The Autumn Equinox returns us to balance—day and night equal once more, but now with darkness gaining ground. As the Sun enters Libra at 0°, cardinal air brings clarity to what the year has yielded. This is the harvest threshold, where we weigh what we've gathered against what we've given.

This gateway invites honest accounting. Not everything planted in spring will have borne fruit, and not every fruit will be sweet. The equinox doesn't demand perfection; it asks for presence with what is. Gratitude and grief can coexist here—both are forms of honoring what the light has shown.