse season—a powerful time of transition, revelation, endings, and new beginnings. Eclipses shine a spotlight on what has been hidden, revealing truths that call for clarity and conscious choices. This season invites us to release what no longer serves and to step into alignment with our highest path.
During eclipse season, we are asked to slow down and re-examine before moving forward. Similar to the belief of some First Nations peoples, who believe that if we travel too fast, the soul cannot follow, we can adopt a mindset of slowness as a path to making the right decisions.
This is the month to pause any fast-forward motion and catch up with your inner life. It is a time to mend what is not working by reclaiming lost parts of your psyche and consciousness, finding the pieces you may have been missing.
September’s energy addresses an underlying need to go back before we move forward, to address unfinished business and gain a better understanding of the true motivations behind our choices.
It is an invitation to focus on our softest sides, question our relationship to work and service, and reflect on what our Soul is truly here to serve. The soul cannot speak to you if you are too busy overriding your life with endless to-do lists. This is a time for being, for setting aside space to really listen:
What does your soul call you to do—or to be?
Slow Down
This is truly a month to slow down after a hectic summer. It is a time to practise mindfulness in everything you do—from the mundane, everyday tasks to planning your next steps, and even shaping your life goals.
The first half of September is strongly influenced by the Virgo archetype. Virgo, the Maiden, is the goddess who discerns what is right for her. Separating the wheat from the chaff, she teaches us the art of letting go of what no longer serves and retaining what is healthy. Virgo embodies health, wellbeing, and self-sustenance.
The Harvest Moon encourages us to move forward with confidence and clarity, inviting us to release cords and attachments that no longer serve our growth—and to integrate newfound wisdom into how we show up in our relationships with others and ourselves.
By the time we reach the Autumn Equinox, when day and night are equal across the globe, we enter a period of harmony, using beauty and equilibrium as guides to balance body, mind, and spirit. The Autumn Equinox marks a moment when we can begin to move forward with a renewed sense of self.
There are things in your life that you have healed at this time. Things that will never affect your the same way again.
Time for Finding Balance
The energies of September is all about knowing what is right for you. We are supported in finding a new sense of balance—in relationship to ourselves, to others, and to the surrounding world.
Discernment is the theme for the month, offering a chance to pause, reflect, and develop new ways of being. It is a threshold time that gently takes us by the hand and allows us to thread slowly into a new season.
This month can be a soft ally who helps us to sift and sort, and allows us to move forward with a clear heart, renewed sense of purpose, and grace into the final months of the year.
September can be a deeply spiritual time, bringing us closer to understanding who we truly are and what we love.
Be gentle with yourself, offer forgiveness freely, and remain open to finding yourself suddenly in a position to balance relationships and master emotions that once felt like they were only a dream.
September Blessings,
Sidsel Solmer Eriksen, Founding Editor
September Practices
Nourish Yourself.
As you move through your day, ask yourself whether the activities and people in your life are truly good for you. Do they nourish you—or do they drain you? Notice the energy leaks, and gently begin to release whatever consumes your precious life force.
This is the time to start pouring back into your own cup. Journal. Meditate. Go forestbathing or set out on a medicine walk. Find simple ways to be with life—and with yourself.
Build Healthy Habits
September is the perfect month to refresh your habits. Instead of throwing everything overboard or setting radical, new-year’s-resolution–style goals, this is the time for small, incremental shifts. Little changes, one at a time, gradually build sustainable transformation in the long run.
Maybe you want to amp up your training routine, set aside time for breathwork or meditation, or cut down on caffeine and late-night scrolling. Whatever the change, start gently—so that even the process of change itself becomes a healthy one..
Come together
September is the perfect time to host a harvest party. Think potluck-style gatherings, where everyone brings a dish. Building community can be as simple as that—and an autumn celebration is a wonderful way to embrace the season’s bounty and spirit of abundance as we share our gifts.
If you don’t have the time or energy to host a party, you can simply join a talk or a creative event as a participant to mark your personal harvest gathering—and let yourself flow into community, opening to the gift of co-creation.
September Moons
Harvest Full Moon
As Mother Nature is preparing to slow down, we too are asked to settle into the mood of Autumn by counting our blessings during the Harvest full Moon.
September New Moon
The New Moon in Virgo invites you to simplify your life by sifting and sorting, preparing you for the next cycle.