The best quotes for the first day of Fall and Autumnal Equinox give us deeper insights into the season. Use these insights to inspire your own Autumn Equinox rituals and celebration. And then enjoy practicing them all Autumn long.
Autumn Equinox Ritual #1: Appreciate the Last Vestiges of Sun’s Rich Warmth
It is the glistening autumnal side of summer. I feel a cool vein in the breeze, which embraces my thought, and I pass with pleasure over sheltered and sunny portions of the sand where the summer’s heat is undiminished, and I realize what a friend I am losing. —Henry David Thoreau
Autumn Equinox Ritual #2: Celebrate the Harvest Moon
Keep your eyes on the skies at night. Feel the energy of this symbolic yet potent full moon.
The Harvest Moon is glowing
The air is crisp and clear.
Autumn winds are blowing…
It’s my favorite time of the year.
—Author Unknown
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Autumn Equinox Ritual #3: Sit outside especially in the evening and feel the whisper of Fall.
In the hazy days at summer’s end
When the air’s still warm and the green near spent
When the days grow short and the evenings tall
Then you feel in a whisper, Fall.
—Laura Jaworski dot com
Autumn Equinox Ritual #4: Attune to the changing energies of Fall. It’s time to journal.
The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. — Hal Borland, American writer, journalist and naturalist, 1900 – 1978.
Autumn Equinox Ritual #5: Find a lofty place outdoors to sit and reflect. Hum a melody and ride the waves of Autumn.
Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them—
The summer flowers depart—
Sit still—as all transform’d to stone,
Except your musing heart.
— from The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Autumn Equinox Ritual #6: Embrace the wild winds of Autumn. Let them capture and refresh you.
Wild is the music of autumnal winds
Amongst the faded woods. —William Wordsworth
Autumn Equinox Ritual #7: Bring the last bursts of Fall’s beauty into your home—apples, corn, flowers, leaves, twigs and wreaths.
Fall has always been my favorite season.
The time when everything bursts with its last beauty,
as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
—Lauren Destefano, author of Wither
Autumn Equinox Ritual #8: Paint or crayon a splash of Fall’s colors. Decorate your home with accent pillows the colors of Autumn.
As long as Autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
— Vincent van Gogh
Autumn Equinox Ritual #9: Celebrate apples.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. — Robert H. Schuller
The Feast of Avalon is associated with the Autumn Equinox.
Avalon, now called Glastonbury, was known in Welsh as Ynys Afallach. Translated, the name means Island of Apples.
Celebrate apples. Drink apple cider and make apple pies. Keep apples in a big decorative bowl on your kitchen counter or dining table.
Autumn Equinox Ritual #10: Bake bread.
Bread therapy is a way of making bread mindfully, learning life lessons from the process, and growing to understand ourselves better; it is a form of self-help, an approach we can use to provide therapy for ourselves.
— Pauline Beaumont (1), author of Bread Therapy: The Mindful Art of Baking Bread
Celebrate the harvest and bake rustic bread. Fold the last dried fruits of the season into your bread.
Let your mind focus on the beautiful creative task at hand and see if deep insights don’t come to you.
Autumn Equinox Ritual #11: Capture the light.
Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening. It is the very sunset of the year.
—Mary Russell Mitford, English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist,
1787 – 1855.
As we go deeper and deeper into Fall darkness gets longer than the daylight. Find ways to capture the light and enjoy it in your home.
Nestle white LED strings of light in mason jars for nighttime enjoyment.
Or light blue, white and silver candles.
Shine living or bedroom light through blue, white or silver lampshades.
These are the colors of energetic Fall according to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Autumn Equinox Ritual #12: Practice yin yoga.
The power of yin yoga is time, not effort.
—Paul Grilley, yin yoga expert
Yin Yoga blends TCM principles with gentle yoga postures but you hold the postures for longer periods of time.
Yin energy mirrors the energy of energetic Fall. It’s a time to begin moving more slowly and to be more quiet and contemplative.
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Endnotes:
(1) Pauline Beaumont holds a degree in Psychology and Philosophy, a post graduate certificate in Low Intensity Psychological Therapy and a Diploma in Group Work Practice.
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Sources:
DeStefano, Lauren. Wither. United States, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011.
Beaumont, Pauline. Bread Therapy: The Mindful Art of Baking Bread. United States, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.