Today is the fall equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Since it falls in the middle of eclipse season this is one powerful equinox.

The equinox is always about balance. It’s one of two days a year when we have equal parts day and night. This year, it falls between the solar eclipse on October 2nd, which happens in a week, and the lunar eclipse last week.

The equinox brings some much-needed balance to our lives. It allows us to take a deep breath and unwind. This equinox helps steady us and gets us back in balance before the upcoming solar eclipse. 

The fall equinox also coincides with the first day of Libra season. This is one of the loveliest seasons of the year. It’s all about harmony, beauty, partnership and balance. 

Lovely Venus rules Libra. The seventh house of partnerships is also associated with Libra.  Relationships come to the forefront now because Libra is the sign that rules partnerships.

Venus enters the more intensely emotional and intimacy-seeking sign of Scorpio on Sunday as well. With this change, relationships may feel intense and be more passionate.

With so much happening with eclipses and the equinox, we’ve forgotten about all the planets retrograde this fall. Right now Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron, are retrograde, and Jupiter goes retrograde in a couple of weeks. This is a lot of retrograde energy.

Retrograde periods like this are times of reflection and inner work. We’re experiencing internal shifts. And while that’s happening outer manifestations slow down. Although it could appear that nothing is happening, that we're stuck or in a holding pattern, things are in fact happening.  It’s all happening internally, and the changes there will soon manifest themselves in the outside world.