The Fall Equinox occurs on one day every year in September between the 20th and the 23rd. First day of Fall, it ushers in a whole new energy of crisp winds, last harvest and drawing inward. Honor the occasion with one or all of these Fall Equinox Blessings. It’s one of only two auspicious days in the year when we enjoy equal portions of day and night.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. —Henry David Thoreau in Walden
In a former blog, we offered a creative list of practices that will make your Fall Equinox celebration spectacular.
Integral to Equinox celebrations are the prayers and blessings you can make. Declare prayers that you be blessed with the uplifting energies of the season the Fall Equinox ushers in.
Native American Fall Equinox Blessing
Though the following Lakota Prayer may not have been composed precisely to honor the Fall Equinox, it speaks to the attributes and energies of Fall.
May this Native American prayer inspire you to create your own.
Lakota Prayer
Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.
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Honor the Moon Fall Equinox Blessing
Denison Olmsted writes in his ‘Letters on Astronomy:’
About the time of the Autumnal equinox, the moon, when near her full, rises about sunset a number of nights in succession. This occasions a remarkable number of brilliant moonlight evenings; and as this is, in England, the period of harvest, the phenomenon is called the harvest moon.
Its return is celebrated, particularly among the peasantry, by festive dances, and kept as a festival, called the harvest home,—an occasion often alluded to by the British poets. Thus Henry Kirke White(1):
Moon of harvest, herald mild
Of plenty, rustic labor's child,
Hail, O hail! I greet thy beam,
As soft it trembles o'er the stream,
And gilds the straw-thatch'd hamlet wide,
Where innocence and peace reside;
Tis thou that glad'st with joy the rustic throng,
Promptest the tripping dance, th' exhilarating song.
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Fall Equinox Blessing: Wisdom In Darkness
Enjoy these Fall Equinox Blessings composed by the writers at PHYTO5.
The change of light arrives and I embrace it.
Shorter days, longer nights, home warmly candle lit.
I open my heart to the lunar light.
Inspire me Moon with intuitive might.
Profoundly grateful to Mother Earth
Out of dark of year shall come rebirth.
Part of the cycle, enduring and true,
I dive into it freshly to Spirit renew.
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I celebrate the last wild dance of the Sun.
My harvest, abundance, daily bread now won.
Balance of light and dark displays over the fields,
Such power in the last grain that Earth Mother yields.
Autumn is here.
And Winter is near.
The inwardly folding energy of Fall
I embrace to become what I am and stand tall.
As light is waning,
My soul’s remaining
Linked to the darkness that increases true sight
Wisdom and knowing expanded in night.
As Earth Mother wears the mantle of Fall
So too do I embracing it all.
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Fall Equinox Blessing by Reverend Meg Riley(2)
May we know the depth and width of the patterns that hold us today.
May we recognize the preciousness of each atom that, by being right where it needs to be, creates balance and stability and wholeness.
May we be awed by the sheer beauty in the wholeness of it all.
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Fall Equinox Blessing by Authors Unknown
God of Seed and Harvest
We bless you,
God of Seed and Harvest
And we bless each other
That the beauty of this world
And the love that created it
Might be expressed though our lives
And be a blessing to others
Now and always.
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O God of Creation, you have blessed us with the changing of the seasons.
As we welcome the autumn months,
may the earlier setting of the sun
remind us to take time to rest.
May the brilliant colors of the leaves
remind us of the wonder of your creation.
May the steam of our breath in the cool air
remind us that it is you who give us the breath of life.
May the harvest from the fields remind us of the abundance we have been given and bounty we are to share with others.
May the dying of summer's spirit remind us of your great promise that death is temporary and life is eternal.
We praise you for your goodness forever and ever.
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Fall Equinox Blessing by Aurora Kane(3): Give Thanks
May the blessings of Fall feed the wisdom of my soul
and teach my spirit gratitude for each gift.
May the hearth fires warm those who gather nearby
and speak “welcome” to those who return.
For the plenty that sustains us through Winter’s dark times
I give thanks.
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Endnotes:
Henry Kirke White (21 March 1785 – 19 October 1806) was an English poet and hymn writer. He died at the young age of 21.
Riley, Rev. Meg. “An Autumnal Equinox Prayer.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 25 May 2011, www.huffpost.com/entry/equinox-prayer_b_732976.
Kane, Aurora. The Kitchen Witch Handbook: Wisdom, Recipes, and Potions for Everyday Magic at Home. United States, Wellfleet Press, 2023.
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Sources:
Olmsted, Denison. Letters on Astronomy. Project Gutenberg. eBook #40240. 15 July 2012, gutenberg dot org slash cache slash epub slash 40240 slash pg40240 hyphen images dot html