September morning:
The world still rests in the fog,
Forests and meadows still dream:
Soon you will see, when the veil falls,
The blue sky unobstructed,
Autumnal strength the subdued world,
Flowing in warm gold.
(Poem by Eduard Mörike)
The Middle High German name Herbstmond and the Old German name Scheiding for the month of September say it clearly. The sun now shines about 3 minutes less each day and is slowly losing its warming power.
But the ground is still warm and the "Indian summer" towards the end of the month is one of the last periods of good weather. It can last into October. Typical of Indian summer are the spider webs in the air. They come from young wolf spiders, which use them to carry themselves through the air.
The “Indian summer” gets its name from the spinning “old women”, the spinners of fate, who now, at the end of summer, sever the life threads of so many animals, plants and people. Source book: The Annual Cycle (Martina Kaiser)
The balancing of energies around the September equinox is the state of balance and harmony.
Equinox (plural equinoxes, from Latin aequus 'equal' and nox 'night') or equinox (also day and night equinox) are the two calendar days of a year on which daylight and night are approximately the same length.
This applies to every place on earth, except the immediate vicinity of the poles. On these days, the sun rises almost exactly in the east and sets in the west everywhere on earth. The exact times of the true equinoxes are the moments when the sun is on the celestial equator.
The fact that there are only two days a year with this special property is because the Earth's axis does not intersect its orbital plane around the Sun perpendicularly, but maintains its direction in space and, as seen from the Sun, wobbles relative to the orbital plane during the Earth's orbit.
The equinoxes fall on March 19, 20 or 21 (spring equinox)[2] and on September 22, 23 or 24 (autumnal equinox). They mark the calendar beginning of the astronomically defined seasons of spring and autumn respectively. In 2024, the moments of the true equinoxes are 04:06 CET on March 20 and September 22.
The equinoxes have been celebrated by many peoples throughout human history. For example, the Maya built the Step Pyramid of Kukulcán (called El Castillo by the Spanish) at Chichén Itzá in Mexico. Its architecture is designed so that on the equinoxes, sunlight touches the steps on the north side at noon, while the areas next to the steps remain in shadow.
The autumn equinox: is the exact time of the beginning of autumn, on September 22nd, 23rd or 24th, of each year.
Source: Wikipedia
